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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Free book excerpt! From THEY KNEW, on paywalls, the loss of the public sphere, and the abandonment of accountability. Written in 2021, it explains much of the present political information crisis: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

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A Public Flat Earth

How paywalls killed the public sphere.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...

Who will clean any of this up?
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home he must have just been working on. Laboring on. There’s a dumpster out front and a red white and blue flag themed porta-potty from a company called Patriot Portables. Three ladders still leaning up against the building.

It looks like it would have been a pretty tasty lunch. Even tossed aside like that and wasted now. A smear of orange hot sauce on the cracked styrofoam container. Not yet taken away by the wind. Such a beautiful seeming neighborhood too. I imagine it’s a very nice place to live. They say that Chicago is still surprisingly affordable.

It shows me home listings when I scroll now because I clicked on one or two at some point and so the computer believes that this is an integral datapoint that explains who I am. I just saw one hanging ten off a bluff that has been pummeled by eons of waves and so will not exist for much longer. Neither house nor bluff. Overlooking the water on Cape Cod. You could squeeze a couple of good years out of it still I thought. Until one awful night. I can’t afford it even now despite the implication but it’s a nice little nightmare to have.

I thought of a friend who was recently diagnosed with a terrible albeit not yet terminal disease but maybe that’s a bad analogy. A beach house is worth so much more than a person.

I don’t know how much longer it will sit there. Either the house or the guy’s lunch. Maybe everyone passing by assumes another worker is going to arrive soon to take care of it but it could be he’s already been disappeared himself.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...

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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Nefarious Means @nefariousmeans.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

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New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease

Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s Hospital.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We're starting to find out how much you will pay to subsidize Meta's data center www.nola.com/news/entergy...

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Reports now saying that Radical Posture will not be appearing at the #Freedom250 concerts, citing footwear related differences.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11/05/2026

The MLB Spaghetti Policy - Teams who will allow you to bring in a gallon ziplock bag of spaghetti 🍝 to a game. Want to add the Phillies here too. Their policy was unclear online but we found posts this morning showing they’d allow it too.

THE MLB
SPAGHETTI POLICY
GALLON BAG OF SPAGHETTI ALLOWED®
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COMMITTEE
REDS
HOUSTON
ASTROS
SICKOS
COMMITTEE
BREWERS
Miami
GIANTS
™M
MANY OTHER MLB TEAM LOGOS
****THIS 15 NOT A 100% GUARANTEE
AND ARE SUBJECT TO ALL SECURITY SEARCHES AND STADIUM POLICIES
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

damn right!

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

steeplechase, long jump, could probably do some rock climbing in the back there

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

literally little italy, say it 5 times

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom?
'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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drizzleray.bsky.social @drizzleray.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Important addition here!

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I took it to mean himself as a child, watching on the old TV

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Jamie Mayerfeld @jmayerfeld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/01/2026

NEW: Louisiana’s parole board freed 185 prisoners during Gov. Jeff Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would’ve been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of parole. W/ @veritenews.org

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Louisiana Paroles Its Lowest Number of Prisoners in 20 Years Under Gov. Jeff Landry

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incar...

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Anyway, I invite AltNPS and everyone else to share this list of Twin Cities-area organizations, food distribution networks, and mutual aid links. It's got everything. From legal aid links to a GoFundMe for Circulo Childcare Center in Minneapolis, they could all use some love. Thank you!

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@mplsmutualaid | Linktree

Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

gofundme's for toddlers kidnapped by our own government

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The rest of the world continues to work around America’s ongoing reality freak show.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

They speak of justice while ruling through fear.
They speak of sovereignty while stealing the vote.
They speak of dignity while condemning their own people.
I learned that those who insist the most on calling themselves "the good ones" are often the ones most afraid to face themselves. The Maduro regime wraps itself in flags, in anti-imperialist rhetoric, in a false epic where any criticism is labeled as betrayal. They claim to defend Venezuela, yet they stole the people's voice when they refused to respect the elections. That act alone strips away any moral authority.
But do not be mistaken. The fact that a tyrant is real does not automatically turn an external aggressor into a savior.
The United States does not act out of love for democracy. It acts out of interest. It always has.
The language changes, the enemy changes, but the method remains the same: pressure, punishment, displays of power. And as always, the blow is not absorbed by those in power, but by ordinary people.

The Venezuelan people are trapped between two narratives that do not represent them. One that oppresses them from within, and another that exploits them from outside. One that claims legitimacy without real elections. Another that claims justice without taking responsibility for the human consequences of its actions.
I do not defend Maduro. I point at him.
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.
Pain does not need propaganda. Hunger does not understand geopolitics. Dignity is not imposed with missiles, nor with dictatorships.
While some sell themselves as the good ones to justify repression, and others sell themselves as the good ones to justify aggression, the result is always the same: more suffering, more rage, more generations learning that force replaces justice.
And once again, pain is inherited.

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I've encountered your post while searching for details of that same bookstore, which burned down yesterday.

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

No one has killed more Nigerian Christians than Trump since he shut down USAID.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Point/Counterpoint: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

all i'm saying is that there were better options

TIME
PERSON OF THE YEAR
SANDWICH THROWING GUY

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Calling ICE on your neighbors is a hate crime

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’d just like to reiterate that if you put on a mask, and go out without a warrant and kidnap people because they aren’t white enough, you’re a huge piece of shit…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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Anthony Vrsaljko @antvrs.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

they could do one of Ohtani warming up while the pitch clock is at 0

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Support Jamaica

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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 26/10/2025

Heads up civil servants!! 🚨🚨🚨

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