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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
y'all... 🤭😭
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Posting tips for women on how not to get murdered according to Dateline NBC. Will update with more tips 1. Don’t go on a boat with a man 2. Don’t go on a hike with a man 3. Don’t go near a hot tub or bath tub with a man.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Almost every week, we see a liberal writer condemn “wokeism” or the “woke. . .” They are attacking a caricature, a perversion, a distortion of a historically Black concept that MAGA propagandists first distorted. These people are not serious thinkers.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026
U.S. Mint Unveils Series Of Gold Coins Commemorating President’s Extramarital Affairs theonion.com/u-s-mint-unveils-serie…
U.S. Mint Unveils Series Of Gold Coins Commemorating President’s Extramarital Affairs
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
…misread the job description
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 10/07/2026
I wrote about RAMageddon, and resisted the temptation to talk about that time when a spike in RAM prices meant I couldn’t afford a 1MB upgrade for my Amiga (which I think would have cost $800). www.fastcompany.com/91571454/ramage…
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AI is stealing all the RAM and storage, and I’m learning to live with it
Thanks to RAMageddon, new devices are getting pricier for the first time in years. Sticking with what you’ve got just became more attractive.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
These takeaways are ... very good?
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 23/06/2026
Not sure how to get started with agentic AI? From our new print issue, here’s my concise guide to a whole lot of useful tools. www.fastcompany.com/91549052/42-way…
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42 ways you should be using AI right now
Agentic AI can make life—and work—easier. You know this. But are you doing anything about it? Time to get off the sidelines and into the game.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...
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‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury
Grand jury sessions are among the most tightly held elements of the...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative. It’s unconstitutional. The Thirteenth Amendment explicitly prohibits slavery and indentured servitude, except “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But immigration detention is a form of civil confinement. People held in detention centers are simply waiting—behind bars—for the resolution of their immigration cases. This is punitive in practice, but not in law, as they are incarcerated, but not in prison. Only 12 percent of the people who have been detained at Delaney Hall since it opened have ever been convicted of anything.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Truly honored and excited to share that @status.news won the Mirror Award in the inaugural Best Media Newsletter category this evening. 🙏
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
6 years ago, I wrote that John Roberts, who craves to be ranked w J Marshall (or CE Hughes or E Warren) as greatest, institutionalist, consensus-building Chief Justice.. ...would instead challenge Roger "Dred Scott" Taney as worst + most partisan-hack chief. Now, no contest. Roberts beats Taney.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
”It should be for everyone.” I so agree with my friend below. Wake up people , evil is crawling out from under it’s rock ! It never left us, it’s been here all along.
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...
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The logic of the racist Supreme Court isn’t adding up
SCOTUS hates math
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
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Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 27/02/2026
I wrote about the idea that AI will destroy today’s software giants, and why it seems equally possible they’ll use it to become even more gigantic. www.fastcompany.com/91498768/saa...
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Life under the Clicktatorship: the FBI Director is off watching hockey at the Olympics, and the administration is trying to send hospital boats to a country with universal health care even as they are gutting health coverage. Great content, owning the libs etc.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/02/2026
"Clicktatorship" is fucking phenomenal.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court's remarkable ruling against tariffs is another sign that Trumpist nationalism is in crisis. Tariffs and deportations are key pillars of Trumpism. Both are major fiascos. Both have caused his approval to crater. Trumpism is failing. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2068...
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Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him than You Think
The Supreme Court’s stunning invalidation of most of the president’s tariffs is another sign that Trumpist populist nationalism is in crisis.
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 20/02/2026
Until I researched this piece, I didn’t realize that Congress figured out that the equal time rule was ineffective and annoying as early as the late 1950s. It hasn’t improved with age! www.fastcompany.com/91495025/ste...
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The equal time rule is no match for the YouTube age - Fast Company
The nearly 100-year-old FCC mandate has never felt more behind the times.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/02/2026
Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish. www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
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Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny
43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE 👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2026
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026
I invested so much of my life tracking this stuff, damned if I’m not going to generate content from it now.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
DO IT
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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ein Land, das öffentlich Menschen hinrichtet, kann keine Fußball-WM ausrichten. #WMBoykottjetzt www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deu...
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WM-Boykott? Das Bild von den USA wandelt sich
In einer Hamburger Fußballkneipe ist WM-Boykott Thema. In Grönland in der Gemeinde Sommerland in Schleswig-Holstein herrscht Trump-Misstrauen.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Like most here, I am horrified and heartbroken over what has happened in Minneapolis with the death of yet another brave citizen in the fight against ICE abuses. No one should have to pay that price for our freedom, and no family should have to hear that terrible news.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/01/2026
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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