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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16h
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remigration in action:
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is your reminder that the Witcher III remaster launches free for everyone who owns the game at 6am Eastern tomorrow. Including the Hearts of Stone + Blood & Wine DLCs, even if you never bought them previously, which are frankly big enough to be their own full-priced game.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing Gurpo
A drawing of a small blobby figure inside of an enclosure with string coming off it, with text saying "introducing Gurpo, the new wearable personal assistant. Gurpo is not a computer program, he's a real tiny guy who is trapped inside your medallion necklace. 
Gurpo hates you, but is incapable of doing anything about it, and he has to answer your questions or he gets electrocuted. It's non-lethal.
If you shake his enclosure hard enough, gurpo will throw up!"
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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think the #1 priority for democrats should be to cancel all SpaceX contracts and redirect the money to USAID.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Framing concentration camps and street executions as a headache for some politicians ahead of the midterms is where we're at
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/09/2026
You guys, I think it's time to bring back guillotines.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"I’ll catch you outside and rip your face off," one Connecticut judicial marshal allegedly told ICE agents at a state courthouse in Meriden on Wednesday, according to the statement from DHS.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nightmare fuel
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 20/09/2026
ICE have reportedly shot another person, this time in north Austin, TX. Details are still scant.
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People Over Papers - Report ICE Activity
Report and track ICE activity in your community. A community-driven platform to document immigration enforcement.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Has anybody asked RFK about the Kennedy Center situation?
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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
A graph of Noem and Kash
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
House Democratic leadership has a press conference scheduled later today. A suggestion: Cancel it. The Democrats are doing well. Their candidates are running good campaigns. Let them have the spotlight. We don't need a leadership press conference. Don't be a distraction. Silence can be golden.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1/ This @propublica.org story is just gobsmacking. As table stakes: why does a family of billionaires need help paying for weddings? And why would they accept from Russian oligarch with ties to Putin and FSB? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
No
Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fellow Americans, this is being done in our name. wapo.st/4h1hNmT
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Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Left, “calming area“ at so-called Alligator Alcatraz. Right, North Vietnamese “tiger cage.”
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Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Recent events have significantly increased my alarm level about AI risks. This thread is for people who are still more skeptical. Here are some reasonable opinions you might hold that are entirely compatible with "swarms of AI agents pose qualitatively new risks even without intentional misuse:"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thinking about this quite a bit right now
Mass suicides in Nazi Germany
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During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War I! in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide. In addition to Adolf Hitler and many high-ranking Nazi officials like Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Philipp Bouhler, others chose suicide rather than accept the defeat of Germany.!"! Motivating or triggering factors included fears of execution for Nazi war
crimes or reprisals and atrocities by the Allies and the Soviets, Nazi propaganda glorifying suicide as preferable to defeat, and despondency after Hitler's suicide. For example, in May 1945, up to 1,000 people killed themselves in a mass suicide in the German town of Demmin, before and after
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Meta is the shifty-eyed creep in the trenchcoat lurking by the school gates who tries to talk to all the kids and find out where they live, and we’re still letting it into the house
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
With all signs pointing to massive anti-­GOP turnout, ICE or other agents from DHS might indeed be deployed to swing districts or to roam Black and brown neighborhoods Cops Won’t Fight Federal Election Interference—So Citizens Will Have To www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Cops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have to
How democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Symbolic but still important; the Trump admin declares war on American communities. Secretary Mullin says DHS is "at war," so he's changing The Great Seal. This comes after dozens died in ICE custody and ICE officers have shot and killed multiple people this year, including two American citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security has decided that the agency needs a new official seal. Where the ubiquitous American eagle faced the direction of the olive branches in its right talon, now the eagle will face the opposite direction — towards the arrows it clasps in its other talon.

“We’re actually changing our seal to make it look towards the arrows because … when it looks towards the arrows is when it means we’re at war,” Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed in a Fox News interview this weekend. “Homeland Security is at war every single day against bad actors trying to hurt our backyards, and we’re not gonna allow that to happen.”

So in other words, the United States is at war here at home — but Iran somehow isn’t a war. What?

In October 1945, seven weeks after the Japanese surrender in World War II, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9646, the first order in American history to define the great seal in legal language, with the eagle’s head codified as facing toward the olive branch. Truman said it was to reflect the new world of peace. Churchill quipped: “Why not put the eagle’s neck on a swivel so that it could turn to the right or left as the occasion presented itself?”
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Dylan “ZDW2 Shaping Up” Sanchez @captain-ventris.itch.io · 04/09/2026
Just to be clear, this is lying. What the story is doing is lying. They’re doing this intentionally, and they know they’re doing it. It’s lying!
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is the sort of story that Bluesky mostly seems to ignore but I guarantee has large political ramifications in real life. Rural America is getting hosed by this administration from all sorts of angles and that won't go unnoticed. MAGA's understanding of "rural" is an exurban poser.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m livid. zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Many problems with “let the courts sort it out” as a mode of opposition—the biggest being that the Supreme Court is rogue. But another is that it implies an unsettled controversy rather than an intolerable abuse that must be stopped. www.offmessage.net/p/stop-donal...
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Hoping Someone Else Stops Trump Is Not A Plan
A whistleblower exposed his illegal scheme to cheat in the midterms, and House Democrats turned around and funded his government. It’s a bad omen for 2027.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
According to the article they owe Scripps $3 million. I have to imagine UCSD is owed at least that much as well.
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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/... if you watched Project Hail Mary and thought “I just want 40 hours of him learning Rocky’s language” then this is your game! Brilliant and frustrating in turns.
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The Message from Deep Space on Steam
Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Trump: "Kristen Welker, the Unpopular 'Hostess' of Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has 'mixed results' on Endorsements... Bc of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to FCC for rebuke or punishment... I hope Brendan Carr takes this Threat to our Country very seriously."
Kristen Welker, the Unpopular “Hostess” of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has “mixed results” on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the longterm. How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves? Results are attached. Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one. The Radical Left News is going out of their way to harass, demean, and libel anything “TRUMP.” Their new weapon is to say that my 99% SUCCESS Rate on Endorsements, 100% on Senatorial Endorsements (Many of whom were not even given a shot of winning until I Endorsed!), is either a mixed result, or not very good. In actuality, it is, without question, the strongest Endorsement in the History of Politics. If it were not, I would be the first to admit it. Darline Graham’s run for the Senate was the biggest story in all of Politics, because she wasn’t expected to win, and then, when I Endorsed her, and she easily won, the story of her Victory was hardly covered by anybody. Likewise, the future Governor of Oklahoma, who was behind in every Poll, I Endorsed him, he won, and the story was barely covered! The Press is a Disgrace to our Nation, and I hope that Chairman Brendan Carr, and the fine people of his Commission, will take this Threat to our Country very seriously. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter of Fake Polls and Commentary! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Normal stuff happening, just the president of the United States waking up, opening the social media platform he owns, and demanding that his administration stop the “FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA.”
Trump post
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The cries of the toddler…
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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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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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