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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 17/09/2026
Solar passed nuclear in Texas 2 years ago. Now it's double. Texas is what makes this chart powerful. This isn't green ideology winning. It's pure economics. Solar is cheap, modular, scalable & incredibly fast to deploy. Wind keeps growing too. When economics take over, ideology becomes irrelevant.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions.⁣ ⁣ His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it.⁣ ⁣ Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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The Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics
"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it.
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danielbates.bsky.social @danielbates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Adrian Dittmann is mad mad
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The president is building a big golden ballroom for him and all the billionaires to have a party with our money, so quit your bitching, you dumb poors.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
elaborating on some points i've made on here youtu.be/goSvMAf2UKQ
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There Was No Vibe Shift
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CNN has more on how Todd Blanche interfered in a money laundering case against Trump's business partner to steal Venezuela's oil. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/p...
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Trump administration quietly closes criminal probe into Venezuela businessman amid oil deal | CNN Politics
For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What a moment…💕 IG: Roslyn Farm & Vineyard Charlottesville, Virginia
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🤎 a modern family ❤️🤎❤️🕊 love is love #caturday ❤️🤎🌱
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Popok: I got to the section in the facts around this case about a husband-and-wife judge team, where she seals the deposition for this business dispute and his testimony. And at the same time, her husband is sealing the divorce depositions, and they’re big contributors to Ken Paxton’s campaigns.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
!!! This is a public health disaster. And in any remotely functioning political system, it would be treated as a national emergency. But this is, of course, is exactly what the grifters, paranoid conspiracists, and ideological extremists who control the U.S. government want.
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ICYMI yesterday: On why we need to approach MAHA as a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, how it channels vague grievances into a radical project – and why we must stop it. Some thoughts from my piece: 🧵
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Defenders of Jeffries note (correctly) that he keeps different constituencies in his caucus happy, and that's why he's in charge. But do those House Democrats realize that voters can't stand him and aren't going to be motivated to donate/canvas/vote for a party with him as the head?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Climate change recognized in 1912
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Pammygirl10 @pammygirl10.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just contacted my local shelter to find out which cat has been there the longest and requested to adopt it. Poor little girl has been there for eight years.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's the basest, most regressive Lothrop Stoddard era eugenics stuff: how can a people achieve greatness while burdening itself to drag the weak along? Measles is there to help us and we've foolishly chosen to stop letting it do its job. If your kid can't survive it we don't want them to survive.
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"IT'S BETTER SHE'S DEAD; SHE ONLY WOULD HAVE DISGRACED ME." | Gin and Tacos
That's what turn-of-the-century celebrity quack, "health guru," and publisher Bernarr Mcfadden had to say when his sickly daughter died. And
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The only to understand about "MAHA" or Trumpism is that these people all believe the fundamental flaw with our society is that we devised too many ways to intervene against the laws of nature to allow The Weak to survive. They're solving the problem that some kids should be dying but aren't.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Funny how no one asked russia to halt strikes on Ukrainian civilians.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fix your hearts or die? Sure. But also: Fix your hearts and live. Fixing involves doing the work, not having work done for you. People can build the path of liberation from patriarchy, but they can't walk it for you. So, walk the path. Do the work. Be a *man.* www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
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Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mark Rylance on the failure of UK governments to invest in the arts.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@countyvalleyrescue has two very happy puppers in their new home #AGoodPlace
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.
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The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.Karlyn Borysenko, anti-comm... • X.com @DrKarlynB
I'm not actually fucking around when I say I'm a fascist.
Most people are not willing to do what is required to defeat the left.
Karlyn Borysenko, anti-communist cu... • .2h Fascist. By which I mean I would put communists in a concentration camp until I can deport them to a third world country, and ban the publication of their ideas.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can't eat peppers, guac, salsa, or lettuce without peeing from your butt. Congrats, America.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is one absolutely wild story. Gift link wapo.st/4i1OByh
mp EXCLUSIVE
Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
24 minutes acoIn Ankara, Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras. He was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — an Air Force C-32A - via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, according to the U.S. official and corroborating material reviewed by The Post. That made Air Force One a "decoy" with media and some White House staff aboard, the official said.
7. Dive deeper
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As of this morning, the WNBA has been mentioned on Fox News 163 times since last Monday. During that same timeframe, they have only mentioned Max Miller's name 5 times.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We’re in scary times, but lots of folks in media are doing their damnedest to defend democracy. My Stop the Presses newsletter praises 25 of them and also cites other fierce fighters. See if you agree.
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25 must-follow people in pro-democracy media
One way to fight negativity is to lift up inspirational voices
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed: "To me Medicare for All is not about what it takes away, it's about what it offers: Guaranteed health insurance from cradle to grave."
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doggie paddle
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Host of "Democracy Now" being treated as a subversive influence in Trump's America
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
MS NOW senior reporter @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social spent 10 months tracking the conspiracy theories that evolved online in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk. She joins me to discuss what her investigation found on a special Conspirituality drop. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/dro...
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DROP: Who Killed Charlie Kirk? (w/Brandy Zadrozny) — Conspirituality
MS NOW senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny spent 10 months tracking the conspiracy theories that evolved online in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk. She joins Derek to discuss what her investigation ...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And yet
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
Line chart titled "The pace of job growth in Canada has outpaced job growth in the United States" showing cumulative percent change in employment since December 2024 for Canada and the United States. Canada's employment has grown 1.34% while US employment has increased just 0.34%, meaning Canadian job growth has outpaced the United States by nearly four to one. Canada's employment growth accelerated sharply from 0.98% in June 2026 to 1.34% in July 2026, the highest rate in the period shown, while US employment growth has remained relatively stable between 0.3% and 0.36% from April through July 2026.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Any chance to break the neoconfederate hold on the Court starts in November www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/any-...
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Any chance to break the neoconfederate hold on the Court starts in November - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In the midst of a puff piece which pretends to believe Sam Alito when he explains that his robotically pro-Trump voting record is ACTUALLY the result of dispassionate historical analysis, Alito confir...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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danielbates.bsky.social @danielbates.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There will always be sycophants around insisting the emperor is, in fact, wearing clothes
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