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ZigZaggin

@zigzaggin.bsky.social
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Just a work-at-home dad and husband trying to maintain some contact with the world outside.

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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kiah Stokes going to send the Aces a postcard from the Finals. #WNBA
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy No More Mock Drafts day to those who celebrate.
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Verbamour @verbamour.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's going to be really hard to avoid saying, "I told you so" as often as it will need to be said from now on.

Historian Joanne B. Freeman

Trump Resistance Movement
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...
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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 08/04/2026
My spouse said that this is the Golden Age of conspiracy theories, but I posit that it is the Fool’s Gold Age of conspiracy theories because the conspirators (or pyrites, if you will) behind it all tell everyone exactly what they’re doing, and a third of the public believes the opposite anyway.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Decency and empathy may not “poll well.” They may not win elections. The folks in power don’t care about either one of them. They’re more focused on performing cruelty to prove their (false) strength. But without decency and empathy, we live in hell. A line in the sand, folks.
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=-xqE...
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NEIL SEDAKA at the Midnight Special : BAD BLOOD
YouTube video by desperado0001
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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Currently at 719,000 views. I expect it to be in the millions by end of day. Colbert’s forbidden/banned interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
youtu.be
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/02/2026
K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
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Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com · 13/01/2026
I've just decided that instead of "affixes" as the general word for prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, we should now and forever simply use the word "fixins."
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
That time of year again!

Sarah Lazarus
@sarahclazarus
no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve
8:53 PM • Dec 15, 2021
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 19/12/2025
Announcing my new NYT podcast, Hypocritical Times… 🎧 tap in
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strap-tap @strap-tap.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
USA Women are the 2025 FIBA 3x3 AmeriCup Champions!
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Panthers fan here. Did not expect to cheer so much today. @minakimes.bsky.social how is this happening?
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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brendan @schlage.town · 17/11/2025
wow, new rule of posting / emergent atmosphere best practice: anytime you make a bluesky post with ≥ 1k likes you *have* to write a leaflet post to expound, extrapolate, and expand upon it!
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Some Thoughts on Nostalgia for the Economy of the 1950s, or 1980s, or 2000s (or Whenever) - Simon's Leaflets
Some people say they want the economy of the past, but that economy is not what they imagine
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
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Undergrnd @undergrnddrama.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Let me tell you about Designing Women.
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Designing Women - Julia Sugarbaker on School Prayer "The Candidate"
YouTube video by turi319
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
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JEEMS, dog servant @jamesfrye.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The never ending struggle to explain that descriptive statistics are not predictive statistics.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wrote a while back about how the algorithms convinced a lot of folks they were living through a total economic collapse during the Biden years. badfaithtimes.com/the-algorith...
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The Algorithm's Economic Unreality
How did Americans vote for a man who pledged to collapse the global economy? The algorithm told us to.
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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 27/10/2025
You are not a parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And linguist @EmilyMBender.bsky.social is very worried what will happen when we forget this. nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The nightmare Republican chat groups exposed last week kinda reminded me that they are unable to view society outside hierarchies of oppression. It’s sad, really. badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Anti-Wokeness Without Bad Faith
Unless your friends and family have been vacuum sealed and protected against the brain-altering venom of the Culture Wars, you know “woke” has, quite tragically, become a catchall term for anything a ...
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hey Cathy (is that how this works?), maybe the Chicago Sky should be sold to Houston. #WNBA
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Don’t Tread On Me people say, well, this is what happens when you break the law. You lose all your rights. Your liberty is eviscerated. You become a non-person. badfaithtimes.com/tread-baby-t...
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Tread, Baby, Tread. Just Not On Me.
The bad faith of the Don't Tread On Me crowd has been fully exposed in this second Trump term
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Atlanta News First @atlantanewsfirst.com · 28/08/2025
Atlanta Dream eliminates $10 million in debt for families across the city
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Atlanta Dream eliminates $10 million in debt for families across the city
Thursday marks the 62nd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” — and to celebrate, the Atlanta Dream has announced a major debt relief program.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Allisha Gray Hive, stand up! Great piece on one of the best players currently in the league.
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Don't want to hear anymore Fever fans bashing Natasha Howard. She's your MVP! #wnba
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Rey-Rey @rey-rey.net · 01/07/2025
My partner, Holland Kaplan, writes about Azurá Stevens, who has had a career year and is helping the Sparks stay afloat. More in the Sporting Tribune.
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Azura Stevens is redefining her role with big stats and bigger impact
The Los Angeles Sparks might be struggling this WNBA season with a 5–12 record and sitting at 11th in the standings but there’s no denying that Azurá Stevens has
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🙃🙃🙃
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
is it bad that i'm hanging my hopes on us being fucked so fast and hard that the backlash avoids longer term fucking
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I’m an American teacher, and I’m worried. I’m worried about losing special education and Title I funding, worried about the voucher scam, worried about Christian nationalism in public schools, and I’m tired of being scapegoated. Education isn’t the problem. Education is the solution.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Am I the only one who thinks this still looks like a romance novel cover where Chewy is tenderly holding Luke from behind while showing him how to wield a lightsaber?
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Star Wars Movies Are Secretly Forbidden From Showing These Five Objects - SlashFilm
Have you ever noticed that certain objects never show up in the Star Wars movies? Here are the items that are forbidden in a galaxy far, far away.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/11/2024
RESOLVED: ee cummings, in his 1944 poem 'pity this busy monster, manunkind,' was the first to posit the existence of a multiverse, long before either Marvel or DC Comics. Discuss. allpoetry.com/pity-this-bu...
"listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our fluff resting instead of annoying.
A big orange and white cat curled up on a black gaming chair.
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ZigZaggin @zigzaggin.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
My daughter woke up and texted me from her dorm to see if I could give an update. I had to tell her the news. I think it broke me.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
One of the biggest and most successful propaganda pushes in American history convinced much of the public that the world's best economic recovery was actually a severe recession.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
So the closing arguments from the two campaigns comes down to: “we, as a nation, are better than this.” Vs “No, we aren’t.”
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post
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Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?
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