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April

@aprilm.bsky.social
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A middle-aged Aggretsuko. I’m here for the journalism, art, science & wrestling. There is probably a Bullet Club t-shirt under my sweater. DM’s are for IRL friends only.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Man pitches 'Shepherd Safety' to city council—a service that tracks politicians the exact same way Flock Safety tracks us. This shouldn't be satire...everyone should be watching “Authority” like a hawk. TT: @coachtd87
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now? A cyclosporiasis outbreak has sickened thousands across 34 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap JEFF-REY EP-STEIN! clap-clap clap-clap-clap
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/05/2026
“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.
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ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
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Mayor Tony Heyl @tonyheyl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This weekend is AEW Double or Nothing. It also marks 7 years since the first AEW show. I don't think any major wrestling company can match this 7 years of quality wrestling that we've been able to enjoy from AEW.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
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Charlie Austin @chuckles-s.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is important. We can't rely on anyone/anything else. We the People have the power to save American democracy.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.
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MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices
March 10, 2026Reuters
Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree.
By Brad Brooks
May 16, 20265:14 AM CDT
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
DOJ indicting someone for posting 86 47 on social media is far more dangerous to Americans than someone posting 86 47 on social media. The real crime is the indictment itself.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
@newrepublic.com published a piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social that is exactly what Cheryl is asking for: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
newrepublic.com
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/04/2026
I see pictures of piers morgan interviewing russell brand on my timeline and you cannot make me watch that at gunpoint
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 21/04/2026
The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article. Neither does the word "decade." "Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
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Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.
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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Thanks to Margaret Sullivan for highlighting how I’ve sounded the alarm about Trump’s mental unfitness and the media’s failure to confront it. @sulliview.bsky.social Her column here: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-me...
On seeing Trump’s post, I thought immediately of Mark Jacob’s October piece about how the media is missing the biggest story there is — Trump’s apparent mental illness. Jacob, a former Chicago Tribune editor, wrote: “It keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage of the King of Crazytown.” After Trump claimed he “predicted” 9/11, Jacob wrote on Bluesky that “the media need to be writing about his mental unfitness every day until we get rid of him and save our country.” But of course, that didn’t happen then, and it didn’t happen this time.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This man was up in the sky from 2020-2021 and made sure to connect with Black folks on Earth to find out what the hell was going on and commiserate FROM SPACE. FROM SPACE! That's the guy we have up there, breaking barriers and making them re-write all the history books. www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1...
npr.org
A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission
Navy Capt. Victor Glover, who spent nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, will be among four astronauts to venture back to the moon for the first time since 1972.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 07/04/2026
Look I don't care how you feel about Iran you must concede that their social media game is exceptional.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/04/2026
rats, sinking ship
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Lololololololololololololololol they changed it
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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well shit... CBP Facility Codes Sure Seem to Have Leaked Via Online Flashcards | WIRED www.wired.com/story/cbp-fa...
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CBP Facility Codes Sure Seem to Have Leaked Via Online Flashcards
The Quizlet flashcards, which WIRED found through basic Google searches, seem to include sensitive information about gate security at Customs and Border Protection locations.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/04/2026
Pam Bondi and Donald Trump may think her firing gets her out of testifying to the Oversight Committee. They are wrong - and we look forward to hearing from her under oath.
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April @aprilm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There is no inherent shame in being fired, but imagine the shame of crossing every ethical and legal line in defense of a lawless leader who routinely throws loyalists under the same damn bus… and THEN getting fired.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just a note of appreciation for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's fierce devotion to the rule of law.
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Елена🦋 🇺🇲❤️🇺🇦✌️ @bookrat101.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
APRIL FOOLS' DAY is canceled this year because no made up prank could match the unbelievable shit show going on in U.S. right now.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/04/2026
There's a lot of conservative politics rooted in the fundamental idea that accommodations of difference are "special treatment" at constant risk of being poached by the "undeserving", and that suffering is both an inevitable fact of life and virtuous. It's a contemptible social rot.
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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Debacle ya say?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
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Michael Morrison @michaelmorrison.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can he at least swing the bat with both hands and make it look like he's trying
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adamdunigan.bsky.social @adamdunigan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We have to keep the pressure up until Stephen Miller is out of the White House and we see agency wide restructuring at DHS.
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adamdunigan.bsky.social @adamdunigan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
But let's not split the difference, Stephen Miller is the real architect of the illegal ICE operations that the Trump administration is waging against our fellow citizens and immigrant communities.
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adamdunigan.bsky.social @adamdunigan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
No firing has been more well deserved than Kristi Noem’s. This is long overdue. But being fired isn't good enough, she needs to be held accountable for her blatant corruption, abuses of power, violation of constitutional rights, and the terror she waged on American citizens.
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kelly…kitty? @kellykitty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
ICE is moving people faster & faster. In October, a friend was taken from his home. By the afternoon, he was in Putnam County. They said he'd be there for a couple days. Next day, we rushed there to get him paperwork for legal rep but he was already on his way to Knox Co & in Louisiana the next day.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is the way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Radiohead to Trump: “Take it down… Go fuck yourselves.” 🎵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.
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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 03/03/2026
Lyin' Liberace be flexin'
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April @aprilm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This has probably been said many times, many ways by now: I’m surprised that Trump hasn’t offered to stop all this as soon as the Iranians change the name of their capital city to Teh-rump.
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April @aprilm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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