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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 2h

24 was used as the basis for the Enhanced Interrogation program. Would-be advisors for the ANP watched NCIS in lieu of formal training for the role. Trump-era direct action in Mexico and Latin America is clearly steeped in Sicario, while Yellowstone and Landman shape domestic views.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21h

everything downhill since we abandoned these

a conventional telephone with a shoulder rest attached to the receiver

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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 21h

We mocked people for wearing Bluetooth headsets everywhere because it was awkward trying to decide if they were talking to you or on a phone call, and then they decided to just have every call on speakerphone instead.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 1h

Mine is always very warm, which I find uncomfortable. But that just means I hold it a few millimeters from my ear and not directly touching it. Some people don't seem to realize this is an option.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 9h

sometimes I think about the amount of critical theory that’s going to be required to even attempt to make sense of what the fuck has been happening over the last six years and I need to go lie down

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 03/10/2026

Since 👇 post 9 days ago, Elon has spent almost $11 million more, over a million bucks a day. In the Senate races alone, he's spent: $8.7m in Texas $4.5m in Ohio $4m in Michigan

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11h

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this

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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The US government's statements about the Iran War starting with saying they had defeated Iran a dozen of times to then saying hey if they nuke American cities that is actually okay is the kind of shit that only speaks to a base that has willingly locked themselves in a room with a charcoal grill.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incredible. Yes. 100% yes.

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I jokingly refer to it as "The War in Heaven" but 4chan becoming the seed from which so much more of broader Internet culture emerged from really does explain a lot. It's a kind of genealogy of antisocial norms and nihilism that many modern branches can find their roots in 4chan.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You really like saying the same thing as me with different words, don't you?

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Democracy is a power hierarchy.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The political term "conservative" has been in use for hundreds of years in both American and England and used to describe people who wanted to conserve equally numerous and diverse things. I was speaking specifically about needing people who want to conserve democracy.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your argument is that many people who call themselves conservative aren't actually conservatives and are actually radical activists trying to overthrow established democracy, then we are in complete agreement.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, really? What do you think it means?

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the proximate cause for the rise of fascism is the collapse of the center-right as a cordon sanitaire liberalism hasnt failed, conservatism as a senior partner in democracy has

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Anonymous Bureaucrat @bureaucratanon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s a lot of handwringing for obvious reasons about the center left and liberalism, and the working class politics, etc. etc. But not nearly enough about to taking to task the broad collapse of the center-right and traditional conservative politics in the 21st century. It’s basically dead

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, democracy was always dependent on people wanting to conserve it. Democracy is one of humanity's oldest traditions.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly, if the writing were more potent, it would almost detract from the images. The horror of the images contrasts well with the plainness of the literature.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perfectly fine B-tier urban-legend style stories paired with the most primal nightmare-fueled illustrations that haunt you 30 years after seeing them. So, of course, I bought a copy and wordlessly tucked it away in the middle of the family bookcase for the kids to discover when they're ready.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

never take anything someone says in one of the "median voter profile" or "morally conflicted trump voter" pieces at face value

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

C.S. Lewis? Clive-there-are-seven-genders-all-which-are-expressed-in-God- Staples-Lewis? You think he cares about a talented woman voicing the portrayal of the devine being in another universe? Read some more C.S. Lewis man.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sounds like something someone who got snapped would say.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You're right, he can't handle those risks. Only big, strong men can handle those risks, Mr. President.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is what we get for using the same word to talk about things like gravity and political corruption. People start to think these things just take care of themselves.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you think the Republicans are asking themselves, "what's the matter with Kansas?"

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ya'll. Coyote vs. Acme is so good. It's crazy that we almost didn't get to see this movie.

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POGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

everybody on here would still be miserable under the Harris administration but it would be because our moots are fighting over a genAI political cartoon being too Woke and not because ICE is murdering people in the streets and the president is regularly and openly contemplating an autogolpe

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Harris was president, we'd all be (rightly) upset that her universal childcare plan was wholly inadequate. Leftists would be furious with her betrayal, and we'd be hearing about it nonstop on this app.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 02/10/2026

this *is* kind of saying something profound about social media and the hedonic treadmill tho isn't it

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People out their losing their minds over Gerwig casting a woman as Aslan; Meanwhile Lewis said that there are seven genders and Mercury is functionally non-binary. An adaptation of the paper I just presented at the Undiscovered Lewis conference. #CSLewis billieiswriting.substack.com/p/cs-lewis-s...

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C.S. Lewis Said that there are Seven Genders -Mercury

This essay (and several more in this series) is based on a paper I presented at the 2026 Undiscovered C.S.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

One comparison, looking at it again, is that Trump’s trade war seems to have had a substantially larger effect on tourism from Canada that the Great Recession did.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate

A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The thread being screenshotted actually says “don’t vote for Dems and tell others not to.” Seriously. “Here is a map of how things have gotten worse for trans people, exclusively in red states, while democrats have held firm. This proves you should stop voting for democrats.” This is…deranged.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the idea that immersing yourself in gruesome violence is a technique to build empathy is something which everyone who has ever studied the subject will tell you is not just false but 180 degrees removed from the truth.

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