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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today's Reliable Sources lead >>> In the 1997 movie “Wag the Dog,” a fictional president starts a war abroad to distract from scandals at home. “This is ‘Wag the Dog,’ except you start a war with the media,” a network source remarked to me... www.cnn.com/newsletters/...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
And so for Democrats to say, They have a point on some of this, it is engendering a lot of hopelessness and a lot of fear in the trans community, because we have been just trying to hold on, hoping that this time would end and we would be able to get back to where we were five years, six years ago. And what Democrats are signaling is, like, No, we’re going to keep things as they are, and maybe even make them worse.
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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Very illuminating article. The work of some of these researchers, whose conduct here is described by the committer as “reprehensible”, has been cited or indirectly relied upon for years by anti-trans commentators and writers
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Researchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youth
Oslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct …
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/09/2026
Now is a good time for you to sign the petition demanding that the criminal who conspired to endanger first responders, and supported insurrection and election denial, be prohibited from attending 9/11 observances and disrespecting survivors and the city: c.org/DWLWktyGcj
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Sign the Petition
Ban Rudy Giuliani from 9/11 observances
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Ghostshirt @ghostshirt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If it doesn’t falltime soon imma riot
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A potential environmental disaster is unfolding off Oman, where a grounded tanker is leaking sanctioned Russian crude oil in a protected marine area. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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New aerial video reveals huge scale of oil spill off Oman
A potential environmental disaster is unfolding off Oman, where a grounded tanker is leaking sanctioned Russian oil.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"We should be careful/Of each other, we should be kind/While there is still time." (Larkin, The Mower.)
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found   
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,   
Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.   
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world   
Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence   
Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind   
While there is still time.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trump's war on "far-left extremism" has an unlikely ally: a top Democratic lobby org, per email leaked to me 👇 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-democ...
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Leak: Democratic Org “Anti-Extremism” Project Targets Left
Joins Trump's war on “Far-Left Extremism”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control
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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My latest game came out yesterday. WOLF is a shooter for Game Boy Color. RT to help spread the word please. thalamusdigital.itch.io/wolf-game-bo... ⁠ #indieDev #retrogames #GameBoy
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Ghostshirt @ghostshirt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I gotta say the long john silvers iPhone app leaves me wanting. So many missed opportunities.
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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.
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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Release Day!🆕 Easily play 10 of my Game Boy games on PC. Zero setup. Just Play. The Pocket Collection -> thalamus.link/pocket #GameBoy #RetroGaming #pixelArt #indieDev #GBStudio #GBDK2020
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/07/2026
Hey congressional comms staffers, I’ll save you some effort: “I wish my good friend Lindsey Graham had succeeded in enabling the insurrectionists to kill me, a goal that people on both sides of the aisle can agree on, so that I could have been in hell to greet him today.”
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump ADMITTED to doing 9/11 live on the air, as he calls for war on Israel. 🚨 Hear the stunning confession now!!!
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Does protesting authoritarianism alienate moderates? New working paper on 1960s West German student movement suggests protest was associated with modest *increase* in support for the center left, potentially by reshaping perceptions of the far right. osf.io/preprints/so...
Title page of an academic working paper titled The Electoral Effects of Anti-Authoritarian Protest: Evidence from the West German Student Movement. The author is Julian Voß, and the paper is dated July 6, 2026.Abstract of a working paper examining whether anti-authoritarian protest generates electoral backlash. Using evidence from the 1960s West German student movement, the study finds no city-level backlash. Instead, protest is associated with increased support for the center-left Social Democrats, apparently driven by defections from the center right and by changes in how voters perceived the far-right NPD and democratic threats.Map of West Germany showing the spatial distribution of student protest events between 1965 and 1969. Municipalities with protest activity are shaded in progressively darker red to indicate one, two to five, or more than five events. Protest occurred across much of West Germany, with clusters around major urban areas, while East Germany is shaded gray.Dot-and-whisker plot showing estimated associations between protest exposure and party support at the individual level. Protest exposure is associated with higher support for the Social Democrats (SPD) and lower support for the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), with little apparent change for the far-right NPD or the liberal FDP. Results are similar across models using respondent-only controls and models that additionally include municipality controls.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
American was just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving "Antifa" zines; yet there were zero questions about NSPM-7 at the Homeland Secretary's hearing on capitol hill today. You do not hate Congress enough.
