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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 13h

Boycott Spotify!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 16h

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

When you’re that rich no one ever tells you to shut the fuck up so you think everything you have to say is interesting

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 2d

This is my favorite thing on the internet today.

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 1d

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Remembering Diane Keaton 🤍

More on her life and legacy: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

here to discuss the field mouse question, please welcome three different kinds of owl

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3d

"Its not our shutdown, look at how we're using it to do what we've always wanted"

Politico @politico.com · 3d

Trump said his administration will begin cutting programs backed by Democrats as the government shutdown stretches into its ninth day.

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

Trump promises cuts to programs favored by Democrats

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

www.politico.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 4d

People's exhibit number 793 demonstrating yet again that Donnie does not give a f#@% if the words coming out of his piehole are true or not.

Here, he's talking out of his arse and trying to manufacture "alternative facts"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 4d

Some info re: "plenary authority" ( the phrase Stephen Miller used in a recent strange interview in which he quickly stopped himself and stayed silent after saying "The President has plenary authority")

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

"the Twitter accounts @Anarseldain and @realMattForney have been openly and repeatedly doxxing left-wing posters...publishing real names, addresses, phone numbers...Anarseldain is even fundraising off of it... they are completely candid about what they are paying for"

Twitter is a one-way doxxing machine for the right

You probably should not post there if you value your privacy!

www.peoplesline.org

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5d

IMO it is bad that congressional hearings involving Cabinet members have transformed entirely into public lying and groveling competitions for an audience of one

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

Using the Roy Cohn playbook to curry favor with her boss Donnie. The first two rules

1) Never apologize or admit wrongdoing, ever.

2) Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to believe this attorney general can pursue justice with impartiality when she is dripping with such partisan disdain.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

Using the Roy Cohn playbook to curry favor with her boss Donnie

1) Never apologize or admit wrongdoing, ever.

2) Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received.

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 5d

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

Riding the Amtrak down to DC. The stretch from the RI / CT border to Old Saybrook makes me think that CT gets a bum rap.

I still dont like CT highways and their weird left exits though

Moses Carr @mosescarr.bsky.social · 5d

Yes that must be nerve racking to live next to that rickety structure. 😬