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Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web and Race Pseudoscience https://www.pinkerite.com Follow me if you like harsh criticism of race pseudoscience, Steven Pinker and the whole IDW gang from Bari Weiss to Peter Thiel to Elon Musk to Eric Weinstein etc.

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Steven Pinker: still undefeated as the "World's Most Annoying Man."

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Steven Pinker: still undefeated as the "World's Most Annoying Man"

Pinker's June 2025 appearance on Aporia podcast owned by neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard Everything I've heard about Steven Pinker's latest book...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 2h

Former Fox & Friends weekend co-host and defense secretary Pete Hegseth learned a sharp lesson in choosing his words more carefully.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 1h

New on Pinkerite:

Steven Pinker: still undefeated as the "World's Most Annoying Man."

www.pinkerite.com/2025/10/stev...

Steven Pinker: still undefeated as the "World's Most Annoying Man"

Pinker's June 2025 appearance on Aporia podcast owned by neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard Everything I've heard about Steven Pinker's latest book...

www.pinkerite.com

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NGMcClernan @nmcclernan.bsky.social · 1h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF2R...

Good stuff - just released.

Kathy Griffin: My Life On the PTSD List | Full Comedy Special

YouTube video by Kathy Griffin

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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 5h

Elections aren’t every 4 years or every 2 years, they’re every year. In California we have a special election for prop 50 and it’s a YES. If Texas can gerrymander then we should be able to. I know my comments will be filled with bots, but I won’t be intimidated. Our democracy is vanishing❤️

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

I would like to hear from the "he did politics the right way" gentleman about this.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 8h

Saturday. Find the protest where you are and make your voice heard!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 8h

"The demagoguery won’t work, as millions of Americans are speaking with their own voices, and many more will see them and hear them. But it is interesting that the GOP has latched on to the story."

www.signorile.com/p/the-gop-ha...

The GOP has only brought enormous attention to No Kings protests

That's good, because the corporate media is doing a terrible job.

www.signorile.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h

Even PBS can't be bothered to note that something is a little ODD about giving such an honor to a billionaire-funded social media troll who spent his days tricking dim teens into believing sexism and racism was acceptable

not even a passing, vague reference to him being "controversial"

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 8h

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian. https://to.pbs.org/3J8JYDA

WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Charlie Kirk posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

www.pbs.org

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 7h

Stupid Young Republicans get exposed, because they are both racist and stupid.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h

my life's ambition is to be used as a powerless prop by a company with no ethics seeking to validate its relentless quest for maximum engagement in a country too corrupt to have functional regulators

OpenAI unveils “wellness” council; suicide prevention expert not included

OpenAI reveals which experts are steering ChatGPT mental health upgrades.

arstechnica.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 23h

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15h

Every time.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 15h

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 15h

I will be marching in the No Kings rally on Saturday, not because I'm paid, but because I care about my kids' future.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h

Trump, an authoritarian to his core, repeatedly sought the investigation, prosecution, and imprisonment of his political foes throughout his first four years in the White House.
www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...

Blaming the left for Trump's weaponization of law enforcement means pretending his first term didn't happen

www.mediamatters.org

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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 12h

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 13h

The paper dying would reflect poorly on Bezos's other ventures. He is just a deluded rich person who thought his wealth makes him smarter than an actual experts in any other industry.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

A huge landmark in journalism history seems to have come to pass a while ago: when @hcrichardson.bsky.social outstripped the Washington Post in online readership. An old world is dying, a new world is being born [Jeff Bezos is a monster].

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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