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Ghostshirt @ghostshirt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Always. Without exception. Resisting government intrusion on speech (and the presentation thereof) is a social justice issue, because these restrictions hit marginalized people first and hardest.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
House Dems. Impeachment resolution. Bill Pulte. That is all.
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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Starseed 3 is OUT NOW! 👾 Get it here -> thalamusdigital.itch.io/starseed-3-g... #gameBoy #pixelart #indiedev #gbstudio #GBDK2020 #retrogaming #shmup
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Mamdani is going to start an arms race of elected officials actually doing good things for their constituents. It's going to infuriate most Democrats who prefer to tell their voters to fuck off while texting for dollars.
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Mamdani's $50 World Cup ticket lottery fuels feud with N.J.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that 1,000 tickets costing just $50 will be made available to residents of the city of more than 8 million for the World Cup.
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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
SURPRISE! Starseed 3 launches on MONDAY👾 Tell your Mom. #gameBoy #pixelart #indiedev #gbstudio #GBDK2020 #retrogaming #shmup
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Jesus, look at this thing: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14... The IRS is apparently "FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED" from investigating Trump, his companies, and his family ever again because the Acting Attorney General (his old personal attorney) says so.
The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES each of the Plaintiffs from, and is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action, appeals, or requests for any relief, including injunctive relief, monetary relief, damages, examinations or similar or related reviews, appeals, debt relief, costs, attorney's fees, expenses, and/or interest, whether presently known or unknown, that-as of the Effective Date of the Settlement Agreement-have been or could have been asserted by Defendants against any of the Plaintiffs or related or affiliated individuals (including, without limitation, family or others filing jointly), or parties including trusts, parent, sister, or related companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries, by reason of, with respect to, in connection with, or which arise out of (1) any matters that were raised or could have been raised in the Case or the Pending Agency Claims; (2) Lawfare and/or Weaponization; or (3) any matters currently pending or that could be pending (including tax returns filed before the Effective Date) before Defendants or other agencies or departments.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am not an expert on these things but it seems politically fraught for the president to use our tax dollars to pay off the people who stormed the U.S. Capital at the same time his tariffs and war are making everything we buy more expensive.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
DOJ to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of “elaborate” bribery involving “corruption & fraud at the expense of US investors” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n... because Adani promised (with no contract) to invest $10B in the US & create 15k jobs. 🤮Openly corrupt. Hope a judge refuses!
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U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 01/05/2026
A friend who worked in Albany once told me: “Liberals always think there’s some bureaucratic fix—independent commissions, etc—that will make democracy fair. But the GOP will ratfuck anything. The only thing that matters is to organize and take power.”
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’m old enough to remember when he thought covid was real enough to try to send CPAP machines and pretend they could be ventilators
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The point at which a sane, morally principled award winning teacher who is angry about school shootings picks up a gun and thinks it’s the only way to make a difference is a bad place to be in. Dismissing him as a crazy person and blaming Dems is disingenuous and dishonest
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.
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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026
Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.
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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm no fancy politician, but if I was a member of Congress and the President (the guy with the nuclear codes) was ranting like a madman about killing "a whole civilization," I would end my vacation pretty quickly
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
All the fall guys are women. Weird
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Christiaan Triebert posted photos to X of what the pellets and aftermath look like. These are new Lockheed Martin missiles we reportedly used to kill girls at volleyball practice on Feb. 28. The missile detonates just above a target and spews pellets outward.
photo of a hand with a small tungsten pellet fragmentPock marked road from the tungsten pellets of a new Lockheed Martin PrSM missileA building with many pock marks from pellets of a new missile
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
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