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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/08/2026

Absolutely staggering: 152 cases involving ICE and CBP officials or contractors accused or convicted of crimes. 131 involved sex offenses. 78 involved children. Maybe the people demanding unlimited power to hunt down “criminals” should spend a little more time looking inside their own agencies.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 01/08/2026

I really hate talking about trans people playing sports but it’s a political issue because some evil political operators figured out being icked out by sharing close personal space with trans women crossed the political divide so they went after bathrooms and sports and people fell for it.

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In a hotel elevator with some other SABR members and some people from a different convention. Different convention guy: so SABR? Other SABR guy: yes we’re the guys responsible for all the weird statistics you see at the game now. Me (emphatically): not weird …. better! (Laughter ensues)

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The Brewers could have played yesterday’s game w/o an outfield. The White Sox didn’t hit a single ball into outfield. Here's the entirety of the Sox' ABs: 20 Ks, 5 infield groundouts, 2 infield pop-ups, 5 BB, 2 infield singles, 2 HRs (No I didn’t discover this myself) ATTN: @jaysonst.bsky.social

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Fun fact ........ Tobias Myers will be the first Met with the first name of Tobias in franchise history (also, he's the only Tobias in MLB history)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/01/2026

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Kennedy Center was created by a federal law two months after President John Kennedy’s assassination. It was designated as a living memorial to President Kennedy given his devotion to the advancement of the performing arts. Today Trump just renamed the Kennedy Center after himself.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm increasingly convinced Trump's inner circle is giving him busy work (the White House ballroom, Kennedy Center, presidential plaques, gold decorations, etc.) while they essentially run the government. He admits that he doesn't even know who he is pardoning anymore.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates. If only he was able to remember this.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 17/12/2025

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

He's lying. How do we know? Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/12/2025

BRENNAN: Prices in the toy space are accelerating, and people are feeling that BRENNAN: Inflation is a composite number and it's roughly the same year over over

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

They were always going to unleash full-on ethnic cleansing. They were just waiting for a plausible excuse.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in. This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

So this may seem obvious to you and me, but it's important to repeat and underscore to every normie we can: Trump's goal was always to end *legal* immigration for anyone he deems not white. A *lot* of Trump voters believed the lie that only "illegal" immigrants would be targeted.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Trump every time he’s confronted about one of his lies: “Who are you with?” Reporter: Gives name of company. Trump: You’re fake news. You’re terrible. I’m not calling on you anymore! You should be ashamed of yourself! This is why nobody watches you! Then goes back to lying.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I've waited my whole life to hear a New York mayor say things like this

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 04/11/2025

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Republicans hate America

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

At the Beacon for another of my favorite comics from the UK.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 31/10/2025

"Lincoln Era" bathroom looked like this.

Old-fashioned wooden toilets, often referred to as chamber pots or privy seats, arranged side by side on a wooden floor against a white wall. Each seat is barrel-shaped and constructed from wooden staves held together with metal bands. The seats have circular or oval openings on top, and all show signs of age and wear, including rust and weathering. Sunlight casts diagonal shadows across the middle seat from a slatted window or vent.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/10/2025

yeah i mean come on. if you're remodeling a bathroom in 2025 and you're not adding a bidet, are you even an autocrat?

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 31/10/2025

The GOP campaigned on "We are better at government than the Democrats" Enough voters believed them and gave them the keys to the government. And now its "Its all Democrats' fault that we suck at governing"

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The gestapo goons were staging their immoral, illegal raids in the parking lot outside the fucking PetSmart where we buy cat food. This is all so horrible.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Don't let the result distract you from the fact one pitcher was called Little in English and the other was called Little in German (Klein),perfect game

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

America’s pastbedtime

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/10/2025

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Tyler Kepner @tylerkepner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

At 222-96, Clayton Kershaw will finish his career as the first pitcher with 200 wins and fewer than 100 losses since Al Spalding and Bob Caruthers – two guys who never even pitched off a mound.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Stephen Miller has never worked a job outside of politics in his entire life.

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Jeff Herr @thejeffreport.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Also, he did not debate with the intention of understanding other peoples ideas. He debated people because he thought he could win and it made content. That's all. None of his motives were honest or sincere.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 11/09/2025

I hesitate to even post this on the kind of platform fueling the crisis we're in. It's almost certainly futile, as the algorithms don't want anyone to hear this kind of sentiment - which is a big part of the problem. www.levernews.com/we-must-stop...

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We Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s Unstoppable

Once we accept deadly violence as a normal part of American life, we’re done for.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

So predictable that several HBCUs are on lockdown because they have received direct threats, and Hampton has canceled classes altogether. Black people are always a scapegoat and a target for white anger.

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hey there! I'm getting (back) into standup. I'm taking another course, which will culminate in a performance at the Comedy Cellar/Village Underground (130 West 3rd St. in NYC) at 3:30 PM on Sunday 11/9. I believe there will be a $5 cover charge and 2 food or drink minimum. Hope to see you there.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

*wipes tears away* I love this man so much

One morning in spring training, 2017, he was in the coaches room looking at his cell phone text messages. Ichiro told the coaches about one message he had just received from a number he didn't recognize. The guy said he'd gotten Ichiro's number from Alex Rodriguez, and that he wanted to come meet him and study his stretching system.
"What's the guy's name?" asked one of the coaches.
Ichiro strolled to the end of the text. "Some guy named Tom Brady. Who the f— is Tom Brady?"

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"3000 hits or 262 hits in one season are achievements recognized by the writers, well, all but one of you" Ichiro Suzuki

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David Benjamin Firstman @firstmanagram.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

OK ...... I looked it up ..... its happened twice before this season ..... 5/21/2016 and 5/26/2017 ..... both times Tanaka vs. Manaea

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