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I'm not saying this place is perfect, I'm saying that right now its imperfections are irrelevant
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jamelle
1 day ago
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
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Brendel
3 days ago
The thing that bothers me about people outside of Bluesky complaining about people on Bluesky is that we’re exactly as annoying as they’re saying but for completely different reasons
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Andrew Lawrence
4 days ago
you 🫵 the person reading this post on bluesky the sports app would do a better job running the nations military than these assholes
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield
5 days ago
Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.
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max asher miller
6 days ago
A large and under-discussed aspect of this regime is how they're staging a Truman Show version of the presidency for Trump to exist inside of. It's not Mussolini's face on the Palazzo Braschi. It's putting up pictures of the birthday boy at his birthday party.
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Douglas Cheape
8 days ago
Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.
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Clean Observer
8 days ago
I would just like to note how Fox News framed this:
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Barry Petchesky
8 days ago
The key to squaring getting to root for upsets with wanting a good bracket is to forget who you picked in every game.
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Jason Kirk
9 days ago
March Madness feeling like March Madness tbh. Rich schools would be pretty smart to change enough of their ways to make sure their most valuable shared property never stops being this
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent
10 days ago
"What other trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Expertise. They're trying to use it to solve having people who possess expertise. If you have expertise, you possess knowledge on a subject. It wasn't free to gain, but it's free for you to keep. That means they can't sell answers to you.
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Better Things Are Possible
5 months ago
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS
10 days ago
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David Roberts
10 days ago
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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DougExeter
11 days ago
*smells like teen spirit voice* venezuela
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King Blackwhale
12 days ago
The more self-serious a person is, the more it feels like an attack on their ego to have to engage with (and often lose to) someone as basic and gutter-stupid as Trump, so they have to invent a more human, competent opponent.
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Suss-- 🥌
12 days ago
Mothra Field
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Peter Beaumont
13 days ago
This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.
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Bex Luther
13 days ago
[Sade voice 🎵]
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Joe Kassabian
14 days ago
Who needs the American Healthcare system when you can just get punched in the face in the pit.
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Mara Wilson
15 days ago
There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking” Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.
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Mother Jones
18 days ago
“When disinformation is constant, the everyday cost of knowing what’s going on rises. People spend more time verifying the basics, or they stop trying."
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AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse?
Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/artificial-intelligence-memes-disinformation/
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Me the first time I saw Tenet
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
18 days ago
“whoops, turned out trump didn’t actually have a historic mandate to rule like a king and people were just mad about inflation” is a thing that basically every politics reporter knows but none wants to admit
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Tyler McBrien
18 days ago
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
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James Medlock
19 days ago
If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society. Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.
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Kat Tenbarge
20 days ago
Even among his haters there’s a kind of mythology around Trump that unfortunately still makes him seem more impressive than he actually is. I think it’s understandably hard to grasp just how stupid this is
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Basquiatball
over 1 year ago
The fundamental tension between the Batman and the Penguin is that a bat is a *mammal* that can fly and a penguin is a *bird* that can't. So you have competing, and inverse forms of weaponized imposter syndrome
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captain bleach
almost 2 years ago
listen all y'all, it's a
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
over 1 year ago
CHESTER BENNINGTON (chorus) I'm Elmo's 𝗗𝗔𝗗 I'm tall and 𝗥𝗘𝗗 MIKE SHINODA (quietly) Tall and red all the time still I can't believe the son is mine
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Jesse Raub
over 2 years ago
10yrs old: a slam dunk is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen 15yrs old: these slow, emotional songs just “get” me 25yrs old: literature explores the human condition, but the visual storytelling in film reaches a much broader audience 35yrs old: a slam dunk is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen
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Pablo Hidalgo
20 days ago
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
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Sharon
22 days ago
it's funny you can see how much the New Deal fixed macroeconomic stability within the United States, and the elite hated FDR for it
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Brendel
23 days ago
The lust people have to argue online is in itself a weird bubble. I don’t wake up hoping to have arguments with people, I wake up with the idea that I’m probably going to talk about sports or movies & say weird shit and sometimes arguments arise but usually from annoying assholes, it’s not a virtue
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Maladroithe
24 days ago
Appreciate the clarity
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Kat Tenbarge
23 days ago
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
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Ryan Nanni
24 days ago
I wonder if this company is fuckin furious at the prediction market with a nearly identical name
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Pavel
25 days ago
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
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29 days ago
The 2000s was just like the 1980s but more stupid. The 2020s is just like the 2000s but more stupid.
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
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Doghouse Reilly
about 1 month ago
And this is a general life lesson: most people’s behaviors are not about you; you’re not that important. No one is, and you should take solace in that fact.
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Luke Knox
about 1 month ago
when you’re talking about Aqua Boy but can’t remember his name
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Parker Molloy
about 1 month ago
There are a bunch of these that come to mind: Nancy Pelosi saying we have to pass the ACA to know what's in it. Wildly out of context. Obama's "you don't build that" line in 2012. Obama's "cling to guns and religion" line in 2008(? I think?) Pushing out of context lines is for propagandists.
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
You don't have to stop posting but you do have to stop posting THERE. It is a uniquely, fundamentally detrimental website to you as a person. It incentivizes racism, violence and — the worst crime of all — vagueposting. You are living in a permanent teaser ad for the 11 o'clock news.
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Max Berger
about 1 month ago
The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Literally my entire adult life, the mainstream media has fallen for a massive bullshit campaigns from the right again and again and again and again. At no point do they hold it against the right. At no point do they change the way they deal with the right. Where is their pride?
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
One of the things that has gone most wrong with US media is that the penalty for falling for right-wing bullshit has steadily dropped to zero. You can just buy the latest thing, shill it, and when it turns out to be BS like all the rest, move on seamlessly to the next one.
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
So, so many people fell for the bullshit these guys were peddling. No one has recanted, apologized, vowed to change the way they do things, anything.
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