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Journalism. Ethics. Propaganda. Art. History. Transit. Urban Planning. Politics. Disinformation. Climate. Science. Technology. Creativity. Photography. Media. Met Henry Mancini+Derek Jarman. Played snooker with a Sex Pistol. Non-theist. 44.9778° N 93.2650°

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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 29/09/2026
In the Netherlands, acceptance of LGBTQ+ people has dropped sharply among Dutch youth. This is part of a worldwide trend where LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly under pressure. This cartoon was published in Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl on September 25.
Cartoon showing people on the ground on all fours, using their mouths to rip a rainbow flag to shreds. Meanwhile, one person is hiding in a closet, afraid to come out.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The image of deceased writer Maya Angelou is now an advertising puppet for a theft-based product: This will be played off as "a regrettable error in judgment," instead of what it actually is--a vivid and accurate representation of all that is wrong with AI, from theft to obliteration of consent.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A US permanent resident argued that evidence collected from a cellphone search at [JFK] Airport should have been suppressed at his…trial because the search was done without probable cause. The court…[ruled] that border officers don’t need reasonable suspicion to go through travellers’ cellphones.”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
I repeat: you should pay attention to what's happening in Mississippi
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Minneapolis Public Schools enrolls about 30,000 students but has buildings capable of serving roughly 43,000. More than half of its 56 schools operate below 70% capacity. Since school funding is doled out per student, under-enrolled schools often struggle to afford electives and interventions…”
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Minneapolis Public Schools’ revamp would send thousands of kids to different buildings
Three proposals would close more than a dozen schools and redraw attendance boundaries in all parts of the city.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a sheriff to return more than 600,000 ballots he seized from election officials, finding that he lacked the authority to review them based on a thin allegation of fraud.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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California Supreme Court rules sheriff must return seized ballots
The court ruled unanimously in two cases stemming from a vote last year on a ballot measure.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, the state of Florida is now suing news outlets over alleged "bias"?
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘The New York Times’ Sued by Shareholders Over Biased Israel Coverage
A lawsuit against ‘The New York Times’ leans on a whistleblower account of a newsroom that ignored years of complaints about antisemitism and skewed reporting, writes Maya Sulkin.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anti-DSA fundraising text from John Fetterman: “Sadly I'm pretty much alone on this side of the aisle.” The implication is that he might be much less alone on the other side where grass is greener. Anyway, there are plenty on “this side of the aisle” that are giving oxygen to disdain for the DSA.
Dear Friend who has common sense,

I'm always going to stand with Pennsylvania.

I'm always going to reject the extremes.

I'm always going to reject Socialism.

I'm always going to fight against the anti- American way of life.

And this has enraged a lot of people in the media, in my party, and even in my own staff - where disgruntled leakers are anonymously attacking me.

This is what happens when you don't toe the party line.

This is what happens when you put common sense and the wellbeing of the people you are supposed to represent ahead of party loyalty.But most of all, I think this is what happens when you clash with the Socialist movement "DSA!" that is hijacking the Democratic party.

They want to...

Abolish our borders

Abolish the Electoral College

Abolish Israel

Abolish the Senate

The bad news is the "DSA!" crazies have gone from the political fringe to controlling one of America's major political parties-and onto ballots across the country.

The good news is the hardworking, common- sense Pennsylvanians I talk to every day still aren't buying it.

I mean, a recent Rasmussen poll kind of proves it:

71% of Americans reject socialism

67% of Democrat voters reject socialism

While 82% of Republican voters reject socialism.But here's the thing. The loudest voice in the room is often the one that looks the most powerful.

And I've got to say, the "DSA!" voices in Washington are loud and getting louder. The media is their megaphone.

Which is why you may be under the false impression that people really do want the "DSA!" and their extreme policies.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm standing up to them.

But sadly I'm pretty much alone on this side of the aisle.

So, can I ask you a favor?

Whatever your party affiliation is, can I ask you to stand with me against the daily barrage of hit-pieces?

If you can donate just $25, it would be a big help to me.But it will also send a message. It will show the truth that the "real numbers" are on our side here in Pennsylvania, as well as around the rest of America.

You know, I recently stood in front of the iconic U.S. Steel Mill and recorded a video talking about how my friend Dave McCormick and I banded together with President Trump to save this facility and the larger steel industry. But I'm not backing down.

