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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My high school staged "The Diary of Anne Frank," and we were all kids, goofing around and laughing. The drama teacher came in the next day with a book of pictures from the Holocaust, threw it at us, and said: "THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE AFRAID OF." and walked out It changed us, and our performances.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“at a cancer meeting in May, oncologists stood up & applauded — and, according to people in the room, some wept — when the clinical trial data was presented showing a doubling in survival times.”🧪🛟 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/s...
“The pancreas, a gland deep in the abdomen, helps regulate blood sugar and digestion. Pancreatic cancer kills more than 50,000 people in the United States a year. Only 3 percent of patients whose pancreatic cancer has spread to distant parts of their body live for five years after being diagnosed. The few available treatment options, typically grueling chemotherapy, do little to extend life. For years researchers had despaired of even finding a more effective treatment for this cancer.”
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
science for the win!!
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/08/2026
"My parents both died of preventable diseases when I was a child and accepting that as a reality we can't change" is the epitome of Conservative thinking
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
these people booing sound like literal sheep as Darline Graham criticizes Dr. Annie Andrews for supporting "government-run healthcare" before bragging of her parents that "if they were sick, they had to get up and go to work...my mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later"
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
always always be like Dolly 🕊️
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 25/08/2026
"America’s Founders understood domestic deployment of the military as the tool of a tyrant, and put in place legal protections against it—protections that Trump has now set about eroding."
theatlantic.com
An American City, With Troops on Its Streets
Since the country’s founding, deployments of soldiers to U.S. soil have been exceedingly rare. But residents of Washington, D.C., are living in a new normal.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/08/2026
Saw Dolly Parton perform the afternoon slot at Glastonbury. Don't think I ever saw the pyramid stage arena quite so full. And it was absolutely everything you would want it to be. What an absolute *star*.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I spent a long time reporting on people w wealth & fame & protections they bring. often the excuse was "But I was injured in *these* ways." You don't think a poor child growing up in the South, a woman in country music, knew fear, want, rejection? Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
a beautiful human being who literally saved lives Rest now, dear one 💔
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Jeffries isn’t a fighter. He’s playing 1990’s politics.
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
he got played for a sucker bc he is one
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
jeffries is not built for this moment example 1 million and 1
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
no words
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
here are some things supported by a super-majority of Americans: universal healthcare, increased taxes on wealthy, stopping local data centers, releasing all Epstein files, a woman's right to choose, stricter gun laws, action on climate change. This is the center of American politics.
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
wtf
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.
In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
1. There is no common ground. 2. Kushner is not a government official. 3. This has the stink of appeasement. 4. Why bargain before putting up a fight? 5. This drains the base of hope and morale. 6. Is he thinking about harm reduction? 7. Weakness welcomes contempt. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
nytimes.com
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📌The so-called leadership of the Democratic Party are not fighters, they are appeasers, stunningly out of touch with their voters, and ignorant of world history. I suggest they google "Neville Chamberlain" to see what happens when you chum up violent, fascist regimes. This is really grotesque.
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Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In August 2012, President Barack Obama hosted eight-year-old Make-A-Wish child Janiya Penny and her family in the Oval Office. Subscribe on Substack to receive daily history like this: everythingbriefing.substack.com/subscribe
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/08/2026
"If your guiding North Star for the last decade was, 'The orange man is bad and that's the most important thing that faces the country right now,' you were correct." @timmiller.bsky.social and @gtconway.bsky.social defend the Resistance while also calling on Democrats to try something new:
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is really outrageous. Not only did a judge find probable cause to believe that sensitive national defense documents would be found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the documents were actually found! apnews.com/article/just...
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Investigators examining foes of Trump seek interviews related to Mar-a-Lago search, AP sources say
Investigators are seeking to interview law enforcement officials in connection with the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a Florida-based inquiry aiming to establish a conspira...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/08/2026
Breaking News: The U.S. military fired the publisher and the top editor of Stars and Stripes, which had reported on problems aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln.
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Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication
The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
More than 750 servicemembers wounded and another 18 dead. Trump and Hegseth have failed and refuse to take accountability. They have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s made our country weaker and you less safe.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Long live Stars and Stripes and the honorable service the paper has provided for decades to soldiers and to the nation.” luciantruscott.substack.com/p/stars-stri...
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Stars stripped
The big story that’s all over the place this afternoon is the firing of the editor of Stars and Stripes, the quasi-governmental semi-independent newspaper that is provided for free to service members ...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Republicans are losing because they can't run on their record. They can't run on covering up the Epstein files. They can't run on cutting Medicaid. They can't run on stripping SNAP or imposing tariffs. Americans see what is happening - and we are hungry for change.
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
thank you for your voice ♥️💙
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
James Surowiecki: The letter on the left is the truly bizarre one, where Harp tells Trump "I never want to bring you anything but joy. You are all that matters to me. I don't want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this life."

But the letter on the right (the contents of which have gotten less attention, previously) is interesting, because Harp mentions that when she worked for OAN as a news host, Trump would call her "and we'd talk about everything and nothing." Trump really is a man out of time, on the phone all day long, schmoozing and gossping and rambling on late into the night.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
it really should be a bigger story that Karen Bass enthusiastically supports the cult of Scientology
The Honorable
Karen Bass
Speaker Emeritus
California State Assembly
SCIENTOLOG
ahd this new Church of Scientology. is an exciting moment
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
nytimes.com
How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Biden’s FTC called it surveillance pricing. Trump’s FTC calls it personalized pricing.
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Trump's FTC Wants You to Call Surveillance Pricing 'Personalized Pricing'
Biden's FTC used the term surveillance pricing.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Among other reforms, it cannot stand that the President can sue everyone all the time but never face any lawsuits or criminal charges himself because he’s president. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What???!!! How do we help???
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021. www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/p...
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Deleted tweets show now-Trump aide Natalie Harp’s zealous support on Jan. 6 | CNN Politics
Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she posted more than 150 tweets demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp sprints after Trump's golf cart in newly unearthed image.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy has spent nearly $700,000 on private jet flights around the state this year, all while Ohio families are struggling to afford groceries, utilities, housing, and healthcare. Nothing says “I understand working Ohioans” quite like flying over their communities in a private plane.
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That is actually having no political instincts
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tax cuts for billionaires or public health care? GOP: “You’re not getting free healthcare!”
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Emmys_Mommy @emmysmom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NYC get Mamdani My beloved L.A. gets this
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