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ApocalypticaNow

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I've been online for 100 years. I believe in people power. I want us all to do better. She/her. Phillyish. Crone-age. So so late.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He's definitely running
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My gosh. Fetterman pretended to be sick to avoid meeting three paralyzed veterans from rural PA…and then went to do a Fox interview on Israel. He agreed to meet a lawmaker who drove from PA to talk about homeless and working people…and then bailed & met pro-Israel Bruce Pearl.
One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman's staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He'd told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn't feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn't want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran."He was available. He just chose not to meet with us," Williams said.
Even when Fetterman does agree to meetings, he often cancels, according to former staffers.
Also last April, Fetterman agreed to take a meeting with another state lawmaker, Liz Hanbidge, who drove down from Pennsylvania to introduce herself, and to discuss programs that help the homeless and working poor in her county. But when Hanbidge arrived, according to staffers who were present, Fetterman claimed he hadn't agreed to the meeting. The aides spent more than an hour pleading with him to talk to her; staffers eventually met with Hanbidge in his place.
Fetterman did take another meeting that day-with Bruce Pearl, the former college basketball coach and Israel advocate. The pair discussed legislation that would affect college sports, and Pearl thanked Fetterman for his stance on Israel, Pearl said in an interview.
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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A scathing assessment of Fetterman. Whew. WSJ gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jfc PA get it together
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Democratic members of Congress from Pa, Brendan Boyle and Chris Deliuzo, slam Fetterman over WSJ reporting on how awful Fetterman has been to veterans and other groups. Fetterman only cares about being on Fox News www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
mediaite.com
Critics Stunned By WSJ Fetterman Report: 'Beyond Parody'
Critics didn't mince words after The Wall Street Journal revealed some of Sen. John Fetterman's behavior behind the scenes.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On Sunday, I was asked about John Fetterman, and here is what’s clear: Pennsylvania has a John Fetterman problem.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"...Fetterman canceled on three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs who had traveled to D.C. to meet with him because he wanted to be interviewed on Fox News instead." www.thedailybeast.com/magas-favori...
thedailybeast.com
Mind-Blowing Real Life of MAGA’s Favorite Dem Exposed
A brutal report raises questions about whether he is fit to serve as a senator.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
bloomberg.com
A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/09/2026
I was trying to find an art asset for a client and instead unearthed this dumb thing I made back in the twitter days
A long cardboard tube. The closer end is labeled 'talking like darth vader' and the other, longer portion is labeled 'hitting your little brother'
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/09/2026
4 Americans died at Benghazi and we got a decade of Republican hearings about it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
truthout.org/articles/vot...
truthout.org
Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haha we're right on time for Bluesky metadrama
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When the mob rules
Racist guy got his shit owned
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is per curiam, but it reads very much John Roberts. Gosh, wouldn't you know it, for procedural reasons the GOP is just going to have to have its way until an arbitrary later date, and gosh, such a shame that the clock will run out in the meantime. What could be done.
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
democrats-appropriations.house.gov
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
zeteo.com
Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
Progressivism relies on social trust & is hopeless without it.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
HAPPY TO smallpdf.com I am such an evangelist for this site
smallpdf.com
Smallpdf - A Free Solution to all your PDF Problems
Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, free.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
“OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.”
techcrunch.com
ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data | TechCrunch
OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026
Under Biden's Solar for All program, $117 million in federal money was set to go to Indiana for solar, battery, & microgrid projects. Tens of millions of those dollars were headed to Gary, to improve its resilience. Then Trump canceled the program & yanked back all the money.
canarymedia.com
Gary power outage underscores stakes of Solar for All cancellation
Some city residents went two weeks without power following storms. The federal program, ended by Trump, would have enabled many to access solar and…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago.
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Charm City Slicker @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Baltimore, one of our great civic orgs needs us. Asylee Women Enterprise, which helps asylum seekers, torture + trafficking survivors, and other forced migrants, rebuild their lives here, must rapidly leave their space of 10+ years. Please give to help them move to their own forever home in Hampden!
givebutter.com
A Forever Home for Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)
We’re asking people who believe in our mission to help us reach our goal and build a permanent home for AWE and the communities we serve.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 02/09/2026
As data centers suddenly emerge as a major political flashpoint, Councilman John Perkins has been recalled from office in Independence, Missouri, a city of 123,000, following his vote to approve a multibillion-dollar data center project.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 02/09/2026
we’re hiring!! bsky.social/about/join
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Jobs - Bluesky
View open positions at Bluesky
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 02/09/2026
Our souls are the ways we shape the lives of others, the traces of our brief existence in the world
When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird. 

When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.

Wendell Berry
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What do you name an animal that can assume the shape & size of a volleyball? If you're the San Antonio Zoo, you name them WILSON. Wilson is a southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus), the only genus of 'dillo that can actually roll into a ball. (📷: San Antonio Zoo via FB&IG)
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telsie 🦬 @telsie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We will see what happens in November, but forcefully telling elected officials that you will punish them for limiting voting access is exactly the way to go.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
anyway, i am going to need All Centrists to stop being weird bigots so we can stop being "distracted" and get down to the business of saving the nation and the planet. it actually takes less energy to support the trans community with your whole chest than it does to do weird waffling!
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like I’m going to throw up
Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The thing that Disney and other corporations have recently done where they say spouses are ineligible for benefits if they are offered any benefits at their own job seems like its pulling out a load bearing element from the system's popular support.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/09/2026
it's beyond telling that Platner got pass after pass after pass and you were told you were a secret traitor and Republican lover if you don't support him and Mamdani and El-Sayed both get treated with peak suspicion, if not outright hostility.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
America does not feel like a real nation anymore
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We had an unprecedented shift toward absentee balloting during the pandemic and we should have a far more precedented shift to in person voting now that Trump's fucking with the mail
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 31/08/2026
Colorado authorities and lawmakers are clashing with the operators of an ICE facility over access to investigate a tuberculosis case, while recently released detainees allege that conditions at the facility aggravated medical conditions, made them sicker and exposed them to more illness.
nbcnews.to
Former detainees with medical conditions detail fear of getting tuberculosis in Colorado ICE facility
Colorado health officials have sued to get more access to information around a confirmed tuberculosis case at the Aurora Immigration Processing Center.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
it's been fun to watch "save women's sports" types read this report, which favorably argues that women should stop playing basketball and start taking recreational dance
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
biggest political development of the week. clear signal the party is going for court expansion. now our job is to give them the trifecta to make it happen
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Iceberg…
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please leave the "Google had to do it, this wasn't political" shit in the bin where you found it. Everyone knows it's political, including the White House. To wit:
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
Thing is deplatforming her and holding up social sanction as a consequence for associating with her was very effective at limiting the harm she could cause, it’s the movement to end those practices that’s been aided by the world’s richest people which has empowered her beyond her previous influence.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I was on a group Zoom call where one of the participants was sharing his screen. He accidentally shared the one where Gemini is ingesting our call, summarizing it in realtime, and offering reply suggestions. I didn’t even know that was a thing! So even when talking to a human, it might be a bot.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This quote is from last February. Good work sir!
"Regulations, basically, should be default gone," Musk said. "Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This shit is fucking magic. Saved my life and saved the life of my friends. The fact that it's free is absolutely mind-blowing.
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