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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.

A Facebook comment that includes a comic of a car mowing down a group of cyclist with the text, "Cyclists! Move over and it won't happen!"

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dammit. I don't want to watch a four hour movie in a theater, but I might have to because I'd like to add to the number of people he knows are laughing at him in public.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember being so horrified by the original story, and it sounds like it's gotten even worse since then.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm incredibly crabby today, but I'm saving my hot takes for private chats so I don't end up in a social media brawl.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's no hell hot enough for some people.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To the two drivers who blew through stop signs nearly hitting me and my daughter as we biked to preschool today: I hope you do something really amazing with those three seconds you saved by endangering us

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on exporting oil + gas + coal to bankroll its genocidal war against our ally Ukraine.🇺🇦 Renewables are good for the climate and good for peace + security! #FossilFuelsFundFascists

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am fully in support of the kids' agenda!

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I had a wonderful time at the Champaign County Democratic Party Blue Unity Gala! And got to tell IL House Member and Speaker Pro Tempore (and former Illini football player!) Kam Buckner how much I appreciate his advocacy for housing and transportation.

Me, a white woman with glasses and curly red hair, standing next to Kam Buckner, a Black man with glasses, short hair, and a beard and mustache. I'm wearing a white shirt, and he is wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt, and blue tie with small orange squares.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The real goal of the anti-trans movement is the erasure of trans people from public existence, and it's grotesque. Thread:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

one of the most mind-melting things about this moment is how so much of the media and popular discourse politely ignores or is very vague about the blindingly obvious fact that Trump has rapidly-worsening dementia www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

“For nine months, rescue and recovery crews worked day and night on the site. I want to just thank my people; I took a lot of my me(n) — I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened,” he said. “And they were — they had no hesitation — everybody went down with me. We went down, it was a big group of people. Wasn’t too much we could do, I’ll be honest — it was, you know, it was raw, and nobody’s seen anything like it, ever. We had other buildings; the United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down; the truth is it creaked a lot, it creaked. It still creaks. But it never came down, and I re(member) — I’ll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen — big, strong guys — and I’m not the smallest guy in the world — they grabbed me under the arms, said, ‘Gotta get out of here.’ And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ But they were amazing, but they thought it was coming down; it didn’t come down. US Steel.”

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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We just signed up for the mailing list! Can't wait to hear more.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really good thread here! There are a lot of autoimmune diseases in my family, and there are times we know more about some things than our doctors do. Yes, I trust modern medicine. Also, I know that doctors are human and don't know everything and there's more to learn. It's a tricky balance!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

they like him and want to help him. we've seen how the times treats other politicians who they don't like when they are perceived to be dishonest

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He's six months away from claiming he walked on the Moon, nine from insisting he survived Custer's Last Stand.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What really gets me are the ones who are on this site. Isn't this the reason we all left Tw*tter?

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Why not make all of the income-restricted units affordable at 30% AMI?" is the housing discourse equivalent of "why don't they build the whole plane out of the black box?"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Central planning doesn't work because a few bureaucrats can't allocate resources efficiently for a massive country. That's why we love the free market, where a few billionaires do that

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026

You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labor Day is about unions. Unions built the middle class. You can’t support the middle class without supporting unions. Massively powerful companies & their politicians spend LOTS of money telling you not to support unions. Because it’s the only thing they fear. Happy Labor Day

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

his one brain cell is entirely focused on stealing his sister's dinner. nothing on earth can stop him. no processing power is wasted on dignity, consequences, or the fact that he was fed twelve seconds ago. he is a specialized supercomputer designed solely for dinner crimes.

an orange and white cat has his paws crossed, concentrating intensely

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I agree. Our legislature too dysfunctional to care about anything right now.

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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The city of Champaign just eliminated minimum parking requirements citywide!!!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member.
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great news that this is now mainstream thinking!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey, remember when Republicans were against death panels?

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got to hear some inspiring words from our awesome Governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov today! Nobody will be surprised to hear that I talked to him about housing. I'm a big fan of his BUILD initiative, and I'm doing everything I can to help get it passed.

Ilinois Governor JB Pritzker, is standing between two women with red hair. They're in a campaign headquarters building, and behind them is a partially obscured sign that says Champaign County Democrats.

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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

PUBLIC COMMENT! Champaign is introducing the removal of parking minimums throughout the city! Champaign City Council Tuesday, Sept 1 @ 7pm 102 N Neil St, Champaign If you can't make the meeting, email your support to council@champaignil.gov!

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm sorry, but if you think Nathan Cofnas being suspended for being a racist is an 'academic freedom' issue you are the dumbest fucking mark alive.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

A lot of people who never really thought about big tech CEOs one way or another in 2016 now, in 2026, quite accurately believe that most of them are murderous Nazis pedos.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

YES. Every bit of this thread.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every time! The comments on this post are proving the point.

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Read the whole thread, but this is the gut punch right here.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"I used to be 25. That’s not coming back either." LOL, I'm definitely going to use that!

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Kathy S @kshannon617.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ozma: seventeen years old and still raising hell (between naps). #caturday

My cat Ozma in a laundry basket. She's black and white, with a fluffy white belly. She has only one eye, and that eye is tracking my hand and calculating her angle of attack. She is terrifying.

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