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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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A Bloody Woodstake @tenderbeefsteak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My SIL is teaching remotely at a school in southern Illinois and I was not ready to learn about the mascot
A mascot painted on the wall of a high school. It says  “cornjerkers” and the mascot is an awful ear of corn with brown hair holding a football and kicking, I want to say, a soccer ball.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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franlking.bsky.social @franlking.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
very part of the movie, almost fell out of my chair in the theater
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franlking.bsky.social @franlking.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
not an ice cream rec but check out city fare cafe!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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Steph Noh @stephnoh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Every year I RT this on the day of the draft in order to cement its place in Bulls lore. One of my favorite draft memories - the Bulls blacking out all the windows to ensure total secrecy before selecting Denzel Valentine and Paul Zipser.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable. aftermath.site/steam-machin...
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The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times
Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.
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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Stacey King has passed away at 59 years old. A three-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls across eight NBA seasons after being the No. 6 pick in the 1989 draft, and a beloved broadcaster for the team in his post-playing career.
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 06/06/2026
boardwalk casino, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
boardwalk casino, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is the playbook: cut observation systems, reduce monitoring, shrink scientific capacity, and then claim there's insufficient evidence that there's a problem. Without data, you cut regulations and legal pathways off at the knees. Turning off the instruments doesn't actually make the world safer.
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hasfarr @hasfarr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up at Launch Complex-36 while attempting to static fire.
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franlking.bsky.social @franlking.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
as a licensed and practicing lawyer myself, i can say there are plenty of people who go to law school and either never practice, or who practice for a while and then do something else (teaching, for example) and would have no problem calling themselves a “lawyer.”
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Defector @defector.com · 11/05/2026
The Claude delusion: defector.com/the-claude-d...
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The Claude Delusion | Defector
If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just a really weird thing. An exhaustive physical description of a brain state…
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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief.

The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
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ceej @ceej.online · 14/04/2026
the pope just followed me into an alley and kicked my ass for shoplifting
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
KD put Dillon Brooks on skates lol
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
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Frankie's Husband Craig! @haveacraigday.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Danny Heifetz @dannyheifetz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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Jordan @laddermatch.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
We've got Bears in cheese grater hats and Caleb Williams grating cheese
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franlking.bsky.social @franlking.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“madda-me-die”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Gadget @gadget44027447.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Incredible interview from DJ Moore 🫡
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 18/11/2025
This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies. #indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/11/2025
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/11/2025
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/10/2025
it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000
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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
President Trump reduces trade surplus in profitable export industry that provides middle-class jobs all across America.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
the supreme court musing about racism being over and every young republican being outed as a literal nazi happened on exactly the same day
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15/10/2025
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.
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Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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