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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curious question: has anyone compiled a decently large sample somewhere of the white supremacist and Nazi imagery used in social media by official Trump administration accounts (esp. official department accounts, rather than individuals)?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 25/09/2026
Read this again when someone tells you that the democrats are gearing up to go transphobic or don’t fight for us.
Do they settle because it costs a lot of money to litigate? Because they're at risk of losing federal funding? What are the ways that the Justice Department is able to coerce these hospitals?
Rep. Grace Meng: I mean, all of the above, right? I'm the top Democrat on the Appropriations
subcommittee that oversees all the DOJ funding. And we have seen this as we've been negotiating our budgets with them. They tried to include over 50 anti-GBTQ riders, what we call poison pills, into the budget. And we, as House Democrats, were able to take them all out. But they wanted to insert 52 pieces of wording and legislation that would have restricted medically necessary health care for transgender people, basically allowing taxpayer-funded discrimination against same-sex couples, blocking any non-discriminatory and DEl-type efforts.
But they are persistent, so they try it through the budget process, and they can't do that. Obviously, they're trying to cheat by coercing these hospitals:
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war
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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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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we've tried containment boards and they always fail. its time we try a containment wicker man
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
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Zane's Video @zanesimon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Getting to be that time... Site is about 75% of the way to where I want it (still some product descriptions and formatting to do), but I'm going to be converting all my social media over to my new business going forward. zanesvideostore.com
zanesvideostore.com
Zane's Video
Zane's Video
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
as a reminder, the boat murders are a) very clear cut crimes and b) crimes where the command responsibility liability is limited to a couple dozen people, total, from pete to ac commanders it's the one specific area dems (if they have to pick only one) should be focused on making examples of in DoD
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026
back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh, bother
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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 17/08/2026
lol
Patrick Wyman: She ran a Crossfit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries

G. Willow Wilson: This is a banging first sentence of a noir novel
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Seriously, it's the same fucking thing, arrived at in the exact same stupid way, except Elon can do it with Grok instead of some random hack artist.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/08/2026
the real lesson for insiders is that the next Dem administration should appoint someone who is similarly willing to baby the press and feed it little bits and pieces, at least in private, because the press is tremendously susceptible to this sort of thing the rest of us are right to be pissed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
The promise of New York City is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: this place would welcome anyone seeking refuge or a better life.
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!
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Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck @councilmember-amr.seattle.gov · 18/07/2026
Join us next weekend to celebrate our newest local icon Jimothy as we present a proclamation in his honor to commemorate Jimothy Summer. We invite all local artists to bring their Jimothy-themed art for a friendly art competition. Long live, Jimothy!
A poster for an event celebrating Jimothy the raccoon on July 26 at 12:00pm at Bergen Place Park
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
have you all seen jimothy
jimothy the tiny raccoon with an extra short spinejimothy running
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Remarkably irresponsible thing to say and any senate worth the name would censure him for it. After all, he's impugning all of them. But they won't because the GOP senators don't dare cross Trump. Their cowardice is incredible.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I don't know how many different ways I can say "CENTCOM happily going to war with their eternal mortal nemesis and SOCOM SOCOMing does not mean DoD has any institutional interest in at all being involved in pointing guns at americans trying to vote"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026
Raffi you’re so right
Threads post from raffi_music:
stay creative. after Baby Beluga, I didn't worry about how can I top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later, Bananaphone!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is my favorite reply of the day but you gotta click through for context
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
By using lethal means to stop narco vessels in SOUTHCOM, the U.S. has completely ruined its ability to hold the high ground when Iran does the same in Hormuz. We view these artificial theaters as separate when they’re not. There’s no plan, let alone a strategy.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/07/2026
This looks legit good
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
With this character's election loss, the thread of prophecy was severed. Unable to restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, we must persist in the doomed world we have created
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Now I'm just a simple country lawyer but this guy sounds like a criminal
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Still my position on immigration
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In conclusion.......Why do you guys think I'm on here all the time talking about how farmers & farm workers are different? And how knowing that, & how rural power functions, is kinda key to having the US function as a democracy? It's because we have a mighty need!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
<all together now> Immigration is our superpower & anyone who actually cares about American power, hegemony, & prosperity in the rest of the 21st century should be on the ramparts screaming for more, not less, immigration. Let them come. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 02/07/2026
non-zero possibility he wants to be RFK jr’s running mate in a 2028 campaign
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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It’s SB79 day! Check out where the new law will (and won’t) apply in San Diego www.kpbs.org/news/kpbs/20...
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Here's where the state's new housing law will (and won't) apply in San Diego
A new state law that aims to increase development near certain transit stops takes effect Wednesday. Cities across the state, including San Diego, are mapping out exactly where it will apply, and whic...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/07/2026
here's my scotustake: you need a plan to both break this court specifically, and also a plan to arrive at a new and functional court system, *and also* to recognize that political contestation never ends but that's no excuse for doing nothing
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Ben Shapiro is proposing to turn people stateless the right way." -- Ezra Klein, 6 months from now
The Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship is a legal abomination. But it's just more evidence that Congress and multiple presidents, in abdicating their duty on immigration for decades, have screwed America irredeemably. We're going live now:
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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think this case is one where—paradoxically—the larger the reform, the more moderate it appears. A small change to just the Supreme Court is much more easily dismissed as a partisan power grab.
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