Even though I know the media... the "DSA!"... and the party bosses... are going to try even harder to defeat me:

"Fetterman Draws Shadow Primary From Democrats Eager to Replace Him: The Pennsylvania senator has long irked members of his own party" ~ Bloomberg

If you'll stand with me today, I know we can show them that we're not backing down and that the real numbers are on the side of common sense and putting hardworking Pennsylvanians first.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🧵 Decorah, a blue, NE Iowa town — plaque in the old hotel commemorating Obama's visit, Rob Sand's hometown, anchored by a liberal college — had a brief visit from the area GOP on Saturday. A float featuring Trump and praising the "constitutional sheriff" movement led just a few cars up the street:
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Motel owners in the tiny border town of Sweet Grass, Montana will be reading this report with interest.
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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People have this perception that #HIV is kind of defeated and under control these days. It's very much not. It took a lot of time, money and effort to suppress it to the current level, and if we drop the ball, HIV can surge back to disaster levels really fast. I fear it will.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"NIH is using a troubling list of 235 keywords as proxies to identify grants or researchers likely to express or support perspectives this administration does not like. Forbidden terms include 'equity,' 'advancing diversity,' 'racist,' 'gender,' 'Latinx,' 'climate change,' 'pregnant individual'..."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"If we want a president who can be prosecuted for his crimes and who cannot purge the civil service or send masked agents into our neighborhoods, then Congress must be able to bind the presidency with laws that stick. Sticky laws require limiting the court’s power to dissolve them."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Four full-time immigration judges at the Fort Snelling Court in Minnesota have a backlog of 33,000 cases. The national backlog is 3.1 million. The MN court implemented a brutal schedule of hearings with up to 100 cases per judge each day and a “rocket docket” for cases involving Somali immigrants.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Trump is part of the 44% of Forbes 400 members who have donated less than 1% of their fortune… Last year, 39% of the list had given less than 1% - meaning that, as the richest Americans' net worths have shot up, their generosity has not increased.“
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of Oregon’s most followed “Patriot/MAGA” streamers (and Enrique Tarrio’s former girlfriend) reposted white nationalist content with swastikas in it. If you’re wondering, Kim Coulter is Ann’s white nationalist niece.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The Trump administration halted the program that published independent air quality data at more than 80 U.S. diplomatic sites in March 2025, citing budget constraints… Later that year, local air pollution levels increased by between 24 and 33 percent in 46 of those cities.”
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Back in November 2024, @gregsargent.bsky.social wrote that we were about to endure, under Trump 2.0, “an extraordinary spree of unrestrained malfeasance.” Sen. Ron Wyden spoke of a four-year “smash and grab.” And those stark assessments still don’t begin to describe the current level of corruption.
Trump campaigned expressly on a platform of authoritarian rule, but this also applies to corruption: He didn't disguise his promises to govern in the direct interests of some of the wealthiest executives and investors in the country-and he won anyway. Trump and his allies will likely interpret this as a green light to engage in an extraordinary spree of unrestrained malfeasance.
There are several reasons to fear this could amount to a level of oligarchic corruption that outdoes anything Trump did in his first term. In short, conditions are ripe for right-wing elites to try to loot the place from top to bottom.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“In the days leading up to Trump Jr.’s wedding, Kremlev was in China as part of the delegation accompanying Putin, according to Chinese state media. The month before, Putin had bestowed him with a state honor, the Order of Friendship. The Ukrainian government has imposed sanctions on Kremlev…”
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“We had reporters at almost every hospital in the city, waiting for the injured to arrive in droves. They never arrived, because that was the thing about 9/11 – either you survived and staggered home, or you perished. For… people deeply expert in covering disaster, this was profoundly disorienting.”
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Heading the list: 1) Affordability 2) Economy/Jobs 3) Housing … followed by Crime.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“All federal agencies’ seals depict the peacetime eagle facing the palm leaf…No U.S. agency has [shown the wartime posture] since World War II. Not even the ‘Department of War’… There’s something very creepy about our government seeing America as a battlefield in ways it doesn’t even see overseas.”
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder that Lewandowski was a Special Government Employee with a zero dollar contract. Because he saw govt as a graft opportunity for much bigger bucks
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All’s for the best, in this best of all possible worlds!
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Every dollar of profit that every business makes ultimately accrues to either the people who do the work (labor), or the people who own the place, including shareholders (capital). For decades now, capital has been taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie… The real political project is…” 1/2
A graph showing a significant decline in the labor share of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, measured over the past few decades, showing a reduction from roughly 62% down to 52%.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/09/2026
An Arkansas county bans anyone under 18 taking out library books that aren't in the teen section.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/09/2026
Warning! This list contains some of the "shockingly pornographic" books Texas is trying to ban from the state, like... picture books about widdle mousies and bunny wabbits.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No one grovels quite like a lesser mobster.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“[It] would mark the first time the party had won a state government, and the first time since the second world war that a rightwing extremist party had gained power at regional state or parliament level in Germany.”
