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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tonight, Netanyahu bragged in front of the world that he defeated Hamas's attempt at genocide on 7 October and then stopped genocide in Gaza. In reality, he presided over the biggest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and then launched the biggest mass slaughter of Palestinians in history.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wild Flowers, 1995 by Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye #womensart
Colourful painting with canvas covered in tiny flower motifs
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Abolish the Home Office.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Why are young men so lonely? They're not showering and they're drinking their own urine, so I'm not sure what else they could do to attract women."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The USA has made this Russian slaughter of Ukrainians possible. www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/e...
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Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory | CNN
At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight and on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shocked to learn that the political party led by pedophiles and dedicated to protecting pedophiles has created a police force filled with pedophiles.
A new report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, released today, pulls back the curtain on a stunning level of sexual criminal behavior within ICE and CBP. Out of 152 cases of identified immigration officials or contractors accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—"committed sex offenses against children—the single largest category on the list," the report states. Cases involving a CBP officer, the report finds, "are more likely to involve underage victims" than those of an ICE officer. Yet fully half of ICE officers accused or convicted of sex offenses (12 of 24) had a minor as their victim.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
these guys post like people with extreme brain damage but that’s just their personality
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Impressive chutzpah from JWS here: 4000 words on the spread of the "Great Replacement" theory in the UK without a single mention of his columnist/friend Douglas Murray, who wrote a whole book endorsing it...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The case for rewilding could not be more clear, on every conceivable level. Now it's time to put it into *action*.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Greg Abbott is going to respond to this poll by reminding the voters of Texas what he's the absolute best at -- killing their children. Lots of different ways to make it happen, but rest assured: He will kill your kids. That's a promise.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 02/08/2026
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
That tweet about "this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family" and it's a photo of a white guy speed boating with his white wife and white daughter
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/07/2026
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted”
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The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026
OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
just a horrifying excuse for a human being. i hope to be front row at his eventual trial.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/07/2026
Tate Brothers Vehemently Deny They Did Anything Consensual
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/07/2026
i have never seen someone as clearly vacant behind the eyes as tuberville. there is nothing going on in there. if the electrons are firing they are moving through molasses
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why the fuck is the Department of Homeland Security allowed anywhere near our election records? DHS was created specifically to protect against "terrorist acts." Even if the lies about China were true and they were meddling in our elections, the thugs of DHS and ICE have no role investigating it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He is not exaggerating. He is LYING.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/07/2026
He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before he was shot and killed by ICE after an attempted traffic stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before ICE killed him
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was remembered as a devoted family man “with many dreams to fulfill.”
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tonight Americans are going to hear that 1+1=256, that black is white, that a lie is the truth. How they respond to that claim will determine whether democracy and the rule of law will persist in the USA.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
Cecelia Humiston, 22, lives on Chapel Street. She was asleep with her two-year-old son when she woke up to the sounds of a commotion on surrounding streets.

When she went to investigate, she saw what appeared to be a person lying on the ground on Pool Street.

She remembers hearing an older woman with a distressed family, yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

“They were with a little girl, she couldn't have been older than three,” Humiston said. “She was still in her Bluey pajamas.”

Humiston described law enforcement as “rude,” and said they barricaded family’s car from leaving. Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
yeah with a ouija board
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