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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schmitt’s attempted maneuver this morning deserves ridicule, but there’s a more serious aspect to it. He was trying to frame Jack Smith. This was no innocent mistake, but part of a calculated effort to bear false witness against a person in order to harm the credibility of his work and character.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump just mere moments after he said, “Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him?” I kid you not.

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Rick Whittaker (he, him, his) @econrevirvine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this bad? It sounds like it’s probably bad.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026

Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 18/09/2026

President Trump ordered the Justice Department not to appeal a court ruling that loosened restrictions on firearms known as "gangster weapons," sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Trump ordered DOJ not to appeal ruling that loosened limits on "gangster weapons," sources say

President Trump ordered the Justice Department not to appeal a court ruling that loosened restrictions on firearms known as "gangster weapons," sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

US policymakers must avoid the temptation to rebuild US science by mimicking China and going all in on STEM. That would be a mistake. We also need social science and humanities that makes sense of great technological change like AI. Thats part of US scientific tradition worth keeping.

For example, Henry Farrell argues that the social sciences arose from and are designed to make sense of moments of great social upheaval, which is exactly the moment AI is creating right now. Focusing only on investing in AI technology, without understanding the deeper implications of the changes it brings, would be a deep failure of science.

Farrell quotes Alondra Nelson, who has been thinking carefully about the impacts of AI for years:

AI is not an external force acting upon society from outside but an internal phenomenon constituted through social processes, institutional choices, market dynamics, and political struggles. Its effects are neither uniform nor preordained. They vary with context, design, and the distribution of power that determines how these technologies are built, deployed, and contested.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ICYMI — "We need (old/poor) people off of Medicaid & Social Security and back into the workforce."🤔 GEORGIA Republican Congressman Mike Collins ( @ossoff.senate.gov opponent) wants you to work til you die, with fewer benefits, as they cut taxes for the rich and inequality skyrockets.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Greg Abbott posted an altered image to attack his Democratic opponent. Abbott’s post replaced the American flag with the trans flag.

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Rick Whittaker (he, him, his) @econrevirvine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remembering, as I always do on this day, Father Mychal Judge. www.osvnews.com/wp-content/u...

Father Mychal Judge, carried out of the rubble by his firefighters, 11 Sept 2001

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Rick Whittaker (he, him, his) @econrevirvine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a heretical cult. These people need deprogramming.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump’s Department of Justice is ignoring requests for assistance from European law enforcement agencies trying to investigate leads from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Trump’s DOJ Hit With Shocking Claims of Stonewalling Epstein Probes

The department is sitting on evidence that could be relevant to multiple investigations.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/09/2026

A painting of a bird beside the text "that shit's problematic"

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wearing sunglasses, inside, my face reddening from alcohol. Everyone thinks I'm so cool as I begin to talk about The Jews.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is why they have disqualified themselves from holding power. every single one of them puts loyalty to Trump ahead of obvious obligation to the constitution and our natl security. They are unfit to serve

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/09/2026

Theodore Roosevelt once said republics rise, flourish, and fall because their citizens turn the government into a tool primarily to benefit one class instead of benefiting the people as a whole, and I think about what he said quite a lot.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kissing Putin’s butt. It never stops with Trump and his people. Just absolutely sickening.👇

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mr. Stolen valor does it again.👇

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 05/09/2026

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "time to make a discreet fuckin exit"

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oof 🍎

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If Nancy Pelosi had repeatedly told reporters she had no idea what was going on around her, the coverage would have been unsparing and vicious.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pete Hegseth is using OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS to pay conservative social media influencers with large followings to go online and troll all of us to help the Republican Party with their PR nightmares. I 👏🏻HAVE 👏🏻BEEN 👏🏻SHOUTING 👏🏻ABOUT 👏🏻THIS 👏🏻FOREVER. wapo.st/4x0p3pf

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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles

Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The direct tie between Brooke Rollins and Republicans in Congress and explosive shit. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations
The shuttering of three projects is expected to hinder vital research at a time when consumers are increasingly worried about the safety of the food supply.

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The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, which includes the Agriculture Department's agricultural research center and library, is seen Aug. 30, 2016, in Beltsville, Maryland. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP

By Marcia Brown and Rachel Shin
08/30/2026 10:00 AM EDT

The Trump administration is shuttering research projects key to the federal government’s fight against cyclospora, the foodborne parasite sickening thousands of Americans this summer.

Two of the three projects that represent nearly all of the Agriculture Department’s study of the parasite were defunded by Congress earlier this year, according to the agency. The third is slated to move from Maryland to Iowa this fall as part of a sweeping USDA reorganization. Even though that project still has money, every scientist working on the parasite has declined to relocate, according to three people familiar with the plans and documents shared with POLITICO, granted anonymity to discuss personnel issues.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🤔 Hey @ScottJenningsKY have heard from your boy Mitch lately? Because he’s kinda making you look like a huge liar 🤥 #MissingMitchMcconnell

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.

U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026

This is so bizarre. A politician telling you her vision for America is that you’ll have to work when you’re sick and die young, orphaning your kids. Please vote for @drannieandrews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is basically right-wing Lysenkoism. There’s no “conservative science” or “socialist science.” There’s just science, and people who want to hijack the prestige of science on behalf of ideology.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jon Batiste with a gorgeous rendition of "I Will Always Love You" for Dolly Parton 🥺🙏

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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