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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/08/2025

It’s genuinely baffling to me how the GOP has managed to maintain a reputation in basically all media as the “law and order“ party and the party of “fiscal responsibility“ in contradiction to all readily available facts

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Marin M. Miller @marinmmiller.com · 21/08/2025

To the job counselors whose first suggestion is for me to use AI to write my resume: You are only making me regret coming to you for help. You are telling me there is nothing to learn from you.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Athena: I am the goddess of wisdom and war. I care not for the frivolities of other women. Paris: Good to hear because the fairest ain’t you. Athena: It wasn’t wise to tell the goddess of war she’s not as pretty as some dumb slut.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025

it is a solid tell that people aren’t thinking they are just mindlessly repeating narrative, conventional wisdom and spin

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Arguably, they’re neither, because they’re typically about existential, nihilistic concepts, which go well beyond any RW/LW boxing.

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I’m not particularly well-versed in spotting scam artists, but

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TEK @teknasty.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Not them removing the cracker and barrel

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I think it’s funny to call this blunt, I’ve seen it as a fairly well-done, non-pretentious nihilist allegory.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 20/08/2025

I’ve talked about this before. You’ll see, on TV and in films, men wracked with guilt about having killed another man. . . You never see them experiencing the same guilt about sexually assaulting a woman.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 20/08/2025

I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It’s one of those little things that tells you he’s just an old man in decline. He’s propped up as a mascot, but he’s not a leader. The psychos in his Cabinet are more or less running things with no oversight because the literal President has already functionally degraded to being a child again.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Like, it’s valid to point out how Neo-Nazi’s exploit ignorance and emotionally manipulate people with surface-level charm. But that’s not a diatribe on “the Left,” that’s “not enough people realize a seemingly-pleasant person with shitty political views is ultimately just a shitty fucking person.”

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

it is like central casting with these guys lol

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/08/2025

Just think about the kind of person who, today, with everything going on, thinks "I want to be an ICE officer." What are the chances of that being a decent human being?

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

So many people have been ringing the alarm bell about this for ages and I would not be shocked if the entire thing crumbled.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/08/2025

Resourceful Man Able To Cobble Together Bad Mood From Handful Of Minor Annoyances theonion.com/resourc...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

Yeah I wish more people had seen “Hangmen Also Die!” to get a visceral depiction of what this arbitrary and deceitful process looks like for people dealing with the state at the extreme end.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

I was talking about the 1900s. This is from this week.

CAPITOL POLITICS

BREAKING
Governor Mike Braun (R-IN) says interracial marriage should be left up to the state
Mike Braun said the Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage before he was governor - arguing that decision should've been left to individual states. Now, those past comments are resurfacing as his actions in office spark new concerns.

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/08/2025

it’s my right to eat as many rat droppings as I want. government regulations are stifling small business owners who want to innovate in the rat dropping space. also if I get sick from eating rat droppings it is not my fault

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

And Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk is taking this a step further, calling for all Western countries to bar people from Gaza while sharing a clip from fucking Betar. Profoundly evil people.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11

This is not promising. The West should not have to absorb yet another Muslim influx. What happens in Brussels will soon happen in Brooklyn. The West shouldn't take a single person from Gaza. Israel and Arab neighbors need to figure it out. There are about 50 Muslim majority nations that should take them before the West does.

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Gazans arriving to Belgium today!!

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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

This has been an ongoing problem for years. The real estate industry has been directly behind this. They benefit from the sale of these homes so they can later gentrify these neighborhoods. They purposely don’t give ppl the information needed so they can pay their bills.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

If you’re poor CPS will come take your kids because they believe you’re endangering your child. If you’re rich and prefer to give your baby ham bones you get a write up in the Wall Street Journal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/08/2025

the short of it is that him and his fellow travelers are incapable of evaluating something on its own, without worrying whether it is tied to people on the internet you don't like

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/08/2025

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2025

unless you enjoy seeing DHS and ICE hurt people, this administration is giving you nothing, actively taking away your treats, and making your life worse in a myriad of ways both small and large all stick, no carrot I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...

A response people like to lob when stuff like this is shared is, “are you surprised?” I expect this time will be no different, but I’d like to preemptively address it.
There is a difference between being surprised and shocked. Is it surprising that Trump’s stormtroopers are acting with impunity? The past nine months have taught us no, of course not. But is it shocking to see a man—someone’s family member, someone’s friend, someone’s neighbor—being brutalized by agents who are fully aware they’re being watched and recorded? Yes. And I hope it remains shocking. There can be no day when this is normal.

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Doesn’t have Sartre on the list? Pft, casual.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/08/2025

what

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

regular reminder that the whirling death machine is not invincible and it falls apart if enough people just refuse to do what they’re told

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025

They’re all flim flammers selling rich people alluring lies about being able to lock in their “legacy” for all time. Which is another way of selling them a magic potion so they can live forever. Rich dummies have always been the mark for this. Shame is basing your damn economy on it.

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It makes me feel a little better that all of us facing the inevitable exodus from Windows have collectively-but-independently decided on Linux.

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“One theory posits that a sufficiently ancient mimic could impersonate the known universe. Another theory posits that this has already happened.”

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Untold Folktale @untoldfolktale.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It do be frustrating how a big reason these dickbags are getting power now is because it was culturally okay to be an obvious bigot as long as you phrased it the right way.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

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Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines

As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

"The DOJ’s wholesale abandonment of Black people under Donald Trump—refusing to protect us from police abuse, refusing to protect us from voter suppression, refusing to protect us from employment discrimination, and more—has left Lexington’s residents feeling afraid and alone once again."

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Wish I lacked critical thinking skills yall seem so happy.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I am so sick of AI enthusiasts saying "but what about how it assists in detecting cancer? Are you against that?" The reality:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/08/2025

Opening Staff Rails Against Incompetence Of Closing Staff theonion.com/opening...

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

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Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality

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ceej @ceej.online · 13/08/2025

I’M BILL MAHER

the “I’m Spartacus!” scene from Spartacus (1960)

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