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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.
(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)
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The Post reported that Hegseth gave the order to kill them all before the first strike. Whether he saw any survivors after the first missile hit is irrelevant. Whether he was in the room when the second strike hit is irrelevant.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Post reported that Hegseth gave the order to kill them all before the first strike. Whether he saw any survivors after the first missile hit is irrelevant. Whether he was in the room when the second strike hit is irrelevant.
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Every one of his posts is just
feels relevant
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Every one of his posts is just
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Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Universities can't function if they're constantly running scared of an online cancel factory and spineless politicians who won't push back. Should this student have received a bad grade? Don't know. Should the governor of the state be commenting on it? Absolutely not. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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there is a direct line from 2001/2002 - Cheney (gloves are off), Gonzales (Geneva Conventions are "quaint"), Yoo (Geneva doesn't apply to Afghanistan) - to today.
a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.
a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
bsky.app/profile/anna...
It’s almost as if there were signs!
bsky.app/profile/anna...
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
there is a direct line from 2001/2002 - Cheney (gloves are off), Gonzales (Geneva Conventions are "quaint"), Yoo (Geneva doesn't apply to Afghanistan) - to today.
a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.
a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.
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they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost
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god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life
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On Friday, I'm finally doing it: I'm recording a pod on balcony solar! This is probably the No. 1 request I get from listeners.
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
White Paper | Bright Saver
Register for upcoming Bright Saver webinars here.
www.brightsaver.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
On Friday, I'm finally doing it: I'm recording a pod on balcony solar! This is probably the No. 1 request I get from listeners.
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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I think he’s saying that if we sacrifice reality in favor of a preferred narrative we contribute to the delusory condition that allows charlatans to thrive
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I think he’s saying that if we sacrifice reality in favor of a preferred narrative we contribute to the delusory condition that allows charlatans to thrive
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He’s fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less known is ‘Do not go in against Isaac Chotiner and goad him into reporting on you!’
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
He’s fallen victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’ but only slightly less known is ‘Do not go in against Isaac Chotiner and goad him into reporting on you!’
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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The Times identified 120+ instances in which guards were described as having punched, kicked or stomped on inmates, smashed their fingers in cell doors, held their legs apart and struck their genitals with batons, and even waterboarded them — all while they were handcuffed or otherwise restrained.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Times identified 120+ instances in which guards were described as having punched, kicked or stomped on inmates, smashed their fingers in cell doors, held their legs apart and struck their genitals with batons, and even waterboarded them — all while they were handcuffed or otherwise restrained.
Access journalism isn’t journalism. You can’t be objective about a club you are in, right?
I think @dinfontay.com summed up the moral fracture in journalism really well: “I feel cliché referencing George Carlin, but after a week like this what else can you say? There is a big club, and we aren't in it.”
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Access journalism isn’t journalism. You can’t be objective about a club you are in, right?
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One of the biggest problems with wealth stratification and wealth inequality in America is that many people will get richer sucking up to their parents than they will as a function of total lifetime income. This encourages a tribalism antithetical to our national character.
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One of the biggest problems with wealth stratification and wealth inequality in America is that many people will get richer sucking up to their parents than they will as a function of total lifetime income. This encourages a tribalism antithetical to our national character.
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Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"