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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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just me @bobj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Read this, please. The whole thing.
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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This week's comic: The Big Picture
For millennia…


Barbarism prevails, might makes right


Dominant religious groups persecute “heretics”


Racial hierarchy entrenched


Gender hierarchy entrenched


Non-straight people ostracized


Finally in the second half of the 20th century
Woman: At last, a bit of fairness and equality!


And then…
Pompous guy: Here’s an outside-the-box idea! What if we tried traditional hierarchies?


©2026 Jen Sorensen
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I said we have a broken political system, it'd be the least memorable thing I said all day. We all know it. We all say it. The question is: Why do we act like it isn't? It can't go on like this.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why. n.pr/4AfmXop
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A DHS email raises new questions about the Trump administration's election plans
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
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Jesse @jaawerth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
sometimes leaving a million browser tabs open works out www.pressherald.com/2026/07/08/a... Sunshine Larry for Mayor!!!
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A cat named Sunshine Larry runs the streets of Bath
'Sunny' has been frequenting local establishments for years, winning hearts along the way, inspiring many to give him the honorary title of mayor.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. Beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.
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Beforecast — Now Live
Historian Ada Palmer on the real Machiavelli. Episode 1 is out now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and more.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is this escalating enough ?
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i watched the midterm convention so you didn’t have to! or maybe you also watched it and want corroboration of what you saw! I don’t know your life! anyway hope your saturday is going well www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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A Recap of a Surreal Midterm Convention
It isn’t over until the president’s tenor sings.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Ward Sutton @wardsutton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I just want to repeat it : PUTIN’S ‘ASPIRATION’ AND ‘OBJECTIVE’ IS TO ERASE UKRAINE. THERE CAN BE NO ‘WIN-WIN’. EVER
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Do NOT return your mail in ballot using USPS. They are building some system to process these ,, mail in ballots even though a judge blocked this from happening. The USPS can NOT be trusted! Drop off your ballot at a ballot drop box or if you can vote in person!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/08/2026
Canada strong 🇨🇦 F*ck Trump‼️
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just me @bobj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes, it's real.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/08/2026
Hurricane Dolly could wipe out Mar-a-Lago.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"I have loved Cat Stevens from the first time I heard his voice, heard him play the guitar, and heard his wonderful, touching, deep lyrics." -Dolly Parton
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement Grand jury declined to indict anyone but said there was a ‘sophisticated scheme’ to use funds for political activity ...
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Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement
Grand jury declined to indict anyone but said there was a ‘sophisticated scheme’ to use funds for political activity
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” Vote. Vote. Vote.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"If Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hadn’t gone up the Missouri River in 1804 and then down the lower Columbia River in 1805, there might today be less United States and more Canada. Lately, I have been having trouble imagining how that could be seen as a bad thing." 🗃 1/
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Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?
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DeniseG @denisegutzmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought Panama and El Salvador are the latest countries after Honduras to declare an emergency over El Nino, which has already forced a reduction in shipping through the Panama Canal. #ElNino #drought www.france24.com/en/americas/...
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Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought
Panama and El Salvador have become the latest countries along with Honduras to declare an emergency over El Nino, which has already forced a reduction in shipping through the Panama Canal. All three…
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
‘A Bible-sized blind spot’: congressman sounds alarm on rising Christian nationalism ...
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‘A Bible-sized blind spot’: congressman sounds alarm on rising Christian nationalism
In his new book, congressman Jared Huffman argues that theocratic insurgency has only grown more powerful after Donald Trump returned to the White House
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t worry things will get stupider
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/08/2026
Anonymous sources: They discussed possible “common ground.” People are crashing out over a leak, presumably from Team Trump/Kushner, and their version of what happened in that meeting. Did it ever occur to folks that Team Trump is playing you?
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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Absolutely thee best performance of The Cat Duet I've ever heard. The cattitude is so perfectly on point. 😸
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The Cat Duet by Rossini & Pearsall | 2.1M Views | #opera #catsong
YouTube video by Chichi Enu
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Repeating words they don’t understand like Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist, and the like is easier then trying to understand them.
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And so it is done. Marxist Canada will be slapped with 50% tariffs.

