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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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bettyjo.bsky.social @bettyjo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Things to do in Nashville and great places to eat?
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/08/2026
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Lollioness @lollioness.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They’re hated because water and power have been grabbed away from communities who were lied to or never consulted.
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JamZilla @jamzilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mentally making a list of prominent white academics whose own plagiarism findings were reported ever so gently and who lost not one step.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't think you necessarily need violence to topple an authoritarian regime especially one that is not fully established what you need is a populace that is continuously engaged in acts of civil disobedience that makes it impossible for them to function
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18/06/2026
Wonderful
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk is our dumb Lex Luthor supervillain and we must unite to destroy him and send him to the Phantom Zone
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Okay check it. Second wave feminism + unionization = more women editors. Union busting + breaking the labor pool for women = fewer women to save self-indulgent male directors from their worst impulses. Will continue apace. I won’t be fact checking this. I’m just going with it.
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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.
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Hell is freezing over @hankthehounddog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’d be more interested in whether you think he’d go Manchin though?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Anti-migrant streamers and 'auditors' who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/t...
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The Criminal Past of the Far-Right Anti-Migrant ‘Auditors’ Going Viral on YouTube
Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as 'citizen journalists', have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
oh buddy you're going to be so distressed when you find out that you casually use far less ambiguously problematic words than fuck
A skeet from Alan in which he says "to which one might respond, "Have you considered not having an idiot."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31/03/2026
Just yesterday the Netanyahu govt adopted a law to hang Palestinians who commit certain crimes in the West Bank but not Israeli settlers who commit the same crimes. Why are we sending a blank check of billions of $ to a govt that pursues these & other blatantly racist policies?
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‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief
Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Opinion polls have shown majority backing for the legislation among Jewish Israelis." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday that would allow the hanging of Palestinians convicted of deadly militant attacks, but critics say it will almost certainly not be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Day 4: They suspect nothing.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Little kids should not be in prison. Like ever.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/03/2026
the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796
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The Ensh*ttificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 19/03/2026
I have a history joke, but, well, what do we mean by joke, exactly? It's more complicated than that and we really need to consider the context and look at it in the longue durée.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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mchobs.bsky.social @mchobs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
They want the other countries to to suffer the casualties and losses, let's be clear. The largest, best navy in the world is already there but somehow cant be the escort for an excursion that is already won? Dont forget, before the war, they belittled, insulted and tariffed their allies.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Attacks on Jewish diaspora communities are morally inexcusable. They’re also bound to occur when communal representatives proclaim our collective allegiance to a pariah state pursuing some of the greatest atrocities of a still-young century
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itbeatstwitter.bsky.social @itbeatstwitter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A ship filled with the navy band, this was mass murder
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 03/03/2026
I need you all to show up. I want us to have a thousand people there if not more.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 03/03/2026
In this week’s newsletter: Many pivotal elections are taking place today. Black voters in Mississippi await a ruling on the VRA. Also, SCOTUS blocks a new congressional map in New York, and several cities ban ICE from city property. Plus a lot more:
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The midterms start today: What you should be watching
Plus, Black Mississippians brace for a Supreme Court ruling
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/03/2026
The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It's being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS. www.wired.com/story/jolla-...
wired.com
The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone
The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It's being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“6-7, my name’s Kevin,” he added.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Exactly. Not cowardice. Agreement.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Every Republican president in my lifetime has picked a war based on a lie when his favorability rating started to tank. America has never been the shining city on the hill. We've been the land from whence monsters come in the night to drop bombs and fire on children and innocents.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/02/2026
No new wars.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 28/02/2026
The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.
A photograph of smoke rising over Tehran, Iran.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
How does he sleep at night?
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
These men weren't emailing or visiting Epstein for baking recipes and to play Mario Kart. They were sharing bigoted filth and abusing positions to engage in illegal and immoral acts. "Ties to Epstein" makes it sound like a witch hunt where anyone who sent an email is being rounded up. It's not.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST postersmadness.wordpress.com
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Poster's Madness
A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We got them DENSE BRAINS baby
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Octopi Wall Street @octows.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Let's just remember that the Overton Window slides both ways, and that the transition from "radical/unthinkable" to "acceptable" can just as easily cover "feeding billionaires into a woodchipper" as it can "turn society into a fascist playpen for the super-wealthy".
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This too…
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
And www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Reporter detained in Cameroon while investigating Trump admin’s Africa deportations
The recent flights have brought the total number of deportees in Cameroon to 17
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 20/02/2026
Fifteen migrants the U.S. deported to Cameroon in recent weeks are being held in prisonlike conditions at a secret detention facility, according to lawyers for some of the deportees
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U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility
Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
As the world reels from the president's rant and threats of additional tariff chaos, I'd just like to remind the UK that they recently arrested someone who could probably bring down this entire house of cards with very little incentive.
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Russian paramilitaries ordered my arrest and torture in the Central African Republic. Russian trolls have targeted me with massive disinformation. Here’s how difficult and dangerous it is to investigate Russian clandestine operations in Africa: inved.eu/insight/inte...
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Interview with Award-Winning International Journalist Philip Obaji Jr. – INVED
Philip Obaji Jr., independent journalist, is one of the leading experts on Russian influence in Africa. INVED Head Editor Dietmar Pichler met him twice and asked him about his insights, experiences, a...
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Two Whoppers Junior @jasonthee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Conveniently, that will happen the moment we have a Dem president and GOP congress.
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