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Pet butler, comms worker. Running NYC Marathon this fall to raise funds for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. donations.nyrr.org/donations/new?fu…

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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truly one of the best books I've read this year.
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One month away from running the NYC marathon to raise funds for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York! Stick it to JD Vance by supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care and make a donation here: donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Status @status.news · 29/09/2026
Paramount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/paramount-...
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Ellison’s Graham Doc Grab
Paramount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, Status has learned.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 16/09/2026
"alleged DEI sympathies" what are we doing here
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just American taxpayers with jobs and families, asylum seekers with no criminal record, held in miserable conditions at Guantanamo because of their race/national origin
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Onion already said all that needs to be said about GW Bush's art theonion.com/george-w-bus...
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George W. Bush Debuts New Paintings Of Dogs, Friends, Ghost Of Iraqi Child That Follows Him Everywhere
President Bush has a new hobby — painting! — and he’s showing off some new watercolors of the undead Iraqi boy who lives in his nightmares.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The “branding dispute” being that it’s legally established as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the president from the 1960s who was murdered in office by an assassin, and Trump wanted to slap his name on it too while he held power for reasons of pure narcissism.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I still think about their french toast and escargots.
photo of brick building in DC with sign that says bistro la bonne with their phone number
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Defector @defector.com · 15/09/2026
"How strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the top of the men's tour." defector.com/the-u-s-open...
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The U.S. Open Men's Final Changed Nothing | Defector
How strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the top of the men’s tour. In Sunday afternoon’s U.S. Open final, Alexander…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a massive loss for all of us.
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sep 5th 1999 - Chatur challenged Rancho to see who would become more successful. They agreed to meet 10 years later, but Rancho didn't show up. 📽️📅 3 Idiots (2009)
3 Screenshots from the movie "3 Idiots" (2009): First, a man in glasses and a suit holds up a Samsung phone displaying the date "5 September" with the subtitle "'5th September'. Today's date". Second, a man in a dimly lit scene speaks with intensity, and the subtitle reads "We'll see who's more successful". Third, three men stand on a rooftop, one in a white hospital gown and red sneakers, another in casual clothes, and the suited man near a doorway, with the subtitle "Remember? I'd challenged that idiot right here".
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve laughed at this half a dozen times now — the most inaccurate description of the nyc marathon. Thanks AI slop!
Screenshot from a DuckDuckGo browser search with text about the marathon course. The text is inaccurate.
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Goodbye to my long run route.
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Got the new COVID vaccine at my local CVS in DC today — pharmacist said they'd just gotten them a couple of hours before at that branch.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Robin Givhan always elevates the conversation and this essay is no exception.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“His father said he couldn’t play soccer as he had for years because of the weight of the tracker. Classmates bullied him and made cruel remarks. He begged federal immigration officers to remove the bracelet, his father said, but they refused.” Driving promising young US residents to suicide
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/09/2026
A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.
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Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
like, i know there is basically a secular cult around this institution but who do these people think they are? who do they think they work for?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
This is just brazenly Islamaphobic propaganda. This is what Bari Weiss has turned CBS into.
Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post from CBS News (@CBSNews) dated August 31, 2026. The text reads: "As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack." Below the post text is an embedded link card from cbsnews.com featuring a photo of Abdul El-Sayed speaking into a microphone at a podium, wearing a dark suit jacket over a black shirt, with campaign signs reading "FOR US SENATE" in the background.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviello
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Dolly, Josephine, And Me | Defector
Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I think it would be healthy for our culture if a putative journalist’s response to a colleague’s relation of some facts and context was interest or curiosity rather than blustering dismissal by way of fake statistics and facile generalizations. This should be deeply embarassing for her.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No. Instead we get 42 segments on some inconsequential social media influencer named Piker (whom Loomer also tried to have deported).
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(Consequently: There are a lot of people I cannot take seriously.)
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I cannot possibly take seriously anyone who reads Dolly Parton's politics as "neutral."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
“A review of meeting minutes, local reporting, state opioid expenditure disclosures, and invoices obtained via public records requests reveals that at least twelve sheriffs’ offices and police departments have since 2024 spent their opioid funds on Flock cameras.”
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a chart of the seven-day average of arrests being made, not people arrested. So imagine what the cumulative arrest lines look like, and how much faster the TOTALS for "no criminal charge" are rising than for all other groups.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just the purest, deepest evil.
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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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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WHAT IS THE GRIM REAPER DOING THIS WEEK AND HOW CAN WE MAKE HIM STOP
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP to a real one. Not an obscure clip to remember him by, but come on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWoY...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show "Sweet Transvestite" (1975) - (4K)
YouTube video by VideoXL
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/08/2026
oh, so OpenAI is now against buying extravagant things and getting the next generation to pay for it?
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No one talk to me for the rest of the day.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026
“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:
A Kehinde Wiley portrait of four Dominicans — two men relaxed on the ground, two women standing, one subject of each gender having white skin while the other has darker skin. The four appear immersed in a backdrop of flowers — an aesthetic signature of Wiley’s work.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Officially halfway to meeting my donation goal for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York! donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne... Also 10 weeks away from running the NYC marathon for PPGNY, send thoughts, prayers, and whether I should pick the bus or the ferry!
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