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Derek Allen

@derekallen95.bsky.social
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Columbus, Ohio to Washington, D.C.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How do i arrange a Q&A between Nathan Fielder and Isaac Chotiner?
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Hugo Chobits @chicxsinportico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Esto es algo que le pasaría a una banda cover de kid rock
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's funny trying to put a summary of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the bloodless New York Times style. Like having a rabbi write about bacon www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a...
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Adult Swim 25th Anniversary: 6 Defining Animated Shows
For 25 years, it’s been an outpost for unhinged mayhem. These six signature shows helped turn low-budget TV into a surreal comedy powerhouse.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/08/2026
This is going to make him a big hit at parties.
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TK 🌸 @practicesbaby.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
Hello this is Beyoncé
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/08/2026
Could the next release of "The Lion King" be in Quechua, an indigenous language spoken by 10 million people?
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“The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks -- and that half of the world's 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century. Quechua is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, with approximately 7 to 10 mi...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
cannot wait for KSA X FRENCH LABOR LAWS, the greatest crossover event of all time
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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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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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 02/08/2026
A chance to bring back one of my favorite memes!
3 panel vertical meme
Top: Vader says Luke help me take this mask off
Middle: Luke wearing a rebel alliance mask says But you'll die
Bottom: Vader says I have rights
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
dang. sounds like they should speed up that extradition process
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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
According to hedge fund billionaires Dan Loeb and Bill Ackman, "people insisted that (former NY governor Andrew) Cuomo resign for vague accusations and (former NYC mayor Eric) Adams for a business class upgrade"
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Been through a handful of Army Leader Professional Development trainings which could have been titled "why we shouldn't invade Iran" which largely consisted of someone slapping this map on a PowerPoint slide and pointing out that Iran has three times the land and twice the population of Iraq.
Topographic map of Iran
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
[beach] ME: if a shark stops moving it will die WIFE: for the last time you can't kill a shark with a stop sign ME: it's the law diane
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pershing48.bsky.social @pershing48.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"That very nasty woman, Cassandra, she said my horse was a trap"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/07/2026
Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that. (Published January)
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This just in lads, the British Raj wasn't colonial because *checks notes* we called the Governor-General a Viceroy.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it’s just staggering how the planners of this huge event had zero contingencies for things going wrong
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/07/2026
pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NEW: In the term ending last year, the Supreme Court passed a troubling milestone: The Shadow Docket overtook the normal process. That means more unsigned decisions with no reasoning and secret votes from the highest court. @kbmorales.bsky.social has your scoop: www.propublica.org/article/supr...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ezra Klein is fluffing right wing whack jobs the right way www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Opinion | What Has Chris Rufo Wrought?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
it’s true that Rufo often says what he’s doing in public. but frequently what he says he’s doing is lying.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The old world is dying. Defending the status quo is no longer an option: It is neither an adequate response to the challenge we face nor is it viable electorally. We live in a profoundly disruptive moment. Restoration won’t do. A credible transformation is the only way forward.
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 19/06/2026
🚨 WATCH: Count Binface is interviewed live on Sky News by Jon Craig
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
the reactionary centrists have found a home on the political compass
political compass issue with authoritarian-libertarian and economic-left economic-right axes.

Authoritarian-left quadrant says: Everything is imperialism except actual imperialism, which is fine.
Authoritarian-right: Everything is genocide except actual genocide, which is fine.
Libertarian-left: Everything is theft except actual theft, which is fine.
Libertarian-right: Everything is slavery except actual slavery, which is fine.

I've added in the center: Everything is cancellation except actual cancellation, which is fine.
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The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Two things left to consider: - right-wing expat vote yet to report - most of the remaining vote in Peru is in Cusco and Ayacucho, which are heavily indigenous (guess how they feel about the Fujimoris)
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.”
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A healthy democracy would automatically register all adult citizens to vote (unless they opt out) and provide every resident with a free national ID card so a driver’s license is only necessary for driving
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NPR @npr.org · 04/06/2026
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK
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National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.
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Margen de Maniobra @margendemaniobra.net · 01/06/2026
📻 AMIGOS EN TODAS PARTES Hablamos con @adrasteaquiesce.bsky.social y @gzapata.bsky.social sobre una de las ficciones políticas más interesantes de los últimos años, sobre construir rebeliones y sobre Imperios Galácticos. En el último Margen de Maniobra: Andor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzc...
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Margen de maniobra 02x06 - Amigos en todas partes. Con Marta Carmona y Guillermo Zapata
YouTube video by Círculo de Bellas Artes
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is great and I won’t trust any politician who doesn’t articulate some version of it.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026
THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!
213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021   "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
beast mode
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
shoutout to one of the greatest tweets of all time
Headline: cardale Jones visits kid in hospital to play video games, beats him 91-35 in NCAA.

Jones tweet: man I wish everyone stop saying I beat a kid in hospital 91-35, it was 98-35, had 91 with 1:26 left
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In a just society, everyone involved in this, from the CEO down to the coders, as well as the cops responsible for not doing their jobs, are the ones who have their lives destroyed
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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026
After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it? n.pr/3QWFhA8
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Two startlingly different views on long-awaited data on America's anti-HIV efforts
After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
RIP Celebrity Deathmatch. You would have loved the Trump - Pope feud.
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