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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 10h

Washington, D.C. mural to suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (李彬華), who campaigned for women to get the right to vote even though she herself was unable to vote because of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First day riding my e-bike in for (part of*) my commute — in love. Biking is great. 100% worth the hype!!

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you like sci-fi, or mystery, or like the idea of a sherlock holmes story set in a world with Godzilla-esque leviathans……. PLEASE read Tainted Cup. It’s So Good

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a bench warrant for defaulting in consumer debt litigation is theoretically procedurally valid. it's just so insane that even the American judicial system generally does not do it. Roger Marshall did it 81 times.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trader Joe hides his greatest treasures dearly (found the pineapple salsa my wife likes behind a display on the bottom shelf)

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The central irony of California's constitution is that they let you vote on any manner of initiative, referendum, or recall — but only have 40 state senators and 80 assemblymembers for the most populous state in the union

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate it here. (@ Texans football fandom)

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what is the ethical position on putting powdered sugar in tea?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t have the background to describe what effective government regulation of AI would look like except to say that it should be a felony to remind me of the Aella sankey chart

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Tipsy off a High Noon at 10:30 in the morning. The Pacific timezone is crazy." — Jordan

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026

As others have noted, there are other benefits of shifting from ethanol and gas cars to solar and electric cars, beyond freeing up land for more productive uses (like growing actual food for humans). Those other benefits include much less use of water, fertilizer, and pesticides, for example.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

CT, TX, WA, VA, and CA are my Big American Star of places I've seriously lived. (Spot the drives from TX to VA and VA to CA!)

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

BREAKING: It made the final cut. Congratulations, Michigan, you might have the best voting sticker of 2026.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

felt an earthquake… right when the BART left the station. thought it was just a weirdly strong train rumble!

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Red Cross has declared a blood supply shortage crisis. If you are able, please consider donating blood; this Red Cross page will help: redcrossblood.org/give.html

redcrossblood.org

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

random man driving around downtown Oakland on a (very loud) motorcycle — radio also on very loud — keeps changing the channel so the radio ads are playing — odd vibe this morning.

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Original project scope: two repair patches. Current project scope: two repair patches, one preventative patch, eyeing replacing & expanding the existing repair patch. My beautiful project jeans with so many problems ;_;

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm actually astonished at how clean this graph looks as a diagnostic for our housing ills. Note how close it is to 1 at the start. Houses per single adult or married couple.

Houses per (population over 25 - married couples)

Subtracting married couples prevents them from being counted twice, since a married couple doesn't need 2 homes, but 2 single people (ideally) do.

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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 23/07/2026

So the lowered speed limits in Downtown Oakland are going great

20 mph speed limit sign snapped at the base of its pole and knocked over, presumably by a speeding car

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

BART train home decided to change to out of service. waiting on a very busy platform at rush hour ==> not ideal!

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

wearing a black shirt and happily petting my very very hairy white cat

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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Folks, we have a RIPCON 3. I believe this is our highest level since doing this

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

VAMOS VAMOS ARGENTINA 🌞🌞🌞

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

New advertising rule: TV ads should need to display the brand they’re supporting in the bottom-left corner through the whole ad

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 05/07/2026

I can’t believe people are openly rooting for the norwegian national team considering they use petrochemical revenues to fund their sovereign wealth fund and are one of the few countries that continue to have a whaling fleet

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 05/07/2026

I can’t believe people are openly rooting for the brazilian national team considering the amount of deforestation in the amazon

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’ve lived in seven different states, and I’ve loved every one. Nothing has made me feel more proud to be an American than loving a new culture in a new corner of the country

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I have a proposition for you: if you excommunicate JD Vance I will come out of spiritual retirement and re-Catholicize. That way your numbers stay they are. I don’t want to put a clock on it, but I’d prefer sooner rather than later

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Pete 🦆 @whyaduck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I only wish to see one breaking news story involving Alito.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

congratulations to TK TK on their nomination to the Supreme Court

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True Charles @cpaul.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights. Trans women are women. Trans kids are the least among us, and they are entitled to our support. They are also entitled to the protection of our Constitution & federal antidiscrimination law.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/06/2026

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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