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John Tomlinson

@johntomlinson.bsky.social
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And since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and after 12th grade I went straight to college. He/him. New York City. www.johntomlinson.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h
Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Rep. Greg Murphy describes people who have lived in America for decades and have families here and are brutally deported by ICE as "collateral damage," and says "thank God we're getting rid of the garbage that's in our country:"
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 3h
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 3h
The masks are coming off. Tucker Carlson leads this movement, aiming to rehabilitate Nazi Germany and back Vance in 2028. MAGA is embracing Neo-Nazism, and tech bros will go all-in to fund it
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2h
The Labour party has been a driving force behind the solidification of islamophobia into the social and institutional "common sense" of this country, and yet I don't see calls to boycott and condemn and report them to the cops over it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3h
If only there had been an agreement in place already that was carefully negotiated over the course of two years….
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Very interesting story.
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Since the Hamas October 7 attacks three years ago costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/HumanT...
Graphic saying over 10% of the population of Gaza has been directly killed or injured, including 67,075 killed + 169,430 injured out of a population of 2.2 million
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John Steel @johnsteel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, I'm sure he'll reflect fondly on the years he spent fluffing the carbon fuel economy (with a little 'casual racism' thrown in) when he has an unproductive farm he can't sell.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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🤎💛 Duchess 💛🤎 @duchessofdis.bsky.social · 15h
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13h
“Lin Manuel Miranda is the new Homer” is an uncomfortable truth I’m afraid we must bear
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i'm still mad about that post thats like "humans
USED to be able to memorize long epic poems, but we no longer have Bards so our memories arent as good" boy shut the fuck up. a good chunk of people i went to high school with had the entirety of hamilton memorized for fun and they weren't even autistic.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h
this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud
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EveryZig314 @everyzig314.bsky.social · 18h
The ones they killed which *made national news* were citizens.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 13h
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13h
If a guard yanks clothes off a trans woman–to satisfy his curiosity or to mock her–cis women are in danger too. I'm cis. I was misgendered most of my life. In public bathrooms, women screamed for cops. I was almost fag-bashed twice. Abusing any woman opens that door. We're all in this together.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Incredible.
Analysis. Does a sex assault claim kill a political career? It depends.

Ghraham Platner’s swift exit followed Eric Swallwell’s similar departure from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 15h
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 14h
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 15h
Great shot from the 1985 Coors Classic
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 16h
An NYPD officer driving an unmarked car ran a red light and hit a cyclist on Monday afternoon in Boerum Hill, sending her to the hospital, witnesses said. buff.ly/Vx6L3IS
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SEE IT! Reckless Cop Strikes Cyclist After Running Red Light In An Unmarked Car - Streetsblog New York City
Video obtained by Streetsblog shows the traumatic moment of impact.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h
Mike Johnson is not a trustworthy negotiating partner. He lies as part of his religion.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18h
At the same that Trump has started a brutal, unnecessary, and rapidly expanding war in the Middle East, Ka$h Patel has cut 50% of the agents working on counterintelligence. They've all been fired or moved to anti-immigration efforts. Those in the know are worried. www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-t...
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Patel's FBI makes 'terrifying' cuts as agency shifts to Trump midterm vows: report
FBI counterintelligence squads have dropped to as little as half strength in many field offices as Director Kash Patel steers the bureau toward the crime and immigration promises President Donald Trum...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/10/2026
When I was a teen, my dad told me--if I applied to art school or majored in art, he wouldn't help pay for college. And yes, it was kind of draconian. But it makes me wonder what we could achieve culturally if more parents gave sons similar ultimatums about joining fraternities.
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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
C-SPAN nailed it "Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former House speaker who admitted to sexually abusing boys decades earlier, died over the weekend at the age of 84." I would love if they'd included GOP in there, but this is very informative.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, I get it. I’m a naive little librarian myself. When I was 17, I wrote a trilogy of portal fantasies where the bad guys hid in the Nether Region. Absolutely zero clue. My unpublished angsty teenaged books aren’t being transmitted to patrons, though
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week
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Futurism @futurism.com · 06/10/2026
Watch what you tell Claude.
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Anthropic Reports User to the Police
A Florida woman is now facing a second-degree felony charge after telling Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude about her violent ideas.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
TAPPER: 'Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America.' Is that the right way to speak about someone you disagree with? RICK SCOTT: The point is Ds have all become socialists. They're antisemitic T: You think Wasserman Schultz is antisemitic? S: I can tell you Mamdani is. Hasan Piker ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They want to kill us. It's not about freedom. It's about making more people suffer and die.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Eric and Don Jr read today's headlines and think, "Why not me?" www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Flávio Bolsonaro Surges Past Lula, Setting Up a Bitter Brazil Election Runoff
The eldest son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro finished first, leaving the leftist incumbent with an uphill fight ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.
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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was in the PATH WTC station. Very visually pretty, but full of noise pollution in the form of automated messages about the escalators. Absolutely horrible and unrelenting. Imagine the ugliest signs right in your face. This was the audio version. Far too few seats too.
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Reverend Chapman @wadatahmydamie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
JRE bros who don’t call themselves Republicans because they don’t want to admit their core belief system doesn’t work
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Juli Indica @juliindica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It would be better if the guy who can order a nuclear strike wasn't insane.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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