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Some of you are getting too comfy saying that billionaires, AI tech bros, and all the other assholes have to have some psychiatric condition because being a complete utter greedy mean-spirited troll of a person must mean they're crazy. As an actual "crazy" person, fuck you.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 9h

Jesus!

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 9h

Stop reading the Atlantic.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

Domestic abuse is so widespread an issue that a major employer is incorporating employees' need to deal with it into their employee benefits. Union rep: "said domestic violence and abuse affected the lives of at least one in five women, and he urged other employers to introduce similar support."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."

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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse

Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 18h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 16h

Your positive mental health break of the day.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 16h

I think he means well but I am so goddamn tired of white dudes telling me I need to put labor into "understanding" fascists. The problem here is not my level of understanding, it's that the American right wants large swaths of the population including me dead.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18h

Every time he says something completely insane or incoherent and the media basically ignores it, they look more and more disingenuous for acting like Biden was some doddering old fool and I am so fucking sick of it.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 19h

This is a very weird headline because the mob actually very specifically cares that they weren’t charged.

The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care |
Opinion
What's most troubling in the Cornell
University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame.
Ingrid Jacques

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 17h

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 18h

A field just barren of rizz. A juiceless desert. And the press will pretzel themselves to try to hype them anyway.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 18h

I fear I'm turning into the impatient person.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 18h

Dan Quayle was more charismatic than Vance.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22h

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

I fully buy that frontier AI models advanced labs are working on differ from less powerful models available to the public. What I don't fully buy is that any comment from anyone working in those labs must be an accurate assessment of what the tech really is, rather than inflected with AI psychosis.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 20h

This week's video: Here in NC, we have a state senator with a 21,000+ acre farm. Where workers just kinda.... keep dying.

youtube.com

Does This Farm Keep Working People To Death?

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 19h

Team Trump likes to tout the sky-high number of arrests they are making in DC. But these arrests are often an unconstitutional mess — and DC Courts are the ones who have to clean it up.

nbcwashington.com

Safe and beautiful ‘is not free': DC Courts under pressure with flat funding since 2022

Since Congress left D.C. Courts’ funding at 2022 levels, criminal cases are up 160%, with President Trump pushing a tough-on-crime agenda.

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Ryan Overturf @ryanoverdrive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The absolute brain rot it takes to view "influencers" as an elite class of thought leaders and not, you know, walking commercials.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be fair, I've been bitching since March, I just don't have a byline.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine saying, "No one elected you," to the pope. I'm no big RCC booster, and even I know he was elected.

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matt harvey @mattdoc32.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

anyone but the dodgers or yankees is what i am hoping for

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we really should talk about this strategy more, because it does cause real harm and generates real blowback and is not very effective but it does fulfill a gop need for two minutes of hate before an election and a way to arouse evangelicals without having to shout abortion.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't "just quit" Facebook no matter how much I hate it because it's my only contact with a bunch of people I've known for 20+ years now.

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Cholula @cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Without the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.

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zenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How? It would still be light out much later in the summer. Just not 9pm.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Andrew Ferguson makes an important point. Judge Hill's ruling is another step along the path of judges considering how Flock functions as a system. @profferguson.bsky.social "said the case was notable in that it treated the technology as a 'tracking system' rather than just a 'fancy camera.'”

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a law professor at George Washington University Law School, said the case was notable in that it treated the technology as a “tracking system” rather than just a “fancy camera.”

“At the heart of the court’s ruling is that arbitrary searching of people’s travel histories violates a reasonable expectation of privacy and requires some judicial oversight,” he said.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A police search of Flock producing 50 individual records of a woman's whereabouts across the country for an entire month violated her Fourth Amendment rights, Judge Sara E. Hill of Oklahoma's Northern District ruled yesterday. "Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?"

To be sure, ALPR technology does not provide the same precision in
location information as cell phones. But it could still reveal a lot about a
person’s whereabouts, and it is easy to imagine the kinds of sensitive
information it collects. It could track and log a couple struggling to start a family at the fertility clinic. It could show how often someone visits a liquor store or casino. It could show which doctor someone goes to or what lawyer’s office someone visits. It also collects mundane information about people’s commutes, but it collects a tremendous amount of such information all the time. It is possible that a dedicated team of law enforcement officers could

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constitutionally collect this information about one car—and its driver—by following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the question of why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year, nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate mass surveillance.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remember the real rocket docket is when Republicans have to jam another corrupt justice on to SCOTUS in three weeks.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok remember that local Board of Elections lady who the GOP here is trying to fire? Because she's good at her job? I made a video. For sharing with people in your life who do video youtu.be/CyCacqkeTE4

youtu.be

Fundraiser: Keep Irene On Our Board Of Elections!

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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