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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5h
Word of the day: Sealioning I have encountered this phenomenon very often, especially with anti-vaxxers. It has a concrete definition. This describes science deniers who appear to be genuinely curious about a topic but won’t accept any evidence that goes against their narrative. 🧪
Sealioning
A subtle form of trolling involving "bad-faith" questions.
You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum. The name "sea-lioning" comes from a Wondermark comi
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18h
The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
mainandvine Lisa @truthandcookies.bsky.social linktr.ee/lisayay
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Truth 👇 Bomb 💣.........
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maria Shriver: "This should outrage every American. This is the president of the USA telling Iran to bomb American cities. I live in LA, but that’s beside the point. Tomorrow it could be your city. This is not normal. This is not funny. This behavior should ring alarm bells for us all!"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Buy 500 Kavanaugh bobble heads. In various ways demonstrate the violence of these snatches. Then set it up outside SCOTUS. Add some Stop signs.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed.......
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Van der Burgh @stephenintheburgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Ms. Good Trouble @boldsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you haven't seen this snarky meme -
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's keep sharing it.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy National Public Lands Day! 🌅 From the Rio Grande to the top of our mountains, our national parks, and the forest lands and acequias that have sustained our communities for generations, these lands are part of who we are. Public lands are our lands. And we will keep fighting to protect them!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Something is happening in Texas. 👀
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Molly Ploofkins • @Mollyploofkins
Regimes that have restricted press freedom:
Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
Soviet Union under Stalin (1924- 1953)
North Korea (1948-present)
Franco's Spain (1939-1975)
Mussolini's Fascist Italy (1922- 1943)
Pinochet's Chile (1973-1990)
Communist Cuba (1959-present)
Putin's Russia (2000-present)
The Trump Reich (2017-2021; 2025-present)
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Old Butstillkicken @oldbutstillkicken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The constitution explicitly says that the states are in charge of national elections NOT the president! The SCOTUS has stuck its nose in where it doesn’t belong!
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Ravenmark @ravenmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A question worth asking: If a president repeatedly violates the Constitution, and enough members of his own party knowingly refuse to use their constitutional powers to restrain him, when does that stop being one president’s failure—and become a crisis of the party’s constitutional legitimacy?
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 25/09/2026
Inside Fox’s ‘break-up’ with Trump and why his most powerful ally is losing patience
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Inside Fox’s ‘break-up’ with Trump and why his most powerful ally is losing patience
Fox News has long been part of Donald Trump’s power play. But its decision to join a TV blackout of the White House suggests that the relationship between the president and the network that helped build his movement may be starting to fray. Alex Hannaford reports on who stands to lose the most
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates calls for lawmakers in Washington to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, weeks after the CEOs of some of the nation’s biggest AI labs agreed on the need to slow the pace of AI progress.
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Bill Gates says AI companies self-regulating isn’t enough and governments should be involved in monitoring
The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist said AI is capable of helping bad actors harm billions of people.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Release the #EpsteinFiles!
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
to cheerlead with. Cheerleading does not equal the information your readers need most.) -Jack Hopkins www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/seventeen-...
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Seventeen Days: The Fastest Road to War You've Never Been Told About
From a sales pitch in the Situation Room to bombs over Tehran in less than three weeks. Here's the timeline they don't want you connecting.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
⛽️ MAGA TRUCKERS: “There’s no reason for this… My truck’s gonna sit there and rot until this idiot is out of office… I never thought I’d say this but I miss Biden… we’re dying out here and they don’t give a shit…” cc: @MarshaBlackburn
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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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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CNN releases this statement on Trump's proposed ban: "We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government. Should the ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be an illegal assault...onstitutionally-protected right."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OMG: “The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.”
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I agree with @jvl.bsky.social. Dems would do well to conduct serial impeachments. First Heggy (if he is not convicted in Dec, after he IS impeached in House), then RFK. Then prioritize based on what will either gain support among Senate GOPers OR embarrass them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The gold toilet was never a joke. It was a mission statement. Trump melts the rules and calls it winning. Wake up before the forms do. #StopTrumpCorruption
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15/09/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abused his powers by deploying the U.S. military in the war against Iran without seeking congressional approval under the War Powers Act. He said these are "unlawful orders" and "high crimes and misdemeanors." to.pbs.org/4dCrY0g
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WATCH: Rep. Massie introduces articles of impeachment against Hegseth on House floor
Massie said Hegseth abused his powers by deploying the U.S. military in the war against Iran without seeking congressional approval under the War Powers Act. He said these are “unlawful orders” and “h...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At one point during this ramble, after making everyone raise one hand and swear to bring their family to the polls (and cheat, if necessary), the president told everyone that if they did not vote, they would go to hell. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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A Recap of a Surreal Midterm Convention
It isn’t over until the president’s tenor sings.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Another Betty @holston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I really do not want to read or hear anything about the CF on the anniversary of 9/11.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who publicly resigned from Anthropic yesterday with a stark warning about AI safety, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on his show this evening.
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 09/09/2026
Presidents do not control our elections. The American people do. I’m leading a bipartisan group of 261 current and former Members of Congress in a brief before the Supreme Court challenging new federal restrictions on voting by mail. Read more:
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CONGRESSMAN MORELLE LEADS BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO BLOCK TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER LIMITING MAIL IN VOTING
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Today, Congressman Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, mobilized current and former Members of Congress in a court filing challenging the legality...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The climate crisis isn’t “coming.” It’s here. Record heat. Deadly floods. Vanishing ice. Collapsing ecosystems. We don’t need more warnings. We need courage, systems change, and action at the scale of the emergency. #ClimateAction #ActNow
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This sums up the difficulty we're having responding to the moment. "It’s big and goes beyond any single person’s mistakes or individual excellence." We need to try many things, many ideas from many people, and go forward with the ones that work.
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In and Outside of History at Once
Yesterday I was kind of randomly rereading some details about Spain’s transition...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Another Betty @holston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There he goes again. He is unable to talk about anything without making it all about himself, even it takes lying.And we follow along. It is unacceptable.
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