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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11h

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Upside Down By @johnmitchinson.bsky.social John Mitchinson explains why Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the wrong role model for Big Tech

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John Mitchinson explains why Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the wrong role model for Big Tech

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

University of Illinois's student paper published an editorial from the editor of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) about how their paper is under attack from the administration. It's authoritarianism and attacks on a free press all the way down, y'all: dailyillini.com/opinions-sto...

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Letter to the Editor | UI students: SIUE’s student paper needs your help - The Daily Illini

The Alestle's editor-in-chief details its escalating conflict with SIUE administration and warns of the broader threat to press freedom.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 30/09/2026

History students: Be sure you understand your sources before you make them the centerpiece of your argument.

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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are not being governed. We are being looted.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the most “how it started, how it’s going” moment in the history of “how it started, how it’s going.” It‘s somewhere between Jeb Bush’s “Please clap” and Pam Bondi’s “The Dow. THE DOW!” in career defining moments that will haunt a person to their grave.

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Melayna @melaynalokosky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, am I using "Super Intelligence" correctly? Today Republicans leaked that Eric Schmitt was on the short list as a Vance running mate in 2028. Schmitt thought his "gotcha" Jack Smith moment would launch his bid, but it backfired. #HowToLoseACareerIn10Ways

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seriously 💥 😡🙄

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rush Limbaugh said this if Bill Clinton was elected. Sean Hannity said this if both Obama and Biden were elected. It didn't happen. But they still roll this tired shit out.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where could these men have gotten such a sense of entitlement about touching women?

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Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y”

YouTube video by TDC

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't have the raw data, but sounds about right.

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fuck’s sake. Traffic on Commerce is bad enough without the fucking robocars.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"

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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Elect a convicted felon, you get a criminal government.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026

Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was a crime the first time he made the offer, and it's still a crime tonight.

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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Real Stories - not the GOP’s.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

this is the greatest thing i have ever heard

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Get out and vote! He literally had people raise their hands and pledge to cheat two weeks ago in Dallas.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again

Rebuilding trust will take generations.

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Sue Sturgis @suesturgis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In petitions filed with the NC Office of Administrative Hearings, the Southern Environmental Law Center said that, by splitting the 600-plus diesel generators into two separate air quality permits, Duke and Amazon are "illegally evading requirements of the Clean Air Act."

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Amazon, Duke won permits for hundreds of generators. Opponents aren’t done yet.

A future Amazon data center is facing a challenge to its plan to use nearly 650 diesel generators as temporary and backup power.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s a video of a dog welcoming its owner home from the front – because we need something to keep us sane.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The joke is funny. Surrogacy is not. It often exploits women and always separates infants from a relationship they formed with those women over nine months. 🥚

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