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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · 6d

Just a disjointed mess on both ends

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · 7d

What he looks like without makeup

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14d

Ah yes, this venerable cartoon reminds me of another point I meant to add: part of reactionary psychology is a pathological aversion to taking personal responsibility for anything, so they will *tell* you that they're just reacting. Of course they will. But you're not obliged to believe them!

Analytical Left @leaddreamer.bsky.social · 14d

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · 14d

They’re bad at everything including marksmanship

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · 15d

I’m an alum and I’m disgusted. He’s a total POS

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · 18d

That was weird. Love that Hugo got meaningful minutes, he’s doing the work.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Oct 9

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Oct 6

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · Oct 3

If you want to be healthy, keep those around you healthy

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · Oct 2

undocumented people should receive free health care, just like everybody else.

in addition to health care being a human right, health care is also a collective issue. denying people health care creates risks for everyone. contagious diseases are the obvious one, but there are plenty of others.

Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · Sep 25

Good thread I happened across. Keep resisting!

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 25

This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.

What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 24

Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?

The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 21

www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One

Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

www.popehat.com

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · Sep 15

Novels are books so all books are novels right?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Sep 12

With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings.

They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...

The Threat No One Wants to Talk About

As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 17

Daniel Hunter says that researchers took 35 cases of democratic backsliding (rising authoritarianism) in states from 1991-2021. How often were people successful in stopping it?

7.5% with no civil resistance

51.7% WITH civil resistance

#OneMillionRising

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Dave Miner @dave-miner.bsky.social · Jul 13

Kidnapped

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · Jul 2

Most Americans long imagined that "the surveillance systems, the heavily armed police, the 'anti-terrorism' measures, the vast intelligence apparatus "would be used only for 'criminals'...Now we are surprised to find that we have been defined as the criminals."

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...