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he/him. baltimore. anti-fascist. cats. cars. toy soldiers. trying to take your guns away.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 02/10/2026
Last year, a resident of Maryland’s Wicomico County called on local officials to reject a contract with ICE. “It’s about fear and control,” she said. Now, she is running for sheriff herself, challenging a longtime right-wing sheriff.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scott is getting outraised?
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 02/10/2026
Oh is this a thing? I thought I was just in Guangzhou’s weirdest viral mall
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A low key Democratic objective should be to bankrupt every industry/actor who sought to exploit just how corrupt these fascists are.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Philly monster just dropped share.inquirer.com/Wrd1yT
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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots
"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If your nozzle isn’t assembled by disabled US veterans, you can shove it up your ass
The Big Shot Super Nozzle “assembled by disabled US veterans”
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." – @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, in the Journal of Democracy 🎯 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
On these issues, the parties have become increasingly divided. By 2024, Republicans scored significantly higher, on average, than Democrats and independents on racial resentment against black Americans, belief that women’s place is in the home, endorsement of Christian nationalism, and belief in “replacement theory” (the conspiracy theory that immigrants are part of a Democratic Party plot to replace white Christian Americans). These party differences did not exist in the 1980s, when Democrats were more racially resentful, Republicans were less misogynistic, and neither party broadly supported Christian nationalism or replacement theory.

From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Ms. Collins, a moderate, is not close to Mr. Trump and has often sought to distance herself from some of his policies."
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Futurama Fry's Suspicious 'Hmmp' Look
ALT: Futurama Fry's Suspicious 'Hmmp' Look
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Signs you might be a far white authoritarian party (#3437):
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23/09/2026
Normal country
Even medical professionals are skipping health insurance because of high prices
A larger share of health care workers have health insurance than those in other fields. But they are feeling the pinch as health insurance costs rise.
September 20, 2026
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🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is beautiful. And the idea that banning medical care for trans kids is some kind of morally acceptable compromise is absolutely fucked.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.
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gare bear @gtherk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/what...
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What Are We Even Talking About Here - Lawyers, Guns & Money
AI is a computation. The contention of the AI boosters seems to be that if you do enough computations, you can produce consciousness. That might make sense if we knew what consciousness is. We don’t. ...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15/09/2026
Hey grok should I shit or pee my pants. What’s the probability of each. Put together a timeline. Explain
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore says “free Palestine” and the ADL applauds him losing gigs for it. Kanye West puts out a song called “Heil Hitler” the org can’t be bothered to have an opinion on it. Instead, they insert themselves into the concert venues to do trainings on hate symbols.
In addition, the ADL has been working to put together a "best practices" guide which will include training venue workers on anti-Semitic symbols, statements and other totems. Those materials will be available to workers at both of Ye's shows.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Donald Trump's declining health should be a constant news story. Whether or not a president can do the job isn't just about elections. It's about the security of the nation.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/09/2026
I don’t say this enough, but the Business Journal is the most … normal … business publication in town (complimentary). I wish their gift article sharing was better. (Archive.ph bonked a couple times I tried it.) Anyway, the article well-done about a tragedy that keeps consuming good people.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is ethnic cleansing.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is so real. The shit people would say to my white mother was so heinous that she cut off multiple friendships within days of the attacks. A lot of people asking if my dad knew the hijackers or about The Plan. Oh, and my mom thought he’d died in the towers while being asked all of this.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/09/2026
setting aside all that really matters, painting a meme of yourself to commemorate the day the meme was created is very Baudrillard
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anyway Scott Pressler is a Qanon freak who was at J6 and once (allegedly) filmed a pornography in a campaign office. Republicans campaign with him all the time. Bigger deal than Hasan Piker, imo.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kind of incredible that they didn't let it soar earlier so they could tap into the reserve before the election to artificially lower prices. I guess it confirms at least that Trump really didn't believe this would go on and on.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OMG, United thought it would be a good idea to fly a United Boeing 777 flanked by fighter jets flying over Denver on Friday to commemorate 9/11. Now, the City of Denver has to warn everyone not to panic and call emergency services when they see it. www.9news.com/article/news...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These people need to be shunned and mocked for their pathological selfishness and cruelty
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 09/09/2026
basically face tats for white supremacist women
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New records released today tell us Rudy Giuliani knew the air at Ground Zero was dangerous but lied to New Yorkers. People died because of this. Yet no right wing media outlet will ask him about it abcnews.com/US/nyc-mayor...
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NYC Mayor Mamdani releases thousands of long-sought city documents on 9/11 air quality
First responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“.. Inflation has wiped out all wage gains since April (and March was close). .. Credit card debt is at a record high, savings is the lowest in years, and personal loan use is up. Consumption is almost certainly going to slow.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump thinks that if you pay somebody $10 for a burrito than you have lost the $10, like it has been stolen from you. He's not pretending; this is literally the basis of his trade policy
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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