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feet of clay. Daniel 2:33 Sic semper tyrannis

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 06/10/2026
Californians' lives are not expendable in Donald Trump's unhinged, reckless war in Iran. This is yet another callous comment from the tyrant in the White House who dragged the American people into a war that we do not want.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 04/10/2026
I try to distinguish the joke of a US green party from European Greens, but it's getting hard.
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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So yeah, everyone has seen space boot camp. You've seen and read space wars. You have not read "Haunted war hero becomes resident advisor for freshman dorm from hell and makes friends with adorable space capybara." And you should, 'cause the whole thing is a lot of fun.
Cover for Life After Hell.
Art by Lee Moyer.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Val @yogival.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heading to Barcelona next month for Mozfest to host the 2026 Winners Showcase - Protopian Prize Fiction Contest 🔮🕊️ @r-emrys.bsky.social @lizbarry.bsky.social @glichfield.bsky.social Lmk if you'll be there! 😍 @mozilla.org @metagov.bsky.social events.mozillafoundation.org/e/mozilla-fe...
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 24/09/2026
The DNC is not mentioned. During the biggest Democratic opportunity in 50 years the DNC is broke and not a factor.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 23/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV made the strong version of this argument. This is an example of why I don't take libertarians seriously, they avoid the religious implications of their arguments & don't engage with the post-modern alternatives. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
VP Kamala Harris: I'm here to support Dr. El-Sayed because I know he will be a champion on this subject. We have one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, so it raises the issue of hypocrisy when there are leaders who walk around every day talking about family values.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 18/09/2026
Musk being treated with kid gloves by national media has utility to Democratic campaigns. He's a big villain in campaign ads but the GOP can't reject his poison.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 15/09/2026
Consider this your assignment for National Voter Registration Day. Head to IWillVote.com and check your voter registration status. Then send this to the group chat and make sure they check theirs, too. We all need to turn out this November and be too big to rig.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 14/09/2026
Economic pressure is far more effective at promoting clean energy than political pressure.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In my decades of public service, I have rarely been as angry as I was the day the damning inspector general’s report was released about the EPA's response to the World Trade Center collapse. Read my new piece on the lessons of 9/11 at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/09/2026
When I pitched a review of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, I wanted to read it against Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man because both books tackle similar themes in radically different ways. The result is a double-helix of an essay that is one of the best things I've ever written for LC.
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The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 09/09/2026
"Those foes of liberal democracy are fighting the spectre that still haunts our world: feminism." terrific stuff from @quinnae.com on fukuyama, hyperpolitics, and how to survive the end of history
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The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a common refrain, so let's go through it for those who don't know what I'm talking about by many on the left actually encouraging Ukrainian genocide. This will be a partial list of prominent people, organizations and advocates. Strap in.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 06/09/2026
@govwesmoore.bsky.social what can you do to protect the people of Maryland from this dangerous & illegal ICE behavior?
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 06/09/2026
It's no longer surprising to see our online left recapitulate the reactionary trajectory of the US New Left.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/09/2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Left: Willow trees at the Kennedy Center before the Trump administration Right: Willow tree stumps at the Kennedy Center after the Trump administration
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 27/08/2026
This week’s Supreme Court decision is another reminder of what we are up against heading into November. They can put more obstacles in our way, but they cannot take away our power. Our answer is to show up, make our voices heard, and turn out in numbers that are too big to rig.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The basic assumption happening in opposition to it is that humanity’s natural state is one of Edenic innocence and bounty, where no one suffered and no one felt urges toward the capital sins until Rome or Thomas Hobbes or the Jews corrupted the world by inventing capitalism and imperialism
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“People always come before borders, before definitions, and before institutions. “This realization stands at the center of Christianity. “Evil is not fought with evil. It is time to oppose the false realism that rearms minds, words, and nations with the realism of mercy.” — Pope Leo XIV
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 25/08/2026
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social says empire is expensive, I would say ruinous under capitalism. Josh describes the costs of misunderstanding US power as imperial.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Since I am being called "so fucking dangerous" let's walk through what my argument and its evidence actually is. First, I am not saying fascism, the ideology, is ancient (it isn't) but that the emotions which fuel it are: fascism is ancient (pre-historic!) emotions colliding with modern society.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 24/08/2026
Carcinization or inherent contradictions that become reactionary.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
He's like a scandal piñata. Every time you shake him, more misdeeds fall out…
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Decoding the Gurus @guruspod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It was great discussing the scientific research on COVID origins and where the evidence stands in 2026 with @kgandersen.bsky.social, @worobey.bsky.social, and @eddieholmes.bsky.social. Less fun to discuss the political persecution of scientists, but also important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od9c...
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Lab Leak and Covid Origins in 2026: An Interview with Holmes, Andersen, & Worobey
YouTube video by Decoding the Gurus
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 19/08/2026
Pete Hegseth betrayed the US & our Navy, then tried to cover up his treachery. www.ms.now/money-power-...
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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 18/08/2026
ICE is a pedophile ring.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's grand and a long time coming. Two operant changes: Current state's attorney doubled the number of successful prosecutions for violence and guns in three years. Safe Streets undertaking community-based interventions in vulnerable cohort. Both should be credited and continued.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'll never steal your pen.
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
19 pieces of legislation and counting. Some Members of Congress measure their term in years served and viral moments, but I measure mine in legislation signed and dollars delivered to my community.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 09/08/2026
credit where it's due, he tries to dodge it with the billionaire answer at first, but acknowledging that taxes would go up for everyone (at least a little) is the first step toward having an actual grown-up realistic conversation about universal health care in this country
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.
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Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was…
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Dean Haddix @doctoreon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The UAE is the biggest financial back of the RSF in Sudan. Though less reported on, it is the largest humanitarian disaster and genocide on Earth right now.
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Can't stop watching this video because it's just perfect. Progressive political creator Kaitlyn Hennessy, tearing apart the New York Times for their blatant political campaign for a certain sect of the Democratic Party.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Talarico: "It's funny because I'm the eighth-generation Texan in the race. I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans. That's what great about our state."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question?" This exchange between Sen. Ossoff and Trump nominee Jay Clayton—about who won the 2020 election—is well worth watching.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/07/2026
Contender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]
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Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal
These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona lege
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A lot of us know people - good people - who may have believed the promises they were told about "draining the swamp" or "no new wars." Now is the time to reach out to them. Not to say, "I told you so," but to say, "He doesn't deserve you."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🧵👀Heads up y’all… A few of y’all have asked me about my aunt who is running for election in TX...technically she’s running again but that’s a long story. Here is the information to support her candidacy through Act Blue. Some of you that followed me on the old secure.actblue.com/donate/winwi...
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Donate to Carolyn Guidry
Show your support with a contribution.
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fuck Hasan Piker.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 10/07/2026
The news cycle has moved on since the Louisiana v. Callais decision on April 29, but we cannot. My thoughts on our continued fight for voting rights:
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We need to keep talking about voting rights.
The news cycle has moved on, but we will not.
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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 10/07/2026
After O'Donnell blasted him for jumping into this tarpit, Hayes is reduced to whataboutism.
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