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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 10h

(1) Susan Collins looks ancient in this debate (2) Basically Collins wants a cookie for getting Trump to withhold part of his absurdly unconstitutional tariffs, when senators should be fighting to end them all: congress, not the president, controls taxation.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 8h

Can we agree that by living to 102, Eva Maria Saint was clearly the greatest #looksmaxer of them all?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 7h

Really do wonder what the mass exodus of some of the brightest and most liberal German minds after 1848 did as a whole to the German states Hard not to see it in light of later unification as the Kaiserreich and the dreadful saga of 1871-1945, but that’s just an inference

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 8h

When the slavers popped off their rebellion in 1861, the Turners put down their weights and got off their pommel horses to pick up weapons again to put the hurt on some secesh When DC was undefended at the outset, the DC Turners formed two companies to protect the Capitol

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck yeah, Turnverein ruled “Hey you wanna lift heavy weights and discuss liberalism and human rights?” “Hell yeah brother” Turners formed some of the very first and oldest gyms in the US when they arrived after the Revolutions of 1848. That’s right, gym culture belongs to intellectual lefties

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

actually we created gyms in order to bring freedom to the noble German people

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and his allies have spent most of the past decade doing the administrative equivalent of ripping bundles of wiring out of the walls. When everything's trundling along, you don't necessarily notice the missing wiring. When something goes very wrong, suddenly the damage becomes apparent.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

It's a pouty act of revenge. OpenAI clearly tried to solve every Millennium Problem and every "top ___ unsolved math problems" list, made a lot of genuine progress but couldn't get the brass rings, so they dumped their whole pile on the math community, snarling "you're so smart, you figure it out."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Their defense is that the acceptance rate is just over 50%! For what used to be an extremely selective position.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

The wreckage of the DOJ civil rights division www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 10h

This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h

”i am a moderate on hustle“ = “I believe in whatever level of ‘ hustle‘ (;)) that will maximize the admission of white men to selective institutions“

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Incredible.

Analysis. Does a sex assault claim kill a political career? It depends.

Ghraham Platner’s swift exit followed Eric Swallwell’s similar departure from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 11h

The federal prison union is asking a judge to hold the BOP in contempt bc they say the agency ignored the court order to reinstate the union contract - and some of the things they're alleging in this motion are WILD

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Chronicle Heritage, the largest cultural resources management firm in the US, abruptly shuttered its operations last week. The sudden closure leaves many archaeologists without work just as the US field season is coming to a close. This is a developing story. 🧪🏺 #Archaeology at @science.org

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Exclusive: Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down

Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

My man looks like he owns a restaurant called Serf and TERF

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12h

or, even worse, they don't think so, but they think these views are *popular*, so they have to put fancy clothes on the racism and misogyny and pretend its actually about how the SATS are mean now. like liars.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12h

you have a maniac who sees nonwhite kids at a Texas game and loses his mind, and you have the entire architecture of the American Right (notably, excluding numerous members of the GOP who might have to get votes someday) giving it full voice because they firmly believe that these views are *good*.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12h

I'm writing something about this but a major flaw of the right-wing movement is the clear and obvious belief that racism, homophobia and misogyny are *correct*, but unpopular. so the most "forbidden" voices are obviously *right*, but voters aren't ready for it yet. This whole thing is an example.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Jackson's little chuckle and "what are we doing here?" gesture at the end are both perfect

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Tab/ Cookie @bavariancookie.bsky.social · 14h

Do these tech bro nerds actually like ANYTHING? According to them, they don't like playing fantasy football, reading books, writing code, talking to their children, writing love letters to their spouse, playing video games, listening to music... what DO they like?? Is being rich and boring a hobby?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h

So apparently numerous celebrities have nonexistent children for whom AI is now hallucinating entire biographies.

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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist

YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

to me this is what a tolerant and open society is

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 20h

I can't locate @tomtomorrow.bsky.social's post about his cartoon yesterday, so I'm posting it. Is a little scary to think satire like this is so close to reality.... www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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A modest proposal

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

"we talked to the ohio truck driver who supported the insurrection accidentally hit and killed haitian immigrant who jumped in front of his car" is still a story. i don't understand why a new one had to be seemingly concocted in its place.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20h

New Beforecast episode us up! More Machiavelli, this time zooming in on philosophy: youtu.be/YjvxKd-sORs

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We're all Machiavellian. We Just Don't Realize it. | Beforecast Episode 5 with Ada Palmer

YouTube video by Beforecast

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.

Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label.

A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

we did this constantly in the first admin and he was significantly less addled in that one, i am not doing it this time, fuck him, he’s the one who sucks at communication

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...

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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal

An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 18h

a lot of unfamous but working comics have been able to eke out a living in large part due to royalty checks from siriusxm's raw dog comedy channel. six months ago, sebastian maniscalco bought it and the channel now heavily features already famous comics, and the checks for smaller acts have dried up

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Siriusxm — Stand Up For Stand Up

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology

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Steven Von der Porten for Aliso Viejo City Council @originalteemo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our leaders have failed us at the highest levels. Our last line of defense is each other. If you agree, I’d love for you to share my campaign with friends and family. I’m committing my time and energy, but campaigns are expensive and, if you are able, I could really use your help in this fight!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

hi folks - boosting my friend’s campaign for aliso viejo city council again steven has been a close friend of mine for more than two decades, he’s a stand up dude who is trying to change things on a local level but he needs help getting his name out there your money goes a long way in local races

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

guys, basic internet rule: if you reply to me, for any reason, with graphic slop, I will never, ever, ever engage with you. the winds may sand down the mountains and the sea may overtaken the land and even then, I will never engage with you.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 21h

This sounds like a question asked by a student in an ancient European history class

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