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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eleven days before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Egypt's intelligence chief made a secret mission to Israel to warn officials of a possible assault. He was on the ground just 67 minutes, so intent he had to come in person. Vivian Salama has the receipts. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.
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Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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Michael Shurkin @michaelshurkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The war has started in Ethiopia. This could easily become the worst human catastrophe of the century. I wrote this in February. The situation has become more complex, and more dangerous. shurkin.substack.com/p/the-loomin...
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The Looming Disaster in the Horn of Africa: A Primer
A major war is imminent in East Africa.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026
That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Kohai @kohaitiger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Japanese tempura is derived from the word “temperance” as it originated after Christian missionaries introduced the idea of not eating meat on Fridays.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
not a ton of muppets clips i haven't seen but this one is sublime
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026
People like Natalie Harp are why the second Trump term has been a total and complete disaster. He's a senile midwit who has surrounded himself with lickspittle extremists because no one else can stand working for him. Talking about Natalie Harp gets that message started to the normies.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The thing is, imagine the relative advantage a normal educated person has over the future man who cannot read, write, or think for themselves.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NYT: "Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified 'gringos' using drones, survivors say." Now, Washington Post: "The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats...were carried out as part of a covert CIA program." 1/🧵
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Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the fishing boats before drones attacked, flight data shows.
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
Hey Virginia, ICE appears to be moving its BWI route to Dulles. Two round-up flights of shackled captives in the last week. And their flights out of Richmond have picked up recently, too.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/08/2026
The law firm Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. A New York Times investigation details the inside story of its transformation. trib.al/YQawT9z
A tall building photographed from below. Text reads: "Times Investigation: How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee" Photo by Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mostly I wrote this because I wanted to do a post with a bunch of photos of Trump grimacing and looking embalmed in it, but it wound up being about how shabby and fake all the familiar political rituals feel now, and why that is. defector.com/the-dodgers-...
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The Dodgers Went To Grandpa's House! | Defector
There are aspects of being president of the United States that Donald Trump is really bad at, and others at which he is significantly worse. It goes without saying that none of that is improving, but ...
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney
Two besuited men, one with a mustache and one with glasses, looking sorta to the camera, and the one on the right with the glasses is kinda smiling and asking "Mothra gave you power of attorney?"
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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New to me: cailey.substack.com/p/i-wanted-t...
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I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.
CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, addiction
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Clio @clio.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
And I will add my father's view: Any notion that we current Greeks own the achievements of the ancients is delusional. We are an amalgamation and survivors of invasions and travels. The high-achieving Greeks are like potatoes; they are buried under the Earth. Purity, he used to say, is a lie.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Corsair strike, the LUCAS drone & Ukrainian air defence systems on American bases indicate that the US military can 'fast follow'. The bigger questions: why it took 3 years & how these are linked into a larger US strategy for the war. My latest. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-corsai...
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The Corsair Strikes: Fast Followers at War
Corsair, LUCAS and the Ukraine Lessons America is Applying Against Iran
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm late to this, but This American Life released a really good episode on the Prairieland case www.thisamericanlife.org/891/the-test...
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The Test Case - This American Life
The government sets out to prove that Antifa is real.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
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Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let’s please steer the conversation back to my Nazi tattoo. by Graham Platner
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25–365 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. BARBARA, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT [June 30, 2026] JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. Executive Order No. 14160 establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025). The Court today holds that the Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I respectfully disagree with the Court’s constitutional holding. In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U. S. C. §1401(a). Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/06/2026
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]
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2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and archite
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/06/2026
In 2024, after the election, Mark Zuckerberg met with Stephen Miller to assure him that Meta/Facebook would cave to Miller's/Trump's wishes. Here they are hanging out at the White House UFC event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Miller at Trump's UFC event at the White House on 14 June 2026
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Secretary of Balloon Doggies @secballoondogs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
think i got this right, here is what the spurs win probability maxed out at in each game the knicks won according to ESPN's win probability: game 1: 94.1% game 2: 83.6% game 4: 99.6% game 5: 97.1%
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I’m sorry but this analogy doesn’t even work. The Nazis didn’t storm the beaches, we did. They came by land.
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baronhalfshark.bsky.social @baronhalfshark.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I just went 80-2, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=NFl...
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82-0
Build the ultimate NBA all-time team and see if you can go 82-0
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damn i wish i was your lawyer @bermanmatt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I wanna give off John Turturro at the Knicks game energy.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
INSIDE WASHINGTON: You would think that Trump would have learned his lesson with Republicans after the weaponization fund. But to borrow from Charlie Murphy, he's a habitual line-stepper and Republicans balked at his pick of Bill Pulte to be acting DNI. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Republicans balk at Trump’s naming a MAGA enforcer to lead National Intelligence
Trump’s cold reception comes after the GOP killed his ‘slush fund’ and angered plenty in the Senate Republican conference, Eric Garcia writes
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We're gonn have an election where the tipping point seat is like R+4. Basically the Wisconsin gop playbook for the entire nation writ large, where there's a strucrual advantage in the Senate, the electoral college and the house towards GOP such that they can control all of government with a minority
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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
it is concerning how addicting this game is 82-0.com
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82-0
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/05/2026
What does it mean that the Democratic Party has won 80%+ of Black men for decades but the idea is that men are fundamentally opposed to the Democratic Party?
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