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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It doesn't matter how much Bezos tries to kiss Trump's ass with the WaPo, he'll still get screwed in the end. Also, literally the opposite of helping consumers, but that's just too complicated to explain in *checks notes* a national newspaper.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Backpfeifengesicht defined
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw another one of these "paid for by the US government" Trump commercials. Different from the "communism" one. Just blatant propaganda passed off as "public service announcements". He really believes he's an asset to the GOP in the midterms. host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/...
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Final Battle
US Government started airing this Positive ad about Trump for President on 09/27/26 in the Trump Issue 2026 election.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
anyway, one last Friday afternoon plug for the strange (but fun if you're a particular type of sicko) thing I wrote earlier this week about historiography in Star Wars keithpille.com/preface-to-l...
The emergence of the materialist Gilroyist frame of reference serves to throw some of Lucas’ material into a different context. Lucas’ first documentary, eventually titled A New Hope, depicts actions occurring directly after the end of the Gilroy team’s materials. Viewed through the Gilroyist perspective, a large, diffuse coalition of secular activists and agitators worked at great cost to establish a Rebel military and intelligence operation and used these combined operations to acquire crucial military intelligence about the Imperial Death Star project. Then a farm kid from the outer rim showed up at the decisive moment, helped to fill out a fighter squadron depleted from the just-completed Battle of Scarif, and managed to strike the decisive blow, with or without the supernatural aid of the Force. The New Hope footage is (mostly*) unchanged, but it tells a slightly different story with this added context; Skywalker is just one hero among many, and if he can strike harder than some before him it’s because he’s standing on the shoulders of giants, none of whom had anything of consequence to do with the Force.

*Subtle changes to different editions of Lucas’ documentary materials remain an ongoing frustration of serious historians.

And so now we come to the crux: which of these frames is the correct one? Clearly, they must coexist to some extent. Documentary materials from both interpretative streams unambiguously show supernatural Force-based abilities, so they clearly existed; but the Gilroy materials’ recontextualization of early Lucas provides a strong hint that the old master was letting his biases get the better of him when he moved the Force more and more towards the center of his documentaries.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The White House indicated before Kelly's decision that it would appeal the ruling, but it can't legally appeal the ruling for the next two weeks." Is this the first time they've just out and out refused a court order, as opposed to weaseling out or around one?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 15/09/2026
IT'S FUCKING CALLED BABA O'RILEY YOU FASCIST GOD DAMN SWINE
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is what actual voter fraud looks like: developers colluding to swing village elections involving a few hundred voters tops, in a state where registering to vote at your second home where you don’t even live most of the time is totally legal jewishcurrents.org/welcome-to-l...
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Welcome to Lammville
How the Hasidic housing crisis led to the largest case of federal voter fraud in modern American history
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/09/2026
none of this is *good*, the effects will be bad for *everyone*, but MBS and the kingdom learning why everyone else on the planet knows not to trust trump *is* kind of funny
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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀🐬🐚🐸🐾 @bluealways.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems
Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I promised to post a bit about this & this is really the best place to start. The mission & intent for the Human Terrain System (HTS) was to help commanders & staffs make better decisions that would lead to less lethal/more effective actions to cool the temperature w/the host country nationals. 1/
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me: what would a grand coalition for government reform look like post-Trump? It should include both people who care about democratic backsliding and state capacity. But right now these groups aren’t really talking to one another. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-could...
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What could a post-Trump governance coalition look like?
It should be being built now
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 12/08/2026
"At a moment when Americans were as frightened as they’d ever been in their lives, one party told them very plainly that, if the choice was you staying alive or a little inconvenience, to be perfectly honest you might as well die." @mobute.bsky.social
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The Corona Mind-Virus
Why conservatives can’t accept that the government helped millions of people in a time of national emergency.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 12/08/2026
Find the data here: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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California was mostly solar-powered in May — a global first
No major economy had previously received over half its electricity from solar across an entire month. Thank the mild, sunny spring weather, and batteries.
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Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An excellent after action review of the US war on Iran. And what an utter failure all the key US players knew it would be. Good thing Trump doesn’t read and cannot stay awake to care about any of this. And now we have a military devoid of fire power. www.amerikanets.com/p/they-saw-i...
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They Saw it Coming
How American military planners anticipated failure in Iran
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Look, all I'm saying is that you could eat lettuce under the Obama and Biden administrations.
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here’s to really good news!
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
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This Is Personal
YouTube video by TMZ
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Kyle Shanahan meets with local reporters, admits fault in car accident
Much has been made about how the story of Kyle Shanahan’s serious car accident earlier this month has been reported. On Tuesday, the San Francisco 49ers head coach met directly with reporters to set the record straight. According to 49ers beat reporter Grant Cohn, Shanahan called a group of local reporters into his office on…
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Trump regime admitted to canceling over $7.5 billion in federal grants for clean energy projects in states that voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dr. Silverman breaks down the provocative acts taken by Ben-Gvir. It's worth remembering that Ariel Sharon provoked the second Intifada in a similar act of brazen presence.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Feeling seen
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Had to do it
A parody of "in the house" signs with the lyrics from Godspeed You Black Emperor's Dead Flag Blues.

