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

/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 · 1h

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 · 5h

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 · 57m

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 · 1h

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 · 1d

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 20h

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 19h

incidentally if you are interested in this and the prior post, @anamariecox.bsky.social and Open Mike Eagle have a really good podcast on those topics! youtu.be/bF3GMRWw9js?...

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 20h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

States report shit to the CDC and the CDC synthesizes that into a heads-up report.

Firing a good chunk of the staff who put that together is essentially blinding the country on public health. Trump has hated it since 2020 because they published stuff (the truth) contrary to what he was saying

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

One of the problems we've been having is that the anti-Trump protests HAVE been big, but they've been under-covered by the media for various reasons.

And Pritzker calling on people to show up on October 18 doesn't just make the protests bigger, it makes them more newsworthy as well.

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

and as a person who likes and cares about movies and music and cartoons and books, I really resent that the executives in charge of those things are looking excitedly at a future where they can cheaply produce the equivalent of if restaurants pivoted to painted, seasoned styrofoam

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

I fully acknowledge my self interest here; as a communications professional, I resent that mostly what I’m hearing from the tech industry and its acolytes “hooray, we can replace most of your job with a robot that does it 60% as well for free,” what am I supposed to do with that?

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

When they said authoritarian regimes always end up replacing everyone competent with clowns I thought they meant *eventually*

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

hell yeah

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

Too much news all of dumb or bad.

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

I am aware of this! It’s also harder to create a new vaccine than to make a finger-removal machine, but that’s not a good reason to invest more in finger-removal machines than vaccines

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE continues assaulting journalists for doing their jobs. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Andboo @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 1d

He also exploited a willingness among people looking for "serious" voices to engage with among the opposition because of belief in outdated pluralistic or technocratic modes of politics.

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John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 1d

The only time Trump EPA head Lee Zeldin cares about testing your water quality — to detect traces of lawful abortion pills in wastewater.

Deeply disturbing, abusive — and creepy.

John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when U.S. conservatives screamed about black helicopters and the overbearing federal government surveillance state?

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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