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Cats, dogs, dinos. Buckeye in Texas. Tired but still fighting. #AdoptDontShop #UglyDogs

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Texas public libraries generated $4.74 in community value for every $1 invested in fiscal year 2024, according to a statewide study released Wednesday. trulytexas.txla.org
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Libraries: Truly Texas
Explore Libraries: Truly Texas, TLA's research hub showcasing public opinion polling and economic impact data on Texas libraries. Discover why libraries matter.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is so wrong www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch is leaving amid fights with Trump
Bunch, the first Black person and first historian to lead the institution, said he has ‘mixed emotions’ about departing.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 31/08/2026
Can't sleep. Bat posting.
Thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats against a pink and blue sky with an airplane flying by in the distance
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 27/08/2026
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform By now... www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-ju…
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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and Meta pays somewhere...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the things we have lost is the power to shame public officials. It seems quaint but it is actually very important. Without it, formal law is significantly weaker and our lives are significantly poorer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/u...
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A Republican Attack Ad Used a Family’s Tragedy. Now They’re Furious. (Gift Article)
Relatives of a family killed by a semi truck say they were not consulted about the ad, which connected the crash to illegal immigration.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

 

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). 

 

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

 

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.         

 

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 21/08/2026
If you received as many government handouts and subsidies as Elon Musk has, you'd be super rich too.
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Amers @austinamers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Supreme Court Justice maybe
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Amers @austinamers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
RIP Sweet Jackie 💔
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Launch People to Mars in 2024Elon Musk: Giant Rocket Could Take Us to Marks in Just 7 Years - and London in 29 MinutesCan Elon Musk Really Get Us to Mars Within 10 Years?Elon Musk Is Not a Lunatic
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
well sure when u put it that way it sounds bad
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/08/2026
Three years ago, EPA proposed cybersecurity rules for municipal water systems. Republicans sued to prevent the rules from going into effect, and that was the end of that. Now seven states' water systems are under attack by Iran.
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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
damn good doge update in wapo - www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... and on xitter, the doge account is boosting attention to this with a taunting gif “it’s alive”
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DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.
The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Freedom 250 a[lleged]ly misled America250 donors and rerouted donations intended for the latter to their own coffers, which ... would constitute a criminal act. The authors of the [House] report interviewed sources attesting that prospective donors were provided with false banking information[.]"
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bessieglass11.bsky.social @bessieglass11.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
please REPOST for this beautiful young boy to get him seen a new home awaits him somewhere out there ❤️🥰❤️
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is coming for all of us, not everybody but randomly enough to be caustic for everyone of us. (Disclosure: David is my friend.) wapo.st/4vg9nx4
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He wrote a scathing message to ICE. Federal agents showed up at his door.
David Streever of Rochester, New York, sued Department of Homeland Security officials on Monday, saying the agency’s actions violated his First Amendment rights.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’d still like to see them swap out Zlatan Ibrahimović for Nandor the Relentless.
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Southern Sylvs 🍉 she/her @southernsylvs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Don't forget, Cabo Verde women will be in WAFCON at the end of this month. Support this footballing nation.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A society that rewards cruelty, excuses corruption, and mistakes wealth for virtue makes someone like Trump possible. What disappoints me most isn’t Trump himself. It’s how many people still defend, excuse, and enable him despite everything they’ve seen. I find that truly shameful.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Abolitionist Law Center @abolitionistlawcenter.org · 30/06/2026
The US Supreme Court should not have taken up the Trump administration’s case on whether the 14th Amendment actually ensures birthright citizenship, something that has been long settled. Doing so was racist overreach.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
this is unbelievable.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/06/2026
shoutout to the lady at the airport here who is starting her day with an avocado toast and a full glass of white wine
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“The President owns and operates a bank” is satire-level corruption
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Amers @austinamers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
❤️❤️ Brix
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/06/2026
Can't sleep, grebeling posting. 🐣 🪶
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
so far this World Cup, The Museum of English Rural Life remains undefeated
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The classic toddler hold. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a toddler wearing a friendly knee length dress standing outside on a lawn. They’re smiling at the camera and somewhat awkwardly holding up a short haired tuxedo tabby kitten with its hind legs dangling down.
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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 02/06/2026
Do you ever find notes you’ve written to yourself but you have no context
“Toothpaste but for your other bones.”
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OfDragonflies @abitofearth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m not sure it matters anymore, but the “triumphal arch” project is currently open for public comment. If anyone is inclined to share their feelings: parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...
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ParkPlanning - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/06/2026
if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k
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Amers @austinamers.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I am so excited for her!😺
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Evil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New Austin Rule: If we smell your BBQ we get to have some 🍖
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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sled dogs featured in this trailer are Colbert, Willow, Dora, Spike, and Pepé. Although Willow absolutely made herself the star.
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Jen @jeneye127.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🐂 GOOD MORNING DO YOU WANT TO COME ALONG WITH MY WALKIES? 🐂
A little blue heeler sits on a path. She is wearing a pink harness attached to a black leash and looking up at the camera.
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Amers @austinamers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My cat got banned from the pet hotel in much the same way. She gets to stay home with a petsitter now. I think that was her plan all along.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
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Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead?? This is quite a story: slate.com/business/202...
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It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It.
The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sen. Elizabeth Warren asks Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh if he has investments tied to the Trump family. He won't answer directly.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
yep, the extreme fragmentation of the info environment and how absolutely ridiculously hard it is to get attention on almost anything, paired with what that system rewards (doom, resentment, negativity, extreme simplicity) makes it very hard to spread news about incremental positive change
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"This is a new piece, it reflects feelings of neglect, abandonment and broken promises. I call it "WHERE'S MY FUCKING DINNER '"
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