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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reporter: Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Donald Trump if you don't have to answer for Hasan Piker? Abdul El-Sayed: Is that a serious question? Reporter: I didn't want to ask another dumb one, so I wrote it down for you. El-Sayed: Well, Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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❌️👑FREDERICK MD RESISTANCE @indivisiblefredmd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Monday on the bridge! ✊🗳️ The Frederick Resistance Brigade + Mutual Aid: Frederick Indivisible are working together to get Frederick ready to vote. Next up: No Kings: Vote Early 📅 Oct. 17 | Urbana Library Sign up: mobilize.us/s/ZTKGir #NoKings #FrederickMD
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For it is easier for a camel to get though Manhattan traffic than…
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We live in a center left country with a democracy problem
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coloradojones.bsky.social @coloradojones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think the concern genuinely stems from people not wanting to get hit with vehicles powered by motors
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/09/2026
Now banned in California. I'd like to see the rest of the country follow.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I also like this explanation, i.e. they simply forget women’s sports exist when they don’t need them as a cudgel against trans people, because actually “it never occurred to a single one of us that a man would go to a women’s basketball game” is an even more stunning self-own
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Veep wasn't absurd enough in retrospect
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Know you no ball, sir, at long last? Have you left no knowledge of ball?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
“At this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos,” the justices wrote.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of humanity's greatest heroes
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Brigid @everacu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Inside the Record Summer ICE Surge That Swept Across the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#VisibilityBrigade #newjersey #democracy #economy @maddow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @thegodshow.com @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social #midterms #vote #vets #corruption #midterms #datacenter #inflation #vote #fascism #organize #wages
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A Roman governor, a bunch of monks, and two bishops (one of them dead) walk into a bar in Edessa in April 449. If you want to know what happened after, here is an open access article on the Syriac Acts of Ephesus II and the politics of late antique cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus
The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus offer an opportunity to look at the evolution of urban structures in the middle of the fifth century at the edge of the Roman Empire. Observing a ci...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A solid win for free speech, but what a travesty that Trump filed such a lawsuit in the first place.
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VICTORY: Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer
An Iowa state court on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper.
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I went on @npr.org's 1A alongside the great @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu to talk about how corruption has rotted American foreign policy, fueled imperialism from Greenland to Ukraine, and sold American policy—and even American national security—to the highest bidder.
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If You Can Keep It: 'Empire of Grift'
The name of this country has been at the center of President Trump’s rhetoric.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a long but important read. It also shows that individual actions can’t match up to systemic inequalities. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hilma Af Klint, From the Swan series, 1913-1916 #Womensart
Painting of different coloured circles within circles of decreasing size against a white background
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
This is yet another example of many media outlets failing the basic test of asking “can you explain?” and further interrogatories based on the answer.
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Brigid @everacu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Voters Have a Message for Democrats
Fight harder.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even if you aren’t aware of any such agreements missing from the State Department’s site, you can still help out by RT’ing this piece…or share it in relevant Reddit subs, email listservs, etc. Tysm 🙏
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 08/09/2026
Earthjustice is involved in legal action to stop the Trump admin’s illegal border barrier from tearing through Big Bend National Park. This is the latest in a series of actions the admin has taken to undermine the law in ways that harm protected landscapes, waterways, wildlife, and communities.
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We're Defending Big Bend from Trump's Border Barrier
The administration ignored environmental impacts and laws to build their barrier.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
Starting in October, Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states, some of whom could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, the...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
If Mike Davis were just some asshole with a Twitter account, his racism might be a personal problem But his proximity to the federal judiciary? That makes his racism a public problem
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Punishment is so ingrained in our cultural way of relating that even progressives want to believe it can accomplish behavioral change but guess what? That is its own poorly-evidenced belief, sorry!
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.
Musk doing his Sieg Heil salute
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/09/2026
🗺️ REDISTRICTING LATEST: Maryland voters will be able to vote on a constitutional amendment on redistricting this November after a ruling from the state supreme court. Should voters approve the measure, it would clear the way for Democrats to counteract a wave of GOP gerrymanders nationwide.
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Maryland Supreme Court upholds Democrats' redistricting plan
Should voters approve the measure upheld by the court, it would clear the way for state Democrats to redraw congressional maps for the 2028 election.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
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A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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J. Rowe @saquin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Elected Democrats need to scream loudly about this. It's the only way to get the media to pay attention. This would be a five-alarm-fire, multi-day scandal under any other President. We need to make it so for Trump also.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If there’s even a small issue with a single ballot-like a woman changed her name upon getting married-the USPS system could disenfranchise 10,000 voters Allegedly, the point of this is to stop cheats. But there haven’t been anywhere near 10,000 cases of fraud in the entire history of mail in voting
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this friday and saturday
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A bombshell whistleblower report warns of serious flaws in the rush by the U.S. Postal Service to implement President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order before November, including the potential for thousands of ballots to be rejected due to a single error. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Unforgiving’ new USPS portal could reject 10,000 mail ballots due to a single error, whistleblower warns
An anonymous whistleblower warned how "potentially millions" of voters could be disenfranchised under a rushed USPS portal.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
here's today's post: "Google Maps can pretty much fuck all the way off" — what kind of bullshit is ‘Lake America’? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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Google Maps can pretty much fuck all the way off
what kind of bullshit is ‘Lake America’?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
live your life so Joyce Carol Oates never tweets about you and Isaac Chotiner never calls you
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