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basterdius.bsky.social @basterdius.bsky.social · 20h
CDG terminal 2E Gates K. Why are you so terrible? No good food options but all the high end shopping you can think of. Wtf?!? I don't want a Hermes bag, I want a meal. CDG has to be one of the worst airports in the world.
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Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eau de Bannon
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026
This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...
A screenshot of a search result on a website titled "NEXUS | Identity Document Database" showing a locked Minnesota driver's license record for "PETER HEG******." A driver's license portrait of Peter Hegseth appears on the left, next to mostly redacted information fields, including ID number, birth date (1980), and address, followed by a prompt to purchase the full record for $100.00.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Every single journalist who attended the WHCD sucks shit. They’re all sociopathic assholes. They do not deserve our respect. They do not deserve our trust. They’re traitors to their profession and our country.
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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#whcd #whitehousecollaborators
The press attending a celebration of sanewashing and lying about the actions of a dictator, labeling the event the White House Collaborators' Dinner using the same branding as the White House Correspondents' Association.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The vast vast majority of the people at the WHCD have no idea they are the problem.
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FLARE 💥 @flareusa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
How would you greet the Third Reich in 1932 Germany knowing what you know now ⁉️ 🧐 It’s not a trick question to us ‼️ Share your thoughts with Nazis Tuesdays @ 4 ❗️
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
There must be tens of people there.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
While it's obvious the next Democratic president should pardon these individuals on day one, the judge who handed down the sentences should also be subjected to a federal investigation to determine if he abused his power and whether it warrants prosecution and potential imprisonment.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s 2.5 cargo vans tall
Cargo van driving past the extrmely unimpressive arch
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
they have it across from the giant Ferris wheel so it looks extra shrimpy omg I am crying
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
CHAT I AM SCREAMING
Triumphal arch that looks like it’s made of plywood and is barely taller than the fence it’s behind.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
who was it that wished the replica of Trump’s arch would look like the Stonehenge in Spinal Tap bc I’m about to have great news for you
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
YIKES
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I’ll leave it at this for now!
Ottawa Citizen excerpt reads: “During this period, some Conservative MPs cheered the arrival of the convoy as the party opposed the Trudeau government's vaccine mandates for federal workers and travellers.
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On Jan. 31, Tory MP Marilyn Gladu posted a photo to social media of herself and caucus colleague Candice Bergen at a restaurant with two men Gladu described as "hard-working truckers in Ottawa."”
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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Marilyn Gladu just joined the Liberal caucus, from the Tories. Gladu, among other things, opposed a ban on conversion therapy, wanted the military to end pipeline protests, and wants December to be 'Christian Heritage Month.' What...is the Liberal Party now? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News
The Liberals have picked up another Conservative floor crosser bringing them within a hair's bradth of a majority
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Not Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 but Vex as in 🏳️‍🌈 @theterroirist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Carney's been great for the unite the right movement that nobody asked for.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've joked that Carney has taken so much of Poilievre's platform that he's only left with cutlure war issues. With Gladu, Carney has brought a culture warrior into the tent. 🤷‍♂️
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Let's pray that Trump considers the hard and human reality of “collateral damage”...
A photo of Iranian schoolgirls with the following text:

Look at each face...think of the love, hopes, and dreams in your family...and multiply that by 90 million. 

As American taxpayers, every American bomb that drops has our names on it.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
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The Economist @economist.com · 19/03/2026
The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4bAtZby
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
holy shit
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“.. I don't ‌have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far ​more important than having gasoline price go up a little bit." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Wendy Suares @wsuares.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
REMEMBER THIS? Here's a look back at Trump's newly named DHS Secretary, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, in 2023 when he stood up and tried to fight labor leader Sean O'Brien at a senate committee hearing after reading O'Brien's tweet saying he'd take him "any time, any place."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My latest on how Trump and toxic tech bros are weaponizing AI to target civilians. People are pushing back. There is a worldwide boycott of CHAT GPT. The stakes are high here. charlieangus.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
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It's Time to Quit ChatGBT
The Trump administration’s recent decision to move forward with a dangerous escalation in the use of artificial intelligence against citizens means that your friendly neighbourhood ChatGPT app is bein...
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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 05/03/2026
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/03/2026
Simultaneously, Senator Warren....
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Link Watch @linkwatch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Good people: - Don't post links to X - Aren't active on X - Understand why X is bad Recommended reading 👇

Being active on X is unethical:

    • Enables abuse of women and children
    • Supports Musk and his weaponized X algorithm
    • Helps increase X valuation for future VC investment
    • Helps spread disinformation and hate
    • Amplifies network effects that cause people to stay and join
    • Endorses X as the credible platform that it isn't
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is why people don't trust institutions and elites. If you ignore the views of your own voters over and over and over again people give up on politics.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 25/02/2026
Just outright lying about the cost of health care. Our health insurance premiums doubled last month, asshole.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/02/2026
Trump says that foreign countries pay tariffs but here's who actual experts say pay them.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dow 50,000... But look around, and the real question is why isn't it 60,000?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dow 50,000! Also 21st out of 23.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Notice how when Trump wants a standing ovation he takes a step back from the mic and does a little Mussolini chin up thing
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Look on the bright side — if he’s here then he’s not in Florida raping children.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/02/2026
Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests
Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests
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