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@helpthebirds.bsky.social
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Nonprofit professional pinned under the moral arc of the universe. Democracy defender, immigration rights advocate, descendant of German immigrant who answered Lincoln's call to fight to save this country from that era's cast of evil dipshits

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Invasion Stripes @docmcdoom.bsky.social · 15h
This is the part of the decided game where Ossoff is throwing the ball off the backboard before the 2-handed dunk.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
El-Sayed on Mike Rogers's Florida mansion: "He just recently took it off the market, which of course to me implies that he's planning to move back in November once we hand him his rear end"
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littlenomad @littlenomad.bsky.social · 14h
Maine, for the love of God, send this woman to the retirement home this fall.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 13h
Not only did Aaron cover the El-Sayed and Ossoff debates, he also gave us Trump trying to tweet us into a race war, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption, Mutterin’ Markwayne Mullin-and more Plus he STILL gave us incredibly astute political analysis If you haven’t signed up yet what are you waiting for
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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VagrantGuru @vagrantguru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"You said that they should impeach Trump. Im...peach. Are you aware of what state is known as the 'Peach State'...And do you know that FANI WILLIS lives in that state?? AhhhhHAAAAA!"
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
❗️Russia is preparing a new direction of the front and will begin a large-scale movement along the entire line of contact in the winter, — Commander of the 1st OSHP Dmytro "Perun" Filatov
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“There were dogs and bikers; elders with gray hair and babies with no hair; people in Nationals jerseys and business casual attire (equally ubiquitous DC uniforms). Most wore one common item: a red pin that read, 'Hands Off the Arts'...” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’
The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😂🔥😂
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Again, he doesn’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws & court orders: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our music and our memories are being wiped out. AMERICA built this city. Not a president. Join us!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump Mocks Voters Complaining About High Gas Prices Trump claimed smart people understand paying more at the pump. meidasnews.com/news/trump-m...
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Trump Mocks Voters Complaining About High Gas Prices
Trump claimed smart people understand paying more at the pump.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump-Vance Campaign Sends Second Sketchy $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Check Email Pitch dangles checks and pushes a “mandatory poll” in hopes to extracting money from supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-v...
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Trump-Vance Campaign Sends Second Sketchy $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Check Email
Pitch dangles checks and pushes a “mandatory poll” in hopes to extracting money from supporters.
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Splendid Hobo @splendidhobo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I was never happier than when I was copying Sunday comics into silly putty
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump and the DOJ are officially liars. ✅ We knew that, but nothing like getting confirmation *from the contractor* that it effed up the Reflecting Pool, not vandals. And paid $14.7M for it. Time for apologies & charges now dismissed *w/prejudice* (permanently)? 🧾 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Gian D’Oh @giandoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dang man even the school of hard knocks upped its tuition
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 05/09/2026
📢 The US was the only country to vote against the move to limit use of the famous 16th-century Mercator map for the Equal Earth projection, saying it promoted an “ideological agenda”.
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Australia and Africa expand, North America and Europe shrink: UN adopts new world map
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation. It's that simple.
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helpthebirds.bsky.social @helpthebirds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Worst T ever!!
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Dee @hrts7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@raskin.house.gov Why are you not demanding Mitch McConnell show up?? WTF man
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Public outcry is still important even in the corporate oligarchy and tech bros trying to appease a mad king. Let's see what Google Maps does in the next few days.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When this nation’s first president chopped down one cherry tree, he was honest and contrite. When the current president chopped down a slew of cherry trees, he did so in violation of a court order—and didn’t give a shit.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare
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4deadreckoning.bsky.social @4deadreckoning.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And the unforced error of voting for RFK Jr was the ultimate hypocrisy and breach of both his Hippocratic oath and his oath to the Constitution.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Kelaoshi @kelaoshi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dems need to take note. Talarico is playing hardball.
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AL G. Bot @algorithmbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Are you my new mom?”
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helpthebirds.bsky.social @helpthebirds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Read and recommended. Go, Cory
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We got one. Let's talk about this. Google "Edward Hopper the Dory" real quick. Two things will turn up. This, and a picture of a boat. Now check the dictionary to find out what a dory is.
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[Clever Name Here] @fairelamoue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Last of Us burrito looks great.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Trump administration is opening nearly 45 million acres of national forest land to road construction and logging, stripping away protections that have been in place for 25 years.
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namehereguy.bsky.social @namehereguy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This paragraph kinda elides the fact that her apparently having total control over his media diet means she can majorly shape his perception of the world.
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"As long as Ms. Harp is around, he enjoys an unvetted flow of information, some of it poisonous and counterproductive, at least as far as a number of his other advisors are concerned. She supplies him with content she fishes out of the social media gutter  (like the video he posted depicting the Obamas as apes) and provides him with a view from the world outside official Washington, of which he has always been mistrustful. Her moniker is "the human printer" because she tails the president with a portable printer so she can hand him information in hard copy."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Alrighty then.
Several videos shared with The Times show Ms. Harp sprinting across great distances to keep up with Mr. Trump’s golf cart as it putters across his course in Scotland. “I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland,” she wrote in a letter to the president that was viewed by The Times.

The letter goes on to say: “I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time).”

The letter concludes: “With all my heart, Natalie.”
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Holy crap. “I’m just gonna be honest here, I’m not that, on national security, I’m not that informed on national security” You’re the sitting senator, FFS. Yes only by nepotism, but US/Taiwan/China is something you may want to spend an hour on 😳😳😳
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elfunrokr @elfunrokr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You're goddamn right. They ripped off the public and we won't forget. The midterms will be our revenge. So vote BLUE for ME and YOU to keep America great in 2028!
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D500998.bsky.social @d500998.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They’re going to start with a five episode series on Babe Ruth. Episode one will be available on Peacock only, episode two on Disney+ only, episode three on ESPN plus only, episode four on Hulu only, and episode five on MLB TV only.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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jackchancer.bsky.social @jackchancer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've often said that if we could get 12 years of a Democratic president things would improve enough that the republican mafia would collapse entirely, and we'd end up shifting the discussion to being between Progressive and Democrat policy instead. The Doom Loop illustrates my reasoning nicely.
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helpthebirds.bsky.social @helpthebirds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here here!
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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.
Apple Calendar entry for the science fiction future of 2026.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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