Exactly! The added context is that this is where and when our neighborhood’s 4th of July parade takes place. Mostly families, many with small children. Local elementary schools march in the parade, dance troupes and soccer teams, the high school marching band, and local businesses. This is vile.

Ashley Murray@ashleymurray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dozens of Patriot Front members just boarded metro minutes ago at the Eastern Market station in Washington, D.C. I asked one National Guard member who they were and they responded "protesters." A July 4th community parade is about to begin just outside the Eastern Market station.

We all know there was a computational propaganda campaign to make it uncool to use BlueSky, right? ~1 yr ago, it was growing in popularity, then a bunch of BlueSky-curious people abruptly started scoffing at idea of being on the site. But when pressed why, couldn’t quite articulate any good reason.

The Telegraph@telegraph.co.uk · 4mo ago

The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out 🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/03/is-there-anything-more-pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_li_pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/

Well, this is odd. NPR almost immediately retracted this story after publishing it. (www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...) Thoughts and theories on this encouraged!

Editor's note: NPR retracts story

npr.org

Wow! Zuck has had another totally original, totally cutting-edge idea (checks notes)… gambling? Brilliant stuff! Definitely not one of the world’s oldest vices.

rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 4mo ago

more news: Mark Zuckerberg is telling lieutenants to pursue partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi with Meta's new prediction market app called Arena, per sources Meta is targeting 18-34 year old users with a goal of 100 million regular "predictors" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/t...

Whenever I see this sort of thing, I think how lazy these comedians are. Punching down at the marginalized & whining about liberals” is lazy. These people don’t want to make the effort or admit the world has left them behind. So they blame society. Talented comedians don’t need these gimmicks.

Entertainment Weekly@ew.com · 4mo ago

Rainn Wilson is calling out a 'bias in the media' toward 'liberal policies' for his belief that 'The Office' could not be made today, saying it would be 'too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was.'

Absolutely spot on & great read. The author also rightly observes that “they’re acting like the 2024 election represented the end of politics, and therefore the end of any need…to modulate their behavior.” This is an essential point, but it needs more attention. 1/3 publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism

Hyperfascism

Some notes toward a theory of Trumpism

publiccomment.blog

@davekarpf.bsky.social, just putting this here for no particular reason...

One thing I am guessing that they did not consider when they decided to primary out these Republicans (Massie, too) is now they have even less incentive to toe the line. And, oh yeah, they’ve still got 7 months left.

Senate advances resolution to end Iran war as GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy flips to support it

The senator from Louisiana, who lost his primary over the weekend, voted in support of the war powers resolution for the first time. It advanced 50-47, with a final passage vote yet to come.

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I thought this was satire. You'd think I've learned by now.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Walking on campus yesterday, overheard a student say to her friend, "My microbiology professor... yeah, he's one of those professors who is known for ChatGPTing everything, so I had low expectations to begin with..." Not sure if I find this more encouraging or depressing.

Members of the House/Sen donate to each others' campaigns. So Pelosi/Jeffries/Schumer--there's a reason they have a stranglehold on their party, & how they've defanged most of their co-partisans. More evidence why $ in politics (or $ in politics in politics) drives officials further from the people.

Computer/Data sciences | computational social sciences | Social sciences

I think about this passage a lot lately (Pantazi et al 2021) 🧵: "...that every citizen bears in themselves a degree of gullibility & a degree of vigilance may help depolarize the political discourse around political fake news and misinformation. This discourse often involves Manichaean views of...

I’m confident the would-be shooter is real, but the scolding I’m seeing of people ?ing it reminds me of the problem many Dems & pol scientists share. Not everything’s a conspiracy theory—actual conspiracies do exist. The compulsion to appear so rigidly analytical can create some major blind spots.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

Popularist: The glass is both half full, and half empty… until a public opinion poll tells me otherwise.

Grant Tanaka@granttanaka.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Optimist: glass half full Pessimist: glass half empty Conformist: yeah, what those guys said

Even more than the idea of an oligarchy-assisted state surveillance system at our front doors disturbs me, how tone deaf Bezos is to think that pushing this sort of thing in this political moment is a good idea is mind melting. Also, using lost dogs to pimp it is just bargain basement manipulation.

I keep thinking about the fact that Minneapolis consistently ranks highly in quality of life metrics, like how healthy and happy a city is. Not just because it shows how ridiculous the admin‘s rhetoric is, but more for what it says about the power of social cohesion. The same factors that enable…

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

a man wearing a hat and a trench coat is looking at the camera

Alt: Robert Redford as Johnny Hooker in The Sting.

media.tenor.com

Andy Murdock@andymurdock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Name a film containing a memorable elevator scene.

Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Name a film containing a memorable elevator scene.

Even 2024 me seems so quaint now…

Catie Bailard@catiebailard.bsky.social · 2y ago

2016: Gee, the prestige media seems ill-equipped to do its job in the current political climate. Hope they learn from this. 2023: So, the media’s perfectly aware of what it’s doing… they’ve just chosen their profits. 2024: Oooh, the media is willing and complicit in the destruction of US democracy.

2016: Gee, the prestige media seems ill-equipped to do its job in the current political climate. Hope they learn from this. 2023: So, the media’s perfectly aware of what it’s doing… they’ve just chosen their profits. 2024: Oooh, the media is willing and complicit in the destruction of US democracy.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

And in the end, it was the frog that saved us all.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last yr.

STOP THE ANTIFA TERRORISTS

Interesting timing for this to be popping up on people’s feeds…

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · last yr.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne are giving $100 million to the UCSF children’s hospital. Salesforce is also pledging $39 million for AI education to groups including SFUSD.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

This is the take. I am sad for his family and for the tragic loss of life to violence. But that does not prevent us from being clear-eyed about who he was & the effect he had, especially on the vulnerable populations who were his primary targets. You can hold both in your heart and mind.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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