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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 14h

For too long, beat sɐxǝʇ has been but a dream

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bugs in Starship Troopers

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fall is the perfect time for playoffs bc there is something autumnal about seeing people rep their team the day after elimination. A celebratory surrender to dormancy

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not permitting an op-ed about Ralph Nader's 2000 run, written in the year of our Lord 2026, to pass by me without blocking anyone responsible

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hate catching my reflection and being reminded that I’m an object as well as a subject and that the way my hair sits impacts how people view my subjective legitimacy

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fair Share has delivered major wins in education and transportation. This is attack on the very idea behind it and on everyone who worked on that campaign. She doesn’t neutralize disingenuous MAGA attacks: she shows that they will work on her.

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And another thing, it’s not a commode. Please don’t put in the newspaper that it’s a commode

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress Representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. @inthesetimes.com reported: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress
Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-private-prisons-geo-group-corecivic

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...

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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It

Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chillingly, in the last few days I have come to realize the technology we use to generate kill lists for the Pentagon could someday... hurt people.

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tennis should nerf the serve

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026

We've got a Muslim man running the most multicultural city in the world and making space for all the people in it. That's what cultural victory over fundamentalism looks like, it's a shame that there's a part of the population that couldn't identify a cultural victory if it slapped them in the face.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 10/09/2026

Three "you can't make that throw" throws from Drake Maye.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hmmm...what it is about this guy that isn't catching the attention of the people who are sometimes really concerned about academic fraud...you know, people who swarm other profs at the slightest rumor, even when it's a guy whose work they don't know anything about...can't quite put my finger on it

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Exceedingly important piece that says what needs to be said about those for whom glib difference splitting is their North Star.

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lmao the NYT push notification didn’t even mention Seth’s name

NYT push notification
First line: Breaking News
Second line: Senator Ed Markey, an 80-year-old progressive, held off a younger centrist to win the Dem. primary in Mass.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026

"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We really need to stop referring to these machines as “dogs.” That’s a descriptor given to them as part of a years long PR campaign to normalize their presence in civilian spaces. They are marketed as mobile surveillance and weapons platforms. We need to call them that.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

When Students For Fair Admissions brings Ward Connerly to campus to argue Black people don’t *really* earn their way into the school that’s free speech, when people protest and mock him, that’s intolerant.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

We cannot preemptively and "pragmatically" kick our more vulnerable allies off of the plane. The end result will be having to face the fascists later on anyway but with a significantly diminished coalition. www.welcometohellworld.com/dumping-weig...

I will tell you plainly what is happening right now. The fascists are charged up at the moment after the overturning of Roe and hungry to claw back more of our rights. Trans people have long been in their sights. Many in the center and the center left where most Democrats live seem eager to placate them by sacrificing on this issue to focus on more reasonable "every day" "kitchen table" issues under the misguided impression that if they do perhaps it will slow the right down. It will not. And they will not stop at trans people as we've seen with all the attempts to label drag performers and gay and lesbian teachers who simply share their identity with students as pedophile groomers. (More on that in the feature below). After every mass shooting – like the most recent horrific one in Illinois – they spread a rumor that the shooter is trans now.

Who is to say that gay marriage is sacrosanct at this current pace? Clarence Thomas certainly doesn't seem to think so. Do you trust him to do the right thing?

It's easy to forget sometimes but while broad acceptance of same sex couples in America seems like it's been around forever it has not. It's very very new! Same sex marriage wasn't legal in all 50 states until 2015. That was fucking yesterday.

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Played pickleball with Stephanie today and she whooped me 3 games in a row. I’m starting to think that the tennis snobs were right about this game …

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

its a cover image of an april 2019 atlantic mag. a neon light bulb american flag signals no vacancy like a roadside motel. under the flag is a headline for david frum's cover story "How much immigration is too much?"

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

there's a reason why every couple months The Atlantic or some columnist there is the source for a new - but entirely repetitious - round of "just asking questions" about why there sure do seem to be too many trans people, woke academics, annoying protestor teens, etc, etc, etc

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Fundraising spam runs on similar psychological levers to those that federal law enforcement and consumer-protection groups identify as hallmarks of elder financial exploitation." data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wow! Thank you to Bonica for publishing this. The notes here about Democratic party committees and fundraising firms trying to kill this at the Times and Bulwark are incredibly disturbing. You can not support democracy if you suppress critical reporting about your scummiest fundraising practices.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Insane that I have to listen to ads while putting gas in my car

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2026

The U.S. government investigated left-leaning groups during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, infiltrating group chats and obtaining financial records of organizations never accused of crimes, according to newly released documents.

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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not the main point here but I also fucking hate how they think comrade is some kind of slur that means “Russian evil” and not one of the best things you can be for someone.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026

tfw you have no idea that conservatives have been saying since the 1970s that if you have accessible and pleasant comms people, then "objective" journalists are easy to manipulate into thinking power and the disempowered are equal.

a bsky post from Eric Lipton NYT reading:
One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feel like a kid again. Completed the Cambridge Public Library summer reading bingo and got a tote bag for my troubles 😊

Summer Reading Bingo card with Cat in the background

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William @williamlonn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Left the case for my earbuds on the train or bus this morning. Please pray for me

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