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the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 4h

we see concerted efforts to cancel the idea that the left can have its own populism - but these really miss the key concept, which is solidarity. transformational solidarity is our ticket to power and it is who we gain wins for the vulnerable without needing to politicize specific rapes / murders

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MJW @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 3h

In a sane world these drugs would just be given to the people who need them.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

christ this infuriates me. ACA bridged the gap between my divorce (with loss of spousal benefits) and medicare eligibility. without it, I would not have had access to health care for eight years.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also you do not have to go to a SLAC to get a liberal arts education or major in one of the fine humanities or social sciences on offer these days. But you do have to start from a position of thinking there's something inherently worthwhile to them and powerful people don't want you to think that.

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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Across Maine, Republicans are running for office as fake "independents." Not because they changed. Because they know an R can't win where they're running. We need to unmask them. Who’s the one in your district? I'll start in the replies. #mepolitics

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

As a general rule many things I post on Bluesky come out of the blue and may have no obvious precipitating incident or context, this is a feature, not a bug

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Rev Debra @revdebra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Men reading this, would YOU have turned your frat brothers in for gang raping a fellow classmate?? And if you have to think twice about that, know you too are part of the problem #Cornell

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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 5 since Pro-Publica reported on Susan Collins corrupt operation trading campaign cash for federal contracts. What’s been her response? She’s running the Trump playbook. Claiming to be the victim of a vast conspiracy by the media and Democrats. No remorse, no apology, no accountability.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Things said to cats: You get fed in twenty minutes. You don’t need to chew that plastic. STOP CHEWING THAT PLASTIC DAMMIT

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

10/ All that said, Medicare for All wouldn’t magically fix every healthcare problem. We’d still have primary care shortages, workforce issues, medical school debt, hospital consolidation, and the social conditions that shape health outside the healthcare system.

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Ronnie H 🇺🇸 @ronicats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pretty sure the ICE raids aren't helping with agricultural labor either.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 23/09/2026

A very dear cat mom friend of ours has really been going through it with one of her boys she rescued off the street. He’s been dealing with recurrent painful urination because of bladder stones. Despite medication & urinary diet, he needs them removed with surgery. www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-...

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Donate to Help Fund Tux’s Surgery for Painful Bladder Stones, organized by Elisa Jensen

Our cat, Tux, has been battling urinary issues off and on for the pa… Elisa Jensen needs your support for Help Fund Tux’s Surgery for Painful Bladder Stones

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/09/2026

Just in: Trump reported making another 1,158 stock trades in July 2026. It appears he violated the Stock Act, again, by failing to report all of his trades within 45 days. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is seriously exhausting to be in a political community in which you must constantly explain to people that they are not going to like the consequence of electing a Republican, then see them flop and sweat when they finally face those consequences, and act like they had no idea this would happen.

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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 21/09/2026

Let’s get out this election season and elect candidates like @troyjackson207.bsky.social who will fight for all working people and help create an economy that works for all of us, not just the billionaires and greedy CEOs. ✊

A Troy Jackson union baseball card that says:

Troy Jackson
5th generation logger. Candidate for US senate
Born: June 26, 1968 Hometown: Allagash, Maine.
Nickname: "Johnny Cash of the Allagash."

Troy Jackson doesn't just support workers. He fights for us. For the past two decades, Troy has shown up on picket lines, supported workers organizing, passed legislation to strengthen our rights and urged employers to settle fair contracts.

As a legislator, Troy had a strong batting record for working people by:
lowering prescription drug prices
passing universal school meals
protecting union jobs
expanding rural health care
delivering property tax relief

It’s better in a union | AFL-CIO

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I play two 3 set matches a session" yes brother and the last such session before yesterday was 8 years ago and now it's time to go back to googling the names of muscles you can no longer move without crying

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am, at this time, singing to the cats: "You guys get fed -- at five o'clock -- Which is another --- twennnnty minutes... You will not staaaaaaaarve -- in twenty minnn-uuuuutes... You will not staaaaaaarve -- in twenty minnnn-uuuuutes." I should not quit my day job. I have no day job.

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I made my first attempt at home canned pepper jelly today. Verdict: 3.5/5. Texture is weird, I think I cooked it too long and/or used too much pectin. Flavor is nice and flavorful (hot peppers, apple cider vinegar, pectin, sugar). Paired well with blue cheese, needs sausage.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

The danger of forgetting that your "smooth" thing only *seems* smooth is that you'll only know how to make it work, and will be totally at sea when it *fails*.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Time for my periodic rant about the Stupid Internet Font (SIF) the font we're all stuck with because tradition has not kept up with technology. Which of the below is the name of a US State? lIlinois Illinois lllinois IIIinois llIinois Can't tell, can you?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/09/2026

Donald Trump did that — and he could stop it if he wanted to.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026

We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If voters return Republicans to the majority in the midterms they will get exactly what they have right now - Congress doing nothing month after month, out of session refusing to do their jobs while Trump rules like an autocrat with no checks or balances. An Imperial Presidency.

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Michael Tino @revmtino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A major part of my ministry is serving incarcerated people. Every day, the message they get behind walls like this one is that they are deserving of inhumane treatment. Every day, we respond by letting them know they are loved. This ministry needs your help. Clfuu.org/together

Michael (bald middle aged fat white person) in a “do justice love mercy” shirt standing in view of a prison wall and guard tower.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026

There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.

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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election

The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THREAD Not only does the Census Bureau give folks access to sensitive info about...well...us, but the design of the census affects things like the number of representatives each state is allotted in the House & how money is allotted to states. The census--& the bureau--aren't just number counting.

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In hyperlocal fantasy news, I would like the recycling to haul itself to the transfer station and put gas in my car and pick up cat food while it is out.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey folks: I’ll bet you feel REALLY represented now. They’re going home to serve themselves. NOT us. The ultimate accountability dodge. Elections are accountability. Let’s prove it.

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In hyperlocal fantasy news, I would like the recycling to haul itself to the transfer station and put gas in my car and pick up cat food while it is out.

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is a subskeet but if I can’t tell whether you’re human or AI I definitely do NOT need to know about your sex life.

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C. L. Curole - Vexed by a smorgasbord of petty bullsh-- @curole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is a subskeet but if I can’t tell whether you’re human or AI I definitely do NOT need to know about your sex life.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: PERSONALLY REAL VAMPS ARE BETTER NOT THAT TWINKLE SHIT Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 9 A: #a89fe734286 F: #f9579ffde61

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if my mom had a bluesky account she'd ban me from talking to you lot

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We have been together for 40 years, but we couldn’t get married legally as “husband & husband” until 2008, thanks to a ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 14/09/2026

Someone should really, really adopt Cid. This cat is the kind of cat who will take your love and return it tenfold. I don’t have enough words for him— kind, curious, charming, full of personality & presence. This is the kind of cat who will be someone’s soul cat. Elkton, MD. Apply: bit.ly/4cOmi21

Cid, an extremely handsome marmalade-colored orange tabby cat with pretty stripes and tall ears, one of them clipped as a former TNR cat.

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