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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 5h

ughhhhhh I hate it

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 9h

ugggghhhhh

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 9h

hyped for this and once again recommending Candice Millard's DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC to anyone interested

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 9h

They FINALLY put out a trailer for the James Garfield assassination show. And it looks good!
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

youtu.be

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 11d

New at Tusk: According to Ben Shapiro and other conservatives, they were promised a post-racial nation, and Barack Obama broke the deal.

When the right broke, according to the right

"That's what radicalized you all?"

open.substack.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 13h

Trump treating the federal government like those apartments he owned with his daddy: No Blacks Allowed!

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 13h

oh look they’re making a prequel to “Amicable But Intensely Painful Divorce”

Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 13h

sure why not the world's ending anyway www.washingtonpost.com/style/trends...

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14h

this is really good

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

"The majority has used the shadow docket to take power away from the judicial branch — by ignoring its precedents — and the legislative branch — by ignoring the laws it enacted...it has instead given the power to the president." - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

quoting the Eggman like he's operating in good faith is malpractice. he thinks the serfs should eat shit and accept his entitlement to rule over them. that's the whole of his ideology.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

also, too bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15h

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

"they are focused on performative fairness to Trump and to MAGA — even while this president and his allies are trying to destroy what journalists do." - @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/legacy-med...

Legacy media's destructive addiction to describing Trump's 'winning'

Plus: Why disillusioned Democrats are abandoning traditional news outlets

margaretsullivan.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 18h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 17h

again, the simple refusal to understand that Trump is who he seems to be is crippling official DC’s ability to understand and deal with him www.politico.com/newsletters/...

screenshot from Politico, with the sentence “it’s a moment many believed would never come” highlighted

But this is a momentous day for America - and not just because Comey is the first former FBI chief to be arraigned since Richard Nixon's fall guy
L. Patrick Gray in 1978. (The charges against Gray were later dropped.) Today's proceedings matter because after years of threats, Trump is following through on something he has long vowed to do: criminally prosecute his political foes. It's a moment many believed would never come.
An expert view: "The Comey case is hugely significant because it appears to be the culmination of a presidentially-directed personal vendetta,"
POLITICO's legal ace Josh Gerstein emails Playbook to say. "For the last half century, post-Watergate norms put insulation between presidents and the charging decisions of the Justice Department.
Those aren't just being defied here, but brazenly so."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

Oh its those “groups” again, I think we should ask if the people denouncing the same people the President is targeting with state power are actually working against the President’s agenda or working to accommodate it.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 18h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 18h

Recent Studies Suggest Scientists "Still At It"

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 18h

“he tried to prosecute the crime of attempting a coup *before* the perpetrator had a chance to seize power again and that’s just not fair”

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h

In which the editorial board of the Washington Post effectively endorses President Nixon's claim that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 18h

they’re not hiding that they’re segregationists bsky.app/profile/bryc...

Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 18h

Trump has repeatedly fired Black government officials and replaced them with white men www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

"They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems." christ almighty

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

ah yes, the social network for news and journalism bsky.app/profile/kate...

kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

Neko Case, probs

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

solid bit imo

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