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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cottle seems to be upset because her experience of woke was feeling some vague sense of pressure that she was an insufficiently good ally.

Cottle: Well, one of the things that happens in these situations is that the people who are looking for change, they attack the people who they think are the problem. Those people don’t care. Like, Trump doesn’t care. Trump’s not going to do anything. A lot of the Republicans are like, “Yeah, come at me.” And so, then the people who wind up getting caught up in this are the kind of wokesters’ allies, and they’re the ones who wind up too nervous to say anything or, like, everybody had to go out and buy “How to Be an Antiracist” so that it could be seen in their house and stuff like that. So you wind up attacking your allies.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They texted me about a month ago, it's so strange

+1 (615) 249-4034:
Hi, I'm David. Want to discuss Israel and the U.S.? Got a sec? Stop2End

Me:
Who are you texting from?

+1 (615) 249-4034:
I'm with Friends for Peace, a supporter group focused on sharing accurate information about Israel and the Middle East.
In your opinion, what's the biggest thing driving instability in the Middle East right now?

Me:
These guys?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/parscale-pro-israel-texts/
I think the Israeli government is the biggest thing driving instability in the Middle East right now

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The New York Times describes a cop assaulting a child as getting "riled up" #brokentimes

New York Times headline: When a Texas School Police Officer Got ‘Riled Up’ Over a Defiant Teen

7 min read

Clare Amari
Clare Amari
Over more than a year of reporting on school policing in Texas, I’ve read hundreds of police reports and talked to dozens of students. One case stood out.
Clare Amari
Clare Amari
In 2023, a 15-year-old was accused of pushing an assistant principal. When an officer confronted him, there was a scuffle and the boy was tackled and handcuffed.

Subhed:
The encounter moved inside the school police office, where the officer rammed his fists into the teen’s belly, berated him and slapped him on the side of the head.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lucky that Bari Weiss is here to support this unremarkable older man

a screenshot of Ross Douthat's podcast: "Scott Galloway: America Abandoned its 'Unremarkable' Young Men"

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"It's not that simple"? It's not true! Apparently it's impossible to directly and clearly describe reality. #brokentimes @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

A screenshot from the New York Times saying

Congressional Memo

How the G.O.P. Turned Olive Garden Into a Voter ID Talking Point
Republicans claim that Olive Garden polices its Never-Ending Pasta Bowl more tightly than the United States does its elections. It’s not that simple.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Former President Donald Trump" -- big if true!

A screenshot of a news summary on X:

Donald Trump refers to Iran as the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' and claims it shot missiles at USS Abraham Lincoln during speech
Last updated
6 minutes ago
Former President Donald Trump referred to Iran as the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' and claimed it shot 11 or 111 missiles, including at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. The remarks, reported by journalist Josh Rogin and widely shared on X, confused Iran with Japan amid discussions of Iran tensions. No actual attack by Iran on the USS Abraham Lincoln occurred.

This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What do you mean Democrats should make 2 points? You are a senator! You are the Democrats!

Tweet from Chris Van Hollen:
Democrats should make 2 key points.

1) The illegal war in Iran has been a blunder & we are worse off than before it started.

2) There’s no good way out of a bad war. We should reject the talking points of those who cheered it on & want to drag us back into it. When you're in a hole, stop digging.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"I lost my mood ring and I don't know how I feel about that"

30 Rock's Tracey Jordan saying "and I don't know how I feel about that"

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@wsj.com and @nytimes.com reach opposite conclusions from Trump's speech

WSJ: Trump Says Iran Way Will Be Over 'Very Soon'

NYT: Trump Walks Back Idea That War Is Near End: US Gains 'Not Enough'

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Do you explain medicine to your dog or do you cover its pills in peanut butter?” is going to rattle around my head for days

Things will not improve in this country until democrats realize Americans are stupid and must be tricked into having their basic needs met. Do you explain medicine to your dog or do you cover it's pills in peanut butter?

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thanks @katelynburns.com for organizing this and thanks @tekla.bsky.social for recommending the group!

Receipt for donation to Transformations Youth Group

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@time.com doing real journalism See 11 of the Worst Dictators Portrayed in Movies? 1. Kim Jong Un 2. Voldemort 3. Hitler

A screenshot of the "11 worst dictators portrayed in movies" from a time.com article
1. Kim Jong Un
2. Voldemort
3. Hitler

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Thousands in San Francisco say “fuck ice”

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

These absolute losers yearn for the boot

Erick Erickson @EWErickson
X.com

How many more Americans will die before the government of Minnesota does what the majority of other states do and simply cooperates with federal immigration authorities to deport detained illegal aliens? Minnesota would rather Americans die than illegal aliens get deported.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Yeah, that truly sucked and was totally wrong. He does seem to have changed his position in the face of the overwhelming evidence of wrongness.

Tweet from Jon Favreau saying “Fuck ICE. They are lawless fucking thugs.” Quote tweeting Ryan Grim & @ryangrim. 1d
ICE agents pointed their weapons at a Minnesota police officer who's an American citizen. She tried to film the encounter and they knocked her phone out of her hand.

Jon Favreau reposted
Ruben Gallego ... • 17h
X
Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money.
It's no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Josh Barro confidently, loudly, proudly ignorant. A smooth brain with no curiosity, just pompous nonsense.

Josh Barro tweet saying: "Crawford is right -- TJA urges newsrooms to use "assigned sex at birth" in lieu of the clearer and more accurate "biological sex"

In reference to a screenshot of a news article about a dispute at CBS News about the language used to discuss the gender assigned at birth of trans people

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”

A screenshot of Kavanaugh’s writing for SCOTUS: “Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If @benryanwriter.bsky.social is this ignorant or obtuse about the role stigma plays in public health, why does he think he’s informed enough to write about it?

