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Kenneth Hargis

@kmhargis.bsky.social
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"It's far too late to try to sleep now, seems I'm never tired anymore..." I mostly don't follow people I don't know. If that's why you're following, don't bother. No DM's if I don't know you. I won't answer.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
our problem isn't polarization; it's fascism. I've been saying that for a while. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...
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Our Problem Isn't Polarization. It's Fascism.
A new paper makes the case.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Media’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’
How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media.
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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I know this is cheesy as hell, but I mean it with my whole heart: Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word ✊
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Make it make some sense already 😳😡
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, good job, Chirp! Thanks for the heads-up, Liz!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
As health care costs skyrocket and millions of Americans go uninsured, what is JD Vance and Donald Trump’s solution? Kick hundreds of thousands more people off their health insurance. Senate Democrats will expand coverage and lower costs for millions of Americans when we take back the majority.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Above all else, be kind.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The world's leading AI firms say the technology is careening out of control and could cause a global catastrophe. A sundowning octogenarian president who uses AI to post images of himself looking like Rambo says this is a Chinese hoax. For busy technologists, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!"
Statler and waldorf
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space
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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit. US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, announced that Washington had active “on-orbit” weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were currently circling the globe. Continue reading...
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Measles is back. Children are dying not because medicine failed, but because ideology did. Under “Make America Healthy Again,” anti-vaccine politics recast preventable death as freedom—accepting mass mortality as a moral choice, not a failure. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/09/2026
The word ”Tory”, comes from the Irish word tóraí, meaning outlaw or bandit.
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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More information from Audubon about the Rio Grande water release: Albuquerque could see up to a 50% die-back of the bosque next year because of this year's extreme drying. The release should keep water flowing through the city for about four days. #NMwx
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Extended Drying of The Rio Grande Affects Bosque
Audubon and partners release water into the river and will study bosque response.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Blue Danube. Original post
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A more general phenomenon: If we can’t control the thing, we’ll still show it’s ours by destroying it (cf. universities and plenty of other institutions).
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Be warned: this shit is coming to Britain unless we get American Big Tech out of our culture, media and politics. We need an unassailable firewall between us and these mad bastards
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UncleRicoReturns @unclericotnt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My, my, my the more time flies the more shit stays the same. A cartoon from the 1930s.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot of Pluto.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Correct. The White House was deliberately designed to NOT be a palace. Early Americans defined their country AGAINST European monarchies.
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Meanwhile, in Canada 🇨🇦 😈
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-exe...
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DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters
Tucked in at the bottom of a bombshell document released last week...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: New docuseries exposes ICE's cruelty. Masuma Khan went to a routine immigration check-in and was imprisoned. Her story is told in Episode 1 of Fractured, a docuseries on the human toll of ICE enforcement. Watch the full episode at fractured-stories.com
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Fractured — The Stories of Those Left Behind
Fractured is a social media series documenting the emotional, financial and societal impacts of ICE/CBP actions. Capturing the stories of those left behind.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#booksky
Can't believe we're at the stage of dystopia where we're destroying old books because Tim from corporate can't write his own emails.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela's gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional.
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Lori 🇺🇦🐸🌊 @coalsmom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
John Oliver takes on the U.S. prison system | Prison Policy Initiative share.google/YQYKmXD1RYML...
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John Oliver takes on the U.S. prison system
Awesome piece with one small mistake on the difference between prisons and jails.
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Debra🐝 @seedsong.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Cyclospora is a story about…yes, explosive diarrhea…and also corruption and oligopoly. 🥬
YouTube video by Abdul El-Sayed
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 18/08/2026
I'll be a guest at Bubonicon in Albuquerque this coming weekend: www.bubonicon.com and at the LA WorldCon the weekend after that: guide.lacon.org/people/7898e... Yes, I'm going to be tired.
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Bubonicon 57 - Aug 21-23, 2026
New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So deeply un-American that the relevant comps are figures like al-Assad, Mussolini, and Mao
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Nateroyah @nateroyah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Michelle Tafoya thinks we need to give Virginia its flag back.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/08/2026
NEW: An arrest warrant was just issued for Green Party candidate Jill Stein when she failed to appear in court on a 2024 assault charge. www.azfamily.com/2026/08/17/a...
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Arrest warrant issued for 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein
A warrant has been issued for Dr. Jill Stein, stemming from a 2024 assault charge.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Foodborne illnesses tied to outbreaks have exploded in 2026, with federal data showing roughly four times as many reported illnesses as recent years.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Highbinder [HY-bine-der] (n.) 1. An unscrupulous rogue or schemer; especially a corrupt politician or gangster. 2. Historically, a hired assassin or member of an organized criminal gang.
A “Grandiloquent Word of the Day” meme for "Highbinder." Definition: (n.) 1. An unscrupulous rogue or schemer; especially a corrupt politician or gangster. 2. Historically, a hired assassin or member of an organized criminal gang. At right is a loose black-ink caricature of a suited, older political figure with swept hair, raising one finger while speaking. Example sentence: “Back in my day, even the most vainglorious political highbinders and quockerwodgers had the common decency to pretend otherwise.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's an all hands on deck moment. Lawyers need to do their job to protect elections. Courts must do their job to ensure the law is followed. And, voters must make sure they have a plan to vote and turn out.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary
“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms.
Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no.
“You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.”

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Regime Change
Maggie Haberman
https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648
This material may be protected by copyright.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/08/2026
DOJ: we appreciate the opportunity. DOJ tried to make a good faith effort to provide the court with what it sought. I do have a second binder if you're willing to entertain a secondary submission. Can I approach and address the court ex-parte?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?
We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou
Graphic shows a farm worker in a mass and hat outside in a grape vineyard with bold bold orange pot looking text text saying: Republicans are trying to ban  national heat regulations from ever happening. Contact your US Representative today
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ICYMI: Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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