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Mynameis...Miro @zg4ever.bsky.social · 6h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Student protests erupt at Cornell over mishandling of gang-rape allegations
Hall housing Michael Kotlikoff’s office spray painted as demonstrators demand resignation of college president
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 6h
While we're at it, let's also justifiably harp on the fact that they spent months talking about Hillary's email server, while this massive FBI data breach has already largely been glossed over and forgotten by the oligarch owned media
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 16h
Trump & Hegseth not only left our troops stationed in Gulf region exposed to Iranian attacks in response to Trump's illegal war. Those troops did not recieve needed immediate medical care, diagnosis or adequate if any treatment. Hegseth still denies their injuries www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-u...
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Soldiers Seriously Wounded In Iranian Drone Strike Say Military's Medical System Failed Them
The soldiers’ criticism comes against the backdrop of years of disinvestment in the Middle East by multiple administrations who sought to end U.S. involvement in the region.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h
all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11h
RFK Jr, who makes a HUGE profit from suing vaccine manufacturers & from selling kooky anti-vaxx books, on top of the $500k a year he was getting from a very extreme anti-vaccine, anti-science group, is out there arguing that, um, pediatricians believe in vaccination because it makes them money 🤯
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is now a standard part of Trump's campaign stump, a direct threat to voters: if you elect Democrats, I won't send you FEMA money, and I may take away your Medicare and Medicaid, too. These transcripts will be useful for litigation to follow.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor
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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5h
Treason!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
It's weird but I was in London thus summer and did not hear a single person ask: what would Hitler do? Maybe the company Yarvin keeps might explain why he keeps running into the Hitler-curious.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 7h
The MAGA outrage machine is having another meltdown. This time, it’s over Jack Smith’s shirt. Nowhere on the shirt is Trump’s name, unless they’ve decided he’s a king.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h
Toxic in Texas
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 9h
To be totally clear, here's the full quote, which indicates he may also be saying that Iran would nuke CA without his war against the country:
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10h
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 6h
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 15h
Israeli official says that Israel should have "wiped out" all Palestinians. "We should have done to Gaza what the Americans did in Nagasaki"!
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h
Thread: Late this afternoon and early evening. Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @scootercasterny.bsky.social on X NOW: Thousands march through Cornell University campus, demanding Justice for Jane Doe. Chants: "Tear Down the Fkn Frats!" and "Fuck off Kotlikoff!" Posted 5:53 pm · Oct 5, 2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump isn't beating the "can't walk in a straight line" allegations
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
lmao
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
When they lied about policy or statistics repeatedly or tried to shift blame elsewhere they fooled a lot of gullible people. But when they started lying about things that even the cult knows more about than these out of touch weirdos, that’s when they lost the plot.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight. (Published July with @arktimes.bsky.social)
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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 20h
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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XionKuriyama 🏳️‍🌈🍉 @xionkuriyama.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
JJ Abrams with a speech bubble underneath him
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ArleneE @arleneevers.bsky.social · 6h
www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Reports that Netanyahu ignored Oct. 7 warnings dominate Israeli election
JERUSALEM - A slew of reports that Arab officials warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a serious threat emerging from Gaza days before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas have put the longtime...
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FADE CHILLUPS AKA CHALUPA BATMAN AKA アダム @twobitwhackjob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Afghanistan, April 2004
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[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁 @thatsawkward.bsky.social · 14h
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clever display name lacker @pfish.zo... 2mo

new reactor operator: And if I see the gauge rising into dangerous territory, then what button should I push?

me (just got oral surgery):

Colin Campbell @raleighrepor...2mo

Always take the back roads so you can discover a fun-to-say NC place name you hadn't heard before

[picture of a green road sign that reads WAM SQUAM]
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sarachim @sarachim.bsky.social · 10h
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Delete System32 @delete-system32.bsky.social · 15h
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Story Stunningham @thepants.bsky.social · 12h
@Kshwenky: "A Tesla to someone in a crosswalk": Elon Musk: "I keep forgetting that you're still alive" (to @SenSanders) 11/14/2021
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Panda Porro (Spooky intensifies) @pandastalteri.bsky.social · 15h
Quote tweet: when you've had ten pints and start singing yellow by Coldplay.

Original tweet: Lukaku starts
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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 9h
One of my favorite moments was catching the "Boston Antifa" account posting with it's location tagging accidentally turned on.
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nick (slut) .cash @nickca.sh · 11h
I can't find it anymore but someone had quoted this with a picture of Reagan which is an exceptionally dark joke
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Michael Irving @mikeirvo.bsky.social · 11h
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max mccarthy @maxmcc.com · 04/07/2026
Sean Astin as Sam Gamgee, with a speech bubble suggesting he is saying the quoted post
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* There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 7h
Deep cut
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Fergus Doyle @mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sure you already saw this one, but some nice timeline confluence
Cat's original post followed by a post which implies The Dude from the Big Lebowski is saying the Moby Dick quote "Ahab is forever, man. This whole act's immutably decreed."
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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 13h
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᳄᳆᳇᳅ @n3cropants.bsky.social · 18h
there's some good ones on tumblr karifaevt.tumblr.com/post/7260491...
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TitaniumTeddyBear @titaniumteddybear.bsky.social · 22h
I wanna help. Does this count?
Telescopes cause autism in exactly the same way that vaccines and pirates do.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20h
Tooting my own horn here:
Original post - "I need a ballroom"
My post - "Mario visits his tailor"
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Warren Zevonblade @apopheniac.bsky.social · 20h
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Matt Ford: Yamamoto's command is so good tonight. That sinker just now was filthy.

Kelsey Atherton: [FDR, December 7th, 1941, off-mic]
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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 16h
hands down one of my favourite subcategories of posts
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saw babylon. not good.
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-Egyptian scout circa 1150 BC after the invasion of the Sea Peoples
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of course you have blood all over you. and pronouns
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easy website
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^^^ me when I'm trying to calm down my horse named "Website"hubbert

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Medieval herbalists when their supplies are
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GINGER ROOT IN FORTNITE ?!
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tarzan's last thought as he plummets
to the jungle floor

jean @jeanmr . 3h
i miss vine

22:13 · 28.02.23 · Twitter for iPhone

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AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A conversation from tumblr that says

"I'm going to get more lashes today"

"Repentant catholics in the 14th century be like"

"Delete this off my post"
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