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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16h
“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 18h
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18h
“what is the information diet of politicians” is an increasingly urgent question
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Derridon't @derridont.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's really something that the NYT prints the ",like," in an AOC quote verbatim, but will gleefully edit out two and a half minutes of senescent sun-downing word-salad from Trump in order to pull quote the only coherent sentence in the whole thing and present that as the thing he said
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Entire presidential TV press pool has agreed to suspend its coverage in the wake of President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Defector @defector.com · 18/09/2026
These guys love getting involved in politics, actively putting their fingers on the scales, and then when asked any actual substantive questions about the real-world implications of the specific politics they support, shrugging and saying 'I'm just a dumb athlete.' defector.com/alex-ovechki...
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Alex Ovechkin Finally Faces Some Pushback For Supporting Vladimir Putin | Defector
Alexander Ovechkin is probably the single most famous Russian athlete. He is also a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and not a particularly quiet or passive one. This, occasionally, has…
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every news outlet shames itself by using the word “skeptic.” Skeptic implies someone waiting for evidence, not someone committed to ignoring it. Vaccine denialism does not deserve to be lent the prestige of critical thinking.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
what are the journalist ethics when your subject uses a phrase incorrectly and you put that incorrectly used phrase in the headline. like if you watch the video, hasan literally means the opposite of pound for pound. he means "in an absolute sense." that's odd www.axios.com/2026/09/17/h...
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Hasan Piker on "The Axios Show": America worse than al-Qaeda "pound for pound"
The Twitch streamer is central to GOP attacks on Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Next Big Dem Proposal: Let Kids Eat Free
School lunches were free to all kids during the pandemic; a prominent think-tank wants to bring back the idea and make it permanent.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/09/2026
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusions
Trump has touted a recent Census report. WIRED found grave flaws in its analysis and the process behind it, and confirmed the identity of several of its authors—among them a one-time DOGE affiliate.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
It’s kinda bonkers the press can see the guy actively fomenting white supremacy around the globe *and* report on his benevolent decision to save us all with a straight face.
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Valerie (and Viktor) @viktorandvalerie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I mean, do tall children threaten fairness in sports? It would be bizarre to stop tall women from playing in women's sports, wouldn't it? This notion of "fairness" in sports is a cynical fantasy, a cudgel against trans people
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 08/09/2026
did mike tomlin’s tenure as steelers coach go downhill bc he was too focused on his minecraft world
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
new episode of the history of charging the mound: THE BIG CAT ANDRÉS GALARRAGA, PART 1 OF 2
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ANDRÉS GALARRAGA, PART 1 OF 2: THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND. | Secret Base
First baseman Andrés Galarraga, who spent his most memorable years with the Colorado Rockies and Atlanta Braves, was famous for walloping so
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"What's behind the appeal of the far right?" is one of those questions pundits keep asking but wherever you look, the answer is simple: Racism and lying www.dw.com/en/germany-i...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
campaign-trails.ghost.io
Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/08/2026
I’m in @sfchronicle.com writing about how the last six weeks we’ve been talking about transgender women’s eligibility to play in the WNBA and women’s sports at large…without any input from trans women at all (gift link):
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Trans athletes never took over women’s sports. So why is the WNBA in an uproar?
OPINION: The staged freakout over trans women athletes has been sustained by incurious journalists and bad actors. There’s a debate to be had, but start with inviting actual trans people to it.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
While the grass growing in the shade was less dense, it was of higher quality. As a result, lambs grown in the shade of the PV systems gained the same amount of weight statistically speaking as the traditional lambs. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 spacedaily.com/b-lambs-graz...
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Lambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm had 38 percent less grass in front of them than lambs in the open field alongside, and they put on the same weight to the gram, because shade makes a pasture g...
Shade-grown pasture delivers less grass but the same nutrition, suggesting solar farms might have a second life as livestock habitat.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 28/08/2026
a lot of the time, some trump decree is clearly because a rich person in industry got in his ear. this one reads like a andreesen horowitz freakshow who has never worked a day of real labor asked grok one weird trick to make beef cheaper
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.
he Michigan Senate election has presented liberals with a grim choice. The Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, has pledged support for a corrupt, racist, authoritarian-minded administration. Rogers hasn’t made even the tiniest concession to Donald Trump critics. But supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party.

