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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“My father, / lymph node masses fading from / his x-rays, said surviving one thing / means another comes and kills you. / He’s dead, and so, I trust him.” —John Murillo, “On Confessionalism” @commonmag.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/on-confessio...
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JOHN MURILLO <br> I’m standing / in a section 8 apartment parking lot, / pistol cocked, and staring down / at this man, then up into the mug / of an old woman staring, watering / the single sad flowe...
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
farts are the ghosts of the food we eat
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There's just this constant: "You must pretend that you are at a ladies' tea party even in the midst of a massacre, which is by the way your fault because you're not tea partying with enough daintiness and reserve. Doilies shall be thy only weapon against cannons." Fuck that. And hooray for Ossoff.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Do I think Trump is a Nazi? No. His animal brain doesn’t permit him to claim anything so specific. But his governing instincts are clearly fascist and his electoral success has culled actual Nazis out from society’s wretched little crevices and into the open.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Holy shit
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lunch today with my friend Claudia who is a genius and will be reading from and talking about her new book Triage tonight for @litquake.bsky.social in Oakland.
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bantamsam.bsky.social @bantamsam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is there really going to be a publicly televised execution by firing squad in America in 2026? And why does this surprise me?
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 09/10/2026
a masterclass in alt text
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)
Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says 'I'm against abortion' but says 'I'm in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life. Someone who says that 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Supporting Medicare for All is not radical. Opposing it is. #MedicareForAllNOW www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@carcanet.bsky.social congratulations, Jorie! @joriegraham.bsky.social
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is where EVIL women have a hand in rape culture.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally - PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are not the same❕
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Spooky Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
she could be a little possessive sometimes, like an apostrophe
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bantamsam.bsky.social @bantamsam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Isn’t this how the government in France fell in the sixties? Dans la rue!!!! I wish students in America had this much power. Source: AP News
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 02/10/2026
“There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.” — Pope Leo (This non-religious artist is nodding enthusiastically!)
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
If you vote legally, he's going to jail.
Trump on Truth Social: "If you vote illegally, you're going to jail."
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So NOW Carl Rove says the GOP was taken over by Nazis? Except that was decades ago, with him front & center stage. So the bridge too far for him was John Cornyn losing in Texas? What do we suppose happened that turned him away? All the rest of it was OK? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt went to Truman State University, so …
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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bantamsam.bsky.social @bantamsam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andrea Gibson’s last words: “I fucking loved my life.”
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥 🤣🎉
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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vallirose.bsky.social @vallirose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How is this my country? My country is unrecognizable! I resent having to wake up & learn of the newest atrocity committed by a sociopath who should be committed to a rubber room. Americans are angry Americans are full of despair Americans livelihoods are diminishing We fight back #VoteBlue
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥😡
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kieth Herring died in 1990 during the AIDS crisis, but left us art we can celebrate forever. Today is National AIDS/HIV men’s awareness day. Get tested. Call your friends.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For the first time in history, an all-Black team of surgeons is leading Johns Hopkins Hospital’s flagship Trauma and Acute Care Surgery service. Doctors Valentine S. Alia, M.D. (second-year resident); (cont.) 🧵 www.theroot.com/meet-the-his...
Meet the Historic All-Black Surgery Team at Johns Hopkins
For the first time in the hospital’s history, an all-Black team took the helm of the flagship trauma service

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 26/09/2026
Former President Joe Biden says that even in difficult moments, Americans have repeatedly come together and emerged stronger. We must continue to fight against the regime.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen—but are, if one will, to be lived." ~ Søren Kierkegaard The Woodland Glade (1883) 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted
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Lance Said This @lancesaidthis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I wonder if mobsters with Alzheimer's are walking around saying, "Aye... I forgoddabout it."
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Lady Di @ladydi2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is where we are at. The U.S. was the only one to oppose… 😡 #Pinks
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So you support it? I do.
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bantamsam.bsky.social @bantamsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You know the economy is good when they lock up the detergent at the CVS. Good luck in November guys!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People are missing the point about Trump’s flattery about Xi’s appearance. It is counterpoint to big speculation in Chinese social media that Xi is ill, focusing on how his wife had to help him down plane stairs, etc. Story is about two “strongmen” trying to hide each other’s and their own weakness
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bantamsam.bsky.social @bantamsam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To quote Edmund Wilson on the Wall Street crash in 1929: On the other hand, it’s nice to see the whole shithouse coming crashing down: apple.news/Aa15pEUylQO-...
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Republicans Break With Trump After Immigration Crackdowns Hit Home — The Washington Sun
Republicans are signaling they see it as a vulnerability in some of the country’s most competitive races.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This guy constantly makes himself look foolish. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MY president is and will forever remain: Black. 🇺🇸 @barackobama.bsky.social
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Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to let you know that my book debuted at #9 on this weeks UK Sunday Times list, at the same time as opening at #13 on the NYT best seller list. I am beyond shocked and stunned. Thank you so much everybody.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Teach the Facts.
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