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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · Feb 25

It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.

There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 1h

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 3h

This stuff is so sad. It should not be up to a private organization to make sure we don't have lead in our food.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 11h

Tankies are always telling me how much they hate me and now they’re mad that I listened lol

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 19h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 9h

Atheists are constantly portrayed as lacking morality, yet this is what the “Christian values” crowd gets up to.

Politico @politico.com · 12h

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👇

‘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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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

these people want to take us back to the 19th century so we're gonna end up seeing a lot of groups get retroactively un-whitened

Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

Why are we importing intra-Italian racism I thought there was a tariff on this shit

"If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word,"
Giunta wrote.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h

openai epic handshake with various ancient civilizations: "what if god had big tiddies"

Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10h

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

This is one reason why I keep pushing on how small Fed law enforcement agencies are.

“Let’s fire the US military and start over” would be an insane thing to say.

“Let’s scrub ICE and start over” is numerically QUITE FEASIBLE.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 9h

how did he blow the easiest grift in the world?

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

He used two sources that lack questions on gender identity (the FIRE survey doesn't ask gender identity, I don't think) and then used student surveys from a private prep school, Brown University. He dismisses (basically) the General Social Survey has not reaching enough college age people.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

The "study" is by Eric Kaufman, a DeSantis supporter who left his post at the University of London citing "cancel culture." He believes that trans identity is a social contagion.

Here's what he believes his study proves.

Executive Summary
• After surging in the 2010s and 20s, trans and queer identities are in decline among young Americans
• The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from
nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent
• The share of students identifying as not heterosexual fell by around 10 points in the same period
• The decline in non-heterosexual share is concentrated in the queer or other sexual categories (i.e.
pansexual, asexual) and, to a lesser extent, bisexuality
• Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue
• The decline in BTQ+ identification does not appear to be connected to lower social media use, religious
revival, a shift to the political right or lower support for woke ideology
• There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 10h

Frying brains online

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

these people know how extreme they are

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

The Women Who Stare At Men In Chicken Suits

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

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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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 12h

if young republicans talk like this to each other, you bet your ass they talk like this to reporters too, and reporters (until this specific article I guess) have happily pretended this wasn't happening

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

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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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12h

I think more bad things should stop being bad and start being good. To be clear, I want this to be achieved by changing their descriptive properties such that they change their evaluative status, the meaning of the moral terminology is being held fixed here. Seen as such I'd like these changes. Ty.

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · 12h

Do you have any idea how that tank smells on the inside?

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

the fuck is happening at politico??? these guys are supposed to be in the tank for reaction

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 12h

Reading Mage: The Ascension (part of the Old World of Darkness) lore and finding it weirdly amusing that apparently nearly every major Mage org, from the Technocracy to the Traditions, supported the Nazis for some reason

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

ANSWER THE ALLEGATIONS THAT YOU REFUSE TO RETIRE, SENATOR TINGLE

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 15h

MANY ARE UPSET THAT I THINK MY REELECTION IS LOCKED UP

lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 16h

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 17h

The Convicted Felon Donald Trump regime is pure evil. I hope karma comes for each and every person that went along with his hatred.

What happened to deporting the criminals, the worst of the worst? 🎁

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#TrumpIsACriminal

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America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

wapo.st

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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Node Chomsky @nodechomsky.bsky.social · 20h

This is actual resistance.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...