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Defender of democracy and the Oxford comma

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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's not just that they won't; it's that they can't. Their job (and public companies' legal obligation) is to maximize profit. Even if they wanted to, they can't just give up their competitive edge and hope that others do it too. That's why the companies themselves are begging for the regulation.
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Biollante @bivouacchillin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He also famously wrote a letter to a Jewish rabbi saying, "For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sad that the main takeaway isn't, "let's pay social workers and teachers aides more"....
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is so wholesome. It’s like real like Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/09/2026
94% of Democrats, 60% of Independents, and 1 in 5 Republicans support Medicare for All. It’s hard to find issues with this much consensus. We need Medicare for All!
Rep. Jayapal speaks with a group in support of Medicare for All. Green and white text at the top on a black background reads: "NEWS: Stunning level of support for Medicare for All, Jayapal reveals new polling"
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honestly, if this means we don't ever have to listen to his voice again, I'm so here for it...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canada today 😏🫎🌍
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The irony is that JD Vance is clearly way closer to Bob Rumson.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every accusation...
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's almost like people want candidates who have actual policy positions beyond, "well at least I'm not a Republican...anymore...."
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also, they already do this- the top public high schools are almost exclusively science magnets. To get into one, most kids need to go to a magnet es and ms. The entrance exams for the es and ms magnets are basically the SATs. Not that I expect originality or research from conservative pundits...
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Work on the analysis was not conducted by career civil servants at the Census Bureau, and the team behind it included individuals affiliated with the America First Policy Institute, a think tank started by officials from Trump's first administration." @hansilowang.bsky.social
npr.org
Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting
A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."
time.com
ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back
An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I was going to call your office about this one, but I see it's already on your radar- so glad you're my senator!
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ending, particularly, was quite chilling. I'm watching them develop humanoid robots in China, and all I can think of is "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Silo is hitting way too close to home these days, but my negative views about AI have been almost entirely shaped by Terminator 2, which traumetized me when I was 12. Also Battlestar Gallactica, though that was a decade later.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's also possible that as a writer, they've used your work to train the AI, so it thinks your work is its own.... But also, teacher communities have long known that AI detectors are garbage.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The contest brought students ages 14 to 17 together from across America to answer the question: What if your high-school gym teacher walked headfirst into a pole and was then asked to throw an Olympics with a budget of exactly $6 and three weeks’ notice?
theatlantic.com
Are the Patriot Games Great? No. Are They Fun to Watch?
Also no.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
THE JOKER : wanna know how I got these scars? ZOHRAN MAMDANI, SPEAKING PERFECT MANDARIN: How you got your scars is a personal story, but I want to make sure that every New Yorker who has scars gets to tell their story. That’s why I’m reducing MTA fares on weekends
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don't fall into this Republican trap.
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚗 State cars sitting idle ☎️ Phone lines not being used 💲 Vendors being paid too much for the services These costs are now being put in the places where they belong – our classrooms, health care clinics, and communities in need.
We talked with hundreds of state employees – just as frustrated as you are about government waste.

That's why we launched our “Government Modernization Initiative” – to put every dollar to work for YOU.

Because every dollar wasted is a dollar that could have gone to a classroom, a health care clinic, or a community in need.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 11/08/2026
of the many many varieties of guys, online that I do not respect, the bottom of the barrel is the Guy Who Comes In Hot Then Starts Crying When They Get Told Off buddy u are on social media, what on god's green earth did you think was going to happen after you told everyone they sucked ass lol
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/08/2026
"Much of Tyler Austin Harper’s academic career had felt like a fairy tale. When he landed a tenure-track job, one adviser said that it was like “watching the last dinosaur being born.” But after few years at Bates College, his faith in academia had shattered:
bit.ly
Confessions of a Token Black Professor
The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social are you sure you're not an actual NYT writer??
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don't you threaten me with a good time...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“I’m staying in the race because, thanks to President Trump paving the groundwork, sexual assault and violence against women is widely and openly accepted now, so there’s really no reason to drop out.”
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
More BS
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BREAKING: A MAGA senator was caught on a male for male website
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/07/2026
If there were 60 cases of immigrants committing sex crimes, against children, Trump would order the mass execution of every immigrant in America. Here, 60 DHS/ICE agents committed sex crimes against children—silence. Horrifying report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com
DHS Criminal Agents - 7/20/26 Update
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/07/2026
If you think this ad is ridiculous, you don’t know Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5I...
youtube.com
NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Confessions of the Dear Leader
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
apnews.com
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Jay o’ Lantern 🎃 @templinjay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Volunteering at the food bank this morning and we had to discard 4 cases of Taylor Farms salad bowls that were donated by a local grocery chain a couple of days ago. They gave us recalled food knowing it was contaminated, and wrote it off as a donation. 🤬
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There's some great graphic nonfiction out there- Horrible Histories, You Wouldn't Want to be... also, you can try Choose Your Own Adventure and Encyclopedia Brown- not graphic, but very interactive and can be a gateway drug into more text-heavy stuff.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Because woman bad. Lose elections. Man good. Win elections. Woman no run for office, have babies. Or cats. Not both.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Me too...sigh....
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So the NYT pitchbot is now writing the articles too?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It's almost like destroying democratic institutions and the climate while simultaneously pumping out misogynistic propaganda and integrating regressive Christian nationalism into mainstream public life has made American women not want to have children. Almost like that.
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dfortytwo.bsky.social @dfortytwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Oh no! AI and Robots are going to take all of the jobs, and there won't be enough jobs for people!" But also: "The birthrate is plummeting! There won't be enough people for jobs!" Make up your mind, NYT
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