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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 19h

The NYT itself can truly best be summed up with the phrase "thirsty to be fancy."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Trump voters voted for $7 diesel and $15 beef. You're smarter than that. Vote Democrat."

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.

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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 03/10/2026

Getting ratioed to hell over there

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DanSlott @danslott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Quick rule of thumb: Even if you tag me, I can't repost any positive review or post you make about my work if your post *also* slams another comic book creator or their work. Compliments aren't seesaws. You can raise someone up WITHOUT pushing someone else down. :)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That is an incredible series of words to say aloud.

"It's not supposed to be a cruel and an unusual execution," criminologist Deborah Denno told
NBC News. "The goal is to kill somebody, but to kill them within means or in a reasonable way, where there's not going to be pain and suffering."

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How does one impeach a former Secretary of State?

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Rachel H @therachel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dakota is a good name for a nonbinary person. You're not North and you're not South. You're just Dakota.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amendment to my previous post – this is just as bad!!!

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's ok. Not everyone likes cheese.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the specter of the "SJW" haunts the reactionary mind, a monstered hate fetish resembling the "Red Woman" of the freikorps imagination as well as the grotesque caricatures of the "Jew" from nazi agitprop like serial killers obsessively fantasizing about murdering their abusive or overattached mother

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The Grink @thegrink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bro I was

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 2 starting and the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal already collected 300+ signatures for their “Preserve Hybrid Work” petition! Most of the signatures were collected in person, so if you’re a Ubi employee, go meet your colleagues during break hours! Not an employee? Share this post to show support.

Button design: "Results matter. Not location."

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I've spent my whole life BEING special." is an all-time one-liner in terms of demonstrating your own delusion.

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LAist @laist.com · 24/09/2026

Wearing shiny heels, a thrifted dress and a red rose in her hair, Deoujahne Darc belted out an original song on a small, makeshift stage in the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5jmpj ✍️ Jaimie Ding | The Associated Press 📸 Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

Performer with green outfit singing into a microphone.

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You’re No Daisy At All @yourenodaisy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The guy seems like a Republican with more charisma and a savvy team. I hope that the Democratic electorate finds this totally disqualifying for a run in ‘28.

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice to be home in the Sucka Free City, even though a few of the guys on my favorite team are certified suckas.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She's bragging about starving children

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Olivia Rodrigo Releases Fantasy Tabletop Game ‘The High Winter Elves Of Girlville’ theonion.com/olivia-rodrigo-release…

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/09/2026

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

jesus christ

post from reddit, title "Plastered all over the Pentagon today."
poster on a column that says "I WANT YOU TO USE AI" with a illustration of pete hegseth pointing

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is well-documented from me at this point but THE ACOLYTE WAS A MASTERPIECE, Leslye Headland was ROBBED of a second season, and I'll never stop being mad about it.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's genAI disappointment…

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come explore the animated McMahaniverse! 🗡️💀 Golden Axe on P+ 🖖 Star Trek: Lower Decks on P+ or physical media 👽👽 Solar Opposites on Hulu, Disney+ or first 4 seasons on Netflix

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No other industry has ever framed any regulation in terms of "stop", "pause", or "slow down". Those are insane ways to consider any form of policy. Policy should prevent bad outcomes and encourage good ones, it is never about some specific speed.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you've got a sex cult and a nice compound that was given to you for free with stolen money because you preached the gospel of doom really well, how could you stop preaching it? If elaborating upon doomsday prophesies is worth money -- and it is -- you will get more of them.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow I do NOT like the new work Mila Kunis has had done

A photo of Ashton Kutcher and the owner or operaror of the Yank Sing restaurant in SF, who happens not to be Mila Kunis

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16/09/2026

sort of just staring off into the middle distance at this lede

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just learned that in response to the Holy Roman Emperors anointing their own anti-popes, the Popes would also sometimes declare people to be "anti-kings" of Germany to rival the Holy Roman Emprerors lmao. History is great.

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Postal Workers' Union is against the USPS Final Rule, 25 States filed suit against it, with 10 red states in support . SIX REPUBLICAN Secretaries of State - some from red states supporting the rule- have filed an amicus brief with SCOTUS in opposition. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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‘Catastrophic’: Postal workers slam Trump’s mail voting restrictions, urge Supreme Court to uphold block

A union representing 200,000 postal workers said the restrictions "will inevitably grind the operation of the postal system to a halt."

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Will Hines @williebhines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every joke I make here gets used by AI to become smarter, which is why it’s ESSENTIAL I post stupid mediocre bullshit!!!! I’m SAVING HUMANITY you wads!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

The taxpayer-funded White House incitement account is now attacking me for [checks notes] being in my 40s

President Trump does, in fact, travel with staff.

Aaron, on the other hand, is a sick, deluded freak (in his 40s) who sits behind a keyboard and posts creepy things like this.

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Aviel Mann Ballo @avielmannballo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring. I mean, like, DUH, but...

Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Almost 1,900 Blizzard workers vote through a "historic" union contract securing protections against layoffs and gen-AI bit.ly/3Vmi9gH

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jon Husted’s staffer took part in “Nazi military exercises” & had a “Tales from Rhodesia” Spotify playlist. The fact that significant swathes of the media ignore the multiple major Republican campaign staffers outed as Neo-Nazis (to focus on Hasan Piker instead) is journalistic malpractice.

Nazi military exercise from 2018 that Husted's staffer took part in. Credit: The Libs are Resisting

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