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· Oct 4
So, have we had enough of Russell Vought and his #Project2025 yet? Have we had enough of the American military in our streets on these ginned up Reichstag fire excuses?
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
.@parkermolloy I am so sorry that happened to you. I learned first hand the pain of the bully brigades 14 years ago. I am sure a lot of it was programmatic bullying, but far too much wasn’t. I trust you will remain online. ActivityPub has to be the safest haven, presently. (If anywhere can be …
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
.@parkermolloy I am so sorry that happened to you. I learned first hand the pain of the bully brigades 14 years ago. I am sure a lot of it was programmatic bullying, but far too much wasn’t. I trust you will remain online. ActivityPub has to be the safest haven, presently. (If anywhere can be …
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Putting my radical take out there that if you participated in bullying Parker Malloy, a trans journalist with a long history of queer advocacy off this site, for the reason that she asked "why" on a pic putting tits on a chibi character on a game marketed to children, you're kind of a shit person
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Putting my radical take out there that if you participated in bullying Parker Malloy, a trans journalist with a long history of queer advocacy off this site, for the reason that she asked "why" on a pic putting tits on a chibi character on a game marketed to children, you're kind of a shit person
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I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.
Nah, a Shitshow would be a step up from what she’s already done to that storied organization. I was hoping for mass resignations, but even they don’t seem too stylish anymore.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Nah, a Shitshow would be a step up from what she’s already done to that storied organization. I was hoping for mass resignations, but even they don’t seem too stylish anymore.
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This isn’t even imperialism. There was at least a certain logic to that. As Miller made clear yesterday, this is a maniacal exercise of raw power with no other real strategy or purpose but to brazenly assert that “might makes right.”
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January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This isn’t even imperialism. There was at least a certain logic to that. As Miller made clear yesterday, this is a maniacal exercise of raw power with no other real strategy or purpose but to brazenly assert that “might makes right.”
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January 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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The outlets funded by CPB were in the best position to warn America about the dangers to democracy because they are not oligarch-controlled. They failed. Time for a total reboot anyway.
January 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The outlets funded by CPB were in the best position to warn America about the dangers to democracy because they are not oligarch-controlled. They failed. Time for a total reboot anyway.
I wish some journalist (like @taylorlorenz) would look into exactly who is paying for these bizarre campaigns. And why. It’s been going on for months. Such drivel is at the top of Twitter’s timeline for hours each day. And Elmo ain’t doing that for free.
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I wish some journalist (like @taylorlorenz) would look into exactly who is paying for these bizarre campaigns. And why. It’s been going on for months. Such drivel is at the top of Twitter’s timeline for hours each day. And Elmo ain’t doing that for free.
In case you missed it, Trump finally gave the moronic Right their Holy Grail. Or was it a scalp?
Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's directors voted the organization out of business Monday. The private agency, which has distributed federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of local television and radio stations across the country for more than a half-century, saw its appropriations from Co
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January 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
In case you missed it, Trump finally gave the moronic Right their Holy Grail. Or was it a scalp?
Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself.
On Xitter, the usual MAGA twats can’t get a word in edgewise amid all the agitprop bots and Grok-repeaters. So the twats have moved to Threads where they have resumed their old habit of searching for anything and anyone they can prove what little they know about to.
January 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
On Xitter, the usual MAGA twats can’t get a word in edgewise amid all the agitprop bots and Grok-repeaters. So the twats have moved to Threads where they have resumed their old habit of searching for anything and anyone they can prove what little they know about to.
So who was that Carl Sagan guy? A true product of the Enlightenment who some of us grew up influenced by. Hearing him now is like peering into another universe from where we are: A place where mind-numbing vapidity is respected—and even revered.
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Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago
Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he wa...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
So who was that Carl Sagan guy? A true product of the Enlightenment who some of us grew up influenced by. Hearing him now is like peering into another universe from where we are: A place where mind-numbing vapidity is respected—and even revered.
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Sagan talked about the dumbing down of America in his book The Demon-Haunted World.
I have an audiobook copy of it where Carl reads it.
What a treat to hear him.
I have an audiobook copy of it where Carl reads it.
What a treat to hear him.
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Sagan talked about the dumbing down of America in his book The Demon-Haunted World.
I have an audiobook copy of it where Carl reads it.
What a treat to hear him.
I have an audiobook copy of it where Carl reads it.
