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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you are at @acs.org 2026 Fall meeting check out all the great activities @acscwd.bsky.social has going on this week! Support accessibility and our vibrant community!

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A nugget buried in the big & impressive NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-government email.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you, Meta, for silencing Sarah Wynn-Williams. If it wasn't for your gagging order, I wouldn't have just bought her book CARELESS PEOPLE about your astonishing institutional malevolance, or have been inspired to encourage everyone else to do the same. www.hive.co.uk/books/?gad_s...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/05/2026

if you want to understand why curtis yarvin called neil gorsuch a cuck, you gotta read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

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The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything

Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/05/2026

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...

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Excerpts from Chief Justice John Roberts’ High School English Essays

“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Doug...

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 07/05/2026

John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes John Roberts has spent years whining about how totally unfair it is that people claim he and his colleagues rule based on partisan leanings. He did it in 2014. He did it in 2017. He did it in 2019. Hell, he did it a couple months ago too. So…

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John Roberts Wants You To Stop Believing Your Own Eyes

John Roberts has spent years whining about how totally unfair it is that people claim he and his colleagues rule based on partisan leanings. He did it in 2014. He did it in 2017. He did it in 2019. Hell, he did it a couple months ago too. So it's little surprise that he's out there whining about people calling the Court partisan…

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It’s Orson Welles’ birthday Seen here in Rome, 1974

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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▪️Sandy▪️ @sandynikond700.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This!

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I usually post this on Anzac Day, but my access to the internet will be limited tomorrow, so here it is today. WWI soldier and casualty Wilfred Owen's words are as relevant as ever this year (The old lie Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori (How sweet and becoming it is to die for one's country))

Dulce et Decorum Est

By Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

'the Moon certainly does not possess a smooth and polished surface, but one rough and uneven, and, just like the face of the Earth itself, is everywhere full of vast protuberances, deep chasms, and sinuosities'. - What Galileo Galilei saw through a telescope in 1610

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Court: "Are you here for moral support? Because you're not going to speak." Off to a great start!

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

As a life long M’s fan, can confirm this is correct.

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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It’s the seagull method of diplomacy. Show up, squawk a lot, shit all over everything, fly away.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Cannot wait to use this next time I preside over a technical session. “I remind all speakers that the bear is waiting and will come for you if you go over time”……

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/02/2026

please enjoy this breakdown of the horrors of crime-ridden culver city

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Re next week's vote on the SAVE Act, please rewatch this scene from The Breakfast Club. It's funny because no one gets a fake ID so they can vote. And - no matter what some racist, demagogic Republican tells you - voting is not why immigrants come to America. youtu.be/PbxZXmF6qtQ?...

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Breakfast Club - Brian's Fake ID

YouTube video by adamw13

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A U.S Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was 'done by a few people,’ and ‘you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said 'This was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'"

"The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ordruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought 'How is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'This site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”

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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We have not forgotten!

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#TheOrangeDistractionContinues 🚨 Less than 1% of the #EpsteinFiles have been released.

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Old Man Steve @omsteve.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If I could go back in time I would put cheese on a lot more things.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."

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THE EPIC OF AMERICA
The prospect is discouraging to-day, but not hopeless.
As we compare America in 1931 with the America of 1912 it seems as though we had slipped a long way backwards. But that period is short, after all, and the whole world has been going through the fires of Hell. There are not a few signs of promise now in the sky, signs that the peoples themselves are beginning once again to crave something more than is vouchsafed to them in the toils and toys of the mass-production age.
They are beginning to realize that, because a man is born with a particular knack for gathering in vast aggregates of money and power for himself, he may not on that account be the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life. We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round.
The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure of all that the American dream has held of hope and promise for mankind.
That dream was not the product of a solitary thinker. It evolved from the hearts and burdened souls of many millions, who have come to us from all nations. If some of them appear to us to have too great faith, we know not yet to what faith may attain, and may hearken to the words of one of them, Mary Antin, a young immigrant girl. who came to us from Russia, a child out of "the Middle Ages," as she says, into our twentieth century. Sitting on the steps of the Boston Public Library, where the treasures of the whole of human thought had been opened to her, she wrote, "This is my latest home, and it invites me to a glad new life. The endless ages have indeed throbbed through my blood, but a new rhythm dances in my veins. My spirit is not tied to the monumental past, any more than my feet were bound to my grandfather's house below the hill. The past was only my…

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splendid palace, whose shadow covers acres. No! It is not I that belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
America is the youngest of the nations, and inherits all that went before in history. And I am the youngest of America's children, and into my hands is given all her priceless heritage, to the last white star espied through the telescope, to the last great thought of the philosopher. Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future."

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

this is just how he thinks unironically:

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/12/2025

If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States

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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Do not come for the nuns. They are the true backbone of the church and all true Catholics know it. Catholic Charities live the core tenants of Jesus’ mission. Heal the sick, feed the poor, house the homeless. Without regard for faith.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Seems like a good day to recall Teddy Roosevelt's reflections on patriotism.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"

graphic showing the prices of various food products rising significantly since one year ago

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Pope Leo:

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drlothar.bsky.social @drlothar.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The comments on this thread are almost as good as the news that this malicious abuse of prosecutorial power has failed

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John Everex @johneverex.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

while business leaders dream about profit margins a cloud hides the sun #vss365

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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