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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 2m

The Church taking up the mantle while the rest of civil society commits suicide, same as it ever was

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 38m

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5m

I cover a lot of books every year, but not nearly as many books as deserve coverage. I try to give a little time in the sun to some titles that have gotten on my radar, but haven't yet had a chance to talk about in depth. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

Books You Should Know About That I Haven't Been Able to Review

A public service, or at least I'd like to think so.

open.substack.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 48m

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 6m

“Everyone is twelve, now” once again vindicated

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20m

We do not have to pretend that there's anything particularly profound about this guy experiencing adolescence at the age of 58

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 31m

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 8m

You’d think that you’d have to resort to subsistence farming if you got rid of social media when you talk to certain people

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 12m

Some people would castrate themselves with a broken glass Coke bottle to be in proximity to power for five minutes

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 42m

Choosing one of the world’s biggest artists to perform for one of the world’s biggest television audiences is "controversial" only to those who believe that anything that refuses to deify America as a white, English-speaking nation is unacceptable. My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column.

MAGA says Bad Bunny isn’t ‘unifying’ enough to perform at the Super Bowl. We know what they really mean. - The Boston Globe

The NFL needs to stand up to right-wing pressure to change the halftime show.

www.bostonglobe.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13h

I am struck by how lack of standing seems to so frequently evade court challenge to unconstitutional government actions.

It's an odd thing missing, given that this problem was solved in ancient Athens: for certain matters the entire citizen body ('ho boulomenos,' 'whoever wishes') had standing.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 51m

“But the politicians are scared of police violence,” hmm how do you think we feel about it?

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 15h

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 9h

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 9h

No one wants to draw first, but were quickly reaching the point where there won’t be other options

Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 9h

>the US economy every ~15 years

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 9h

Sooner rather than later

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

I think annointing Pritzker as the best 2028 option in 2025 is equally as foolish as assigning particular malice to him. All the governors are going to be tested eventually.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 4d

an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings".

The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 12h

It's very telling that even in this fake story the "founder" didn't *do* anything. Like, no mention that she built something, or created something useful, just that she raised a lot of capital. Cause that's the only thing that matters to such ghouls.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 12h

You can do meth and work 24-7 as a drywall installer whenever you want, what are these people chasing?

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

Some kind of cosmic irony in the cult of productivity producing literally nothing

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s more info about Fr. Dowling. He definitely walks the walk. catholicsmobilizing.org/people/fr-la...

Fr. Larry Dowling, M.Div, D.Min. - Catholic Mobilizing Network

Fr. Larry Dowling, ordained in 1991, retired on June 30, 2024 as 18-yr pastor of St. Simon of Cyrene Parish (locations at St. Agatha & St. Martin de Porres Churches), a predominantly African American ...

catholicsmobilizing.org

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 10h

God damn this evil nation

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 19h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

Fundamentally, there is no on-the-page institutional structure that can protect you from an absence of virtue among the citizenry.

That's just where we are - voters have learned a lot of bad habits. A lot of people thought they could vote MAGA again and it wouldn't matter; bad habits.

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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 10h

Shove it up your ass

Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 10h

It is real, it is eternal, and it has been prepared accordingly

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 11h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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