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Lise la mimi 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lise-lamimi.bsky.social · 9h

conservative : I don't care about an issue until it affects me!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 17h

MAGA… This is Republican lawmakers “socialism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐

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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.

At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.

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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?

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Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI is supersizing lots of existing problems. Fraud has been a problem for a while in the US. AI makes it worse.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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laddy28.bsky.social @laddy28.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shame on MLB for the ask. Billionaires United.

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Hillary Rettig (she / her) @hillaryrettig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If people voting their conscience is a threat to your candidate, maybe it's not the people who are the problem. Not to mention, the Dems have been losing on all levels for decades. Even as the expedient choice, they're a losing bet.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since we don't have an inspection system anymore, may as well make one up. 🙄

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mary Allen Wilkes is a pioneering computer scientist, logic designer, and attorney. She is celebrated for writing the foundational system software for the LINC (1960s), which is widely recognized as the world's first personal computer. She was born #OTD in 1937 & is 89 today. #WomenInSTEM #CompSci

Photograph of Mary Allen Wilkes (born 1937), the pioneering computer scientist, logic designer, and attorney renowned for writing the foundational operating system software for the LINC, the world's first personal computer. She is shown from the chest up, facing slightly to her right with an open, engaging expression and a warm smile. She has short, styled white hair and wears thin, round wire-rimmed spectacles. Her attire features a layered ensemble: a dark grey or taupe turtleneck sweater paired with an open black cardigan jacket. She wears a prominent, tiered statement necklace consisting of three nested strands of oblong black, grey, and cream beads.The backdrop is an understated, minimalist office or lecture setting with pale beige walls and a dark vertical partition line visible on the left. In the lower right corner, the glossy edge of a modern laptop screen is partially visible, hinting at a professional presentation or speaking engagement. The overall composition is clean and centered, creating an approachable, intellectually distinguished mood that underscores her lasting historical significance as an elder stateswoman of computer science and law.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NOBODY should be killed by heat at work, whether in the fields or at an airport. 1/2

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CLT airport union calls for better conditions after cleaning worker's death

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Free speech absolutist is at it again I see

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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is what class solidarity looks like.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 September 1910 | A Polish Jew, Szylym Fligielman, was born in Warsaw. A hairdresser. In #Auschwitz from 4 September 1941. No. 20367 He perished in the camp on 10 October 1941. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en

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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 In just a few days his ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ grocery drive has brought together thousands of Texans. James Talarico is proud to announce that his campaign has collected over 20,000 pounds of groceries for working Texas. 🔹Talarico organizes MASSIVE grocery drive for Texans. @jamestalarico.bsky.social

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James Talarico organizes MASSIVE grocery drive for Texans

YouTube video by James Talarico

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Rylie Fennec @fennecfoxrylie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stay mad. 🛫

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Carrington Ward @carringtonward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People comment on Marie Curie's presence as the only woman. I think instead of the absences. All the women shut out of the life of the mind because the only role society allowed them was as the servants of men. What men could achieve because marriage gave them a servant they didn't have to pay. 🧪

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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How can Congress end the out-of-control spending on Golden Dome? I give my views at the Center for Arms Control & Nonproliferation conference. In brief: sustained oversight, real hearings, dismantle the Missile Defense Lobby Agency, and fly-before-you-buy. @nukesofhazard.bsky.social

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Florida paramedics and EMTs just won $270,000 in backpay after catching their employer shorting them on shift premium pay. One worker went from $86 owed to $8,892. Another from zero to nearly $11,000! They had a union. They had a contract. They used both and got their money back! Read here:

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Florida public safety members enforce their contract – and win big

The paramedics, EMTs and communications specialists of Local 260 (AFSCME Florida) have once again secured a big win by upholding their contract – a victory worth more than $270,000.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 23/09/2026

“Gee … look at all the little black dots.”

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

23 September 1938 | A German Jewish girl, Mirjam Helene Friedmann, was born in Berlin. The family fled to Prague in 1938. In 1941, Mirjam was deported to Litzmannstadt ghetto & in August 1944 to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

A vintage black and white photo showing a smiling girl in a hooded coat and white shoes standing next to a plush teddy bear.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fashions of 1618: two well-dressed couples -- and a curly dog -- by Willem Buytewech, who died OTD in 1624. The collars on those women are really something. And check out the elbow on that man on the right!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

patient zero for whats wrong with the democrats nymag.com/intelligence...

$Instead, BJ McCollister, who runs a Maine-based consulting firm called Frame Strategies and was Jackson’s chief of staff in the state senate, offered a choice of two people vetted by Schumer’s DSCC. The campaign went with Hilary Barrett, the former Nevada caucus chief for Joe Biden during the fractious showdown there between Biden and Sanders in 2020. (The campaign says it conducted an “exhaustive search” for the job that included more than two candidates.) Other consultants came from BerlinRosen, Hilltop Public solutions, and TKO, all powerful Washington- and New York–based firms strongly aligned with the Democratic Establishment. These firms had also been involved in Jackson’s gubernatorial efforts, but now they were in the driver’s seat.$

The Jackson campaign’s wariness of in-person events seems to merge with a general suspicion of Mainers and their conviction that they know what’s best for Jackson. A handful of them who work as staffers at this point “are treated like garbage” by the campaign bosses, according to one source. What’s more, this person went on, “in their mind, Troy is lumped in with them. There’s a vision of Maine that these folks have.” Multiple sources said campaign managers turned up their noses at some of the hokier events on his schedule, including a boisterous karaoke night and a contra dance on Labor Day weekend. “They think it’s going well when Troy is boring AF,” said another person with knowledge of the campaign. Karaoke, held at Baxter Brewing Co. in Lewiston, “was a blast,” according to one attendant, packed with people who were Jackson’s delegates or organizers. “Troy was on fire, and he was just himself again.” Members of the Washington contingent, according to multiple people present, hung out on a couch by themselves and left after about half an hour.

Another source familiar with the campaign said, “I don’t even think it’s disdain for Maine so much as it’s just disdain for, more generally, people. They want to run this campaign through numbers and spreadsheets. And wherever a campaign is connecting with people or doing anything quirky or unique, they’re like, ‘This is bad and weird.’”

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026

He's right, they *are* fed up with monopolies. Everyday Americans, Democrats *and* Republicans, are telling pollsters they'd back a politician who campaigned on shattering monopoly power: libertyandpower.substack.com/p/pollsters-...

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Pollsters Urge Dems to Attack Monopoly Power. Candidates are Listening.

The fight against monopoly power is moving from policy papers to DCCC guidance and competitive campaigns across the country – with polls confirming it’s a top performing message in competitive races.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is horrific. This man was shot in the back by ICE and has been taken out of the hospital and put back in detention, *with the bullet still in his back and his entire left side paralyzed.* He was forced to sleep on the floor and given no pain medication. www.macombdaily.com/2026/09/22/i...

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Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas.

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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Never Forget: Old Dogs Are Beautiful Too😊🖤🤍 Original post

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why does the Times quote her “like” and “um”s when they don’t for others and it’s against normal editorial ethics?

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