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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 5h
They're Neo Confederates masturbating to the idea of slave ships. I want it to be more complex and less grossly stupid but they're not special interesting boys, they're Silicon Klansmen.
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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/07/1 “Consider yourself fortunate, Belsky. … As curses go, that sure beats having your descendants strangled in the night by a walking corpse.”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not beating the eugenics accusations
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is it really too much to ask to have even ONE Trump administration official go to prison for Bribery? Really? One of the only crimes enumerated in the Constitution, and we just don't enforce it? Even when we pay these people to serve us and they OPENLY serve themselves? Why are they not behind bars?
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2BRing2 @2bring2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We all have to stop paying taxes! They won’t spend their own money on anything!
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The influence that Elon Musk, his companies and their employees continue to have at the highest levels of the US government is astounding......and @telliotter.bsky.social is the reporter doing more than anyone to uncover it www.wired.com/story/myster...
wired.com
A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon Musk's America PAC is quietly donating to the most consequential races of November's midterms, and @wired.com is tracking all of it - in real time. amazing work from @dell.bsky.social, who built this, and big lifts from @hugolowell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social:
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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kemalmquist.bsky.social @kemalmquist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paxton has to be one of the most evil men in the country. Many children will die because of this. Pediatricians will flee Texas because of this and children will die from causes that have nothing to do with vaccines because there are no doctors to care for them.
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The UK is worried that Trump wouldn’t be there for NATO if Russia attacked Europe… Mother fuckers, Trump wouldn’t be there for America if someone nuked a blue state!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
School music programs are getting absolutely bodied by tariffs, per @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent last September but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump’s second term.
Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

“It’s hitting the horns, it’s hitting the strings, it’s hitting the percussion,” Mr. Hendrix said. “All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey.”
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s a new crater on the moon and it’s unlikely to happen again in our lifetimes. Created by a comet or asteroid striking the moon between April 11 and May 22, 2024, it is the largest, newly formed crater discovered in our solar system.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
propublica.org
This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Conflicts of interest? Really? That's what we're calling crazed corruption and betrayal of US national interests these days?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm begging Democrats to narrate to Americans why their brains are being doused with sick anti-trans hate as billionaire donors massively outspend Democrats.
thefarce.org
What if Democrats let Elon Musk and the massive forces of capital buy this election?
It’s not victim-blaming to say that we must blame the villains if we want to make voters heroes.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Outright electoral bribery. Not a peep from the “Obama phones!” conservative media, you watch.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I couldn’t believe he was taken from us with the snap of a finger.” A clip from “FRACTURED: THE STORIES OF THOSE LEFT BEHIND” - highlighting the impacts of ICE across the country: youtube.com/@fracturedst... #AbolishICE
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a left-handed person sees an actor on TV or in a movie writing with their left hand
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Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
More and more academia in the Epstein Files. Seems like ol Jeff found plenty in common with men who loved hanging out with impressionable recently legal coeds
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If any fucker ever says “SI” to me I’m going to insist they are talking about Sports Illustrated.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
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These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just the racism, Texas GOP leader Bo French also advocates summary execution of leading Democrats (specifically including President Obama) and the establishment of concentration camps for political foes. CNN has the receipts. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
An interesting comment in a recent Reddit thread about the “AI sex cult” and Slutcon: www.reddit.com/r/SFbitchesw...
overheadSPIDERS • 9d ago
My abusive ex bf (who works in tech) goes to Aella's sex parties through Red Means No (RMN). I contacted them to give them a heads up that he smothered me with a pillow on two occasions and probably shouldn't be allowed at CNC focused sex parties.
They acted like a woman was investigating...a woman who'd been fucking my abusive ex.
Nate Soares personally contacted me when I got some traction in the community and tried to tell me that I was the one in the wrong. He wrote various things on a Google doc that was publicly accessible about me that were false. He eventually informed me that he was going to publish portions of our correspondence (but only his responses and summaries of what I said, lol) to the entire membership of Red Means No, which is over 200 people.
So yeah there's a dossier about me that a bunch of CNC obsessed rationalists can see and I don't even know what it says.
+ 36 & DReply
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw Wilber in ICE detention yesterday, in a wheelchair with a bullet still in his body. Here’s what’s next: He needs surgery. And ICE needs to cooperate with the independent investigation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
An American man allegedly concealed his company’s Russian ties to help with the plot. trib.al/pIrcqNI
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Russian Plot to Infiltrate Secret Service Exposed
An American man allegedly concealed his company’s Russian ties to help with the plot.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting.
We reached out to 24 counties today to see the extent of the problem. Here's what we got back:
Collin County - 40,000+
Travis County - 32,000
Brazoria County - 9,000+
Hays County - 8,100
Cameron County - 5,000
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I need folks who are always posting, "Why does Texas vote the way it does???" to pay attention to stuff like this.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Going to be confusing when every geographic feature is named “America” and every cultural institution is named “Trump” www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 23/09/2026
Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks
Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/09/2026
@houstonchronicle.com reported at 5:15 p.m. “DPS troopers fired pepper balls toward protesters” who had gathered at the location where ICE shot a man earlier today. Read more: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/local/a...
A 14-year-old boy has his face washed after DPS used pepper balls to clear protesters out of the street near the scene of an I.C.E. shooting at the intersection of Anderson Square and Research Boulevard on Sunday, Sep. 20, 2026 in
North Austin.
Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even more details here. bsky.app/profile/clan...
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