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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/09/2026
The national media is not the “human-resources department” for Democratic staffers who “seem to believe that their role is to serve as a kind of moral check on their boss,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:
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Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently
A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Democrats should be targeting crypto, as a Republican constituency, with the same zeal that Republicans targeted universities for being liberal-coded. But they won’t, because it might jeopardize the crumbs that industry throws their way.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CHUCK SCHUMER: I can work with this
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Matt Johnson's film "Tony" is very entertaining and HR is right that the Banderas performance is phenomenal
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/08/2026
This thing where we wake up to a fresh new national degradation every morning is getting kind of old, if I'm gonna be honest
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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It is perhaps relevant to Democratic pols' willingness to address this that Ossoff is just a couple years older than Harp, and not her father's or grandfather's age
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@jtkantor.bsky.social maybe in honor of the recently departed Frank Beard, we could have a little ZZ Top this afternoon? (He and Dusty were also in an impostor touring version of the Zombies pre-ZZ Top, so I guess that could work too.)
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@jtkantor.bsky.social all bossa nova style for the late afternoon games?
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
FLIGHT ATTENDANT: anything to drink ME: i’ll have a coke TRUMP: *from inside the cart* those are mine give him a pepsi
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This interview is basically fine. Here is the rest of the quote: "Young women are disproportionately and unfairly evaluated on their aesthetics. Young men are disproportionately and unfairly evaluated on their economic viability." If you disagree, fine. If you just want to be mad, you shouldn't.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think one of the big ironies of the present moment is that there literally is a big Fix Everything Now button for Dems, and it's "Purge the earth of Trump and all his works," but instead of saying that they've diverted into a bunch of food and labor economy issues they can't actually solve
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“Are you okay, ma’am?” “I think I swallowed my router.” “Here, take my seat.”
Priority seat signage with pictograms showing reserved seating for the elderly, injured, pregnant (with wi-fi waves seeming to emanate from her belly), and those with young children. Text is displayed in multiple languages.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/08/2026
looking forward to the centrists declaring a massive victory if Stevens lands anywhere from +.01% to -10% and immediately pivoting to Khive nonsense. looking forward to the left declaring they have received the mandate of heaven if they maintain a 3% edge. no one's happy and everyone's mad
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Fortmax Headroom @hwhall.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...
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His Name was Harvey Pekar
Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Love Actually is one of the most overrated movies of my lifetime and actively terrible in places but emma thompson saying "nobody's ever going to shag you if you go around feeling sorry for yourself all the time" might be the most important PSA in any film this century
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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says "Hi" abc7chicago.com/post/patti-smith-me…
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A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says "Hi"
Rock legend Patti Smith has met with Pope Leo XIV. She was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she greeted her fellow Chicagoan.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
us @ the moon tonight
Two tweets from David Lynch. One saying "This weekend I'm going to try to find out of I'm connected to the moon" followed by one 3 days later saying "I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon"
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/07/2026
During a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.
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A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
This is what a president sounds like.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Great moments in the history of philosophy: In 1972 John Rawls reaches out to Lou Rawls to see if he'd be interested in translating John's recently published "Theory of Justice" into a "sexy R&B concept album" entitled "Original Position." Lou Rawls politely declines the request.
The 1971 edition of John Rawls' book, A Theory of Justice
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 19/07/2026
Calling the mass of Odyssey haters "The Whine Dork sea"
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is the Odyssey we're talking about! Stop wandering!
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In fairness, it is true that one senator from Alabama doesn’t even live there and is ineligible to serve
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/07/2026
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In a way, anything can be The News
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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"What do you think happens after death?" "I don't know. I still haven't figured out what happens before death."
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Wow! I'm here in the Criterion Closet! Don't know why they asked me but it's an honor to-... Is it supposed to be filling with water?
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X” would make a hell of a Wes Anderson movie. I’m thinking Willem Dafoe as the renegade priest with Tilda Swinton as the mother superior.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My domestic policy preferences are closer to those of Democratic centrists than they are to Mamdani and the DSA. But my sympathy is pretty low for complaining centrists who decided to support Andrew Fricking Cuomo as their alternative to Mamdani.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Saint Luke kneels in reverence as he carefully draws the Virgin & child, who have graced him w/ a life sitting. Undistracted by the mundane world beyond. By Rogier van der Weyden, d. OTD 1464.
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Garrett Quinn @garrettquinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Watching New York struggle to organize a championship parade is hilarious. Real small city energy. Just no recent experience with these things unlike, say, Boston.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult
"MOST PEOPLE DON'T VOTE. MOST PEOPLE DON'T VOTE BECAUSE THEY ARE TO THE LEFT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY." -@BootsRiley spitting about the fact that many people on the left do not want to vote for a party like the Democratic Party, a party that is not truly oppositional.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17/06/2026
"What happens if you run a political campaign promising to hunt down Glonzo to lower people’s power bills and win? Everyone’s power bills will stay the same and in four years you’re gonna lose to the guy who accuses you of being on GPAC’s payroll." gonna be reposting this constantly now i think
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Everything Is Glonzo Now
Populism and conspiracism are not quite synonymous but they are inextricably linked. Yet liberals must become populist again.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
people make fun of Sun Tzu for being not terribly profound stuff like "do not needlessly anger your allies before you need them" but you do kinda gotta hand it to the guy, White House would have been well served with someone who knew those things
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