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A big problem with the Democratic Party is it consistently attracts candidates who want to run against the Democratic Party
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“In the end, Durán concludes, ‘We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both.’”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/09/2026
Key moments so far from a hearing on Trump's mail-voting EO: 🔺 Judge Talwani has repeatedly pushed back on the DOJ's arguments. 🔺 Only one state has told the administration it can comply with the rule in time for the midterms. 🔺 Talwani says she will try to issue a ruling by the end of the day.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@perez1oj.bsky.social: "Just about every party to this deal carries an unresolved question about its authority to sign."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Innocence amidst chaos: "Palestinian children watch a cartoon film projected on a screen during a mobile cinema screening organized by the Masharawi Foundation for Cinema and Filmmakers, September 2, 2026." (Photos: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters, via @aljazeera.com)
An aerial view of a somewhat large group of children watching a cartoon projected on a fabric screen in the Gaza city tent camp. The viewing area is a small clearing in the midst of a large spread-out area of makeshift tents surrounded, in the distance, by remnants of burned out and collapsed buildings.A view of perhaps 40 or 50 children facing the photographer's camera as they view the action on a movie screen, with the light from the projection reflected on some of their faces.A close-up view of a small group of very young children, sitting rapt as they stare at the cartoons on the screen in front of them. A side view of the open area in which the children are watching the cartoons, showing the image on the screen at far left, and the large group of children watching, sitting to the right of the photo. A few tents can be seen in the background.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, 24-year-old Shurouq Khaira was an athlete, training regularly... Athletics...was a core part of her identity. She competed in youth championships, taking a national title in 2016. Her dream was to represent her country, Palestine, on the international stage."
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Dreams shattered: Gaza amputees struggle under blockade and rubble
Young amputees in Gaza face harsh realities, awaiting prosthetics and battling mobility hurdles.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/09/2026
Family photo at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek — details are in my recent video on YouTube. At the same time, Putin was bombing Kyiv & Kyiv region on the first day of the new school year.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IRS audits brought in $6.5 billion in 2025, down from the $10 billion collected the previous year, after Trump's federal work force cuts led to a 30 percent reduction in IRS audit staff... But what's collected is dwarfed by the "roughly $700 billion" the IRS estimates goes unpaid every year.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Minnesota State Fair staff removed a crop artwork with the numbers '8647'... after the piece’s veiled critique of President Donald Trump generated outrage on social media..." A supervisor said the artist received death threats after coverage on the OAN network, "and has had to leave the state."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Intriguing. Or, given the state of things, “now what?” “The U.S. Maritime Admin. is activating SUNY Maritime College’s Empire State VII for a classified national security mission after determining that no other suitable vessel is available to meet an urgent Military Sealift Command requirement.”
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, & Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill... a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. In Iowa, changes to its Medicaid system are expected to cost at least $20 million."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Apparently the only time someone else mused about the idea of "Lake America" re. the Great Lakes was when former Michigan Gov. Chase Osborn, in 1935, fancied that Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan be identified thusly as he believed them to be one body of water. (Technically, Huron and Michigan are...)
A March, 1935 newspaper article explaining former Michigan Gov. Chase Osborn's fanciful notion that three of the Great Lakes, being as he somewhat mistakenly assumed one body of water, could henceforth be known collectively as "Lake America."
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From the Times of Israel piece: "Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, also criticized the attack. However, he echoed Netanyahu’s contention that only a small group of settlers was responsible, and is not representative of settlers more broadly." Reality on the ground:
youtube.com
Why 'pogrom' best describes what's happening in the occupied West Bank
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The kicker on this is great.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The news of "Russian AI killer drones" has consumed my feed this past week. This @nytimes.com article is where it was first published. The headlines and the facts are misaligned so here is what actually happened.../1 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Milk chocolate with maple cream” — a nice combo.
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Emptying my drawers of all my bland, monochromatic t-shirts and opening myself up to accusations of peacocking, but little do they know…
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fluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Which leaves, obviously, one hobbyhorse issue for the GOP to exploit. Trump to Republicans in March, 2025: "Don’t bring [the transgender] subject up, because there’s no election right now. But about a week before the election, bring it up, because you can’t lose." www.them.us/story/trump-...
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Trump Hints That Attacking Trans Rights Will Be the GOP’s 2026 Midterm Strategy
The president said he instructed Republicans to start bringing up trans issues “about a week before the election.”
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