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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Though Bambi was definitely my first cinematic terror

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In terms of lingering horror, definitely this one.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not only Data Centers: Farmabedrijf Eli Lilly wil in Katwijk diabetes- en afslankpillen produceren. Vergunningen om afvalwater te lozen ontbreken nog. Omdat er geen ruimte op het stroomnet is, gebruikt het bedrijf voorlopig gasturbines om eigen elektriciteit op te wekken. nos.nl/l/2633354

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Katwijk stemt in met komst miljardenfabriek Amerikaanse farmaceut Eli Lilly

Eli Lilly, een van de grootste farmaceuten ter wereld, wil vlak bij het Valkenburgse Meer in Katwijk diabetes- en afslankpillen gaan produceren.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being in a fraternity was a vital part of my undergraduate experience, and I feel confident my chapter was a net force for good on our campus. But such exceptions aren’t worth it.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We don't talk enough about how Russell Vought was given an entire chapter in Project 2025 to explain how he would do his part to wrest the entire Executive Branch into the President's iron grip as quickly as possible before anyone noticed static.heritage.org/project2025/...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Feminist Media Studies is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief. The successful candidate will have a record of intellectual leadership to support fast growing, global, original, relevant, high impact feminist media scholarship. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

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Editor-in-Chief needed for Feminist Media Studies

Editor Resources provides insights and information to support the editor’s role and build connections between journal editors and research communities.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/09/2026

Breast cancer patients shouldn’t be denied hope of a new lifesaving treatment because Russ Vought thinks women’s health research is woke. I will fight this plan tooth and nail.

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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💀 Em-balmed Arcadia 💀 @emarcadia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's not even hypocrisy on their terms, they're being totally consistent within their own worldview. For right-wingers it's trivially obvious one would privilege the in-group while harming and depriving the outgroup, that's the thing they believe in.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That bot stirring up trouble abt a certain Klan epic and “political correctness”? Do not take the bait. Unarmed people are being shot in the street. Kids are in cages. Billions in US tax $ are funding a genocide. Basic human rights are eroding for LGBTQ folks. We may not have another fair election.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kundera cites the proverb that Russia likes to call everything Russian Slavic so they can later call everything Slavic Russian. Here, AI firms want to be part of the nation so that later the nation will be part of the AI firms.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

For our new readers: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator Norwegian Consumer Council #Digital #products and #services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into #enshittification & how to resist it.

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Het Nationaal Archief is ons collectieve geheugen dat breed gevoed en geduid moet worden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Wat vindt NRC | Het Nationaal Archief is ons collectieve geheugen dat breed gevoed en geduid moet worden

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And (wearying as it is to keep saying this day after day, issue after issue, but it's the only constitutional language we have for it) it is an impeachable offense to attempt such a circumvention of Congress. I think it would be fair to impeache just for trial-ballooning it. 6/6

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dammit. An awful lot of evidence says otherwise.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...

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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said

Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, closely associated with the art movement that developed in NYC's Lower East Side during the 80s. History Keeps Me Awake at Night #DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A criminal investigation is underway by Met Police into allegations Reform broke the law in relation to foreign funding, following a C4 broadcast involving James Orr. James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity. Any media interest in hundreds of articles?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wrote this before the AfD’s victory. It is even more relevant now – especially since early reactions indicate that Germany’s democratic politicians are hellbent on doubling down on these mistakes. Warnings from the Struggle Against Trumpism. Some thoughts from the piece, on the day after: 🧵

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Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism

Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We are on a leaky ship being steered by people who are plundering its parts to build a luxury yacht It is the only lifeboat. They have no intention of letting us on it.

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Asso Mnémosyne @assomnemosyne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#DuGenreDansLhistoire #environnement #connaissances #féminisme #inégalitésFH Qu’est-ce que le genre apporte aux problématiques environnementales ? Qu’est-ce que la perspective environnementale apporte au genre ? 🎧 partenariat avec le @leruche.bsky.social ➡️ mnemosyne-asso.com/podcast/du-g...

Visuel pour le podcast du Genre dans l'Histoire de Mnémosyne : saison 4, épisode 2 : Genre et Environnement. Enregistré à Aix-en-Provence
lors du colloque du Ruche en juin 2026.

William Hogarth, The Four Times of Day : Night, 1738, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 32.35(18)

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

and yet insufficient for reconstructing the media we need. Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy, but the solution is not merely to trust-bust them into smaller pieces; we also must create true public alternatives from the ground up.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today, America’s two largest school districts sent a message to the rest of the country that AI in schools is far from inevitable. When we organize and fight back, we win.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope y’all see that this will mean the imminent closure of a number of graduate programs.

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These side by side images tell the story: Trump welcomes only white South Africans while ICE descends on Haitians who have fled violence & established lives here legally. By abruptly ending TPS for Haitians & initiating mass deportations, our government is gleefully enacting racial apartheid in US.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I don't think it's just me that has a hard time thinking of anything in popular culture that has emotional resonance with ppl that isn't at least queer-adjacent.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every map slices the ocean apart to keep the land whole. This one does the opposite: on the Spilhaus projection, every ocean on Earth is one connected body of water, with a year of real satellite-tracked currents flowing across it. Data: NASA OSCAR + NOAA OISST #oceanography #cartography #dataviz

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/08/2026

Trump reported 1,051 trades in his June disclosure. These two stood out: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s almost as if hiring a Fox propagandist to handle defense was a bad idea.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kathy MacDonald would have turned 50 earlier this month. A good moment to re-read about how her quiet, thorough and collegial work added to the field, and about what we lost four years ago this month, a week after her birthday. trowelblazers.com/2023/01/31/k...

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Katharine MacDonald: A Burning Light in Prehistory - Trowelblazers

Katharine MacDonald (Kathy) was an archaeologist specializing in the Palaeolithic period, and especially the Neanderthals. She did her most important work not with a trowel, but through careful study ...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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