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tragic girl dream pixie @seelie.bsky.social · 18h

"but could a five-time nobel prize nominee do this?" [he slides one foot out from under him and fumbles his coup, it's not clear how he thought this would inspire the jdf to repeal article 9]

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 16h

In case you’re wondering, there is no prohibition on indicting a federal judge & sending him to prison, but he receives a salary and his seat judgeship remains occupied until impeached & removed

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16h

When they say local rule they don't mean state rule, they mean municipal & county. I think you can tell the difference. It's a sorry principle that appeals to federalism when Republicans want to disempower government & appeals to democracy when they don't.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Man, no matter how much you tell students, "you cannot guess later Latin principle parts for verbs from earlier ones" there are always a few who try in every class. And it turns out - wait for it - you cannot guess later Latin principle parts for verbs from earlier ones.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16h

Using ruler as it's used in this article is pretty much about as flagrant a suggestion that zeteo is designed to engender fear clicks as I can articulate. Do better.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 17h

People will be like "why didn't they do more sooner" when actually it's "the predictions were so dire that they were able to get a surprising degree of action at a time when hardly anyone in a serious decision-making position actually took the topic as seriously as it deserved, if they cared at all"

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mylrea.bsky.social @mylrea.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah...the worst case scenarios were based on low innovation/economic growth, high population growth, an energy mix which was largely based on brown coal, and no scalable mitigation until the end of century.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 17h

Assuming we don't keep stabbing ourselves anyway for culture war reasons (but even then the greening of Africa as its population crests will prove an incredible miracle)

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 17h

"renewable energy is economically self sustaining" really is a miracle that was not guaranteed to happen and makes things so so so much better than the alternative.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 17h

We are on one of the more optimistic curves from 20 years ago iirc & also Bad Things Happen was the optimistic scenario 20 years ago

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 18h

"DO YOU HATE DATA CENTRES?" well get the fuck off the Internet, then.

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VictorK @victork1862.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible image of American cultural victory.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 18h

- Chief of the Naval General Staff Osami Nagano, leaving the meeting Pearl Harbor meeting, 19 October 1941

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David B @aardvark007.bsky.social · 18h

Another reason why the current wave of Left antisemitism hurts so much is that we just spent the past 20 yrs with DEI, antiracism, intersectionality, microaggressions, minority/indigenous/immigrant rights, etc. except now we see that NONE of that applies when it comes to the rights of Jews.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17h

i've never been a cultural relativist so this is easy for me: the culture of the American Right fucking sucks. they worship malice and mediocrity. they venerate nothing of value.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 17h

id rather an assurance of your personal sympathies than making any pretense theres a real solution at this point. there isnt. its over.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 17h

there is no putting the cat back in the bag, certainly not now. like idk im allowed personal irritation over this but unless youre willing to make opposition to antisemtism a central plank of your political identity *at the expense of other things* (and you arent) its just noise.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 17h

look. unless youre willing to systematically and thoroughly drive antisemites out of the organizations, a process which would be long, painful, and result in the effective paralysis of left organizations for years, then youre just going to have to tolerate this.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

(and that is what so many college students seem to have lost track of: the part where college is the most elite and expensive brain gym ever invented, and somehow now they think that watching videos of bench presses is the same as doing bench presses)

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

anyways it turns out that you have to have that inner discipline of self to keep your brain going to the brain gym that's the important part

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

for me two absolutely core aspects of intellectual discipline are reading and writing. no, not reading posts and writing posts: logging your ass off, reading a book, thinking hard about it, and then writing something else long-form in response. not a hot take: a genuine response.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

maintaining that inner sense of true and false is as much an emotional task and a social task as an intellectual one.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

one thing i have long thought, in this business of Takes, is that there is an enormous necessity to discipline your own thinking. it is *so easy* to get lazy. to just talk shit. to just outsource your brain to your own comments section.

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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 17h

This is correct, and it’s not a close call. If he was repeatedly using the N word while demeaning black soldiers, no one to the left of JD Vance would hesitate to say that that’s impeachable.

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Jason Kikta @kikta.net · 17h

Alex Jones meme with text “The elites don't want you to know this but the SAPs at the park are free you can take them home.
I have 458 SAPs.”

