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Stopped being nice 11/5/2024.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As an American, as someone who majored in communications, as someone who grew up believing journalism was one of the last sacred callings in a democracy… That shit made me fucking sick. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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The Fourth Estate Forgot to Stand the Fuck Up
The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Black-Tie Surrender
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Since a certain movie is in the public consciousness: this obscenity — in the Greek sense of the term — is like something out of an ancient play. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
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Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll
Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/07/2026
Trump's own intel agencies say the strikes aren't working. His own troops are getting hurt in numbers the Pentagon won't disclose. And his answer today was to tell reporters Iran is "begging" for a deal while U.S. bases quietly empty out across the Middle East. Your midday recap is here:
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Tuesday Afternoon News Updates: The Iran War Goes From Bad to Worse – 7/21/26
Hi all, Ben here.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Disney is laying off hundreds of people at its wildly successful Pixar Studios. But Disney also plans to spend $8 billion this year to buy back its own stock. Corporations don’t care about workers, they just focus on making executives richer.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
Hegseth is interrupted by a second, third, and fourth round of protesters in quick succession
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I don’t get why so many of you think our president is in mental decline, all he’s doing is imposing new taxes on you, because he thinks he’s punishing Canada, for being on fire
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
Duckworth: "Trump is the one who started this war without any actual plan for how he was going to execute the mission. So the blame for those 18 service members' deaths lays at the feet of the president. It sits on the resolute desk in front of him in that gilded Mary Antoinette of an Oval Office."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Corporations have been hiring MAGA-world lawyers with ties to Trump to lobby on their behalf. The latest example? Taylor Farms hiring a former Trump White House official as it deals with a cyclospora investigation. This also comes after it donated $1M to Trump's super PAC. See the problem?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
The news media thinks “defund the police” is some form of gotcha but the truth is that police budgets are way too high and teachers’ salaries are way too low.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Smithsonian does not belong to the President or a political party. It BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! We will not let them rewrite our history! We will fight back in Congress, the Courts, and in our Communities because this is OUR story!
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Rep. Stansbury: Standing Up to the President's Political Witch Hunt at the Smithsonian
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
Duckworth: "He appointed the most incompetent secretary of defense in our nation's history. All he seems to be worried about is testosterone levels in our troops instead of making sure that he actually has a plan to execute this mission in Iran and ending it before even more Americans get killed."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
yes
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D Marie @gypsysoul1968.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
😅
Lindsey Graham
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
Heritage Foundation president celebrates
Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling:
"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
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ABER ELECTION
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President of The Heritage Foundation
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PLATFORMS OVER PEOPLE? SCOTUS DECISIONS MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP EAS
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates
Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
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Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026
someone tell serkis that middle-earth isn’t real and there aren’t actually white people in Arda
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie has announced he'll introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, a bill to give state AGs, DAs, 'authorized state officers,' and victims the right to sue DOJ for "unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, removing, or failing to publish Epstein-related records."
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Everybody in Europe is laughing at you.
Donald J. Trump 0|
@realDonaldTrump
Europe is learning that when you take in Third World criminals, you become a Third World Country. It happens quickly, in just a blink of the eye. I was elected just in time!!! President DJT
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/07/2026
Basically everything I write these days on my blog just ends up being plagiarised using LLMs without any credit to me at all At least they kept my chart? lol
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Hedgie
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🦔Google's electricity consumption jumped from 31 to 43 terawatt hours in a single year, the largest increase in the company's history. Google now uses more electricity than New Zealand. Emissions rose 18%. Water consumption climbed 34% to 10.9 billion gallons.

My Take
Google's electricity didn't just grow. The rate at which it grew also grew. That's exponential, and Google admitted it when it said AI infrastructure expands faster than the power grid can decarbonize. If you know you're building faster than the grid can handle and you keep going, the climate target isn't hard to reach. You gave up on it and haven't said so.

Google claims its products avoided 41 million tonnes of emissions in 2025, more than the company's entire footprint. Most of that comes from Google crediting itself for clean energy projects that used Google Earth to pick a site. By that logic Google Docs helped write every climate policy drafted on it. Amazon now emits more than New Zealand and Henrico County asked its teachers to turn off the lights so data centers could stay on. The companies pledged net zero before the AI buildout and every one of them went backward. Google's report says the path won't be linear. They're right. It's exponential, in the wrong direction.

Hedgie🤗
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/07/2026
whenever i post in defense of birthright citizenship i get a bunch if these comments which i assume come from bots but they are still quite funny
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Bullied Meta into unbanning InfoWars on Threads. Thank you all for being annoying as hell.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So bored of "disruptors" and assorted fucking idiots.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Cape Verde tried to beat Argentina honorably. Paraguay tried to beat France with absolutely shithouse tactics and goonery. The ref sucked. I award Paraguay no points.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is what Patriot Front does on 4th of July. This is normal for them. They cover their faces so you don't knownit's the same 40 of them everywhere because their numbers are small. They're a single fascist flash mob traveling the country.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/07/2026
i can’t stop laughing at this
SALUTE TO AMERICA

IMMEDIATE EVACUATION
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/06/2026
i don't have the first idea about the validity of the claims here but i am consulting religious texts to see if there are any patron saints for class action lawsuits i can pray to
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is a profound violation of international law, basic human rights and fundamental decency. Seeking asylum is a human right. "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." – Matthew 25:35
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.........
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
CNN has a copy of Trump’s Iran Surrender Document which is exactly the same as the MoU Iran released last Friday.
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Read the 14-point draft agreement between the US and Iran | CNN
The agreement between Iran and the US lays out the terms of the ceasefire between the bitter rivals, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, some financial relief for Iran and a reiteration from Tehran...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We have a deal. It’s very strong. But you don’t know it. I met it at summer camp. It goes to a different school.
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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Knicks fans, celebrate ya chip with hats & jerseys but please wait for "post-championship clarity" before buying anything crazy. I own a Chicago Cubs commemorative championship light-up Wrigley Field baseball table? Da fuq for?!😂
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Never piss off the boss.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
hard to reconcile the poignancy of this statement with the fact that bob dylan is spending his 80s releasing weird AI content on patreon lol pitchfork.com/news/bob-dyl...
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Bob Dylan Launched a Patreon for Some Reason
It includes letters and essays that appear to have utilized AI
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And I’ll just add that MST3K could not be made today, either. Okay, admittedly, you probably could make it today, and now that I think of it, we ARE making new episodes today, and they’re coming soon, but I wanna be an old guy complaining about shit, too!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So…more gun violence and less access to health care.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
They have the same Mars Attacks do.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
the office couldn't be made today because it would be eight episodes for some streaming service that would schedule the second season for three years later and then cancel it for no good reason
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 15/06/2026
Trump will be able claim credit for giving the Iranian Regime over 176 times more cash than Obama
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 15/06/2026
it’s hard to believe that when they made jaws robert shaw was only 27
screengrab of robert shaw in jaws
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