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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party

Michael Kohler @thekohler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gotta say... anecdotally.... the part of southern Fairfax County that I drive through that used to be filled with hyper-partisan Republicans who put out a zillion lawn signs for every race are completely free of political signage despite it being mid-September. Fingers crossed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026

Ossoff: "Here are Qs I have: is it the case that Kremlev was in China with Putin just days before he attended the wedding and gave what appears to have been a lavish gift to the president's son? And what are his ties to Russia's security services?...these folks are not just corrupt. They're clowns."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

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Ken Miller @akskierken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“No Tab Pete” is fucking gloriously vicious. I love this for him.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can't believe it's been 9 years.

Ted Cruz liked a Cory Chase threesome stepmom scene on 9/11/2017.

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

sorry for screenshotting some twitter rando but you guys need to see this

The Hellenist @The_Hellenist . 19h
Men must go on sex strike.
Do not give women any of your love until they submit to patriarchy.
Feminist women are undeserving of love.
Men must therefore go on sex strike.

NO SEX UNTIL YOU ABANDON FEMINISM
STRONG WOMEN BUILD NOTHING.
SUBMISSIVE WOMEN BUILD CIVILIZATION.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Obama had 60 votes in the Senate for like a month total and his signature bill--Obamacare--wasn't even squeezed through then because a handful of Democrats (and let's not forget Joe Lieberman) sabotaged it.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump's stupid chart of "greatest" presidents is actually a ranking of presidents from Life Magazine in 1948, with his name added at the top and the Democrats he doesn't like at the bottom. Exactly the kind of thing a healthy, high-functioning person shares.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
16h
Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.

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McSnee @mcsnee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Super easy! Barely an inconvenience! You stop at the rank of major and spend the next however many years bloviating on Fox News, then get nominated to run the military by an openly corrupt president and confirmed by a lily-livered senate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

lmao respect

"IF MORRISSEY SAYS NOT TO EAT MEAT, THEN I'LL EAT MEAT - THAT'S HOW MUCH I HATE MORRISSEY."
- Robert Smith on Morrissey

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Michael Kohler @thekohler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Kinda wild that the semis are going to be the #1 team vs. the #4 team and the #2 team vs. the #3 team. So many insane upsets in this World Cup and still the top 4 ranked teams bludgeoned their way to the finale and are all getting at least two more games.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

Two banners

First banner reads:

Welcome to the Great Experiment

250 years of American invention - a story still in the making

Two hundred and fifty years ago, America made a bet: that ordinary people with extraordinary ideas could build a nation unlike any before. That bet is still paying off.

The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention presents this exhibit in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Commerce - home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the institution that turned creative freedom into economic fuel.

At the Cade, we believe so deeply in thinking and acting like an inventor that we gave it a name: Inventivity.® This exhibit is brimming with it.

The race is well underway, but it's never too late to jump in. So gear up, strap in, and take a lap

GEORGE WASHINGTON April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefito, and humbly to implore his protection and favor

SERVICE

"Let me serve voluntarily; then I will, with the greatest pleasure in life, devote my services to the expedition without any other reward, than the satisfaction of serving my country"

RELIGION

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

CHARACTER

"To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian.

"the journey continues from here" with QR codes to Wallbuilders, the American Journey Experience, Patriot Academy, PragerU, and AmericanMinute.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's right.

During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
invasion of rebels [at Gettysburg].

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

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Jim Johnson @jimbjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards suggested that the way to break the GOP's back was: 1. Crackdown on MLMs 2. Regulation of supplements 3. Legalizing direct sale of vehicles Regardless of what it does to the GOP, these all sound great to me.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/06/2026

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ok, all in for Mexico now

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/06/2026

Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender

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ThrowingSchlitz @throwingschlitz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah. They most definitely did. bsky.app/profile/jdem...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

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FirerMcFirer @aradfirer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

A tweet by @Llama In a Tux (dated Sep. 10, 2022):
Don't you understand? The human race IS an endless number of monkeys. And every day we produce an endless number of words. And one of us already wrote Hamlet

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The complaint that THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU plays like several episodes stitched together is hard to take seriously when George Lucas's primary inspiration for STAR WARS was episodic serials, and the original films all took inspiration from that structure.

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The Mandalorian (Book of Boba Fett): This Is The Way

Alt: The Mandalorian (Book of Boba Fett): This Is The Way

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 12/05/2026

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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New York’s rich lash out at ‘shameful’ Mamdani plan to tax second homes

The city’s wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026

i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fascinating historical dive into how a 1976 SCOTUS case cleared the way for billionaires to elect Trump. @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

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A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

theatlantic.com

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center

I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/04/2026

Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.

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Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That

The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2026

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Iran took out a fucking E-3 Sentry AWACS parked on the ground. that's the literal definition of high-value asset. great job Pete, your war is going awesome.

Iranian missile damaged multiple refueling aircraft and an E-3 Sentry.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This guy sounds smart. Laid out Iran's moves with incredible foresight. Too bad he no longer works as the National Security Council’s director for Iran b/c some online nutjob does not like him and that is enough to get experts shitcanned from government these days. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

In his piece for Foreign Policy published Feb. 24, Swanson wrote that Iran would not capitulate after a bombing campaign, but rather escalate and “target global oil flows and international shipping, sending energy prices up and creating a serious political liability for Trump.” And indeed, Iran has made scattershot attacks on energy targets and others across the region, as well as throttling passage through the Strait of Hormuz by threatening attacks on ships.

Loomer post noting that a government expert on Iran was part of the Iran negotiations.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement. How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Steve Witkoff is so bad at his job that he doesn't realize that he is not, in fact, a member of the Cabinet and he does not, in fact, report to the president. He's a special envoy and, in a nation that is not a monarchy, he reports to the Secretary of State

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2026

one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?

theargumentmag.com

The liberal case for voter ID

The SAVE Act is a bad bill, but voter ID is a good idea

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A number of people here seem to be road-testing the question "Just how overtly antisemitic can I get away with being on Bluesky?" right now. When you see it--especially in the name of leftism--name, shame, and block.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had
participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the
drills.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

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