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Oh, Canada is Marxist?
Adorable. Your president buys stakes in private companies, wants to dictate the price of beef, runs a state propaganda machine, and stages cabinet meetings where everyone takes turns praising Dear Leader.
Dude, you live in Russia with a Costco membership.
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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
October 2018 tweet from @ndrew_lawrence:
“Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no...no not those views
Me: So....deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones”
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
not a ton of muppets clips i haven't seen but this one is sublime
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
French Historian Marc Bloch, 1940. This is from his book Strange Defeat that tried to make sense of why the French elite succumbed so seemingly easily to the Nazi takeover. Bloch, a nerdy middle aged Sorbonne professor, joined the resistance and was executed by the Gestapo in 1944.
By birth I am a Jew, though not by religion, for I have never professed any creed, whether Hebrew or Christian. I feel neither pride nor shame in my origins. I am, I hope, a sufficiently good historian to know that racial qualities are a myth, and that the whole notion of Race is an absurdity which becomes particularly flagrant when attempts are made to apply it, as in this particular case of the Jews, to a group of co-religionists originally brought together from every corner of the Mediterranean, Turco-Khazar, and Slav worlds. I am at pains never to stress my heredity save when I find myself in the presence of an anti-Semite. But it may be that certain persons will challenge. the evidence which I propose to put on record, and attempt to discredit it on the grounds that I am an 'alien'. I need say no more in rebuttal of such a charge than that my great-grandfather was a serving soldier in
1793; that my father was one of the defenders of Strasbourg in
1870; that both my uncles chose to leave their native Alsace after its annexation by the Second Reich; that I was brought up in the traditions of patriotism which found no more fervent champions than the Jews of the Alsatian exodus, and that France, from which many would like to expel me to-day (and may, for all I know, succeed in doing so), will remain, whatever happens, the one country with which my deepest emotions are inextricably bound up. I was born in France. I have drunk of the waters of her culture. I have made her past my own. I breathe freely only in her climate, and I have done my best, with others, to defend her interests.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The emergence of Rupert, who has many places to go and no desire to arrive at any of them quickly.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? 

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
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Pamela Toler (she/her) @pdtoler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
History depends on witnesses. Not because memory is perfect. Because someone had to notice. Someone had to write it down. Every diary, letter, newspaper article, and photograph helps us see the past a little more clearly.   🗃️
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Scottish type eclipse in Glasgow 🤣
University of Glasgow’s Gothic looking tower beneath dark, dramatic clouds, with a partially eclipsed Sun glowing through the clouds in the background.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just read Ukrainian girl proudly sharing on socials she walked whole 3 km on foot . ‘With taking almost no breaks’ she said . She has a prosthetic leg , after Russian attack took her own. In the comments - others shared their own photos from the walk , to support her, with their own
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/08/2026
“America Will Never Be the Same”? Neither will my definition of shitshow. Y’all gotta see this video. Priceless. ☠️ 😂
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/08/2026
I am at Waffle House at 11pm and three teenagers in the next booth are discussing the Pope. GIRL1: So the pope— GIRL2: Which pope? GIRL1: Pope Leo. DUDE: What about Francis? GIRL1: He died. DUDE: THE POPE DIED?!? GIRL1: Like last year! We have an American Pope! DUDE: They can DO that?!
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Ashley Best @wellactuallyhist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This cartoon from the 1930s could have been published yesterday and been relevant. We had both a strong anti-vaxxer and anti-masker contingent in the U.S. since before we were the U.S. #history #Covid #fauci #publichealth 🗃️ substack.com/@wellactuall...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
* U.S. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION VOTES TO RESCIND RULE BARRING LOCAL BROADCAST STATION OWNERS FROM REACHING MORE THAN 39% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF U.S. TV HOUSEHOLDS @reuters.com
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The emergence of Fraser, who is one foot away from a serious breakthrough on the road to personal growth:
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𝚙𝚡𝚕𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠 🇨🇦 @pxlcrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Telling our young neighbours this was Fleetwood Mac.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Todd Blanche’s Midnight Confirmation Gambit Doesn’t Actually Rewrite Trump’s Deal meidasnews.com/news/todd-bl...
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Todd Blanche's Midnight Confirmation Gambit Doesn't Actually Rewrite Trump's Deal
And the "concerned" senators and much of the media are falling for it.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“War is at best barbarism…Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” ~General of the Army William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879. Image: Nat’l Archives.
This black and white photo shows a bearded man—William Tecumseh Sherman—wearing a Civil War-era U.S. Army uniform. His right hand is inside his jacket in a “Napoleonic” pose.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Foreground left: large, windowless buildings. Background: fiery forest horizon and red to black sky. Foreground right: man on his phone saying, “Quick! We need more water to cool down the data centres that are overheating from processing all the news about unprecedented wildfires…”
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