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Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

I'm THRILLED to finally get my hands on this new book on the Voting Rights Act! I've long talked to author @kevintmorris.bsky.social, who is an indefatigable researcher of voting rights and the (worsening) state of democracy in this country. So I know for a fact I'll be learning a ton.

Photo of the book An American Problem by Michael Miller and Kevin Morris.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10h

IT IS NOT REMOTELY THE FUCK UNCLEAR

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12h

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16h

The “what’s Mamdani doing THIS VERY SECOND and why whatever it is, it’s wrong” beat is lucrative and Reingold is the leading domain expert.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20h

The perfection of this.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

My colleague @kylieclifton.bsky.social has a warning for those in deer-heavy areas: 'tis the season for them to be wandering into the street, particularly at dawn and dusk. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

(or salt) broke me in a way I didn't think was possible

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

OK, superficial intelligence it is!

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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026

“Everything the U.S. empire does is bad, so everyone who does something against the U.S. is good” is a really silly political ideology

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hmmm do we think maybe there's been some cheapening of the framework around genocide here if it can encompass the pro-Palestinian mayor of New York City.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Personally, I would always prefer no one show up instead of having a republican there doing republican things. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Also there’s an election next month where he’s getting replaced.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tennessee is here fighting an evidence preservation request following its failure to kill Christa Pike. Judge, noting that Pike was earlier in the litigation focused on stopping the execution, asks of TN's args today: "Isn't that kind of an untenable position?" "We are here improvidently."

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Totally, totally, kids cut off their parents because of "ordinary conflict." Hey, unrelatedly, here's an email I got from my father 27 years after the last time I saw him.

Dear Evil One -
Just a Happy Halloween Wish! I hope you took the kids out Trick or Treating and they had a great time!
Tomorrow is All Saints Day and Deb and I will be going to Mass at our local church. It struck me on this Halloween Night that the evil of witches and goblins and such is rooted in the very real evil of Satan. Hate and pain are the hallmarks of evil... the hallmarks of Satan. With all the evil and hate you have demonstrated with me, along with all the pain you have caused, it struck me that just as Deb and I will attend Catholic Mas tomorrow... will you be going to a Black Mass to worship Satan?
It was just a question that came up as we pulled "candy duty" with all the Trick or Treaters.
Well, will you be attending a Black Mass?

Love,

Dad

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"editorial independence": if everyone thought freely they'd agree with me, you're free to do so too "don't politicize": my views are normal, so taking a different view is being political, don't do that "intellectual diversity": censor ideas I dislike, lower your standards to promote ideas I like

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

"Well if that is wrong, everybody is guilty!" Yes. That's why it's called rape "culture."

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives-

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't think "bootlicker" covers the degree to which some people try to flatter those in power these days. There's some straight up bootsucking going on.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And with that the awards show honoring best television shows will no longer be on… television

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Oct 7 attack by Hamas was a horrific act against Israelis that made everything worse for Palestinians, the Israeli government committed war crimes, Hezbollah is a fascistic organisation that exploits its community, the IRGC feeds off endless war at home and abroad All these things are true

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/10/2026

Really hard to overstate how damaging these cuts are. Even if a democratic trifecta ever gets around to restoring research budgets, it will take a decade or more to restart labs, and even then decades of institutional knowledge will be gone. It’s vandalism on a massive scale.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"To fight back, Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of C.I.A. officers: using multiple sources to check information; testing those sources regularly for reliability; never getting complacent and trusting one source without thinking."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If my “about you” is any indication of the average profile, it’s no wonder they still suck at recommending products.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I swore an oath to be wildly overpaid by placing my right hand on top of a copy of Atlas Shrugged while stomping on a poor person

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I LOVE season 4 of The OC so personally I was delighted listening this episode on my walk last night.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

“A Denver woman is suing police, Flock Safety and two Colorado towns after a sergeant falsely accused her of stealing a $25 package citing Flock surveillance footage as evidence.”

coloradosun.com

Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch

Chrisanna Elser was accused of stealing a $25 package after a Columbine Valley police sergeant cited Flock surveillance of her car as proof

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If. I. Wanted. To. Open. It. In. The. App. I. Would. Have. Done. That.

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VioletViva @violetviva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“She’s not from Ohio and didn’t have surgery as a minor” Ok, well, before you even get to that, how about current or former US Senators aren’t in charge of scheduling random people’s surgeries. The whole fucking idea behind it is fucking nonsense.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Years of maga slop incoming bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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