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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
"Russia’s turning abducted Ukrainian children into Russian soldiers." Reporter Kathryn Diss traveled to Ukraine to expose this devastating reality. After years of indoctrination and militarization, kidnapped kids are being forced to sign contracts and fight against their own country.
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Foreign Correspondent: S2026 Ukraine's Stolen Children Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen by Russia since the war began with many ending up on Russian adoption websites. We embed with the undercover rescue network working in a race against time ...
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Deborah Hollingsworth @hollingswordy.bsky.social · 4h
NC Republican Senate candidate youtu.be/Ok9FcK9UpNA?...
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Michael Whatley knew.
YouTube video by Roy Cooper
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Baron @baronblakley.bsky.social · 4h
So… you’re trying to eliminate competition?
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4h
Michael Tracey has so much to answer for.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h
[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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Baron @baronblakley.bsky.social · 7h
Major Abundance, reporting for duty
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John Larroquette as Capt Stillman Salutes
Alt: John Larroquette as Capt Stillman salutes in the classic goofball comedy “Stripes”
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9h
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 9h
Jesus Christ dude
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 16h
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Louise Coombe @louisecoombe.bsky.social · 17h
This. FUCK THE POLLS. VOTE.
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Baron @baronblakley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“This is judicially blessed ethnic cleansing motivated by nothing—nothing—other than naked white nationalism.”
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former NFL/NBA/MLB national network sportscaster here: Gambling has absolutely fucking killed sports. RIP
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“They stripped language requiring the systems to operate in a “predictable” and “reliable” manner, the people said, and removed a clause mandating that ethical considerations be taken into account when using AI weaponry.“
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is defending furries fyi
Joyce Carol Oates O @Joyce CarolOates
trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
Coach Tommy Tuberville * ml @SenTuber... • 1d
Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
11:14 AM • 9/27/26 • 5.1K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
3:54 PM • 9/27/26 • 3.3K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender • 2h
LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
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Baron @baronblakley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hell yes
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Poster
ALT: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Poster
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/09/2026
Court orders aren’t something you “defy,” they’re something you violate
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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026
The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.
Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec GuinnessHayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And/but can we please dispense with the canard that merely saying the words 'national security' makes everything he's doing okay...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In honor of Don Jr's new Russian benefactor, @lolgop.bsky.social and I are bringing back our Ball of Threads. emptywheel.net/2026/09/21/i...
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"If It's What You Say I Love It," Especially If You Bring Ball of Thread Back - emptywheel
In honor of Don Jr's new Russian benefactor, LOLGOP and I are re-releasing our Ball of Threads series.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This thread is a JOURNEY 🧵 👇🏾
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Miss J Alexander's Shocked Drama Reaction
Alt: Miss J Alexander's Shocked Drama Reaction
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 18/09/2026
I'm just glad Congress isn't alive to see this
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
In a bitter May runoff, Texas Republicans nominated Bo French, an investor with only the vaguest glimmer of industry experience and a mostly irrelevant and racist political program that calls for deporting 100 million people, purging the nation of Muslims, and emulating a defunct apartheid state.
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Bo French sent a tweet so racist, his own party finally took notice. It's just the tip of the iceberg.
How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
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Jerry Gale @jerrygalemn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please watch this and then repost it everywhere.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Since it's back in the news because of today's Bloomberg reporting, here's all my major CHMR 🧵s. 1/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Baron @baronblakley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The young men in their blackshirts looked sharp as they escorted dusky, slovenly-attired men and women into train cars” basically
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 18/09/2026
[A social media post is overlaid on an illustration of wolves howling at a full moon]
cycloptiko on threads: "Inside of you are two wolves. This will no longer disqualify you from an FBI career."
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"...it is the only munition that President Joe Biden’s administration stopped sending to Israel during the Gaza war out of concern about the killing of Palestinian civilians... The policy was immediately reversed by President Donald Trump in January 2025, his first month back in office."
wapo.st
Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie (R) has introduced a resolution to impeach Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
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The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age
Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With Trump unleashing insane tirades against regulating AI, Obama just urged Dems to adopt a comprehensive position on it, warning that failure to act now will be "dangerous." Trump's malevolence has given Dems a big opening. They should seize on it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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The Real Reason Obama’s Harsh Warning to Dems About AI Is So Unnerving
Most Democrats have more or less the right position on AI. But their arguments are way too narrow to dramatize the real stakes. They should aim higher.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is a world-historical villain who's putting us all in extreme danger, so put him at the center of this story. Dems can highlight how Trump is actively using DOJ and EPA to help AI data centers steamroll communities, and vow that a Dem majority will stop it. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i dont want to speak for anyone but i think if i were a trans person id be sick of every election being about where im allowed to poop or if i can play games with friends or if i can read books to children. id probably be pretty upset and frustrated and disappointed at this point ngl
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
everyone involved with alligator alcatraz at every level - its creation, its construction, its staffing - needs to go to jail
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.
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