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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
What I took from that era is that there is nothing the Republican Party can do that's awful enough, disastrous enough, to bring it any real accountability, because the whole system is wired to defend & excuse it. The Trump Era has only made that more nakedly obvious.
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Kat @kadot96913.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Funny, I never heard those guys cry about “fairness in the workplace” for women.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, of course he's aware. Hello? www.citizen.org/article/dona...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Again: Musk is not a threat to these people. If candidates he backs wins, then the Dems keep their important jobs, status and clout. If they themselves get replaced by more left wing candidates, then that’s it: the jig is up, they lose everything that’s important to them. It’s not more complex.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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A few more tweets from members of Congress condemning a streamer in defense of Israel and then Americans will be able to afford groceries. Keep posting. You're so close.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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darsky2025.bsky.social @darsky2025.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 18/08/2026
The Trump administration will move ahead with plans to end more than 25 years of sweeping protections for tens of millions of wild, federally managed acres across the U.S. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Trump administration advances plan to rescind protections for nearly 45 million wild acres • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The USDA decision to rescind the 25-year-old forest and wildland protections was made without officials hosting any public meetings.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18/08/2026
I find very little news about these Afrikaner refugees. There should be more reporting on them and their lives. This whole thing should be an international scandal. Also, in Ohio, they are pissed they have to go to driving school (a rule Republicans implemented to make life harder for real refugees)
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White South African refugees fall foul of Republican driving rules in US midwest
Onerous and costly restrictions aimed at immigrants cause difficulties for group prioritized by Trump for admission
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Kent right now @bookshrike.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
He, and other Dems should respond, ‘He (Ossoff) said, ‘travel with Nathalie’, why are all the Republican responses jumping to sex? Is that what happens when they travel with staff? Like it’s normal?’
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Stuart @stuartmanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Ich bin ein Binliner..."
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"doesn't understand the appeal of patina" feels like neat summation of American aesthetics
A BBC story headline reads: "Worth $5M? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues." There are two photos. One from 2013 that shows the horse statues in their older, patina state. And one from 2026 that shows them covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf.
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Dave Hargreaves @davehargreaves.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Go Binface!
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
You have to apologize for knowing things in 2026
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Revenge for MeToo (which constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around" bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
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Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That Karl Rove quote about being "history's actors" is how the fart-huffing right genuinely see themselves. They all think they can just fake it til they make it and reality will cave to their whims.
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Matt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A couple of people being made accountable for a couple of crimes really did a number on America's "public intellectuals". Clearly #MeToo and BLM went too far in that one or two guys were mildly inconvenienced.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The most powerful rising force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. Corporate Democrats refuse to see how big money has corrupted America. They — and their billionaire donors — are some of the biggest enablers of Trump's neo-fascism.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
NEW on “Paper Trail”: A man was convicted of abusing girls in his church. Preachers had known for years about the allegations. Some of the abuse even reportedly took place in the pews during services. So why did they never report him to the police? Listen to the full episode:
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The Church That Told Sexually Abused Children to “Forgive and Forget”
A man was convicted of abusing young girls in his church. Preachers had known the allegations for years. So why didn’t they report him to the police?
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Louisianastan.bsky.social @louisianastan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Not a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
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'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners
A Washington State ballot measure that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before taking part in sports provoked nationwide outrage.IL26-638 w...
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darsky2025.bsky.social @darsky2025.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#BlueskyCEO
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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mrspanstreppon @jamiepeppard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
LA Dodgers owner Mark Walters had a very good reason to corral the players into a WH visit. His company is under investigation by the DOJ & SEC. Private credit, billions in undisclosed loans transferred from his investment firms to his insurance firms. Gift link: www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Exclusive | Federal Probe Into Dodgers Owner’s Financial Empire Was Sparked by Whistleblower
Authorities are examining about $16 billion in private-credit deals involving Mark Walter’s insurance companies to determine whether fraud occurred.
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/07/2026
Tampa International Airport will privatize most TSA operations, just months after President Donald Trump unveiled a 2027 budget proposal that called for handing more airport security over to private companies.
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TSA security to be privatized at Tampa International Airport under new federal program | CNN
Tampa International Airport will privatize most Transportation Security Administration operations, just months after President Donald Trump unveiled a 2027 budget proposal that called for handing more...
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026
Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Weird how none of the Odyssey discourse is about this
The Odyssey is the first major Hollywood production to shoot scenes in Western Sahara. This would have been unthinkable prior to 2020 when Donald Trump broke with decades of US foreign policy and recognized Morocco's illegally established sovereignty over the territory. The decision was part of a quid pro quo in exchange for Morocco's normalization of ties with Israel. Now Nolan and crew's four day shoot in Dakhla illustrates how quickly Hollywood have moved to exploit the opportunities created by Trump's transactional diplomacy.
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Geoffrey Hoytsman @courtjezter84.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.cnbc.com/2018/11/06/i... He bought voting machines from China in his first term
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Ivanka Trump gets initial approval from China for 16 new trademarks—including for 'voting machines'
The approval for Ivanka Trump's trademarks — which comes three months after she said her personal clothing brand was shutting down —  occurred "while her father continues to wage a trade war with Chin...
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
70 billion of our dollars went to murdering you and not healthcare. #ICE
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tommykbs.bsky.social @tommykbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here's something I saw here on Bluesky that I wish Democrats would say every day: "Trump was elected while Obama was president Trump was elected when Biden was president Trump lost the election while he was president But the democrats are cheating? How?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026
Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU
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Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says
Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a ​policy of sending them to third ‌countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ...
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Steve Zorowitz @stevezorowitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Some Democratic Senators should do a fact finding trip there and remind them of the fact that administrations change.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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