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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

Our university system has been without doubt our single greatest source of soft power worldwide, and (for both better and worse) often the source of our hard power as well.

And spiteful conservatives are burning it all to the ground.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 16h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

I knew it would be bad, but... so bad! So quickly!

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23h

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 23h

salute to my fellow Gary

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Here's Deb Haaland in 2019, saying why, to her, changing the name of today's federal holiday from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day isn't about erasing history at all. It's about correcting history.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

T! 🙌

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

we now cut to a live feed of Gen Xers at the memorial service

crowd of Gen Xers dancing sadly in the “Homerpalooza” episode of the Simpsons

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss puts a lot of evil out into the world but, like Charlie Kirk, if it wasn't them it would be someone else with the same backing. Neither is/was charismatic nor even photogenic. They just have the backing of the people who decide which views are legitimate and amplified.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The main reason why Vought is so angry is that he is not just after political power in a narrow sense but obsessed with status and cultural domination. He believes there is a “natural” order of white male Christian domination in all spheres of life – and America is supposed to follow it.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

and with an ostensible ally doing the screwing-over

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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 1d

I do get it that Nelson holds great credibility in certain circles, but the idea that "Congress has broad authority to shape the executive branch and place limits on the president's ability to fire officials" is some kind of groundbreaking historical discovery is absurd.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

See how complicated this gets when you see this philosophy as anything other than "Republicans win and Democrats lose."

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

they're still going at it folks

Jordan Weissmann
@JHWeissmann
1) JFC this is nuts

2) One reason we may need permitting reforms is that there’s a chance Republicans will kill any renewable project Dems approve. Gotta be able to greenlight and build rapidly.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

++ people in DC. Still. It’s still happening here I had feds in the alley behind my house 3 days ago. 7 people (that I know of) have been taken from my block alone.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

"Again, no one in this 'well organized and funded' [Antifa] network was identified. They never will be and they never need be." open.substack.com/pub/forgetis...

Am I Antifa?

Are you? Let’s find out together Saturday.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

the Clay Davis defense: “I’ll take any motherfucker’s money if he’s giving it away!”

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

People who go out of their way to reply negatively to not just everything but everyone they see to rage at and talk down to them are fundamentally exhausting. I know everything is terrible and no one is exempt from it but good lord

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

/5 I mean if you think your peers in an elite, rarefied environment are being kind of silly you can say so, and maybe endure some occasional hissing, or you can just make being mad at it your whole personality, forgetting that rarefied cultures are commonly silly.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

Nothing is more important to establishing true freedom in the United States than reducing Peter Thiel’s influence down to his vote

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

What is with the continued insistence that Weiss has ever covered “news,” she was an op-ed writer who started a website for opinion pieces. You are just objectively making stuff up.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3d

An instructive structure where people feel compelled to good things for selfish reasons is a good incentive structure.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

it’s shocking how much this boils down to “people shouldn’t be allowed to disagree with me, and especially not allowed to agree with the people who were better-liked than me in college”

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Power, Vought claims, now lies with a “permanent ruling class” of leftist elites who control all major institutions and especially the “woke and weaponized” agencies of the state. In order to defeat them, conservatives must become “radical constitutionalists” - and take radical action.

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