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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AOC always makes so much sense. I couldn't agree with her more.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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TT @tathompsonks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shit is absolutely going down in southwest Kansas right now. This is Trump's last stand.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Name withheld for secret reasons @deemcg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Samuel L Jackson: how a great actor delivers a line reading.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) is just one of numerous interesting variations on how bodies can grow, but it was a useful re-calibration example for me. We may love sharply delineated conceptual categories, but arbitrary forced “binaries” fail to contend with biological complexity

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York. That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

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Nancy Lacore @nancylacore.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause. I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving. Join my team at nancylacore.com

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Name withheld for secret reasons @deemcg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apple Maps, I used to love you, but it's over. I'm with MapQuest now.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dems should be clear that there will be consequences when power transfers in DC. Hearings, legislation, investigations, etc.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Let’s rename pi to “American pi” and set it to 3.0. More patriotic and easier to remember!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

precisely: a unified no against the things Trump wants to do and the people he wants to appoint isn't too much to ask and honestly the majority of Democrats seem on board that said, if the midterms go well, they also need to be prepared to treat a Thomas/Alito replacement like Garland

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 22/08/2026

Happy anniversary to the best partner I could ask for. I love you so very much, Dougie.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026

Trump is not just the worst president, but the worst US citizen of my entire lifetime. A world historical failure of humanity and morality. He and his wicked entourage have burdened us with the task of repairing his damage and eradicating his evil legacy for the rest of our lives.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i think one of the hidden keys to politics right now is "how can our side make sure that the 'trump is gonna kill a bunch of beautiful wild horses' story gets in front of the millions of otherwise apolitical consumers of social media horse-related content"

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honestly, the judge ought to throw them in jail 'til it's taken down.

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The thing about Ossoff... is that he seems really mad. Smart, but also really mad. And that's just great politics. 1/3

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.

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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 12/08/2026

Donald Trump leads the most callous, corrupt, and incompetent administration in America's history. In the midterm elections, We the People will put a check on their power.

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Name withheld for secret reasons @deemcg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When your net worth is already $264.9 billion, 100 million is pocket change.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kamala Harris: We have a president taking America into a war the people did not ask for, spending billions of dollars without paying attention to the people right here in America who are losing their health coverage because of policies they are pushing to pay for a tax cut for the rich…

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now that many people are buying my 2017 metrical verse translation of the Odyssey in great numbers (thank you, Mr Nolan!), or at least, gazing at it and wondering whether to buy it, I thought I should share some thoughts on the cover design.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” This man did incalculable damage, while 'carried away.'

Headline: "Elon Musk says he got 'carried away' with Trump—but still holds onto contentious political views."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/07/2026

The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.

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A Recent Supreme Court Opinion Completely Misunderstands the Point of Sports. One World Cup Superstar Is the Corrective.

We’re fundamentally misunderstanding the point of sports.

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material. Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Surveee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}

A black and white poster with faded images of tall trees with full, leafy branches, above which appears:
“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material.
Oh wait, that’s what trees are.”
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Nothing Matters™️ @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

That's precisely why they hired him

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it is pretty insane that the movement which produced the idea that Kamala Harris would go to war in Iran has not produced any sort of resistance, even messaging, about the actual war in Iran

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Name withheld for secret reasons @deemcg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is DC. I can't wait until 2028 and it's finally freed from its authoritarian occupiers and DC is granted the statehood its citizens have earned through enduring this time of brutal besiegement. #dcstatehood

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Name withheld for secret reasons @deemcg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Or buy up multiple social media platforms through which they can manipulate public opinion.

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