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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 52m

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 55m

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary).

Her name is Camille Zapata

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3h

It'll forever kill me that the oldest extant remnants of New Amsterdam, pieces of a city now 400 years in the past, can be found directly in front of a Le Pain Quotidien

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 3h

I asked a friend who works for the city if they had opinions on these housing related ballot initiatives and they said YES and then asked if I had 30 minutes free for them to get into it 😮‍💨

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 21h

yes, us! here you go:

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday I reported blatant transphobic slurs being used repeatedly by a user, they didn’t even get a warning label for being rude. Simultaneously justifying a ban for Link while giving the worst bigots a free pass is the TOS of any social media platform working exactly as designed.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not too late for the Bluesky admins to say - yeah, ok, a permanent ban was an overreaction. Times are tough. Let’s try again. They could do it right now.

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 3h

David, don’t make me tap the sign.
I’ll believe it and applaud it when I see it, but from my perspective, this is what the TOS is social media platforms are designed to do. Yesterday I reported blatant transphobic slurs being used repeatedly by a user, they didn’t even get a warning label for rude.

David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 2d

The sad fact is that the Bluesky TOS fill this golden rule. They are designed to be arbitrarily applied so that they can find a reason to ban anyone. Once the search has begun, something will be found.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

They don’t want to.

They fundamentally want Link to be a message or they think their egos are more important than.

How do we handle going forward

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not too late for the Bluesky admins to say - yeah, ok, a permanent ban was an overreaction. Times are tough. Let’s try again. They could do it right now.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

plus if you have a short commute, work from home, or take public transport most days maybe don't even bother with any fancy charging stuff - plugging the car into a regular outlet over a night or two will give more range than you need

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

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder that this is because Jeff Bezos bought them back in 2013, and along with cancelling your WaPo subscription, you should drop Amazon Prime too.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Myanmar’s military government has bombed a protest, killing 24.

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

"His agents attacked us, even when we were cooperative and contained, behind a wall of state troopers. While some fretted over the behavior of protesters, these men, who performed brutality for their own cameras, were always going to riot."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 21h

yes, us! here you go:

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 5h

I’m finally getting into the George Lucas Talk Show, and so far the best moment might be when Tawny Newsome goes from being visible unenthusiastic about being there to actively engaged after she finds out that George Lucas is married to a Black woman.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 21h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9h

A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 5h

Best video on the internet award 2025

Snack Queen @auntiebaecc.blacksky.app · 16h

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