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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BannedBookSkyClub announcement! The January 2027 read will be A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. Discussion date TBA. Schedule pinned on my profile page. Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
Photo of book A Room With a View by E.M. Forster.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 9h
"That current work on the site is illegal!...This needs to stop. I want the work to stop!" New Jersey residents SPEAK OUT against Data Center at a Town Hall via @jonfarina.bsky.social
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Jason O’Toole @operationriskyou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"That was Jack Kerouac."
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
cbsnews.com
The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HE HAS TO GO
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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like this could be cover art for a book on tech fascism.
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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it. They bring me back to that time in my life, and now they get to become part of yours." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions
Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour
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Grandma Orc @esoorc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elon is an a$$. It's that simple. www.threads.com/@justin_gene...
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Justin Gene (@justin_gene_) on Threads
Elon Musk is one of the most evil people in the history of this country. He doesn’t get nearly enough hate. John Paul is 8. He was diagnosed with a terrible form of pediatric brain cancer. His family...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
qasimrashid.com
Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Franken Donnie @geekinthezoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Debi Mazar, Julia Garner, Tony Ward, Seth Rogen and Fab 5 Freddy all made appearances with Madonna on the VMAs (I am sure I missed others) Simply an amazing performance! The Queen still rules!
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a time to be alive
Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧🚨 Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Lorenzo Araujo, Alex Pretti, Renée Good, Keith Porter, Isaias Sanchez Barboza, Ruben Martinez & Silverio Villegas González were all killed by ICE. NOT ONE ICE THUG HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE! VOTE BLUE!
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe Meta is using David Bowie’s “five years” in an ad as a threat.
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump admin. has approved a $2.8B sale of heavy bombs to Israel, according to a U.S. official The proposed sale would include 40K one-ton bombs whose use by Israel in Gaza & Lebanon has drawn international anger because of the civilian harm caused by their wide blast radius. #Blues #SheShed
nytimes.com
Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs (Gift Article)
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scott Bessent: "In 15 short months, we've gone from a president who couldn't stay awake to a president who never sleeps!" …unless he's at a cabinet meeting, a press conference, a parade, a sporting event…
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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I really thought this was a fake tweet from Trump. He’s bragging about profiting off the presidency and his followers are clapping like obedient seals. Pathetic.
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Blame MacBif @blamemacbif.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's estimated 14-22M people will die by 2030, mostly the world's poor, as a result of Elon Musk putting USAID in "the woodchipper". This makes him one of the largest mass murderers in history. He deserves to be on trial in the Hague for what he's done. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Old Hobbes 🔜 Private Practice @hobbesq.bolasgang.com · 29/08/2026
I'm sure there were lots of good posts I missed being offline but like come on this one is also just inviting us losing Macauly Culkin with a monkey paw
2026 home alone 2 death curse
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 28/08/2026
“Four actors from the cast of the 1992 film "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" have died across the year alone: Catherine O'Hara, Brenda Fricker, Tim Curry and Jaye P. Morgan.”
usatoday.com
Fans sound the alarm after 4 'Home Alone 2' actors die in 2026
Fans are noticing a string of deaths among the "Home Alone 2" cast in 2026, sparking talk of a movie curse.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump Administration intends to hire Guantanamo contractor to build ICE jail in Batavia, New York: www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-to-sol...
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ICE to sole-source 100-bed Batavia detention structure to Guantánamo contractor
A notice of intent names Akima Infrastructure Protection as the only company that can build a 100-bed "temporary detention structure" at the Buffalo Service Processing Center.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More than 60 trees have been cut down at the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., raising alarms among preservationists ahead of a planned golf course overhaul backed by President Donald Trump.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
please lord give me the strength not to hand it to them
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Kanye Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana ... TMZ has learned.
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Blackbird ✨🐦‍⬛💙 @hometreez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So powerful to be in Trafalgar Square at the vigil. Rest in Power, Professor Jason Arday.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...
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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror
What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.
