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Avedon Carol (in that order)

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Old-school blogger, and grumpy with it.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
evil vs. incompetent vs. secret third thing where you’re too incompetent to accomplish evil
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder - IDF soldiers filmed themselves destroying medical equipment in Gaza hospitals "We’ll destroy every place that terror comes from"
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ha. Ha. Ha.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
One thing which is worth noting from this ruling is that occupied Palestinian territory is a single territorial unit and it is meaningless to say that Israel has "withdrawn" (fake anyway) from one section while consolidating control over two others. That means the occupation has continued.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will go so far as to say Jamelle has more followers on here than Rahm Emanuel will get votes
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EnchanTRIS✨✨✨ @myobsexssions.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Just applied to be a poll worker for Election Day. I know they’re planning to invalidate votes. And threaten ppl. Gonna put my Spanish skills to use and try to help the elderly. Just doing my part to try to help keep this damn country from eating itself alive.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gouldian finches 12-15cm tropical savanna and open woodlands of northern Australia. black faced male and the red faced female performing mating ritual hopping up and down Nest inside a a tree hollow both take turns incubating 16 days, feed chicks 25 days in the nest, and 3 weeks after fledging.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Josh Byer @vancityjoshb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Blue Forest (2024) It was stormy in Vancouver today, but sometimes I like that. It's cozy when it rains. #art #painting #blue #artsky
A very blue painting of a very blue forest.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i used to think photo editors went out of their way to find the most unflattering photos of guys like sam altman and kash patel but they actually just look that way lol
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I will vote to send myself out to sea on a barge before I vote for Rahm Emmanuel. Please be serious.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unionbusting is About Power, Not Money
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Unionbusting is About Power, Not Money - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For the cost of what employers pay their unionbusting firms, they could just use that money to pay their workers: Amazon alone spent $26 million dollars on this, with the hospital companies holding much of the rest of the top 10. These reports represent only a fraction of the total money spent on anti-union campaign […]
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear argument in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a federal judge ordered two planeloads of Venezuelan men returned to the United States and the administration, hours later, handed them to a prison in El Salvador instead."
harrylitman.substack.com
Crucial Hearing on Team Trump’s Contempt for the Rule of Law
Entire D.C. Circuit takes up administration’s effort to force Judge Boasberg to stand down.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Somehow, in the year of our Lord 2026, professional politics workers convinced themselves that the Shah of Iran could return to power through popular uprising. This is the power of motivated thinking. The same motivated thinking from the same people that gave us our last disastrous war.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026
Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl
a pygmy owl resting on a branch.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026
The Democratic Party’s centrist consultant machine needs to be completely rejected and dismantled if this country is ever going to embrace the future and put this fascist nightmare behind us. The time for half measures is long past.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oops never mind
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hear immigrant children also have heartbeats.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026
It’s always silly when judges insist that they are magically nonpartisan and have no political beliefs, but it’s especially funny when you have a long track record of saying things like “ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT” (all caps in original)
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”
Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to turn an outdated skyscraper building in the city into 4,000 units of affordable housing. Instead of creating destructive data centers that destroy lives as well as the ecosystem for dark profit, this leader chooses to help people instead. More of this please.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If there is any fraud, it is being committed by the health insurance companies. They are the ones getting the subsidy checks, not the consumers. Even Trump understands that: www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
foxnews.com
Trump urges Senate Republicans to redirect funds from Obamacare-backed insurers, pay Americans directly
President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to redirect funds from "money sucking" insurance companies linked to Obamacare back to Americans.
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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The administration doesn’t care if it makes sense. They are basically just saying “fuck you” over and over. Fuck you, we’re taking your health insurance because we can. Fuck you, our only goal is to degrade and dispirit you until your will is broken and you submit to any abuse we decide to inflict.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 26/09/2026
It's like they thought that when word got out that they'd been F***ing Pig Heads for fun, that'd be seen as unhinged enough to keep the baddies away. 😏
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
cnn.com
FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It is the president saying that he and he alone will convert a bipartisan spending bill (that has been signed into law) into a partisan spending bill. He is canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like.
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
i am a little surprised this hasn’t happened more often, but i would not be surprised if it happens more often in the future
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you’re bitching to the UN about a Twitch streamer it’s safe to say your PR battle has taken the biggest of L’s
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some pilots are part of the furry community
An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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