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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 8h

This guy is journalism royalty. His mother, April, was a famous tv reporter in New York City for Channel 6 News.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 9h

hand to god, he then took this shirt off to reveal a "Dump 62 Here" shirt underneath

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 9h

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot believe they sent Vladdy here but he made it, the leap into the slide is 🤌🏼

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 10h

ironically this sounds like the kinds of things a fake new yorker would say

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 12h

who's the third Dem?

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's @cooperlund.online who first pointed out that they're not so much interested in fascism as generating fascist content

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 13h

It’s been my long-held belief that coaching D3 hoops translates better to the NBA than D1. I don’t think the same is true of football, but the player-coach power dynamic is closer between “ima go to the owner & get this clown fired” & “I don’t need this, lemme just go party & study to be a dentist”

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13h

well that gives us two candidates I have serious doubts about

I guess the upside hope is that a primary will test both of them

Axios @axios.com · 13h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 13h

I understand the third-worldist history of treating support for Hamas as left and that's where these various groups are coming from, but it's always kind of wild to me that support for a group which is not in any way left wing gets framed as further left than not supporting or condemning them

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14h

I would have thought that unilateral executive *spending* would be the line for the Supreme Court and the conservative elite but I don't know anymore man

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14h

President AOC gonna fund Medicare for All unilaterally ok

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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hailey @hailey.at · 16h

if you post your content on _any_ serious social media site on the entire internet in 2025, there is going to be ai moderation used to moderate that content. if you don't want this, go and participate in mybb forum with 500 users.

hailey @hailey.at · 16h

*rubbing temples, rocking back and forth on the floor in the corner of the room*
ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderation is not generative ai...ai assisted moderati

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16h

It's not land acknowledgments or arguing over pronouns or emojis, it's this. Also telling people to read the most boring books on the planet bsky.app/profile/tsbu...

Tom Buttry @tsbuttry.bsky.social · 16h

Undercover Informant: Boss, they had 10 speakers, each one started talking about having clear, concise messaging. Each one went on and on for 10 minutes with completely different talking points...

Boss:

a man is sitting in front of a sign that says i think i 'm going to throw up .

Alt: John C. Reilly saying "i think i 'm going to throw up"

media.tenor.com

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16h

back in the 2010s there was a whole world of pre-Tate ideologically misogynist blogs and stuff, it was called the manosphere

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16h

this seems exactly right

it's not entirely clear what the constraints on Russ Vought are -- clearly they are not "the law" -- but his apparent incapacity to even begin the process of laying off federal workers during the shutdown must reflect some real constraint

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16h

certainly Rogen and Von and these dudes are all linked, they make longform hangout podcasts with listenership that's like 3/4 men under 40 and has tons of overlap.

just it's weird the word was repurposed for them when it used to mean something different?

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 16h

I have thought of it as the anti side refusing to acknowledge the technology exists, while the pro side is only interested in a messianic future in which the technology is totally different

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like there's been a weird and massive expansion of what the term "manosphere" means

from a pretty specific and tightly knit set of ideological misogynists to a bunch of kinda dumb, kinda conservative guys who make incredibly popular longform hangout podcasts about all kinds of random shit

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

waymo has a limited rollout because it is a bad business, not a bad technology. just depreciating $60k worth of optics per car is comparably expensive to paying a guy $10/hr to drive it.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 18h

Man I’m in like the top 0.1% of Americans for, like, quantitative financial modeling and the idea of having to do some kind of actuarial underwriting of my expected healthcare expenses to buy a plan strikes me as such an insane way to run a system (no shade on OP for the great thread, to be clear)

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · Oct 28

Personally I think it's great that my company's HR sends out an official looking tool where they even ask you to pre-populate your healthcare providers and instead of being the actual insurance enrollment process it's just some bullshit checklist to try and convince me I actually don't want a PPO

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21h

this is really good stuff from @gelliottmorris.com

the core issue is that polling in the subjunctive is dumb. if you ask people to imagine things, people will imagine things

when you ask questions about actual, material acts of political violence, rates of support run incredibly low

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

Glad Morris is on this issue. Obviously political violence in our society and the openness to it is a big issue. BUT I do think a lot of these polls, intentionally or not, have a way of amplifying very hypothetical questions. Or from a different perspective ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

Glad Morris is on this issue. Obviously political violence in our society and the openness to it is a big issue. BUT I do think a lot of these polls, intentionally or not, have a way of amplifying very hypothetical questions. Or from a different perspective ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 21h

I mean certainly he has no concept of this beyond him on the cover of Time with Israelis and Palestinians shaking hands

but if he takes the leadership role and then tries to back out, it won't be easy to do -- in both perception and institutions these things have their own momentum

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 21h

If asked I would serve.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 21h

Stats Grantland, the people are clamoring for this

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