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alula @alula.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/8fNtipp5RLs?...
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D'Angelo - Devil's Pie
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this sounds awful but that’s because she’s actually mocking Trump and Mr. Smoothgroin deceptively clipped it to own the libs
TAPPER: So, it sounds as though he's saying Democrats would allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. He's also saying, of course, the war is going to end after the midterms. What's your
response?
PELOSI: Well, first of all, let's just say it's not about always responding to Donald Trump. I know that must attract advertisers, but it doesn't win the election. We have to talk about what we're going to do for the American people. Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the speaker. He is preparing how we win, how we protect the election and what we're going to do when we win.
Our country is at war. We always root for our country under any circumstance. So, let's get this done, Mr. President. You said it would take a few weeks. Clearly, you did not know what you were talking about. And you're sounding like Richard Nixon when you say you're going to end this right after the election. But okay for that.
The fact is so sad about this war because it was could've been so totally avoided. President Obama was masterful, virtuoso diplomatic accomplishment when he did the Iran nuclear agreement. And they had stopped -- we accomplished all of our goals. Except this one comes in, tears that up and now says he's going to stop the development of nuclear weapon in Iran, which he hasn't.
So, it's really sad, but our troops are in harm's way, and this is not a small potatoes thing as that person you had on the screen might refer to it. Small potatoes is not how we describe our men and women in uniform risking their lives.
So, this Iran war is taking a toll on the nation because people don't like us going to war in the first place. Second of all, it's increasing the cost of price at the pump, gasoline for farmers, increasing the price of food and groceries. So, this has an impact right at the kitchen table of the American people, in addition to not protecting the security of our country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Many parallels to today. A key throughline of my interactions with MAGA is that they are consumed with the thought that somewhere in the world "elites" are looking down on them.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/09/2026
i think if you wanna know what the current limit is on the level of targeted animosity and dehumanization the government feels it can inflict - both politically and in terms of its own capacities - against its enemies, look at what's being done to the haitian refugee community in ohio
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
“woke 1 was worse than our nation being run by fascist white nationalists” is a horrible thing to say out loud but it is the actual position most of these people hold so they disguise it by Just Asking Questions but you can tell by which subjects they cover
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This site will expect the next Dem president to deliver what FDR delivered in four terms but in the first 100 days and if they don’t they’ll call them a fascist.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Demand the Democrats restore everything" really treats the damage this administration has done incredibly trivially. Sorry, you can't make it 2015 again. That's not going to happen, even if you do throw this administration in jail.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @reason.com.
reason.com
Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/08/2026
The sole positive thing the PLO has done since 1988 was join the Rome Statute, which in turn forced the West to answer the question "international law or Israel?". Unfortunately it's clear what the West chose.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Memorial graffiti and murals for murdered antifascist Heather Heyer, seen around the USA and Europe. On the 12th of August 2017 Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia when a white supremacist ploughed his car into a crowd of leftist protesters.
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FelixTCat @felixtcat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You may not be aware that the regime in this country is doing this on an ongoing basis. Consider yourself duly notified. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
mamdanimonitor.com
Personnel
We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's been almost 2 months since police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside a Mississippi Walmart and while local leaders are silent, community members are not. New from me on what's happening in Senatobia, MS for @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.
In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?
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alula @alula.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Actually it’s bad to say America deserved 9/11 and that you should murder capitalists in the street
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
they have memory-holed a body of work, built up over decades, that was a major repository of learning about conflict resolution, accountability, the costs of impunity, etc. a crime against history and research, among other things.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
After Heath Ledger died Perez Hilton sold shirts on his website saying “why couldn’t it have been Britney?” He made a living off making her life a living hell: nypost.com/2021/02/15/p...
nypost.com
Perez Hilton knows he made Britney Spears’ life a living hell
Notorious gossip columnist expresses regret following the release of the “Framing Britney Spears” documentary.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The sense of fear is absolutely palpable.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is actual antisemitism - not because it’s criticizing Israel, but because it attributes agency over all migration to Israel, with no evidence. This is just the Great Replacement conspiracy, and it is ultimately far-right. Such conspiracism is going to destroy the left, if it isn’t policed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/08/2026
A Black teen from Milwaukee went missing in 2022. In May, officers in a Virginia town more than 700 miles away went to a home to investigate a domestic dispute. The caller said she was the missing teen and had been held against her will for years. wapo.st/3TNvYUI
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.
