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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Hegseth has by all professional assessments bungled a war against Iran and likely lost it. He is incapable of articulating the reason for the war or the objectives he is pursuing. Yet he is spending almost every waking hour denigrating soldiers, sailors and airmen and trying to foment divisions and
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13h
The Senate just failed to pass the “Stop Insider Trading Act.” Except the bill doesn’t actually ban stock trading and makes it harder for people to vote. Here’s why I voted no on it and why Republicans are pushing this scam.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20h
"And don't get me started on what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to cause today's high gas prices."
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 17h
"this was elder care masquerading as world-saving 'policy,' stringing together some of Tr*mp’s favorite activities—proximity to power, document signings, arbitrary renamings— for an entire day" @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[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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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 30/09/2026
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balrogwtf.bsky.social @balrogwtf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump loves calling things by the wrong name.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stealing Venezuela's gold reserves. No, NYT, this is not a "joke." Trump "looked approvingly at the 10 Venezuelan gold bars stacked in the Roosevelt Room, across from the Oval Office, White House officials recalled. Aides took photos and joked about keeping the gold."
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing the sides these guys put themselves on
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Tasselfoot @tasselfoot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone asked me what my favorite Armor Games Studios game is… and I said SOLAS 128 by @amicableanimal.bsky.social (I love all our games though. Like children.) You can get SOLAS + 6 other great games all while helping to support the @eff.org www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...
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Programing Puzzles Bundle
Test your skills with this bundle of programming puzzle games! Pay what you want and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation!
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whether you like #graphite or #pyromorphite, we all know: Hexagons are the bestagons.
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Circles Waste Space. Hexagons Don't.
YouTube video by CGP Grey
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
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Dustin Carbetta @dcarbetta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s so many… “A plague o' both your f’ing houses!” Or "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a f’ing horse!"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is why my eyes roll when anyone says “MAHA wants to do something about chronic diseases” No, it doesn’t MAHA’s leaders, RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya, run the US health & health research systems & they have DECIMATED chronic disease prevention What MAHA *says* is divorced from what it *does*
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What a record for the MAHA Leader RFK Jr! -strips money from the Office of Minority Health -receives >$250k of free flights to Fiji & Greece -headlines the most notorious anti-vaxx conference, where he announces he’ll study…CHEMTRAILS -uses military planes to campaign for GOP -lies to Congress
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Found a guy that did my name before me @davidbutlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by a fucking idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tamora , Titus Andronicus : Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora; She is thy enemy, and I thy friend: I am FUCKING Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom, To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind, By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Talarico: "I am extending an open hand to all of our neighbors who supported the president in the last election and inviting them to join this movement we are building across the state"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey just a heads up that even if Dems conclusively retake both houses of Congress they will not be able to pass legislation, since Trump won't sign. To me, that means the best thing to do is investigate, prosecute, impeach, and (in the Senate) confirm judges. Just trying to set expectations.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... "
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
finding and trying to establish a real connection btwn my work and audiences has been a part of my job since early web2 times. but i have always noticed that, when my irl community feels strong/supportive i have so little pull to post/social. but whenever i feel more alone social has a pull. fwiw
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Opus, please make a sequence of fully animated/movie Skyrim loading screens, but with your favorite things." (That was it) You can see them here: elder-favorites.netlify.app
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Your Data Will Be Used Against You” was featured at the 10th Privacy Symposium at the IMF.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Trump has blown TENS OF BILLIONS of your tax dollars on his forever war with Iran. The American people did not want this. End the war NOW.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:
Infographic titled "Six Ways 'Rigged Election' Rumors Mislead." A two-column table pairs six labeled categories with descriptions. The first three categories are:

No Evidence: The rumor is entirely unsubstantiated. There's no evidence to support the rumor.

Fake/False Evidence: The rumor is based on fake or synthetic evidence (e.g. AI-generated content), manipulated evidence, or false witness testimony.

Misinterpreted Evidence: This rumor is based upon real evidence that has been misinterpreted or intentionally mischaracterized to create a false impression.

A black banner then introduces the final three categories: "Real Evidence, Real Voting Issue, False Narrative."

Exaggerated Impact: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but falsely insinuates or exaggerates impact on election results.

Ignored Remedies: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but ignores and/or obscures the remedies that would address this problem

False Blame: The rumor centers on a real issue with voting but either falsely attributes intent for an accidental issue or places blame on an innocent party.

Source: UW Center for an Informed Public, September 2026.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At this point I am kind of figuring that all the work I'm doing now about constitutional renewal is going to actually matter in like ten to fifteen years, after the NEXT round of crisis
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Kevin Vognar @somnule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think the logic is that there are two groups: straight white conservative men, and everyone else. And that those two groups should be equally represented. 🙃
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boasting of an illegal war and the war crime of pillage.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 21/09/2026
New heat from our Head of Trust and Safety @jdot.blacksky.team on why it is important to build a culture of digital safety! blackskyweb.xyz/building-a-c...
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Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety
Black culture is in a lot of ways synonymous with how internet culture exists writ large. From what is now described as “Gen-Z slang” (or as Black people have always known it, AAVE) to our methods of ...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
god this is giving me such trauma flashbacks to how all of us who worked at twitter felt when the acquisition finally went through. just abject despair.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mahan Air is an Iranian airline closely connected with the IRGC. It is sanction by the EU. It also has regularly scheduled flights to Beijing. Are you trying to tell me that if those flights land and refuel, China will be barred from using the US dollar? On the eve of Xi Jinping's visit?
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balrogwtf.bsky.social @balrogwtf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some doofus is going to program that dog, looping, introspecting, correcting. The 9/11 attacks required long-term planning, insertion of personnel, aircraft training, funding, etc. What is the inflection point where a billionaire with his own "AI" can keep 1000's of agents at work for years?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026
Does anyone believe JD Vance would have the same opinion if a Democratic President removed Fox News? Hell, if they simply declined to call on a Fox News reporter for questions, he'd lose his mind...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US will soon have the world's only triumphal arch whose features were driven by litigation strategy.
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@Very__Regular

george lucas, 1975 (in tunisia, severely dehydrated, over budget) sure, yeah. put the little blue guy in the background. is alec still in his trailer

guy who gets mad for money on youtube, 2024: and now disney made Deebo Threebo green. that's how little respect they have for you
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know this has been going on for a while now but it’s still *wild* that the government of the US just brags on the internet about its obviously extrajudicial murders
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balrogwtf.bsky.social @balrogwtf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It doesn't matter what it is, we'll just tear down whatever monstrosity he puts up,
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