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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine falling asleep in 2015 and waking up 10 years later to this.

A headline from Mediaite on October 15, 2025 the reads “BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor
Greene Is No Longer Following @Catturd2 on X Amid MAGA Civil War.”

An opening paragraph from a Mediaite story that reads: “LEFT: Catturd RIGHT: Marjorie Taylor Greene There are epochal moments in time during which mountains move, borders change, hearts are won, and social media followers are lost. We are living through one such moment. According to the U.S. Politics Alert account on X, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is no longer following @catturd2, also known as Catturd, on the same social media site.
@repmtg is no longer following @catturd2pic.twitter.com/5UFtI9X9lE
- U.S. Politics Alert (@USPoliticsAlert)

Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 4h

It’s fun to live under the Articles of Confederation again but with all the downsides of a unitary executive.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

groyper occupied government

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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🔱 Jacob Satan Party 🔱 @jacobsidney.com · 1d

My wife and I noticed you across the ethnostate, and just really dig your vibe

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Ok after this like WA or MN does it then it stops there

Cooperative
Retaliatory
Never attacks first
Tit for Tat
Attacks when attacked
Forgiving
Forgives carlier attack

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 2d

Pssst…come here. I have something to say.

Closer.

Right there.

[*whispers in your ear*] It’s anti-semitism.

Ok, move away from me now.

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 2d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot about Aristotle having to leave his library behind at The Lyceum after he was forced out of Athens because of a regime change.

Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned that MIT is in Massachusetts because its founder, William Barton Rogers — a UVA prof and the state geologist — decided he just couldn’t with Virginia anymore.

Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

Dude can’t even get the planes to land safely, what makes him think he can make Moon Unit Zappa?

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

I give it until Friday.

Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

Vive laïcité!

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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Sunday! 🪼

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

He thinks he’s messaging Bondi again

Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

A New York Times story 10 years from now: “Anti-American violence is on the rise abroad, but officials are unsure why.”

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 3d

I really wish @dieworkwear.bsky.social would write a book on American political economy strictly through the lens of menswear. I would absolutely read (and assign) that book.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 4d

You would be hard pressed to find a clearer example of someone publicly admitting that they are completely unqualified for their job. She shouldn’t be anywhere near a courtroom.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Misquoting key lines of Watchmen is neither necessary nor sufficient for misunderstanding it completely but there sure is a substantial correlation.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d

Just got back from Normal, IL for a lecture at Illinois State University. Established in 1857 after this small town lawyer named Abe secured the funding. Was reminded once again that US public universities are the triumph of civilization

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

👇🎯💯

We should fund them again like the triumph of civilization that they are: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 4d

In hindsight, maybe hoping that norms and ambition-checking would save us was the wrong move.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 5d

Just like their legitimization of American fascism in the past decade or two, news media & higher ed will bear substantial blame for boosting this looming economic collapse.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 5d

The breathless hysteria with which this problem has been foisted on to the public, especially the Gen Z population, has been staggering.

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redthespian - FETTUCCINE F*CK @redthespian.bsky.social · 5d

Lute:

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 5d

The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda really hates me…

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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.bsky.social · 5d

This is why it’s so important to have the terms authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and fascism clearly defined. The former two are forms of government, while the latter one is an ideology. It requires both being aware of where we are in the democratic backsliding process and what the ideology is.

Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 6d

Two things about fascism I didn't really grasp until it became our reality:

1) it's not all-or-nothing. You can have more or less fascism. (Which means even though that's where we are, we can still push back, resist, make many things less bad for many people.

2) It isn't *everywhere* +

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