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Social science and political junkie. Aspiring digital artiste. Sometimes baker. Pro labor. Pro equity. <3

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 16h
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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Sko @skoneezy.bsky.social · 10h
I’m not sure why society isn’t hellbent on protecting the most vulnerable…seems like a pragmatic thing to do, morality aside. We fail the test at every opportunity.
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Sko @skoneezy.bsky.social · 10h
We’d all like to think karma will come for these people but we are the only karma around and we are failing each other
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h
Back when you could credibly threaten to go to WaPo instead, NYT had to obey forces besides their own preferences. Same way Coke couldn’t raise prices too much because you might drink Pepsi. Now NYT can just say “we hate Mamdani and will publish accordingly. Good luck on your substack.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
Well, this is dumb. I guess they're mad that Americans were angry that ICE officers killed a woman, so they decided to completely invent their own version of events for a low-budget movie that nobody is going to watch?
The film’s first minutes will likely get the most attention. As Pawn Shop opens, two ICE agents in Minneapolis arrest the Latino man, later revealed to be an MS-13 boss. Dimwitted liberal activists film and scuffle with the agents as they try to take their suspect away.

Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car. Then his ICE partner, “Mike,” shoots her in a justifiable killing.

Melanie reacts to the drawn gun with panic...

She MASHES on the gas as she throws the car into reverse, accidentally SLAMMING Juan out of the way. He goes flying into the gutter, bleeding...

And as the car reverses, Mike FIRES TWICE through the

windshield...

The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck, below her covid

mask. The second in the head, above her covid mask.

Blood SPLATTERS on her PASSENGER’s (40s, female, overweight)

forehead and matching covid mask.

From there, the ICE agent drags his suspect into the pawn shop, with an Antifa mob hot on their heels. The stage is now set for a siege, during which numerous Molotov cocktails will be thrown and shotgun shells will fly. Rest assured that no liberal piety will survive.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026
“Protecting child predators, facilitating extra-judicial murders, jacking up everyone’s prices through tariffs and military misadventures, all so that Donald Trump can get rich and he doesn’t yell at you, is a hell of a closing message,” wrote Rep. Sean Casten on Bluesky.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think of Schlichter as the would be L Ron Hubbard of white nationalism. But a shittier writer.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The difference, it seems to me, is that the new term implies that AI is inherently superior to human brainpower. Something approaching the divine, rather than flawed software that doesn't know how many fingers we have.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder why more people aren't using Malaise to describe the current mood in the U.S.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that Congress could end the Iran War using the power of the purse to impose a funding cutoff. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Republicans fuming at Hegseth as war costs build
Some lawmakers are resisting the Pentagon chief’s budget requests amid concerns over his leadership.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
one area where i will actually concede messaging is hard for the dems (if they try) is the gop's actions are so inconceivably evil they sound totally made up. "we're trying to make it easier to pollute poor neighborhoods. we're pushing so kids get exposed to more lead."
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Erika Kirk doesn’t want to talk about politics” okayyyyy
Erika Kirk / MrsErikaKirk on X.com

Islamification is not compatible with America or with the US Constitution.Erika Kirk / MrsErikaKirk on X.com
This is why the work we're doing at @TPAction is so critical. We must register more people to vote.

She is quote tweeting Tyler Bowyer on  9/21/26

Our side isn't prepared for what CAIR is doing for the Democrats

Between this and illegals — they will overrun America for the 2028 election and then the census

Anyone fighting for Islam is aiding this 

Better wake up now
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4ymLaYr
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they should censure schmitt imho
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
The assault on public lands is so disgusting to me. Once these are privatized, they are never coming back.
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The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News
Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is legit coco-puffs. Having the Secretary of Defense call all the generals in to fire them, while at a conference with only buff men standing around, during the middle of a war we are losing, is sort of insane.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Um? Can we return to that motion to table Pete Hegseth’s impeachment? Um, dude, needs to be impeach before he fires everyone in the Army and Navy?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Again, all of this could’ve been looked up beforehand. The fact that a Senator’s entire office ran with the accusation without anyone saying, “Wait, isn’t this a bit too on the nose?” should be concerning.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026
Any cap on what a worker can earn means that it artificially shifts money from the worker, who earned it, to the manager, who didn't. Hope that helps.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time I see Jack Smith speak in public I remember how incredibly cautious he was about doing so during the investigation lest he appeared politically motivated or biased. And now we have the actual AG out here basically saying, “Yeah I’m team Trump, what are you bitches gonna do about it?”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The plan for the war is to the lie to the public about the war. This sometimes leads to ridiculous things, like the president announcing that Iran wants to lower gas and diesel prices but he won't let them, and telling the Iranians that they're right to see the upcoming US midterms as leverage.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All regional autocrats, including Erdoğan, pinned their hopes on Trump, whom they thought was “one of us.” And that was exactly the problem. Almost two years into his presidency, Trump has not only failed to follow through on his promises to these leaders, but his reckless policies have ++
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under Trump, the U.S. went “who cares that these relationships are mutually beneficial, you need us, pay us tribute.” And in response, most countries are going “no, what we need are mutually beneficial relationships with reliable partners, and there’s a whole world out there, we’ll go elsewhere.”
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now that the far right in France has decided that Islamophobia rather than antisemitism is going to be their scapegoating message du jour, they need to cover up those other tracks.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
South Africa spent a lot more time trying to pretend the bantustans were sovereign than Israel does; the Israeli position is *explicitly* that there is no sovereign Palestinian state, the Territories are under Israeli jurisdiction, but also Israel has no responsibility for the people who live there.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨The Senate is expected to vote tonight on a resolution to hold Israel accountable for killing US citizens and abusing Palestinian children in military detention. Sen. Van Hollen explains his resolution here. Contact your Senators RIGHT NOW and urge them to vote YES: imeupolicy.org/exposeisrael
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A book that has gotten a lot of attention but never as much as it deserves is Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. It’s an insider view of Meta’s venality: they promoted the European far right in order to stave off regulation. And it’s sadly conspicuous that journalism about Meta is a non-factor.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Making discussion of climate risk, ecological destabilisation & inevitable economic change politically toxic limits the quality of governance we get, on some of the most consequential challenges of our time.” - @alexsteffen.bsky.social alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
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Will your next home be a climate lemon?
Efforts to suppress disclosure of grave climate risks in brittle areas cheat buyers and sabotage communities.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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