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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 2h

A haunted house where each room requires an additional factor of authentication to get in.

Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 2h

True but I have a hunch that some centrist Democrats are going to suddenly discover the debt when they want to throw a wrench into progressive and left liberal policy. They will need to be mocked and told to shut the fuck up too.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 3h

Weird how it never manages to use these supposedly autonomous abilities to do anything good like hijack Republican campaign sites or take down scammers.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 4h

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5h

Reading Brianna Nofil’s fantastic book “The Migrant Jail” & this is what she has to say about immigration detention already in the first half of the 20th century

Towns and cities throughout the United States recognized detained migrants as a racialized source of financial capital; working with the immigration service became a way to bankroll carceral expansion without requiring the approval (or even the tax dollars) of voters.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5h

The Democratic Party has abolished the death penalty de facto or de jure in every state where it has the power to do so. Zero federal executions have happened under Democratic administrations since it was reinstated in 1976. A Dem median vote on the Supreme Court would rule it unconstitutional

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 4h

The livestream is propaganda for MAGAs and violent white supremacists so, yes, that is its explicit purpose.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 4h

Digging the School of Art and Design's Halloween creations.

A skeleton, eyes bulging from the sockets, wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes fashioned out of a lung and bones. A tombstone sits beside the undead bagpipe player.

Necronomicon, a book with human skin, eye, and mouth with tongue protruding.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 5h

"We don't know how human consciousness and thinking works either" makes claims that LLMs are conscious or think more dubious, not less.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 6h

The qualifications are looking a certain way and lying that Trump won the 2020 election without hesitation or shame.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 6h

Amazing to fuck up a gift post as ambassador to Greece.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 7h

There will be no questioning of the king's edicts.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10h

Sure sounds like the pandemic, which suggests we should stay tuned for schools to be blamed for what happens to children with AI rather than the tech bros and the politicians who love them.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 19h

Just like SNL. Straight middle-aged guys at the gym with a bunch of ripped gay dudes has been done before but it's a funny setup, unless your immediate pivot is "women who go to the gym are..." Say something racist, homophobic, or misogynist and you're a legitimate conservative comedian.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 19h

I've seen one of his stand-ups. What stuck out was structure, not the jokes per se. Multiple times he told a funny story, sometimes wholesome, and then punctuated it with an offensive, insulting punchline for no real reason, other than appealing to conservative man audiences.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22h

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

its worth remembering that the whole somali daycare scam panic was fully amplified to public consciousness by musk specifically

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wonder how many meetings Jeffries still has scheduled with Jared Kushner?

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I understand David Brooks way more than I do Chait. I remember, maybe during Trump 1, Chait covered an alt-right event or some such thing and was subjected to threats and heinous antisemitism, and the entire political left of twitter had his back. He learned exactly fucking nothing.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Anything else you all want to address while you're elevating and smearing a Muslim streamer who doesn't matter? Anything else in the news today?

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They will wreck every institution they touch. We will be flooded with right-wing drivel that nobody wants and will have less influence in the world as a result.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Have definitely thought that some of the long-term damage Trump is doing could be mitigated by unmatched US soft power but turns out they have a plan for that too. And, who knows if any of these people even know what soft power means.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lonesome Dove has been misread since it was published. In the preface of a later edition, McMurtry lamented that readers experienced his novel as a Gone with the Wind for the Old West, rather than a stark look at violence and betrayal.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nailed it like always, Politico.

Musk to step back from political spending: 'I think I've done enough'

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Elon Musk amplified the conspiracy theory, leading to a lot of right-wing frenzy. The Ohio facility, a small institution no doubt suddenly inundated by calls and harassment, finally said tonight that this is all false.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026

This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read!

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Days like today, it is abundantly clear how utterly the "blue no matter who, don't rock the boat, everybody move on" approach to politics by the Democratic Party has failed.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think the argument for impeaching Trump in 2027 is being made loud and clear and the wishy-washy comments about it made by Democrats are increasingly repulsive.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print

Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/10/2026

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Absolutely insane levels of spending by Elon Musk to help Republicans this fall, the New York Times documents. $276 million just since this summer, most of which to help Senate Republicans. Single-handedly destroying records and swamping Dem candidates. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What the tech barons have figured out, as online gambling proliferates, is that odds making is fertile ground for misinformation, especially as the average gambler has no clue what the odds they see actually mean.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Exhibit A: bsky.app/profile/elec...

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wait until these guys hear about pseudonyms.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, why is anyone patronizing a casino run by Peter Thiel? My goodness. Absolute marks.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They know how to be a casino while more and more people are brought inside.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Forecasters and consultants, my goodness. Yes, all of the trends going into the aftermath of the 2024 election were bound to be static and stable. Good thinking.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The reality of this tit for tat is still that Kennedy straight up slandered AES while AES rebutted him with something that reasonable minds can conclude about Kennedy and colleagues.

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