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Helena Handbasket

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Word nerd, artist and fixer, I do love me a good laugh. I’m still with her.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 21h
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 28/09/2026
One might argue that this bee is wearing this entire flower as a hat. 🤠 #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #Photgraphy #Flowers #Bees #Hats
A large bee, covered with pollen, is sitting on a pink and green plant.  Its head is completely under a petal with antennae flat and sticking out in both directions from under the flower's petal and stamen.
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is alllllll making a lot of sense
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Europe has been expanding legal access to abortion. Abortion on request is now legal in 25 of the 27 EU countries, according to a new study. Malta and Poland are still the two big outliers, as abortion is allowed only in very narrow circumstances.
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Europe’s abortion laws are getting more liberal, study finds | Rapporteur
Abortion is now legal almost everywhere in the EU, but countries still retain criminal penalties and barriers to care
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every ring in the wood holds years of sun, drought and rain, artisans turn that hidden history into one-of-a-kind art no machine could ever copy.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning Kitten
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 28/09/2026
Susan Collins pledged to serve just TWO terms. Now she’s running for a SIXTH. Trust matters. Promises matter. Troy Jackson is fighting for working families, lower drug costs & protecting Social Security. After 30 years, Maine deserves more than “concerned.” #MainePolitics #TroyJackson #SheShed
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh they are scurrying to scrub everything
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a big brother who understood his assignment. Kind of brother we all wanted. Did you have one like this?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans really love Community Notes. It’s the only thing keeping their posts remotely connected to reality.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 28/09/2026
A new lawsuit challenges Medicaid regulations set to go into effect Jan. 1 that could hinder access to healthcare for people with chronic conditions. A Kansas City-based nonprofit says its client qualifies but struggles to clear administrative hurdles.
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140,000 Missourians are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under a new rule. One enrollee is suing
A new lawsuit challenges Medicaid regulations set to go into effect Jan. 1 that could hinder access to healthcare for pe
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't give a damn if the media is calling a landslide. Get your ass to the polls anyway! Complacency is how we lose. Drop the comfort, lock in, and vote like democracy depends on it—because it does!
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 29/09/2026
For centuries, popes cited a fake imperial decree to justify expanding the church’s power. The medieval forgery shows misinformation was shaping politics long before AI and internet deepfakes. theconversation.com/the-medieval...
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The medieval world had its own ‘deepfakes’ – church officials cited a fake imperial decree for centuries
The forged document was used as leverage to try to expand papal control throughout the Italian peninsula.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Dems may be positioned to take back the House, but this is no time for complacency. Jeffries is right to put healthcare front and center. Medicaid, healthcare costs, and who government actually works for are going to be major issues in this fight. Nothing is won yet.
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Helena Handbasket @helena-hand-basket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t get close to wildlife. That horny elk could very easily end you quicker than you can become scared by becoming simultaneously gored and airborne.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They should consider themselves lucky this time. #wildlife #nature #bullelk #estespark IG: @goodbullguided www.instagram.com/goodbullguid...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
ICE just spent $16.7 million on electric shock gloves that human rights organizations like Amnesty International warn “could be readily misused for torture.” When parents in Omaha, Nebraska, learned that school resource officers had these same devices, they decided to fight back. WATCH:
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans' closing argument heading into November: please pretend our president is popular, ignore the gas prices, and if you vote for us, maybe there's $5,000 in it for you. It is not going well for them.
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Republicans' Closing Arguments Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate
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Helena Handbasket @helena-hand-basket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breakfast is a full contact blood sport!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things are going great. OpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model because it failed to meet safety standards. Meanwhile Anthropic just filed for an IPO, per Reuters. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/o...
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OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as safety concerns escalate
The heads of OpenAI and rival Anthropic have both indicated recently that top AI labs should slow the pace of model development.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trumpy is still doing incredibly stupid shit and he loses most of the time, because he's a total idiot.
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: I wasn't effective enough at my job to protect Texans from a child predator
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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson made history by becoming the first English woman to officially qualify as a doctor. She later achieved another major milestone by becoming the first female surgeon in England. #History #HistoryMatters
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On this day in 1839, Frances Willard was born. She became a social reformer and the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the nineteenth century’s largest U.S. organization of women. Willard championed woman suffrage and also mobilized to raise marriage ages for girls. #WeTheMen
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Most experts agree: diesel export ban MAY initially lower prices in SOME areas of the US, the south and midwest. But long term would backfire both in our national security (including alliances) and in price. Global Diesel prices would eventually skyrocket as a result and those prices would hit us
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Palantir founder Peter Thiel: “If you’re evil, you’re not bad. You’re actually maybe kind of good.” Apparently, even evil gets a rebranding campaign.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An adult bear popped open a parked car in Gatlinburg, and the whole family piled in for a little retail therapy. They raided the car, grabbed what they could, then dumped the loot in the parking lot.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He harvests invasive purple sea urchins destroying California kelp forests, and still pays the fish tax like everyone else
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Working together
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone who needs to watch a documentary to find out that Elon Musk is a clown-Nazi weirdo has been living in a cave.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Said no woman EVER... 😆🤣
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've always been captivated by the "Freedom" sculpture on Vine St., of a figure breaking free of a wall in 4 stages, with the final figure on the sidewalk, arms outstretched and faced lifted. I think it makes our city more interesting, which is the most any of us who love Philly can hope to do. 🧵1/3
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 28/09/2026
Zuckerberg’s fortune fell another $11 billion on Monday as Meta shares retreated from a September rally.
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Zuckerberg Loses Another $11 Billion Monday As Meta Shares Slide—Here’s Why
Zuckerberg’s fortune fell another $11 billion on Monday as Meta shares retreated from a September rally.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
What my DMs look like right now. Why? Because a woman is suing the 7 men at Cornell who drugged, trafficked, and raped her—and I wrote an article addressing all men and condemning rapists. And predictably—weak men are offended. Here’s my article upsetting them: www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice.
New - Senate poll - New Hampshire

🔵 Chris Pappas 47.4%
🔴 John Sununu 40.5%

Trafalgar #B - LV - 9/27
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why clownfish are not afraid of human hands? Repost of @AadityaAnand_11: Original post
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