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alula @alula.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Little Beaver - Get Into the Party Life youtube.com/watch?v=Uldc...
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LITTLE BEAVER GET INTO THE PARTY LIFE
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 01/08/2026
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The Hidden Cost of Trump's USAID Cuts | Bloomberg Investigates
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
People are in an anti-system mood and support for Israel is the most pro-system thing you can do.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's especially galling that Haley Stevens is portraying herself as the great protector of the Jews in her campaign against a Muslim candidate, given that in 2022 she beat a wonderful Jewish Congressman in a costly primary in part by accusing him of being insufficiently pro-Israel.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here’s a rush transcript of Trump’s abysmal WHCD speech last night. Best part is when he tells a mildly funny joke and it falls flat and he tries to explain it and complains about the rest of his crappy speech. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...
Joking aside, I do think we need term limits in Congress. I think term limits are very important because I see what's happening.
I see what's happening. The other day, a senator I knew got a text, a great guy,
from his wife. And she said, when you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.
And he said, I can't do both.
You know what the, you know. In other words, can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?
Well, I thought that was actually pretty good.
That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole frickin' stupid speech that they wrote. That was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter. I think, you know, in other words, you can't go up the stairs and make love to a woman.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sen. Gillibrand is shepherding a crypto giveaway bill through Congress while her son-who just graduated college! - gets a massive $$ infusion from the crypto industry. How on earth can Dems run as the anti-corruption party while accepting open graft in their leadership? www.axios.com/2026/07/22/c...
axios.com
Scoop: Progressives scorch Gillibrand over crypto
The blistering — and deeply personal — attack from three groups complicates already delicate negotiations over the CLARITY Act.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/07/2026
Buglarian correspondent Ivo Ivanov, who happens to live in Lawrence, reveals his favorite moment of the World Cup to Bulgarian TV viewers. Watch this if you need a reminder about what, or actually who, really constitutes the United States of America. (auto-transcribed & translated as usual)
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Odyssey, the original work by Homer, is told non-linearly.
gutenberg.org/files/1727/172…
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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National Review @nationalreview.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund is still viable and could be revived at any time, despite Blanche’s insistence to the contrary. | Andrew C. McCarthy www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-a…
nationalreview.com
The ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Slush Fund Is Not Dead | National Review
Under the terms of the Trump-orchestrated settlement agreement creating the fund, it can only be rescinded in a written document signed by the parties.
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
state.gov
DRL NOFO Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in Europe - United States Department of State
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in EuropeBureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Department of StateOpportunity number: ...
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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.mississippirecords.net/catalog/p/we... In 1984 Wesenyeleh Mebreku played traditional Ethiopian melodies on a Casiotone keyboard & the album, Resonance of Time, came out on cassette in 1986. Now Mississippi Records is distributing a re-release on Portland, Ore label Incidental Music.
mississippirecords.net
Wesenyeleh Mebreku - Resonance of Time LP — Mississippi Records
Electronic lullabies and folk songs from Ethiopia! A landmark recording from Ethiopia’s vibrant cassette era of the 1980s, Resonance of Time features pioneering composer Wesenyeleh Mebreku reimagining...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tweet from shen the bird (@Shen_the_Bird):

wikipedia: please. please just give me one dollar i'm begging you give me anything

me: [trying to look up the hamburglar's full name] shut the fuck up
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Case in point, Trump's Chief Design Officer posted this a few days ago. Imagine how smooth brained you have to be to imply that Black women in basketball is an example of DEI donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
Black woman labeled DEI holds down Caitlin Clark who is labeled merit
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’m so angry. I can’t imagine how her friends and family must feel. To work your whole life for safe streets and then to be murdered by a car while riding your bike. Rest in power. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/m...
bostonglobe.com
Cycling advocate and Boston transportation planner fatally struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
The 36-year-old woman "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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Devex @devex.com · 08/07/2026
The U.S. is battling an infestation of New World screwworm flies again after it was eradicated 40 years ago. What role did aid cuts play in this resurgence? Plus, the bare-bones workforce now administering Food for Peace.
devex.com
Devex Dish: This threat to livestock was eradicated. Why is it back now?
Devex Dish: This threat to livestock was eradicated. Why is it back now?
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
‘We stand with the Palestinian people. We defend their fundamental right to resist an illegal occupation, break out of their concentration camp, and defy the cruelty of the sixteen-year Zionist blockade.’ Quite literally a celebration of 10/7. In the first paragraph.
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