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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/05/2026

Reminder: "doom and gloom was single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also worst for motivating real-world action...People exposed to catastrophic framing were less likely to change their behaviour than those who read nothing at all. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Climate interventions increase beliefs, policy support, and willingness to share information but not higher effort action.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Finished something I've been working on for a few months now, an essay about S1 of Give Me Away, @macrogers.bsky.social & @jordiwill.bsky.social's sci-fi audio drama about aliens and families and arsehole politicians and, above all, the tension between boundaries and empathy. Contains mild spoilers.

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We Have No Mouths And We Must Scream: Give Me Away (Season 1)

A little while back, I read a Bluesky post from Mac Rogers - creator and main writer of Gideon Media's Give Me Away - in which he noted th...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Someone sent me this.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11/03/2026

Pete Hegseth gutted Pentagon oversight, calling the rules of war "stupid." He slashed the Middle East casualty team from 10 experts to one. Then came the Minab strike: 170 girls and 14 teachers dead. The Pentagon’s "inability to confirm" its role is the outcome Hegseth engineered.

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Brutal Reality of Pentagon Pete’s Massive Cuts Is Exposed

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s brutal staff cuts at the Pentagon have impacted the departments that would have investigated the fatal strike on a girls’ school in Iran. President Donald Trump, wh...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 11/02/2026

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’

Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/01/2026

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I had 3 ideas for Season 3. 1. Scary cult menaces Red Camp. 2. The hybrid people get food-service jobs, which gets them involved in labor issues. 3. A Presidential election. I panicked. That’s way too much story! Unless… it’s all one story? The GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 two-part finale is live now.

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Sushifox @sushifox.abnormal.zip · 03/12/2025

Some wrapped highlights including @malevolent.ca deservedly on top, the day I listened to give me away for 8 hours straight, and 156 genres?? Also Remnants by @hangingsloth.bsky.social is only not higher because it has fewer episodes and TMA by @rustyquill.com is the one I've listened to the longest

Top five podcasts:
1. Malevolent
2. Give Me Away
3. The Magnus Archives
4. How i Died
5. Remnants: An Audio Drama

Text reads: Biggest podcast listening day, Jan 19, 2025
The day you let "Give Me Away" fill every silence from dawn to dusk
From the first notes of "episode 0106: this is my home" in the morning to the late night twists of "ep 0206: in these bodies, in this life", you spent the entire day in the world of give me away. 518 minutes, 20 episodes, 1 podcast-your most podcast-immersed day of the year, eclipsing even your annual top show.

Text reads: taste like yours can't be defined. But let's try anyway.
You listened to 156 genres.

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Wow, an absolutely gripping, enthralling episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0316: Your Time Is Up - The tension I was feeling!!!💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Give Me Away 0316: Your Time Is Up

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

What a deep, awkward conversation, that proved to be very interesting listening! Do check out @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0315 Spotlight: The Chain of Command 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Give Me Away 0315 Spotlight: The Chain Of Command

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am so goddam proud of this episode of GIVE ME AWAY, I really think we crushed it on a bunch of levels. But fair warning: it may give you flashbacks to some… less-than-pleasant days in recent memory.

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Results, a shared experience and decisions. How will they be handled and what changes will be forthcoming? Don’t miss out on this enthralling episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0314: Into The New 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Give Me Away 0314: Into The New

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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Not watching this is my favorite thing I've done today!

A picture of two women and the text "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
And can conservative feminism fix it?" A discussion with Ross Douthat.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The time is now but for the differing parties it has a different meaning. Time for some awesome listening from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0312: You Have Four Months 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Give Me Away 0312: You Have Four Months

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 07/10/2025

It says "POLICIA" on the goddamn shield.

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

GIVE ME AWAY Season 3 Episode 8, "You Have Ten Months" (written by me), is live now wherever you get your podcasts. Our hybrid heroes face their deadliest challenge yet: working a regular job. I'm being glib, but that is part of it. The point is it rips, and you should listen to it.

Quote from Season 3 Episode 8 of Give Me Away:
"Where was this taken?"
"We don't know, which is kind of a problem, 'cause... doesn't that look like a box full of guns?"

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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Will being forewarned mean being forearmed? What an intense, gripping episode from @macrogers.bsky.social - Give Me Away 0308: You Have Ten Months - This is such a compelling show, that doesn’t disappoint 💜 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Give Me Away Episode 0308: You Have Ten Months

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

With all the suffering on this show, we thought our loyalty listeners deserved something a little more romantic and steamy for a change. Our GIVE ME AWAY Spotlight mini-episode "Best Practices" is live now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.

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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 04/09/2025

there are many things I love about the newest season of a show I’ve loved since ep 1 but this little side adventure for Talia + Noa/Jade has to be one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever recorded. a refreshing breath in a season that absolutely grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go (complimentary)

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

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Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 12/08/2025

one of my absolute favorite audio dramas is back! Give Me Away premiered their third season and yes, okay, I'm biased because I'm in it, but to be clear, I was all in even before I got the amazing opportunity to act in this awesome, inventive world. and you are NOT prepared for the twists coming up

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Emma Sherr-Ziarko @thegreatdilemma.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I love this show! If you haven’t listened to Give Me Away yet, you’re in for a treat. And now’s a great time to start listening because Season 3 just dropped!

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Would I free a Ghosthouse prisoner? Would you? Could I handle the responsibility? Could I be responsible for leaving them there? Give Me Away's premise really exercises my brain, my self-awareness, and my empathy. There's not much more I can ask of a piece of fiction.

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Big sci-fi concepts and questions that make you think, explored by characters who make you facepalm, tear your hair out, bite your nails and occasionally punch the air. Jump in now if you haven't so far. Side note: Red Camp could fix Arthur Lester.

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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I love our show so much! It would mean the world to me if you'd listen. Thrilling sci-fi intrigue, nuanced characters, stellar acting, top-notch production and music... all free and delivered direct to your ears via the podcatcher of your choice.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Sotomayor: "What the Court once recognized as an imperative check against discrimination, it today abandons...it does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight."

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

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How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very.

One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/04/2025

This is an atrocity, to speak of human beings in this way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.

The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.

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Jordana Williams @jordiwill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

How do I say, "Couldn't happen to a nicer guy" in a way that doesn't sound sarcastic?!

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Goddamn did we need a show of strength and resolution like this right now. He’s held the floor; let’s make this the floor we build off of.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1. EXCLUSIVE The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles It is an unethical and likely illegal practice

As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...

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