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Lurker extraordinaire. Following good people and keeping my words to myself.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do just want to note as everybody appropriately freaks out about this that Democrats have consistently abandoned Omar as she has faced slander, bigotry, and threats to her life.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the 1800s, people used to roll out picnics to watch public executions in the Pacific Northwest. That followed a history of lynchings. I wrote about the death penalty in this moment and Oregon's loudest voice against it. leahsottile.substack.com/p/76-an-amer...
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76. An American Tradition
The country bringing back public executions in 2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around
Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I realize X is awful and nearly unusable. But it does offer benefits. For example, did you know that the entire far right is crashing out about Tillamook Cheese being certified halal? It's a full on Bud Light style tantrum over vegetable-based rennet used since 2016. And I only know because of X.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Whether it's the use of data to track patients traveling for reproductive care or its abuse by ICE officials to conduct searches without warrants, the improper use of Flock camera data is dangerous and creating an uproar.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Literal uterus surveillance
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I wrote last year about @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social’s coverage of an Oklahoma death-row convict who was spared by a GOP governor, just moments before the scheduled execution. Someone who can handle a story like this ought to be hired pronto by a first-rate news org. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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Laurels and Darts: Execution forestalled in Oklahoma; White House tries to talk turkey, gets gobbled; RFK Jr.,purple-prose muse.
On the ground in Oklahoma at the eleventh hour. Plus: White House tries to talk turkey; gets gobbled up by ABC News. And RFK Jr., purple-prose muse.
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22/08/2026
(Natalie schedules hysterectomy)
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The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS
The effort to repeal the income tax in Missouri losing 80-20
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The thing about Odyssey discourse is that we allowed the professors to break containment. The whole purpose of the university system was to find a humane way to segregate them from mainstream society.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is rape culture.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Shouldn’t we be given some idea of what he’s dealing with?
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
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It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This should be much bigger news
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But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots-and anyone else within hundreds of miles-unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain.
There were no survivors.
The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more
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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The photos at the end of this article are worth the whole world.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/08/2026
The left is getting the Catholic Church in the divorce? That Catholic Church? The Roman one? You sure?? Aight I guess but we need to talk a little about that one internally
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m sorry, you can’t convince me any of these characters are faithful to the original Greek texts.
The cast of Mamma Mia!
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/07/2026
If there's a way to make people's lives worse and more expensive Trump's gonna do it every time
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