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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

I absolutely believe you will see more stories about the kookie left and radical socialists in the coming weeks. And a lot of attention on various kinds of unruly women.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, we all agree that the White Sox are the default team when the Phillies get eliminated, right?

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 5h

Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 6h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6h

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 6h

In the Senate's pre-election swan song, they spent a day asking Jack Smith about the techniques of his probe of the Trump election subversion criminal case Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) blasts the GOP for spending precious time on something that doesn't meet the moment

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10h

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)

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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

I posted in my newsletter about an incarcerated comrade named Kenneth who is running a mobile library in prison. He needed a new cart and some readers generously donated. Here's the new cart! Thanks to those who supported him.

Two men in striped pants and white shirts stand by a cart with books, under a colorful “Perfection” sign on a white brick wall. One holds up two fingers in a peace sign, the other displays a book.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect this implicit backstop from Uncle Sam is going to come up in the near future when these countries need taxpayer money.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7h

So long as the American people don't mind paying more for housing, I don't foresee any issues coming from this.

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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 7h

But your honor, it was a morally binding agreement.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 8h

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 9h

The office of Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, a Democrat, announced last week that it would prosecute 13 people who participated in a sit-in protesting an ICE surveillance center in July.

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AG's Office Brings Charges Against Williston ICE Facility Protesters | Seven Days

Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George had declined to prosecute the protesters.

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4hTdlIv

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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment

Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16h

I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!

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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 9h

I asked America.gov whether Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and it responded: basically, yes so that clears that up at least

Andrea's prompt for America.gov reads "is donald trump an adjudicated rapist" and the bot response is:

In civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding damages.

Regarding the specific legal term:

The jury did not find him liable for "rape" under the narrow legal definition used in New York penal law at the time, but instead found him liable for "sexual abuse".
The presiding judge later clarified in post-trial rulings that the jury's verdict established that Trump had forcibly sexually assaulted and digitally penetrated her, which meets common understandings of rape even though it did not match the specific statutory elements required for that charge under New York criminal law.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13h

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Kÿle @kbeatt.com · 10h

Just Taking up space Realmuto

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 9h

this whole piece misunderstands what people mean when they say writing sharpens thinking, and to top if off, the author uses the comment section to make a crucial point he says he wasn't able to make in the piece itself, which seems to be an argument in favor of, I don't know, why we learn to write

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

“Who invited you to play as a guest here?”

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

You can always count on Susan Collins to be "troubled" by the policies her votes have enabled

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11h

i took the most deadly boring weekly three-hour seminar on transcendentalism with this guy, and yes, he brought a frisbee to toss around outside during the break

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

Their idea is that this guy is some evil and single-minded political actor out to take out a former President, taking a clandestine meeting in the middle of a grand conspiracy, but he had to catch a Hawks game lol

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 11h

I actually can’t get past the first sentence of this opinion piece: “Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing.” This simply isn’t true, at least not in my experience, and it sets up quite the straw man.

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11h

Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!

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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 11h

China sending the family the bullet vibes

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 12h

Veep wasn't absurd enough in retrospect

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12h

if the Manly Man Who Does The Things Men Do contingent of the online right were honest, they'd be falling in front of each other to clown the Republican senator who can't tell the Hawks from the Hawkeyes; alas,

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 12h

Some people desperate to let you know they've never met a brown person before

Someone suggesting my name is a "nom de plume of a Georgetown alumna. School motto is Hoya Saxa"

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12h

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 12h

“We don’t see the research that’s never done. We don’t see the researcher who doesn’t have the breakthrough that leads to the big change. They just disappear.”

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The New Federal Funding Problem

Schools like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers are left in limbo.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12h

long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site

A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."

America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12h

If Tom Cruise gets an Oscar nomination for DIGGER, I hope the clip they use is the scene from COYOTE VS. ACME where Foghorn Leghorn testifies to congress. Cruise gives the exact same performance, and almost exactly the same speech, but in COYOTE VS. ACME it hits 100x harder.

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Andre 🇨🇦 @iamcdn.bsky.social · 12h

three losers who thought they had their moment to shine

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, Caitlin Clark was part of the conspiracy too! This explains the WNBA's trans-for-everyone agenda. It's all connected. Wake up sheeple!!!!!

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

The killer part is he was all the way in Maryland, with federal security watching him. He could’ve followed up on this but just didn’t.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

Schmitt, last year apnews.com/article/nati...

Schmitt, a first-term senator, followed a GOP donor’s speech on “The Problem of Our Time: White Guilt” with a talk of his own titled “What is an American?” In it, Schmitt criticized some legal immigration, declared that “America doesn’t belong to them — it belongs to us,” and insisted, “We can no longer apologize for who we are.”

“Our people tamed the continent, built a civilization from the wilderness,” Schmitt said. “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims who poured out onto the ocean’s shores.”

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

Between this and the continued use of pocket rescissions, it’s like he’s going out of his way to humiliate congressional Republicans as much as he possibly can in the run-up to the mid-term elections. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads

White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.

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