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dad, reader, writer, editor, baseball fan, former journo. MeFite.

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 25/09/2026
/ U CULD SEE UR NOR'EASTER HEADED 2WARDS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND & BOSTON QUITE CLEARLY ON THIS FUTURE BLOBDAR / UP2 5 INCH FREE WATER FROM UR WEATHER LORDS / W/ A WICKED WIND W/ WICKED GUSTS UP2 55 MPH / MOST OF UR FRIDAY THO UR WETLESS / RAINBLOBS FLOAT OVER SUMTIME FRINITE / TEMPS IN THE MID 60S
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of course this particular bear is my pick for Fat Bear Week. Thumbnail is vague, so click through: explore.org/meet-the-bea...
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Meet The Bears of Fat Bear Week - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The vast majority denied SNAP are denied for procedural reasons. Even 4 in 10 of those with NO INCOME in the previous year are denied, with 80% of those denied for *procedural reasons*, or, effectively, missing paperwork. And The One Big Beautiful Bill is making this so much worse.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm watching Jimmy Kimmel's interview of Talarico and how I wish everyone could just watch these 94 seconds. Please take a minute and half of your day. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
he got him. he finally fucking got him
real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sign the pledge. "Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history —the NLRB... found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges." www.boycottstarbucks.net#pledge-now
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Literally every factoid on the right side is incorrect, plus he was not right-handed, and didn’t wear #32 for the Dodgers. Pretty sure that’s isn’t even a depiction of his face, either. But other than that, DogShitAI nailed it
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
While they're at it, let's replace the turbines with paddlewheels.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The only time Republicans get upset about kids getting shot is when it’s with vaccines.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A tax that is losing money? You can see how this guy managed to bankrupt a casino.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
War and Tariffs is a multisyllabic way of saying Trump
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Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
New: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is trying to help Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. avoid paying $243 million to victims of a fatal car crash involving the company’s Autopilot driving technology. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/floridas-a...
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Florida's attorney general is trying to help Elon Musk's Tesla get out of a $243 million verdict
Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a last two minutes. Spence goes out, France goes right through his space and scores, then Bellingham with a great run gets his goal - after giving up his great chance via PK to Saka. And that’s just two-plus minutes of a 6-4 game. Unreal.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There goes the most promising Rays team and season in a decade. Dammit
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026
harpers.org/archive/2018...
21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Everything he touches.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In England they will forever sing songs of the valiant stand by their outnumbered heroes. Legendary.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If Trump isn’t on the phone tomorrow to get Balogun un-suspended what even was the point of all that corruption
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Everyone in our country should read this. Sending love and support to Pete and Chasten and their twins.
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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is like the old days on Twitter. I just saw it now, but this person predicted the reflecting pool debacle a month ago.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
100 minutes of soccer, maybe 15 seconds of drama. Sigh
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hmmm. Can anyone think of an obese 79-year-old with the power to get NIH and FDA to give him access to a novel obesity drug?
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“… eight years after President Donald Trump’s forcible border separations … an Associated Press investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together.” apnews.com/article/immi...
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Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Four tries on 82-0.com. I'm unlikely to do better than this:
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow. Hand him the Pulitzer right now. (Is there still a Pulitzer for editorial cartooning? Ugh, now apparently it's "Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.")
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
relevant for @dwillis.bsky.social and his never-ending project
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The most embarrassing part of this correction is the reporter’s reliance on AI to do her job… But the second-most embarrassing part is that this corrrection ran more than two weeks after the story was published. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...
Editors' Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation, The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, "My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny." He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
no mariners murdered on the high seas, no boats sunk, no evidence destroyed — www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Spain seizes record amount of cocaine in Atlantic Ocean, authorities say
The Civil Guard found between 30,000 and 45,000kg of the drug on a freighter headed to Libya.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.
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Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
From AP, summing up the US today in one sentence: "... Companies continue to deliver big growth in profits. Tyson Foods... sold less beef than it did a year ago, but it did so at prices that were 11.5% higher, so its total beef revenue edged up."
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Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New: Aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly devised a plan to kick as many as 100,000 Floridians off their health insurance — including mothers of children as young as six years old, according to records obtained by Seeking Rents. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/desantis-p...
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DeSantis pushed lawmakers to purge Medicaid, records show
Nearly 100,000 Floridians may have lost their health insurance under a plan that Ron DeSantis quietly pitched to the Florida Legislature, according to records obtained by Seeking Rents.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...
Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
it occurs to me that with the Callais ruling, Alito and the Roberts majority are essentially validating the core of critical race theory -- that systems and structures in America can be supposedly race-neutral (like redistricting under Alito's arguments) and yet discriminate against people of color.
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Chris Chavez @chrischavez.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
One of the very first lessons I learned in journalism was that you have to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Events like the WHCA dinner - even before this year - where reporters cozy up with the people they’re supposed to be holding accountable- violate that principle.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“To Protect and Swerve” is imperfect but both unforgettable and LOL funny and thus brilliant. Also, what a hell of a story and a perfect example of what I often say - great investigative data journalism does not require rocket science-level skills or tools.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has cut more than 4,000 employees from some of the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies, even as it vowed to crack down on crime, according to ​records obtained by Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Satellite imagery reveals that US has damaged or destroyed an estimated 7,645 buildings in Iran (including 60 schools) while killing at least 3,300 individuals since 28 Feb. Nearly 3,000 of those buildings were in Tehran
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Satellite Data Reveal Scope and Scale of US-Israeli Strikes on Iran
New data analysis shows the level of destruction in Tehran and across the Islamic Republic — and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out war.
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
1. For $500,000, you can have a one-on-one meeting with Trump tomorrow, according to an email solicitation obtained by Popular Information. Follow this thread for details. 🧵
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$500,000 buys a “one-on-one meeting” with Trump
On Friday, President Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event.
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gully @gullyd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
hey @jonbois.bsky.social it's kinda weird, for a couple of days I haven't felt like I'm getting any older
an an image from Jon Bois' epic story "17776" saying that on April 7, 2026, people stopped being born, aging or dying.
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