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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Capitalist social relations create a sort of managed genocide that—under the best of circumstances—transform working people’s privation into elite property & power. And it probably goes without saying, but these are not exactly the best of circumstances.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/10/2026

Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering teams unionize at Hasbro aftermath.site/magic-the-gath...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026

As Walmart attempts to debunk research into its pricing practices by watchdog group Groundwork Collaborative, the organization released a new report highlighting 14 separate patents the $833 billion corporation holds or has applied for — all aimed at monitoring customers and upcharging them.

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New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech

Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40 percent when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A reminder that Republicans are led by pedophiles.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you dont have to be a partisan to call karoline leavitt a liar. nearly every day she worked as press secretary she made claims that were objectively false. not calling her a liar is playing cleanup. and the msm is guilty.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Soon after Leavitt started as Tump's press secertary, I wrote this piece for my Stop the Presses newsletter. It's a lot more truth-telling than today's fawning New York Times story.

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Karoline Leavitt is a professional liar

Trump’s press secretary is paid by the taxpayers to hoodwink the taxpayers.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/10/2026

After working hard taking away the civil rights of people and granting more powers to our Mob Boss President, Chief Justice John Roberts retreats to a Maine island for the summer. But lately, neighbors are protesting his presence there. Good! No peace! [nytimes.com]

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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Miklos Gárdos, was born. In July 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Vintage black and white photo of a baby sitting in a crib, wearing a light, patterned outfit.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?

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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026

One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why do people make the "young men shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as rapists" argument but never the "young men shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as murderers" argument? Misogyny.

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Lise la mimi 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lise-lamimi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

MAGA… This is Republican lawmakers “socialism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Hillary Rettig (she / her) @hillaryrettig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you look that good, why not do a bunch of self portraits?

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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. 🧐

wapo.st

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

Esp. When the Dems are such an upright, competent party with such a strong record of success

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

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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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