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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1h

I spoke to the folks at Slate about what's going on in Portland. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Inside the Portland “War Zone”

Keep Portland weird…by lying about it?

slate.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1h

Gold being up +52% this year is currently my biggest recession indicator.

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davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · 1h

The Big Lie on a Wednesday afternoon.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7h

Senior negotiators from the US, Qatar and Turkey are set to join talks to end the war in Gaza. on.ft.com/47bv6xr

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“One Medical customers can request pickup for a prescription at an on-site Amazon Pharmacy Kiosk in the Amazon app as soon as it’s handed to them, with the company promising that most medications will be available to collect within minutes.”

Amazon will start dispensing prescription drugs through vending machines

In theory, it means no more queuing at the pharmacy.

www.engadget.com

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 7h

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/a-new-book

A new book!

My first collaboration with Patrick Chappatte

anntelnaes.substack.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

Be yourself

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

It should be a slight comfort that Antifa is a made-up organization that doesn't actually exist, and yet I must admit I don't feel very reassured, maybe because some of the "cartel members" Trump had the military assassinate were reportedly just fishermen

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Stephen Miller has a theory of this moment, a theory of how to do fascist politics in a (teetering) liberal democracy, and Dems need to grapple with it. Do Dems have a theory of this moment that's matched to the challenge of authoritarian politics? I don't think they do:

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 8h

“Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.” Yep, @gregsargent.bsky.social.

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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kottke.org @kottke.org · 3h

The Family of Migrants is a new book & museum exhibition that tells the story of the past 120 years of human movement in photographs. [thisiscolossal.com]

Spanning 120 Years and 55 Countries, ‘The Family of Migrants’ Portrays a Broad Story of Human Movement

At Fenix in Rotterdam, ‘The Family of Migrants’ includes works from 136 photographers in 55 countries across 120 years.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 7h

A children’s hospital was set to get a new backup power system. The Trump administration just canceled it during the shutdown, claiming that it was part of the “Green New Scam.”
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

How a Children’s Hospital Became Collateral Damage in the Government Shutdown

Last week’s Energy Department grant cancellations included funding for a backup energy system at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, California

heatmap.news

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davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · 4h

Naw that’s why I’m here.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

You're telling me the Dems are failing to rise to the moment? Why, it must be a day.

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 7h

This hearing is a missed opportunity for Dems. Instead of either detailing how 🐘s have jawboned tech companies not to moderate content, or debunking 🐘 jawboning claims, they're fixated giving the gov't more power to break up media, which would likely change little and give 🐘s more leverage

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

When manufacturing got outsourced a lot of things got cheaper and a lot of jobs went away in those industries. Was it on the balance "good" - really depends! Are you buying a washing machine or employed in a factory that used to make them?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

I was working an entire essay on this very notion this summer and this is reminding me I should pick it back up. TL;DR - every price is someone else's income and whether prices going down on something is "good" depends a whole lot on what you do for a living.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

www.thenation.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 11h

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6h

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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kottke.org @kottke.org · 6h

Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about using his books for cooking fuel. “Let’s use one or two for now, and when the war’s over you can replace them. The kids need food more than they need to be read to.” [theparisreview.org]

Hunger by Muhammad al-Zaqzouq

October 3, 2025 – “Hunger came for us in our home, as it did for others. We eat one meal a day now, halfway through the day.”

www.theparisreview.org

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