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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 10h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Working on a theory that, thanks to what Silicon Valley has done to the bay, Portland now exemplifies the imaginary of lefty metropolis that San Francisco did in the last century, the Oberlin of Cities

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 3h

Fuck yeah giant ass bolts

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Eyeballing Jack Reacher right now. Big guy, obviously, but I don't think he sees me coming. As a henchman, this is the sort of moment that makes or breaks your career. I think I should go for it.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 4h

But MTG? I am weirdly here for MTG. As long as she's wrecking shit...

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 4h

If it's Vance it's an op. Immediate space laser.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

"Go forth child, and wreck shit"

"Like an avenging angel?"

"Eh, something like that"

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

Repeat a thousand times; Liberal Arts are not a panacea for sociopathy.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

It was. It truly was.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

tfw you realize all that lobbying didn't buy a thing

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

I am starting to appreciate the role given her by God

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Crazy week.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 6h

Things were a little febrile on the financial markets yesterday as Trump initiated Tariff Shock 2: Neodymium Boogaloo, with US stocks and oil both taking a beating.
Away from these debased fiat-priced securities, there was further excitement: shortly after the closing bell in New York, a lot of second-tier cryptocurrencies massively crashed out, with a bunch of favourites such as Dogecoin, Cardano and Trump coin nearly halving.

As of today, þe werste is paste (for now), with most top coins down a mere fifth or so over the 24 hours to noonish London time, wiping a mere $388bn off the market cap of the top 100 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies:
Now, we know what you’re thinking: this is all very stupid and funny.
And we agree.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

I haven’t seen the guy put a foot wrong yet

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11h

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 5h

They’re just not having it.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 6h

Damn, did that one already hit the free reads ceiling?

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 6h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 6h

I truly enjoy the FT’s open contempt on.ft.com/3JaY1IN

Behold the trash crash

Pray for Dogecoin

on.ft.com

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 9h

I suspect a lot of Israelis are in for a very rude awakening.

Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 9h

Remarkably, there’s not a word about what it will take to restore the shattered goodwill of the Americans on whom Israel depends.

No mention of truth and reconciliation, of prosecuting war crimes, of reparations, or a sovereign Palestinian state on historically Palestinian land.

It’s just…PR.

Dr Seán Ketchem @cskwriter.bsky.social · 10h

"Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

www.nytimes.com

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 10h

You Will (but we won't)