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Ann Marie Gamble

@amgamble.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, reader, occasional dabbler on the corporeal plane, where she is known as Ann Youmans. linktr.ee/ann.youmans

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h
The Woke are coming off a down season but the core remains intact and they've called up some young talent. Advanced metrics suggest their stars were underperforming their peripherals for much of the summer. Expect contention as early as next season if they sign some high heat relief over the winter
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 7h
There is a decent chance we may look back and say, it turns out letting Republicans vastly outspend us cost us the opportunity of the decade. We can't catch up on cash. But we can turn all the cash and hate into a disadvantage.
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Republican megadonors dominate 2026 midterm election as crypto and AI money surges, CNBC analysis finds
Fourteen of the 20 biggest donor groups CNBC analyzed are Republican-aligned as crypto, AI and betting money reshapes 2026 midterm spending.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 13h
you jest but perceived legitimacy of the law is one of the many factors that affect crime rates, ie perception that the law is unjust encourages a lack of respect for it (eg this is why police brutality exacerbates crime), and state executions dont exactly restore faith in the legal system
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Quite literally the only variable consistently correlated to declining birth rates is its inverse relationship to women’s education and availability of contraceptives. By all measures, if women have the knowledge and access to limit pregnancies, they do it.
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
24 was used as the basis for the Enhanced Interrogation program. Would-be advisors for the ANP watched NCIS in lieu of formal training for the role. Trump-era direct action in Mexico and Latin America is clearly steeped in Sicario, while Yellowstone and Landman shape domestic views.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
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Ann Marie Gamble @amgamble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Local elections matter
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: WNBA credits Caitlin Clark with Assist of the Year.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Reminded that his biggest donor founded an entire company to halt progress on public transit and hinges a large part of his wealth on the promise of robotaxis as a better and always imminent alternative.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Reading literature enables you to enter the depths of another human being." Han Kang recd. the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." 1st Asian woman to win this prestigious literary award. #books
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Mark Sandeen @marksandeen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.vogue.com/article/wome... "So much about this case is disturbing, but I keep coming back to that Snapchat group thread—specifically the men who saw those messages and didn’t raise the alarm"
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Women Are Rightly Outraged By The Cornell Rape Allegations. Are Men?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Who needs martial law when nobody can afford fuel, and even if we could, supplies are running low? It’s almost like they planned it. 🥴Just in time for midterms. Make plans to help people get to the voting booth. Plan ahead. I checked my voter status, and will check again before I vote. Have you?
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those boycotting Tillamook Cheese and anything else that is “Halal,” I want you to know that fruit, vegetables, fish, air and water are also halal. ☪️😅.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The moment the AI company is asking you for your bank account data, that’s what we call a “clue.” That’s the ore they’re mining from you. That will become the basis for surveillance-pricing you on everything you buy in the future. Including those groceries
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Friends? Memorize this. Also, I will give you the lesson my dad taught me when I was only 10 years old: "If you are ever in a situation when you are arrested, the only word you know, or have ever known, is 'lawyer'."
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/09/2026
I will hire someone who clearly loves to learn over someone with specific training because the specific training becomes out of date and you need to love learning and be curious to keep up
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every “be reasonable” must be measured against the actual societal background radiation
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity
Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
The regularity with which police surveil vigils was one of the things that was surprising to me when I started looking at some of their practices.
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JJ @jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All I'm saying is you deserve good kitchen knives. Don't wait. Stupidly life changing.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I like how much of the “low information” working or middle class voter discussion implicitly goes hard at the idea that they’re poorer and more susceptible to bad, dumb (mis)info, and I’m not saying people aren’t, but have u seen how rich highly educated people vote?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ed sheeran has certainly not covered himself in glory but he’s at best a miniboss here. if his concert get canceled but everyone pours into Gillette Stadium for the next pop star or nfl game, then Robert Kraft and his pals still effectively got what they wanted.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
HHS wants to relax regulations on human subject research (The Common Rule). For example, they want to redefine “undue influence” on vulnerable human research subjects (children, prisoners, disabled, culturally disadvantaged). 1/
From the federal register: The foundational framework for human subjects protection in the United States was established by the National Research Act of 1974 in response to widespread public concern over unethical biomedical and behavioral research practices. Following its passage, the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued the first version of 45 CFR part 46. These regulations established institutional review boards (IRBs) as the key mechanism for oversight and ethical review of human subjects research. While these protections remain vital, the current regulatory framework no longer reflects the realities of modern research.