In this house, we believe
The cars on fire 
and there's no driver at the wheel
And all the sewers are muddied
With a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/07/2026
kind of an odd argument. I agree with basically every point but the frame is weird. draining Lake Powell won't fix everything but it will help, a LOT www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Killing Lake Powell Won’t Save the Colorado River
Contrary to popular belief, rearranging deck chairs on a sinking boat can theoretically be of some benefit, if you’re clearing a path to the lifeboats, say, or keeping panicky people busy. Very quickl...
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Duffel Blog @duffelblog.com · 17/06/2026
NEW: Hegseth unveils separate but equal branches of military service www.duffelblog.com/hegseth-sepa...
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Hegseth unveils separate but equal branches of military service
Pentagon insists new force structure is based entirely on merit and several remarkable coincidences
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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What is Russia's "People's VPK"? Check out this explainer I co-authored with @michaelkofman.bsky.social in @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/the-strange-...
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The Strange Rise and Fall of Russia’s Crowd Sourced Defense Industry
In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, much that could go wrong did for the Russian military. As one volunteer
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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Friday night's World Cup opener for the U.S. showed what SoFi Stadium could look like for football. To make that happen, NFL players need to be willing to go on strike for it.
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U.S. World Cup opener was a sign of what SoFi Stadium could be
If NFL players want grass, they have to be willing to strike for it.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Michael Wilbon is all of us when it comes to finding games on streaming platforms. awfulannouncing.com/nba/michael-...
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Michael Wilbon can't find NBA games on streaming
Michael Wilbon revealed that he and Charles Barkley couldn't figure out where to watch an NBA game at dinner recently.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"No I'm fine, you just make sure you get your fucking video first"
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
wow a guy who was evidently the former head of SOCOM under trump 1 has been (sorta) fed posting at admin officials the last day as well
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The number of people who get their political information/views from TikTok is about to become hugely problematic (if it wasn’t already)
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Literally the only member to invoke Article 5, after 9/11
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
the rest of the world deferred to us not because they needed to but because it was easy, all to great benefit of us, and we destroyed that to get out of having to watch one hour diversity training videos once a year
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Matt Barrows @mattbarrows.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Can’t believe how many Kyle Juuuuuszczykk fans are in attendance….
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Wut?
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I sprained my MCL dancing on a go go box at a night club. I didn't need surgery, but wow did it hurt.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Out here starting a war because someone made fun of them
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
“In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose. There's no disrespect….In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. ‘Z Man’ would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle.” 🤌🏽🤌🏽
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/12/2025
given that ben ryan spends all of his time trawling this place for stuff to be mad about, i want it to be known that i think he has the smoothest brain in journalism
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 08/12/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Senate Republicans come up with one big pile of shit. acasignups.net/25/12/08/bre...
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Breaking: Senate Republicans come up with one big pile of shit.
(sigh) Via Peter Sullivan & Stef Kight of Axios: Scoop: Senate GOP chairs circulate health plan as clock ticks on ACA subsidies Two key Senate Republican chairmen are circulating the outline of a heal...
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