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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/08/2026
Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of
Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr.
Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable,
as are the water, gas, and light bills."
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
FACT: Elon Musk spent $290 million to help elect Donald Trump. Since then, the world’s richest man has gained another $563 billion in wealth while slashing humanitarian aid, projected to contribute to the deaths of 4.5 million of the world’s poorest children.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
At our local #NoKings we got passed by a woman and her dog at who said to her dog, “these are the bad people who don’t like Christians.” It was immediately followed by the next speaker…a Lutheran pastor. The governor also stopped by and spoke. Good people showing up!
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What if we gave as much air time to good people doing good things as we do to assholes doing bad things? Could we have a better system then?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/02/2026
Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close. But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse.
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For those unfamiliar, this rings true still-- captured by a brilliant Black poet who has been gone for almost 60 years. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...
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Let America Be America Again
(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor…
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We’re undergoing a process of total media capture at the hands of fascist billionaires & have to be able to talk about its implications beyond free speech abstractions. This stuff accelerates & entrenches state violence.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2026
Donald Trump and Pam Bondi once again violated the Constitution. They’re wasting your tax dollars arresting journalists — while protecting pedophiles and the murderers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. That’s authoritarian bullshit.
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
One (hugely underrated) perk of working in the emergency department is the thousands of small and large kindnesses the staff bestow upon patients and each other. The gentle, “You don’t have to apologize” in the face of sickness, neglect and decay is a miracle repeated countless times .
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The more you learn about this CDC funded hepatitis B study in West Africa, the less you’re gonna like it. Also, apologies for any jump scares
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Is there a marketplace in the works that explicitly caters to AI-free content—voice acting, art, music, games? I’d support that shit all day. I would love for my money to go to supporting the talent and not the thieves
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The GOP is pro swastika. Folks, what the hell more do you need to see? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Senators freeze Coast Guard admiral’s promotion over swastika, noose policy
Adm. Kevin Lunday had condemned both symbols and directed they be prohibited, but a new workplace harassment policy downgrading them to “potentially divisive” was allowed to take effect.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Lyme disease DID NOT come from a lab. HIV DID NOT come from a lab. These claims are unsupported by evidence, erase well-established science, and trivialize the suffering of millions and the work of scientists who have spent decades fighting these diseases.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/12/2025
The Venn diagram between people who say vaccines don't work because one person they know got sick anyway and gun laws don't work because Australia had their first deadly mass shooting in 29 years, is a perfect circle. It's an anti-science, anti-common sense, anti-humanity, dangerous cult.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Without extension of the healthcare tax credit at least 4.5M Americans will lose healthcare coverage in 2026! I am here to tell you that your local emergency room CANNOT absorb the primary care for these individuals. This ⬆️ burden on hospitals will affect healthcare for everyone even the insured!.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
* vaccines keep kids from dying * guns cause kids to die these are unassailable conclusions based on mountains of evidence it is a crying shame that politicians pretend otherwise, endangering our kids and everyone else’s
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/12/2025
Minutes ago today the Trump regime abruptly cancelled citizenship ceremonies for several immigrants in Boston. THEY CANCELLED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONIES. These immigrants followed every rule & did everything right—Trump banned them anyway. All are from Black & brown majority nations. This Is Fascism.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Oh, I’m not letting go of this one.
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If the State is committing violence even more openly than usual AND we have complicit and non-functional legislative and judicial arms with no desire to enforce existing laws, how are we to resist effectively within a system that rejects its foundational principles? Seems like things are bad.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/12/2025
I went on Piers Morgan to challenge dangerous lies about immigrants and Muslims I refuse to let bigotry go unanswered, so I brought the receipts—the data and the real history of this nation that so many keep trying to erase Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe Watch now:
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Qasim Rashid Confronts Jaw-Dropping Anti-Muslim Bigotry on Piers Morgan Uncensored
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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erdad.bsky.social @erdad.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A revolution "bloodless if the Left allows it to be..." while we harass, arrest and imprison, starve, deny medications and vaccines and support genocide. There isn't much white blood, but plenty of blood, suffering, and loss for the people we as a country have always been willing to throw aside.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/11/2025
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind. They've got to go.
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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TK-S Is Here Now @timekiller-s.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Read Qasim's article. Go. Now.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Keep this story in the news. "Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/08/2025
Using force to displace unhoused people doesn’t make anyone safer.
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The FIRST thing they teach you in medical school is the importance of second hand anecdotal evidence.
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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 28/07/2025
Airdrops of food are not the answer as tons of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid sit on the other side of Gazan borders, blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Strip. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/airdr...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/07/2025
Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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Oxnard Mantalvo @oxnardmantalvo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
What a lot of people don't realize is that a LOT of Nazi leadership were never even charged or punished. The incompleteness of Nuremberg (and also early abandonment of Reconstruction in the US) allowed for many of the problems we see today fester and reemerge within a generation in the EU and US.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Stacey Sobelman
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ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.
I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.
It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are
TERRIFIED of education.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This was the order of events: 1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe. 2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that. 3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump. 4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.
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Senator Peter Welch @welch.senate.gov · 17/07/2025
Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services. DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/07/2025
ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s militaries. A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime. So if you want safer communities, invest in people—not punishments.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 15/07/2025
Pam Bondi pardoned a plastic surgeon who allegedly pretended to give children Covid vaccines and sold Covid vaccination cards ($50 a pop) to over 1,900 people. She said the government’s will shouldn’t be imposed on patients (except when it comes to abortion and gender-affirming care, I guess).
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Because disinformation & lies have drowned out experts like Dr. Titanji and her colleagues who provide evidence-based clinical care vs and who genuinely care about people’s health. Flooding the zone with bullshit drowns truth. We need to stop playing defense & start fighting the propagandists.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
HOSPITALS 👏 ARE 👏SACRED 👏 SPACES 👏 AND 👏 ICE 👏 DOESN'T 👏 BELONG 👏 IN 👏 THEM 👏
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Shout this!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Medicaid is health insurance not a handout. And it’s quite limited. Republicans are very intentionally lying to try to trick people into thinking that Medicaid recipients are getting cash in the mail or something, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Everyone should be able to access healthcare
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2025
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
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Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Communities are going to learn the hard way, at the expense of children’s lives, why our grandparents prayed for these vaccines to be developed
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