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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h

Secondary point, but DHS should be abolished and the useful components distributed to other departments.

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Flying Squid with Goggles @flyingsquidgoggles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Give us all the ‘do the illegal thing’ waivers they said It’ll make the plagiarism machine wonderful they said Think of all the poor bots out in the cold they said

A snippet of a New York Times story telling how Dario Amodei, chief executive of the A.I. company Anthropic, asked for waivers of antitrust laws

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

every email has arrived with hilarious timing. the email telling me that they have organized "coaches" for us arrived 30 minutes after i boarded the unidentified mystery bus and had no instructions on where to find the bus or who to contact to ask about the bus

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

90 percent of my writing is about american law, history, constitutionalism and the overall political system. but dreher and the people like him (and frankly quite a few others) are basically incapable of seeing that.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Flying Squid with Goggles @flyingsquidgoggles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love live theatre! This show with dancing dinosaurs kicks ass

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Mister Trump, there are still some MAGA voters who are stubbornly standing by you. Can you say something to alienate them too?"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if there is one thing that should concern u about ai it is the leaders

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

like, Robert Kraft banned Macklemore over "Free Palestine," but literally "Heil Hitler" isn't getting Kanye dropped from the same stadium

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The whole point of being a rock star is that you don't let The Man tell you what to do. If you let The Man tell you what to do, you're not a rock star, you're an employee.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3440 having a picnic of the third kind

Two bunnies have a picnic atop a rocky plateau, looking like a miniature version of Devil's Tower in Wyoming. Above them, a large UFO is floating, and several round one-eyed aliens float around the picnic curiously. One of the bunnies has a keyboard, to communicate with the aliens.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

rarely do you see people swear an oath to subvert the rule of law rarer still that they're led by someone who's sworn under the Take Care clause it's a spectacle –– "American carnage" is one way to describe it I never thought it possible

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You’ll notice the American state media and scumbags like Jake Tapper went from relentlessly attacking President Biden about his age as he was doing great work to total silence as the orange felon posts threatening AI propaganda all day every day as he destroys everything he touches.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can't criticize their friend Elon Musk for funding a Nazi resurgence, so they targeted the next most powerful person they could find -- Macklemore.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok guys it is September of an election year. could we take a short break from left/liberal infighting until like November 4th

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brian @blemley.us · 05/09/2026

Wanna see a dead body?

Chess.com • @chesscom • 46m
even my friends don't text me back that fast

In response to Musk trying to bully them.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Seems like the plan -- or at least one of the plans -- is to make it as difficult as possible for states to send ballots out, then get courts to rule that late-arriving ballots can't be counted.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

ah, a military defined by Merit

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Impeach Kennedy. Impeach him now. (seriously, if Dems take back the House, they should impeach him and then sit back and watch the Republicans beclown themselves)

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God @thegodshow.com · 28/08/2026

Remember that time South Koreans rose up and arrested their president because he tried to incite AN INSURRECTION? Be like the South Koreans! 🇰🇷

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly was in no way politically neutral. she wasn't *partisan* as far as I can tell, and nobody on the right wanted to tangle with her, but her politics were not a particularly subtle part of her life.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

100% #BookSky

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

History is endlessly replete with people assuming that the big affairs of state will remain forever far away right up until those huge forces roar through their town or village, burning and killing. Then suddenly it matters quite a lot. As a pundit or journalist it is *your job* to remind them!

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/08/2026

I'm beginning to frame a unified theory of moral panics—which is: You can start wars or raise tariffs 100% and it's NBD, but any change that threatens the cultural status of middle-aged journalists and academics is an Unforgivable Crime that we will have to discuss for the next 20 years.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Good morning team!

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Flying Squid with Goggles @flyingsquidgoggles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just picked up When the Moon Hits Your Eye and read the Hollywood pitches scene “It would be a musical “ God damn it @scalzi.com this entire bus is going to think I’m a jibbering madman because of you ::shakes virtual fist::

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This whole piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is a must-read, but this part rings especially true. If you're a centrist worried about the future of the party, maybe focus your $15 million freakout on shoring up black voting in the South instead of pushing milquetoast moderates in deep blue NYC?

Black organizers in the South expected a Democratic cavalry after the Voting Rights Act was gutted by the Supreme Court. Instead, they feel abandoned. They look at conservative groups like Heritage Action and Turning Point USA and wonder what they could do with that kind of support.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sneering about the "faculty lounge" is deeply funny. Most departments don't have one, but if they do, it's like a wall of mailboxes, a coffee maker and maybe a mini-fridge. You're basically sneering about the break room on The Office. "Oooh, look who has a *vending* machine! Excuse me, m'lord!"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Election officials and lawyers noted how surreal it is, even after a decade of Trumpism, to treat the nation’s duly elected president as the primary threat to the freedom and fairness of American elections." Yes. Always keep this front and center.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 03/08/2026

like clockwork, man, quick, put the war away before the markets come back from the weekend

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Trump Regime: Bomb a girls elementary school - zero consequences for anyone. Refusal to accept responsibility. ICE shoots innocent people - zero consequences or acceptance of responsibility. Indict someone on false evidence - zero consequences or acceptance of responsibility.

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