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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🚨BREAKING: Ex CIA officer Joel Willet tells a story that Vladimir Putin sent armed guards to shut down a puppet show for mocking him. That sounds a lot like Donald Trump using his FCC to pressure ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.

For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The overarching goal is reversing the 1960s in every way; civil rights, immigration, public media, and more.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

here's a new nightmare if anyone was looking for a new one!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/07/2025

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

The data showed that people who ate as little as one hot dog a day when it comes to processed meats had an 11% greater risk of type 2 diabetes and a 7% increased risk of colorectal cancer than those who didn’t eat any. And drinking the equivalent of about a 12-ounce soda per day was associated with an 8% increase in type 2 diabetes risk and a 2% increased risk of ischemic heart disease.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Big Bill designed to effectively end Obamacare A rise of 16 million in uninsured would led to 42.2 million uninsured in 2034. Total uninsured was 45.2m in 2013 before ACA Thus Big Bill would erase almost all (84%) of decline in uninsured since 2013, and raise uninsured number by 60%.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The thing that is so frustrating about congressional Republicans is they’re acting like anyone would do the same in their position. That’s simply not true. There are other, better, people, who would risk losing their job in order to do the right thing and protect others. Lots of them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2025

Over the past two decades, this little-known tent company went from helping to support music festivals like Lollapalooza to building camps for a completely different use: detaining immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now it's hoping to cash in on Trump’s deportation plans. (Published April)

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From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans

The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to…

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 03/07/2025

Republicans’ comical inability to govern would be a lot more entertaining if the healthcare of 17M people was not at stake.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/07/2025

"He has launched a preemptive military strike. He has defended the strike by misrepresenting intelligence. He has prematurely declared the mission a total victory. And he is impugning the patriotism of anyone who challenges his lies."

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Trump’s Team Is Lying About Iran’s WMD

He savaged Bush for distorting intelligence and overselling the military’s initial success in Iraq. Now Trump and his team are doing the same in Iran.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 02/07/2025

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. @by-cjewett.bsky.social

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Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/07/2025

the president just opened a concentration camp

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/07/2025

Attacking people’s citizenship and identity as punishment for their politics is a fascist move. "Democrats should be manning the barricades against this stuff because the menace on the other side of the line is a far greater threat than a few negative ads in 2026."

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It never stopped being birtherism

Donald Trump is repackaging a familiar smear against Zohran Mamdani.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts— coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency—could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2·4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4·5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

No notes. Not one word is exaggerated.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Padilla: The President, VP, and their allies have continued to call all the protesters out there insurrectionists. Yes, this is the same man who provoked an actual insurrection at our capitol on January 6.

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Axios @axios.com · 17/06/2025

NEW: Trump is seriously considering joining the war on Iran and launching a strike against its nuclear facilities, U.S. officials tell Axios.

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Trump considers strike on Iran ahead of crucial Situation Room meeting

Trump returned early from the G7 to focus on the war.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.” Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Israel is starving Gaza, expanding raids and settlements in the West Bank, taking territory in Syria, and now launching a war with Iran

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Emma Nelson @emmanelson5.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

As usual, like the fine city of #Chicago, #Kendrick was a god damn delight! Grand National Tour. Soldier Field. 6.6.25. #gnx #kendricklamar #sza #grandnationaltour

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025

hey siri, does the military like it when they are subjected to open disrespect from civilian leaders?

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

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