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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
🔥 WATCH: “The IDF is a military that constantly lies, and gets caught lying. It’s total bullshit.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social shreds Israel’s unsupported claims that hundreds of journalists they’ve killed were actually militants.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21h
It was removed in this design, leaving only the arrows, the weapons of war. This design also mimics the fascist designs of the 1930s. It was used during the "Send Me" tour where Isaiah 6:8 has been co-opted for military recruitment. All by those who claim Jesus as their king.
It was removed in this design, leaving only the arrows, the weapons of war. This design also mimics the fascist designs of the 1930s. It was used during the "Send Me" tour where Isaiah 6:8 has been co-opted for military recruitment. All by those who claim Jesus as their king.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21h
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sort of feels like every election everywhere in the world is divided equally between a faction of normal people a faction of open evil fascists and gets decided by 5% of the voters who are kicked in the head and completely lose their memory of anything that's happened every two weeks
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
Professional Republicans have given us fascism, murder, and corruption and have robbed us of money, health care, and decency.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Correct!
Angela Van Der Pluym
@anjewla90

Failed congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh sits on top of a sign with her friends in Bridgeview, Illinois that calls Jake Lang a pedophile.


@DRSABHAFIERCE video depicting me, her, and Demi sitting atop her truck with a screen showing Jake lang’s texts to minors and the words JAKE LANG IS A PEDO
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hot girl shit is protected under the first amendment actually Angela
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49b.bsky.social @49b.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do you guys have internet access at The Atlantic? Perhaps you should've spent a couple minutes perusing the social media of a guy you were about to write a "yes the poor immigrant kid died but won't somebody think about the suffering of a white man" article.
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 04/10/2026
It's been months since Alex Pretti was killed. Across Minneapolis, however, it can feel as though little time has passed. buff.ly/UqwIjHr
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Minneapolis activists used encrypted group chats to outmaneuver ICE. Now the feds want to prosecute them.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BlueWaveIn30Days 🚨 SHOUT OUT TEXAS 🚨 TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE TEXAS PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION LISTEN TO WILLIE Y'ALL VOTE GINA HINOJOSA FOR GOVERNOR VOTE JAMES TALARICO FOR SENATE VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN BALLOT GO TO Iwillvote.com @ginafortexas.bsky.social
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.
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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 04/10/2026
The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
This might seem like a difference of opinion. It is not. It is among the most impeachable things a President can do. If the President can just choose to violate the budget Congress passes, Congress doesn’t have any power.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TN-9 candidate Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “Gas is too high. Groceries are too high. Wages are too low… and blaming immigrants is part of the problem. The reality is people are struggling because the billionaire class is greedy.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026
Two students look determinedly at the camera while holding up a sign reading "TRUSTEES. LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026
Yale College Council president Alex Chen and Yale Student Body President Michelle Jimenez at the Democratize Yale rally. Lot of respect for these and the other student leaders. Putting themselves on the line, pushing back against the inexcusable actions of the admins. Be like them when you grow up.
Yale College Council president Alex Chen and Yale Student Body President Michelle Jimenez smile at the rally.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cavan Sullivan you magnificent bastard #USMNT
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Defector @defector.com · 03/10/2026
The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is real and it is my friend: defector.com/the-wupperta...
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The Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend | Defector
WUPPERTAL, Germany — When my friend in Cologne asked me if I might want to take a day trip, thanks to Cologne’s proximity to various other notable cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bonn, among others), I…
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most honest post, the realest post. I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of dickheads telling me I need to show grace to a bunch of people who voted for a guy they KNOW is evil and a party that is trying to be Nazis. I'm not showing grace to people that voted for Nazis. I'm not an idiot. Maybe you are
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 Illinois residents say they were detained at Broadview, released without charges, then branded domestic terrorists to millions by Johnson. It appears to be the first such suit against one of the admin's corps of MAGA creators who make propaganda in exchange for access. www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I ask again today, because I just saw one of the country’s leading economic journalists just describe 29K jobs last month & rising unemployment as “not catastrophic,” & I’m sorry, but that simply is not the way we talked about job growth 5-10x as strong, for ~an entire presidency, under Joe Biden.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JUDGE: How would you envision that looking, then? PROSECUTOR: What part? JUDGE: The part where I appoint an independent person in the interest of justice to investigate the Department of Justice, and that person is being supervised by the Department of Justice www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case
A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.
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Michael Rabbitt @michaelrabbitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Judge Perry was locked in yesterday: “Training does not fix willful or institutional misconduct. It is quite clear to me that several aspects of this prosecution were very flawed…the mistakes were impactful. It affected not only [the former defendants] pocket books, but their lives.”
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'Tables have turned' in Broadview Six case - Evanston Now
Judge leaves door open for criminal contempt charges against prosecutors, asks government to hand over evidence.
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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