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🏳️‍🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Before I was a politician, I was a proud union member. I’m honored to stand with my union brothers and sisters on Labor Day and every day. In the Senate, I’ll fight to raise pay, lower costs, and empower Texas workers.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...
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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
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Haylea🐈‍⬛👻 @hereticforhypatia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Id like to suggest this little fun campy musicsl gem to watch today. Bonus Dolly sings Hard Candy Christmas and I will Always Love You.
Movie poster for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.
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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:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/07/2026
Workers behind immensely popular Game Theorists YouTube channel will get their union, with or without MatPat's help aftermath.site/game-theorists...
the "theorists unite" logo
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So hey, uh... Republicans? Hi. I'm a movie critic from The Internet. Ask your kids 👍 Y'see this thing where Twitter was CONVINCED that "The Odyssey" was going to fail but in reality it's the biggest hit of the year? That's about to be you in November. You're whole worldview is Twitter (literally.)
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Arma grande; número um means Big gun; number one @ceu---azul.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
let nolan remake the cavemen paintings
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/07/2026
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026
Notice the revelatory regret he has over calling single women as cat ladies framed as redemptive while his comments about Haitians eating cats is …unmentioned.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.
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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
great point, but also i’m wondering why, in the year 2026, women in media are still only valued for their sex appeal, when i’m constantly forced to watch and play as men who look like they’ve been hit by a f*cking shovel
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Why aren’t more creators talking about this?!?! This is bad bad bad and we have to stop it. It would give ItsNotReal massive political influence and access to even more of our $$, tech, surveillance w/ almost no oversight. So glad to see @rokhanna.bsky.social taking a stand against Sec. 224.
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🚨URGENT🚨Congress to fuse our military with Israel's. We can stop it.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Well this popped off - hello everyone please watch my shows, reviews and especially consider the Patreon 🙏😅 www.patreon.com/moviebob1 youtu.be/icV3a-bUscs?...
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Review - AGAIN AGAIN (2026)
YouTube video by moviebob
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It will buy you one gallon of gas by the end of Trump’s term. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
washingtonpost.com
Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026
NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.
propublica.org
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
as always i am sympathetic to the fact that male loneliness is a real problem but the solution to male loneliness is robust afterschool and other social programs and shit like accessibility to public parks and the lonely men take industry opposes these things so i don't know what i'm supposed to do
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2026
Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Kat Abughazaleh has the chance to do the funniest thing
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.
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Brian Kemp signs law making many metro Atlanta races nonpartisan
The law applies to most local government races in Democratic-dominated areas. A court challenge is expected.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
One of our big ambitious goals at @lni.media it to be a modern network for news creators so ... yes!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
the thing about wearing tailored clothing as part of a regular wardrobe is you come to realize that your own comfort and personality is more important than hewing to what are mostly arbitrary rules
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Platner has Fetterman written all over him. If you let him launder his Nazi tattoo and mercenary past thru left criticism of Israel, the only conclusion is you WANT to be lied to.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
If you didn’t think it was possible after yesterday’s house editorial (left) for Washpost Opinion to more obsequiously parrot their owner’s tax agenda, well, you probably haven’t seen today’s piece (right)
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Opinion
The Editorial Board
America's income tax is progressive
The rich already pay more than their fair share.Opinion
The Editorial Board
Don't blame companies with no tax liability for following the law
They're just using the tools Congress gave
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Miss Diketon - Gary Numan and cats are my personality @missdiketon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Regarding Graham Platner: If he knew the tattoo was a Nazi symbol, he is a Nazi and he has no business being a Democratic Senator. If he didn't know the tattoo was a Nazi symbol, he is fucking stupid and has no business being a Democratic Senator.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Okay now that MovieFights is back how do I get on MovieFights? Who do I talk to about that - the people want to see this, I believe 🤣👍 youtu.be/ipelSiGnS1A?...
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Does The Mario Galaxy Movie Suck? | Movie Fights
YouTube video by Screen Junkies
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message.

In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Israel" doesn't start with a J.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Looks like it was a narco trafficking compound in exactly the same way Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.
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The Redoubt @theredoubt.net · 06/01/2026
Birthright citizenship and the attack on democracy: 'If you know the history, you know what they're trying to do' www.theredoubt.net/birthright-c...
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Birthright citizenship and the attack on democracy: 'If you know the history, you know what they're trying to do'
Prof. Anna O. Law spoke to The Redoubt about her upcoming book and why the 14th Amendment made America great.
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 17/03/2026
If Paramount can shell out billions of dollars to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, then they can pay their unionized CBS staff a fair wage. I stand with the CBS staff who walked out today as they fight these corporate giants for essential protections and fair contracts.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.
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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank
Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip
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