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I just got my knitting mojo back, I think. Old enough to be your grandma with the eating habits of a 12-year-old.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It just shouldn’t be this hard to get by — let alone get ahead — in the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very important that Republicans are setting the precedent that it's fair to harass octogenarians for what they did in government service.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 29/07/2026
Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is how you write a headline
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Berkeley Becca @berkeleybecca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Berkeley folks: I’m hosting a vigil as part of the National Day of Action TOMORROW to demand ICE OUT. Sat 7/25, 11 am, N. Berkeley BART, Sac St side. I'm bringing a microphone & art supplies. Bring your anger and sorrow. Find our event and others here: share.indvs.org/s/RdPKnGTu
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY
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Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops
The Vatican responded Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X in schism and excommunicating its bishops and priest...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Second, the private sector doesn’t have the incentive to invest in basic research. While companies invest heavily in R&D to get products to market, they can’t take the kinds of financial risks required when doing the core basic science that ultimately feeds to that end stage development. For example, NIH funding supports 99.4% of new drugs. It funds 45% of global investment in cancer research. Information technology has been heavily impacted by federally funded university research.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026
A new report determined that Louisiana governor Jeff Landry’s proposed increase in prison spending would come at the expense of $165 million in education funding, including $40 million for state colleges and universities and $125 million for K-12 education. With @veritenews.org
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Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come
The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies h...
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 23/05/2026
Opinion | 18 years after California voters approved the bullet train, progress and finances are still stalled The bullet train project launched in 2008 with promises of completion by 2020. Now it's mostly concrete supports. No tracks or train.
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Opinion | 18 years after California voters approved the bullet train, progress and finances are still stalled
The bullet train project launched in 2008 with promises of completion by 2020. Now it's mostly concrete supports. No tracks or train.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.
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The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act
In its 6-3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country—and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.
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Psaki's Apprentice @sleepycongressman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Canada is also saying that Lebanon has to be included in any peace framework This is huge Because when Canada says it, it really means 100 other countries are saying it, but they don’t have the clout to say it and they need Canada to say it for them
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“.. Strip away the shock value for a moment .. This is not a stray remark at a rally. Nor was it a misstatement quickly corrected by staff. This is a public declaration, .. during an active and escalating international crisis.” @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“.. appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. .. an aggressive new tactic in an escalating movement to oppose the hulking artificial intelligence factories ..” @politico.com #Wisconsin www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Laura @laurafreed.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hire back your copy editors, you bozos
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Status @status.news · 25/03/2026
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
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Weiss’ Ratings Wipeout
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating...
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.
The Daily Caller on Threads:

OPINION: We should do more than just require ID to vote. The Save Act is the least we should do. It’s rookie numbers. We should do far more. Way fewer people should be allowed to vote. Americans must meet two of three criteria to vote:

1. Be a net contributor to tax revenue
2. Own property
3. Be married with children…


There’s also a graphic that says “in a fairer world 150 million Americans wouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
even divorced men whose kids never call need a third place
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What could go wrong?
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 02/03/2026
Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 28/02/2026
Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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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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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Also if this is Buffalo PD remember that this is the same force that pushed a 75-yo peaceful protester to the ground during thr BLM protests www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/u...
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Buffalo Police officers who pushed 75-year-old during Black Lives Matter protest cleared of wrongdoing | CNN
Two Buffalo, New York, police officers who pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020, fracturing the man’s skull, were cleared of wrongdoing by an arbitrator on Friday.
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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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Berkeley Becca @berkeleybecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
As someone who has paid into Social Security since first holding a job at 16, and who is on the horizon of being able to start taking distributions, I would like to find Ramesh Ponnuru and *talk to him* about his latest thought experiment.
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Opinion | Don’t save Social Security
Trying to fix the retirement program is infeasible. Better to find new ways of achieving its goals.
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Well, That Was Really Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 24/02/2026
He opposes the CA plan for a one time 5% tax on assets of those with over $1 billion because he worries they'll flee the state, depleting it of taxable incomes. 5% is an *incredibly* conservative position.
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It's A Small World View After All
​        ​The basic conservative worldview, to most of which even the moderate would agree, consists of the following: property is supreme, especially in matters of business, and with a sort...
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
CNN doing PR for Johnson here by claiming "the general practice is for presidents, select military officials & select government officials to lie in honor" without noting exceptions. Like Billy Graham. So White preacher gets to lie in state but not Black one?
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Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“The numbers tell a painful story. The impact on journalists of color is staggering and devastating,” the Post Guild said in its statement on Friday. “We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...
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Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows
"We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New: Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee. House passed it. Trump supports it. The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes, but Democrats could still block it
The SAVE America Act has passed the House and enjoys President Trump's support, meaning the Senate's 60-vote threshold is the only thing standing in the way of it becoming law.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been fuming all weekend over how everyone keeps calling his administration the “Epstein Administration.”
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