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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
CASONE: Consumer confidence fell in August. Americans are worried about gas prices, what they're seeing at the grocery story, healthcare prices. TOM EMMER: What do you expect the public to feel when the left-wing media is telling American it's not good out there? It is!
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Ken Paxton on owning 15 homes: "I'm proud of what I did in private business"
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not No
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/08/2026
This dude is losing his mind. Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The secrecy about the health of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei shows just how corrupt the Iranian government has become. by Mitch McConnell
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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Born Today, Aug 26, in 1894, Director Richard Wallace. Over 60 films and shorts including The Shopworn Angel 1928, The Little Minister, The Young in Heart, A Night to Remember, Tycoon. Did You Know? He began at Mack Sennett’s studio as an editor before moving into directing
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICE is a domestic terror group.
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
because really, what could possibly go wrong
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stunning video shows, four horses gallop Chilean Patagonia as the sunrise paints the iconic, snow-capped peaks of Torres del Paine.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the amount of pain i am willing to absorb to support whatever the fuck the American negotiators were trying to accomplish is less than zero, because my extremely heavy prior is that i would oppose whatever the fuck the American negotiators were trying to accomplish if I understood what it was
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here? It looks like he has some sort of contraption back there
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 13/08/2026
For a decade, the press has relentlessly labored to portray the increasingly pathological Donald Trump as a normal political actor, and thereby distorted reality to the detriment of the American People.
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
pathetic. Cassidy truly considers himself a noble public servant, victimized by his own credulity—embodied by dangerous RFK Jr and Trump's personal lawyer Blanche. his judgment he treats as missing or inoperative. how could he know these hustlers were lying to him?
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW: Vice chair of Senate Appropriations Cmte launches probe into Trump Admin's purchase of fleet of "luxury jets" to transport top officials, including Tom Homan & Kash Patel “It has come to our attention that the Dept. is effectively running an in-house private jet service"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is the way
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/08/2026
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like…
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do we need to explain to GOP senators how 5th Amendment works? Disgusting lawless attack to scapegoat Dr. Fauci to score political points. Another distraction from the real issues our government should be addressing. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Senate Panel Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt for Refusing to Answer Questions
Legal scrutiny is mounting on the former top health official after he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing about the pandemic response.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One of the things that deserves to be a story is that when USAID was defunded, existing funders -- like the ones he raises here -- VERY QUICKLY shifted funding from mainstream NGOs to those keeping people alive (including from corrupt dictators), and that led everything ELSE to be defunded.
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Lunch break on HIGH NOON, which premiered #OTD in 1952. #filmsky
Gary Cooper (facing camera) and Katy Jurado and Grace Kelly (back to camera) eat lunch in costume at a picnic table.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Mock Op-Ed Text:

Here's Why It Would Never a Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes

by Some Rich Asshole
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Unless I am missing something, proving cyclist maliciously caused property damage to the Reflecting Pool when he pulled on a piece of floating paint will be an Olympic feat. www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...
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Trump Is Prosecuting A Former Olympian For His Reflecting Pool Disaster. Legal Experts Predict What A Jury Will Say.
Prosecutors have to show not only that a former Olympian acted with malice, but that he destroyed property worth more than $1,000. Experts say it’s a tall order.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Rep. Massie is 100% correct. MSM is shilling for Trump by not having this issue front-and-center. Trump and Hegseth are, again, breaking the law (to perpetrate war crimes). Shout this from the rooftops!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s only a matter of time before poorly trained ICE officers, who are forced to meet unreasonable, quotas for rounding up migrants, shoot and kill American citizens. Oh wait….
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Apparatchiks have their orders: conjure a Communist threat inside America, associating with it the entire Dem Party, to prepare people to accept whatever authoritarian crackdown the administration may be planning to stop elections from handing them a defeat.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy bday French writer Alesandre Dumas, b.1802. “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man (or woman) is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome...
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ewwwww
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nooooooooooooo
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
this
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He really comes unglued at the end
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Youth Baseall Coach Takes a Stand to Protect Kids From ICE Agents: 'I'm Willing to Die'screenshot of Youman Wilder's gofundme
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/07/2026
Seagull With Diarrhea Barely Makes It To Crowded Beach In Time theonion.com/seagull-with-diarrhea-…
Seagull With Diarrhea Barely Makes It To Crowded Beach In Time
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Jesus, I keep seeing all those 2024 rallygoers with their MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW signs. almost nobody understood what it meant. this is what it meant, and it is evil.
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
"In the end, it comes down to this: Not only was McConnell there for Trump again & again when it counted, he was the one person who could have forestalled Trump’s disastrous return to the White House. He chose not to, despite having condemned Trump’s actions in fomenting the January 6 insurrection."
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Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Only a matter of time before he realizes he's the last ungilded surface in that room and moves to have himself wrapped in glorious gold too.
Mr Burns in a golden muscled body suit
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
Even if it's clownish & won't lead to anything real happening, it is *incredibly dangerous* for the president to declare his political opponents illegitimate.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
HOYER: Have you received any direction from OMB to SBA to not disburse funding that has been appropriated? LOEFFLER: I have been directed to follow the law, and in doing so I'm following the White House executive orders HOYER: You didn't answer the question
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
go Rosa!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
POCAN: I think the problem is you're talking to rich people. Maybe this will help. Who pays tariffs? LOEFFLER: 80% of tariffs are paid by foreign countries POCAN: Okay. That would be like me saying I have long flowing red hair. It's complete BS. Small businesses pay tariffs.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Edith Wilson was basically the shadow president after her husband had a stroke. Eleanor Roosevelt was FDR's eyes and ears and a force in politics decades after his death. Jackie Kennedy was a cultural icon. But to the cult, none of that measures up to ... MELANIA
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
in addition to all his other maladies, he has a dire irony deficiency
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's a total mystery why more allies won't go to bat for us against Iran.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026
I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
are the illegal immigrants now also communists, or are we talking about a new demographic to deport?
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lesleygaspar.bsky.social @lesleygaspar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the irony is that America always takes the red scare bait but is in no way susceptible to communism—I mean, we worship individualism—we've repeatedly demonstrated a bent toward fascism, but have never once had a "red hat" scare even when we had German "bunds" across the country.
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