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lover of science and democracy. career in data analytics. not neurotypical. polyamorous. anti-natalist. atheist. obv anti-fascist. I might like your skeet, but won't reskeet it without alt-text. formerly @bennybluesky.bsky.social pronouns: he or they.

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 07/10/2026
Required reading!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/10/2026
[Photograph of a small owl perched on a gloved hand. Red arrows point to its features with the following text labels: "Pointy 'ears'", "Big eyes", "Whiskers", "Eats mice", and "Soft". At the bottom, a bright green banner reads "This is a Kitty 👍" next to a circular inset photo of a tabby cat with a green checkmark.]
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maryland voters who are looking for information on the appellate judge election, here's a collection of Dan Friedman's work for evaluation: statecourtreport.org/about/dan-fr...
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Dan Friedman
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 07/10/2026
I'm joining @meeks.house.gov in Queens for a shadow hearing focused on how House Democrats are fighting to protect our democracy. Watch live:
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Shadow Hearing: Queens, NY – Election Security and Voting Rights
YouTube video by Rep. Joe Morelle
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026
DO IT! Do it. Do it. Do it.
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Alfred Lund @alfredlund.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is nothing at all normal about Trump and he has trained us to expect this without question.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/10/2026
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons & military detention camps over the 3 years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. That count covers... www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons and military detention camps over the three years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. 

That count covers only those whose identities have been confirmed. The fate of dozens more detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance.

The report documents an escalating system of arrest, torture, starvation and denial of medical care that has led to killings inside prisons and camps. It also found:

➤ More than 26,000 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem
➤ More than 800 women and 2,000 children arrested
➤ More than 3,100 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial, and 1,419 held as "unlawful combatants"
➤ Israel is holding the bodies of 100 Palestinians who died in custody

The groups also pointed to Israel's approval of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and to the growing use of "incitement" charges to arrest Palestinians over their speech, which they say has created a climate of fear and self-censorship.

With no independent oversight and the Red Cross still barred from visiting prisoners, the report says what is happening inside Israel's prisons "cannot be separated from the genocide."

🔗 Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documented his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin for Drop Site. Read our latest: "Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison" below.
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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 07/10/2026
Just sharing the piece I wrote in 2024 when I was untangling how power could consolidate in Bluesky's stacked moderation middleware model www.techpolicy.press/where-does-p... a lot has moved in the meantime with way more platforms and servers that people can move around to!
techpolicy.press
Where Does Power Consolidate on Bluesky?
Nathalie Van Raemdonck says only time will tell how the pieces fit together and how they interact to create a new "public square."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.
Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 06/10/2026
Thank you M! 2720/40000
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"No one is too small to make a difference." - Greta Thunberg. Children's educators are activists. Activists are those who take strong, direct action to support or oppose change. Children's educators support, believe in children. Children make a difference, they are capable of significant change.
Mychal and Ms. Rachel smiling together for a photo
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026
We’re at #Disinfo2026, and this is Some Strange Nonsense.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't think of a single non-malevolent reason they would do this.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 07/10/2026
reminds me of a funny story about a friend telling someone about how oral methamphetamine is occasionally used as second-line therapy for adhd, to which she was met with great shock. "and what i *didn't* say next was that i was actually on meth *right now*" lmfao
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026
The billionaires (and trillionaire) and their platforms Gotta Go. Don’t even care how they Go now, but they gotta Go.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My official stance on DST.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
god this heat has me exhausted
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Child Tired on Carousel Floor
Alt: Child Tired on Carousel Floor
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
Alt: Rom Quotes Karl Marx: Workers of the World Unite
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/10/2026
why do these guys feel such an instinctual need to have hot takes on rape in public
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
🧵 hits hard it's been easy and comfortable for me to not realize this ramification
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around
Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls
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Frieren, 🏳️‍⚧️ Tiefling Princess @fes4ever.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Picture of Miles O'Brien, played by Colm Meaney in Star Trek The Next Generation/Star Trek Deep Space 9, standing with his hands on his hips and smiling. There is text over the image in 4 parts. Part 1: "Stay alive. Stay fucking alive" Part 2: "It's shit now but it won't always be" Part 3: "Happiness comes in waves" Part 4: "You will find it and feel it again"
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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People don’t realize how serious the situation is.
A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026
also, Ken Paxton will lose Senate race if yes debate thehill.com/homenews/cam...
screenshot of a headline from The Hill, featuring Ken Paxton's smarmy smile, looking like spray-tanned silly putty. the headline reads:
Karl Rove: Ken Paxton will lose Senate race if no debate
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz
Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."
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Open Secret Alien @opensecretalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We must become the consequences we wish to see in this world.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We need to give them some grace and allow them back in the tent-" Let me stop you right there. This isn't deciding a People's Choice Award. This is about deciding whether or not your tax money is going to pay for a Gestapo of pedophiles. Too important a job to be left to idiots.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/10/2026
Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...
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Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, & Dark Money: Exposing the Global Oligarchy | Casey Michel
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026
What if Skynet but stupid.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
propublica.org
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reported by Mira Bhakta at The Hill, yes, several hours before the Alt National Park Service posted about it. thehill.com/policy/healt...
Alt National Park Service: Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for the year.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 03/10/2026
i think if you’re having complicated feelings about a man you looked up to being outed as a sexual abuser the thing to do is work through those feelings before/without writing an essay about it. the take economy has cooked your brain.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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TinCan’s spooky ghost @thetincanandroid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I keep hearing about assholes getting anonymous 100 million dollar checks and I’d like to stop doing that
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
cw rape I think it really gives the game away that rapists are the only people there's ever any real talk about rehabilitative justice for and I say this as someone who genuinely does believe in rehabilitative justice it's fucking frustrating as hell that it's Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This isn't a story about rape. It's just a story about the countless everyday sexual assaults young girls and women face that make them think, "Oh, I'm lucky. It wasn't rape...I guess." When I was 20, I lived in FL for the summer.
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TinCan’s spooky ghost @thetincanandroid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wanna look at it all day
A small red Subaru Sambar Japanese kei van. It’s got a retro front end with a little vented grill and round headlights like an old British car. It’s adorable
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
hot take: hair transplants should be covered as part of universal healthcare for everyone who wants one. many procedures labeled as “cosmetic” & “elective” are actually life changing medical care. i wish cis people had the same level of compassion for trans people as they do for balding cis men.
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
starts with "t" and rhymes with "dump"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And to put a fine point on it, disabled kids are being removed from their homes now because of Republicans' cuts.
tiktok.com
One of the biggest stories of 2027 will be the savagery of the GOP's Medicaid cuts. But the most indefensible cruelty has already begun, with disabled kids being ripped from their homes and sent to as...
TikTok video by LOLGOP
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
timeline cleanse Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 02/10/2026
yes. kudos to Emily Lovell for her NSF funded work (which was clawed back by the Trump admin then returned after a lawsuit 🏆) getting HBCU students involved in open source programming while centering community building (trust, connections, celebration) lookout.co/ucsc-recover...
when the cost of writing code goes to zero, the things that matter are ideas, taste, & distribution (a.k.a. judgement, connection, and trust)
- Lola Egherman, CodeDaythis is connection, this is trust
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Friends w/ Benny @benny.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
I need you all to see this, because you deserve something good today. 😘🤌 no notes youtu.be/8nxiE-k8SkU?...
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The Sheep Song.
YouTube video by Billy Simons Jr.
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible content in this thread
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