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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3h

Did not know this about Old Bay

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 2h

Your fetish for getting yelled at for showing everybody your gross and disgusting brain won’t stop me from letting you know that everyone knows your ideas are dumb engagement bait. Nobody likes you and you are an interchangeable cog in the attention economy

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

I believe it is for the same reason they don’t treat anarchists, socialists or communists as intellectuals, or have them on their programmes, but that’s just me being a bit flippant, sorry, it’s been a long week.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

I’d say it hinges heavily on who owns media and their own material interests. But not to discount the issues you’re talking about. And also more recently the overt political aspect—the deliberate normalisation project of fascists by reactionary centrists is because they agree a lot of the time

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

Of course Theil sounds like a religious nut wearing a sandwich board w/ ‘The End is Near!’ with shit smeared all over his face to normal people, and of course mainstream media take him seriously

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

There’s a reason why Jordan Peterson was elevated by the whole host of international mainstream media, for years, and it’s not due to the quality of his ideas

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

There’s a reason why the NYT and How the Lights Get In push Yarvin so hard

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 3h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 3h

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

Who’s to say there’s any light between the leftism of Stalin and Dubček, and also the fascism of Stalin and Mao? By the transitive property, the Prague Spring was fascist!

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

Why are you making anarchist look this bad? Give yourself a different label, for all our sakes

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 3h

Labubi? Labubum? Labubus?

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 4h

Highlight of this long weekend was procuring two 3D printed Karl Marx labubu and husband kept making them kiss, then him ruminating about the imagined internet drama of Karl Marx selfcest fanfic

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10h

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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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 5h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you! I, too, have a massive metal rod jammed through my head!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

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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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

They’re dancing around these things but it’s pretty clear from this panel neither wants to put the kibosh on the other and get second place. It’s in both their best interest

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

All I care about is Sultana’s getting out in front of everybody else and already in conversation with Polanski that they’re going to do it as a coalition

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Eh Sultana’s got her foot on the gas at the morning panel

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

My bodged team placed third, with a small spread from the winner. I think the bronze as good enough

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Polanski’s surprise guest appearance as presenter for the pub quiz was, on the other hand, quite enjoyable for everyone involved

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