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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 10h

As one of the MANY women who visited Collins' Maine offices & begged her not to confirm Kavanaugh, I'm so grateful Troy Jackson is pushing her on this.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 9h

Buddy got Resting If He Dies He Dies Face

David Ellison looking like a typecast murderer next to text that says Warner Bros. Discovery Paramount

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 9h

Our media are fundamentally broken. The truth has been there for all to see for a long time

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10h

This was good

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 11h

Paramount just bought Warner Bros. The Trump-aligned billionaire Ellison family now controls: —CBS News —CNN —Comedy Central —Nickelodeon —TBS —TNT —HBO Max —Paramount+ This is about who has the power over what we consume. THIS is what decades of tax breaks buy you.

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 11h

we somehow stumbled across The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), a wacky film directed by and starring Gene Wilder, along with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman, that mostly got lost to time somehow this is absolutely incredible and hilarious and amazing

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WMUR @wmur9.bsky.social · 13h

A top Democrat seeks information on Jared Kushner’s investments after a CNN report tied his firm to an Israeli company that backs businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.

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Top Democrat is investigating Jared Kushner’s financial investments after recent report

A top Democrat seeks information on Jared Kushner’s investments after a CNN report tied his firm to an Israeli company that backs businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16h

This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 14h

I am extremely grateful to Madeline Halpert of BBC for giving me the opportunity to weigh in on the controversy regarding the misnamed (in my opinion) intoxication loophole with regard to sexual assault under New York law, www.bbc.com/news/article...

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How drunk is too drunk? Cornell rape allegations expose 'loopholes' in consent laws

The BBC speaks to experts about current US state sexual assault laws and why some believe changing them will help alleged victims.

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 16h

It's not "the economy, stupid." It's "the health care, stupid." And Republicans are losing on both, which is why they want you distracted by culture war noise. Vote anyway. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 15h

Fuck yes and I would have voted 5000 times and risked prison for this outcome if I'd known about the election.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

NYC has a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani. And in the first nine months of his tenure, the city has recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6%, the largest drop in 17 years.

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Commissioner Tisch and Mayor Mamdani announce quarterly crime statistics.

YouTube video by NYPD

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 19h

Faculty members cannot trust administrators at all, anywhere.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 21h

And now we are fully WWII era Nazi Germany.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Incredibly, Hastert had publicly called for life sentences for child molestors. He retired from Congress after making a fortune and joined a lobbying firm.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2026

Jessica Killin, a Democrat running for Congress in a competitive Colorado district, released an ad that features the family of Virginia Giuffre, one of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victims, and criticizes Rep. Jeff Crank for blocking the release of Epstein files.

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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican

In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

❗📣 Dennis Hastert was the longest-serving House Speaker. He was also poster boy for the GOParty of pedophiles & their protectors. Deemed a "serial child molester” by a judge for preying on minor boys who trusted him as their HS sports coach — Hastert paid $3.5M to one victim... 🎁 t2m.co/EtvD6nX

Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert Dies at 84
Longest-serving Republican speaker’s post-congressional career collapsed in scandal
https://www.wsj.com/politics/former-house-speaker-j-dennis-hastert-dies-at-84-7baa1525?st=z7Zu3r

In May 2015, his professional world collapsed when prosecutors alleged in a federal court indictment that he had hidden a secret for decades. It alleged he had agreed to pay $3.5 million to a former student he had sexually abused.

Hastert was never charged with a sex crime because the statute of limitations had expired but admitted at his April 2016 court sentencing that he “mistreated” and “took advantage” of some of the teenage wrestlers he coached at Yorkville High School, where he worked from 1965 to 1981. Federal prosecutors alleged at the time he had molested at least four boys.

As part of a plea deal, Hastert acknowledged that he had illegally avoided reporting requirements associated with bank withdrawals he made for hush-money payments. Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert a “serial child molester” at the sentencing.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Since it seems that Netflix has added a bunch of Louis CK specials to its lineup, I'm going to resurface my old column about his alliance with the mega-streamer, with a reminder of what we all lose when showbiz tries to move on without dealing w/his terribleness. READ: loom.ly/KOgdFpk

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What do we lose when Louis C.K. gets back in business?

Does his new Netflix special and high-profile concert appearance signal Hollywood has turned its back on the #metoo movement it once championed?

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is just so, so deeply cruel, stupid, outrageous, offensive, blood-curdling, idk, from beginning to end. it is a pathology unto itself. it is the disgusting bigotry of a tried-and-true bigot whose brain is increasingly broken by old age. it is, to say the obvious, intolerable in our society.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Friendly reminder that Megyn Kelly was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly and STILL this is how she, and women on the right, treat rape victims.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are there other Cornell grads who remember somebody at Health Services who pushed female students to take birth control pills? Roz somebody? It was very heavy handed as I remember my experiences with her.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.

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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)

The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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