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

i'm actually going to take this goofy post somewhat seriously: much as going to the gym requires discipline, so too does going to the mental gym require discipline. and discipline is harder than it looks: it is about *your* ability to discipline *yourself*

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 18h

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 18h

None of these countries has any hope of competing in the 21st Century, a far cry from their status not ten years ago. Y'all have no imagination.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 18h

Russia, Cuba, and Iran have all traded Dramatic Epoc-Defining Economic Collapse that everyone under 50 remembers for Slow-Motion Economic Necrosis amounting to Geopolitical Suicide that still doesn't register so long as they remain in the headlines.

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🎃Out-of-Network Doctor Benway🎃 @docbenway.bsky.social · 19h

I think, assuming we don’t just eliminate ICE/CBP entirely and reconstitute border checks under a separate agency or agencies, I think any shirking can be handled by massive RIFs and a public campaign of “they let the bad guys walk free because we wouldn’t let them shoot the tamale lady in the face”

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trumpeffschildren.bsky.social @trumpeffschildren.bsky.social · 19h

Progressives should be content with deploying national guard troops to the border to replace ICE/CBP temporarily until a broader solution can be enacted. Fire them all day 1 and deploy some troops to prevent chaos on the border. Then come up with a plan to divvy those agency powers up correctly.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

SC because not trying to pile on, but Chesa was (in part, not monocausal, etc) successfully recalled by SFPD sandbagging. I personally know people in the city told by on duty cops “sorry can’t arrest this obviously dangerous person threatening you, due to the DA”. Like, it worked.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

In general I think shirking is a hugely effective tool in the cops political arsenal and whole progressive elected officials have a workable toolkit for punishing affirmative abuses (abuse of force, etc), there’s less of one for negative abuses (refusing to do the legitimate parts of the job)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

I’m pretty worried about ICE/CBP going blue-flu to ratfuck the next Dem administration tbh. I don’t really think there’s a good counter to them doing malicious compliance and stopping even normal enforcement, then going “sorry, we had to let that child predator go, due to woke” to sympathetic media

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 18h

We've shot the moon on this and have now defined collapse away from "any second now" to "collapse isn't real", when I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Cubans and Iranians would agree that their economies have collapsed.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

kinda perfect encapsulation of why 'nepo babies' in acting or entertainment directly are basically a non-issue (being a movie star is actually sorta meritocratic in that if you don't have the juice it doesn't matter how much money you have) but a huge deal in actual media ownership

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 19h

“Real rednecks are leftists and they would stop support MAGA if they weren’t so poor” sounds increasingly like “China’s going to democratize if they get rich.”

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 22h

A functional populist right coalition that can hold power in a multicultural society looks a lot more like Doug Ford's joint in Ontario than anything the GOP does here.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19h

This is so tough because like… I do think *most* of the usurpers and failed emperors were fundamentally kind of bad at their jobs. The fact that they failed is not dispositive of this but it is a decently correlating factor

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Jack @handle.invalid · 19h

For most people, the first time they become aware of how bad a problem is is when somebody attempts to start tracking it, which they then interpret as the cause of the problem. To them, the cover-up is preferable to unveiling the crime, so long as the crime doesn't affect them directly.

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Jack @handle.invalid · 19h

Chicago of routinely singled out as the most corrupt and rotten city in all of America because of how many of its politicians end up in jail. But if the rest of the country enforced anti-corruption laws as strictly as IL, most of the Deep South would have no elected government, judiciary, or police,

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of the work in Soviet and pre-Soviet times was pretty generic anti-plague research (vaccination, treatment, etc) but they still hid it. It's eminently believable a natural strain infected a lab tech and the FSB immediately covered it up because Russia covers up everything about plague.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 23h

This actually dates back to before the Soviet Union existed. The USSR had the second-largest enzootic plague area in the world but denied any cases. Infectious disease outbreaks were just generally state secrets. Russia hiding plague information is nothing new. It's infuriating, but not new.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🔥 Sochi. Claimed as Aframax Rio tanker was carrying crude oil from Novorossiysk to India and was almost fully loaded.

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 23h

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 21h

This is actually where the southernification / evangelical takeover of rural and exurban great plains has had a massive detrimental impact. Because you do have an intensely rich aspirational mythology in the region (Paul Bunyan - pride in ACW service - Field of Dreams) which has been overridden.

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