A tweet saying: Benjamin Ryan ‹
@benryanwriter•21h G
I interviewed a number of the first monkeypox (mpox) cases in 2022. They were largely affluent gay men who enjoyed traveling around the world and going to sex parties. I am not certain how stigma is connected to such a pastime.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This framing is straightforwardly wrong: The US isn’t raising tariffs on *partners*, they tariffs are on imports and paid for by Americans.

Screenshot of a headline in the WSJ

Stock market today: U.S. to Raise Tariffs on Scores of Nations

Move will result in significantly higher tariffs on virtually every U.S. trading partner

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

That can't be right! The @nytimes.com told me this post was a "rare rebuke of Putin"!

Headline from the New York Times homepage:

Putin Gets a Rare Rebuke From Trump After Russian Strikes on Ukraine

The attack was the deadliest on Kyiv in nearly a year. President Trump called on President Vladimir Putin to “STOP!” in a post on social media.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Jesus Christ. This _is_ him laying the groundwork!

“There are no apparent signs that he is actually laying groundwork for a third term”

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Their definition of a flunkie: "Does the role exist primarily to make one's boss feel more important (e.g. receptionists, assistants, etc.)?" Someone who has no understanding of why those jobs exists is engaged in an exercise of abject stupidity.

A tooltip from the https://bloat.brownspectator.com/ website explaining their definition of a flunkie.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Getting attention for all the right reasons

Google trends chart showing a spike for people searching “primary Schumer”

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Philip, I'm sorry that you have to share that live feed with some willfully obtuse and uninspiring thinkers.

Shadi Hamid - Opinion Columnist - 6:30 p.m.
Hard to argue with Trump on this point: even if he found a cure to cancer, Democrats probably wouldn't stand up or cheer.

Ramesh Ponnuru - Contributing columnist - 6:29 p.m.
Trump promised to bring order to the border and has done so rapidly. Of course he is taking a victory lap. But he can't help then trashing the Democrats.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Washington Post's editorial board is full of the dumbest people saying the dumbest things.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In the middle of Trump reeling off a list of made up programs that he is lying about cutting, Washington Post cretin Megan McArdle says some of them "probably were driven by progressive activist priorities".

Megan McArdleOpinion Columnist6:46 p.m.
Trump begins running through a list of ridiculous sounding foreign aid programs, some of which probably were driven by progressive activist priorities. But in the middle of the list he gets to circumcision in Mozambique ... which is something we fund because it's been shown to dramatically reduce the spread of AIDS.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

yeah, the behavior of the admin settings is inconsistent between the two settings 1) If "gender" is unchecked the gender option appears on myaccount.google.com/profile but with the "lock" icon and can't be edited 2) If "pronouns" is unchecked, the pronouns setting just doesn't appear at all.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is what the admin control panel looks like -- I think your Workspace admin has this setting disabled (mine was disabled by default, I think).

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The fraud/waste/abuse expert has logged on

A tweet from Austen Allred on Feb 8 2025 saying

"I do think DOGE is going to be able to actually balance the budget.

People used to say, "You can't, because look at these sacred categories: There's x in entitlements, y in healthcare, you can't change those."

But how much in those sacred categories is fraud/waste/abuse?"

A screenshot of an SF Gate headline from April 2024 saying Federal agency fines SF school, founder $164,000, alleging they tricked students
BloomTech CEO Austen Allred agreed to the order but admitted no wrongdoing

A screenshot of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau press release saying "CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred for Deceiving Students and Hiding Loan Costs

For-profit school made false claims about job-placement rates"

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices."

Chart showing that everyone (of all ages) thinks that the best time to be alive was when they were around 10 years old.

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Very funny that S*ngal thinks that "Katie Tightpussy" is actually the Editor-in-Chief of Bluesky @katie.bzky.team . Just incredible journalism to not be able to spot the difference between bzky.team and bsky.team

A tweet posted by transphobe J*sse S*ngal which says:

"I don't know what else to say at this point other than that this whole thing has been incredible. I had no idea it would be like this. I thought a few people would complain and then it would be normal.

Gonna be a very fun BARPod segment."

His tweet contains a screenshot of @nacl.sh saying they are putting together an open letter to address S*ngal's violations of the Bluesky ToS.

The screenshot includes a reply "I intent to sign" written by Katie Tightpussy, Editor-in-Chief (@katie.bzky.team)

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

"Block me and move on" -- 30k users have already done just that

A screenshot of a list of blocklists that Jesse Singal appears on taken from https://clearsky.app/jessesingal.com/lists

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tonightatten.bsky.social @tonightatten.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've just written my first letter to the NYT Editor, in response to Jeremy Peters' anti-trans article. It feels unlikely it will be published, so I'm posting it here so it's not lost.

Re: Jeremy Peters' article regarding the tone of the trans rights movement published Nov 27.

The article downplays the grave reality: Trans people have come under a sustained, systematic attack fueled by millions of dollars of political ads falsely portraying them as a societal threat.

In truth, this tiny, vulnerable population experiences violent crime four times the rate of cis people. Their clinics have been firebombed and schools supporting trans students face bomb threats. A constant stream of legislation targets their ability to fully participate in public life.

In contrast, Peters identifies the threat to those debating trans rights as having "to endure their unsparing criticism", and asks us to consider the impact on billionaire JK Rowling of having her feminist credentials questioned.

Trans peoples' fight for protections from discrimination and access to healthcare is urgent and just. The hurt feelings of their critics should not overshadow the existential threats trans people endure every day.

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