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thedevil.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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volts.wtf
Very, *very* smart piece from @espiers.bsky.social about why media efforts by Dem consultants are so often comical failures. Highly recommended:
Why Dems Keep Screwing Up Media Efforts
Wired has a story by Taylor Lorenz about Chorus, which is a Dem backed influencer agency, attempting to recruit influencers with $8000 a month retainers and contracts that stipulate that they not disc...
www.elizabethspiers.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Trying to imagine how Fox News would have covered it if in May 2024 Kamala Harris took a secret day trip to visit the head of CNN. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs
A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network
www.independent.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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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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seanokane.bsky.social
Elon Musk said Grok 4 is “maximally truth-seeking.”

But if you ask Grok 4 questions about controversial topics, one of its first steps is to search for what Musk has said publicly about the topic, and then it shapes its response around that.

Yes, really:

techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.
techcrunch.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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astrokatie.com
I have never felt so understood in my life 😂
beequammie.bsky.social Bee Quammie @beequammie.bsky.social · Apr 21
This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
April 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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gregpak.net
I called my senators and US rep and told them to join Van Hollen on his trip to El Salvador and bring back the people who have been wrongly imprisoned in those concentration camps.

Call your reps and tell them the same thing if you feel similarly.

Find your reps here: reps.fyi
April 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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merledieperle.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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captainacab.airbud.website
why are they calling it “The Great Global Economy Collapse” and not a Tarrific Jam
April 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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edzitron.com
Why. Why? Why? Why! WHY! Why. Why? Why!!!
March 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
steezycheeze.bsky.social
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Ex-Facebook Employee Is Blocked From Promoting Tell-All Memoir
Meta has forcefully denied the allegations in a new memoir, “Careless People.” Now, an arbitrator has prohibited the author from distributing it.
www.vanityfair.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.
March 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
There’s not enough money to fund cancer research, but there is enough money to stockpile crypto…

www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
Trump Announces ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’—Here’s What To Know
Cryptocurrency prices soared Sunday in the wake of Trump’s announcement.
www.forbes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...
Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda
"We don't have two years. You won't be able to pick up the pieces."
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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resistokatt.bsky.social
There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints.
youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...
KCRCC Town Hall in Coeur d'Alene Idaho woman illegally detained
YouTube video by Devin Prewett
youtube.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Lol. I missed that the author of NIST 800-63 Appendix A had formally apologized for his sins
February 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
This is what you get when you pardon violent j6ers. Well done, Trump administration.
Enrique Tarrio headline.
February 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
steezycheeze.bsky.social
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid
Is a dictatorship good for business?
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
On YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
m.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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morgandawn.bsky.social
Copying this from another post 3 days ago The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism” zine makes a great gift for your liberal family, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & share freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
February 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.

Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”

We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM