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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From @timmiller.bsky.social : “We are imprisoning Maryam, Eissa, and their teenage son not because they are a threat to national security—but because of something a family member did before any of them were born.” 😕🇺🇸 @marcorubio
thebulwark.com
Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
STEINEM:….And we couldn't have our own credit rating, our own credit cards, our own address. We couldn't get a loan. I mean, we could go on. SAGAL: And do you? STEINEM: Yes, I do go on.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember one week after an agent killed Renee Good that ICE surrounded a house in Minneapolis at night and broke in? DHS said men attacked ICE with a "snow shovel and broom handle." They were forced to fire a defensive shot. No one attacked them. An agent shot into a closed door and lied about it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/09/2026
A clip of me commenting on @jococruise.bsky.social about being banned in a school library went up and I thought I'd share. The first 90 seconds are on me, but it's the rest I think is important, where I talk about the real harms book bans inflict on authors who are not like me. youtu.be/ya1ylFb9E_k
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Why was Lock In banned? — John Scalzi Q&A on JoCo Cruise 2026
YouTube video by Angela Brett
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale arstechnica.com/security/202...
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 02/09/2026
agree with ketan's sentiment but also you should read the undressing performed by datacolada here. it is spectacular datacolada.org/138
datacolada.org
[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/08/2026
🎉 WIN: A slate of anti-voting measures in North Carolina is unlikely to take effect before the midterms — thanks to voters taking action. The GOP-controlled elections board approved stricter mail voting standards and ID requirements despite public criticism. Here's how the public fought back:
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Public objections pause new voting restrictions in North Carolina – at least for now
The voting restrictions approved by the Republican-controlled Rules Review Commission include tightening ID requirements to register to vote and stricter mail voting standards.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A medieval nun bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid man … “well since you asked I have some thoughts …”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/08/2026
Called the settlement administrator. First person I spoke to said she didn't know anything about the Effective Date and hadn't been given a new one. Transferring me to someone who will, hypothetically speaking, know.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Go Woke, Go Broke' is a Myth, New Study Finds Companies that Kept Diversity Initiatives Maintain High Revenue theemancipator.org/2026/08/19/n...
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'Go Woke, Go Broke' is a Myth, New Study Finds Companies that Kept Diversity Initiatives Maintain High Revenue
Companies that held steadfast to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming continued to earn high profits – despite ominous warnings from President Donald Trump that such efforts hurt bottom ...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The mainstream is discovering that trans people are innocent despite being targeted, that those targeting us are unreasonable, irrational, dangerous, and extreme, that the purges will not end with us. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 17/08/2026
Another great example of:
A screenshot that says "Opinion: Guest Essay" and then "You Were In For a Dipshit Take As Soon As You Saw This Font"
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his opposition to Medicare for All on the same day a CBS News poll found 90 percent of Democratic voters support the idea—and 72 hours after a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year.”
levernews.com
Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 07/08/2026
This is why the ONLY solution to "boys don't read" is to stop fucking teaching our sons that "for girls" is a thing, let alone a bad one.
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'I suspect that many people in our culture—particularly privileged men—are easily hooked on generative AI and taken in by its mindless syncophancy. In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding.' (Kate Manne) katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/08/2026
"By creating this explosion of misery, they're not only making millions of Americans much, much poorer than they were, they're also making the country as a whole substantially poorer in the long run. It's an anti-growth policy. But of course, the cruelty is the point."
paulkrugman.substack.com
An Explosion of Misery
Making American hungry and uninsured again
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
National Abortion Ban coming soon, just as Project 2025 instructs. I really did try my best to warn people. 😔
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
All we should ever be talking about is Leonard Leo, tbh. Talking about Leonard Leo will convince more people we need court reform. That man bought the fucking Supreme Court.
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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hudson speaking Korean for Skin1004 via fastpapermag
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The Korea Herald 코리아헤럴드 @thekoreaherald.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
South Korea recorded 186 heat-related illness cases, including two deaths, on Monday, the highest daily figure reported so far this year, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday. www.koreaherald.com/article/1083...
koreaherald.com
Heat illness cases hit record, two more dead, as Korea swelters
South Korea recorded 186 heat-related illness cases, including two deaths, on Monday, the highest daily figure reported so far this year, the Korea Disease Cont
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Jaida Elcock @sofishtication.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Out sharky riddles are almost over. But you've got 2 more chances for points! What do you think today's shark is?
