@nebraskamomo.bsky.social
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The one totally meaningless thing that would completely rule would be if the pope excommunicated jd Vance. Low stakes, would change nothing, but would provoke a lot of really funny reactions from people I universally hate. It would be really great. He should do it.
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
The one totally meaningless thing that would completely rule would be if the pope excommunicated jd Vance. Low stakes, would change nothing, but would provoke a lot of really funny reactions from people I universally hate. It would be really great. He should do it.
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Minnesotans leveraging water balloons and ice against ICE like they’re Nordic skiers taking out Nazi munitions plants
January 17, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Minnesotans leveraging water balloons and ice against ICE like they’re Nordic skiers taking out Nazi munitions plants
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We didn't punish the South hard enough after the civil war and we're still dealing with this bullshit 160 years later as a result.
Should be a lesson to Democrats that there can be no kumbaya with MAGA after Trump is gone. Everyone who broke the law must go to prison.
Should be a lesson to Democrats that there can be no kumbaya with MAGA after Trump is gone. Everyone who broke the law must go to prison.
Jake Lang claims that getting pushed around and sprayed with water is the equivalent of lynching and asks the president to send the national guard.
January 18, 2026 at 2:17 AM
We didn't punish the South hard enough after the civil war and we're still dealing with this bullshit 160 years later as a result.
Should be a lesson to Democrats that there can be no kumbaya with MAGA after Trump is gone. Everyone who broke the law must go to prison.
Should be a lesson to Democrats that there can be no kumbaya with MAGA after Trump is gone. Everyone who broke the law must go to prison.
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(this is why one of Democrats' first priorities and a public commitment should be completely overhauling the federal judicial system to end this kind of nonsense)
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM
(this is why one of Democrats' first priorities and a public commitment should be completely overhauling the federal judicial system to end this kind of nonsense)
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Wait. The CDC closed its FOIA office?!?
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Wait. The CDC closed its FOIA office?!?
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I’m reading @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI and I recommend it to everyone who wants to understand the modern world. ChatGPT has no goddamn place in a sustainable world.
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I’m reading @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI and I recommend it to everyone who wants to understand the modern world. ChatGPT has no goddamn place in a sustainable world.
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Epstein lured potential victims using the promise of access to "elite" universities.
Which says a great deal about the culture of those institutions and the problems with allowing them to play such a big role in determining who can get ahead In our society.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Which says a great deal about the culture of those institutions and the problems with allowing them to play such a big role in determining who can get ahead In our society.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education
Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse network
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Epstein lured potential victims using the promise of access to "elite" universities.
Which says a great deal about the culture of those institutions and the problems with allowing them to play such a big role in determining who can get ahead In our society.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Which says a great deal about the culture of those institutions and the problems with allowing them to play such a big role in determining who can get ahead In our society.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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I have a bunch of reservations but they’re not nearly as important as the bottom-line things this gets right. Didn’t expect David French to put The Dual State in the pages of the NYT.
January 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I have a bunch of reservations but they’re not nearly as important as the bottom-line things this gets right. Didn’t expect David French to put The Dual State in the pages of the NYT.
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Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself.
(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Terror is essential to Miller's project. It's designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself.
(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
(h/t @whstancil.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Between Mamdani and Spanberger, the establishment of "instantly repeal all the bullshit the last pig put in place" as Democratic priority #1 for both democratic socialists and ex-CIA types is an extremely heartening development.
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If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.
January 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
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A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...
There was a similar flowering of Black American public intellectuals culminating in the 2016-2024 period, and I'd argue the anti-Woke backlash was in many ways a reaction to the threat this posed to the outclassed white punditocracy, for whom meritocracy and DEI hire was a way to disqualify them.
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.
Second Enlightenment level.
Second Enlightenment level.
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...
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There needs to be far, far more shaming for people helping this administration's terror campaign.
Whether in the courts, as ICE agents, or working on the Project 2025 policy side - don't touch them, but hound them, scream at them, and make sure they feel the fear they're inflicting on Americans.
Whether in the courts, as ICE agents, or working on the Project 2025 policy side - don't touch them, but hound them, scream at them, and make sure they feel the fear they're inflicting on Americans.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
There needs to be far, far more shaming for people helping this administration's terror campaign.
Whether in the courts, as ICE agents, or working on the Project 2025 policy side - don't touch them, but hound them, scream at them, and make sure they feel the fear they're inflicting on Americans.
Whether in the courts, as ICE agents, or working on the Project 2025 policy side - don't touch them, but hound them, scream at them, and make sure they feel the fear they're inflicting on Americans.
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Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
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A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling").
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
January 18, 2026 at 2:42 AM
A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling").
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
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By the time he's done, leftists will be able to run convincingly on a deregulatory agenda
Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 AM
By the time he's done, leftists will be able to run convincingly on a deregulatory agenda
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literally everyone: left wing needs prominent voices to elevate them bc we dont have billionaire backers
gavin newsom: im going to interview this pepe the frog ai chatbot trained on the breitbart comment section about it
gavin newsom: im going to interview this pepe the frog ai chatbot trained on the breitbart comment section about it
January 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
literally everyone: left wing needs prominent voices to elevate them bc we dont have billionaire backers
gavin newsom: im going to interview this pepe the frog ai chatbot trained on the breitbart comment section about it
gavin newsom: im going to interview this pepe the frog ai chatbot trained on the breitbart comment section about it
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Honetsuki Juju, a man with a chicken leg for a head and who carries a turtle around, is the mascot of Marugame City.
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Honetsuki Juju, a man with a chicken leg for a head and who carries a turtle around, is the mascot of Marugame City.
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hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
January 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
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secondary to the terrible content, gavin could be using his celebrity and influence to promote and elevate left wing media voices who are desperate for any kind of boost in visibility but instead hes doing whatever the fuck this is
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 18, 2026 at 1:30 PM
secondary to the terrible content, gavin could be using his celebrity and influence to promote and elevate left wing media voices who are desperate for any kind of boost in visibility but instead hes doing whatever the fuck this is
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I am a RETVRN guy for the graphic design of government nutritional guidelines only
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I am a RETVRN guy for the graphic design of government nutritional guidelines only
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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reminds me of this classic
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 AM
reminds me of this classic
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Got to experience something truly magical this evening: after a rapturous screening of Goodfellas, its producer Irwin Winkler was asked by a nerd in the audience on his thoughts about the online memeification of Goodfellas online. He responded "I don't know what that means. Next question."
January 18, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Got to experience something truly magical this evening: after a rapturous screening of Goodfellas, its producer Irwin Winkler was asked by a nerd in the audience on his thoughts about the online memeification of Goodfellas online. He responded "I don't know what that means. Next question."
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they understand the parable of the good samaritan correctly
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 4:48 AM
they understand the parable of the good samaritan correctly