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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

... mutually exclsusive? There is a name for being genuinely worried that foreign, dark-skinned people are dangerous. In fact, all phobias are genuinely felt. It's part of the challenge. But "genuine" does not equal "legitimate". And it just does not seem a great strategy for a state broadcaster...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Headlines today should be: "Trump calls on his supporters to "cheat like hell" in 2026 election." Followed by: "Trump was charged with crimes for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and incited the Jan 6 terrorist attack to remain in power despite losing." But corporate media won't do that!

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There is a scene in the movie Gandhi -- I'm not historian enough to know how true it may be -- where Gandhi is fasting to urge the end to sectarian fighting. And after he is quite ill from malnutrition and the fighting has largely stopped, he is visited by another delegation pledging peace...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/09/2026

Nice new report that includes this lovely little bit: by 2035 we could erase 100% of Hormuz oil and ~1,000% of Hormuz gas by switching to clean tech, EVs, energy efficiency etc. www.energy-transitions.org/wp-content/u...

Measures such as electric vehicles, renewable electricity, heating electrification, sustainable fuels and energy productivity could cut global oil demand 16–20% (displacing 82–110% of Hormuz flows) and gas demand 26–34% by 2035, reducing dependency on the Hormuz route.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...

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Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO

LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Conservatives never support centrist Dems politically yet centrist Dems never stop pandering to their concerns and interests, so maybe it's not that people on the left don't adequately support centrist Dems politically that causes centrist Dems to ignore them, might be some other unknowable thing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh that’s not all, folks. Antifa Waldo, beatifications of ICE martyrs, ICE agents slipping, and more—all from the likes of corn, barley, and alfalfa

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Awesome, our taxes just bought the pedophile Nazi death squads a bunch of torture gloves.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wow it’s true what they say, a barrel full of rotten apples ruins everything.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Consider that not a single one of these billionaire freaks and their executives loudly collaborating, are at all worried about what Democrats will do if they get back in power. Not a single dem leader is calling for them to be meaningfully punished or even inconvenienced for going whole fash.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I miss the great American tradition of not thinking about the president constantly.

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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.
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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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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's no standing for states to sue over that EO yet because it's just the president of the United States officially proclaiming his order to illegally interference in state elections, and you have to wait and see how and if agencies actually follow what he said first, is pants-on-head lunacy.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Matt Dinan: “The passions are nonconformist. To be moved is to be a little bit weird.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...

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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird (Gift Article)

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/08/2026

My youngest spent her first ever year of school in lockdown. My oldest spent an entire year in online classes. I am just not buying this argument that we should have murdered more old people for them to go to school.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

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Sort of Damocles @sortofdamocles.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow

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hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We have a bounty on children now. What could possibly go wrong?

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

if only somebody like, idk, Upton Sinclair, for example had warned us about this a century ago

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

yeah, I mean, there's a reason the Niemoller poem has "first we came for the communists" in there. and a reason that that is the line that is rarely if ever quoted.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

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Mister Frumble @misterfrumble.blog · 20/07/2026

When I say that Centrism For Centrism's Sake Pundits and their fans are throwing trans kids under the bus in order to "gain" the votes of people who won't vote for Democrats anyway, this is what I'm talking about.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026

The thing about these bans is that they filter down to even rec leagues. These tennis associations such as the USTA also oversee amateur and rec league regulations. So a trans woman wanting to do some casual matches with friends is also banned. It's about exclusion, not fairness.

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026

And yet, SCOTUS has already ruled it legal for ICE to profile people based on skin color. This is fascism. Saying it again—it was never about law and order. It was always about murdering anyone not white. Abolish and prosecute ICE. 2/2

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wouldn’t it be nice if a woman talking about her assault didn’t always, every fucking time, turn in to Discourse. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all just said fuck that guy and went on about our lives without him in it. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to spend all day arguing about that.

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