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@badreviewer.bsky.social
Both a bad reviewer of good books and a bad reviewer of bad books.
No, I have not read anything by Bill O’Reilly. I have some standards.
No, I have not read anything by Bill O’Reilly. I have some standards.
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Time and again, decisions to criminalize behavior or prosecute criminalized behavior aren't about behavior. They're about weaponizing punishment to selectively target, marginalize, and oppress people. Voices. Ideas. It's not justice. It's just vindictive. @boltsmag.org⬇️
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In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns - Bolts
German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high... Read More
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February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Time and again, decisions to criminalize behavior or prosecute criminalized behavior aren't about behavior. They're about weaponizing punishment to selectively target, marginalize, and oppress people. Voices. Ideas. It's not justice. It's just vindictive. @boltsmag.org⬇️
boltsmag.org/stanford-san...
boltsmag.org/stanford-san...
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this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
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Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Death recorded
Prof. Wurman decried my pointed posts to 100,000 of my followers here as a breach of professional decorum.
I responded on Twitter with the thread aggregated below, explaining why his approach to history repeats the same errors of Naomi Wolf.
His claim to expertise in British history is a sham.
I responded on Twitter with the thread aggregated below, explaining why his approach to history repeats the same errors of Naomi Wolf.
His claim to expertise in British history is a sham.
February 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Death recorded
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Fed judges are getting PISSED. The levels of overt anger we are seeing in opinions is not, I think, at all usual.
Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
February 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Fed judges are getting PISSED. The levels of overt anger we are seeing in opinions is not, I think, at all usual.
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Although the article unequivocally shows the Illini Republicans are bigoted edgelords, it also demonstrates they are weak cowards, unwilling to support their words and scuttling like cockroaches when light is shone on them.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Although the article unequivocally shows the Illini Republicans are bigoted edgelords, it also demonstrates they are weak cowards, unwilling to support their words and scuttling like cockroaches when light is shone on them.
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Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
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Behold! The future of journalism! Axios:
February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Behold! The future of journalism! Axios:
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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Certified Chris Hooks Classic, here. It is very detailed and humane in telling the story it tells, which concerns the damage that a small number of snitches, creeps, and dullards have done to this institution, but also about the long history and awful present of snitches/creeps/dullards doing that.
For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
What’s the Matter With Texas A&M?
Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.
www.texasmonthly.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Certified Chris Hooks Classic, here. It is very detailed and humane in telling the story it tells, which concerns the damage that a small number of snitches, creeps, and dullards have done to this institution, but also about the long history and awful present of snitches/creeps/dullards doing that.
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Britney Spears was 17 years old when she did this photo shoot for Rolling Stone in 1999.
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Britney Spears was 17 years old when she did this photo shoot for Rolling Stone in 1999.
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This is a very powerful piece by @jeffwise.bsky.social in @intelligencer.com
Among the shocking details to me: How inexperienced *both* of the Army helicopter pilots were. (As an amateur, I had much more flying experience than both of them, combined.)
Worth reading.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Among the shocking details to me: How inexperienced *both* of the Army helicopter pilots were. (As an amateur, I had much more flying experience than both of them, combined.)
Worth reading.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Cockpit of the Helicopter That Caused the Potomac Air Disaster
Two Army pilots went on an ill-conceived training mission. Within two hours, 67 people were dead.
nymag.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
This is a very powerful piece by @jeffwise.bsky.social in @intelligencer.com
Among the shocking details to me: How inexperienced *both* of the Army helicopter pilots were. (As an amateur, I had much more flying experience than both of them, combined.)
Worth reading.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Among the shocking details to me: How inexperienced *both* of the Army helicopter pilots were. (As an amateur, I had much more flying experience than both of them, combined.)
Worth reading.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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there’s been an assumption that when Dems take power again they will keep ICE funded at these ridiculous levels forever and they are now on record voting to end that
they’ll need to go much further than that but it’s a start - and I sure don’t see the politics of ICE improving between now and then
they’ll need to go much further than that but it’s a start - and I sure don’t see the politics of ICE improving between now and then
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
there’s been an assumption that when Dems take power again they will keep ICE funded at these ridiculous levels forever and they are now on record voting to end that
they’ll need to go much further than that but it’s a start - and I sure don’t see the politics of ICE improving between now and then
they’ll need to go much further than that but it’s a start - and I sure don’t see the politics of ICE improving between now and then
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great blog maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...
'Suicide rightism' and the penguin
Is it based or soy to kill yourself?
maxread.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 AM
great blog maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...
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xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
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January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember
www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
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24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
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The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time
January 29, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time
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Quite literally, there are about a dozen scandals under Trump II that are worse than the worst scandals in all of 🇺🇸 political history. Add in the ongoing familial/personal monetization of the presidency, the violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations with 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & the murder on the high seas.
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Quite literally, there are about a dozen scandals under Trump II that are worse than the worst scandals in all of 🇺🇸 political history. Add in the ongoing familial/personal monetization of the presidency, the violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations with 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & the murder on the high seas.
The important thing, as Tyler Cowen would say, is that all these actors are virgins
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The important thing, as Tyler Cowen would say, is that all these actors are virgins
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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