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Berri Baker Gordon

@berribaker.bsky.social
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Recovering history teacher, current office manager

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is, more generally, a super cool thing I recommend trying when you have a free afternoon. It’s a Dog Library, except you don’t even need a card. Just show up and check out a dog. They’ll give you a bottle of water & some treats, even. bvspca.org/shelter-skip...
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Shelter Skip Day
Help a dog in need by giving it a day out. Brandywine Valley SPCA's Shelter Skip Day program is open to the public.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP the quiet part
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I remember the global condemnation when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas...
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Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?
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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most of the majors in these degree programs are women.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess the hundreds of millions Republicans are getting from billionaires for ads in the midterms aren’t enough so they are just going to steal taxpayer dollars to run more of them.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, said the use of federal funds for the ads could be an ‘abuse of power’ and ‘an impeachable offense.’ He urged Congress to demand a reimbursement for the spending.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In his rant about the media, Trump also claimed his popularity is soaring. Amusingly, the Cook Political Report just shifted 15 House districts in Dems' direction. Several districts that he won by +10 and +18 (not a typo) are now toss-ups, suggesting total collapse: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The more we buy into the logic that academia needs to be more like "the real world"--the more we buy into the idea that all we're doing is training students to go out and be good workers--the less we are fulfilling any sort of distinct mission, and the less exciting our work is our students.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Having an insight in a philosophy seminar, or understanding a literary character in a way that opens up new understandings of the people and things around you, or being exposed to a new idea in the social sciences that allows you to make better sense of your shared world--these are exhilarating!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
I thought it was the democrats that were going to ban hamburgers
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
May the DOGErs be forever mocked as cruel and thoughtless idiots who assumed they knew better than anyone else. Because some of them still do. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In sworn testimony, the Treasury Department says it hasn't seen the money from Venezuela, and doesn't know where it's gone. Time to figure out who's pocketing it. In an overall kleptocracy, this may well be the most brazen act of embezzlement so far. www.ft.com/content/0588...
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US state department under pressure to disclose Venezuelan oil takings
Trump administration holds back from revealing how much money it has collected and how much it has sent back to Caracas
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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POI exposing the GOP, the treason party @nicholspitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being on Bluesky sometimes feels like the French Resistance fighting tooth and nail over which Bordeaux to serve with the rat eaten bread and moldy cheese
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i was worried that Trump wouldn't be on TV because of the press pool thing, which would have been bad, because i think we want him on TV right now, but this? this is perfect
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Signs of life from the media. ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News. All five have agreed to suspend presidential TV-pool coverage. Fox itself confirms that.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tom Massie posted a calendar labeling the days of work Mike Johnson canceled because of him.
Tom Massie tweet:

Here’s a calendar to show the days 
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 has cancelled in Congress. September 17 was canceled to avoid a vote on my Hegseth impeachment. The last two weeks in September were canceled to avoid a vote on releasing more Epstein files. He’s closing Congress to stop me.

Below there is a congressional calendar from July to December. 

July 1-2 are labeled Rules retreat.
September 17 is labeled Hegseth Holiday.
September 22 to October 2 are labeled Epstein Recess.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026
“The No. 1 problem the Kennedy Center has had is President Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've seen people dismiss the Kennedy Center saga as a sideshow to the real problems wrought by this administration but I think that's missing the useful object lesson of Trump promising to "save" an institution and then promptly destroying it.
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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026
When his courtiers write their memoirs, we will discover that the arch, ballroom, Kennedy Center etc were all distractions. Distractions for Trump. The arch may sound utterly stupid and ridiculous but the alternative was likely worse, an invasion of Greenland.
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Berri Baker Gordon @berribaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
HOTTY TODDY 🔴🔵
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Alex McDaniel @alexmcdaniel.co · 20/09/2026
fun fact: OM fans ages 35+ are more miserable rn than they were before the game, i can promise you if you see any of us being smug right now, IT’S ONE OF THE YOUTHS
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
why would you be angry, all I did was spit in your face
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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't really follow politics
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Protesters rally around Kennedy Center amid Trump’s threats to demolish it wjla.com/news/local/k...
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Trump claims 'no one else' can save Kennedy Center as protesters rally outside the venue
From the Oval Office on Friday, President Donald Trump claimed no one except his administration would be able to save and renovate the now closed Kennedy Center
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Charles Grassley turned 93 yesterday. He has been in elected office continuously since — I am not making this up — before Mike Pence was born.
Photo of a young Chuck Grassley from his first term in the Iowa House of Representatives
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