In 1991 the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, was formally adopted by HHS and 15 other federal departments and agencies. Although the last major revision in 2017 introduced several changes to modernize human subject protections while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden, investigators and institutions have continued to report that the Common Rule imposes unnecessary burdens and unclear requirements, particularly for minimal-risk studies. For example, the Department has received feedback that applying the Common Rule remains cumbersome for research within Learning Healthcare Systems and for other research methods that are integrated into clinical care settings and are intended to improve the quality and safety of medical care.
Without additional changes intended to clarify ambiguities, expand flexibilities, and redirect protective measures toward high-risk activities, the rights and safety of research participants as well as scientific breakthroughs can be impeded. Examples of how this rulemaking will address these issues include expanding exemptions for certain additional types of low-risk research, incorporating flexibilities for de minimis protocol changes, and clarifying key terms such as the definition of undue influence. These reforms will reduce ambiguity and undue administr…
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
at a professional level I am kinda fascinated by how storytelling and pop culture have deeply ingrained the idea of the devious supervillain but not the one about the town coming together to save the day
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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." #Vote for the Non-Felon #Voting #USPoli
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"war ends after the midterms", "5000 buckaroos after the midterms", "gas'll get cheap after the midterm, "your kids will call you after the midterms" They know they haven't delivered, and they can't deliver, and so the entire campaign is now just "trust me bro, I'm good for it. just need more time"
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I unironically think the country would be better served by the average gangster rapper as president. "If you kill the head of a rival gang's father in a drive-by, will it lead to a gang war?" is a question Suge Knight would have answered correctly.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning. A look at the librarians who've settled lawsuits for defending the right to read and where that stands in contrast to lawsuits about the right to read more broadly. bookriot.com/librarians-s...
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Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning: Book Censorship News, September 11, 2026
Librarians who've been fired for not banning books and sued are winning settlements in their cases.
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The tendency of journalists to take the far right and authoritarians at face value but question everything open organizations claim is baked into “both sides” journalism. The thread’s about Taiwan and China, but it carries over to discussion about US internal politics.
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Ann Marie Gamble @amgamble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Additional issue from an election supervisor (me): In August, people came into a polling place affected by this having looked at one or the other map and were then surprised about who was on their ballot. They didn't accuse us of fraud, but it sure doesn't raise confidence in the process.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the good guys need legal pads, if you can.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Frankly as a classical liberal I don’t think any of this should be part of normal political discourse, but if they’re demanding it, fine: Even though it shouldn’t matter, right-wing US Evangelicalism is an unlettered perversion that ineptly projects bigotry into scripture where it doesn’t exist.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Goodnight Peeps ✌🏼💙
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some of this is the result of our terrible news media & information environment, which is thoroughly & completely degraded & polluted. And, as a result, far too little of what Democratic officials are actually doing as Counter-guerrilla Warfare &/or Counter-political Action is NOT covered. 10/
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Right now Democratic officials need to be doing both legal Counter-guerrilla Warfare whenever possible & Counter-political Action to push back on the GOP's, the Trump/MAGA movement's, & fellow travelers guerrilla warfare & political action. 4/
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
if you want to speedrun developing the level of personal and political brainworms that were characteristic of the elites in the Confederacy I highly advise telling a chatbot all your problems
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knwd.bsky.social @knwd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’ve come to realize that THIS is what the saying “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” actually means. The human brain is built to exist within a community of peers, and without corrective feedback, the brain goes wildly off the rails.
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Spodomancy @spodomancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is another way of saying "a nation more interested in trade than glory" which is another way of saying "a nation of international logistics experts".
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hells yes. The number of times in history the manliest of men get their asses handed to them by people who really want to avoid combat but are forced into it is eye-opening.
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