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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe not just one, but the Unitarians (fo one) tend to be progressive, there are other progressive Protestants such as some Methodist congregations, and there is a progressive strain of Catholicism that leans toward service to others.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FYI: US citizens, military or non-military, living abroad have their right to vote protected under fed law (UOCAVA) if they submit a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) found at votefromabroad.org (sent to the voter's local election office). This website also lists voting deadlines by state.
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
God I love New Mexico
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The image reminds me of space scenes from the Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman's "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" that was made with what is now known as practical (non-digital or CGI) effects. He was clearly an influence of Terry Gilliam's: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1h...
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Karel Zeman: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen - TRAILER of the digitally restored film
YouTube video by Muzeum Karla Zemana
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's astonishing to me that the race for U.S. Senate in Maine is a tossup given the breathtaking corruption of the Repub incumbent. Troy Jackson just needs a little more support. You can help by visiting his website, where you'll find ways to donate and volunteer. www.jacksonformaine.com
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Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President,...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, it is by Dutch artist Siegfried Woldhek. Here it is on the artist's website (2019, original sold, prints available) woldhek.nl/gallery/poli...
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Siegfried Woldhek - Stable Genius Donald J Trump
Siegfried Woldhek - Stable Genius Donald J Trump
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As Timothy Snyder has pointed out in a recent conversation with Anne Applebaum, from the mining interests to the oil industry to our personal data & data centers, it's all about extraction to make money for the well connected few who are close to the regime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKwf...
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Corruption and Regime Change with Anne Applebaum and Tim Snyder
YouTube video by Timothy Snyder
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Party of Family Values™️ Strikes Again!
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not sure, but I came here to say that I absolutely LOVED Terriers. It should have lasted far longer.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks for the follow. If there is ever anything I can do for you, please let me know. I am a designer and scholar.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't know if you know much about Tom Petty, but he grew up in Gainesville, FL with an abusive father. He was beaten almost daily from what I read. He started a band with some friends there. Eventually, he became an musician and poet. There are children who miraculously rise above abuse. He did.
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Jim Benton @jimbenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/jimbentonsho... • Amazon author page: www.amazon.com/stores/Jim-B...? • Threadless It's Happy Bunny page: itshappybunny.threadless. • Facebook page: www.facebook.com/jimkbenton/ • JoKoBo stuff: www.teepublic.com/user/jokobo • Website: www.jimbenton.com
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Ben Eltham @handle.invalid · 03/10/2026
The neocloud bubble is wild. Aussie startup Firmus has an IPO next week forecast at $30b. Its plans include 2 data centres that will suck 15% of the electricity in Tasmania, the main customer is OpenAI, it has no audited financials, and its co-founder is a criminal www.reuters.com/business/5-b...
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$5 billion Firmus IPO divides investors after valuation triples in two months
As Australian data centre operator Firmus prepares to ​launch a $5 billion initial public offering, the country's second-largest ever, prospective investors are questioning the firm's surging valuatio...
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm sure what he feels the worst about is that they may be convicted of NY State charges, so he can't pardon them.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This trailblazer, Julie Newmar, is still with us at 93 years old. julienewmar.com/biography/
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Biography | Julie Newmar
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 03/10/2026
🚨 GEORGIA VOTERS — OCT. 5 IS IMPORTANT! Monday is the deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 3 election. 🗳️ Register by Oct. 5 🗳️ Early voting: Oct. 13–30 🗳️ Election Day: Nov. 3 Check your registration. Make a plan. Make your voice heard. #Georgia #Vote2026 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
🚨 GEORGIA VOTERS — OCT. 5 IS IMPORTANT!

Monday is the deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 3 election.

🗳️ Register by Oct. 5
🗳️ Early voting: Oct. 13–30
🗳️ Election Day: Nov. 3

Check your registration. Make a plan. Make your voice heard.

#Georgia #Vote2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If there is a question about your ballot being received on time or counted, military & overseas voters can file a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB) from a US government website run by the Defense Dept.: www.fvap.gov/fwab-privacy...
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For U.S. citizens living outside of the U.S., this site has an application (FPCA) that protects your right to vote under fed. law (UOCAVA) to register to vote, receive a ballot by email & gives you more time to return your ballot: www.votefromabroad.org Also has section on the rules of each state.
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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org
Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or cardboard boxes www.propublica.org/article/ulin...
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There were 2 other pilots flying as passengers who stepped in and landed the plane. There has been speculation that they were scheduled to fly the plane on its return run.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a scholar, they will not give or lend you a digital copy to listen to? That's really a shame. I had a very good experience with librarians at the U.S. Library of Congress making a photograph of a document I needed for my dissertation. I hope a London-based scholar can give you a suggestion.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The British Library seems to have one listed in their Sound and Moving Image Catalogue at www.bl.uk/collection
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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Emmalei @emmalei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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This video is my opinion 🤓
YouTube video by Epistemic
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report” 9/18/26 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale) … 1/
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Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report
U.S. war planners were too confident in unreliable artificial intelligence tools, leading to a strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This may help: "Within the wider landscape of Arthurian programming on British airwaves, Passings stands out for its somber, reflective tone, shifting away from standard adventure elements toward psychological depth. It is officially documented in Roger Simpson's comprehensive historical survey"
The book cover of Roger Simpson's comprehensive historical survey, Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005.
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Jean R @jaruss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 wants is basically sharia law for women.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently banned Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing charges against a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Judge bars Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing charges in Reflecting Pool case after Trump’s pressure campaign
Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case against David “Davey” Hearn with prejudice.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a false equivalence. If the US elects a Dem president, perhaps some student debt will be forgiven. (I'm for that.) However, Democrats & majority of independents support the rule of law, not a dictator's law of the ruler. Cynicism is not going to lead to a change for the better. We must vote.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BRAVO to the brave truth tellers of the Cornell Daily Sun who investigated, stood together & hit “publish” 🐾🩷👏🏽👏🏻👏👏🏼👏🏾 It’s good to know DAT & WellsFargo have standards as well. #Pinks #Voices4Victory
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trae Stephens worked for Peter Thiel’s Palantir before joining Thiel’s Founders Fund. In 2016, Thiel “had the new president’s ear” & Stephens “wound up running the Trump transition team for the [DOD],” which “set him up to cofound what is essentially a sister company to Palantir: Anduril…” (2024) 1/
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Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
Trae Stephens is deep in the defense-startup world as a Founders Fund partner and Anduril cofounder. His bunker, though, isn’t fully prepped for the end times.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senator Amy Klobuchar dressed in a blue and white basketball athletic uniform jumping to make a basket.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ian Weir has a website with contact information there: ianweir.net
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Ian Weir - Author & Screenwriter
Learn about Ian Weir, acclaimed author, screenwriter, and playwright, and dive into his captivating stories!
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chrisbritt.bsky.social @chrisbritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#trump #hatchact #gop #corruption #economy #fascists #trumpfamily
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Jack Smith testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol” @anntelnaes.bsky.social On SUBSTACK anntelnaes.substack.com
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I see you're British. You don't understand that "letting go" of the attempt to catch Jack Smith in making a statement which can be turned into a fed. perjury charge, & then to have him prosecuted & sentenced to prison time won't result in "a healthy democracy." Schmitt is incapable of feeling shame.
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elainesque.bsky.social @elainesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's called propaganda.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'we ought to be very concerned about the fact the AI companies we’re meant to trust to keep their models in check seem unable to do so. Worse than that, they don’t seem to know what their products are even doing.'
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As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker
The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too late, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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