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Cancel the Washington Post and NY Times and support independent journalists who actually care about democracy and holding truth to power No Kings I use swear words and I fucking love it Reposts ≠ Endorsement

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 12h
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The war in Iran is the reason gas is $5 and diesel is $7. Mike Rogers has been cheerleading the war since the beginning, calling it a win, win, win. I don't know about you, but when I fill up my tank I don't feel like I'm winning.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Half a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move polls - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Half a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move polls
Republicans’ massive money advantage has yet to reshape the midterm map, as Democrats keep expanding their ambitions.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 07/10/2026
I can’t imagine spending any of my one precious life asserting that the president was misunderstood.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You have to be able to feel shame to ask the question he’s asking. Not enough people do, it seems.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Are we the baddies
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He'd let Americas enemies attack places he doesn't like because hes that monstrous and I don't think you can convince anyone otherwise.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It always bothers me that hed totally let Republicans in New York die horrible deaths because he's this petty.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was removed in this design, leaving only the arrows, the weapons of war. This design also mimics the fascist designs of the 1930s. It was used during the "Send Me" tour where Isaiah 6:8 has been co-opted for military recruitment. All by those who claim Jesus as their king.
It was removed in this design, leaving only the arrows, the weapons of war. This design also mimics the fascist designs of the 1930s. It was used during the "Send Me" tour where Isaiah 6:8 has been co-opted for military recruitment. All by those who claim Jesus as their king.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can still delete this.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who fact checked this at The Atlantic? They didn’t look at his social media history? Really? Reallllly? Oof.
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 06/10/2026
The hits keep coming: Long Grove bridge struck for 77th time since 2020
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The hits keep coming: Long Grove bridge struck for 77th time since 2020
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎶 He’s choosin Blexas I can tell 🎶
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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Susan Collins has never cared about her constituents. She prioritizes her own needs over everyone else and it’s long past time that we kick her to the curb.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts urges Republicans to "get out and vote 10 times"
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RFK Jr. shut down the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, MD last year and then decided to move it. Does anyone know if operations have resumed, as promised? They do a lot of really important work on high-risk pathogens.
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Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
IRF-Frederick serves as a responsive and collaborative resource that facilitates multidisciplinary research to understand, treat, prevent, and eradicate diseases caused by novel, emerging, and highly ...
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One came on yesterday when I was in MN during the Vikings/Miami game - we heard 3, maybe 4, FUs from people on the block when it came on. Loud FUs. I can’t say for sure they were watching the game & the ad elicited the FUs, but I’m guessing it did.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My mother-in-law, who hadn't been on a bicycle since the 1980s, visited us last year and we biked to toddler swimming class together. She's now biking 40 minutes to work everyday in Montreal because she has a separated bike lane the whole way there.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bike lane situation in Montreal is so wonderful. It’s an amazing example of what can be.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/10/2026
The theft and fraud and disinfo continue to gush out of these companies as an unending flood of excrement while they desperately point at imaginary Terminators on the other side of the room.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026
It's worth adding (and I really struggled with how to approach this in the piece) that the joke stealing AI comedian is apparently also an Only Fans model. So dudes are now paying money to consume AI generated adult content. This future is dumber than I ever could have imagined.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026
Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...
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The Joke Thief
The AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This)
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For all the talk of Ai replacing creatives, the reason this "Tiffany Sloan" is stealing other comedians' jokes is because Ai can't write jokes. LLMs are built on anticipating what word or piece of information you're looking for and comedy is built on surprise. Also, Christ what a weird fetish...
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Totally normal reaction by a country that has its opponent begging for surrender
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is all hands on deck! Pneumatic plague is airborne and nearly always fatal if untreated. Wiped out 150 million, half of Europe, way back when. Treatable with antibiotics, but we don't have enough antibiotics. Also from a lab in Russia, where they still have weaponized plague. Total nightmare.
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Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m scared to do the same google search.
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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just did a google search for "Russian plague updates". That's where we are.
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Dylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There’s a difference between sharing someone’s journalism and taking it to make your own content. I’ve had my work lifted multiple times by this content creator. It’s particularly frustrating when he talks about his views growing as local news fades away, while using the work of local journalists.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026
*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)
Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps. 

Caption reads: 
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition
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