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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Ip Man: Grande Mestre de Kung Fu
ALT: Ip Man: Grande Mestre de Kung Fu
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/09/2026
An a16z article argues that enshittification isn’t real and that people actually love social media.
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A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real
An a16z article argues that enshittification isn’t real and that people actually love social media.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A Sahan Journal data analysis shows student enrollment declined in Minnesota school districts with the highest percentage of English learners after the federal immigration operation. For some, the loss will have long-term impacts. By @bzosiad.bsky.social and Cynthia Tu
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Minnesota schools lost at least 1,700 students after ICE operation
A Sahan Journal data analysis shows student enrollment declined in Minnesota school districts with the highest percentage of English learners after the federal immigration operation. For some, the los...
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and there aways has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it's way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"- Asimov
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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 19/08/2026
William O’Reilly, a White Cambridge professor, was found guilty of plagiarizing his student, accused again of plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, and accused of using his power to get one of his students cleared of a sexual assault allegation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
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Pulling Up the Ladder
In recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Don’t get it. Why is Jared Leto there?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Nickelback - Photograph
YouTube video by Nickelback
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Everything of that halftime show felt so disingenuous. 3/10
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 08/07/2026
“You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn.” This story is all sorts of fucked up. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 06/07/2026
We cannot know what the Black woman on the train was thinking or feeling at this moment. But we recognize the image as an indictment. It should make all of us pause to consider what it is that we are celebrating as America turns 250. The latest from @errinhaines.bsky.social:
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The Black woman on the train did not look away. How much longer will we?
A viral photo from July 4 captured an unidentified Black woman’s composure amid a sea of masked white men — and became a mirror for our democracy at 250.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yet another newsletter just arrived in my inbox that was clearly written with (by) AI. Look, I'm not being unreasonable here: I am not going to bother to read your newsletter if you aren't bothering to write your newsletter. Have some fucking self-respect, people.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
i cannot. I CANNOT.
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers. The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush: www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...
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Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Marketing firms are going all in on AI search.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of those arrested had pending criminal charges.
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Three-quarters of Minnesotan ICE arrestees had no criminal record
New data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of those arrested had pending criminal charges.
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Damn. How does anyone get any shit done these days?
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 26/02/2026
The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. @alv9n.com digs into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends and family, here’s our happiness mapped. pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 09/02/2026
bad bunny 500 electoral votes
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Both amazed and terrified. Nonetheless, need to have a little fun in the midst of all the craziness in our world. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru4a...
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System Of A Down - Chop Suey [ Cover by TORWAI]
YouTube video by TORWAI [Delicious_rock]
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
bars
screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Too many of us who have spent our lives studying the history racism in this country were dismissed as hyperbolic and hysterical and biased and people who have not studied this history and were willfully blind to the truth of America and been wrong about it all were uplifted as the voices of reason.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
NEW: GoFundMe strictly bans fundraisers for “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes,” yet is currently running one “to help pay for any legal services” for the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good. Its conflict is not even the least bit contestable.
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GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/01/2026
Want to help people in Minneapolis right now? Here are a lot of ways to help!
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@mplsmutualaid | Linktree
Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here is someone I trust to help direct support to families who cannot leave home right now while ICE is in Minneapolis. Please give if you can. I am donating.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2025
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers.

As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2025
With our Private School Demographics database, you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools. Check it out ⤵️
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ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup
Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Why does this happen so frequently in the US and not in other industrialized countries? I guess we can never know.
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UPDATE: At least 2 dead, 20 hurt in shooting at south Minneapolis church; shooter dead
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS is at the scene of a major incident in south Minneapolis.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The speech shows the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to Southern slave holders, but also to anyone willing to tolerate or ignore slavery.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 29/05/2025
New project: From stereotypes to breakthroughs, Hollywood's history with Asian and Asian American characters is complicated. This AAPI Heritage Month, dive into the data that reveals whether that's changed: pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi...
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Absolutely bonkers.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#OTD in 1943, an editorial in the Seattle Times supports the continued incarceration of Japanese Americans. The author states that it is impossible to definitively prove loyalty. To prove their allegiance, they should "regard their present confinement as their war contribution." 🗃 #skystorians
The Seattle Times, April 15, 1943
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Every day, for the past two months 😂
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/04/2025
A timeless gift for any occasion! Use promo code: $%#&!
Merriam-Webster's Just Curse Words Edition: The Perfect Gift for 12 Year Olds!
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Kong Yang @kmongy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Gosh, this captures a lot of my feelings on AI. So much slop. AI is most definitely mid. Love it @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
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