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Dem in an Iowa sea of red. Tax all billionaires. Medicare for all. he/him
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lizrummy.bsky.social
lol holy shit
GamersNexus respondin gto Eliano A Younes, of Palintir: An endorsement from the Palantir Head of Strategic Engagement himself! Neat. I like when the company that talks about how you're only safe when you make someone else scared accuses others of fear mongering Happy to meet you on camera, Eliano. It's "strategic engagement," right? Quote Eliano A. Younes @elianoayounes · 4h Replying to @tuxpizza and @GamersNexus Let me fix it for you: Wasn't ever expecting GamersNexus to make a video on Palantir, but it's become so polarizing due to misinformation and an abundance of fear Eliano A. Younes @elianoayounes · 3h I think we fundamentally disagree on the concept of “peace through strength.” you’re upset that Karp speaks openly and proudly about equipping our warfighters with the best capabilities so they can deter America’s enemies, or eliminate them when necessary. furthermore, you aren’t really grasping the integral role that software plays in preserving privacy and civil liberties while simultaneously allowing our government to protect us from threats. you have every right to question whether or not the government can be trusted, but to assume that Palantir is the tool they are using to break the law shows the lack of accuracy in your research. I’m personally not going to “meet you on camera” but shoot I’ll shoot you a DM and we can work something out with one of my PCL colleagues or a member of the community. It’s an important conversation to have. GamersNexus @GamersNexus · 3h Big change in tone from you. Thanks for acknowledging that we have the right to question you and the government. We'll arrange a time to meet you at your office on camera to do so. All conversations and DMs will be considered on-record and will be shared with the public. We'll be in touch.
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Burns: The Old Testament says there’s nothing new under the sun. On July 4th, 1776, there was. Everybody up to that point had been under authoritarian rule. It was in the interests of their rulers that they be uneducated, that they be superstitious, that they be distracted by conspiracies…
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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billamend.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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paris.nyc
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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beawiitch.bsky.social
various images of crows with text that reads: “this is a crow appreciation post. crows are beautiful, intelligent, sassy, amazing. look at them!! a group of crows is a "murder" how badass does that sound? very. i just love crows.”
August 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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atrupar.com
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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geftokingmongoose.bsky.social
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
An illustration of Godzilla sitting on the edge of a cliff looking off into the distance looking somewhat solem.
July 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Our Supreme Court of partisan hacks has finally decided that it's too burdensome to write pages of disingenuous rationalizations for their opinions and increasingly just saying "Because I said so"
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jul 14
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:
Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.
July 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. 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. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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sagan.bsky.social
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

- Isaac Asimov
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov
July 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
i think they’re being overly optimistic regarding the canine literacy rate
Graffiti on a boarded-up window reads "NO BARKING" with the top of a car visible in the foreground.
July 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
This is Zach Nunn (R-IA). If he votes for this bill,
27,293 of his constituents would lose access to their healthcare.
31,100 of his constituents could lose access to their food assistance.
65 energy jobs in his district could be lost.
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
This is Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA). If she votes for this bill,
24,696 of her constituents would lose access to healthcare.
28,793 of her constituents could lose access to their food assistance.
1,320 energy jobs in her district could be lost.
At least 1 hospital in her district could be lost.
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Patrick: We’re represented by Rep. Miller-Meeks. She supported this bill when it went through the House and has indicated that she’s going to continue to support it when it returns from the Senate.

I hope she doesn’t.

This is going to have real-world effects on my family—and on a lot of Iowans.
July 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
if you remember ppp-powerbook you are the same as a survivor of Ypres
hausofdecline.bsky.social Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Jun 29
A lotta guys post about being on the SomethingAwful forums like they were in 'Nam
June 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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scalzi.com
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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usapolling.bsky.social
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"

No: 85%
Yes: 5%

YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
"We are devastated and heartbroken at the loss of our parents, Melissa and Mark. They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can't believe they are gone. Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much. "We want everyone to know that we are both safe and with loved ones. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy as we grieve. "Our family would like to thank law enforcement for their swift action that saved others and for the coordination across communities that led to the arrest of the man who murdered our parents. We especially would like to thank the officers who were first on the scene to our parents' home and their heroic attempts to rescue our mom and dad. "Our parents touched so many lives, and they leave behind an incredible legacy of dedication to their community that will live on in us, their friends, their colleagues and co-workers, and every single person who knew and loved them. "If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following: • Plant a tree. • Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail. • Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do. • Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it. • Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone. • Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something. • Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. "Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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daniloc.xyz
I have chills

RCV is a structure to build durable coalitions

Think how much healthier this is for the local party, for the city, for the actual final outcome

Sorkin-sentimental fantasy to imagine a politics like this
June 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM