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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Police are also confiscating goggles and saline solution. Protecting yourself from police violence is now officially verboten. bsky.app/profile/step...

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

State censorship’s little dilemma: In the above video you see that police approved - and chuckled over - a protest sign saying “Macron, fuck your teacher, not ours.” (referring to Brigitte Macron). Now we learn that Macron is furious it appeared on public service TV without Channel 2 apologising.

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Emmanuel Macron furieux contre le 13 Heures de France 2 après la diffusion d’une pancarte injurieuse sur son épouse
INFO LE PARISIEN. Le chef de l’État n’a pas du tout apprécié le manque d’excuses de la Deux après la diffusion d’une pancarte ciblant Brigitte Macron lors d’une manifestation de lycéens.

Par Benoît Daragon et Marc Préel
Le 8 octobre 2026 à 13h38

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Elliott Mason @2ells2tees.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A fun historical deep dive into not just a specific classic cocktail, but the etymology of the phrase in its name: "The Bee's Knees". youtube.com/watch?v=iSm2...

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The WHOLE Internet is Wrong About this Drink | How to Drink

YouTube video by How To Drink

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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bethosborne.bsky.social @bethosborne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The point is that progressive leadership does not tend to result in progressive transportation policy. If groups that want the outcomes that progressives claim to care about then they need to dial up the pressure for real actions. bethosbornesga.substack.com/p/electing-p...

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Progressives don't necessarily deliver progressive transportation policy, federal edition

Supporters of things like transit, Complete Streets, climate, etc. speak hopefully about the support they will get from progressives. This is overly simplistic and naive, and I want to talk about it.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 07/10/2026

Shout out to the building maintenance guy that watched me limp in this morning at 6:00 a.m., got in the elevator with me, and said “Maybe you go downstairs to the first floor snack machines for a snack at about 8:25 today, huh?” while tapping the “Do not use elevator during fire alarm” sign.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season has not formed this late for 121 years, when Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States.

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Tropical Storm Isaias near Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane

Isaias, which succeeded Tropical Depression Nine, would be the first hurricane of the belated Atlantic season

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump on April 13, 2020: "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's got to be. It's total." Trump today: “I can do whatever I want, when I want.” Yet some people still think Trump isn't an existential threat to our democracy.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

by @self.agency, brilliantly structured, essential, applying what Jews ourselves defined about genocide denial to much of our community's attitudes towards Gaza these last years.

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When Jews Deny Genocide · Jewschool

“Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Question for any authors who have had recent contract dealings w/ Must Read Magazines & ASIMOV’S. Have they asked you to surrender copyright of your stories to them? They want me to create new cover art & they want to own copyright of the art. Seems like a pretty outrageous rights grab.

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cyrus @professorbutts.com · 22/12/2024

welcome to the cocktagon

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it's antisemitic for a non Jewish person to deny Jewish identity to Jewish people he dislikes. It's racist for a white person to deny that Black people are Black if they don't vote for him.

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Elliott Mason @2ells2tees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=xeDM... Short answer? Because (a) JKR is making it specifically so there can be Potterverse money that doesn't enrich her pro-trans former collaborators, and (b) she's fountaining the profits it makes into real world efforts to destroy civil rights and nonprofit infrastructure.

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Harry Potter cannot be engaged with harmlessly

YouTube video by Council of Geeks

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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026

Here is a clip of a Wisconsin man 404 Media spoke to being pulled over. In it, the cop says he’s being pulled over because his license plate was “a little bit obstructed.” That wasn’t the real reason. Court docs show it’s because of predictive policing units. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

you see that dark blue line? yeah that one's me

Pay growth based on income group showing that lower income wages dropped like a brick in 2024 and have stagnated as the wealthy overtake in growth

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Imagine depicting a right hook crash on a sign but making no effort to use a better intersection design that reduces the chances of right hooks.

RIGHT TURNS YIELD TO BIKES sign with a pictogram of a cyclist getting right hooked.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This video, which should have been part of @thefarce.org and my Ball of Threads series, was also meant to be a one-off but probably will be another series. youtu.be/kTodyXxlPys

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Corruption is a Process

YouTube video by emptywheel

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The kind of sweaty conservative defensiveness I think we're all familiar with even today

Within two years proslavery writers had answered Uncle Tom's Cabin with at least fifteen novels whose thesis that slaves were better off than free workers in the North

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations is a fancy way of saying “Love your trans neighbor and fight for their right to freely exist”

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Elliott Mason @2ells2tees.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=ErWW... clear and detailed description of why politically incoherent movies are innately emotionally unsatisfying, unsuccessful ones.

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How Disney (Never) Got Wicked

YouTube video by Infinite Snow Productions

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

can we get an endless stream of "voters like someone who defends trans people and reject soulless quislings" thinkpieces after Markey's dominant win last night?

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

With election season under way this is a good moment to remind ppl of the nyt’s bias. Repubicans intend to use transphobia to smuggle through their broad agenda of extremism. 🧵 assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? - Assigned Media

An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

It ought to be a mandate on trans rights but it won't be, the news media will probably still manage to be like "voters reluctantly choose Markey again, but many express their doubts about his woke agenda" or something

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"What practical difference is there between 'transgender people are mentally ill people who deserve our compassion as we force them to detransition and deny them the right to marry' and 'God hates fags'? Political policy is not the Eucharist: words do not change the fundamental substance." 🔥

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I stopped buying the whole "omg we hate Trump but we just *have* to do what he says!" shtick a long time ago.

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 29/08/2026

The spirometer, used to help doctors diagnose lung disease, had a so-called race equation built into it. It was drawn from assumptions about the anatomy of Black people that were false and based on “science” traced back to American slavery. Why are hospitals around the US still using it?

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A “race equation” baked into a standard medical test is hurting Black patients, but most hospitals are still using it

A standard medical test with racist origins is cutting off Black patients from needed treatments. Why do hospitals still use this harmful test today?

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

i think the "flyover country deserves representation" is a low-key strong talking point. "we don't want a court dominated by harvard and yale."

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Sporkraiser @strivingally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is why all this id verification stuff is a terrible, terrible idea. You’re basically taking some of the most premium sensitive data for hackers, consolidating it in one place, and almost daring them to try and crack your systems. And that kind of data being released .. can’t unring that bell.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

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urban89.bsky.social @urban89.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the worst shape I’ve ever seen a carrier look while pulling into a port, and I’ve been around carriers on and off for decades. It appears the administration is already trying to scrub the actual undoctored photos of the U.S.S. Abe Lincoln off the net. www.alamy.com/a-tug-boat-g...

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A tug boat greets the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it arrives at the port in Laem Chabang, Chonburi, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit Stock Photo - Alam...

Download this stock image: A tug boat greets the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it arrives at the port in Laem Chabang, Chonburi, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakch...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Transphobes enjoy describing gender affirming surgeries in the most vividly gory ways possible for the same reason anti-abortion people love gore pictures of fetuses: they get off on the gore and enjoy the reactions it elicits from other people. It amuses them to describe things as torture.

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/09/2026

we’re gonna pin every single one of these motherfuckers to this rancid shit. adopting a generational bigotry for no other reason than naked self-ambition deserves a permanent seat in the dunk tank. eat shit

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The Salon Group NYC @salongroupnyc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Vance being new to the catholic faith might want to read up on his Ignatius Loyola quotes (attributed): “Pray as though everything depended on God; act as though everything depended on you”

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 07/07/2024

Fountain pen and blue ink.

Blue ink drawing of a mermaid pulling a blanket over her shoulders.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 27/08/2026

The most infuriating thing about the Kushner/Hasan 1-2 is that it makes obvious the fact that Jeffries doesn't believe that Trump and Republicans represent a grave threat that requires our immediate and undivided focus, despite that being an essentially unanimous belief among his party's voters.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a chart of the seven-day average of arrests being made, not people arrested. So imagine what the cumulative arrest lines look like, and how much faster the TOTALS for "no criminal charge" are rising than for all other groups.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm hearing some concerns up about implementing "no turn on red" as a default policy in Seattle, so it's worth remembering that allowing turns on red only saves "1-5 seconds" on average for 🚗 drivers, meanwhile it increases 🚶🏼 crashes 60% and 🚴🏾‍♀️ crashes 100%. Info sdotblog.seattle.gov/2023/05/04/n...

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