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Clarlune (Bayou Miles)

@clarlune.bsky.social
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Mostly repost what interests or inspires me. Cats, coffee and books nourish me. Voices I miss: Carrie Fisher, Molly Ivins, Ann Richards, and DOLLY she/her he/him they/them Me, myself and I #AntiFa #BLM #ICEOutNOW #AintUsingThatShit 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇱🇧

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4h
Trump signed as President of the Unites [sic] States.
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Maceo Vive @maceovive.bsky.social · 4h
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h
lol 🤣
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
"Russia’s turning abducted Ukrainian children into Russian soldiers." Reporter Kathryn Diss traveled to Ukraine to expose this devastating reality. After years of indoctrination and militarization, kidnapped kids are being forced to sign contracts and fight against their own country.
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Foreign Correspondent: S2026 Ukraine's Stolen Children Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen by Russia since the war began with many ending up on Russian adoption websites. We embed with the undercover rescue network working in a race against time ...
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 4h
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In Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the Midterms
Watch now (36 mins) | What the author of “On Tyranny” told me about Trump, Tyranny, and the Midterm elections, five weeks from today.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 4h
Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4h
“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.”
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 4h
What does gun culture reveal about America? Harel Shapira took dozen of classes at a gun school in Texas to reveal the answer
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Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America
A conversation between Harel Shapira and Abraham Kenmore
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Clarlune (Bayou Miles) @clarlune.bsky.social · 4h
LMFAO
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 6h
Jack Smith walked into the Senate, defended his prosecutions, rejected claims that his work was politically motivated, and refused to retreat under threats of prosecution. The hearing became a battle over evidence, power, accountability, and who gets to investigate whom. Smith for the WIN! #Pinks
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 6h
Jack Smith is what Robert Mueller was supposed to be.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
Ahem
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 6h
MAGA lunatic Eric Schmitt tried to create a conspiracy theory that accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of being somewhere he wasn’t and when it fell flat because his BS lie was exposed he called Mr. Smith a dirtbag. No you shitty trashy treasonous moronic asshole, you are the dirtbag.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 6h
A Black-capped Chickadee checks a seed head for anything tasty.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6h
It didn't falter. It collapsed.
"As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator's Accusation of Perjury Falters," per The New York Times.
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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 6h
R. Yael Weissburg In Seminerio’s Courtroom "I wonder, how did his people arrive here? From Mexico? Ecuador? Peru? Did they come on Spanish ships, preaching Christ? Did his grandmother, young and pregnant, also flee violent men?" #poetry #LaPoesía #chapbook #immigration #NoKings #vote #booksky
Original poem by R. Yael Weissburg
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h
Took me three times looking at this swell photo to realize that Max has taken charge of Judy's handbag.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 5h
Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5h
And he got dunked on so hard that he deleted it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 5h
Not you.
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · 4h
Any potential business deal between the U.S. and Russia would risk funneling money to the Russian military even as it continues to terrorize Ukraine and threatens a wider war against U.S. allies in Europe. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Trump’s Latest Appeal to Russia Could Outrage Even His Allies
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
Amy Klobuchar on that moment with Eric Schmitt: “You know, the minute I heard when they said Hawks and when Jack Smith said I never was out in Atlanta game, when you're from the Midwest, the Hawks also mean the Hawkeyes.”
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 4h
Trump said that tech leaders he met with at the White House today had signed a "constitution" to police themselves. How stupid does he have to be to think that we're stupid enough to believe that an agreement between a group of serial liars has any meaning or significance in the real world.
Picture: Meeting of AI "leaders" at the White House 9-29-2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
The White House Accord on AI: • We Do Not Want to Be Regulated • We Will Not Be Regulated • Donald Trump is really, really smart • We promise to pay him in crypto all he wants
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h
This is a wild story. Please check it out to see how Russia has started meddling in the midterms to help Trump and is incorporating me into a disinformation operation to do so. HowRussiaWon.com
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 5h
Because Hannity is an even bigger moron than Eric Schmitt. That’s saying something. (And, of course Hannity has deleted the post already. Even he knew he is a moron.)
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Semafor @semafor.com · 5h
The White House will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to blunt rising gas prices looming over the midterm elections. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h
In a new interview, Bill Gates speaks to the imminent dangers of unregulated AI that could easily result in mass death. He does not hold back. (Gift link to the full interview: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...)
So why is anything needed beyond — and is anything needed beyond? — the simply natural incentives under capitalism and normal corporate reputational management?

Well, I almost can't believe you're asking that. This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone near.
In other areas, do we just say: Hey, release your drugs? There's no F.D.A., there's no airline safety board, there's no requirement that cars use seatbelts. Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep humans safe? You know: Oh, you're shipping opioids. Somebody should just sue you.
I mean, we've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying: Oh, we can bankrupt the person who does that.And you say there's filtering. There's no filtering. You can take an open-source model that can create bioweapons and disable any monitoring of any kind, and this exists today.
So no, there is no filtering of any kind.
And so say you kill 100 million people — you want to use a lawsuit?
I almost can't keep a straight face.And part of the reason I'm speaking so loudly — as loud as I can — is that you can't rely on the industry to self-regulate here. I mean, it's just insane.
The only question in my mind is: Do we wait until a cyberattack causes massive damage and a bioattack causes massive damage, and then the monitoring safeguards are required in these models to minimize the chance of that happening many, many more times? Or can we be wise enough to put these things in and require these things to be put in before millions of deaths?
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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 5h
Schmitt is one “of those who worship dirty gods.” “Cymbeline”
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 5h
Susan Rice: this is what an informed, highly intelligent veteran of govt sounds like on AI, China and Iran... one day such people could return to govt. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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What Do Dictators and Rogue AI Have in Common? Trump's Overwhelming Love
Ambassador Susan Rice warns that unregulated AI will kill civilians and arm hostile parties.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5h
Perfectly innocent bullet, flying along, and then some terrorist throws his body in the bullet's way, totally assaulting the bullet, stopping it from traveling further.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 5h
We need another Aziz Ansari cold open, SNL. That might hold us over until we can get a real administration.
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D’Haugeranville @dhaugeranville1786.bsky.social · 7h
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Vickie Hinkley @vickiehinkley.bsky.social · 7h
#GREEDYBastardsPAYtoPLAY and #NEROFiddles
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h
fans haters 🤝 frats prepare you for life in the elite class
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 7h
On January 7th, Renée Good dropped her son off at school, but never made it back to pick him up. She was wrongfully shot and killed by an ICE agent. Her brother Brent Ganger sat down with us to talk about Renée and his fight for justice. Oversight Dems will hold ICE accountable.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 7h
Note to the US Supreme Court - deporting immigrants to countries they have no connection to is human trafficking. You just approved human trafficking.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Hegseth plans to axe a fifth of generals and admirals. It’s clear he’s planning to cause so much damage it won’t be repairable by whoever comes next.
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks — The Washington Post
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 7h
BREAKING: Following our victory in court against unlawful OMB conditions, the Dept. of Ed. has released almost all the funds meant for education research and support programs ahead of the 9/30 deadline! This is a huge win for students, educators, and researchers. The fight isn't over. 🧵⬇️
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Maceo Vive @maceovive.bsky.social · 7h
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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 6h
This breaks so many laws. The saddest part is that they'll probably get away with it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
Mortgage rates print 7.58% @cnbc.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
The White House is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans.
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