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*American/male/human regretting my country/gender/species *The mind is the universe coming to know & detest itself *Empirical reality exists & is inconvenient *Information wants to be free—and wrong! *Followed by Dan Savage, Joy Reid, and Morgan Fairchild

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 13d

Headlines these days combine the jaded ennui of the predictable with the existential horror of the inevitable.
hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-...

Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 7m

I have no doubt things could get bad enough that the political opposition and civil society will start to seem suitably responsive to the threat. But that's precisely why they should be acting that way now. www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 9m

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 8m

Information wants to be free—and wrong!

"Bypassing AI video generator Sora 2's rudimentary safety features [a watermark identifying AI video as AI] is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation."
www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

www.404media.co

Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 19m

ALERT: Not everything is terrible!

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 22m

if you look closely at the pic, you can see the dog drinking coffee.

Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 23m

Everything is fine.

"858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say"
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858t...

858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1h

We are all Chicagoans now. Stand up. Speak out.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
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His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”
‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
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Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 34m

Professor on Zoom from his office: "Well, actually, the term 'fascist' is often misused. It refers to a very specific time in hist—"

LOUD KNOCK ON DOOR

Federal agents bust in and drag the prof out of the room, leaving only his fake Zoom background of facade of the Supreme Court building visible.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 1h

Fascism.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 37m

Sounds like a great idea. I wish you luck.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1h

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.

Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain. - News Creator Corps

The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.

newscreatorcorps.org

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 1h

Dunno... summary executions & death camps, I suppose.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 1h

Democracy? What’s that?
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/08/t...

Texas GOP to consider blocking lawmakers from 2026 primary ballot in first test of new censure rule

The state party’s governing board will meet Saturday to decide whether 10 Texas House Republicans tried to thwart GOP priorities during this year’s legislative session.

www.texastribune.org

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Shoq @shoq.bsky.social · 1h

Air traffic controllers staying home? Meh. What could go wrong?

mastodon.social/@Tengrain/115...

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 56m

It's "Book of Revelation" singular. Tell your bro. Common mistake.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

Doing this would be awful on its own but also if you did something like this, imagine thinking you should leave a very obvious paper trail www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum...

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has made it very clear that he loves the poorly educated. I wonder if she'll be punished for this.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2h

The DHS secretary faced down a man dressed as a chicken, calling the Portland protesters “uneducated and ill-informed.”

trib.al/9eOg9cY

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 2h

Got my flu and Covid vaccine today.

Fvck you RFK, you ignorant, murdering POS.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h

Yurii Shapovalov, a doctor, spent 7 years, 7 months, and 3 days imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk for his pro-Ukrainian position.

Yurii is a native of Donetsk and a physician with 30 years of experience. He worked as a neurophysiologist at the diagnostic center of the regional hospital.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 3h

One way to interpret what's going on, and it's just a piece of the puzzle, is that after the south couldn't win the Civil War by force of arms, they decided to just be so completely disgusting that the north self-amputated.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent.” Lol.

I guess according to the sanitizing standards of mainstream media’s neutrality-theater journalism, you can “buck tradition and legal precedent” so hard that you end democratic self-government and the constitutional order altogether.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

More focused wisdom from Greg Sargent.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 3h

I agree, but even that argument often fails. The Maga crowd has been so thoroughly convinced for decades by Republican rhetoric that the Democrats are worse no matter how bad Republicans get. It's the most effective ad hominem attack of all time.

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