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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We had the party for the five year old and her best friend (who just had her last preschool day) brought her a framed picture. A picture she made from the pressed flowers she had collected on her walks home from their school days together
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching a murder real-time.
Senator Britt with a shocked face.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is one of the most painful things you’ll ever see and you should absolutely see it
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My belief: This election isn’t about the economy in 2027. It’s about the economy in 2060. Prosperity comes from institutions like the rule of law, markets, a free press, and capitalism (not crony capitalism) newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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We Spend So Much Time Talking About Gas Prices
But is that what we really want to focus on? Also: Is the U.S. economy really the envy of the world?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Sept. 26, Glitterer, Posición Unida, and Somebody’s Daughter play the first punk show at the base of the Washington Monument since Fugazi played there in ’95 “There’s no better time to remind both the city and country that this is a town for punks, says co-organizer Caroline Liaupsin
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D.C. Punk Returns to the National Mall for a Monumental Benefit Concert
The Ward 1 Mutual Aid Benefit Show will bring local punk to the Sylvan Theater stage for the first time since Fugazi played there in 1995.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We know *without a doubt* that electing Republicans—or failing to elect Democrats—will mean more misery and death. There is absolute moral clarity here and we do not benefit by acting like there isn’t.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
they like Elon Musk, agree with his goals and want to help him. they do not like Hasan Piker, disagree with his goals, and want to hurt him. Hard to arrive at any other conclusion.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Anne Robbins @hincmariana.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An ancient listing, flagged in an old cutting from the Guardian, for a job at Southeast Missouri State University, to teach philosophy and religious studies. Startlingly frank.
An old newspaper clipping, apparently from the Guardian:

ENCLOSED is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly... We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted PhD's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St Louis.
Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy, but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time... We also offer a rellgious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda.
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SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual - somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting— and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playful-ness, or independence of moral and political thought.
Job advertisement written by the chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the Southeast Missouri State University
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026
Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.
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Someone’s Skin ☠️🕷️👻 @simoneskeen.xyz · 01/09/2026
I had my dissertation defunded and a career path as a USAID technical advisor destroyed and I still detest performative dooming. 1/3 of international student enrollment down? A dire self-inflicted humiliation but the remaining 2/3 don’t need to hear “it’s over forever” they need solutions. And hope
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
All of us who worked in COVID wards saw the horror of COVID. All sorts of people died- those with comorbidities. Those previously healthy. They died fast and often alone, except for their nurse (heroes). This guy can go fuck himself with his revisionist history 🤬🤬🤬
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you did a movie 10 years ago about people who had a long ago shoplifting charge ago being chased by robot dogs and masked goons with shock gloves it would have seemed a bit heavy handed on the dystopia front. And the hero would have definitely been the person who takes down that oppression.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
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Heather is RIGHT BEHIND YOU 👻 @katanaangel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh, its that day again. Every year I see this and I always repost it, because Till would potentially still be alive today if he wasn't murdered. He would be my dad's age, but he would be *alive* The past is not so far away.
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dan ozzi @danozzi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my tv is currently restarting because its terms have changed and i need to accept the new agreement. a tv shouldn’t have terms of agreement. it should be a tv.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah there’s the unrelenting empathy, which shone brightest, but that was backed by a sisyphean level of patience. It’s not that hard to care, it’s very hard to keep caring over and over and over
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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
these are the things that are hard to get out of my mind when I stand at the front of a classroom this week and introduce myself and go through my syllabus as a very visibly trans woman who also is dedicated to making physics a more inclusive field
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’m sure FIRE will be all over this
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/08/2026
Texas A&M fired a professor for giving a lecture about gender. No one is buying the academic freedom bullshit from the skull measuring crowd. Fuck off
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Mike Switzer (he/him) @kidornery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There is no bipartisanship. There is only collaboration.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I feel like this is similar to the thing where people living inside the right wing alternate reality treat "Nazi" like they are the in-universe villains from a fictional fantasy series that it is hysterical and hyperbolic to reference, and not like something that actually existed in history
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I know they're all gaslighting liars, but it's remarkable how thoroughly the "cancel culture" myth redefined "censorship" to mean "someone using their free speech to criticize me." Meanwhile, actual censorship is just fine for all these people.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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The bottom line is shown here with a graph showing that the total number of grants awards in each state is essentially proportional to the number of applications received for institutions in that state.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️ Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread
Pedro Pascal in a dark red suit and black turtleneckClassical Electrodynamics by JD Jackson, white print on red cover
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
year 1: there's still grant funding, but we may need to change how we talk about our work, or what we work on year 2: the government has disappeared one billion dollars of science funding. it is unclear why they did that or where that sits within concepts like "the rule of law"
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 20/08/2026
*my toaster shorts out and starts sparking* Mm, the purpose of a system is what it does. *my house burns down around me.*
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Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot @claypotter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Boycott Scotts.
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The robbery, the reveal, the stare. How can you not be entertained by Fernando Tatis Jr. 😮‍💨
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I…I am apoplectic. What the fuck.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@TheAncientWorld

A typical complaint fielded by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.”

(image of stone or clay tablet with the caption: Map of canals and irrigation systems to the west of Euphrates. Babylonia, 1684-1647 BC)
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