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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CBS NEWS(max) IN MEMPHIS: “It sounds like there’s a jet plane coming towards me. I can understand why residents are losing sleep over this.” #XAI @memphisvsmusk @nonewdatacenters Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUXSkFJH/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No one hates higher education more than the people who churn out the Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com

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Opinion | The Humanities Can’t Ignore AI

Like it or not, we need to learn the tools and their limitations.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I know the “don’t be evil” ethos died long before Google became Alphabet but it’s still kind of shocking to me that they’ve gone from “don’t be evil” to “be the bad guys in ‘Fern Gully’.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Trump family and administration's embrace of the Tate brothers and intervention on their behalf shows that whatever Donald Trump doesn't want us to know about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the same vicious misogyny persists. The Tates are the new Epstein.

According to Heidi Blake’s thorough investigation of Tate in the New Yorker earlier this month, the Trump administration intervened last year to buffer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan from the consequences of their criminal charges in Romania. The Tate and Trump circles, she also reports, have overlapped at Mar-a-Lago.

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She’s not the only one digging into the connections. A December New York Times report by Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai quotes a text message by Tate, reviewed by the outlet, from January 2025: “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre on top of things. Ive been told ill be free soon but Trump needs to see me in Miami.” Two Trump sons, Don Jr and Barron, have reportedly cultivated friendships with Andrew, though the White House told the Times that it was not involved in the Tates’ legal matters, and the Tates’ lawyer said the outlet’s findings about Andrew and Barron were “fake news”.

It’s pointless to debate who’s worse, Epstein or Tate. Their monstrous misogyny echoes their respective eras. Epstein seemed a relic of the 1980s obsessed with clawing his way into elite circles and obsessed with recruiting and abusing pubescent to young adult women. Tate on the other hand, came up through the 21st-century machinery of the manosphere, which is in turn largely a part of the internet and the powerful men who run it. But both seem to define masculinity through the dehumanization of women and girls.

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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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Dr. Kelly Plante @drkellyplante.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today's Letter feels like an obituary of the Republican Party. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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June 26, 2026

Wednesday night, after President Donald J.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is a beautiful thing. These shelter dogs get to pick their own toys.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“But the demagogue ages. The fear of death moves closer to the center of his psyche. Merely holding power and commanding public attention is no longer enough. Mere vanity gives way to a needy and almost insatiable narcissism. The narcissism escapes containment.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-for-...

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Trump’s For Himself, Not For You

His narcissism is out of control.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

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On Superpower Suicide

And the recovery of justice

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I promise you, when I was in college professors wrote their grades down on paper and it was fine. The whole thing worked just fine and didn’t require a deeply problematic third party vendor.

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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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Comanche @comance1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Saw this yesterday while driving home.👍

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/04/2026

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry daily. That's why I've been pushing for the transparency, healing, & accountability survivors of Epstein's abuse are owed. They deserve nothing less, and we won't let up. #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If a broadcast network runs a segment decrying those who commit rape and pedophilia, then by law they must give equal time to President Trump. by Brendan Carr

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

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Nikaaaaaaaah! 👻🎃 @mxnectarine.polycule-slut.cloud · 28/04/2026

I saw a post with someone who warned people against using ChatGPT to see if a cake was done. She photographed it, uploaded it and asked. Was told “12 min more” and it burnt. The technology to see if a cake is cooked all the way through has existed since before cakes. It’s called A STICK.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/04/2026

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I wrote this with @jimalwine.bsky.social in July 2025, in fact, and have repeatedly posted about RFK Jr’s eugenicist streak. But I suppose it’s just the nature of the internet so www.commondreams.org/opinion/repu...

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Thinking the Unthinkable: Do Republicans Want Some of Us to Die? | Common Dreams

We must reckon with an administration that wants some of us to go away.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me, being left behind…❤️

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Alan Dershowitz's defection to the Republican Party could have a chilling effect on Democrats' ability to recruit authoritarian pro-Netanyahu pedophiles who continually go on Fox News to praise Donald Trump.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

White House bunker to include “Jesus-grade resurrection cave” donated by Peter Thiel, says Trump.

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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Should be part of his next test.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"The arch is what happens when a powerful and deeply insecure man looks at hallowed ground and sees another opportunity for a monument to himself. The fallen buried at Arlington deserve better than to spend eternity in the shadow of someone else’s ambition." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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An Arch Too Far: Trump's Vanity Monument and the Dishonoring of Arlington National Cemetery

How the President's Arch Turns Hallowed Ground Into a Backdrop

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/04/2026

Johnson and Thune do not get to continue recess as normal. It is time to act. Congress needs to use every tool available to stop this illegal and catastrophic war from spiraling further — starting with passing a War Powers Resolution.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Seems like just enough time to impeach and convict him.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

this changes nothing about what is at stake he must be removed

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/04/2026

Called my Congressperson and Senators. Told them I didn't want to hear about them merely "opposing" an "unauthorized" war, and needed to hear them talk about actual accountability and prosecution.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Let's pray that Trump considers the hard and human reality of “collateral damage”...

A photo of Iranian schoolgirls with the following text:

Look at each face...think of the love, hopes, and dreams in your family...and multiply that by 90 million.

As American taxpayers, every American bomb that drops has our names on it.

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Dana Wakiji @dwakiji.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Everyone from @eiagrossepointe.bsky.social is so thankful for @ricksteves.bsky.social for speaking at #NoKings in Grosse Pointe, Michigan!

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Dr. Kelly Plante @drkellyplante.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is a LOT to put on the military service members. You are in Congress and you said you would have their back. Congress needs to get to DC and take action NOW to impeach or 25th.

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I hope they do more than just release a video and post on X while they are on “vacation.” Get off your Congressional butts and do something already.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

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