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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 9h

"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people.

Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,

I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 9h

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana
Studies Major at Bowdoin
The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
Listen to this article • 12:37 min Learn more

By Jeremy W. Peters
Oct. 28, 2025
Updated 3:17 p.m. ET
It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it.
"We're going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!" the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary.
Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation's name "AH-ee-tee" - near-perfect Creole elocution.
"When I heard him say that, I smiled," recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani's former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani's reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti's status as the first republic founded by former slaves.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11h

we should absolutely deport mel gibson

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 21h

America... boy, I dunno.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 11h

My biggest issue with it is that the writers don't know when the Order of the Knights Templar was even founded.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 13h

waow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown

GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?

H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important

G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No

Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 13h

It's useful to remember that "trolling the libs" is an animating goal for the right now. "ha ha I made you mad by [stating that I'll do something unconstitutional/stating that I want to invade an ally/tear-gassing a children's birthday party]" has replaced a defined platform

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 15h

AI companies are making a lot of money from this, but I'm convinced that the main beneficiaries in legal services will be ediscovery vendors. AI-generated transcripts, meeting notes, summaries, summaries of summaries, etc. - just a shitton more documents are getting created, all discoverable

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 15h

All the partners at my firm came back from a retreat where a bunch of vendors pitched AI tools to them for a weekend, and so now every single one of them will ask "how can we use AI on this?" for every single assignment. No associate can convince them that AI is not a substitute for analysis.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 16h

This is close, but it's actually because of Warhammer.

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

lowkey i think the tradcath resurgence, such as it is, is partially because of anime

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18h

again, I have to emphasize to the doomers that this is the *best* it is going to get for them until they leave office, however it happens

Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 18h

Look at the all surveyed lol

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

one of the first things trump did on taking office was purge the joint chiefs of staff of everyone who wasn't a white man. it's somewhat maddening to me that "he's attempting to re-segregate the military" is somehow not a five-alarm story for the national media

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 18h

GW understands, however, that people but these kits based on the box art or promotional images. They're going to see a single miniature blown up to 3x size. All the doodads look great in that context.

Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 18h

The platonic ideal of a 28mm fantasy kit, to me, is the Empire Knights box from 5th edition (brought back for TOW). You've got one thing on each knight that might be a little involved (the helmet), but you don't have to go nuts on them and they're designed to be viewed as a mass

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah it's a common complaint. There's just too much crap on GW's rank and file. This was beginning to be a serious problem in the early 2010s (check out the Seaguard minis from Island of Blood).

It's actually a side effect of scale creep, I think. Or the two things drive one another.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 1d

People write "the Democratic Party" when what they mean is "my daughter's friend group at Oberlin."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

we're all trying to find out who in the media is spreading all this misinformation

lorenz: Look at the difference between COVID coverage under Trump versus Biden: the media basically stopped covering COVID as a pandemic after Biden took office. It was appalling. Most people don’t know that more people died from COVID under Biden than under Trump, because Biden essentially came in and said, “COVID’s over. Everybody get back to work.” After all the moralizing from the media in the early days of COVID, under Biden everything was suddenly fine. “Actually, ignore everything that we just told you last year.” The mainstream media was, in my view, actively pushing dangerous misinformation, misleading people into believing COVID had disappeared, even though doctors treating patients warned that we were still in a raging pandemic with fewer available treatments. I think that broke a lot of people. The media should have held Biden more accountable—it’s too soft on the Democrats.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 1d

We can't even advocate for our own policy victories for fear of discounting the lived experiences of any person who has been failed by those policies.

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 1d

Old enough to remember when the media decided the Access Hollywood tape was a big deal and Trump's support cratered (thank you James Comey for fixing that)

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 1d

He and Zack Snyder each have like one thing to say, and it's not very interesting in either case.

Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 1d

Small business owners are the class enemy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

hey anyone know how many jiffy lube mechanics there are in the US vs nurses and teachers

∞ Monkeys @somanymonkeys.bsky.social · 3d

If Dem politics hold no appeal to guys working at Jiffy Lube or working the overnight shift as maintenance mechanics, we're going to struggle. I don't think we need to lean into bigotry to make an appeal, but shitting on them ain't it.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

Soft as shit PMC dudes insisting that the future of Dem politics is not PMC and PMC adjacent feminine coded jobs but rather white men in hard hats is a non-zero portion of why we continue to be in this mess

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Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 3d

There are actually many 70s/80s fan fics that are based on something like this premise, and as far as I know, they were exclusively written by straight women.

fanlore.org/wiki/The_Bro...

fanlore.org/wiki/The_Pri...

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