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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In the face of despair, Venerable Analayo says it's not one's job to fix the situation, but to embody that which would heal the world. This concept, embodying the healing power, feels much more within one's grasp. Wisdom relayed by Jeanne Corrigal tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A viewer named Debbie got the phrase “nut cuttin time down on the ranch” banned from my program. Debbie ruined it for everyone.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/06/2026

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”

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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It’s a short bill. I read it. It does not *shove* AI onto kids in school.

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The divided working class exhausts themselves in petty horizontal conflict whilst the armed buffoon of capital stands ready to collect the spoils. But then! They see through the fog of bourgeois ideology and turn on him together. Marx and Engels weep with joy at this triumph of proletarian cinema.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

okay now Artemis II is out of range of Earth we can say what we actually think of them

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Ella Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

After a fortnight that beautifully celebrated baseball, "one memorable image will be of Venezuela in the sunburst of joy. Another will be that of America alone, the hosts masquerading as toy soldiers, at home and painfully out of place." Excellent Howard Bryant piece in @us.theguardian.com today:

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Other nations danced for joy at the World Baseball Classic. Team USA played toy soldiers

Venezuela played with heart, Italy sipped espresso and the Dominicans showed off their verve at the tournament. America wanted to concentrate on war

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

ALISA WRITES Are Americans Just Stupid... Or is it something else? Lately, I've been hearing a lot of folks ask the same question, eyes wide with despair, wine glass in hand like it's a stress ball: "How did the United States elect this clown? open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...

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Are Americans Just Stupid...

Or is it something else?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I wrote about why the Trump administration's antisemitism envoy is lying about Holocaust history to avoid the possibility that people might draw parallels between the condition of Jews in occupied Europe and the condition of migrants hiding from ICE today. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

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The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing

When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

As one who was also forced to listen to Frank Sinatra by his racist, blow-hard dad, I can relate to how much this probably sucked for his kids.

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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A whale washed up in Nantucket, On the beach so we brought spades and buckets. The whale was too big, for any hole we could dig. So we left it right there, saying...

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

wow baseball i was very unfamiliar with your game. this shit nuts

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Does John Smoltz hate baseball or just talking about baseball?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I debated about whether to block or not. But these accounts, it is already clear, are being run by malevolent trolls. They do not deserve your time, attention, or engagement. Don't overthink it. Block them all.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“With Trump provocatively sending troops into blue cities, and using recision and the shutdown to claw back congressionally appropriated funds from blue states, it’s time to turn the tables on him.” By @clarajeffery.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This guy is the guy that Marimar Martinez had IDed as a YouTuber in advance of her shooting. Tricia McLaughlin emphasized that "doxing" to justify her shooting.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Pretty good odds one of these guys was throwing a tantrum at the squat rack four years ago over being asked to wear a mask.

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“…and that’s why we’re sending them all to South Sudan on planes with their transponders turned off.”

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

@liccardo.house.gov H.Res. 719 lauds Charlie Kirk’s “legacy” and his “steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth.” You voted yes. Can you clarify which of those descriptions you believe to be accurate?

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2025

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi. I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

He civily argued that certain groups should be exterminated (for god of course). He argued with great civility that blacks were inferior to whites. I think you need to take some personal time and consider what is important in discourse. Terrible things politely said are still terrible.

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briandub.bsky.social @briandub.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

No one deserves to be murdered for their views, however bigoted. And no one deserved to be the target of the bigotry Charlie Kirk devoted his life to promoting.

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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

People who are ok with beating cops on the capitol steps for a lie are accusing you of political violence.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12/09/2025

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/08/2025

"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"

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How the Federal Union Could Break Apart

The term “constitutional crisis” gets used a lot these days. By a...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

brad lander primary chuck schumer

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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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