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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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Perhaps instilling morality in tech bros would be a better first step... (rather than trying to strip mine morality from "brand name" sources like it was just more ones and zeroes to Hoover up like all the rest of their bots' "knowledge.")
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump just made a huge problem for the beef industry. trib.al/aJ4ISd1
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Trump Sneaks Massive Blow to His Allies Into Latest Executive Order
Donald Trump just made a huge problem for the beef industry.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Of course Trump flatters AI. It flattered him first.
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Violent crime is falling — and the reasons why are likely more complicated than simply increased policing. . bit.ly/4xMoks9
brennancenter.org
Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Raddatz: "What do you think the job of the press is? What does the First Amendment mean to you?" Blanche: "What it means to me is not the issue…When it comes to the White House, it's the people's house. It is a privilege and not a right to be there."
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Multiple ads I believe
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trying to keep up with BYD’s expansion is almost impossible. Everyday news of new factories they build overseas, new models, new batteries. It’s Alexander the Great conquering the auto world, yet its market cap is 1/12th of Tesla’s ( $120 billion vs $1500B) cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...
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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Right on schedule.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elon Musk blocks the Catholic Bishops Conference of Brazil because they criticize Bolsonaro, whom he supports. paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When Republicans wail about "communism," remember: They applauded last week when Trump bragged about seizing shares of companies and sending free money to everyone. They're fine with "communism," as long as their guy is doing it. If you know anybody who's falling for this BS, send them this video.
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Republicans’ “Anti-Communist” Obsession Backfires Spectacularly
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 15/09/2026
This would end careers BT.
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russia-gate was real and is ongoing. Turns out it was/is Russia Russia Russia
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jamelle Bouie: what it means to be Haitian in Springfield after JD Vance's dehumanization campaign: “They can be smeared and libeled and hounded and hunted. They can be treated as less than human. They can live under a miasma of hate brought on by him, his boss and their enablers."
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead
Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/08/2026
It’s about ‘kitchen-table populism’: focusing on Americans’ day-to-day economic struggles
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We surveyed 6,000 Americans. Here is the winning message for Democrats | Dustin Guastella
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/08/2026
The annual commemoration in New York historically hasn’t allowed politicians’ speeches and won’t make an exception for Trump. trib.al/Oa7rq8e
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At the CDC, Trump has gutted programs on Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, smoking, overdoses, maternal mortality, rape prevention... apnews.com/article/cdc-...
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The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think this is an accurate assessment - at least somewhere around this number. The problem isn’t rebuilding the bases, it’s force protection. Iran knows what works, now they’re reconstituting their capabilities during the lull in fighting. Emboldening them was a grave mistake
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/08/2026
This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Great reporting by Politico. 1 Trade talks have centred on cars, steel & aluminum 2 Heavy trucks have lots of steel. Both sides agreed to reduce auto tariffs. On Friday, US thought that didn't include heavy trucks under steel tariffs, Canada thought it did. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Inside the 72 hours that cratered the US-Canada trade deal
Trump announced a “DEAL” on Tuesday night. Then things went south. Now the $1 trillion trade relationship is unraveling.
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boles.bsky.social @boles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What an asshole.
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boles.bsky.social @boles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Excellent.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Good piece
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ICE agent Martin Lagunas, star of a viral clip this week, is all in for homicide as standard ICE operating procedure. migrantinsider.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas
Watch now | The Chicago-based agent was already identified on social media and by Unraveled Press. Now, two Department of Homeland Security sources have confirmed his name to Migrant Insider.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
stockpiles. At this point, Kyiv must plan for a winter with severely disrupted power, and disperse and fortify life-support systems such as water, sanitation, power and heating."
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
North Korea is hacking our infrastructure. Sending troops and weapons to kill Ukrainians and providing weapons and support to Iran. South Korea is a democratically ally.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When religion becomes a mere artificial façade to justify a social or economic system—when religion hands over its rites and language completely to the political propagandist, and when prayer becomes the vehicle for a purely secular ideological program, then religion does tend to become an opiate. It deadens the spirit enough to permit the substitution of a superficial fiction and mythology for the truth of life. And this brings about the alienation of the believer, so that his religious zeal becomes political fanaticism. His faith in God, while preserving
its traditional formulas, becomes in fact faith in his own nation, class or race. His ethic ceases to be the law of God and love, and becomes the law of might-makes-right: established privilege justifies everything. God is the status quo.
—Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (1969)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At the request of the US Embassy, Israel dispatches large IDF forces to West Bank villages under attack from violent illegal squatters. However, the IDF forces stand by and do absolutely nothing to stop the squatters. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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Settlers continue to roam Palestinian villages despite massive IDF presence
A large number of troops have been deployed around the mountain villages of Qusra and Jalud, but they have been unable to remove the settlers from the area. The CEO of NGO Yesh Din described the incid...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Any American reader today of Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von gestern will get the quick sense he's living through much the same things that Zweig experienced in Germany and Austria in the 1930s.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/08/2026
Blanche’s latest move reflects poorly on all the Republicans who voted to confirm him—but especially Senators Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, and Tom Tillis, who bought into the AG’s promises to limit the scope of a different immunity for the president. trib.al/lHmpjUC
trib.al
Surprise! Todd Blanche Immediately Breaks His Promises to GOP Senators
Hours after being sworn in as attorney general, Blanche gave Donald Trump even more protections.
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Vox @vox.com · 14/08/2026
Big Bend National Park is the latest casualty of Trump’s border wall obsession. www.vox.com/the-logoff-n...
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Why Trump is tearing up a beloved national park
Big Bend National Park is the latest casualty of Trump’s border wall obsession.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/08/2026
Detainees at a federal immigration camp in Mississippi were also forced to stand outside in extreme heat during the leak. trib.al/BOl5PPF
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ICE Refused to Give Detainees Medical Treatment After Gas Leak
Detainees at a federal immigration camp in Mississippi were also forced to stand outside in extreme heat during the leak.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump’s pressure campaign on the Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, puts him “in a difficult position, forced to choose between what the economy needs and what the president wants,” Phillip Braun writes in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Stagflation Has Returned. Kevin Warsh Must Defy Trump to Protect Our Economy.
The Northwestern professor Phillip Braun says the return of stagflation brings new urgency to the Fed chairman Kevin Warsh’s next moves.
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