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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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John Hopkins @johnwonders.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I mean. That’s how healthcare coverage works. The young and healthy folks pay for much more than they use, and when they need it care will be available. Everyone needs it eventually. Yes yes, there are exceptions; but they don’t invalidate the rule.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When "working class" is uttered in the media, it often excludes Black people. So today is the perfect day reflect on the history of the Black working class in America. Whether that's thru Dr @profblmkelley.bsky.social book on the Black working class or Joe William Trotter's work on the same
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Black Folk. The Roots of the Black Working Class by Dr Blair LM Kelleybook:

Workers on Arrival. Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter Jr
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Steve Powell @azuredatafool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well this makes a somewhat dull but pretty worrying read www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
groundbrkr.com
The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.
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John Hopkins @johnwonders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With 30-ish years of experience I can say that this understanding and approach is indeed both critically important and heavily underrated.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026
Early voting has started in some states! Vote as early as you can. In person, if you can. Be as obnoxious as possible about spreading this message. Get everyone you know to the polls. Be That Friend but for voting.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump managed to silence himself.
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News Organizations Band Together in White House Boycott
Trump Manages to Silence Himself The news outlets that make up the...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Since Nebraska began using interRAI last year, the state has cut Medicaid funding to nearly 900 people with developmental disabilities, leaving many caretakers racing to overturn decisions made by an algorithm whose inner workings are largely hidden from the public."
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Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is tapping his fundraising operation to transfer more than $3.6 million into the Democratic Party of Georgia’s coordinated campaign, deploying his resources in a race tilting in his direction to help down-ballot candidates. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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A $3.6M bet from Jon Ossoff that goes beyond his own reelection
The Democratic U.S. senator is putting money and people in the Georgia Democratic Party in a plan he hopes can boost candidates up and down the ballot.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2026
Any time any anchor ever asks a Democrat about Hasan Piker, the correct response is “Piker isn’t running for anything. Republicans have a literal candidate supported by Mike Johnson who refers to kids as cum trophies. You’re asking the wrong questions.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh the difference here is they're never actually going to send the midterm bribes.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The clownish rituals at the Trump cult gathering shouldn't distract us from the plain fact that he led his followers in a pledge to cheat in the midterms. He used the word "cheat."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/09/2026
Fault Taunting xkcd.com/3296/
4-panel comic. (1) [Giant fishing rod-like cat toy positioned above four tectonic plates. Two helicopters that appear tiny due to scale fly above. People next to device are so tiny they cannot be seen.] PERSON 1: The key to exposing new geologic layers is understanding the three forces driving plate movement: slab pull, ridge push, and taunting. (2) PERSON 2: Taunting? What do– PERSON 1: *Initiate thrust fault pattern!* [The dangly end of the toy wiggles.] (3) “Rumble” sound effect from tectonic plates. (4) “Lunge!” sound effect from tectonic plates. [Plates split at a diagonal angling toward toy.]
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The easiest way to explain the future of US governance for your lifetime and mine is that Trump has taken us from “easy” to “difficult” permanently
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Everyone's focusing on the possibly-dead Mitch McConnell failing to do his job in Congress, but Mike Johnson is still alive and he isn't doing his job in Congress either.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white Ruby Bridges today, photo in full color
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...
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Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/08/2026
the most difficult question in American politics is “who was president in 2020” the second most difficult question, apparently, is “who is president right now”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Them is fightin' words (from a guy who presided over a hedge fund that lost almost 90% of the assets a few years ago.)
BOSTON/NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters) - As a money manager,

Scott Bessent's years of inconsistent performance have contributed to a nearly 90% decline in his hedge fund's assets.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
These posts from America First Policy Institute show that Enes Kanter Freedom not only colluded with the Trump grift on his WNBA stunt but is also on the take from MAGA. He's literally the paid protester Republicans scream about. (h/t @timmiller.bsky.social for pointing this out on his shows)
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🚨 Crowds ERUPT as 
@EnesFreedom
 arrives at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago for tonight’s WNBA game
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
👀📸 #flock
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's like how you can't bring a gun to the NRA annual convention
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Sayed Tabatabai, MD @therealdoctort.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It’s almost like when you cut back on regulation things get less regulated. Like “glass-in-the-fruit-bars” less regulated. www.cbsnews.com/news/outshin...
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Outshine Fruit Bars recalled nationwide over possible glass contamination, company says
Five flavors of Outshine Fruit Bars sold nationwide were recalled because they may include glass, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream said.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#MMIWG2S #Missing #Indigenous *** Please Repost***
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/08/2026
About 1.5 million dozen eggs recalled for potential salmonella contamination were upgraded to the FDA’s highest-risk warning. The Midwest Poultry Service eggs were in Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Mississippi.
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1.5 million dozen recalled eggs receive FDA’s highest-risk warning
The July recall affects retail stores and food service providers in six states.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
these guys need to go to jail for this, theres no coming back from this without it
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"We don’t 'see' cars. They are just the background terror we have become accustomed to living amongst."
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Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters
All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users
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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Huge profits for all these firms,Uber ($10B), Lyft ($2.8B), DD ($935M), yet their workers don’t earn a living wage & rely on the government for support. Essentially our tax dollars replace the wages these firms don’t pay. Yet, we never hear a word from the right abt these welfare queen corporations.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/08/2026
"The private sector money flowing into Trump’s vanity projects is also costing taxpayers. His ballroom is funded by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as well as private donations. In this way, we’re all forced to fund Trump’s corruption." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
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How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption
On top of his self-dealing, taxpayers are spending billions on his vanity projects.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey so a couple years ago I wrote a pilot for a show where the payoff was an entire city's water supply being taken hostage, and the research was up in the top 5 slow horror of "Oh, wait. No, that can't be right... oh shit, OH SHIT."
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Got it. You *just* want to know if we lost them--moving forward, I can keep that information on message, succinct, and limited to whether or not we lost them. Just say the word, and I'll let you know if we lost them as straightforwardly as possible.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 31/07/2026
Like documentaries? Then you probably don’t want the two largest privately held news archives — the lifeblood of documentary film — under the same ownership. Especially when that ownership kisses up to politicians by censoring their critics.
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Film producers warn Paramount-Warner merger could restrict access to news archives
By Dawn Chmielewski and Paul Sandle LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, July 30 (Reuters) - A group of film producers has urged the British culture minister to intervene in the proposed merger of Paramount Skyda...
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John Hopkins @johnwonders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The move “Gangs of New York” was a violent, bloody look at early-days nativism in this country. It hasn’t really changed and the arguments are no different in substance.
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David Moles @chronodm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.
A paragraph from a paperback book (William Gibson's COUNT ZERO, 1986): "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ATLANTA (AP) - US surpasses 2025's record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Billions in Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Says the guy who, after losing in a free & fair election, incited an insurrection against his own country: the very definition of treason. #ImpeachConvictRemoveImprison
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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