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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pour one out for a real one. His oral history at USHMM talks about the youth movements finding places for Jews to hide and bringing them food, and becoming masters at forging Nazi documentation so pristine that the national French Resistance used them too. collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

how the youth movements were the first to recognize the imminent peril and initiated rescue operations to save and arm the Jews; how during the mass arrests the youth movements provided food on a daily basis for those in hiding, identified host families or institutions for Jewish children, and produced forged documents; recalls the various techniques to produce forged documents and the evolving coded vocabulary: "les bifs" for the more artisanal identity cards and "les synthés" (les synthétiques) for the more perfect forgeries; how the youth movements' forgery laboratories were so proficient that the national French Resistance used their services and, in particular, the expertise of Maurice Loebenberg (Cachoud);

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm very tempted not to link the docket to keep suspense up, but here it is: www.courtlistener.com/docket/73442... FULL DISCLOSURE - counsel for Wizards of the Coast is my former employer, but I literally hadn't seen this case before today; I've been gone from there for about 18 months.

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Chan v. Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC, 1:26-cv-04680 - CourtListener.com

Docket for Chan v. Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast, LLC, 1:26-cv-04680 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Tyler imagines how intoxicating the attention of admiring white liberals might have felt to someone who had “come up hard." Maybe, but probably not. But we do not know. Tyler is speculating.(...) We are no longer simply evaluating evidence. He is purposefully constructing a character."

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He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.

Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Urbanist Philomena Cunk. Before cars, humans just walked wherever they wanted, like stray dogs or the French.

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@legroff.bsky.social I just finished Brawler. It’s very good. I liked it a lot. Thank you for the book and your effort in writing it.

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This feels like information we already knew but seeing these numbers is stunning.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

82 years ago today, 320 mostly Black WWII military men died instantly, and another 400 were badly injured after a series of explosions in Port Chicago, California. As a result, several dozen Black men were punished and sentenced to hard prison labor despite none of it being their fault 🧵

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's World Emoji Day, so here's a friendly reminder that we have 🚷 and 🚳 but not

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Roberts Court’s jurisprudence on discrimination echoes the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision upholding Japanese internment—a case whose approach the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The See-No-Evil Supreme Court

The majority refuses to see evidence of racism.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

No soccer until Tuesday

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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

James Baldwin would like a word on this moment #America250

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

As the White House chooses to commemorate the nation's founding with this sort of rhetoric, reminder that this exact same rhetoric was used to justify blocking Ashkenazi Jews from coming to the US prior to the Holocaust, on the grounds that they were disproportionately likely to be Communists.

Tweet from the White House: "You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both."

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Giving the finger to Wordle Wordle 1,841 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

SCOTUS has turned the first amendment into a protection for businesses and dark money, changed the 2nd from a protection of militias to a protection for assault weapons in private hands, read the text of the 11th like crazy people, and inverted the 14th to hurt the people it was supposed to protect.

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WomenWarriors @womenwarriors.com · 28/06/2026

Happy 100th Birthday to #MelBrooks. 😊💜🌈🎵🦄 youtu.be/9QbATFlTaZs?...

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Mel Brooks - The Cary Grant Story

YouTube video by cult mania

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There’s a school and a neighborhood named for him In Tucson

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born 154 years ago today, right down the street from me. I went to the middle school named for him, and my brother went to the high school named after him. He also went to school with to school with The Wright Brothers and edited a paper with them

A short bio of Dunbar in a books called Black Poets of the United States

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

One of the greatest Kennedy Center Honors performances ever: Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Jason Bonham on drums, and Shane Fontayne on electric guitar. It moved Robert Plant to tears as he watched alongside Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. (Edited for format)

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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 31/05/2026

The UFC-on-the-White-House idea is Trump reimagining constitutional government as imperial branding: less republic, more arena.

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I only learned in this thread of the connection between tipping and slavery. Thanks for this!

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

21 May 1971, Marvin Gaye released his album 'What's Going On'. The concept album told the story of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only the hatred, suffering and injustice. It is regarded as 1 of the greatest albums of the 20th century. #WhatsGoingOn

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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, 2026

Reuters
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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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is a great piece and it’s not about the sandwich

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I wrote about why a turkey is called a turkey, what they call a turkey in Turkey, what's in a name, and the story of the bird that makes such a good club sandwich buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #142: Turkey

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

Graphic announcing the Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction to There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 12/04/2026

Van Aert: "This victory is for Michael", he dedicates it to Michael Goolaerts, his former team mate who died during the 2018 Paris-Roubaix

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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 12/04/2026

Famiily time in 🇫🇷 Roubaix for the 🇧🇪 Van Aert family 😍 🎥 Paris-Roubaix

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Dear driver behind me: Why do I ride in the middle of the lane? 🚴So you don't pass and then right hook me 🚴‍♀️So you don't block me from turning left 🚴‍♂️If cars are parallel parked on the right, so I don't get doored 🚴‍♂️If cars are parked nose in, so I don't get backed into ...

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