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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 15h

Did you know that sociologist Cristóbal Young studied 13 years of tax returns covering every million-dollar filer in America? And you know what he found out? That millionaires were less likely to move compared to those making $10,000. civicmedia.us/shows/patrio...

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Millionaires Won't Leave

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 21h

Donald Trump is trying to spread as much disinformation about Canada as possible in his remaining time in office. And Canada’s mainstream media is happily giving him a platform to do it.

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CBC needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation

CBC News needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 6h

Love how potted histories of the 1970s always seem to go an about high unemployment, but then you look at actual statistics and see that it doubled in the five years after the Tories took power in 1979 and took twenty years to come back down to its previous level www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...

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Unemployment rate (aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted): % - Office for National Statistics

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 9h

The appellate court system had stayed this execution today to allow for additional proceedings. John Roberts’s Supreme Court stepped in and said, “nah, kill her tonight.” This is the result.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 19h

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

If the law is unjust, then disobeying the law is justice.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?

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Diane Fanning @dianefanning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If we all just switched to cursive and stick shift cars, we could cripple an entire generation. #seenonateeshirt

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 1h

Pete would be equally lost in any war in any country in any era. He is not smart.

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

every squad has the oblivious homie. except mine i guess

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3h

This is horrific. Lethal injection has never been a reliable means of execution, because doctors with the necessary expertise refused to help develop the process, and most drug companies don’t want to supply the substances used. It is a story of cruelty and incompetence.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 2h

This was such a horrific fuckup that the nutzoid GOP governor stopped it and all executions in the state. Abolish the death penalty already. www.ms.now/news/tenness...

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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Pike taken to local hospital

Reporters said Pike could be heard snoring before they were escorted away. Prison officials offered no immediate explanation of what happened.

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Cait @caitesq.bsky.social · 2h

One of the many horrific aspects of the death penalty is that states are not good at carrying out executions. Every time I post about this, someone responds by saying that it should be simple. But it’s not, and proponents of the death penalty need to own that.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 19h

TREES FULL OF POLYCHROMATIC EFFUSION STOP PLEASE ADVISE STOP

Backyard trees, suddenly showing bursts of orange in addition to the green and red leaves already present.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 19h

I was speaking earlier about Saint-Saens and his "Introduction and Rondo Cappriccioso," and here's my favorite version of that-- arranged for two pianos by Claude Debussy! This is a recording I enjoy, by Blumenthal and Groslot. Sparkling! I don't think he was big on S-S, but he did right by him.

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Camille Saint-Saëns arr. Debussy : Introduction et rondo capriccioso Op. 28 (1863 arr. 1889)

YouTube video by Rodders

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 20h

"Putting it in quotes is better than a sarcasm font, because being in quotes is a *possible sarcasm* font, much like not being in quotes."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20h

New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...

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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 20h

"Also, because of Super Intelligence, the Gulf of America is now the Gulf of Amerifefe."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

militarytimes.com

Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies

Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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404 Media @404media.co · 22h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Roma @queenief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That is Sen Eric “Hawkeye” Schmitt

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague.

Portrait of Alice Ball including images of the Chaulmoogra plant and its conversion into a leprosy treatment.

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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when i was doing hospice care for my friend, I would serve her little bowls of chex mix with only the bits she liked and make myself a bowl of the rejects and honestly it was a deeply meaningful act for both of us.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday's terrible news should be on the front pages everywhere. Atrocities that history should never forgive us for. Destroying asylum seekers for sport.

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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu says outright that he can hack and blackmail anybody he wants and "I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it."

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the balconies of the black buildings stood immaculately dressed & groomed ladies watching over the avenues, standing so still they might have been mannequins but for the plumes of breath that drifted from them over the pedestrians. No one made eye contact with them, including me.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the Oleshky Military Administration, reported that Russians were seizing food from residents of Oleshky that had previously been dropped to them via drones by the Ukrainian military.

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I used to find it so unrealistic that The Simpsons had the same lawyer representing *all* the bad guys, rich guys and corrupt corporations but the more I read the news the more I realize that, no, that just happens.

Blue haired lawyer from the Simpsons standing beside a projector

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

dems love to act like the left just appears out of nowhere at election time to sabotage them, as if they haven't spent the last two to six years actively denying leftists any voice within the party and openly collaborating with republicans to delegitimize and even criminalize leftist movements

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now.

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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To borrow a quote - AI proponents reduce music to the noise it makes

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Erik Halvorsen @erikhalvorsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GOP lies

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 23h

Even when I added the information to our outgoing message that We Were Not The Place With The House For Rent, which included the number they should have called, people still left us messages about it.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SCOTUS

A plastic coyote in a dirt patch in what looks like a car park with a sign that says fake coyote goose deterrent. There are geese behind it

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is especially weird for me because I think democrats have done a terrible job of being the opposition. Republican collapse is happening because republicans suck at running things. The democrats haven’t torn them down and honestly have helped Trump along far too much.

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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!

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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding

Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

back in the day, if a mediocre traitor officer wanted to get back at his intructors he at least had to officially join the Confederate army.

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