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Candy Thomson

@candyt.bsky.social
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Reporter. Owner/not owner of Cinders, the feral rescue cat. Not getting any younger. Rye Manhattans, classic jazz and manual transmissions rule.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My three-year-old was at the Ed Sheeran concert when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why isn't the nice white rapper performing?" And when I told her "Because an old guy who visits teen-aged prostitutes had him cancelled," she started crying.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Dead-on balls accurate" —Mona Lisa Vito
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Twenty years later, Mike Judge’s prescient comedy is getting harder to laugh at. www.texasmonthly.com/culture/mike-j…
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Airplane ears
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
happy bday iconic writer Molly Ivins, b.1944, i was lucky to have met and talked w/ her a few times in the 80s and 90s in Austin. "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Alas, YG, my prose is gutless.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
❤️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026
A Pennsylvania summer camp helps children who have survived brain injuries. But the future of federal funding for brain injury research, as well as grants to states to help such patients, is in limbo. n.pr/4xedDyY
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Kids with brain injuries thrive at this camp. But federal research funding is in flux
A Pennsylvania summer camp helps children who have survived brain injuries. But the future of federal funding for brain injury research, as well as grants to states to help such patients, is in limbo.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An arbitrator ruled that WaPo fired a columnist without just cause. The columnist, a Black woman, had the nerve to offer an opinion contrary to that of the white guys.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
WaPo took it in the shorts from an arbiter and this. My day is made.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I am a volunteer election official. We take pride in our work. ✊🏼🗳️
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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump put forward a ridiculously one sided deal and thought Canada would cave. Ottawa has now suspended negotiations with Washington and will match the 50% tariffs dollar-for-dollar. When prices on food, aluminium, steel and energy skyrocket remember: Trump did that.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Metal security gates were raised to block vehicles, while two uniformed base personnel were handcuffed and put in the back of a government vehicle. The reporters were told to sit on a curb next to a van. From Stars and Stripes' Gary Warner:
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Vandenberg security draws guns on invited media, military; base blames miscommunication
A miscommunication between military personnel at Vandenberg Space Force Base led to journalists and public affairs officers being detained at gunpoint.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wonder why 90 days. Couldn’t be because the midterms are in… 74 days, right? Right? Apparently communist price controls are fine when you’re trying to get votes. Who knew?
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
With missiles purchased from North Korea, the administration's communist pal.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Pix of Norman
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Please don't switch to skywriting, YG. I am a slow reader.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hell, I fish with salmon eggs
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 05/08/2026
I've told this story before and I suppose now it's time to do it again. When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher was the elderly sort of man who always wore a gray flannel suit and had a cigarette before class and a cigarette at the end of class every period.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/08/2026
The Inherited Platform (Nepotus lecturus) HABITAT: Fourth-generation family-owned newspaper editorial board. CALL: “I once met [NAME OF A SCOTUS NOMINEE] at a fancy cocktail party, and he is perfectly lovely and rational. No need to be hysterical about your rights, ladies.”
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A Field Guide to Legacy Media Pundits in the United States
The Family Values Pundit (Divorcio moralisticus) HABITAT: New York Times bestseller list and a weekly column. DISTINCTIVE CALL: “As a man with a deeply unhap...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and @propublica.org independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago. Here’s how we did it.
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The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.
The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediate...
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My day can now begin for real
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 30/07/2026
⚡️Update: At least 8 killed, 45 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches massive ballistic missile, drone attack Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched a total of 74 cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles, as well as 284 Shahed-type drones.
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At least 8 killed, 45 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches massive ballistic missile, drone attack
Russia launched dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as hundreds of drones, towards Ukraine in the early hours of July 30 in yet another large-scale attack. Damage was reported in various ...
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Regular folks give to candidates. We don't give to Beltway insiders like the DNC. Why would we?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Good question. Epic fail.
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Trey Lawson @tlawson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
People demanding “historical accuracy” from The Odyssey sound to me like those aliens who called Galaxy Quest “historical documents”
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Four days after surviving an assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan was photographed walking in the hospital corridor with First Lady Nancy Reagan. So, Mitch McConnell couldn't be wheeled to the window for a wave?
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What does a triple chin indicate?
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Amen
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Uh-uh 👎🏼
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Good morning, gang!
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Accept no substitutes!
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As long as you don't get flagged by the ref and tossed from the game, it's all good, YG
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Odd, that stupid Donald Trump is in a snit with Canada over air quality when he has dismantled the EPA, promoted burning coal, and pulled out of climate change accords, guaranteeing air quality issues *worldwide* for not just this summer, but maybe FOREVER. What a colossal Idiot.
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Trump threatens new Canada tariffs over wildfire smoke in US cities
Canadian leader Mark Carney says both the US and Canada have an equal responsibility to fight climate change, which experts say are worsening wildfire conditions.
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mary Chapin Carpenter playing from her farmhouse Heather Cox Richardson's history talks
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.
Two headlines:
As published. ( By NYT.)
Opportunities Narrow for Women as 
Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

Would exactly fit the same space. (By me)
Hegseth Narrows Opportunities for
Women, Blocking More Promotions
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026
NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
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Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week
Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths
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Candy Thomson @candyt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My absolute favorite sauce. Friends expressed doubt. They were won over on first bite.
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