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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Source: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nobody asked for this gross fucking AI slop. STOP. You are legit maga coded. Stop fucking using this shit and make your own content you lazy fuck.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At 231 Street. "Magic Realism in Kingsbridge."

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 30, 1851. To powder-mills, and set an intermediate bound-stone on the new road there. Saw them making hoops for powder-casks, of alder and the sprouts of the white birch, which are red with whitish spots.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 29, 1851. Found Hosmer carting out manure from under his barn to make room for the winter. He said he was tired of farming, he was too old. [Art by Andrew Wyeth]

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 28, 1851. Flocks of small birds — apparently sparrows, bobolinks (or some bird of equal size with a pencilled breast which makes a musical clucking), and piping goldfinches — are flitting about like leaves and hopping up on to the bent grass stems in the garden,

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 27, 1852. The note of the yellowhammer is heard from the edges of the fields. The soapwort gentian looks like a flower prematurely killed by the frost. The soil of these fields looks as yellowish white as the corn-stalks themselves.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I spotted a lovely little Palm Warbler perching on a Nutter's Battery branch this week. Stopped by Central Park on its way south from Canada to Florida/Caribbean. Safe travels! 🥰🥰🥰 #Warblers #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 26, 1852. The small cottony leaves of the fragrant everlasting in the fields for some time, protected, as it were, by a little web of cotton against frost and snow, a little dense web of cotton spun over it, entangled in it, as if to restrain it from rising higher.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9.25.1851. Examined the hornets' nest near Hubbard's Grove, suspended from contiguous huckleberry bushes.... Its entrance appeared to have been enlarged; so I concluded it had been deserted, but, looking nearer I discovered two or three dead hornets, men of war, in the entryway. [Photo Jim Kerr]

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump speaks at the UN today His message: @tjeerdroyaards.com

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 24, 1859. Yesterday's wind and rain has strewn the ground with leaves, especially under the apple trees. Rain coming after frost seems to loosen the hold of the leaves, making them rot off. Saw a woodchuck disappearing in his hole. [Photo Chad Lindahl]

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

About damn time

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look at this amazing specimen. Immature Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk just after taking flight, mid wing flap.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Counterpoint: A nuclear Israel is a threat to the whole world.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 23, 1852. Passing a corn-field the other day, close by a hat and coat on a stake, I recognized the owner of the farm. Any of his acquaintances would. He was only a trifle more weather[-beaten] than when I saw him last. [Art by Sydney P. Hall]

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Notice how he's slurring his words? The irony of this president of all people trying to define "intelligence" is staggering.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today I'm asking my representatives to do two things: 1. Support this investigation. 2. Do everything possible to stop the illegal boat strikes in the Caribbean.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 22, 1852. Sophia has in her herbarium and has found in Concord these which I have not seen this summer: Pogonia verticillata [whorled pogonia]. Hubbard's Second Wood. [Jacob] Bigelow says July. [Photo Michigan Natural Features Inventory]

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[Thoreau seems to be describing the stalked puffball in aspic.] Sept. 21, 1852. My red ball fungus blossoms in the path in the midst of its jelly. [Photos Melissa Kuo, Michael Kuo]

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thoreau, Sept. 20, 1838. It is a luxury to muse by a wall-side in the sunshine of a September afternoon, to cuddle down under a gray stone, and hearken to the siren song of the cricket. [Art by Andrew Wyeth]

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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OG 2Tone @offbydesign.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Mayor Scott deserves his flowers just as much as Mamdani. He's doing a lot with less and cares heavily for the city but doesn't get the recognition.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

President Trump proposes the world’s first memorial arch that can also kill you.

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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is the "moderate" president of Israel, overriding the wishes of the IDF (!) to pardon a cold blooded, cowardly murderer who shot a helpless man in the head as he lay incapacitated on the ground. The problem in Israel is wider than the Netanyahu-led far right. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Herzog pardons IDF soldier convicted of killing wounded Palestinian assailant

The IDF has previously objected to pardoning Azaria, citing his lack of remorse over his actions. Defense Minister Katz, who requested the pardon, said it sent a message that 'we do not leave our sold...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, totally normal to have a Russian oligarch pay for your wedding! And I am sure Don Junior will pay him right back!

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What do "democracies" have to do with Israel?

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sure, buddy, but could you take the 1 train to Mavis Discount Tire? I don't think so.

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