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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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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What federal legislation will you propose that helps Augusta and will fix the eviction crisis?

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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 · 09/08/2026

Published in 1923. (Wodehouse is a favorite author!)

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

That Vonnegut quotation is so apt, it’s almost like you wrote the essay to use the quotation.

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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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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The cyclist fatality rate is based on miles cycled. How is it known how many miles cyclists ride? For example, I know how many miles I ride but no one else has that data unless they have access to my Strava account.

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Alan Solot @arsolot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.

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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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