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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.
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Civic Engagement Beyond Voting @azcebvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"And when push comes to shove, seems the people down below have power over those they place above, but only if they vote!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWi...
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Suck it, other book collectors.
ABEBooks listing for a copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for $43.33, labeled “hardcover, signed.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A functioning press would be pointing this out non-stop, and making them defend it in every interview.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fuck this shit. Vote early. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car
Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
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A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
as a jew who cares a lot about these issues, the fact that the worlds richest and perhaps most powerful man routinely spouts nazi propaganda is very bad and the main story here. But I'd note there's a bit of a gender story in this "poll" as well.
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Mark Donovan @joygantic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/08/2026
what if Canada just declared this America's flag, and started using it on their literature and websites
the American flag except the stripes have been made to look like a circus tent
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why is all the food being recalled now? Last year:
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
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@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're curious about how the right is going to try to frame the horrific fires in Spokane Washington, it looks like they plan to blame them on homeless people, local (DEM) city leadership, and state (DEM) mismanagement of forests. So, many of the same frames as the LA fires.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by "Jim Walsh" posted 9 hours ago. The caption reads: "Still more weekend reading. From a woman in eastern WA. The silver lining to these disastrous fires: They may wake some 'I'm not political' people up to the real effects of bad public policy choices." The shared post below claims Spokane is being destroyed by massive fires, that the writer's house and neighborhood are gone, and blames Democrats for cutting firefighting funding and releasing "drug addicts and criminals" who they accuse (w/o evidence) of setting the fires. It ends "I'm now homeless in Spokane. I am numb." A diagonal red "Framing Contests" watermark is overlaid across the screenshot. The post shows 3.5K reactions, 1.2K comments, and 1K shares.
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Aaron Hedge @aaronhedge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Spokesman is doing incredible reporting on this story. Follow them for critical info. @alexdugganreports.bsky.social www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy's collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more 'political' than newsworthy for live coverage
September 2, 2022
More than 3 years ago
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A majorly sci-fi moment, not to mention a first in human history!
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Feelies' 'The Good Earth' LP walks a mesmerizing tight rope between the pastoral and panicked, joyful and sad. The carefully calibrated and the utterly unhinged. Their freakiest trick: they might sound like other bands, but no other bands can ever sound like them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTnd...
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The Feelies - The Good Earth 1986 Full Album Vinyl
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...
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Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges
Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"My goal is to recall my past lives and be free in each. My strength is being scattered and rooted at the same time.... My kink is a copless land where no one hoards anything." A belated Solstice picture, poem and song to you and yours. homemadejam.org/mix/summerso...
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Summer Solstice 2026
I want this job because it sounds like something I could do and I’m hungry, physically.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Released 43 years ago today 'Mommy's Little Monster', the debut studio album by American punk rock band Social Distortion, featuring the opening track The Creeps Social Distortion - The Creeps - Peer Records Anaheim, 1983 #punk #punks #punkrock #socialdistortion #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Elder Skunk of the North @loranskunky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“Unitarian Universalists and Deists, who were reportedly excluded from the latest list, are among two categories represented among signers of the Declaration of Independence.” religionnews.com/2026/06/04/d...
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Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths
(RNS) — The new list includes 31 recognized faiths, most of them Christian denominations.
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/05/2026
Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
Caption via The Tennessean: 

Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026
funniest thing i’ve ever seen
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s amazing how hardened we’ve gotten to this ludicrous, offensive, deeply un-American assertion.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026
The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I never considered ballrooms as the solution to mass shootings but it makes sense if you think about it. Grocery stores. Schools. None of these places have ballrooms! Clearly we’ve been thinking about this like a bunch of plebs.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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