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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This video is of gay men who front for anti-gay conservative Christians. One the people highlighted is John Paulk, Focus on the Family’s go-to “ex-gay.” I had been corresponding with him to try to get him to reveal he was in on a scam when he was caught at a DC gay bar. Interesting emails.

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Meth, Male Escorts & Megachurches: The Secret Double Lives of Anti-Gay Pastors

YouTube video by Matt Cullen

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The arguments we’re having today aren’t new. In fact, we were having many of the same ones more than 150 years ago during Reconstruction. I recently sat down with Malcolm Gladwell to reflect on this pivotal time in our nation’s history, and the work that remains. Check out our conversation:

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Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America | Reconstruction

YouTube video by Higher Ground Productions

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I didn’t think it was possible to have a worse opinion of David Ellison, Bari Weiss and the leadership of Paramount and CBS, but watching this Scott Pelley interview makes me dislike them even more. Not just incompetent. But just bad. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqd...

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Scott Pelley on His Firing and the ‘Massacre’ at ‘60 Minutes’ | The Interview

YouTube video by The Interview

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This looks pretty meh, but Jeremy Strong has nailed the creepy dork-thug vibe of Zuckerberg pretty well.

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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 06/05/2026

My hubs and I both worked at Turner, in different capacities, for many years. This post greatly minimizes his accomplishments. 1. Bought Channel 17 and then the rights to the Atlanta Braves. In 1976, beamed Channel 17’s signal up to a satellite to become cable TV’s first superstation.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

What the fuck are we doing here

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

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What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy

Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Amazing views of the Artemis II launch filmed from NASA's WB-57 high altitude aircraft 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full duration on YouTube: youtu.be/pa-dMk2VnUg

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/04/2026

A federal judge in Vermont rules that Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s visa was unlawfully canceled after she was detained at an airport over biological samples she was carrying.

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Harvard scientist's visa was unlawfully canceled, judge finds

The ruling by a federal judge in Vermont that U.S. Customs and Border Protection unlawfully canceled Kseniia Petrova's visa handed her a key legal victory.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

...sucking the oxygen out of too many city neighborhoods. Clearance rates for felonies were in a free-fall, the city courts were unable to cope with the deluge. At this moment, there was much that ailed the Baltimore Police Department. But one thing that the Baltimore media could not bluntly report:

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

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The Gregory Brothers @gregorybrothers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News?

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21/01/2026

Every agent must be investigated, and many need to be imprisoned for their actions. In any future government, with or without ICE itself, you can't move forward on public trust or any semblance of professionalism if the GOP paramilitary is allowed to have gone this far.

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government announces that Canada is realigning Canada's economy away from the United States.

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Top 40 No Kings Signs, #31-40

Countdown of the best protest signs from Oct. 18

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/06/2025

As the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV’s handling of clergy sexual abuse will be closely scrutinized. Two cases have left him open to starkly diverging judgments — praise for helping victims in one, claims that he let them down in the other.

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Is Pope Leo a Man of Action on Sexual Abuse Cases? Or the Opposite?

For some survivors, he was a hero. Others who reported abuse said he failed them.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Remaining group of protesters try to block the van from leaving, after a warning they are also arrested, at least 14 people that I counted now detained.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Yesterday was Vyshyvanka Day, the day of Ukrainian embroidered shirts.

Timothy Snyder and Barack Obama standing together backstage at an event. Timothy Snyder is wearing a vyshyvanka

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 16/05/2025

Wow she went to _Texas_ for dental work?? That’s like going to London for their barbecue

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books

A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."

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Rogue SSA @alt-ssa.altgov.info · 12/04/2025

🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10/04/2025

According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.

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Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fascism Scholars are Fleeing the USA btw 3 prominent Yale professors are departing for a Canadian university: • Jason Stanley, a historian whose books include: “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” & “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future” 1/3

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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

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ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities

A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.”

“N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.”

He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2025

Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor.

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Seven Former Manhattan U.S. Attorneys Voice Their Support for Danielle Sassoon

The former prosecutors, both Democrats and Republicans, sharply criticized the Justice Department’s intention to investigate Danielle Sassoon. She resigned rather than drop a case she supported.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, tweets at Tulsi Gabbard after her confirmation and says “you are simply awesome.” Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose. This is insanity.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In May of 2024 Joe Biden signed a bill that provided funds to hire more air traffic controllers to remedy the shortage of such workers. In January of 2025 Trump fired the head of the FAA (because Musk had beef with him) and encouraged federal workers to resign. www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/p...

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Biden signs bipartisan FAA bill into law | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, enacting a law that aims to improve aviation safety and strengthen protections for passengers ...

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Militants of the Syrian regime are abandoning their posts in the Mazzeh neighborhood, Damascus. That area is the last line of defense between the advancing rebels and Assad‘s palace.

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