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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11h

I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.

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Marielle ⚓️🔱 @marielle922.bsky.social · 1h

Game summary

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 49m

local news must be protected at all costs

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 2h

Seattle scene report: Saw my sea lion buddy for the 3rd week in a row today 🥰🥰

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 2h

Seeing Sir Mix-A-Lot in a Washington AAA commercial makes me proud to be a Washingtonian.

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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · 6h

ESPN can fuck right off with these pro-voter ID ads. #WNBA

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 6h

Running backs ranked by how fun their name is to say 1. Bhayshul Tuten 2. Kyle Monongai 3. Cam Skattebo 4. Chuba Hubbard 5. Zach Charbonnet 6. Quinshon Judkins 7. Bucky Irving

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 18h

I didnt know there was any Bluesky theater x sports overlap in the Venn diagram, but I’m delighted to see it

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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 21h

I told my wife, who works in the mental health profession, that there's all these people who believe AI models can feel pain. She immediately responded with "are these people who struggle to identify their own emotions?" I think she hit it with one shot

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...

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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus

Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h

Again, if the 🇺🇸 media covered the GOP as it actually is, & the way foreign far right authoritarian parties are covered, behavior like this would spark a wholesale change in 🇺🇸 political journalism. This? It won’t even make headlines tomorrow, & the Sunday shows will platform a dozen GOP politicians.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hypothetical: a president publicly discloses a private cell phone number to encourage millions to intimidate and disturb a legislator to pass a bill. It meets the criteria for state criminal harassment. Immune under Trump v. United States? Or official conduct that can overcome the presumption?

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Marjory Wentworth, Springfield area activist & G92 faith group member, tells me tonight: “I have to wonder about the timing and location - the same day of the funeral for Pierre Damas Bal in Springfield. This young man was a victim of Trump's cruel policies, & the rally dishonors Pierre's memory &…

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

God it’s so good

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spookitty, esq. @ibsroyalty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there’s so much to unpack here.

Stacks of Dude Wipes. The packaging is black on the left and orange on the right. The left has a white toilet with a pumpkin sitting on it with the :o expression on its face. Lucky for us, it says “plant sourced fibers” on the packaging.

The scent…flavor…? is “DUMPKIN SPICE” and no, that is not a typo.

Some packets have a sticker that says “XL WIPES 99% WATER AND PLANT BASED INGREDIENTS” others claim these are flushable wipes.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FLUSHABLE WIPE YOUR PLUMBER WILL HAUNT YOUR ACTUAL ASS DONT DO IT.

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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

buddy found an incredible shirt at an upper lake antique store

t shirt with pix of paul mccartney and it says PAUL MCCARTNEY 1942-2022. he is still alive fyi

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026

Political Profile: Abdul El-Sayed theonion.com/political-profile-abdu…

Where The ‘El’ In Name Comes From: Ancestors pandering for Latino vote

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

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macshibby the anxious @macshibby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a student hug me goodbye "just in case" because he and his family have an immigration appointment on Monday and they could be deported back to their home country, where he's convinced he'll end up murdered on the street. So anyway, fuck this.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USA Today seems cooked. A lot of places being turned into slop mills, now USAT is one, looks like. From the link below "The obsession with AI has gone to another level....they’ve fired everyone because they feel so confident that they will get by on AI alone. Don’t get your news here." c o o k e d

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 03/10/2026

At the karaoke bar absolutely tearing the house down singing the Skyrizi theme song. They're chanting "Encore!" I oblige, and queue up the Jardiance song

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yes. it destroys trust in the whole profession, if folks assume we're all doing this. (I'm not, and I know many others who aren't, but whew is this a very worrying dynamic)

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been a journalist for 35 yrs &never done anything like this. Esp in this area, I can't think of anyone reputable who'd do this. I hate this happened to you & IMO it's not ethical. IF it were possible they were going to share yr interview internally, you should have been told up front at MINIMUM

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Khashoggi's assassination was in hindsight one of the highly salient norm-shattering moments of impunity that helped recalibrate contemporary expectations for outrageous crimes: if you're rich & powerful enough, in the words of the President of the United States, "they just let you do it"

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Pa-‘Trick-Or-Treat’ Barron 🐻〽️ @bluebarronphoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I for one welcome our Pitt and Northwestern overlords

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 03/10/2026

Whichever Luke this is he's soaring up the Luke rankings

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

My goodness that is sleazy. Thank you for the warning. I will now have to begin every recorded interview by stating that this recording is for the use of the interviewer only.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Same. 30+ years of conducting interviews for publications and this has never happened.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

no one's doing it like college woso

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are years where one might pay extra to see less Northwestern football. Approve.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

in other unfortunate metaphor news, the Carousel of Progress is closed

The Carousel of Progress, from the 1964 World's Fair, at Disney World

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.

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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana

ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.

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