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Leyland “Lee” DeVito

@leedevito.bsky.social
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Ope, there goes gravity. Bureau chief of @midbrowdetroit.bsky.social.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 57m
🚨MUST-WATCH: "Health care has just become another industry for the minting of money... The system is deeply broken." Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social tells @ezraklein why he supports MEDICARE FOR ALL, and how to get it done. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd64m6e...
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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 4h
Abdul El-Sayed is on the cover of this week’s Metro Times. We look at how the former Detroit health director went from long-shot candidate to U.S. Senate nominee, powered by big crowds, grassroots money, and progressive politics while confronting Islamophobia. www.metrotimes.com/news/how-abd...
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 6h
Today we are publishing the first of a series of data-driven stories about how Israeli checkpoints strangle life in the West Bank www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 21h
🤦🏻‍♂️
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Michigan Libertarians disavow their candidate for governor
Anthony Hudson is now barred from attending Libertarian Party events in Michigan. He is the party's gubernatorial nominee on the Nov. 3 ballot.
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah, the liberal media lol
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Smirk @smirkd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big difference between backfire and holding the gun backwards.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The film the oligarchy doesn’t want you to see.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My dispatch from TIFF:
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Midbrow Detroit @midbrowdetroit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Detroit’s Little Village, a new landscape installation invites quiet reflection on the U.S.-Canada relationship — and the nature of borders themselves.
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Design without Borders
In Detroit’s Little Village, a new landscape installation invites quiet reflection on the U.S.-Canada relationship — and the nature of borders themselves.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026
Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michigan. Thanks to Donald Trump’s outrageous war in Iran, cosigned by Mike Rogers.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even Fox News is resisting Trump’s efforts to silence the media. We may have reached the tipping point. 
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why is he standing like Iggy Pop (who has scoliosis)?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Midbrow Detroit @midbrowdetroit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
West Bloomfield gallery reveals the serious art history behind the beloved children’s book author’s whimsical style.
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Seuss Shines in New Art Exhibit
Art Leaders Gallery reveals the serious art history behind the beloved children’s book author’s whimsical style.
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Russ @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We need to be absolutely clear. Donald Trump is trying to forestall any meaningful limit on AI development, which even the people developing it say has a serious chance of dooming humanity, for one reason. The midterms.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Midbrow Detroit @midbrowdetroit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Detroit artist Jessica Nabongo turns photographs from her travels to every country in the world into physical works of art.
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Travel Photography Blended Into a Fine Art Show
Detroit artist Jessica Nabongo turns photographs from her travels to every country in the world into physical works of art.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026
Fifteen years after Occupy Wall Street, organizer Yotam Marom says its deepest impact was how it "changed the public's common sense about class and class struggle and inequality in this country." Marom's new book is "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness."
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't think Bob Kraft fully understood what telling a musician "you can't say that on stage" would do. That's like the one thing they care about.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Many of the “Michigan Jewish Dems” Backing Mike Rogers Are Actually Already Republican Supporters, Analysis Finds
A close look at the signatories reveals many have been involved in past GOP efforts—including “Jews For Mitt” in 2012.
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Midbrow Detroit @midbrowdetroit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cosm Detroit brings Sphere-level tech to the Motor City — but does the novelty last?
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Inside the Planetarium That Plays Live Sports
Cosm Detroit brings Sphere-level tech to the Motor City — but does the novelty last?
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mike Rogers skips debate with Abdul El-Sayed and gets endorsed by @detroitnews.com anyway. Democracy dies in yadda yadda yadda. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
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Detroit News endorsement for U.S. Senator from Michigan
The Detroit News choice for U.S. Senator has the experience, clear thinking and temperament to vault him into a leadership role.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026
dudes rock
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MARGE: “The war in Iran has got to stop. This should not be this high. This is Trump’s fault. Ridiculous.” ⛽️ 🤷🏼
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ten days after 9/11, Father Robert Prevost urged his fellow Augustinians to resist revenge and bear witness to “unity, dialogue, peace and reconciliation.” Twenty-five years later, he is Pope Leo XIV. He has been telling us who he is all along.
