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Born to be a house hippo, forced to be outdoorsy. “You need to compliment the pretty ones even if they don’t do well.”

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h
A wild figure from the Kansas Senate campaign. In the last FEC reported donation cycle, Roger Marshall took contributions from 77 donors within the state of Kansas. Adam Hamilton took 3,000
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h
ICYMI: TIME names Houston dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s sons to Latino Leaders 2026 list. "Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. were born U.S. citizens, and feel a sense of responsibility to use their voices to call for change.” #HispanicHeritageMonth
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TIME Names Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s Sons To Latino Leaders 2026 List
“Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. were born U.S. citizens, and feel a sense of responsibility to use their voices to call for change.”
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NPR @npr.org · 19h
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 16h
I threw together an explainer on what is happening with Olmstead rights (and what those are, for people unfamiliar). My latest @19thnews.org
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The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise
Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.
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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Attention media outlets: Jessica Hahn was raped by Jim Bakker. (Add "allegedly" to calm the lawyers). It wasn't an "affair," a "sexual encounter," a "dalliance," or any other synonym for consensual sex Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket www.wonkette.com/p/rapey-tele...
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Rapey Televangelist Jim Bakker Kicks The Dehydrated Food Bucket
Status upgrade: ‘Wait, that fucker's still alive?’ now ‘Wait, that fucker was still alive?’
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
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.
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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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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol.
A photo of my dog photo-bombing Devil's Tower. My dog, a husky/malamute/wolf with black and tan fur is sitting in front of the towering rocky pillar with a large smile and tongue hanging out.
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even better, ask: If the Senate flips, and Thomas or Alito announce in Nov or Dec he'll be retiring, to let Trump put a replacement on the Court before Dems take over in January, will she let Trump rush through another anti-abortion justice.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You know the internet has died when a photo like this is not followed by a story about how the ermagerd lady is all grown up and types Trumps racist tweets.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I appreciate that the Trump folks would rather this is sexual v a crazy nanny situation but Trump being repellent to women does make this a challenge.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
certainly a choice to make fun of people for liking lettuce right after presiding over a historic multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis that sent a bunch of people to the hospital and killed a few
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 06/10/2026
This mural in Mount Vernon that references Palestine and James Baldwin was nearly removed. Featuring @rondez.bsky.social
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also worth recalling that as Secretary of State, Pompeo continued to sign off on arms sales to Saudi Arabia even after the RSAF attacked a school bus full of Yemeni kids using a U.S.-origin PGM.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, you'd like to talk about "great questions of human life" and your most recent political philosopher is Karl Marx? Your only psychologist is William James? You have more fucking Romans on there than you do people from the 20th Century.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he ​sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Among young men, sexism predicts support for Trump among young men. In 2024, Democrats *won economically precarious young men.* Trump won young men who held bad views about sex. In *particular,* Trump won those young men both sexist AND high-socioeconomic status. So... www.ymrp.org/polling
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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*
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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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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
as much as megan kelly should be [redacted], there is cold comfort in recognizing the almost clinical stages of rape apologia we've passed through "why should these boys' lives be ruined by one mistake" to "why was she there alone" to "why was she drinking/using drugs" to "shes to ugly to be raped"
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think about this a lot
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Al Capone, convicted for federal tax evasion, died at his Florida home.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re wondering, yes, anyplace that once had Dennis Hastert signs and honorifics has long since taken them down. If you want to find anywhere with the Hastert family name in marker form, go to the restaurant his relatives own. Dennis isn’t mentioned there, either.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The outcomes of a electric scooter that can go 50 mph hitting ... just about anything ... are not great, turns out www.jezebel.com/e-bikes-scoo...
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The A.I. investment boom is contributing to inflation. It also appears nearly immune to high interest rates. That’s a challenging combination for the Fed — with potentially serious implications for the rest of the economy. With @colbylsmith.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b... #EconSky
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High Interest Rates Aren’t Slowing the A.I. Boom. That’s a Problem for the Fed. (Gift Article)
Rising borrowing costs are taking a toll on households and businesses. But they are doing little to dampen enthusiasm for investments in A.I. infrastructure, which are contributing to inflation.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At his sentencing hearing, the federal judge referred to Hastert as a "serial child molester."
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Dennis Hastert Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison
A federal judge has sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison in a hush-money case that centered on accusations that the former U.S. House speaker sexually abused at least four students when he ...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2016, Dennis Hastert admitted to the sexual abuse of multiple teenage boys. Federal prosecutors alleged that Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
I’m sure this is all above board…………. www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Raised eyebrows as banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein ties dies by suicide
A British banker who exposed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to The Banker, a death that raised eyebrows and drew the attention of R...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crank is in a tight race against Democrat Jessica Killin in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. Cook Political Report has called this the fastest-trending Democratic seat in the country, and last month shifted its rating of this seat from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.”
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Legacy...fouled" by "allegations" Hastert admitted in court he raped the boys he was coaching. These should not be reported as "allegations" which sullied his legacy. www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/u...
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Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, and Apologizes for Sex Abuse (Published 2016)
The former House speaker faced up to five years for his effort to cover up his sexual abuse of high school wrestlers he coached.
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Upended his legacy"? what in the fuck?
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Grumpy Liberal @grumpyliberal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ground.news/article/form... Lest old pedos be forgot, the GOP still rots, from the inside to the out, from the bottom to the top.
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Dennis Hastert, Former House Speaker, Dies at 84
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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Underbabied @birdpant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Went to prison for payoffs to cover up his sexual assault of kids
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Errod Ziel @errodziel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert was garbage
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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Alexa, who is "Dennis Hastert"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/11/2025
Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP
Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Parents and teachers are being crushed by the app avalanche. The kids are also frustrated — they get very little direct instruction on how to use the bewildering ed tech, but plenty of punishment for getting it wrong. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/l...
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Two kids, 12 apps, and zero clue? Welcome to the platformization of school, sports, and life, parents. - The Boston Globe
School updates. Sports schedules. Lunch menus. There’s an app for that — and parents are losing it.
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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shades of officials in the Inquisition telling people that the pain they are suffering is worth it because it will save their souls...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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