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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It can happen here - in Pa. coal country I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch

A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is an interesting thread discussing the procedural process that led to Don Lemon’s arrest. Worth a full read. #donlemon

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This video is an excellent analysis of the footage from the Renee Good murder. It also includes the grainy footage that MAGA says shows the agent being rammed but this analysis debunks that.

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jenniferrap.bsky.social @jenniferrap.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Here is a ‘clean’ copy of the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment originating from the Global TV app. This version is 15:04 minutes long, because it includes the full introduction for the (original) entire 60 minutes episode, the Inside CECOT segment starts at 1:25 :) archive.org/details/60mi...

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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

“It’s never going to be just one blow that takes down a demigod. It’s going to take more than that. It’s going to take 10 blows or 100 but not a million. The American system of government is strong, too. It just needs brave Americans to believe that & to show it & to step up despite the costs”Maddow

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Photos from North Charleston No Kings demonstration. Cannot get a sense of how large the crowd is but it is huge for this area. Both sides of street lined for blocks. At least a couple thousand.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

North Charleston No Kings demonstration. This was at 1:00p and it lasts til 3p. The parking lot was still filling up as I parked. @maddowblog.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Love this…Lawrence & Rachel mocking trump

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I know this is a small example but it illustrates retailers are raising prices across the board and not just on products with tariffs. The only thing I buy at Whole Foods is refilling a 5 gallon jug with reverse osmosis water. Last week, it was $2.45. Yesterday, it was $2.95.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

From this point forward, the jobs numbers will be cooked.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Gift article. Another factor in rising beef costs: deportations

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2025

Gabbard cannot answer a question about how she can explain why Marco Rubio when he was a senator exonerated Obama of the very things she’s now accusing him of

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Exploring the marsh end of the backyard. Early #caturday

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

There’s a protest on the 17th but there’s been very little promotion of it.

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Tim W. ☮️ @heymrwilson1.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The military is the final option.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Trump's DOJ and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered. TRANSLATION: He absolutely blackmailed powerful figures, definitely kept a "client list," Trump was on it, and - he was murdered.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The vast majority of these accounts that claim to be #resistance subversives inside the federal government are grifters who are not what they pretend to be and do not have any real secret insider info. Please stop listening to these accounts and stop boosting them.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

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Enough! @disallusioned.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Searching to see if there were any warnings since trump cuts and found this. This says it’s a bot spreading NWS Alerts. They were spot on. Why was it not relayed to the public? @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @aoc.bsky.social

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is outrageous. I worry for my close family friends who have been here for 25 years, earned their citizenship and are productive members of society.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The end-result of this will be a religious minority demanding an injunction against a christian display of some kind, and the supreme court ruling that christianity has privileges other faiths don't bsky.app/profile/reic...

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 16/06/2025

Now that's an orange king I would support! #orangecat #cat #gingercat #nokings

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be. The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

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In our scramble to win the AI race against China, we risk losing ourselves

A fraud is being perpetuated on the American people and our pliant, gullible political leaders.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Tillamook ice cream is far superior to Breyers.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Does anyone feel any sympathy for the OG BlueSkiers who whine and cry about Rachel Maddow promoting BlueSky? IMO, they are obnoxious dipshits.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I believe Elon Musk’s drug use is fueling his tweets today. 🍿🥤

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Elizabeth Warren has a comprehensive list with links to what Musk did in his time as a “special government employee.”

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It’s unreal how many people think Karina Jean Pierre has written a book bashing Biden. She is leaving the party because they shit on Biden. Read beyond the headlines and stop listening to so called independent “news” sources who are also spread misinformation.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I am dead. Seriously, the highlighted passage is one of the most witheringly hilarious things I've read in years. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"There are figures who channel a Zeitgeist-Nietzsche calls them timely men—and Curtis is definitely a timely man," a State Department official who has been reading Varvin since the Moldbug era told me. Back in 2011, Yarvin said that Trump was one of two figures who seemed "biologically suited" to be an American monarch. (The other was Chris Christie.) In 2022, he recommended that Trump, if reëlected, appoint Elon Musk to run the executive branch. On a podcast with his friend Michael Anton, now the director of policy planning at the State Department, Yarvin argued that the institutions of civil society, such as Harvard, would need to be shut down. "The idea that you're going to be a Caesar ... with someone else's Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd," he said.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Gift Article Potential impacts of AI on employment. "Another told me that his start-up now employed a single data scientist to do the kinds of tasks that required a team of 75 people at his previous company." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A worthy article to read discussing different scenarios of AI potentially impacting employment and how universal basic income can help with the fall out.

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Caffeinated Surf @caffeinatedsurf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

There are 2 days left to do this. It is quick and easy to submit a comment asking for restrictions to the Covid vaccine to be removed.

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