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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/10/2026
Every time I remind people that I have a book out, someone says "I didn't know you have a book!" I do, and it's about reframing grief as a collective project rather than a private pathology. If you follow me you'd probably enjoy it! NOW, fellow authors: Tell me about your books!
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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23h
At one of this Nazi rallies today, the orange felon encouraged Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego whilst his cult cheered him on for that treasonous statement. I’ll say it again, he belongs in a jail cell, not in the bulldozed White House. To hell with everyone who gave this monster power.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22h
Now that part 3 is actually planned, I'll ask: will the next Sicario recapture the first's genuinely oppressive harrowing dread & its unflinching indictment of the damage done by the militaristic adventurism of the "war on drugs" or will it be as bang-bang kerpew-kerpew *explosion noise* as Part 2?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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JawJoe @jawjoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OMG! The President of the United States of America told Iran to nuke California in his speech. HOW ON EARTH IS CONGRESS ALLOWING A PRESIDENT TO GET AWAY WITH SUCH A STATEMENT. Have they all lost their fn minds in this Administration! This is insanity!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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La Pionera ✊🏽 @punchcolor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You'll NEVER convince me he isnt a foreign asset hellbent on destroying America, enriching himself first.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23h
Yo, I am not liking how the r word came rearing back with a vengeance. We had cleared that word out of polite society! It was established, it's an ableist slur that makes you look like the asshole to use. It's everywhere now! And Black people use it too in dialect! I was called it in the psych ward.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You know, I was curious how they squared that with any of the court decisions last week, but I guess the answer is that they didn't.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
How dare you invoke a wrestling move when I’m “talkin’ rape” with a fellow intellectual.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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jm_rives @jmrives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVS...
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Pete Davidson: Who The F*Ck Are You?
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026
Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 05/10/2026
15 years ago today, I stared out of an airplane window in shock at the sight of my city, Seattle. I hadn't slept in 48 hours. It looked unreal, like a model train diorama. When the airplane door opened, I was struck by the smell of trees and rain after four years trapped in a concrete box. /thread
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are eerie parallels between what’s happening in Irkutsk and what happened in Wuhan in early 2020. Doctors claiming the government was hiding the extent of the spread. Masks being mandated. Schools being closed. Pay attention. Listen to independent journalists & locals:
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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IF or WHEN the dems have the majority in both Houses We the People have to be up in their shit, on their asses, screaming at them like they owe us money Remember, Trump was a one term POTUS...and now we're back in the shit. Because nothing changed, nothing really got DONE. Accountability.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 02/10/2026
really, what needs to happen is the investors & mgmt need to start regarding cult members as potential leakers and insider threats. Because they have a far higher loyalty to their pseudo-religious leader than they do to the organisations they nominally draw their paycheques from
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
I hate when they try to means test homeless online mutual aid seekers. Like what are their plans for long term housing. If yo rich bitch ass don't fork it over to this person living in their car on the street trying to get a hotel with roaches. Of course they intend to be housed. To survive for now.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/10/2026
Don’t accept interviews with USA Today (or Gannet), apparently. Creepy.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Catching measles does not make your immune system stronger… it does the exact opposite. It can wipe out your immunity (both natural and vaccine related) to all kinds of diseases. It’s a deadly and disabling disease that we know how to prevent. Get your vaccine. It saves lives.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When mask bans were first being enacted, disabled people warned they marked a return to Ugly Laws. They were a crucial step towards eliminating us from public life. They were designed to make us hide away, unable to safely exist in public. Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
My goodness that is sleazy. Thank you for the warning. I will now have to begin every recorded interview by stating that this recording is for the use of the interviewer only.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exciting way to make strangers approach you at airports like, "So you're a fascist or have insane gambling debt, huh"
Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas to star in Daily Wire‘s new pro-ICE movie

What happened?  

I thought that Harvey Keitel starred in too few films in recent years... and now this?

"A call sheet seen by Deadline lists Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas among the cast."

[https://deadline.com/2026/10/montana-protest-daily-wire-pro-ice-production-renee-good-1237145614/](https://deadline.com/2026/10/montana-protest-daily-wire-pro-ice-production-renee-good-1237145614/)
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My aunt passed away earlier this year, and for a while it broke me. She always enthusiastically supported my art, from when I was a child to this year, she always insisted on buying art from me. She commissioned this Zelda art when I was 12, and she had kept it all that time.
Colour pencil Zelda art on wood
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pompeo supported a man who tried to overturn an election and destroy American democracy. This shows what the real threat it. It's not Trump and his authoritarianism; it's the acceptance of it.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The people talking about the dignity of being, say, a welder, have never welded anything. And as far as “the pay is actually good” arguments go, the starting pay is good. The pay a few years in is good. But there’s a ceiling and it hits at about the same time the physical toll of the job does
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026
Yeah this feels SUPER unethical I would never share recordings or notes with anyone other than my editor or a fact checker?!
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Please read my comments to this. The NERVE to call those of us with peer reviewed empirical work as conspiracy theorists and not those doing seances for the AGI god (e.g. Hinton's students). But I have more things to say in the comments.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted OTD in 1959. One of my absolute favorite shows ever. Been blessed to not only have provided several covers to the comics series over the years but to also co-write w @francazilla.bsky.social & draw our own episode, “SILENT WARNING” currently in stores by @idwpublishing.com
A spaceman sitting at a desk in a room typing on a typewriter, presumably writing episodes for the tv series twilight zone
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/10/2026
It's interesting to me that the American authors conservatives deem acceptable/non-woke/masculine--your Steinbecks, Cormac McCarthys, Faulkners, Hemingways etc--all identify brutality as the fundamental language and original sin of the United States. There's nothing very patriotic about their work.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 02/10/2026
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year and rebukes from at least three judges. minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/02/h...
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Hennepin County sheriff drops undercover classification for some task force deputies • Minnesota Reformer
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I remember getting my vaccines as a kid and thinking “I can’t wait to be a grown up because then I won’t be afraid of needles”. Turns out grown ups can also be afraid of needles. It’s nothing to be ashamed of and a very common fear. Get your vaccines anyways! They’re worth it.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.
Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat looking down at the photographer from the roof of a wooden structure in the woods.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Columbia Journalism School will pause admissions for its Master of Arts program to conduct a “critical evaluation” of the curriculum, dean Jelani Cobb announced www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/colu...
A Note on Our M.A. Program Evolution

Columbia Journalism School regularly reviews its degree offerings to ensure our teaching keeps pace with the evolving demands of global reporting. To focus fully on this strategic evaluation, we are temporarily pausing admissions for the M.A. program. 

Prospective applicants interested in the M.A. program are encouraged to contact the Admissions Office at apply.journalism@columbia.edu to discuss how our other degree programs may align with your academic and career goals or whether you prefer to wait for the relaunch of the M.A.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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