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🇨🇦💚💙DomesticMetisGoddess💚💙🇨🇦 Names Jen! @witcan74.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Omfg
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
cbc.ca
Somalia malnutrition response hit by more than 80% funding drop as child hunger surges, MSF says | CBC News
Funding ‌to tackle acute malnutrition in parts of Somalia has dropped by more than 80 per cent this year, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday, even though one in every four children screened in di...
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jakehwest1.bsky.social @jakehwest1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's also an attempt to capture something even more elusive in art. Black joy. "If you see my work, you're going to see things that may remind you of times where you are in spaces where you feel safe and normal and human. - Artist Derrick Adams youtu.be/mddIpC6ct7g
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Artist Derrick Adams' depictions of Black joy
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
“AI surveillance technology is creepy for anyone going to a show or a club, but it’s particularly dangerous for members of the LGBTQ+ community who are facing increased attacks on our rights and safety…”
sfchronicle.com
Popular S.F. gay bars ditch facial recognition technology after pressure campaign
Storied LGBTQ venues Badlands and Toad Hall pause their use of AI facial recognition technology after a boycott threat from privacy advocates and members of rock band Rage Against the Machine.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 07/08/2026
How the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center Deal #Climate
heatmap.news
How the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center Deal
The agency is reportedly considering a land swap that would allow AI infrastructure in one of northern Virginia’s largest green spaces.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling "Unsafe". Salem rich trials. 🔥🔥🔥
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Stephen Reid @stephenreid1874.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Signing off with one for #RIPWilliamOrbit #Raveyardshift D'Ya Wanna Dance??? music.youtube.com/watch?v=3f86...
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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Remix)
YouTube video by Jimmy Somerville - Topic
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Daily Caller @dailycaller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), championed by Elon Musk and touted by President Donald Trump as a major cost-cutting initiative, may have significantly overstated its effectiveness and the amount of…
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Big tech needs--and the government wants--these data centers because they're recording and archiving our every key stroke. Big brother needs a lot of storage space.
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Why am I not surprised by this…
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2nd trans woman says “hungry fiend” Lindsey Graham paid her for sex — LGBTQ Nation
“This transphobic, homophobic man can rot in hell,” she said. Monday, July 20, 2026 Taylor Snider | YouTube video screenshot A second transgender sex worker said she was hired by the recently deceased...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/07/2026
This is a really sick thing for the commander in chief to post
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Looks like there's more than one hero Tom Holland.
comicsands.com
Elon Musk Tries To Troll Historian Tom Holland Over 'The Odyssey'—And It Backfires Spectacularly
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trouble in paradise 😬
comicsands.com
Jon Ossoff Reveals What Republicans Really Feel About Trump Behind Closed Doors—And Trump Is Gonna Hate It
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Malinois Mom @positivelydrained.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
www.soapcentral.com/entertainmen...
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Trans actress Jesse James Rose claims Lindsey Graham paid her to do “unspeakable things to him” as a “pre-transition college student”
Former athlete, actor, author, and trans activist Jesse James Rose shared her alleged experience with Senator Lindsey Graham amid his passing on July 11 after a “brief and sudden illness.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🚨🚨BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham has died, his office announced in a statement early Sunday. Emergency responders were reportedly dispatched to his Washington, D.C., home Saturday night following a reported cardiac arrest.
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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gm world n happy Saturday, minus the orange FOTUS psychopath, his mutant rogue GOP, SCROTUS 6, n the ICE Gestapo. Have a wonderful day!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.
people.com
Mitch McConnell Was Rolled into Ambulance with ‘No Urgency,’ According to Eyewitness Who Filmed Him Lying Still Under Blanket
A video reportedly depicting Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for nearly a month, being placed in an ambulance on a stretcher in mid-June has been published by CNN
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
God this looks so grimy and disgusting and low-rent
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 09/07/2026
!!DOGE deleted records that might have shown it accessed sensitive government systems. Back in the early days of DOGE, I was told by folks that DOGE wasn't even keeping file backups of its workers who were accessing gov't systems from their personal laptops. www.wired.com/story/federa...
wired.com
Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were Deleted
A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had.
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