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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 11h

Before the late 1800s, the European canon is extremely approachable! Little kids understand it effortlessly! It was meant to be enjoyed! Even the late Romantic stuff is mostly accessible and sounds good without a lot of insider knowledge! It only stops being fun in the 20th century.

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 14h

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d

"What we really have is... a hostage release deal, a ceasefire with uncertain term - and a prayer. We don't have a peace deal."
My thoughts about Trump's Gaza deal, on @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

A foreign policy expert talks about prospects for peace marked by the Gaza ceasefire

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, about the U.S.-brokered peace deal between Hamas and Israel.

www.npr.org

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 7h

*And* that the media environment around that election was grossly inaccurate. I could keep going with this.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 7h

OFFS, it can be true both that Kamala Harris had some incompetent people on her team *and* that certain groups of voters are dipshits. What is this obsession with monocausal explanations for complex events?

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 7h

That was a heartwarming story about two journalists making a connection on a flight getting diverted, but I'm worried about all these commenters who believe someone *refusing to move from an emergency exit row seat that is not theirs* is a victim of fascism/corporate greed.

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Ignacio GHOULup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 9h

"Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism"

"Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian."

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2d

just gonna say if you support biblical governance then you should generally oppose a race-baiting leader who is being plagued by frogs

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 9h

We do need a lot of prayer in these times.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 9h

Yikes.

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 10h

you know when we tell you that sometimes the stephen miller criticism flirts with antisemitism, we're not making it up...

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10h

They are innovating in the field of stupid like you wouldn’t believe

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Weird Bisexual Wooper @goldensama.bsky.social · 15h

So this is obviously bullshit but imagine for a minute that this was true; imagine the existential hell of having to WORK IN YOUR SLEEP. Dante couldn’t have imagined a level of hell this fucked up; and hey Andy Fucknuts over here is saying it like it was goals.

We’re a deeply unwell species.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 10h

As I've said before, Kennedy filing a "sure, laws may have been broken and rights violated, but what am I, the median vote on the nation's top appellate court, supposed to do about it?" concurrence was the perfect way form him to hand his seat over to Trump

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not too long ago America had a King who regarded his subjects’ dignity as the beneficent pillar of his personalist rule.

But then he got tired and handed his kingdom to a tyrant who had no regard for the exhausted abdicator’s admonitions.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 10h

No one is betting against Weiss. Critics aren't saying she will fail. They're worried she will succeed.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 13h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h

By way of defending Caitlin Flanagan, in a Mobius strip of conservative pick-me women who believe they are actually the only true liberals.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10h

Frankly most of you don’t know enough about Jewish OR Israeli culture (and their many distinct permutations) to parse the difference, that’s shitty and ignorant and makes you a mark for a lot of edgelord Nazi shit

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 29d

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support.

I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 10h

It is disgusting for a Congressman to call for US Muslims to be ethnically cleansed. Yet I am also sad about what he is reacting to, a big march essentially saying a bunch of Jews shouldn't exist. But the marchers are rightfully upset because of a horrific ethnic cleansing. Such a mess.

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