What a treat to hear him.
If you haven’t read this yet, I will hound you until you do. But here’s a teaser. Oh, and if you don’t follow @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social yet, that’s on you.
We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan
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We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan
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January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
If you haven’t read this yet, I will hound you until you do. But here’s a teaser. Oh, and if you don’t follow @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social yet, that’s on you.
We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan
www.leftjabs.com/2026...
We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan
www.leftjabs.com/2026...
For some reason my URLs were being redacted today. I love bugs.
January 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
For some reason my URLs were being redacted today. I love bugs.
"We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan" by @Leftjabs
▶ When he told us we were being dumbed down, he understated the problem.
www.leftjabs.com/2026/01/we-a...
▶ When he told us we were being dumbed down, he understated the problem.
www.leftjabs.com/2026/01/we-a...
We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan
When he told us we were being dumbed down, he understated the problem.
www.leftjabs.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
"We All Should’ve Listened to Carl Sagan" by @Leftjabs
▶ When he told us we were being dumbed down, he understated the problem.
www.leftjabs.com/2026/01/we-a...
▶ When he told us we were being dumbed down, he understated the problem.
www.leftjabs.com/2026/01/we-a...
Finally, an actual historian explains what I’ve failed to explain dozens of times. You cannot expect people who actually believe in freedom of thought and expression to think and express precisely as you might like them to.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Finally, an actual historian explains what I’ve failed to explain dozens of times. You cannot expect people who actually believe in freedom of thought and expression to think and express precisely as you might like them to.
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Gavin Newsom Fact-Checks Stephen Miller’s Invasion-Crazed Wife
▶ The California governor hit back at the MAGA podcaster’s Palisades fire post and taunts about Trump’s next targets.
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▶ The California governor hit back at the MAGA podcaster’s Palisades fire post and taunts about Trump’s next targets.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Gavin Newsom Fact-Checks Stephen Miller’s Invasion-Crazed Wife
▶ The California governor hit back at the MAGA podcaster’s Palisades fire post and taunts about Trump’s next targets.
www.thedailybeast.com...
▶ The California governor hit back at the MAGA podcaster’s Palisades fire post and taunts about Trump’s next targets.
www.thedailybeast.com...
The American educational system is primarily geared to equipping students with just enough skills to acquire student loan debt and read the corporate logos on $300 sneakers. History lessons generally stop at Europeans came, kicked Indian ass, and took down some Hitler guy.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:44 AM
The American educational system is primarily geared to equipping students with just enough skills to acquire student loan debt and read the corporate logos on $300 sneakers. History lessons generally stop at Europeans came, kicked Indian ass, and took down some Hitler guy.
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I’ll skip the pleasantries. Can you believe what Stephen Miller said yesterday? What the fuck? And why are we just sitting here watching this moron wreck the entire world? He should be dragged from his office in chains. Today.
January 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
I’ll skip the pleasantries. Can you believe what Stephen Miller said yesterday? What the fuck? And why are we just sitting here watching this moron wreck the entire world? He should be dragged from his office in chains. Today.
@davetroy got a shout-out from @olbermann.bsky.social today. That should happen a lot more often.
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
@davetroy got a shout-out from @olbermann.bsky.social today. That should happen a lot more often.
Thank you. Been making this point since Hillary said it years ago to someone, maybe @deray. “We’re politicians. We go where you push us.”
We bitch about where they don’t go, while sitting on our asses watching them not go anywhere.
We bitch about where they don’t go, while sitting on our asses watching them not go anywhere.
And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
January 6, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Thank you. Been making this point since Hillary said it years ago to someone, maybe @deray. “We’re politicians. We go where you push us.”
We bitch about where they don’t go, while sitting on our asses watching them not go anywhere.
We bitch about where they don’t go, while sitting on our asses watching them not go anywhere.
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they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
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everything keeps getting dumber so I may come to regret this question but does the New York Times have any particular reason to believe the Nazi Pillow guy is a "strong" candidate for governor?
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
everything keeps getting dumber so I may come to regret this question but does the New York Times have any particular reason to believe the Nazi Pillow guy is a "strong" candidate for governor?
This self-own has me laughing so hard. I’ve been calling out that overrated piece of shit for 15 years.
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 AM
This self-own has me laughing so hard. I’ve been calling out that overrated piece of shit for 15 years.