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Mike Masnick

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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform

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@donmoyn.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:01 AMReposted by @masnick.com

Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users

@sethcotlar.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 4:22 AMReposted by @masnick.com

Good summary of the keystone cops attempt by far right scam artists to claim Talarico had a mental breakdown. But I wish there was more focus on the person behind this, a groyper street thug from Oregon who is a fan of the Freikorps and whose political ideology lines up 88% with Hitler’s.

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In 1919, Germany's defeated soldiers came home only to be stabbed in the back by socialists and communists who wanted to burn the nation down and install a Soviet-style dictatorship.
The Freikorps rose from the disbanded Imperial ranks and smashed that red revolution before it could finish the job.
A century later the same poison is back—now joined by something even more alien.
Far-left radicals still despise their own people and culture, while Islamists answer only to Allah, reject every core of German and Western civilization, refuse to assimilate, and carry out violence in the open name of their religion.
Germany will not be saved by tolerance, dialogue, or more empty promises.
It needs a modern Freikorps-men who put the homeland first and are prepared to stop both the leftist traitors and the Islamist invaders at whatever cost.
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@jonathanbernstein.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:22 AMReposted by @masnick.com

The political system is just not designed for someone who isn't a patriot. A traitor, yes, but somewhat who just didn't give a damn about the nation and its well-being and its symbols? I'm not sure any political system anticipates that.

@evanbernick.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:20 AMReposted by @masnick.com

what the blue fuck is that second sentence. No remotely honest person would deny that Columbus brought genocide and colonization in his wake.

In more recent decades, the controversy
has been over Columbus himself. Indigenous groups and other activists have rejected the narrative that Christopher Columbus, the Italian navigator, was a great explorer, saying he brought genocide and
colonization in his wake.
@anildash.comOct 12, 2026, 2:25 AMReposted by @masnick.com

I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.

@chriswarcraft.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:03 AMReposted by @masnick.com

Going over my recent deposition in my lawsuit against the school district and I guess I’ll go die now


And it shows that you have posted over
29,000 times on Bluesky?

Yes.

Thank you. If you go to the third page
@jacobtlevy.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:46 AMReposted by @masnick.com

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

@jamellebouie.netOct 12, 2026, 3:16 AMReposted by @masnick.com

before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC

CChris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:08 AM

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
Document 76
Filed 10/11/26
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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@masnick.comOct 12, 2026, 7:06 AM

Can I ask why you do this thing where you respond to my posts with a long list of posts with links to things that I already know and am referencing for now clear reason and that just kind of muddy my mentions?

@masnick.comOct 12, 2026, 4:09 AM

Yes, but were you in Atlanta for a Hawks game?

James Talarico tweet responding to the Lindner Center tweet claiming: "Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope."

Talarico's quote tweet: "I’ve never even been to Ohio 😂"
@jamestalarico.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:12 AMReposted by @masnick.com

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

TTeam Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:11 AM

Fox host: President Trump said you all should have a debate… Is that in the works? Are you requesting one with him? Ken Paxton (lying): Oh well, no, look... We can never quite work out the details.

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@marisakabas.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:44 AMReposted by @masnick.com

these people are so fucking stupid that it’s embarrassing to inhabit the same planet

@masnick.comOct 12, 2026, 4:03 AM

Yup. I ran through her version of it earlier... I'm one of the people who finished it.

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:40 PMReposted by @masnick.com

David Brooks pearl-clutching over John Ossoff calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist,” as if the problem with violent white nationalism is people objecting to it, illustrates this point as well as humanly possible.

NNicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:24 PM

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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@justinbaragona.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:16 AMReposted by @masnick.com

In case you aren't knee-deep in the latest MAGA conspiracy theory, this is a response to the "bombshell" that James Talarico spent the past week-plus secretly seeking treatment at an Ohio mental health facility, and a GOP operative broke the case with a late-night phone call.

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@masnick.comOct 12, 2026, 12:50 AM

Was debating calling out some of the problems with this study (even as I greatly respect the one author on the study whose work I'm familiar with) but I see Carl already did so. This study does not prove what the headline says...

CCarl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.comOct 11, 2026, 8:25 PM

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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@kyledcheney.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:36 PMReposted by @masnick.com

BREAKING: A judge has ordered an immediate halt to the taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ads, including any slated to run tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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@emptywheel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:46 PMReposted by @masnick.com

The Kimberly Guilfoyle situation could get interesting quickly. Probably the reason she GOT the Ambassadorship is to keep her quiet while Jr looted things.

She knows a good deal of incriminating shit.

edition.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...

edition.cnn.comTrump considering whether to fire Guilfoyle, source says | CNN PoliticsPresident Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece after a string of embarrassing revelations about her conduct.
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@rodger.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:42 PMReposted by @masnick.com

"Deshaun Watson really struggling with this Jets defense today" "sure is Jim, seems like he's once again being haunted by his lifetime of sins out there"

RRodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:37 PM

If NFL broadcasters are going to treat Deshaun Watson being ok at QB as a sign that he has been Redeemed For His Past, they must remain ideologically consistent. If he starts playing badly again they have to blame it on his failure to repent for his heinous sexual misconduct

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@kevinmkruse.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:58 PMReposted by @masnick.com

This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.

MRachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:22 PM

Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

vanityfair.comMAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military BaseFrom her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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