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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 7h
Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. He also plastered his image on everything and cultivated a macho, aggressive strongman image. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 6h
@anntelnaes.bsky.social (archives 3/16/25)
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13h
The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 6h
“The threat is not the stranger. The threat is the husband. The boyfriend. The colleague. The family member. The friend. The man she trusted.” www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 12h
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 5h
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Bari Weiss Attempts To Boost Ratings By Kidnapping Tony Dokoupil’s Mom
NEW YORK—In a desperate ploy aimed at playing on the sympathies of concerned viewers, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly attempted to boost ratings for her struggling programs this week by...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 3h
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Jack Smith testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h
Both Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity have now deleted their tweets claiming that Eric Schmitt put Jack Smith "on the spot" and set him up for perjury charges with his faceplant.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11h
Hello Sen. Cruz ⤵️
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h
I think the entire right wing media ecosystem was primed to make this a huge deal, they all had their talking points ready to go and this was going to be THE big gotcha that brought down Jack Smith and they are just scrambling because it turns out the whole thing was an embarrassing mistake
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
Here you go.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 11h
Jesse gave him a single, simple line to read and RFK improvised a full confession while tossing his wife in front of the wheels.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 10h
hm. got, you know . . . SUSPICIONS I might not agree with this? but, it's in/an "Opinion"; conversation's what it's supposed to start. I do appreciate using writing to say how writing isn't important, of course—hopefully the article has fun with that as well. Soon to read, here.
an article from the NYT titled "Opinion: I'm a College Professor. Writing Isn't As Important as We Think."
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 14h
I spoke with the student reporters who broke the story of the "Cornell Seven" lawsuit. Our conversation for @thecut.com: www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Students Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 12h
I'm hopeful it'll be updated at some point, but amazingly, the Washington Post's first stab at covering this hearing finds room to include Schmitt calling Smith a "dirtbag" and several other GOP slams against Smith-- but zero on Schmitt's Hawks blunder www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jack Smith clashes with senators over Trump probes, says he will not be silenced
Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13h
Trump has made America pitiful, not great
https://horseytoons.substack.com/p/trump-has-made-america-pitiful-not?r=3gwynu&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10h
It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...
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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THEY'VE ACTIVATED THE CARAVAN
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h
Ice Cream is absolutely lunch, it gives the body essential carrageenans and guar gums
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Melayna @melaynalokosky.bsky.social · 10h
Reminder: John Galliano was caught, called out, and criminally convicted for public antisemitic and racist rants. Society is still not learning that caught and accountable are not the same. #Boycott #Zara #Galliano www.theindustry.fashion/zara-and-joh...
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ZARA and John Galliano collaboration to launch in October - TheIndustry.fashion
ZARA's first seasonal collection in creative partnership with John Galliano, called "Re(form)", is set to launch on 1 October, with the designer reinterpreting pieces from the Spanish brand's archive.
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Dr. Jimmy Oshet @oshetjimmy.bsky.social · 12h
“ without a shadow of doubt” Yet Republican still embrace and fawn over the president who committed crimes against the United States. That is definitely their brand. Checkmark treason, and bestiality as OK for public office. 
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 19h
There's always an XKCD: xkcd.com/2030/
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Voting Software
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 9h
I can tell you that corporations are going wild for these. It's surreal.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Susan Park @susanpark60.bsky.social · 23h
This is a bright spot in today’s round of depressing news. If only this jab was available to me earlier.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
☠️☠️☠️
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 8h
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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Epistolarian @epistolarian.bsky.social · 8h
Heads up, #BookSky nonfiction peeps: @candicemillard.bsky.social has a new book out next spring! 🥳😍 (Already pre-ordered my copy 😬) #Books #Read www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726764...
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The Life Savers by Candice Millard: 9780385550062 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
World War I. Thousands of soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. The German Army executing anyone who helped them. But three fearless women — a nurse, a teacher, and a princess — ran a secret...
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Epistolarian @epistolarian.bsky.social · 10h
And thus a new Trump meme is born.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 12h
Today before Senate.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 11h
Horror show wapo.st/4yrIQzm
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A horror story unfolds as police examine pornographer’s brutal trove
A Philadelphia man created hundreds of thousands of degrading images of women, police say. At least five may have been dead when they were photographed or recorded.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11h
Sen Josh Hawley (remember the guy running through the halls of the Capitol away from the rioters?) is questioning Jack Smith. www.c-span.org/event/senate...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11h
Senators Cruz and Hawley led the charge to block certification of ballots in Congress.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11h
did hannity's gofers schedule this tweet in advance?
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Epistolarian @epistolarian.bsky.social · 11h
No matter how many times I read this Hellboy story, this never fails to crack me up. 😆 #Hellboy #comics #monkeywithagun
Three panel sequence from Hellboy: Box Full Of Evil.
Panel 1 shows Abe Sapien saying “Is that a monkey?”
Panel 2 shows a closeup of Hellboy shouting “He’s got a gun!”
Panel 3 shows the aforementioned monkey firing the aforementioned gun.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/06/2026
IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING. IT'S REAL. YOU CAN PRE-ORDER NOW!!!! amzn.to/4b2iESb
Killing eve meets die hard, in space. More lesbians! more space! now available for pre-order!
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 12h
This is why we need strict campaign finance reform in place NOW. The Roberts court opened a floodgate of endless corporate dollars into our politics, and corporate "speech" dominates both parties.
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Epistolarian @epistolarian.bsky.social · 11h
Jesus Christ. 😫😫
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12h
phone friendly version tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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Morning briefing
TMW cartoon for Sept. 29, 2026
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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 12h
Mike Mignola is returning to his greatest creation with HELLBOY IN HELL: NOTHING BUT BLOOD and we’ve got an exclusive look at the upcoming story.
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HELLBOY’S Most Important Moment Gets A New Chapter [Exclusive]
Mike Mignola is returning to his greatest creation with HELLBOY IN HELL: NOTHING BUT BLOOD and we’ve got an exclusive look at the upcoming story.
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