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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once you embrace this reality, you are free. Even the most famous amongst us will be mostly forgotten, only to be remembered briefly in the context of a history lesson. The vast majority of people, even very successful people, will be no one to anyone a century from now.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Write to your City Council member. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/writ... I encourage any resident of Richmond, VA who thinks we need to build more housing in the city to write their city council member.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@support.bsky.team why is it when I send my friends a post they see the post as deleted from their perspective in their messenger, but I can still see the post, and it clearly is not deleted?

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My ancestors from England arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1750s, and my ancestors from Ireland moved to Charleston, SC in the 1840s. I would never consider myself English or Irish. I am American because I was born here, and I know the language and customs. It has nothing to do with skin color.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You gotta love the state of Virginia. They essentially force me to own a car by making 90% or more of the state a car dependent hell hole, and then they tax me for the displeasure of the car. I need to move out of this hell. I truly despise if here.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have many complaints about Democrats, but there is far more accountability within the Democratic party than the Republican. A Democratic president, acting like this, would be impeached and expulsed from office, and that is because Democrats are willing to vote against there own when it is right.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are a lot of self-righteous people in the world with way too much confidence in their ability to address injustices they perceive while having not a clue how to improve something. Many people love to complain, but have no real solutions when they're the ones up to bat.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"... at some point you have to ask what you're getting for that money. Because the cities here are hideous. Eventually you get tired of seeing the exact same dystopian landscape every single day: parking lot, pickup truck, highway, strip mall, gas station, repeat." www.reddit.com/r/SameGrassB...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this article is indeed funny. it's also a good lesson in persuasion, i think, and that lesson is that some people are not worth trying to persuade. sometimes it may be best to tell people you disagree, and if that bothers them, they should leave. don't waste energy and time on people like this!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a wonderful example in how part of the art of listening to people is working out which of them are operating in bad faith.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The lesbian bar thing is just an object lesson of how you have to at some point say “you are a crazy person, fuck off and go away”, like you can’t let yourself be ruled by the whims of people like that. Tell them to go to another bar.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I should have never moved back to Richmond, Virginia. The built environment forces me to own a car that I don't want, and then they tax me for the car. I will be moving.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026

i don’t yet believe in blexas, but an abrupt about-face on something out of relative nowhere is the kind of thing that may indicate internals not looking too hot

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's an essay to be written about how the re-appropriation of ill-gotten wealth has been one of the biggest, but also most underrated, accomplishments of Taiwan's democratic transition, and that it is also something that the US can emulate.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 22/09/2026

It's too late to punish trump sufficiently (he's not long for this world), but every single hanger on, enabler and heir must be stripped of wealth and imprisoned for the rest of their lives

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

GOP corruption cordon breaking over Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not to be all "My Wife" but my wife works in this field on the government side, and every time somebody says that the kids are being taken away for no reason or for some politically charged reason I really challenge you to stop and think about whether that's the whole story

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Between the killing of DTIC and now CASI, DOD really trying to kill any and all scholarship on war, I’m sure that’ll work out smartly!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The reason, imo, they would platform a DOGE veteran is the same reason I unsubscribed: editorial decisions could simply be because Jeff Bezos said so, or at best, decisions could be because they believe that is what Bezos wants to hear, not because that is what is in the public's best interest.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026

Damn, he had Sam Altman dead to rights in 2016

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What these monstrosities represent to me is the fundamental misunderstanding amongst many "conservatives" that freedom is the ability to do whatever you want without consequence. It represents a flagrant selfishness. The EU is correctto prevent American trucks from entering their market.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It has long been my consistent position that Susan Collins should not win reelection to the United States senate to continue her steadfast support for the nascent fascist regime headed by Donald Trump. I’ve seen nothing to change that position.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Newsom better not get anywhere near the presidency. What an absolute scumbag!

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dan Lyman of Border Hawk News is a blatant white supremacist. Border Hawk "News" was given a spot in the White House press pool the same day that CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were banned from the press pool.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The thing about Israel being a small country with no strategic depth and surrounded by enemies is that it is going to take much nastier body blows from Bibi's shithole regime than the US will take from Trump's.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cold Autumn nights can bring the molting shitmillers into the rafters, garages, down fireplaces. Fight them with a broom, they scurry away fast.

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Americans: "Let me tell you why I only need 150kW charging."

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i want a hat that says, "fight the fart" and i will not be providing any explanation of the meaning

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.

How can the government reel in the technology? Here are six ideas.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I did say I was no longer interested in hearing from Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on COVID/pandemic policy after he told people to stay home for the holidays then we caught him flying out of town to visit family. The city needed a credible voice and it was no longer the Mayor.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

good morning mr secretary, heres your daily report on your coworkers erections that you asked for, also we had to push back the iran strategy session to make time for your laser tag outing with podcasters

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Briefly detained” = beat half to death

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

Neighborhood-level nativism is a bad look.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

Cities are living things and neighborhoods change as newcomers leave their mark. This is okay, even if it is often uncomfortable. The best thing we can do is build a lot of new homes so that new people can move in without displacing long time residents.

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Allen @thisisallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pardons shouldn't exist. It grants the executive too much power, thereby creating an obvious avenue for corruption.

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