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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even if the mystics lose, thank you for showing how dumb in game interviews are Kiki Iriafen. #wnba
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the best stories out of this #wnba season is the WNBA art account. She’s an artist based in Chicago but her day job was in healthcare administration. At the beginning of the season she started posting sketches of funny or iconic moments from WNBA games on her instagram account.
Angel Reese does the too small sign to Dominique Malonga who is 2 inches taller than her.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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John Fleming @johnjf125.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There obviously isn’t a caravan at the border but if there were I would probably be inclined to blame the party that has had full control of the federal government for almost two years
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love stories about photographers and journalists with such amazing drive, courage, and mastery of their art. The comments are great too.
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‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot the Empire State Building Disaster (Gift Article)
When a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, a Times photographer leaned far out to get close up.
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Jenifer Lewis’ Afro @msjlaw.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Happy first day of the WNBA playoffs to those of us who celebrate!
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A'ja Wilson WNBA Court Warm-up
ALT: A'ja Wilson WNBA Court Warm-up
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back. Now, Wilber can’t move the left side of his body. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seven days after Susan Collins’ super PAC cashed the check from Martin Kao’s shell company, one of PAC head Scott Reed’s subordinates emailed a Navatek lobbyist asking for Kao’s phone number: “Senator Collins would like to call Martin to thank him.”
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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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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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He seems nice.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The son of a sitting President couldn’t afford to pay for his own wedding, so he let a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin pay for it? 🤦‍♀️ Time to revive the #TrumpRussia hashtag. These people ears so bent and its the American people who will pay.
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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Personal foul on Champagne! #FIBAWWC
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nobody wants this. Go home Apple, ur drunk
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
People who are trying to inject hate and division into the #WNBA are doing it because clips like this prove that their entire worldview is wrong.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yay Cam! Well Done 💕
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I offered Ted Cruz 10 million dollars to eat his own shit on livestream. Crickets from Ted Cruz. Why is he afraid of the truth
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First, this will only bring more attention to the art of Kehinde Wiley. Second, the Nazis also tried to purge “decadent” art. These people are so tedious and predictable.
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Golly it was a short walk from “protect women’s sports” to “abolish women’s sports.” It’s like they were disingenuous partisan hacks the whole time.
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strap-tap @strap-tap.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Which Minnesota Lynx player is this? #WNBA
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026
If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Sailor Says Father Was Arrested by Border Patrol This is insane. Young man is finishing up a very difficult deployment and we thank him by detaining his father who should be protected by policies put in place to recruit young people in the first place? #AbolishIce
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U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Sailor Says Father Was Arrested by Border Patrol (Gift Article)
The sailor, Joshua Aviles, was on his way home from the Middle East aboard the beleaguered aircraft carrier when he learned his father had been detained.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Environmental Racism 101 #ncpol
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More corruption and lies, brought to you by Michael Whately and the NCGOP! #ncpol
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This leaves out that he was standing up, waving his arms and yelling crap and stepped onto the court. Making him sound like the victim here is utter bullshit. He went there to cause trouble.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist. Congratulations @karenattiah.bsky.social Thank you for fighting to protect freedom of speech 🎉💪🇺🇸
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah (Gift Article)
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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/08/2026
Earlier this year, North Carolina’s state board of elections voted along party lines to deny students a voting site at North Carolina A&T State University — the nation’s largest historically Black college or university. Now, it’s happened all over again: demdock.com/3SIvsaq
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i like to think god is in heaven watching this and thinking, "they finally achieved all i meant for them"
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Colin @colinball.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The narrative that should be getting pushed back on any athlete, male or female, when they make the bullshit argument of "I'm for protecting women's sports" needs to be "tell me about an instance where a trans person hurt women's sports?" There aren't any. It's just whiny assholes who say they do.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
WNBA should stop waffling and stand up for their LGBTQ fans and players. It’s morally correct but also financially correct. Most who watch WNBA LIKE that its diverse and a bit funky. That’s the product. We like it. Stop chasing the “average” fan. Not every product is for every person.
The historical growth of women’s basketball has taken a pincerlike shape, with ambition and boundary-smashing idealism on one end and fearful pragmatism on the other. Pragmatism, for the WNBA, has often come in the form of trying to appease some apocryphal average fan who would love the league if it were just a little less Black, a little less gay, a little less inviting of gender fluidity. 

Forget, for a moment, that every effort the WNBA has made to cater to this perceived fan has backfired. The league is no longer in survival mode. For so long, the WNBA’s decision-making was animated by the need to answer anxiety-inducing questions about growth. The growth has happened, and it’s continuing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I think they’re just deliberately trying to undermine the WNBA because it was making money and it was so popular and it was a counter to the NBA: this wholesome back-to-basics family-friendly game. And maybe some of this: current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/nobe...
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A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros
In March 2026, the union representing professional women's basketball players reached a historic collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA, securing salary increases of nearly 400 percent for its ...
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Nobody wants this. Not from Google or Facebook or even Apple. They are creepy. As a woman who suffered huge amounts of sexual harassment when I was younger, they make my skin crawl 🤢
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I miss the 4-point line from last year. #WNBA #WNBAallstar
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A true basketball fan and supporter of women’s sports. 🫶
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He's still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes ... about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history
Wednesday Addams talking to Professor Orloff’s head in a jar
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Spot the difference
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The reflecting pool mess started funny but there's absolutely nothing funny about the DOJ securing an indictment of a man for touching a pond because the president made up a conspiracy theory about vandals that it needed to validate. That's totalitarian
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I'm Beth @nursejungabel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tell me you're out of touch without saying a word about it. Who can afford a 2000 or a $2,500 deductible before your insurance kicks in? I about have to be dying before I want to use my insurance because it's too damn expensive.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Still marveling: a fed. judge ruled DOJ has conceded it's violating the Epstein transparency law--the one Trump signed @katiephang.bsky.social sued to force compliance & won & Acting AG Blanche's silence was treated as admission DOJ now has one week to release the redacted names
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Todd Blanche ‘conceded’ violating law on Epstein files, judge finds
Court gives DOJ a week to remove redactions or justify them.
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Page 🗽 @firbirdnc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Moms for Liberty and TPUSA basically wrote the FBI document used to charge the Southern Poverty Law Center www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...
Screenshot from article: In court papers filed on Monday night, the lawyers shed new light on the origins of the renewed investigation using records recently provided to them by the F.B.I. They said the inquiry appeared to have been prompted, at least in part, by a letter sent in September from several right-wing organizations that had been criticized by the law center. It was addressed to Stephen Miller, the powerful aide to Mr. Trump who has often exercised significant influence over decisions at the Justice Department.

The letter, jointly written by groups including Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA, used language about the law center that was almost identical at times to language that appeared in an F.B.I. document from October that laid out the basics of the new investigation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026
The extent of Trump's destruction of Washington, D.C., is truly stunning. It's the ultimate metaphor. The algae-infested Reflecting Pool. The destroyed grass from the UFC event. The bulldozed East Wing grounds. "86 47" etched into the lawn near the Reflecting Pool. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
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