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Bog Hag. Philly local. Angry SSI advocate. Roll for SAN.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/09/2026
⚠️ Trump’s DHS has withheld a document that could potentially detail how the administration plans to use armed federal agents at polling places for the midterms. Now, Democrats are demanding to see the document — and a federal judge is forcing DHS's hand: demdock.com/4rpXdl3
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here’s my op-ed on Chief Justice John Roberts whitewashed history of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Roberts adoration of Taft’s “restraint” conveniently omits Taft’s racism, refusal to condemn lynching, and embrace of Lost Causism. That’s no accident. share.inquirer.com/IcPlmx
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Will the real William Howard Taft please stand up?
Chief Justice John Roberts penned an incomplete, but revealing, tribute to former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
Trump: "'Affordability!' That's a fake word they use ... they came up with this word"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's true. Trans rights means one semiconductor factory per trans person.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 15/07/2026
ICE and Geo Group are blocking an investigation into a possible tuberculosis outbreak at their concentration camp in Aurora, Colorado.
coloradosun.com
Investigation into possible tuberculosis spread at Aurora ICE facility blocked by private company, health officials say
GEO Group, which operates the Aurora immigration detention facility, is blocking a tuberculosis investigation, county health officials say.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I want to see the internal polls that have Greg Abbott of all people publicly coming out against cops murdering brown people.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🚩"For more than a year, in this newsletter and various articles, I’ve been laying out how the United States government under Trump has been launching just such a network. Yet this solicitation on Sam dot gov is a tremendous escalation in the world of concentration camp red flags."🚩
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's a black and white screencap or photo of the First Doctor played by William Hartnell in an episode called an unearthly child he states "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it." Doctor Who (1963)
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 15/07/2026
Many pregnant Texas residents now fear losing their lives during pregnancy, after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abortions.
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‘I Don’t Want To Die’: Texas Patients Are Afraid To Get Pregnant
The fear of losing their lives is precisely what many pregnant Texas residents say they’ve experienced after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abor...
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iris 🜬 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇩 @unallowedclown.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
im going to maybe turn off replies on this but i wish that people remembered that say her name is meant to be for Black women who are killed in police violence and how they’re ignored in their deaths.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
reuters.com
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A little sketch of Sam Neill in Possession.
Pencil sketch of a young Sam Neill.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant children are facing immigration court by themselves. This isn’t new: vulnerable kids have been rushed through deportation court without legal help across administrations. It’s only getting worse: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...
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Hundreds Of Thousands of Immigrant Children Are Facing Immigration Court By Themselves
“I was nervous because it was my first time going to a court,” said one boy. The federal government is seeking to deport him to a country he doesn’t even know.
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Sibben @sibben.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Excellent. Have to share this classic that touches on the subject.
youtu.be
Mitchell and Webb - Kill The Poor
YouTube video by DingDongDorothy
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 15/07/2026
created an infographic to explain why arguing the hypocrisy of fascist talking points only helps erode your point. don't fight bad faith with good faith. don't engage with their point. don't meet them where they are. they're killing people. eat their frame.
an image using sprites from Kirby's Adventure from the NES

two series of animations

1st series. Kirby standing still and then runs into a star and gets injured. it is captioned "negating a frame reinforces it"

2nd series: Kirby encounters a star, eats it, and then blasts it out as a fireball. it is captioned "eat their frame"
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“The system is not a child-friendly system,” Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) managing attorney Hillary Larsen told KUOW. “It’s virtually impossible to go through the system having the child represent themself.”
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
WHOA! Nancy Pelosi says she will vote for Massie's amendment to withhold arms from Israel despite calling it "ill-conceived!" "The American people are rightly demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu government cannot maintain its current course. "
Washington, D.C. — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on Massie Amendment #8 to H.R. 8595, the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2027:

 
“Today, the Massie Amendment presents an unfortunate choice to the House. As one who is committed to a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and supportive of a two-state solution, I respect Leader Jeffries’ decisive proposals to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. For the good of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people, it clear that U.S. policy must change to attain that goal.

