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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Absent a major political shift, Democratic party leadership will shut down even the mildest attempts to address the conditions that produced this political moment.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/11/2025

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/11/2025

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/11/2025

The modern conservative panic is fueled by juvenile tantrums, of people clinging to hierarchies until their fingernails are bloody because they're too contemptuous towards undesirables and offal acquiring even a shred of humanity and dignity. But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.

ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Prosecutions are gonna be an extra uphill climb given that he plans on just preemptively pardoning a slate of people and officials so it falls to local and state prosecutors where federal pardons don’t just cut it, but they’re made v difficult in those situations. However, some prosecutors…

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What the last few years should have taught us is the grave dangers of anti-immigrant politics, and the lie they are built on.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I get the ‘these are not deportations’ point but I think it should be made without implying that existing legal processes were good or that kidnapping someone, caging them, and transporting them to another country was ever justified.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Challenge accepted! . . . ...wait a second...I think maybe I took the wrong lesson away from that.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That line'd make a great motivational poster, lol.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A city populated entirely by tsunderes

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026

the ghost in the backseat of my car who disappears when I look right at him doesn’t bother me too much. he’s easy enough to ignore, even when I spot his split skull in the rear view briefly illuminated by the headlights of passing cars. he only tries to touch me at night. got a great deal on the car

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The border is a machine for killing people. They're just going more mask off with it now.

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 01/10/2026

Never talk to cops, obvs. But this is a rallying cry, and I wonder if she wants to spread the call to action more than she wants her own freedom/safety.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you can't train the misogyny out of people. esp when the people getting trained commit rape at a rate higher than the general population

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whether it's ignoring rape or killing Black people—police training will not solve the problem.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yet the lack of training wasn't the issue here, so why are we bringing it up.

Van Houten told NPR member station WSKG in an interview that Doe's statement was taken by "an experienced investigator" trained in sexual abuse investigations "over an extended period of time." Cornell University Police did not respond to questions about details of the length, time and place of the interview or other details of the manner of questioning before publication.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Annoyingly this is great If you keep feeding the bear more salmon, it gets HUGE

A brown bear illustration almost completely filling my laptop screen, asleep with a belly full of salmon

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

damn near every states highest paid government employee is a college football or basketball coach. embarrassing

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please stop referring to China as a "5000 year old civilization" as an analytical point. Imposes continuity and coherence where there is none.

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no narratively satisfying climax to the political fate of the country or the world. Everything keeps on mattering all the time, and it's never really over.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever I hear someone say "this narrow and imminent future time frame will be pivotal for democracy" or something like that, I just think, "man, we've been pivoting for a decade."

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and just in case anyone reacts to this with some example of something that should be boycotted; that's a discussion about material support. You can like the thing, and the actual ethical choice in question is whether to pay for or support it.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your aesthetic tastes don't have to be moral choices. You can just like the things you like without having to justify it.

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Peter Z Grimm @the-slavsquatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That definitely aggravates the problem. As with all things it's probably a long list of entangled factors with no single one being totally primary.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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