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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 19h
On this day in 1859, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry begins. Although ultimately defeated, the uprising is considered an important cause of the Civil War and thus did help lead to the abolition of the institution of slavery. anticolonialhistory.com/event/124/
John Brown in 1859
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I like how his gravied brain got him confused with the guy who died in the car with Princess Diana 29 years ago but now he has to retcon that with some fake explanation and the press has to just pretend like this is normal racism and not Alzheimer's racism.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
Q: You said Zacharia is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? What state? ZACHARIA: When I moved to China
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026
last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
trib.al
Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
scim.ag
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The conservative quest for diversity of thought was always leading toward mandatory reading of approved authors.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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ailishbirnbaum.bsky.social @ailishbirnbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bitch, if anyone wants to get rid of Thanksgiving it’s the people responsible for making it impossible to afford food.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Rachel Maddow: "Russia is a podunk country. The idea that we work for him is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness. I don't know what Putin has on him, but he works for Putin and it's an embarrassment to this country"
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boonque שאלוט משאול @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's a fundraiser to support this family and help the dad come home. Please do what you can, either by donating or sharing. gofund.me/49b317300
gofund.me
Donate to Help bring Rahim home to his family, organized by Ben Chase
Help Rahim out of ICE custody and keep his family together We are asking our community… Ben Chase needs your support for Help bring Rahim home to his family
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We’re going to find out AI’s first step on the annihilate humanity plan was to bribe Trump to hold off all regulation and oversight.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 03/09/2026
History will look back on this period as the time where the Republicans finally shed the pretense and went full-throated, unequivocally fascist and evil, and it will also look back as on this period as the time when the Democrats absolutely refused to be for real the entire goddamn time.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Jeffrey Wuhl @jeffreywuhl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@brianbeutler.bsky.social it is WILD that the Democrats can’t muster 1/100th of this outrage and seem to be unable to understand how much righteous anger like this inspires people. Whoever this guy is should be out there every day saying this stuff somewhere
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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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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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After being forced out of the military, many trans service members have yet to receive tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they are owed, leaving them destitute and homeless. (gift link) wapo.st/4qN0TNq
wapo.st
A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/08/2026
Awed by this DOJ filing in the "can Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center" litigation in which the DOJ lawyer uses the phrase "conflicts of interest" to refer to, like, the fact that parties to a case have different goals. Borderline illiterate stuff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
An order blocking the Board from appropriately recognizing President Trump will cause
donors to flee, financial contributions to dry up, and structural rehabilitation to stop. There will
simply not be the expertise or funding necessary to rebuild and renovate this decimated structure.
The Trump Administration is ready to go but, without it, the Kennedy Center cannot be saved.
There are many conflicts of interest having to do with the Kennedy Center, and it would be a shame
if those conflicts of interest would destroy the very thing that we are all trying to save. In short,
without appropriate recognition, the Kennedy Center will be back where it was at the beginning
— A financially insolvent facility, housed in a decrepit, dilapidated, crumbling building, that is
bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and continues to race toward physical and
financial ruin.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The grim reaper is just shooting at the wall blindfolded
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a cool fascist tweet from DHS
The Department of Homeland Security X account with a photo of Donald Trump and the text: Did you remain loyal?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21/08/2026
Here's a sublime three-minute video that may leave you awed and weepy: Apparently some chameleons flit through patterns of random colors as they die and the physiological mechanisms controlling their colors shut down. I can't find a name for this phenomenon of, let's call it, agonal metachrosis.
youtube.com
Female Chameleon Erupts with Color Before Death
YouTube video by Nature on PBS
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wild that we're still having a conversation about the radicalism of Democrats
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This piece assumes that there is an overwhelming cultural consensus about going no-contact with conservative parents. There isn’t! There is, in fact, an entire media industrial complex dedicated to telling us that we are too mean to conservatives. A complex to which this piece is contributing!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026
"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
It’s rough being a billionaire. First nobody thanks you for ruining search, and then you have to spend your own millions to prevent the serfs from having decent schools
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026
Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Kazuo Ishiguro: In my book I make use of the dystopian concept of cloned children raised as organ donors as a cautionary tale. Tech millionaire: At long last I have recreated the dystopian conceit at the heart of Ishiguro's classic sci-fi novel Don't Clone Children for Use as Organ Donors
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ailishbirnbaum.bsky.social @ailishbirnbaum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Fair point" she replies to several sentences of gibberish about other rich people being at fault if they don't fund humanitarian aid
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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 25/04/2026
Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
sltrib.com
‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state — nears final approval
Led by "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary, a massive data center project is near final approval in Utah — including tax deals aimed at helping it “lure the hyperscalers” like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to the state.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
LATER WE DID LEGAL RESEARCH.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21/07/2026
I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:
newrepublic.com
My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines
The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Would have paid good money to be in this room.
futurism.com
Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
OpenAI invited prominent author Dave Eggers to talk to its workers — and he relished the opportunity to set the record straight.
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