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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
“President Zelenskyy could’ve solved the war” — Trump (The one person with the power to immediately end the war is Putin, the aggressor)
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“They think we are dogs, cockroaches and vermin. But we are the citizens of this country who have the right to ask questions of our government system.” Neha Bora leading the student movement in India. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
Trump to pool: "We're watching it very closely, the hurricane," he said, adding that it was "under control."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
Trump: "It was global warming. And that didn't work because the planet started cooling. The icebergs are bigger than ever."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We can't have a functional democracy when the president lies constantly and invents wacko conspiracies that never happened. He has turned our country into a madhouse. Vote against all Republicans to bring some level of sanity back.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:
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What it's like to witness a botched execution
Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "I was a junior in HS on 9/11, sitting in my chemistry class. I watched as people started to point to people of my faith & say exactly the kinds of things that Rogers was saying. If that's his entire campaign strategy, you have to imagine how small minded he thinks Michiganders are."
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"These kids...I see them everyday! Damn it, they're scared! They're not supposed to be scared!" - NYC Protester speaks out on the trauma ICE is inducing on the population
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So much stupidity
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"A growing mountain of evidence points to American interference in both the Brazilian election & the Alberta referendum. It looks like they are injecting themselves into the Quebec election, as well. We need to send the Americans a clear message that we will NOT be manipulated" x.com/gilmcgowan/s...
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ALL these bonuses are wild, but the police bonuses—which weren't for performance, but merely for accepting highly compensated positions here—were just astonishing amounts of money. But the Seattle Times is not going to criticize cops the way they criticize Sound Transit.
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nooooo!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need journalists who don't praise Karoline Leavitt for how good she is at lying.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"That puts the ancient carving at around 7,000 years old, predating England’s Stonehenge by 1,500 years, Egypt’s ancient pyramids by around 2,000 years, and the Nazca Lines in Peru by 4,000 years."
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The Border Wall Just “Decapitated” a 7,000-Year-Old Arizona Carving Created Before Stonehenge and Egypt’s Pyramids
A newly dated 272-foot rock carving in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was severely damaged by border contractors, exposing a growing threat to public lands, outdoor access, and sacred Indigeno...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same same (Quince and pants) and I almost never shop online.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Fred Allen @thisisfredallen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
LMAO -- Mike Johnson claims of Trumpapalooza that "every seat all the way to the rafters is full" as the camera pans out and shows gobs of empty seats
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hell is going on with his legs?
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Audiobooks, preferably long 19th-century novels without a lot of action
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will concede that the 2 stupidest Republican senators, Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn, probably don't know any better. The other 51, including Eric Schmitt, have made a conscious decision to blatantly lie to the American people to boost their careers.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She got rid of the deficit in her first year and is doing what’s right for the city whether that makes a faction of her base mad or not nobody cares or will care come re election
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republican behavior at the Jack Smith hearing reinforces a fact that should be obvious by now: They will stop at nothing and lie about everything to seize total power. They are fascist traitors.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish Republican politicians had the capacity to be embarrassed by their dishonesty. The fact that they don't makes them more dangerous.
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So wrong.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump is using more taxpayer dollars to run television ads promoting Trump. The administration just rolled out another taxpayer-funded spot centered on the president one of the ads the White House is calling a “public service announcement.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol. lmao even.
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Anyone else noticing this?

The Republican candidates all seem to be using blue predominantly in their campaign signs. If not a blue background, then very little Republican red. Are they trying to hide their party affiliation? Trying to make people forget they support trump? Same thing with Minogue. It's laughable
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was shocked (though I shouldn't have been) to learn, upon listening to Tuesday's public safety committee meeting today, that SPD chief Sayles explicitly said former chief Barnes delayed the Bite of Seattle press conference to be briefed, given that every headline said it was Mayor Wilson.
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
C'mon UK
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elinor @ehappel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guilty!
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