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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I only read #goodreads reviews once I’ve finished a book, but I’m always amazed at the number that basically say, “I hate books in this genre, with these types of characters in these types of situations. It was probably good but I never would have liked it. 2 stars”
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Fox One app has a really stupid AI automatically enabled in search, and when I searched for a particular replay, it told me the score. If I’m looking for a replay, chances are I don’t want to know who won. Thanks for ruining that, idiotic robot overlord. @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/09/2026
"The United States has a habit of making enemies for life. Analysts often discuss “forever wars” but talk far less about forever enemies, the countries trapped in amber in Washington’s imagination at the moment they first became adversaries." foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/24/i...
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Washington Is Creating Forever Enemies
The United States must learn to forget the pain of humiliation.
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apparently I’m on a one-woman quest to get America to adopt the term “social democracy.” 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey friends at @planetmoney.bsky.social! Snapped a pic of this wonderful display before purchasing the game for my sister’s birthday! (I also got her the classic squirrel holding martini glass tee when you did that series. I wish I had gotten one of those for myself!)
A Target store display prominently featuring the new Planet Money game, Sell Me A Sasquatch!
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey, @merriam-webster.com, any idea why folks have started spelling “whoa” as “woah”? To me that would have to have two syllables, and I hear it in my head as wo-ah anytime I read it.
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are at least 5 American cities called Ontario. And we all stole the name anyway.Just saying.
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Boredwalk @boredwalk.com · 23/08/2026
Imagine being so privileged to have the power to truly change the world and choosing to make it worse.
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Summertime in the country
Queen Anne’s Lace photographed from beneath, a partially cloudy sky and field in the background
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/07/2026
THE TRUTH ABOUT NEW JERSEY: It was a glitch. These folks didn’t try to register to vote as US citizens. When they applied for driver’s licenses or IDs, they correctly identified as non-citizens. A software glitch overrode their non-citizen status & mistakenly added them to voter rolls.
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ooh! Someone said #BirdOfTheDay, so I had to share this intrepid female eastern bluebird out after the rain. #mood
A very wet eastern bluebird eats mealworms from a very wet dish.
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I recently learned that George Lucas originally conceived C-3PO to have a sleazy New York cabbie accent (his description), so 🤷🏻‍♀️
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/11/2025
Hard day today Here's what we think about trusting CDC
Today we woke up to our public health allies telling the public that they can't trust CDC anymore
More than a little demoralizing
Because it's complicated
The actual scientists at CDC - the ones you should trust - are not in control of public-facing webpages
The conspiracy theorists are running the messaging
And yet, most of us scientists... are still doing good science
It's just not making it out

We're still supporting local health departments 
We're still running our disease surveillance systems
We're still on call for emergencies 24/7
Despite intense staffing shortages from multiple waves of RIFs
And chronically being under-resourced
Those of us left are still working hard to keep everything going
We are proud of our mission
And we persist, goddammit

Yet
We can also say... read the CDC webpages with skepticism
Don't treat them as the gold standard. Corroborate the information with other trusted, independent sources.
Many are still fine, but even we don't know when the political appointees are going to change their content
And this is a painful thing for us to say
So we just ask that, if you read or say "Don't trust the CDC!"
You remember that we're here still trying to serve the nation, throw sand in the gears, and weather the storm
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 12/11/2025
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11/11/2025
Wait, what???? "Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue for Jack Smith Searches (1)
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/11/2025
Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We just wanted to say thank you to everyone! ICE agents keep lying under oath, and you’re the reason the truth is coming out. Your videos and documentation have been crucial in revealing the truth behind those claims.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/11/2025
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/10/2025
Good night, friends. Thinking of everyone in the Caribbean facing Hurricane Melissa - we hope you and your loved ones all stay safe. 💚 Massive thanks to our NOAA colleagues, literally flying into the eye of the storm, working without pay (‼️), because their expertise saves lives. #NOAA #FedStrong
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying into Hurricane Melissa without pay
Melissa is about to deliver Jamaica its most devastating blow from a hurricane.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/10/2025
Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/10/2025
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/10/2025
The dazzling aerial photos honored by the 2025 Siena awards offer "new ways of seeing familiar places," as one judge puts it.
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Drone photo winners will amaze your eyeballs: From a high-up horseman to a holy river
The dazzling aerial photos honored by the 2025 Siena awards offer "new ways of seeing familiar places," as one judge puts it.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Now THIS is a mission the National Guard can be proud of. 🙌 Via @voteinorout.bsky.social
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Got a little teary at this. These people want to serve the American public.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Andrew the Psycho-Statistician @greatchumpion.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Montana is the key Citizen's United is campaign finance law, but Montana realized that defining what a corporation is and what personhood benefits it gets has always been... A state's right to control business, a messier topic There's a 2026 ballot measure to sidestep Citizen's United in the state
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Good Faith Arguments @goodfaitharguments.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Never give up. Special shoutout to Daizy at the post office who found the best stamps for this mailing. #Prop50 #GOTV
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/10/2025
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 22/10/2025
People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/10/2025
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan
Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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