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Whit Sides

@brightsides.bsky.social
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writer from Alabama. math rock enthusiast. coal miner’s daughter. @ditchell’s wife. insufferable tree scold. proud fourth generation member of a union, bb!

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 14/09/2026
If you’re an American citizen living abroad, you’re still entitled to make your voice heard. Get yourself a ballot and vote!
votefromabroad.org
Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2026
It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money
futurism.com
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"We were praying! Loudly! Did everyone hear our performative prayer? Be sure you write down that you heard us praying! It was very sincere. Be sure to write that too.:"
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/03/2026
Amid the dueling ceasefire proposals, at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division will be sent to the Mideast in the coming days, three people with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans.
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Iran Dismisses US Ceasefire Plan, Issues Counterproposal as Strikes Land Across Mideast
Iran on Wednesday rejected an American ceasefire proposal and issued one of its own as it continued strikes on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
“Protest politely” -dumb guys
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/03/2026
The combination of Interstate (and state) highway construction and transit disinvestment, more importantly, also allows the state to surgically create cordon sanitaires by sealing off chokepoints. This makes spontaneous mass demonstrations impossible without the threat of large-scale kettling
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/03/2026
For >90% of Americans, college is the only point in the lifetimes where they will live in dense, walkable, racially diverse places. That's also why the Interstate Highway System, in the hands of white supremacist urban segregationists, was a social engineering project as much as a jobs project
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Instagram and TikTok were clearly key and innovative forces behind Zohran Mamdani's rise. From everything I read and heard this was led by women. Yet, somehow, it ended up being a white dude taking a huge victory lap in the NYT. www.zutrau.nyc m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
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Inside the Instagram Machine That Got Zohran Mamdani Elected - Manychat Blog
Discover how Zohran Mamdani's team leveraged Instagram automation to mobilize voters and win his mayoral election.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/02/2026
he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment
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Chris Mitchell @ditchell.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
What if we kissed at the local salamander crossing @brightsides.bsky.social
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Chris Mitchell @ditchell.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, today. Sell all my cameras, buy 600mm lenses and just shoot birds. Don't tempt me, I'll do it. Ft. @brightsides.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
independent.co.uk
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend. Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Good catch.
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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."
theguardian.com
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
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Whit Sides @brightsides.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s always exactly who you think it is. Every time.
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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Read. And support mfp.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/09/2025
(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad
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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Fyi one of the Kirk videos is incredibly graphic. If you're looking at media of the event (especially on Twitter) make sure your sensitivity settings are where you'd want them to be.
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Chris Mitchell @ditchell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Bessemer, Alabama. @brightsides.bsky.social hollering at me to pull over, there's a car on the roof. Kentmere 200, Zeiss Nettar that I somehow took apart and reassembled and it still works. I'm as shocked as you are.
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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bluesky post by Jason @longwall26.bsky.social

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president

Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?

Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 22/06/2025
Not sure what to do about the fact that this country’s latest illegal war is being waged by a presidential administration that consists, top to bottom, of people who lie about everything, all the time
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Twiggie THE ROACH 🔞 @twiggietime.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Being a millennial is just: Watch a bunch of people die on live television in middle school homeroom See America get excited about killing Middle Eastern people - literally forever apparently Being in debt Everyone asking you why your whole generation is so depressed and anxious all the time
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“This is not constitutional!” I cry as the temu-bought katana enters my belly
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
They're bringing back dump shit from the y2k like war with Iran when we could bring back cool shit like Less than Jake
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
They are driving this shit into people’s backyards. Jesus.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
People like when you unapologetically stand for something, specifically the working class. This shouldn't be seen as some super lefty position, and we shouldn't need a poll to tell us it either.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“the US public needs to know that the routine vaccination of approx 117 million children from 1994-2023 likely prevented around 508 million lifetime cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129 000 deaths” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads
In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more
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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Way to set the tone, Mark. 😁
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Rufus J Squirrel 🇵🇸 @death.computer · 16/06/2025
Anyone but Putin.
foxnews.com
Trump slams Obama, Trudeau for pushing Russia out of G8 summit years ago: 'Wouldn't have a war'
Trump criticized former President Obama and former PM Trudeau for Russia's G8 removal, claiming it was a "very big mistake" that would have prevented further war.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 16/06/2025
Minnesota aw enforcement officers on Sunday night arrested Vance Boelter, who is accused of assassinating state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home as part of a larger plot to kill Democratic elected officials. From our sister outlet, @minnesotareformer.com.
tennesseelookout.com
Vance Boelter, accused of assassination of DFL House leader Melissa Hortman, apprehended • Tennessee Lookout
Law enforcement officers on Sunday night arrested Vance Boelter, who is accused of assassinating Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2025
the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)
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Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net · 30/05/2025
This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.
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cap’n watsisname @capnwatsisname.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Got fired from the drive thru for telling customers “The root of your suffering is your desire”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The WITAOD Chronicles
Anna Bower
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM
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One woman's maddening search for the head of a non-existent federal
agency.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I’m just going to say that “Road Rules” should never again be considered a qualification to be Transportation Secretary.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
just another day in the exoneration/no angels pits
As Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation
nattle conunues,
differing pictures of him emerge
Administration officials and family members are painting contrasting images.
By Peter Charalambous, Laura Romero and James Hill
April 18, 2025, 5:04 AM ET • 13 min read≥ NBC NEWS
GUNS IN AMERICA
FSU shooting suspect's
complex past comes to light - yet motive remains a mystery In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It's unclear if that had any tie to the violence.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/04/2025
the most cruel administration of all time. them being this outwardly evil genuinely might be their downfall in the end
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
It would be so funny if they excommunicated him
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/04/2025
making it clear how normal and deserving of custody i am with my cool truck
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