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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

It’s kinda bonkers the press can see the guy actively fomenting white supremacy around the globe *and* report on his benevolent decision to save us all with a straight face.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Also have to point out Musk said he was saving humanity he meant he was buying Twitter to promote race science to slow a popular movement for racial justice.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

one of my best friends at the time was a girl my same age (10 years old) who wore a hijab and spent the next several years getting tormented by white boys for being a terrorist

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Americans are an amazingly brave people, who have accomplished so much,” Bunch said. “They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history.” 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...

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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's "Which side are you on?" time.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's not necessarily surprising the US would end up with a corrupt and authoritarian demagogue. But the thing that's so nightmarish, the day in and day out mass psychosis of a nation letting it continue, is how he's manifestly batshit insane. Non compos mentis under any sense of objective reality.

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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 26/08/2026

Apparently ICE arrests are at an all-time high and I'm guessing they've managed that by decentralizing. Focus on a specific urban area, and you get a lot of targeted resistance. Anyway, helpful reminder that ICE are literally everywhere and we should all be watching out for our neighbors.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The grim reaper is just shooting at the wall blindfolded

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A great loss for us all. A light in our darkness, a talent like none other. Rest in song and mirth, Dolly. The heavens have a new star among them.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.

A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"President Trump demands Canada change its French language, Quebec culture and Canadian identity as a condition for reversing tariffs. This is no longer about a trade deal-it is about a takeover of Canada's sovereignty and identity." #cdnpoli

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Trump has destroyed US credibility to the point that no one can make a deal with America even if they think the terms sound good, because they can’t trust the US to honor it. The U.S.-Canada trade arrangement Trump now claims is unacceptable was the one he negotiated and signed in his first term.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its crew of 5,000 are clearly in bad shape. The White House lies that it isn’t. NYT uncovers that the Lincoln relied on a Bahrain supply base Iran destroyed early in the war. The White House hid that, and often lies about the war’s losses and costs.

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#Nov2026 🌊🌊 Vote for Democracy 🗳️ - ICE❌ @kdjs-1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Defense/Pentagon has never passed an audit Think of the level of scrutiny to get SNAP benefits - barely enough money to eat - compared to the massive waste -no oversight for military contractors…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trump is a buffoon but RFK got exactly what he wanted here. The data are pretty clear that if you spread the vaccine appointments out then parents don’t come back for them. They don’t want kids to get the vaccines.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's just insane that the president tells absurd, easily disproven lies on a daily basis, and at this point we all just expect it.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/08/2026

"okay but even if the vaccines are no longer 'recommended', people can still get them!" yeah so lemme tell you which vaccines american insurance will pay for. recommended ones

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10/08/2026

Observing across the starry “plains” of space, Webb has captured a startling image of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula 🦁 Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2… 🔭 #milkyway

$Planetary nebula NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula, against the black background of space. The nebula is circular in shape, and looks like a male lion’s head. In the very centre is a small, pinkish-white circle with eight-point diffraction spikes, a white dwarf star. Surrounding the star are light purple-pink bubbles and shells. They form an oval with two arcs near the top, reminiscent of a lion’s face and its ears. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)$

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/08/2026

A new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous

A vast cloud of dust and gas, mainly orange, pops in this image in which hazier, fainter gas paints reds and greens in the background.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today and every day we want to thank the hard-working people who are out there in extreme heat, smoke and more, working long hours to put food on our tables. #FarmWorkerAppreciationDay

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

DO IT Seriously. DO IT. Trump and Vought are actively and viciously trying to turn US science into what it was in 1950s USSR. DO IT

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 26/07/2026

Saturn.

The giant world is partially illuminated in this view; the ring system casts a thin shadow across the planet's face.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BREAKING: Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. For the record: It does.

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Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think people who do not work in media have trouble grasping how genuinely terrifying it is watching organization after organization (even those ostensibly held by entities able to fund them!) continually get carved down into nothing. Lights going out all over

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oh crap, NASA Madrid DSN station, 1/3 of our capacity to communicate with spacecraft at the Moon and beyond.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026

I'm seeing really ugly stuff in the replies on how she chose this and I want you to take a beat to understand how the military disproportionately targets certain communities, including and especially in Texas, for recruitment.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/07/2026

"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.

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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A cop in Wisconsin used Flock to search his ex’s license plate information 200 times. Months later, the officer assigned to investigate him was criminally charged for doing the same thing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people

Advocates say it's too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tom Homan now directly threatening American citizens

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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Trump's forever war isn't in Venezuela or Greenland anymore. It's on the home front. National Guard deployments in Washington have been quietly extended through 2029, ICE has killed two more people during vehicle stops in a single week…

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