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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Kathy ᨒ↟ 𖠰 🍁 @consigningwoman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Her name, these days, is Wisdom, band number Z333, and she is the oldest known wild bird on Earth. #ResistanceEarth Wisdom’s tracking device has no battery, no signal and no moving parts. Both the albatross and the observer need to show up every November. #Science scienceblog.com/b-a-biologis...
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A biologist banded a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in December 1956, and the same bird, Wisdom, was still returning to the colony and raising chicks nearly 70 years later at roughly age 75, making ...
A single metal leg band has tracked one albatross across seven decades of ocean and loneliness, rewriting what we thought possible about a wild animal's span.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 02/07/2026
Story with more context and statement from Diageo's spokesperson here:
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Amid deep cuts, Diageo shutters Aviation's posh Portland flagship
The struggling firm acquired the Ryan Reynolds-backed gin brand for $610 million in 2020
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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a man in a dark room with the words " it 's never happened " above him
ALT: a man in a dark room with the words " it 's never happened " above him
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.
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brthompson.bsky.social @brthompson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What IS wrong with him? People are asking. Many people.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/02/2026
This guy talking about how corruption "shreds the fabric of our nation," gtfo
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
tapping the sign
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The Economist @economist.com · 13/02/2026
An unknown number of powerful men (and some women) trafficked and abused a much larger number of vulnerable women and girls. Those victims urgently need justice
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The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied
Prosecutors have moved far too slowly
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.

August 20, 2025Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 06/02/2026
What if Big Beer neither totally tanked craft beer like true believers feared, nor built it up like they promised? At @vinepair.com I wrote about how the country's biggest brewer is scooping money off the floor even as its lip-service about raising the segment's ceiling never really materialized.
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Anheuser-Busch’s Craft Brands Are (Finally) Good Enough — and That’s Bad News for Independent Brewers
Last August, the tech journalist Charlie Warzel filed a column at The Atlantic exploring a dismal middle-road future shaped by generative artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. “What if genera...
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Brian Alberts @brewedculture.org · 04/02/2026
Any subscriber quitting on Dave over this can't have been reading his stuff too closely...but you should! Beer has *always* been political. If you don't see that, it's probably because the politics was designed around your comfort. Dave just helps us make sense of that reality.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/01/2026
He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti: 

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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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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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And it was Mitch McConnell who made it possible by letting Trump off the hook on impeachment, and Kevin McCarthy who proactively brought Trump back into the GOP fold. Let their shame never be forgotten.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
By essentially redacting most photos but Epstein and Bill Clinton, the DOJ is further undermining any pretense that the agency is anything other than a Trump goon squad. And for what, bc this ploy is not going to pass muster with victims.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/11/2025
The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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America, the Juvenile
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
So there were, y’know…edits?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?
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brthompson.bsky.social @brthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
All of us right now. #caturday
A cat lying on a sofa, looking resigned.
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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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brthompson.bsky.social @brthompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A lot going on, for sure, but the Trump administration still needs to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Went to a science fair under the I-610 today.
Three punks under a highway overpass with a trifold science presentation on mold. 
Two women with a trifold science project on "Telepathic Poetry"A man sitting under an overpass with his science presentation on "Lumer"
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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law: This is why we Americans live in fear today The Honorable Thomas Cullen, the judge from the Federal District Court in Virginia who was brought in to decide Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the Federal Court in Maryland,
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
By all means, let’s believe the heinous sex offender who lies like she breathes. Todd Blanche is shameful for conducitng this idiotic inquiry designed only to protect Trump www.thedailybeast.com//cackling-ma...
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Cackling Maxwell Smears Prince Andrew’s Accuser on DOJ Tape
The convicted child sex offender dismissed allegations against Prince Andrew for jaw-dropping reasons.
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brthompson.bsky.social @brthompson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Is Bluesky broken?
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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?
Crew aboard Spanish trading ships departing from Manila may have introduced techniques for distilling coconut sap – helping to shape what would become Mexico’s national spirit.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the Army’s brass failed to speak out in its defense.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Many delegates, including Alexander Hamilton, fretted that "one of the weak sides of republics" was their susceptibility "to foreign corruption"; leaders elevated to "stations of great preeminence and power" by the people, Hamilton wrote, may be tempted to abandon their
"obligations of duty," lured by "compensations" from other nations seeking influence. In other words, federal officials could be so entranced by the wealth of foreign leaders, especially monarchs, that they might sell out their own country in exchange for a share of the riches dangled before them. The delegates sought to guard against this existential threat to republican "virtue" by adopting the foreign emoluments clause-unanimously, and without debate.
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