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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h
I’ve seen reports estimating that the Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Over ten years that’s $3.6 trillion. So how about we trade free college for a stupid war?
U.S. Department of Education • 1h • O
Everything comes at a cost... that falls on the American taxpayer.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/socialism/
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The Real Cost of
"Free College"
$3.6 TRILLION
over ten years
THE PROMISE
All student debt cancelled and free undergraduate tuition
THE COST
$3.6 trillion with tuition covered at all institutions.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me say a couple words about paywalls. They’re annoying. I feel that (as a news consumer) and know that (as a news publisher). But asking for your email, either to read an article or even to access a gift link (someone said this happened to them a a Times gift link a moment ago) isn’t some …
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026
🐋 A sperm whale cracked the hull of a yacht sailing in the remote South Pacific, forcing four sailors into a day-and-night fight for survival on the high seas. ➡️ u.afp.com/S96i
The 16-metre (52-foot) Tai Tam starts sinking after a sperm whale struck and cracked the hull of the yacht in the remote South Pacific.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
so the state fucked around for 32 years after a fucked up 18-year old did a terrible thing and then tortured her for hours but was unable to kill her.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 01/10/2026
If anyone is in touch with any of the local trans inclusive safe spaces orgs around the country can you reach out to them and ask if they would be willing to speak to me over the next day or so please. I have opened my DMs.
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Its performative stupidity. Senator Foghorn Leghorn sitting next to Schmitt here is a virtuoso at the craft
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What people don't understand about the whole good fats/ bad fats thing. If you are eating enough fat for it to make a difference you are already eating too much fat
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-…
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seed oil-free fries are the perfect MAHA food. take something that is extremely unhealthy and claim you've made it healthy by changing something that has zero effect on its healthiness.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
scrippsnews.com
Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Hoosier Homer is reading The Best & The Brightest by Halberstam @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
crazy to think to that even now in 2026 no state has ever had a black woman as governor. ~21 million black women and girls out there and many of them will still be the first to do the things they will accomplish.
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Resident Warren G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
all these people sound like this:
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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 12, Episode 7
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
propublica.org
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 23/09/2026
buddy, if this were a D we'd already be like 5 news cycles deep into "the D party has failed. what will replace it?" discourse
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Nick Manos @manos.lol · 20/09/2026
I had the same thought
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Iran says the US has decided to resume military action after receiving the green light from several regional states. The decision was taken at a meeting in an unspecified European country.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Russia's FSB imposes a nighttime curfew along the Estonian border near Narva, banning people and vehicles outside towns and villages within 5 km of the border in the Slantsy and Kingisepp districts from Sept 16–26
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rs dropped six new polls today. So in the last 9 days they've dropped 32 Senate polls in 14 states by 7 pollsters. It's a manic, desperate effort, and no one should be fooled by what they are doing. 1/
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This is why we have sex with animals instead.”
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Welp... looks like we're all gonna die
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The poll of 3,000 adults nationwide found that 80% think the United States puts too little emphasis on civic education, or the teaching of government and democracy. A majority (51%) said the country’s focus on civic education is much too little.
nbcnews.com
Poll: Americans believe they aren’t being taught enough about democracy
A new NBC News poll shows that Americans remain committed to the nation’s founding ideals — but widely feel that schools are not adequately teaching what’s needed to sustain them.
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gulf of Oman VLCC rates up 250% month to date, nearing $900K per day 🚢Baltic Exchange’s Oman-China VLCC index is at $870,947 per day; a VLCC was placed on subs on Thursday at $912,864 per day www.lloydslist.com/articles/202...
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Gulf of Oman VLCC rates up 250% month to date, nearing $900K per day
Skyrocketing spot rates for VLCCs loading via ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman are pulling tonnage toward the Middle East and tying up capacity in lengthy waits for shuttle tankers braving the Strait of Hormuz
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Hasan Piker but Republicans are never held accountable for Elon Musk, Laura Loomer, or a dozen other prominent right-wing figures who are espousing literal Nazi views
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible how the press & everyone else has just totally normalized our lawless authoritarian president ordering the kidnapping of the leader of another country & now looting said country.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This sounds like absolute hell
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
ALT: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US has ~220 cops per 100,000 people. Trinidad, TX, has a pop of 860 and ~7 full-time equivalent cops. That's a rate of over 800 cops per 100,000! And they were spending ~35% of the local budget on them. For policing so bad the mayor is quoted saying he wasn't surprised by the closure! Why?!
Trinidad budget, showing $277K out of $790K spent on the police.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
staggering diesel increases! diesel has surged over $1/gal in the last 30 days in California (+$1.30/gal), Oregon (+$1.19/gal), Washington ($+1.08/gal) and New Mexico (+$1.07/gal). Beyond that, 21 states have seen more than a 90-cent rise in diesel in the last 30 days.
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Bob @bobisjim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine how amazing the economy would be right now if we didn't have two years of the president trying to destroy it.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Houthis say they attacked Aramco facilities in Yanbu - Reuters
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chicago WCS diesel crack $137/bbl, absolutely wild- barrel of diesel in Chicago now $226/bbl
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Maine's Black Lawyer @lutherevers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lawsky: A friend is desperately in need of a probate attorney in Colorado for a contested will with family drama. If anybody has a recommendation, please let me know.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jesus Christ they killed this kid
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the degree of both autonomy and corruption inside tiny police departments in the U.S. is ridiculous.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
nytimes.com
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If this standard were widely applied a lotta PDs would go bye-bye.
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026
Iran war cost hits $38 billion, forecast to rise $3 billion a month, CBO says reut.rs/46Keegt
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Iran war cost hits $38 billion, forecast to rise $3 billion a month, CBO says
The six-month-old U.S. war against Iran has cost $38 billion so far and ​that amount is projected to rise by $3 billion a month, Congress' nonpartisan bookkeeper reported on Tuesday, as the Trump administration ‌searches for ways to end the conflict and reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's like if Phillip Morris had told people that tobacco would destroy humanity so they could use regulatory capture to start a state sanctioned cigarette cartel to keep Russia from being the ones giving Americans cancer.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.
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