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Former Raw Story columnist. Raver. Seer of Visions.

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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 1h
On the bright side, I’m sure this gruesome spectacle will change how the conservatives on the Court view the death penalty. Right?
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 7h
They are denied dignity. They are denied security. They are denied life.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 9h
Gotta be at least 10 red seats that go blue before Idaho is in play.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Equal parts desperation and stupidity.
huffpost.com
Republican Senator Makes Embarrassing Mistake While Accusing Jack Smith Of Crimes
Supposed vice-presidential contender Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) seems to have mixed up basketball teams in an effort to nail a top Trump enemy.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brilliant strategery, Dems. Maybe you can haul out Joe Manchin and the ghost of Joe Lieberman to campaign for you instead.
huffpost.com
Democrats Are Suddenly Shunning AOC, Report Says. Here’s Why.
The progressive star is reportedly facing an alarming development among Democrats as she weighs a 2028 presidential bid.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good on them, but no way the Gang of Six grants them standing to sue.
levernews.com
Iran War Victims Put Trump’s Power Grab On Trial
An unprecedented lawsuit from Iranian-American families challenges Trump’s ability to wage war without Congress.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Another Instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” 🤭
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Obsequiousness and bootlicking.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen.
abcnews.com
Senate again fails to adopt Iran War Powers Resolution despite growing criticism
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis joined all but one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, in voting in favor of the resolution.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These people are so bugfuck insane. www.rawstory.com/heidi-overto...
rawstory.com
Trump nominee floors senator at FDA hearing: 'Birth control is not an abortion'
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration left Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) briefly speechless by declining to say whether an intrauterine device causes an abortion.Heidi Overt...
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Saw one of these in the wild yesterday. They do look quite futuristic, though to me it is pretty much the future in Woody Allen’s “Sleeper.”
Tesla Robotaxi
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So powerful
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Murmuration ❤️ #birds
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And proud of it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Republican Lite.
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EC @prairiecrab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
People around the admin aren’t even pretending anymore.
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A Black man was found hanged in Prince George's County, MD yesterday. Upper Marlboro. The Washington Post has not covered it. A hanging. Of a Black man. All of 20 miles from the Washington Post's headquarters.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it a problem if we give an 80 year old with dementia and zero impulse control the ability to launch nuclear weapons?
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This pretty much says it all: “Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist whose medical license was revoked after he was found to have fabricated research indicating a link between vaccines and autism, spoke before and immediately after Kennedy.”
theguardian.com
RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. | NPR www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
npr.org
U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran, including a school attack
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
have I mentioned lately that oligarch-owned media consolidation is bad
hollywoodreporter.com
Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That will buff right out with a bit of rubbing compound.
cbsnews.com
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bari may be embarrassed. But I don’t think her bosses care much. They bought the network to prevent the news org from investigating them, not to turn a profit.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Perfect.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump Demands Ukraine Stop Accomplishing Goals Against Russia
huffpost.com
Trump Calls On Zelenskyy To Halt Ukrainian Strikes On Russian Diesel
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So simple. So clear.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Picture of Trump with  very asymmetric grimace.  The lower side is labeled "gas prices before Iran war" and the higher side is marked "gas prices today."
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
nbcnews.com
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
RIP Marcy Borders, who was working as a legal assistant in the north WTC tower on 9/11. This photo of her, enshrouded in toxic dust, would become an iconic image of that day. She died of stomach cancer, almost 14 years later, at the age of 42. Survived by a daughter and a son.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another Inconvenient Truth
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a preview of what things could look like if SCOTUS allows the USPS rule to go forward: the Postal Service rejected envelopes from a county in Florida because the return address is 0.014 inches too close to other text on the envelope
electionlawblog.org
USPS Rejects Florida County’s Mail Ballot Envelope Design over Return Address Being 0.014 of An Inch Too Close #ELB
A taste of what would happen if the USPS mail ballot rules were in effect: The U.S. Postal Service — which President Donald Trump hopes to deploy to restrict mail voting in the November election — rec...
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Siri, what is a protection racket?"
politico.com
Sam Altman pitches utilities on AI grid defense
The previously unreported meetings have come as utility companies grapple the risks posed to the grid by autonomous hacks.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This utility seems unreformed and unreformable. It should be broken up at a minimum.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Without endorsing the expensive global US military footprint and “world’s policeman” strategy, it seems undeniable that Trump and Hegseth have broken both, perhaps irreparably.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elon Musk has helped AfD for years even though they protested Tesla building a factory outside of Berlin bc it made EVs & would possibly hire immigrants… he supports their ideology. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘We cannot forget our history’
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The President of the United States today:
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It is journalistic malpractice that major news outlets are not producing 5-alarm-fire reports to warn the public that the president of the United States is out of his mind.
Trump posts a map of New Mexico with the word "Mexico" crossed out and "America" added in its place.
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ugly arc of John Fetterman in the Senate is a useful reminder that there is a high probability that the person you like because he is a dick to people you dislike will eventually reveal himself to be a dick more generally. www.huffpost.com/entry/critic...
huffpost.com
Critics Torch Fetterman Over 'Disturbing' WSJ Report: 'Holy S**t'
The Wall Street Journal published a report Thursday on Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) that one critic called “career-ending.”
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Blue Meme @bluememe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When the UN adopts a new map that more accurately represents relative land mass of various countries, the Trump administration complains that "Instead of focusing on genuine problems... this body is debating map projects.." Also the Trump administration: Lake America! Gulf of America!
yahoo.com
Africa bigger, US smaller - UN adopts new map
The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington.It inflated nort...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof gizmodo.com/identity-ver...
gizmodo.com
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof
A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit...
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