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
digitaldigging.org
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
UPDATE: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service (Gift Article)
The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/05/2026
literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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A Black Man Won an Election In New Orleans. Republicans Are Trying to Abolish His Position Altogether
The legislative response to Calvin Duncan’s landslide victory has a long, shameful history in Louisiana.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options

Save
Copy link to post
Embed this post
Unfollow [person]
Not interested
Seems like AI slop
Report post
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This 245 Million-Year-Old Marine Reptile Still Has Most of Its Digestive Tract — One of the Oldest Ever Found www.discovermagazine.com/this-245-mil...
discovermagazine.com
This 245 Million-Year-Old Marine Reptile Still Has Most of Its Digestive Tract — One of the Oldest Ever Found
Learn more about Austronaga minuta and how its nearly complete fossil still has its intact digestive tract.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Media needs to stop treating Trump's threats of war crimes against Iran as bluster. The mere fact that he's *threatening* to inflict such sociopathic horrors on tens of millions of people is itself a scandal. On the pod, @emilyhorne.bsky.social and I on this idea: newrepublic.com/article/2136...
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Trump’s Rage at Iran Takes Truly Scary Turn, and Even MAGA Is Unnerved
As Trump’s threats of escalation in Iran worsen, a former State Department official explains why the deeper dynamics surrounding the trap ensnaring Trump are so alarming.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/07/2026
In the wake of the killing of an openly gay imam earlier this year, Jaheim Karim writes on being trans and Muslim www.wearequeeraf.com/what-fasting...
wearequeeraf.com
What fasting again taught me as a transgender Muslim
In the wake of the killing of an openly gay imam earlier this year, Jaheim Karim writes on being trans and Muslim
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/07/2026
The right-wing objection to me and my work happened largely not because of the plain text of any of my fiction, but because of my writing about politics and social issues in other places, and also because I've had a better career than they have had, and life is a zero-sum game to a lot of them.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What they want you to believe: Wildfires = Canada mismanagement. What the data says: 335 million hectares burned globally in 2025. 3,955 fires in Canada in 2026 alone, 1,092,095 hectares in non-EU Europe, Spain, France, USA, South Africa, Australia. This is climate, not a country.
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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
listen to Sarah talk about Maimonides and a permeable medieval Mediterranean! It's complicated #medievalsky youtube.com/shorts/gmew9...
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The history of medieval Jews and Christians are intertwined. Listen. #podcast #history #medieval
YouTube video by American Medieval
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Platform our campaign to end the public existence of trans people or we'll set the billionaire on you" If you contribute a single penny towards the revenue generated by the Potter franchise you're helping fund this shit.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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Daily BTS⁷ 💜 @dailybts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When and where to watch: July 22 2:00 PM KST m.youtube.com/@Fashion_Neu...
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Fashion Neurosis
Each week join the renowned fashion designer Bella Freud as she invites a special guest to ‘lie on the couch’ and explore the connection between fashion and identity. Bella’s conversations begin with ...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
On July 16, The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies, ed. by @eltonteb.bsky.social, Olympia Bobou & Rubina Raja was published! I’ve a chapter on digital mapping. It tells the story of how maps became such an important part of ancient world digital humanities academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Digital Maps and Mapping
Abstract. This chapter surveys the history, technological advances, and application of digital mapping within the field of digital classics. It looks at ho
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Military identifies 2 🇺🇸 soldiers killed in Jordan… a third 🇺🇸 service member killed… Pentagon did not disclose info about dozens of military injuries…”
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Piedmont West Virginia Info Network @dennypowers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Marco Rubio unintentionally describing the Trump administration: "...an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world."
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/07/2026
nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...
FREE MASKS
AVAILABLE AT DISTRIBUTION
LOCATIONS
To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards voting is still open until August 8th at 12 pm Pacific! Don't forget to submit your ballots if you're an Attending, Virtual, or WSFS member. If you don't have a membership yet, you can sign up through our site now: lacon.org/register
Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Voting Now Open
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BTS_official tweets @btsofficialtweets.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
UPDATE Here's what actually happened. 📅 26.07.17 1PM KST @ Spotify 📅 26.07.19 1PM KST @ HYBE LABELS
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone
nytimes.com
Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone. (Gift Article)
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.
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