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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

DEFUND (AND ABOLISH) ICE AND FEED OUR KIDS

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This was elder care masquerading as world-saving policy, stringing together some of Trump’s favorite activities — proximity to power, document signings, and arbitrary renamings — for an entire day."

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On #CitizenshipDay, we celebrate the millions of immigrants who have taken the step of becoming U.S. citizens while also recognizing the millions more who deserve the opportunity to fully belong in the country they call home. 🇺🇸

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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It might not look much but this young Guillemot (aged just 20-21 days old) has jumped off its cliff ledge home and is now following dad out 60 miles. The chick will rely on father for next 6-8 weeks. Remarkable start.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 26/07/2026

Forget the North Beach or Greenwich Village: the place where America's misfits and kooks met each other in the 1950s was in the personal ads in the back of the Saturday Review.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 20/07/2026

The first social media platform that lets us add footnotes wins.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I need a meme where Satan is checking his tracking info for Mitch McConnell's soul and it says "label created."

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Bobby Rivera @bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Denise Oliver-Velez, RIP. Pa’lante, siempre pa’ lante!

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..."
Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger."
📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx
Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston)
Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs
Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident"
Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome."
📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776
File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx
Author: t_jefferson_33
Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim."

📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776
File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx
Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users)
Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity."
Tracked Changes & Notes:
❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”).
Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK”
Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later."
❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice."
Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional."
➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph.
Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances).
📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning)
File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx
Editors: john_hancock_big_font
Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway."
System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat.

The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4.

The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

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MrSquid @mrsquid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.

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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @govmlg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy Pride Day, New Mexico. Today we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm a simple truth: everyone deserves the freedom to live authentically, love openly and build a future where they feel safe, valued and respected every day of the year.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

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Rui Pinto, count your days @thombomb816.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

catching up on @rodger.bsky.social 's Sports! newsletter. whew. sports.beehiiv.com/p/world-cup-...

I know some readers prefer I keep politics out of my writing. In this case, I’ve gotta ask: HOW???? The government is intentionally putting politics into sports! It is directly interfering in the event it is hosting! This meddling has been an issue since Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Most of the time, governments use major international sporting events to show how welcoming and benevolent they can be — even the really evil ones! This administration has chosen to use big events to showcase its steadfast commitment to exclusion and vindictiveness.

When I watch that clip of the Haitian-American crowd going nuts for Haiti, I see and hear what an American World Cup could have been: a celebration of our big, beautiful country that has become a home-away-from-home for people from every corner of the planet. A place that took in my family, and probably yours, too.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/06/2026

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/05/2026

LLMs are actually very authoritarian when viewed in this way (as centralized mechanisms for distributing/discovering information). Of course this is part and parcel of big tech’s move away from classically democratic and Liberal values

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If Eisenhower delivered the Gettysburg address (published in 1957 by Oliver Jensen). Hysterical stuff. They need to do this for every president. Attn @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

But at the same time, we should recognize Roberts’ bet for what it is: Not jurisprudence. Just the dying gasps of a racist ideology that is at odds with America’s promise, and the values of the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens. They act from fear, not from the law.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For his 100th birthday David Attenborough should get to surreptitiously release an animal of his choosing into the home of a big game hunter.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/05/2026

John Roberts is one of the most successful proponents of white supremacist power in US history. It's every decent person's job to destroy his legacy.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026

Most of the social programs that are routinely dismissed in American politics as "unrealistic" or "too expensive" could have been paid for multiple times over by the cost of this war so far, much less the costs to come. It's never the money.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The story of Dr. Joyce Brothers is amazing!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

He was previewing his war planning

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Walz: I have a message to our immigrant community here in Minnesota. You are seen, heard, valued, and loved. You add value to our state. You are part of the fabric of what is good about Minnesota. That is a hell of a lot more than I'll say about anybody in the White House.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

i keep going back and forth between despair at the terror the government is spreading, the lives they've taken and ruined, their impunity, their depravity, the total lack of reason for any of it and then swinging back to my complete and total belief that in the end they are going to lose

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Here's the thing, though: "Loving your country," "upholding the the rule of law," and "follow[ing] the facts and the law without fear or favor" or all partisan positions now. That is the problem the press will not admit.

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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The world may be aghast at the failure of American democracy, but it cannot help but admire the bravery and dignity of the people of Minneapolis.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers. Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

it can be annoying when my dogs yell at a nearby event (trash pickup, squirrel etc) but last night coyotes in the woods were howling at 3 a.m. & the dogs woke me up reply-howling & you know what, go nuts guys. when your ancestors appear hollering in The Language of The Ancients you can holler back

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Schumer's office IIRC didn't release a single official statement last week from his office concerning ICE, Minnesota, and the murder of Renee Nicole Good. Only thing I could find was this quote in NPR. That's all. www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he saw the video of the fatal shooting: "You felt like your stomach was being punched. Looking at the video, there seemed no justification for what these agents did. There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, though I have little faith in the FBI in doing a fair investigation.""

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Quite the encapsulation of how racism, anti-immigrant hatred, sexism & patriarchy & trying to return women to the home, & the neglect of early childhood/ willingness to harm children, are all bound up in one another. That's why I don't "stick to one topic." These intersect. Fascism relies on all

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In 2026, we can’t take the easy path by giving in to despair. We have to keep doing something to be ready for the moment the right combination of events align and we can see a better future.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Sculptor Steven Weitzman placed books under the floorboards of the Barbara Johns statue's self-base (dedicated last week in The Capitol Building) with titles from prominent African American scholars and authors to signify materials the students were missing in their classrooms. 🗃️

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 20/12/2025

There will be a casket toss at the Holiday Bowl.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

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