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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 11h

Coal is so dead, the Trump administration can’t even give it away: https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-lease-sale-montana-penny-ton-8f698701c76e1260518c546c92104758

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 12h

The one thing you hear consistently from Republicans over 40 is that the younger kids are just completely something else. And by something else, they mean fascists.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 13h

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 13h

People on this site love to talk about narratives, but obviously very few of them have read theory.
I fucking have. I've read shit by the Situationist International and Ken Keysey. Power relies on narratives that reinforces their power, and subverting or destroying the narrative *hurts* them.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 14h

Let's just say I'm happy to not be the one to ruin this movie for you (but I'm glad someone did):

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13d

so this should be an article but whatever, you're getting an off the cuff thread because I have nothing but time

we'll do hurt locker lady's movie first because I don't think I have the strength to do jacobsen right now (and I don't own the book so I'll have to go pull references together)

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 14d

I really would like to read a detailed debunking article from someone with this kind of experience on nuclear war plans about house of dynamite and/or jacobsen's book because all I see from like professional critics is the typical "chilling, sobering...she's obviously done her homework"

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 14h

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 16h

Yep:

Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 16h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 17h

A Milosevic apologist so...no.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 19h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 1d

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Russia’s leader isn’t nearly as strong as he’s made out to be, Andrew Ryvkin writes. “A realistic view of his power would strip Putin of his biggest leverage: the perception of his invincibility”:

Putin Is Not Winning

Underestimating the Russian leader is dangerous, but ascribing dark powers to him plays right into his hands.

bit.ly

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 1d

Show trials against overseas dissidents are not what you are doing when you are winning:

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup on.ft.com/47pinHy

Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup

FSB launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile

on.ft.com

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 1d

Note which commentators take this as a bad thing for Ukraine's prospects in the war and you will know who does not understand what is happening:

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 1d

REO hallelujah wagon, Thomas WV:

billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 1d

They will never be a replacement for "security" unless you are defining it as simply attacking a population. The latter...both from non-state and state actors...*is* an extraordinarily daunting prospect. We are in a revolution in military affairs that's going to spill over badly into civilian life.

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 2d

Tuesday morning at 9am—

Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 12d

We’ll be hosting European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at AEI on the 14th. Register here: www.aei.org/events/the-t...

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 2d

Dolly Sods to Thomas, WV:

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 2d

nothing from George Orwell or Terry Gilliam rivals the horror that is today's LinkedIn copy

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 4d

Destroying the pandemic warning system in order to coerce the end of healthcare subsidies is very likely not the flex the White House imagines it to be:

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4d

there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 4d

Wouldn't have then...but we sure as hell will now:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 4d

And another: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/oct/09/backlash-builds-against-comics-who-played-riyadh-comedy-festival

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 4d

And it's getting worse: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions?

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

www.thenation.com

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 4d

Theyre just threatening to shoot us now.

But it’s a bluff. Call it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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billbindc @billbindc.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Burr got paid to entertain the C suite and thinks he was on the factory floor…or at least got paid enough to pretend to.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

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