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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

i pray we never let them get there.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 3h

My dad used to say everyone is "a nice guy" when you share a beer with them. It doesn't make them good people.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

kafkaesque as aspirational (from a political movement that uses orwell as an instruction manual)

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

with apologies to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, shorter Peter Thiel.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

a remarkable thing abt Bari Weiss is how often the prominent people who say nice things abt her confess they know and like her personally.

i’m really sure she’s delightful, charming, personable and helpful to those who know her! John Roberts is too. Clarence Thomas asks after everyone’s grandkids.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

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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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

i wouldn’t bet against Bari Weiss, but i absolutely would oppose her. that so many in our society are so market addled they confuse the difference is much of our problem.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 3h

or who’s not afraid to give cover to one.

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 5h

tired: seeing the world in black and white
wired: seeing the world in shades of gray
inspired: seeing the world in full color
on fire: seeing the world through a mantis shrimp's eyes

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Ben Brown @citizenbb.bsky.social · 13h

A New College alum suggested that the administration is committing "fraud" at last month's Board of Governors meeting. "I just want to be clear that what's happening at New College is a fraud. It's a fraud against the students, the legislature, and this board."

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 5h

i was afraid it was going to be like that.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

one video is tragedy. a thousand videos is just noise.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

se·cret po·lice /sēkrit pəˈlēs/, noun. Secret police are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in operations against a government's political, ideological, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Grandpa has again forgotten who was president on Jan 6, 2021. He was.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 22h

it’s weird how inured we’ve become. reliberation day is kind of a big deal, if we don’t TACO our way out of it very quickly. do we just presume we do? how much do China’s controls on rare earths matter in either case?

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 22h

if you’re talking about your political party as a “brand”, you’e already lost the thread, if not the election.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

youtu.be/qOfkpu6749w

John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

feudalism is when you must do as the most pathetic people you encounter demand because they have the power to have you murdered.

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Guillaume E 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @guillaumee.bsky.social · 1d

Not just that, also an illustration of the decline of US manufacturing businesses, now viscerally unable to think long term or to allocate capital intelligently

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

rare earths are an exercise in American inability to govern. the problem of Chinese dominance in the sector has been known for over a decade. there was a broad bipartisan consensus that it was a problem in DC, at least among anyone who knew even a little about it, and constant discussion of ...

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

jfc. A-Lie.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Reckless bunny Lisan al-Mu’akhkhir @lhommedauphin.bsky.social · 3d

drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/i...

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

pleasantly surprised that here in Florida my wife and i were able to get COVID boosters without new formalities, attestations of comorbidities, etc. just signed up at CVS like last year.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

pathetic.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1d

the world’s most pathetic people.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

If Benioff is MAGA now that’s a huge signal that the Silicon Valley big money donor base is basically gone for Dems (it’s a signal of other things, too, obviously)

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

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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