What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two.

Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity,  this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 28/08/2026
pretending like the US regulatory state has always been bad and ineffective on a comparative basis is a permission structure for trump to continue to gut it. I shan't allow it
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Goddess Luna @onelunagoddess.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Saying this woman "stayed neutral in the culture wars" should qualify as defamation.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
culture victory 🫡 (peterson listing tax cuts as the number one driver of debt would have been unthinkable a few years ago)
peter g. peterson foundation, Fiscal Outlook
4 Ways the United States Got to $40 Trillion in National Debt1. Tax Cutsciv vi culture victory
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026
we'll see how it shakes out but I strongly suspect that running as the Consequences President is going to win you more votes than any policy proposal
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This has been a slowly metastasizing moral panic for years: Liberals, drunk on therapy-speak, are cutting off their parents over minor slights and miscommunications. There is little evidence of the underlying phenomenon and even less of the cause. Look at this egregiously thin nut graf.
Although exact figures are scarce, the number of people cutting off close kin — particularly children cutting off parents — appears to be rising. Some speculate that therapists offering a speciously easy solution to a seemingly untenable problem are to blame
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This isn’t Al Bundy—though he’d probably cheer it on—it’s billionaires, top government officials, and people with their own TV show, many of whom have Ivy League degrees, sneering about “the elites.” It’s why annual DEI seminars get NATIONAL CRISIS!!! treatment and massive govt corruption does not.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 14/08/2026
“I need those in the middle of the road to understand something. The people leading this charge don’t want to protect girls in sport. They want trans people to be gone. And they never will get what they want because trans people always have existed and always will.”
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.
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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I think about transgender people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. 📝 Julia Poe
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Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
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Kevin A @kba26.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Dobby grave story is definitely true. He's really buried there.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors.
Beth Young Bourne on Facebook:

The emperor has no clothes.
Here are some of the recent trans-identified BOYS competing in GIRLS' high school sports in California.
@CIFState doesn't keep any records on the number of boys who are competing on girls' teams. I only became aware of the 3 boys at [CENSORED] High School after I asked parent friends if their daughters were being impacted by this insane transgender ideology.
IN CALIFORNIA
[Censored list of 10 children playing sports in California, naming both the child and the school they attend]
@CIFState doesn't keep any records or track the number of boys who are competing on girls' teams. I only became aware of the 3 boys at [CENSORED] High School after I asked parent friends if their daughters were being impacted by this insane transgender ideology.

Below this post, not included in the screenshot, were photos of all 10 children.
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Andrew Graham says sub to Mitten Football @andegraham.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is great and gets at something I’ve observed: Part of the power of the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” barb is that actually observing and describing him and his government honestly makes you sound unhinged.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The fact that Trump himself is not seen as The System is I think a clear demonstration of the problem. This is a politics of perpetual instability. Constantly throwing "the bums" out, only to become The New Bums, until we find someone brave enough to cut through red tape and shoot Glonzo.
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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
assume a spherical child
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Brady Klopfer @bradyklopfer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The legend Robin Lopez
Tweet from Robin Lopez that reads: Biggest issue: if you’re being drafted, people are saying “we want you around for 4 years” & I can’t imagine anybody wants Enes Kanter or Royce White around them for even 4 minutes. We’ve seen this illustrated whenever Enes is near Turkey or Royce comes close to logic/reality
Robin Lopez responding to Royce white. White says: lol join the club ROBIN … I’ll slap your big goofy ass, bitch slap you like pootie tang! I will fight over these trans rights.

Lopez responds: yes we get it you love slapping people with women’s names
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