“The United States must be a force for security and stability. The American people are rightly demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu government cannot maintain its current course. Therefore, while this amendment is ill-conceived, I vote yes for the message that it sends.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
vance? a grifter? i’m shocked
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
american politics would be perfectly fine if the spectrum of acceptable debate was leftists vs liberals. we literally do not need conservatism. at all.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I mean, Jimmy Carter placed his peanut farm in a blind trust when he became president, then eventually sold it.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
we gotta talk about Slaughter some more especially Gorsuch's concurrence, bc dude is clearly getting ready for the next phase of the right wing's war on the administrative state--or perhaps more accurately, its war on govt's ability to actually do anything good ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...
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The Conservative Justices Attached Some Major Strings to the Latest Decision On Presidential Power
The Supreme Court is not only transferring political power from Congress to the executive branch. It is also reserving a ton of political power for itself.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 07/07/2026
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...
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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 08/07/2026
rigor tortoise is the funniest nickname I’ve seen so far for mcconnell
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
New in PN: Trump's 'great' fair limps to its conclusion "The Great American State Fair on the National Mall was more than a national embarrassment. It was the endpoint of a MAGA-fication of the nation’s historic birthday, transforming it into a vehicle to glorify Trump and line his allies’ pockets"
publicnotice.co
Trump's 'great' fair limps to its conclusion
But the grift goes on.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/06/2026
Chatbots confidently produce translations that miss the mark on metaphor, sentence structure and emotional depth. There’s a heart behind poetry that AI simply cannot comprehend.
theconversation.com
The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.
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Federal health agency cancels most of its teen pregnancy prevention grants • Stateline
A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Progra...
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🇨🇦 sophialarkrose.bsky.social @sophialarkrose.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This explains a lot. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026
Reminded how a product similar to this one wrote a report that claimed an officer transformed into a frog.
govtech.com
Should Idaho Police Use AI to Write Reports From Body Cam Footage?
Some police departments in Idaho have started using an AI tool to summarize body camera footage, but legal experts worry that incorrect reports could hurt people’s cases and encourage administrators t...
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mayor Mamdani, New York's Artists Demand: Keep AI Out of Our Schools. https://bit.ly/ArtistsSayNoAI4Schools
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Mamdani: When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region. And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Everyone has lost their minds. Mamdani's record in office is that of an ambitious center-left pragmatist yet the entire media is still casting him as a dangerous ideologue.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Even his policy proposals — free buses, freezing rents on rent-controlled apartments, five city-run grocery stores — weren't all that far outside the political mainstream. The media has conjured a radical antisemitic insurgent out of thin air.
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Happy to share my contribution - an essay on Elizabeth Freeman - and the entire NYTimes Magazine Visions of America project, in print July 4. Freeman’s bequest to us was the struggle for liberty, and that started with family. Read and please comment. We’re reading! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Nothing new, yet scary as f*. This is why warnings in our own democracies should NOT be ignored . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/06/2026
The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
June 8, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 8, 2026
On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison of Virginia stood up to address the House of Representatives in order to introduce a series of amendments to the U.S.
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Motivated She-Warrior @shewarrior.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you don’t have the right to your own thoughts and beliefs, you have nothing. Madison knew it, so he protected the right. Hegseth knows it too, so he’s trampling all over it.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Never trust a preacher they’re gonna lie to you. Bosko Baker
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
On OMB's proposal to make all grants political: "Speak up! Now’s the time! Standing by the side of the room, glancing around nervously and hoping that somebody else does something will lead us to disaster. These are not normal times, so stop acting as if they are." www.science.org/content/blog...
science.org
Action! Action Now.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this
statnews.com
Top ultra-processed food researchers call for sweeping policy change: ‘The system is rigged’
A survey finds that ultra-processed foods are a cross-partisan concern. And yet policy has been slow to follow.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Before the first Trump impeachment, I was one of several historians who updated this book, originally written for the Nixon impeachment. In case anyone thinks that Trump's second term isn't setting new records in corruption and scandal, they can consult this volume.
thenewpress.org
Presidential Misconduct - The New Press
Named a best book of the year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📌Fact is, most everything Mamdani is doing in NYC would benefit rural America, and the bought-off propagandists at Fox will do everything possible to make sure they never know it.
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