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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
its not a "character attack" its an objective descriptor
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@paulwaldman.bsky.social describes the dangerous role that “human printer” Natalie Harp plays for Trump: “He can turn to her and say, ‘Give me the real facts,’ and she'll go out and find him something that's false but makes him feel better.” lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems worthy. On the other hand, these untrained, unscreened thugs are entirely capable of shooting people dead after engaging in even the most ordinary street disputes. So folks, be careful.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Self-awareness is now a mouldering cadaver.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The only relief from this madness is if Meta gets sued into oblivion.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Time for Canadians, as polite as they are, to jump the boards, toss gloves and throw punches. Lake Michigan becomes Lake Inferior. Lake Erie becomes Lake Epstein. And so they remain until someone has the grace to apologize for this prolapsing asshole.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Me, wishing Cruz's seat was in cycle...
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This National Dog Day, everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton's most famous album includes a (really good) song all about "the best friend that I ever had," her childhood rescue pup. youtu.be/h-Jaz0CW4Sk?...
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Dolly Parton - Cracker Jack (Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Great performer, great lady and, perhaps, when all is said and done, one of our greatest citizens.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs: My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP
A black and white portrait of a young Dolly Parton, smiling widely, with both hands touching her face.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Words to live by 👇🏾
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@bandylee.bsky.social is certainly one of the people who deserves to say 'I told you so' when the history of this period of history is written. youtu.be/q8xw8pvl0Mo?...
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ONGOING PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY MEETING (August 17, 2026)
YouTube video by World Mental Health Coalition
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dig deep, Pitchbot. You need to channel some Kafka to keep up with the vast and unrelenting moronity that now governs us.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So much for MAGAs claims to be all about 'meritocracy' "(Jennings) paid a third-party booking agent something like $25 per hit to help get him on CNN" 🙄
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the play here is to make ossoff defensive by calling him sexist, something liberals care about but they don't. The problem is, they *used* to pretend to care and now they're like "let's rip up anti-discrimination law, repeal the 19th and force most women to be homemakers" bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"something like the Minority Report...most of them had Moroccan names...they got house visits, got school visits...the self-fulfilling prophecy making it so." Monstrous story of the Dutch state using AI to "predict" which children would be "violent" Everyone should listen to this.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/08/2026
what if everyone started carrying spray bottles full of piss and whenever we spotted someone with pervert glasses on the street we hosed them down
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me reading this thread
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/08/2026
dude gets pulled over for speeding and tells the cop—fingers tented Elon-style—that he wasn't actually driving, his Tesla was it does not go well youtu.be/kOa9iZmlfnk
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The Tesla did it? Driver argues "I wasn't speeding" with cop and it doesn't go well.
YouTube video by ABC13 Houston
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump wants Cuba to liberalise its economy, open more to US businesses, buy American oil, and reduce Russian and Chinese intelligence ties. Humanitarian aid - necessary because of Trump’s economic warfare - and sanctions relief would be offered in return. This really is piracy. 2/2
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/08/2026
⚠️ GRAPHIC: Footage showed children w/ severe injuries after an Israeli overnight strike on a residential apartment in the al-Mawasi area, northwest of Khan Younis, early Sun. 3 Palestinians, including a child, were killed in the strike on the Hamza family’s apartment, according to Shehab News...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Rebranding rebellion is nothing new. It wasn't always called the Civil War. At the time, it was primarily called an “insurrection” or a “rebellion.” Its current name is a result of decades of lobbying by Southern Heritage groups to rejuvenate the South’s image, ignoring its treason and slaveholding.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@darthbluesky.bsky.social , I'm not sure the Pug in the final photo volunteered for this event?
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Signal boosting! 📡 This is a great cause!!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Listening to Dr. Fauci's testimony it's really striking how: • crazy Sen. Ron Johnson is, like, truly off his rocker • corny and made for clipping on Fox everything said by Sen. Hawley is
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A rare chance to see Francesca Albanese, UN Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, interviewed at length covering Israel's ongoing genocidal actions, the US's sanctions against her and the UK govt's attack on the Palestine Action group. youtu.be/z5n1-9Zwxok?...
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Israel, Karim Khan & The ICC: IT'S WORSE Than You Think | Francesca Albanese
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
But of course neither Kelly nor Miller “built this country,” and they have as much to do with, say, the writing of The Odyssey or the painting of the Sistine Chapel as I do—the fact that Kelly and Miller are white does not make these accomplishments theirs. People who espouse these views do not value the classics for what they can teach us about the ancient world or our own, but as bleached marble monuments to their own superiority.

There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s ancestors (although Miller’s were actually poor persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe, not ancient Roman senators). Honoring and celebrating the past achievements of those ancestors, however, is different from taking credit for them. All Kelly and Miller did was win the lottery of being born in the richest country ever, one whose institutions and traditions they are busy helping destroy with as much zeal as the Greeks in Nolan’s film defiled the temple of Athena.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Eddie Murphy: Can I get an Amen! (Coming to America)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When Democrats fought to extend the Florida recount in 2000, Republicans blanketed the airwaves with this stuff, even printing up Sore/Loserman signs that mimicked the Gore/Lieberman campaign. It was very effective! Trump *is* a sore loser and he *is* throwing a sad tantrum. Call it out like that!
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Pete 'Tom of Finland' Hegseth 🎯
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🍉Ampersand🕊️ @ampersandandand.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Before Trump’s war in February 2026, passage through the Strait was free; the security issues—Iranian aggression—that make U.S. Navy protection for vessels transiting the strait are thus of Trump’s own design. Nice little freedom of the seas you got there; shame if something were to happen to it."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's pleasant to assume an afterlife, and moreso, an indulgent diety that permits even wayward and debased creatures to tred upon its better acreage. By doing so, we can right now imagine Lindsey Graham meeting John McCain and with one look from his old friend knowing he had covered himself in shit.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yes, if one can't speak well of those as they depart, one should stay silent. But hey, when I go it's fine for everyone to chat about where I've been assholic. Saying so now allows me this much: Dead at 71, Lindsey Graham betrayed principles and shed honor at a rate so as to be decades older.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump hates when he has to pretend to care about another human being.
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