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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this

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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 7h

C'mon bro, lemme do an anti-trans, just one anti-trans to win, bro, and then when I'm in office that I won being anti-trans and immediately have to start campaigning and fundraising for my reelection in two years from the same folks who supported me as anti-trans, I'll be totally pro-trans, bro. 👇🏻

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h

American evangelicalism isn’t so much a religion as a lifestyle brand for right-wing authoritarianism. But insofar as it still pretends to be taking guidance from the scriptures it projects its rancid politics into, Jesus is sort of inconvenient. Doesn’t sound much like Trump or Andrew Tate.

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Heat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck them, let’s do it.

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Karen Allen - BOTD in 1951

Color photo of Karen Allen dressed as Indiana Jones.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21h

A good article, but the GOP committing to defense of democracy won't happen. We must create disincentives for lawlessness and collaboration with fascists, and that means punishment. Either we impose consequences or we allow the GOP to keep making things worse as it has continually done since Nixon.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

"Media that suck up to Trump for business reasons (such as Meta and Google) need to realize that an anti-fascist movement is here and they need to get aboard." Something tells me that if Ds win it won't be widely interpreted as a major verdict on the future direction of US culture, as 2024 was.

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rauðvik / blávik (they/þau) 💛🤍💜🖤 @raudvik.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

For Halloween month, here's a fun Icelandic word spooky – draugslegur From "draugur" – meaning ghost; spectre; apparition, and the adjective ending, "-legur", which is applied to a fair host of Icelandic words to adjectivize them

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think getting rid of the frats stops all SA but it would certainly destroy a very visible mechanism of power imbalances, which has great ripple effects beyond school. So, yeah, abolish the Greek system it's fucking weird.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My most basic take is you can't get to outcomes like this unless you're willing to use your leverage. Impeachment is the leverage. Do one every month on a new set of charges, he's done well over 24 months of impeachable stuff. Keep him on trial the rest of the term, park John Roberts in the Senate.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i bet he spent the whole last decade of his life absolutely fuming that he was outed as a pedophile and a sexual predator before it was cool. punished for being a trendsetter!

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Imagine if the 2030s is still just careening back and forth between a normal Democratic party and MAGA every 4 years. With every attempt to rebuild or repair scuttled every 4 years.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

The recent election results in Brazil are forcing me to reconsider my longstanding assertion that had Joe Biden empowered Doug Jones to lock up 1/6 insurrectionists and their instigators to the fullest extent, Democrats would have fared better in 2024, and I don't like it.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026

going for a second hugo nom by writing a science fiction story called "what if someone just made a social media website where people could talk to each other in an environment where it was generally accepted consensus that genocide and fascism are intolerably bad things actually"

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Dave DuFour 🐉 @davedufour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This made me giggle in public.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I rather think Pete Hegseth is a bit of a disaster and should be impeached if I'm gonna be fr with you guys. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-weak-d...

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The Weak Department

Send Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy)

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John @johnbull.wtf · 04/10/2026

"after review, it turns out we were completely wrong. However, the team that called us out for being wrong will lose a timeout and their ability to challenge the rest of the game since this is the second time they were correct in calling us out for being wrong" - WNBA/MNBA review rules

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now here’s a kind of book I’ve never read before: Palestinian gothic horror, set in Haifa, and explicitly about the ‘48 Nakba and its consequences.

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ZP Alabasium @zpalabasium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Man, The Drama is an uncomfortable watch. I gotta watch more movies in the theater so I can't break away when shit gets too awkward.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Doing “imperial presidency but from the left” means that in 2032 or 2036 we will be dropped back into worse fascism, and face another two-decade long rebuild before we have finished the first one—from DOGE and Trump II. Let’s do the big change and prosecutions we need to avoid that. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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

We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc.

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

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

America’s biggest political problem is rightwing billionaires

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The central "idea" behind the development of AI is: people are shit and can't do anything, they can't be trusted, this magic machine code will do everything for us. It's the final phase of a program that's been reshaping our reality for decades. A complete inversion of the truth.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

all of capital has been pushed towards developing tools that they hope will put writers out of jobs, so the only jobs are to help them steal your past work so they can steal your future work. It's bleak.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

20 years of Beach House. they perfected the sort of record where track one you're like 'yes! damn this is the stuff' & by track 11 it's a bit "oh is this still on?" that said, I do love them, their commitment to tactile LP/CD covers, their luxe melodies, their immaculate vibe. here's to 20 more

the first Beach House LP, released 3 Oct 2006

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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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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…”Third, a bust for computer-science majors has coincided with a boom for shop-class specialists.” And, what pray tell, happens when those AI data centers are built? Is the Atlantic going to help retrain them like they did for all those kids that “just learned to code”?

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

expand to 13 justices? you are a little baby how about over 1,024

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Nada Bakos @nadabakos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"we have more grifting to do, there is still money in the treasury we all personally want to have"

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/10/2026

"I don't give a fuck about this pain in the ass" is a great campaign promo.

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Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier @sispurrier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to reveal this. At the core of the Cretan Project is a novel tentatively titled ASTERION. If you've ever enjoyed my work, or like the idea of the tale behind a monstrous myth, I'm inviting you along for the ride. www.patreon.com/SiSpurrier youtube.com/shorts/U7am1...

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The Cretan Project: Patreon announcement

YouTube video by Si Spurrier

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

*watch your party run roughshod over every vulnerable community for a decade* “Can’t we all just get along?”

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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AWaltzCP @awaltzcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a sexy dark-haired actor from the '90s? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Dylan McDermott! [SMITH]: That is Dermot Mulroney.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The amazing thing about Schmitt's faceplant is that even if Smith *had* been at the Hawks game it would have been actual evidence of nothing

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Is it legal for the President to burn down people's houses? We'll hold off on deciding that until December. For now, the President can continue to burn down people's houses." - John Roberts and company

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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one area where i will actually concede messaging is hard for the dems (if they try) is the gop's actions are so inconceivably evil they sound totally made up. "we're trying to make it easier to pollute poor neighborhoods. we're pushing so kids get exposed to more lead."

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