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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/05/2026

Right wing domestic terrorism -- by every measure, the overwhelmingly most common kind of domestic terrorism -- cost a legislator her life and the national press did not give a shit. Barely covered it. Read this lovely tribute.

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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A $400 million dollar ballroom? A billion dollar a day war of choice. Tens of millions on golf trips. $60 million dollar birthday parade. Disbanding the Forest Service A billion $ to STOP building wind farms (may be 2bil.) And these monsters want to take money away from poor, disabled people.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The fiddles must continue while Rome burns

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

THIS IS FINE

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/04/2026

Trump wants US taxpayers to bail out UAE, a middle-eastern petro-autocracy, because he & his family have a lot of private deals going on in UAE & they need to make their money back.

On Tuesday, President Trump said he is considering a financial bailout for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an autocratic state experiencing an economic downturn due to the war in Iran.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I happened to be hate-watching CNN as the “I thought it was a doctor” story broke. The framing of the whole segment was, “Do you think he really was a doctor in the meme? Were we wrong to interpret it as Jesus? Let’s bring in some experts and get to the bottom of this…” The word “lie” never came up.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"As we all know, the natural habitat for the Earth is actually water."

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Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Perfect. No notes.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

An armistice can take weeks to negotiate. A comprehensive peace treaty can take months. No one on Earth who knows a thing about history or diplomacy thought anything could be resolved in six hours. This will confirm for everyone the extreme incompetence and bad faith of the American regime.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/04/2026

Goddamn y'all. Robert Plant is 77 years old. The song "Ramble On" is 56 years old. And this sounds so fresh I wouldn't blink if I heard it on the radio today. One of the all-time greats.

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“Ramble On” - Robert Plant with Saving Grace (LIVE on The Late Show)

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

its always the same, tired, sick, shit. always. always. and we must always fight it. it can fuck off. forever.

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Kai TechnoLust (he/him) @technolust.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This hits hard

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A reporter asked Trump about Iran charging fees literally yesterday -- and his response was that we were going to get a cut of the action!

This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls:

“We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.”

“It’s a beautiful thing”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Big tough guy alert bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Last year the White House Correspondents Dinner abruptly unbooked Amber Ruffin. This year, Trump will be there and with all his “quiet piggy” abuse and outright censorship, they would never think of disinviting him. They are cowards and largely responsible for why we are where we are. Fuck them all.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

19 guys with box cutters fucked us up good for over a decade. People think retaliation has to be some kind of major military operation and they’re wrong

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

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Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I hope he is well, Jim.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Call Congress and tell them to do their job: 202-224-3121

Black and while graphic that reads
"IMPEACH TRUMP AGAIN", where a silhouette of the president giving a thumbs up is showcased

Below in an orange box, it reads:
TELL CONGRESS TO DO THEIR JOB:
202-224-3121

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026

Man, shitty dads have a lot to answer for.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 07/04/2026

We are watching a dangerous and unfit President drag this country toward catastrophe — and Republicans refuse to act. Invoke the 25th Amendment. Do your fucking job.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

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Ryan Dunlavey @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

even absolute animals like bush ii, reagan and nixon didn't launch a nuke. even those ghouls knew better. trump does not.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

trump should be rotting in prison instead of threatening to end civilization but merrick garland loved the rules and tradition too much.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 07/04/2026

Bombing power and water plants is exactly what Putin is doing in Ukraine. Trump wants to copy the tactics of his idol. By the way, Putin is losing his war on Ukraine.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The correspondents dinner is the most corrupt meeting in Washington DC. You shouldn’t be partying with the people you are covering. I believe this to be true under both democrats and republicans. The dinner is corrupt. The participants are corrupt, the entire event is a tragedy.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

History says George W Bush was the good one and hangs his paintings at Disney World. If you think history is going to honestly remember Trump you haven’t been paying attention.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

No one has benefited more from Trump’s war than Russian billionaires.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/04/2026

On one hand, the way the Iran war is playing out is a heavy-handed, almost theatrical illustration of the point Adam makes here. On the other hand, the same strategy—tougher, harder, more violence, more cruelty—has failed over and over again throughout human history, and we still haven't learned.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Car dealers are also a major source of money and power for state/local republican parties around the country so getting rid of them would have positive downstream effects beyond just making car buying less miserable

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Extremely shady behavior from Southeastern Louisiana University: removed a professor from a research project after she went public with pollution findings. Background here, administration's stated reasons for removing her have been all over the place. lailluminator.com/2026/03/06/r...

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Southeastern review panel rejects complaint from researcher removed from Lake Maurepas study • Louisiana Illuminator

A Southeastern faculty grievance committee has ruled against reinstating a researcher removed last year from a high-profile study examining pollution in Lake Maurepas.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/04/2026

I just lost an hour to this thread. I miss old twitter.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/03/2026

Long before his days as Boromir, and Ned Stark, and Macbeth, the English actor Sean Bean turned his head to the sky as a young schoolboy and discovered his love of birds. We asked him for his advice on how you too can get into birding. nyti.ms/3Pwgmmq

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What’s More Soothing Than Hearing Sean Bean Talk About Birds? Nothing.

Known for playing stoic noblemen, actor Sean Bean brings a peaceful presence and a love of birds to his new role as host of the podcast Get Birding.

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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 27/03/2026

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

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