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Tyler Blake

@tyblake.bsky.social
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Golden State Warriors fan, politics junkie, proud San Franciscan, shitposter. All thoughts and opinions my own.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Especially hypocritical coming from soi-disant originalists, since the Founding Era discourse around the Fourth Amendment is pretty clearly predicated on the opposite idea—that these agents are apt to run amok & behave abusively, requiring their discretion to be constrained by a neutral magistrate.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
yes more of this please ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
screenshot of two paragraphs excerpted from the linked article, with the final sentence of the first paragraph highlighted in green. excerpt reads as follows:

In response to Venegas’s lawsuit, the Trump administration contended that the government had a reasonable suspicion to detain him, and that this argument was supported by Kavanaugh’s concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. Basically, Kavanaugh said that agents detain and question people when they have reasonable suspicion, and since agents detained and questioned Venegas, they must have had reasonable suspicion to do so. In a September 21 order, though, Trump-appointed district judge Jeffrey Beaverstock wrote that the government offered “no factual support whatsoever” as to why its suspicion was reasonable, and that he was “simply not inclined to take the Government’s word for it.”

Beaverstock also wrote that Kavanaugh’s concurrence offered no help to the administration, because the immigration stops they carried out looked nothing like the immigration stops that Kavanaugh imagined. “Venegas was not promptly released,” said Beaverstock. “Instead, the officers disregarded the veracity of his documentation and continued to detain him.” Beaverstock concluded that the administration’s warrantless raid and detention policies are likely unconstitutional, and issued an order temporarily blocking them.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like I’ve always said you gotta consentmaxx or else you’re gonna get justicemogged
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2024: we’ll fix it all on day 1 2026: pweese just give us one more chance
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A little over 10 years ago. It's astonishing how far the culture has moved in the wrong direction on trans rights since, and the continued capitulation of centrist dems has aided a dangerous and unjust situation: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
nbcnews.com
NBA Pulls All-Star Game Out of Charlotte Over Transgender Bathroom Law
The National Basketball Association has decided to pull the 2017 All-Star game out of Charlotte, N.C.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Only Charlie Kirk is a father. Only Charlie Kirk is a husband. Only Charlie Kirk's death is a tragedy and totally unacceptable. The rest of us are potentially, if we are unlucky enough, simply the sacrifice the second amendment demands and Charlie Kirk demanded." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ducking a meeting with a bunch of desperately ill children from the state you represent to record a video praising Mr. Trump >>>>
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
do any of you know what words mean or do you think "backfire" is when the expected and intended result occurs?
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The news media instead told us that "it's not clear what Elon Musk's politics are" right before he became the #1 Republican donor in history then told us "Elon Musk is leaving politics" right before he was going to become the #1 Republican donor for a second consecutive cycle.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yep. Trumpism's main pillars have all crumbled: *Mass deportations widely hated/haven't created jobs for native born *America First foreign policy (unchecked militarism/contempt for int'l alliances) is disaster *Trade wars aren't restoring manufacturing/are hurting countless ordinary people
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The same story repeats itself everywhere in the culture: dumb rich guys who don't know what anything is or does, who are too lazy/smug to learn and ideologically committed to the idea that everything they don't control is Woke Bullshit, wrecking stuff on principle. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was see...
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Kris Pursiainen @krisap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Enes Kanter stepped onto a WNBA baseline during a game. In that moment, he presented a larger threat to the league than any transgender athlete ever has: clutchpoints.com/wnba/indiana...
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Fever’s Sophie Cunningham urges haters to ‘look at the stats’ in confident clapback
Protests keep following the Fever in the wake of Sophie Cunningham's comments about transgender woman. She says her critics are hypocrites.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Trump admires Kim Jong Un because he has successfully enslaved the North Korean population the same way Trump wants to do to us
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Benedictine Funk @jdandeneau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It should be illegal not to like me” is like, the third primary tenet of modern rightism
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
the word ‘intervention’ elicited a pavlovian response to authorize indiscriminate bombing, he’s not even listening
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"we love our brave troops don't we folks we always support the troops stand and salute them why aren't you standing do you not support the men and women in uniform the troops the beloved troops" it was bullshit the whole time, they never cared even a little.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Firms that kept their DEI policies or voted down anti-DEI shareholder resolutions did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as firms that didn’t." Important research @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Show this to Joe Lacob and maybe he’ll actually try to put a team around Steph
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.
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Matt Campbell @bluehogreport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Former NBA star"?? Look, the meaning of words might change over time, but "played in 3 games ever and never scored a point" does not and never has meant "NBA star" www.complex.com/sports/a/ber...
complex.com
Judge Issues 50-Year No-Contact Order Against Ex-NBA Player Royce White
Former NBA star Royce White has been ruled 'abusive' by a...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ironically, the way mainstream papers lower the bar to give space to middling hacks in the name of ideological diversity is the closest real-world phenomeon to how MAGA imagines DEI works. Does anyone think we’d know the name Mark Thiessen if he were on the center-left competing for that slot?
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Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
how it's always been - there is no problem, so the transphobes come in and become the problem, to prove that there's a problem, to justify the transphobia
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026
Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Against incredible odds Infantino has managed to make Sepp Blatter look both competent and principled
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Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
37 wins is not even .500! The dynasty is dead dead dead once the Warriors stop playing for a championship, and to stop trying while they have Steph Curry is atrocious.
Slater reports "The Warriors are just fine running back this kinda older 37-win core and understanding they're not necessarily a part of the title conversation.”
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Congresswoman Betty McCollum @mccollum.house.gov · 25/07/2026
Last year, the Trump Administration delayed a $10 million grant meant for thinning out ~4,000 acres of dense, dry areas in the Superior National Forest. Most of the work never started. Now, it’s on fire. This is the cost of Elon Musk and the actions of DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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‘We were shovel ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze
Fire crews now have to thin out thousands of acres of dense, dry forest as wildfires burn.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 22/07/2026
He had him murdered and dismembered with a bone saw for being a journalist
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There's a lot of this written unironically in Big Media
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Spain seem to be favoring the right side with Lamine Yamal” good to know soccer commentary is just as inane as every other sport
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/07/2026
I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...
In the paragraph that follows, I am going to briefly subject you to something that, if I were not writing a newsletter, I would not ask my worst enemy to read: insights from the mind of Riley Gaines, whose ability to parlay a fifth-place finish at a college swim meet into a career as an anti-trans podcaster is a tribute to what late-stage capitalism can accomplish.

“I think we’re going to continue to see movement and allow the people’s voice to be heard, especially in some of those purple states,” Gaines told Politico last month, after the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. B.P.J. upheld state lawmakers’ power to bar trans girls from playing women’s sports. “Each major decision gives your ordinary person more cover to say something that…was the standard, like the default position to take, really not that long ago.”

In other words, B.P.J. is not (only) about keeping girls like 16-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson from playing on the same team as her friends. It is about empowering people to feel more comfortable expressing rank bigotry in public.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The logical endpoint of the American conservative political impulse: pissy HOA behaviors + death squads of otherwise unemployable gun chuds. It's all been leading up to this baby.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
DC statehood, proportional representation/MMD, court reform, national campaign of reconstruction and deterrence to prevent anyone from ever trying this kind of garbage again
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Tyler Blake @tyblake.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Rise of Skywalker It was the last movie I saw in theaters before the COVID lockdown and for a while I was worried it would be the last movie I ever got to see in theaters
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