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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 14h
Fascism is bad
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Trump And Hegseth Want To Remake America. Their Latest Tactic Is Chilling.
No country in the world livestreams executions. That’s something terrorists do.
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump doesn't make jokes. He says whatever pops into his head. If the audience applauds, he doubles down. If they keep applauding, that becomes his policy. If they don't, he calls it a joke and moves on. But now, only the worst people in America come to hear him. They applaud at everything he says.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's fucking insaaane that these AI leaders say - not just recently, they've been saying it for years - that AI could destroy humanity, but continue to develop it at 1000% speed, and vehemently oppose any attempt at the slightest regulation.
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Jake @jakeklee23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The problem that Dems will have in 28 is that they must prosecute & reverse everything this administration did, but the GOP candidates will say “move on” and the complicit American media will also ask, “isn’t it time to move on?”. We have an obligation to make sure nothing like this happens again
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 07/09/2026
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot… hartmannreport.com/p/has-the-me...
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Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Boycott Google, as it shamelessly panders to that idiotic vulgar slob.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Boycott Google
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New mnemonic to remember the names of the great lakes: SHAME
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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You Are Living Under Mr Burns
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/08/2026
"They're American political leaders, they can't be Nazis!" is something we all took for granted.
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Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, in the Original German
They keep telling you who they are.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/08/2026
The case before the Hawaii Supreme Court did not warrant such an impassioned condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court. But Associate Justice Todd Eddins and his colleagues wanted to send a message to the country. Read it.
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A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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The 3 ways stupidity spreads throughout a society | Jonny Thomson
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
Seen in Philadelphia.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
It's time for your scheduled open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, no one has seen or heard from the surgeon in weeks, since the Incident. The nurse says that she spoke with him at length on a wide variety of important subjects and that he had never been more eloquent. "Will he be along shortly?" you ask.
"I hired him to perform a specific job, and I would like him to do that." The nurse is appalled by this disrespect for the doctors privacy. You lie there for several weeks, your chest flaps held open by clamps.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Obviously Trump loves doing corruption, but he doesn't give a shit about helping Americans, he has to get some personal gain. Since nobody was bribing him to help the US soccer team, he had to stroke his own ego and make himself feel powerful by bragging about the corruption. 1/2
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One guard likes big butts and he cannot lie. The other guard likes big breasts and he cannot tell the truth.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Oligarchy is worse than you think
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Reminder that Elon Musk killed millions of the world's most vulnerable people. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It seems like identifiable members of the Supreme Court actively helping one political party to choose its voters to maximal electoral advantage should be a bigger scandal
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Isn't every hat a top hat
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Americans don’t know how to stop working | The Gray Area
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🔥 Ronny Chieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”
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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The level of political illiteracy in the US cannot be overstated as a reason we arrived here. The US has successfully propagandized its population for decades into believing "politics" is optional, rather than collective decision making. Politics is more than voting in rigged two party systems.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Stupid" really dismisses the malice of it. It's the most corrupt thing in our country's long history, by a factor of a thousand.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Either tax the rich more or have extreme poverty
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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There's A Word For What John Roberts Has Been Doing On The Supreme Court
The decision neutering the Voting Rights Act proved that Roberts' every effort to soothe the public about prior elections cases was disingenuous.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=evwk...
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The Go! Team - Mayday (Official Video)
YouTube video by The Go! Team
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Most US elections don’t count
YouTube video by Max Fisher
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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It's Not Both Sides. It Never Was.
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thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social @thatwasbrilliant.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fascism
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/04/2026
Let's be honest: the only reason the Trump administration is targeting the SPLC is because the Trump administration agrees with the neo-Nazi and neo-confederate organizations that the SPLC exposes.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We should be learning from other countries...
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