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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kinda surprising when we agree. 100% of economists surveyed by the University of Chicago said that a low-cost diversified index fund is the best investment you can make. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See ya never Houston

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 30/09/2026

I find photographing flowers very uplifting. When I was younger, doing creative work helped me cope. These days it feels much lighter. (I guess it worked?) Passiflora 'Susan Brigham' under UV light.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger

Learn more.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I turned away from the church precisely because I could not square the idea that the people who were my friends, who grew up differently than me, were condemned to eternal suffering--- just because they were different. And to gleefully condemn others to hell seemed more demonic than Christ-like.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday Night Football - Bears tonight vs the Eagles at Chicago's Soldier Field.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If Yelp says I should drive thru all the yards I guess I’m gonna drive thru all the yards. #Yelp #WTF

A map from Yelp driving directions showing the final turns to the desired destination. However, the suggested route suddenly deviates from surface streets and angles through what are clearly buildings and yards.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

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KT @bigsamthompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wish we as a society would get back to identifying problems & then creating technology to solve them, rather than creating technology nobody wants & throwing it everywhere to see where it sticks. Or worse, creating tech that intentionally creates problems which can then be monetized.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So many people who voted for Trump suddenly claim to be shocked at ICE actions. “We didn’t know” You didn’t want to know, shitbird.

elizabeth_jacobs • 7/18/24
Mass deportation means that more than 10 million of your neighbors will be hunted down, dragged from their homes at gunpoint, and violently separated from children, parents, siblings, friends. Just so we are clear about the unequivocal warning we received last night. It CAN happen here. It WILL happen here if we let it.

lelizabeth_jacobs & 7/18/24
These actions will be performed by people who have been conditioned to view certain groups of humans as subhuman. They won't care if people get "a little roughed up" or if they die. We will very likely see concentration camps. This is what is meant by mass deportation. Seeing Americans wave their signs espousing this is vile and repellant.
They know what they are saying and they
LOVE IT.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here you go! The Ellison Billionaire Empire.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Monarch sipping on verbena bonariensis 🌱🦋

A butterfly with wings featuring a colorful mosaic of orange, black and white sips nectar as it sits atop an array of tiny lilac-colored flowers against a blurred background.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026

The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lowkey considering running for congress for all the paid time off…

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Trump is seeking to destroy a memorial to a man because that man is not him. He is seeking to destroy a memorial to culture because culture does not embrace him. It’s really as simple as that."

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stuck my phone right in the face of this male Eastern Carpenter Bee. (It was sleeping.) 🌱 🐝

A bee with black head, fuzzy yellow thorax and shiny black abdomen sleeps on the flower stalk of a Salvia plant with brilliant red tubular flowers. A white patch in the middle of its face identifies it as a male.

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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Given how much the FCC is concerned about Disney-owned channels giving unequal time to politicians, I'm sure ESPN Game Day will have Texas alum James Talarico on next to counterbalance Ted Cruz

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026

This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are almost always several Monarchs in the garden. They scatter when I approach but if I stand motionless they will be drawn back to the flowers. 🌱 🦋

A Monarch butterfly feeds on a bright red Zinnia.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

Vaccines worked so well to eliminate a terror that stalked the land and stole people's lives and loved ones and little children, an achy arm or an infinitesimal chance of a few days of feeling like shit seemed worse by comparison.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...

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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)

YouTube video by politizane

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Ima Cygnenoir @ima-cygnenoir52.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

remember the *GOP* death panels accusations? Well here they are

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A wayward Zinnia poking through the Gomphrena.

A single crimson red Zinnia flower is surrounded by numerous lavender, ball-shaped Gomphrena flowers.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Want to learn more about each bumble bee you meet? We’ve put together a guide to the differences between bumble bee queens, workers, and males! 🐝🔍 Learn what to look for ⤵️ xerces.org/blog/how-to-...

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How to Tell Apart Bumble Bee Males, Workers, and Queens

Once you learn how to recognize a bumble bee, you may wonder whether you are encountering a queen, female worker, or a male bumble bee. With a little practice, you can learn to tell them apart!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy

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M. Haytham Matthews @haythamm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The glacial collapse and deluge in Nepal and Tibet was not a freak weather event; it was the structural failure of a mountain itself, nature’s latest commentary on the deadly consequences of human-caused planetary warming..." 1/

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
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13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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