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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026

Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is the reality. Any politics or politician or movement that isn’t saying this plainly is a false god, inviting you to your own destruction. America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you

By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 31/05/2025

if you are not autistic, studies suggest that I am more than nine times more likely to die by suicide than you on avg 😔 if you are autistic, I am glad that you are here 🫶🏻 if you are not autistic, please consider telling an autistic friend that you are glad they are here, too 🌈

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18/03/2026

The autism spectrum is complicated, per a new graphic of 39 traits: “There is no single trait that defines autism: it encompasses differences in social communication skills, interests, sensory sensitivities, and more. Every person’s profile is unique.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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What 39 traits reveal about the autism spectrum

The autism spectrum is big, vibrant and complicated, a new graphic of 39 traits shows

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"Gamification" was a colossal mistake. We need to stop tech companies from infesting video games with metrics and optimization. And we need to recognize, outside of games, the ways these companies have perverted game rules and rewards to manipulate us into pursuing goals that make our lives suck.

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Games Can Save Us from the Hell of Silicon Valley Optimization

Gamification culture was a mistake.

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doctoroctober.bsky.social @doctoroctober.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The hedge Knight is very Boston coded… “What’s your name then?” “Erm…” 😅 👀 🍩 “.. Sir Dunks!”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/10/2025

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is hands down the best, most enjoyable, and far-ranging discussion that I have had in recent memory. Katie brought so much to this interview about vibecessions, “finance guy” memes as politics of social reproduction in casino capitalism, Bama Rush and DSA. moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

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6.25.2025 | A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom — Millennial Money with Katie

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/06/2025

Zohran winning tonight is the opening salvo on a corrupt gerantocratic democratic establishment. Primary all of the old establishment and let the next generation take over. This is how we take on the oligarchs controlling the Democratic party.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Answering some of the Qs about Cuomo's campaign, one by one... First: What about the sexual harassment charges? Aren't they in the past? (Spoiler: No, and especially not since he's shown no interest in change or repentance.) amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

I just have such good memories from him during COVID. Remember Cuomo-sexuals?

I do remember! But really: Andrew Cuomo is a terrible person. For starters, he’s been credibly accused of sexual harassment by at least 11 women.

No, yeah, I know. I’ve heard about that. Not great.

You’ve probably heard that in passing, but it’s worth actually looking at what the reports say.

There’s a long documented history of young women saying Cuomo groped them, made them feel unsafe, went out of his way to humiliate them. Throughout his time as governor, there’s story after story of him preying on young vulnerable women whose only crime is that they wanted to serve New Yorkers in government.

That is horrible. But that stuff is all in the past. Don’t we need a way of people to come back? Shouldn’t there be room for some sort of redemption?

Sure. Of course. But any story of redemption has to involve change and repentance.

And by all accounts, that is not Andrew Cuomo’s arc. Instead he’s waged an unrelenting scorched earth campaign against his accusers.

He’s suing many of them, dragging out long legal disputes, and bankrupting them with legal fees. The City, in their deep dive into Cuomo’s “trench warfare”, called his tactics “in many ways unprecedented, wearing down and financially depleting not only women who have accused Cuomo of harassment and brought their own suits but others who never planned to enter a courtroom at all.”

If that’s not bad enough, Cuomo is using the fact that he was employed by the state as governor when these accusations took place to force taxpayers to pay his legal fees! New Yorkers like you and me have already paid over 19 million dollars to his lawyers to defend him in the sexual assault cases alone (in addition to another $40 million in legal fees for other corruption & miscellaneous cases). I want my taxes going to libraries, not his lawyers.

Look, I get it. But #metoo was a long time ago. Some people might even say it went a little far, you know? Remember Aziz Ansari?

LOL, not really, no. But let’s stay on topic. Reasonable people can disagree about #MeToo, or about what should happen to people accused of sexual harassment in the workplace, but the fact is that the sexual harassment is completely of a piece of how Andrew Cuomo does business.

He’s a bully. The stories of him screaming at others, intimidating people who work for him, and holding nasty petty grudges are the stuff of legend.

In their exhaustive look at the subject, The New York Times quotes one person who worked with Cuomo as saying, “his primary tool for governing is to create fear.” One lawmaker, whose father died in a nursing home during COVID (a subject we are going to talk more about in a bit), has publicly said Cuomo threatened to “destroy him” if he ever criticized the governor.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Really, really good @rtraister.bsky.social piece on Cuomo’s impending return substack.com/inbox/post/1...

This is the guy who, along with his top aides, has spent in the neighborhood of 20 million dollars of New York taxpayers' money waging a lawfare campaign against the women, many of them young, who came forward to describe the way he treated them. He has since worked tirelessly to defame and degrade the women who spoke up (even the ones to whom he originally extended apologies) exhausting their spirits and their funds, subpoenaing their phone records and former college interns, working to reveal their identities even when ordered by the court to desist. It is very worth reading this account in the City of how both inside the courtroom and out, Cuomo's "attorneys and some family members have battled to rehabilitate his image by helping shred that of any perceived detractor they targeted."

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.

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Hundreds of Beavers Movie @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 09/04/2025

so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines. this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.

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Wagner College confirms transgender fencer at center of controversy is no longer on women’s team

It appears that stories on Wagner College’s website that mentioned the athlete and tournaments she had competed in have been removed.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It's Reagan. It's always Reagan. All of *gestures* this stems from our modern philosophy of "rich people are smart and good and the government should do whatever it can to enrich them regardless of how much the working class suffers" and that shit was because of Reagan.

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