stuart styron
@stuartstyron.bsky.social
director of strategic initiatives at SeedAI
tech and telecom policy
tech and telecom policy
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Not an exaggeration to say when authoritarian thugs distort scientific research toward their own petty or prejudiced tastes, economies suffer, national security is compromised, people die. Exact proportion of each of those consequences varies from one authoritarian state to another, but all happen
September 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Not an exaggeration to say when authoritarian thugs distort scientific research toward their own petty or prejudiced tastes, economies suffer, national security is compromised, people die. Exact proportion of each of those consequences varies from one authoritarian state to another, but all happen
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Giving Tom Emmer credit for ANYTHING passing on the House floor this term just because his title is “Whip” is like giving your 6 year neighbor credit for the Bears last season just because he’s wearing a WILLIAMS jersey. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How did the GOP wrangle its slim House majority? Ask Rep. Tom Emmer.
The Republican whip describes how he worked to get the president's agenda through a closely divided House without burning bridges or losing his sense of humor.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Giving Tom Emmer credit for ANYTHING passing on the House floor this term just because his title is “Whip” is like giving your 6 year neighbor credit for the Bears last season just because he’s wearing a WILLIAMS jersey. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
September 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability
September 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM
our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability
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This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
BREAKING: The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.
September 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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Objectively speaking the dumbest man in the entire nation is an incredibly wealthy, highly highly educated person and he’s literally president
I like how much of the “low information” working or middle class voter discussion implicitly goes hard at the idea that they’re poorer and more susceptible to bad, dumb (mis)info, and I’m not saying people aren’t, but have u seen how rich highly educated people vote?
September 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Objectively speaking the dumbest man in the entire nation is an incredibly wealthy, highly highly educated person and he’s literally president
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Steve Bannon is not “pro-human”
September 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Steve Bannon is not “pro-human”
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What’s truly astonishing is that the do. MAGA are more bothered by a trans person living their own life than they are by a Nazi who is destroying American democracy.


September 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
What’s truly astonishing is that the do. MAGA are more bothered by a trans person living their own life than they are by a Nazi who is destroying American democracy.


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Macklemore: Palestinian children are people.
Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list.
Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list.
Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
September 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people.
Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list.
Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list.
Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
September 15, 2026 at 12:18 AM
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
September 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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In the halls of the Capitol that are open to the public?
September 15, 2026 at 12:42 AM
In the halls of the Capitol that are open to the public?
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What are the best, most informative *magazine articles* (or magazine-length newspaper articles) that you ever read about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Listing a few of my favorites to get it going:
Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Kill Company," New Yorker, 2009
Listing a few of my favorites to get it going:
Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Kill Company," New Yorker, 2009
The Kill Company
Can one commander set the conditions for a massacre? Raffi Khatchadorian on Colonel Michael Steele’s murderous leadership in Operation Iron Triangle.
www.newyorker.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
What are the best, most informative *magazine articles* (or magazine-length newspaper articles) that you ever read about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Listing a few of my favorites to get it going:
Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Kill Company," New Yorker, 2009
Listing a few of my favorites to get it going:
Raffi Khatchadourian, "The Kill Company," New Yorker, 2009
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Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.
September 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see.
We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas.
We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas.
We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
September 11, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see.
We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas.
We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas.
We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social
You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social
You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
Maha is just another astroturfed front in the American Reactionary Movement. This movement is responsible for every public health crisis: climate, automobile deaths, gun violence, homelessness, poverty. Its the Don't Tell Me What To Do movement. They are few but they're mobilized for war.
The few things that maha "gets right" are such banal and commonplace ideas that no one disagrees upon and are not worth mentioning.
Ah yes, Eat better and exercise, an idea that doctors are famously hostile toward
Ah yes, Eat better and exercise, an idea that doctors are famously hostile toward
September 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
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Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
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created theranos as a trauma response
September 8, 2026 at 12:48 AM
created theranos as a trauma response
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does your supplement do what you say it does? cool, prove it. if you can’t prove it and you keep saying shit you can’t prove, fines and jail.
September 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM
does your supplement do what you say it does? cool, prove it. if you can’t prove it and you keep saying shit you can’t prove, fines and jail.
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"what radicalized you?"
"when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."
"when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."
July 17, 2026 at 7:36 AM
"what radicalized you?"
"when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."
"when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."