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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 01/10/2026
This is looting
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Vernors Herzog @vernorsherzog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the pedophile president is making everything more expensive by starting disastrous military wars overseas and trade wars at home any dem consultant who can’t figure out how to message this without throwing trans people under the bus should be launched directly into the sun
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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me too, fire truck manufacturer, me too.
A toy fire truck for sale in a supermarket. On the packaging is a slogan "driven by inertia"
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Vulnerable woman evicted and left to sleep in a car shows depth of Spain's housing crisis reut.rs/47nZOCM
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Vulnerable woman evicted and left to sleep in a car shows depth of Spain's housing crisis
Pilar Lopez spent two months sleeping in her car after she was evicted ​this summer from the apartment in Palma de Mallorca where she had lived for 12 years.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All regional autocrats, including Erdoğan, pinned their hopes on Trump, whom they thought was “one of us.” And that was exactly the problem. Almost two years into his presidency, Trump has not only failed to follow through on his promises to these leaders, but his reckless policies have ++
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On a national database to purge legitimate voters, a lower court followed the Constitution and the facts, and once again the Supreme Court majority decided Trump’s anti-democracy scheming take precedence. Unsigned opinion, no vote count released. Guilty conscience. (But of course did it anyway.)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mike Rogers told Michiganders he was an assembly line autoworker who made Chrysler LeBarons. Turns out it was a complete lie. Shameful.
michiganadvance.com
Mike Rogers claims he was an assembly line worker. The UAW said that is stretching the truth. • Michigan Advance
Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.
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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 17/09/2026
The Bills might be the Lions’ long-lost NFL cousins: blue-collar cities, tortured fans, legendary running backs, and decades of heartbreak. That kinship ends at kickoff. www.metrotimes.com/arts/culture...
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The Bills and Lions are bound by heartbreak, history and a weird kind of kinship - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit and Buffalo have spent decades turning football heartbreak into identity, ritual, and a stubborn loyalty that makes the Lions and Bills feel like distant relatives.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/09/2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to Chris Brown? Apparently, it’s easier to denounce abusers when it’s politically advantageous.
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Stop trying to sell us Chris Brown's redemption arc
Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to another abuser?
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has received nearly $4,700,000 from 7 donors who appeared in the Epstein files since 2023. Rogers has also previously said that some individuals named in the files should be protected.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
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Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Speech
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026
Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones. www.wired.com/story/conspi...
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How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.
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Ben @detben.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.freep.com/story/sports...
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Lawsuit claims sexualized 'torture' of hockey players at U-M
None of the 16 plaintiffs are identified in the suit, which includes graphic and shocking allegations
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten's extra 1 second for Michigan. "The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You see, calling out a genocide is antisemitic unlike supporting actual German fascists, which is just old fashioned free speech.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Ben @detben.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rigged
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Ben @detben.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh my
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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Ben @detben.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Milo dropped this when getting picked up
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's bizarre but telling that the media pushes the "Dem candidates have an antisemitism problem" when Republican candidates are unironically doing the "my grandad died in world war 2 he fell out of a guard tower" joke.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The purging of international students is also an attack on the financial stability of colleges and universities
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the GOP did almost exactly this with gay marriage in 2004-2006– made a meal out of it in 2004, went back to the well heavy in 2006 when they didn’t have other issues to run on— and got their dicks kicked in
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged. The very rich get richer, while working families struggle. Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the billionaire class has never ever had it so good.
theguardian.com
Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RFK Jr. cancelled research into a #vaccine platform that could potentially cure a #cancer I have personally seen kill someone within 2 months after diagnosis, the fastest I have ever seen #cancer take someone’s life
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
lol come the fuck on
Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“In 2017, Americans legally wagered $4.9 billion on sporting events. Last year, they bet over $165 billion. And the true costs of their bets were even higher.”
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
sufficiently data-driven witchcraft is called "medicine"
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Really interesting piece about disinformation. X is not changing what we think, but it is distorting our perspective of what other people think. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
open.substack.com
This Is Your Brain on X
Shifting the Vibes Again
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
US: We want to wait, let economic damage accumulate. Iran: Sounds good! Iran (turning to others): So, anyone want to talk about a post-US regional security arrangement? Pakistan: Sure. Turkey: Okay. Oman: We were a no, but now a yes. Qatar: Sure. Saudi Arabia: Ugh, fine. Dammit. Iran: Cool.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Ben @detben.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Soundgarden already told us about this
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/08/2026
‘Voters are fed up’: Michigan primary forces Democratic party to accept leftwing shift
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‘Voters are fed up’: Michigan primary forces Democratic party to accept leftwing shift
With Abdul El-Sayed’s win, the party’s leftwing insurgency had breached the walls of a midwestern swing state, forcing a reckoning about Democrats’ direction and leadership
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/08/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump has lost this war. America is weaker, Iran is stronger, the price to reopen the strait increases by the day, the supposed 'deal' that's on the table right now would pay Iran $100 billion a year in order to reopen the strait ... what a victory for Iran."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/08/2026
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567 mln for teen mental health fund reut.rs/4q1IxHX
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567 mln for teen mental health fund
A New Mexico ​court ordered Meta ‌on Thursday to pay $567 million into ​a state ​fund to tackle mental ⁠health issues ​faced by teenagers using ​its products.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's of course possible to use "AIPAC" as a "dog whistle" but there's also an actual AIPAC which spent >$30 million trying to defeat Dr. El-Sayed, so when he mentioned "AIPAC," that wasn't to "demonize mainstream Jewish civic engagement," he was literally talking about AIPAC.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our economy is in shambles, our army is out of munitions, my kids have measles, and I can't afford gas. But at least now there are no Black generals.
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