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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 2h

Like all narcissists, all trump can do is fuck everything up for himself

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10h

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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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.

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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state

Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's too many, but here's one that I think of often: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBi...

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The Kids - Trapper

YouTube video by dave chan

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An existential threat to the entire budget model of 🇺🇸 research universities, for whom federal $ is the largest (or 2nd/3rd largest) source of funding. You might think university presidents & chancellors would be out loudly protesting this, collectively. Alas, again, you would sadly be wrong.

Mancur Olson, author of "The Logic of Collective Action" (1965), with laser eyes

George Akerlof, author of "The Market for Lemons" (1970), with laser eyes

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

lord help us if we have basic standards for law enforcement

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.

The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

Przeworski, Democracy and the Market cover

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a new social class: The Rapist Class

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Alicia Ramirez (she/her) @aliciak2010.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes something happens that's so undeniably good that you've got to celebrate, and Newsom signing AB 2222 is one of those things. Shout out to @mattdpearce.com and @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for their efforts on getting this in front of the right people and also across the finish line.

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Hamilton: We Won! Lafayette's Victory Celebration

Alt: Hamilton: We Won! Lafayette's Victory Celebration

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Nature @nature.com · 30/09/2026

The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers. go.nature.com/3ThOxAJ

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Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature

The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So *this* is why the fascists keep insisting that we need more teenagers to get pregnant 👀

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know we’re not supposed to goof on people’s looks, but if this is what being a billionaire does to you, I’m happy to be a poor slob

Peter Thiel looking like a particularly vicious Dan Clowes drawing

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what has fascinated me from the start: Every AI ad has involved trying to invent ways for the would-be customer to use their "product" -- because there IS no use that their customer base has for it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.

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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.

Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Killer Story is eye-opening. It's certainly not the first time I've seen prosecutors manufacture evidence to convict someone that they know is innocent, but HBO's mini-series reminds me that a *significant* % of prosecutors & investigators care more about "winning" than about truth or justice.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 25/09/2026

The Trump administration tried to use a government shutdown to fire federal workers. Unions fought back—and won. Under the new settlement, federal agencies can’t include mass firings in their shutdown plans. Proud to have fought alongside partners to stop this unlawful scheme.

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Unions Win Withdrawal of Shutdown Mass Firing Orders

A settlement agreement in a case brought by labor unions challenging the unlawful mass firing of federal employees durin

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

David Ellison is considering recruiting Elon Musk to invest in Paramount-Warner Bros. once the merger goes through. Hello? We’ve already seen how Elon turned Twitter into a cesspool of right-wing, outright racist content. Billionaires controlling our media is bad for everyone but the billionaires.

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David Ellison Mulls Tapping Elon Musk for Paramount Investment While Closing in on Warner Bros. Takeover: Report

David Ellison, seeking fresh capital for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros., is considering reaching out to tech mogul Elon

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I keep coming back to Your Monster. It has the most delicious third act you've ever seen. Watch it!

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Your Monster Movie

ALT: Your Monster Movie

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This tells you everything you need to know about these AI companies

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 24/09/2026

NEW: We found 22 billionaires trying to shoot down the 5% billionaire wealth tax that Californians will vote on this November. In the last 20 months, their combined wealth increased $282.6 billion — a gain of over 64%. IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social in @inequality.org:

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Billionaire Bankrollers: Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing the Prop 40 Tax on Billionaires

A cadre of anti-tax Californians have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64 percent in the last twenty months.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They did not "mistakenly" detain him. They did it very much on purpose.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.

We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cf vouchers and housing. demand doesn’t necessarily produce supply WHICH IS WHY THE STATE PROVISIONS THE GOOD.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't remember writing this down at ALL 😆

Idea:
ASMR but I’m saying Peewee Herman catchphrases

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Science is very much "Receipts or it didn't happen"

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Receipts Proof

ALT: Receipts Proof

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When your entire personality is wolves

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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can see how someone thought "this will help people learn!" and i mean, congrats on reinventing flashcards?

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We HAVE to rebrand and shame conservatives as idiots and weirdos

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❤️‍🔥xenobriotic @xenobriotic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have realized recently that half of my coworkers don’t actually understand how to have a conversation

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