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Ten Days After 9/11, Future American Pope Warned Against Seeking Revenge
Ten days after the towers fell, the new prior general preached at Santa Maria del Popolo that hatred grows where 24,000 people die of hunger every day. Twenty-five years later, he is the pope.
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is probably a narcissist/megalomaniac's worst nightmare, being unmasked. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Insane way to frame islamophobic bigotry.
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Mamdani draws fury from 9/11 mourners over Ground Zero appearance: ‘Disrespectful’
Footage captures Zohran Mamdani greeting Rudolph Giuliani at Ground Zero as victims' families and first responders criticize his 9/11 attendance.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 jokes are lazy and not funny.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At this point, The New York Times should just give JD Vance a byline. This isn't a story. It's the Vice President leaking to his favorite media that he's Very Serious and Not Responsible for the Iran War to save his ass. This isn't journalism. It's stenography.
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A lot of people have been asking about Abdul yard signs.
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Yard Signs
Official Webstore for Abdul for U.S. Senate
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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The grass is always greener on the other side of the strait.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 10/09/2026
"The senator’s dysfunction has been well chronicled, but new revelations last week underscored his disregard for voters and his job," writes the Editorial Board.
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Fetterman’s shiftlessness is an insult to his office and all Pennsylvanians | Editorial
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10/09/2026
“We are subjected to what one might call ‘bottoming from the top,’ the paranoiac mood of certain Democratic electeds, forever looking over their shoulder at the (focus) groups, refusing to take any stand not pre-approved by A/B polling. Voters can smell it on them and do not like it.”
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The Mass Party of the Future
Liberalism's problem isn't structural. Liberalism's problem is that we got out-hustled.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...
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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
YouTube video by politizane
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You interviewed a press release
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need smart, committed progressives such as Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate. And we need right-wing Trump suckups such as Mike Rogers out of the Senate. I hope Michiganders elect El-Sayed, who will be a great U.S. senator. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Katherine Krueger @kathkrueger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wrote about the Kirkiversary, and how by demanding fealty to the notion that Charlie Kirk was a martyr and clamping down on free speech, the right canonized him as a meme instead theintercept.com/2026/09/07/c...
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They Tried to Make Charlie Kirk a Saint. They Made Him a Meme.
By elevating Charlie Kirk to a martyr, the right made his ridicule a logical reaction to their repression.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/09/2026
Why Are Democrats Allowing Republicans to Smear Their Most Popular Politician? Because He’s Muslim Fake GOP uproar over Zohran Mamdani’s attendance at 9/11 commemoration ceremonies is brazen Islamophobia in its ugliest form. 'First Draft' from @martinpengelly.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/why-are-de...
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Why Are Democrats Allowing Republicans to Smear Their Most Popular Politician? Because He’s Muslim
Fake GOP uproar over NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attendance at 9/11 commemoration ceremonies on Friday is brazen Islamophobia in its ugliest form. Meanwhile, New Hampshire picked a ‘moderate’ Dem.
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
that this post has done so well over the last 24 hours signifies, to me, that there is a lot of pent up demand for legitimate music criticism www.typebarmagazine.com/phoebe-bridg...
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Phoebe Bridgers, Lost Weekend, and How to Deal with Jack Antonoff
On the album's biggest jumpscare.
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My tribute to Dave Marsh is now up at Salon: www.salon.com/2026/09/08/t...
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The rock critic who changed the way I listen to music
Dave Marsh took rock 'n' roll seriously. So should we.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
Essential piece on what the Democratic Party actually is, at the nuts and bolts level. And a glancing portrait of the flesh and blood human beings involved.
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Meet the Democrats
The party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The @washingtonpost.com at least hints at how bizarre this is: “torrent of online memes, taunts”. The @nytimes.com fails again, sanewashing it into some sort of actual policy proposal: “Trump floats renaming New Mexico” Neither of them is willing to print the truth: the president is crazy
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/09/2026
A must-read @politico.com piece by @wsteaks.bsky.social. Corporate Democrats are freaking out because for the first time in our lifetimes, they are losing power and relevance. The battle for the Bernie Sanders lane in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary could be epic.
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Bernie Sanders Lets Loose on the Democratic Party, the Midterms and 2028
The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him?
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