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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 6h
LET BOOKS BE ACCESSIBLE! Attempts to limit access for the intended audience are acts of censorship. Let's take a look at the harmful myths and misinformation censors use to justify their actions. And find ways to push back! #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 9h
https://substack.com/@artleytoons/note/c-346046656?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3gwynu
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h
We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.
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Monsters Are Gutting America @paularevere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 16h
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 9h
This 👇
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h
somehow i have had this very specific experience of reading absolutely fucking bonkers ayfkm trump tweets from italy for ten years now
bonkers trump tweet about ai nomenclature
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 11h
TODAY'S COMIC: Biannual www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/biannu...
PANEL 1: SHELDON, a ten year old boy with large glasses, trots along a sidewalk wearing a backpack. Next to him is ARTHUR, a yellow duck, who runs next to him, looking angry. Behind them is green grass, a brown fence, and green bushes all set aside a sunny sky.
ARTHUR: “Biannual” makes no dang sense.

PANEL 2: Closer up on ARTHUR as he walks along the sidewalk.
ARTHUR: “Biweekly” means every two weeks. OR twice a week. “Bimonthly” means every two months. OR twice a month. So those two words are already day-drinking.

PANEL 3: Closer in on ARTHUR, as he continues to run against a blue background.
ARTHUR: But out of nowhere, “BIANNUAL” stands its ground and says “Nope! I ONLY mean twice a year”?

PANEL 4: SHELDON has stopped running and turns to reply to ARTHUR, who, eyes wide, yells in frustration.
SHELDON: It’s because there’s also the word biEnnial, which means—
ARTHUR: I AM GOING TO SCREAM BIWEEKLY. GUESS WHO OFTEN.

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Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
This week’s ep of PN Pod features me & @paulwaldman.bsky.social discussing Hegseth’s barbaric announcement about making public executions great again, the sad spectacle of Trump’s midterm rallies, & why voters pretending he’s on the ballot is actually the last thing Republicans want. Check it out:
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We've reached the livestreamed executions part of Trump 2.0
We talk Hegseth’s barbarity, Trump’s increasingly sad rallies, and more.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
JD Vance is just out here throwing right-wing slop against the wall and hoping something sticks
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h
Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru
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Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru
The left-wing candidate won a narrow victory in a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, exit polls show.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h
i think the administration’s midterm strategy of deploying thoroughly unlikable and unpleasant pieces of shit to races they’re losing that they should be winning is going great, and they should keep it up, real face of the party shit going on here
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme
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amb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2026
the onion saw this coming back in april
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WIRED @wired.com · 9h
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 9h
Author Jason Reynolds didn't spend much time in libraries as a child, but as an adult he found an anchoring point in them. Reynolds is the author of many award-winning titles. Two of his books appear on ALA's list of the Top 150 Most Challenged Books bit.ly/4jJJxiQ #BannedBooksWeek
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 9h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 9h
This is clearly not acceptable
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 8h
ALA stands with library workers, readers, and communities working to keep books available. Our work helps ensure everyone can seek information and make their own reading choices. Your gift makes that work possible. Helps us protect the freedom to read at ala.org/protect. #BannedBooksWeek
Colorful art of various monsters and creatures reading books. Art by Hyesu Lee, copyright ALA. Text reads: "HELP US PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ." ALA.ORG/PROTECT. American Library Association logo
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Scott Jennings responded to getting denied the press sec job by opening his heart to Mitch McConnell during their latest emotional 20 minute call
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h
Please look at this dog
This is maybe a dog but also maybe some kind of weird collapsible handbag or a slumbering albino kangaroo or a canine pocket dimension, anyway if it is a dog, it’s a dog sleeping in such a way that his back legs are folded up all the way up past his nose which is only possible in an Escher print, anyway his name is Cooper, he is a hound lab mix, he is baby
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Q: Did you personally authorize or approve the livestreamed execution? TRUMP: Did I approve? Absolutely I did
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Natalie Harp and her bag boards Marine One #TravelWithNatalie
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h
The man with artificial hair, teeth, doctor’s reports, lifts in his shoes, scalp reduction surgery, a girdle, and a painted orange face claims we’re his enemy if we use the word “artificial.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h
what is with the standing here
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h
He was more sympathetic to the convicted sex trafficker.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 8h
Oh well if she's nice I guess a little corruption is okay.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 8h
“I’ve heard she’s a real human being who does normal stuff so I’m curious about her strange ways.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump is turning into a centaur. Look at the hindquarters on this thing. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
Trump and his gigantic ass walking out of the White House with [checks notes] Mike Tyson
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
Whistles work! New York, get some whistles.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 11h
New #WriterBeware blog post: Two artists' decisions to go public this week reveal new concerns at Must Read Magazines, which was the subject of controversy last year over its unfriendly contract terms writerbeware.blog/2026/10/09/m...
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More Rights Grabs from Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware
In early 2025, a group called Must Read Magazines acquired a suite of six well-known genre fiction magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Scien...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
JD Vance blatantly lies: "We've made a lot of progress. Inflation is way lower today than it was when we took office." (Inflation has gone up!)
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 11h
Lol wtf We’re so fucking cooked
A black and white photo of the Hudson Yards schwarmaIf you zoom in on the lower right corner of the photo, it says “NEW YORM CITY 1995.” The Schwarma was built in 2019. There’s a Sephora in the background, but Sephora’s first NYC store opened in 1998, and it sure as shit wasn’t in Hudson Yards, construction of which began in 2012.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
JD Vance distances himself from Hegseth's televised execution: "Look, if it's ultimately livestreamed, I'm not going to be watching it"
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 11h
4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A man reads in a cosy armchair surrounded by books. "I've read so much." Panel 2: He looks wistful. "But lived so little." Panel 3: He throws open the curtains excitedly. "I bet a world of wonders awaits me outside!" Panel 4: Outside is total chaos – atomic cloud, buildings on fire, UFOs in the sky, lightning, people fleeing. He stares blankly.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h
this is commentary and as you would expect this is an actual Congressperson and there's ZERO in here about what she will be doing about this as an elected official or what her party plans to do.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Peter Navarro on a hot mic: "So, this shithead at the pool camera won't turn on the camera" (Shame C-SPAN didn't take more of this)
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Haughty Robot @haughtyrobot.bsky.social · 11h
Yeah…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
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As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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Haughty Robot @haughtyrobot.bsky.social · 11h
“Once we’ve shot everyone things will be great.” 🙄
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gender Queer has only been out for 7 of the last 35 years, yet it is number one on this list.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13h
Breaking: President Trump elevates Secretary of Renaming Things to Cabinet-level position.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump: "They viciously attacked the reflecting pool. Cutting it with probably box knives. Knives or box knives. Uh, boxcutters and uh, it's almost fixed now and finished."
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