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"I am aware of all internet traditions." “We are all living in the same world. We all deserve a life of peace and happiness. No one will convince me otherwise. Where you have inequality and injustice there will be suffering.”

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 20h
"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3]
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think on most accounts of the decreasing marginal utility of money this would come out justified, we stan an effective altruist king 🤴
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Piratedan7 @piratedan7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All I know is that while Trump may be a manifestation of so many of the problems we see in our country; it's people like Rob Wittman that are the soil that nurtures him and allowed him to grow like an invasive vine throughout our daily lives. It's time to cut and burn them out and plant new seeds
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Piratedan7 @piratedan7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lets talk about a specific election Virginia Congressional District 1 Shannon Taylor vs Rob Wittmann Rob is the Republican incumbent. Rob is trotting out the old scare tactics that his opponent is some kind of unsafe radical who wants to "Defund The Police"
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
got blocked the other day for saying that even when Trump gets a gone, the Republican party will have to change too the rot is deep, the pols dismissive, all their fear comes from the right, never the left or even "middle" there's a lot of work to fix this
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All by himself Sen Mike Lee killed a bill to stop Trump from razing other President’s memorials Mike Lee has no morals left, only blind ambition to be appointed to SCOTUS
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
second paragraph screams "I thought I could fix him..." I bet the rest of his baby mommas felt the same way
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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
day 1 of my #artober list is FROG. i made this using tiled.art which is a really cool browser tool.
a square digital artwork shows a repeating pattern of the same frog tile, rotated to fit together, in the style of m.c. escher's tessellated drawings. the frogs are in a seated position, with huge circular eyes. they're in three shades of green with a dark outline.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/10/2026
Read the story for more on Utah’s sensitive materials law and for the full list of books now banned from schools in Utah.
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Utah just banned 7 new books — at once — from all public schools in the state. Here’s what the novels are about.
The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/10/2026
The state of Utah just banned seven more books from all schools statewide, bringing the total number of banned titles to 44. We thought we’d take a minute to tell you about the seven new additions. 🧵
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Utah just banned 7 new books — at once — from all public schools in the state. Here’s what the novels are about.
The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44.
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Spaaaace Ghoooost @thomasjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Do you have any more Pokémon cards in the back?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Paramount's top lawyer Makan Delrahim (Trump's first term DOJ "antitrust enforcer") is trying to snag the rights to a Lindsey Graham documentary that contains candid recorded conversations with David Ellison
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Ellison’s Graham Doc Grab
Paramount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, Status has learned.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week Tennessee plans to execute Christa Pike, a woman who became so infamous at 18, her own defense attorney was planning to write a book about her while failing to adequately represent her at trial. New from me @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.
After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
A Norwegian media outlet tested 53 toilets at ONS, our massive oil and gas conference. The results show that the fossil fuel industry is having a great time, even if the rest of us aren't 😍 www.aftenbladet.no/magasin/i/7p...
White caption reads "Aftenbladet tested over 50 toilets during this year's ONS." over a blurred close-up background.News article headline reading "Amid the oil rush, we found traces of cocaine," credited to journalists Earl Henning Nilsen and Id Skrivarhaug, with an update timestamp and a footer prompting readers to subscribe to read the full story.Clear resealable plastic bags with red zipper strips, each labeled and holding small folded fabric pieces, arranged in rows on a table for sorting or distribution.News headline reports cocaine found in every fifth toilet at the ONS event, shown above a uniformed officer with "POLICE" on his back looking out over a large, empty exhibition hall.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026
haha okay. we all have fun here but buy my book though simplicitybook.xyz
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know for a fact an ICE detainment happened. I am being told it does not exist. That is what I need help with. If you have any insight, my DM‘s are open
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
tell me you are a journalist who has no idea how siloed the world is now without telling me you have no idea how siloed the world is now or maybe RS is just trying to provoke some drama for clicks... ...six of one, half dozen of another
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
never seen a half a point win treated by everyone with any kind of power as proof of a seismic change
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I see Facebook/Meta is -still- at it, having banned ads for the Votes for Women board game for the same reasons more than two and a half years ago: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com
Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” -
Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame about the fight for women's suffrage in the US, stands to miss out on up to $60,000 of backing for its second print run after Facebook rep...
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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incredibly funny when the world realizes we take medication for *their* benefit, mostly
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/09/2026
🧵One important thing about right-wing culture that people who have never been a part of it don't get is that to most Republican loyalists, their religion is America. They truly believe that the country's creators were directly inspired by God. To write critically of the founders is blasphemy.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
as I noted this week at the newsletter, the media's horniness for unrealistic and anthropomorphized AI doomsday scenarios helps it avoid discussing other issues media ownership doesn't want to discuss like climate change, fascism, rampant corruption, and the disintegration of corporate oversight
karlbode.com
Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'
U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing material reality.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is what winning looks like
will not vote for Paxton.
Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent
I'm not voting for anybody. Nobody. I'm not voting for that.
Moderator, Kristen Soltis Anderson
TT TI
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
not even hiding it
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
now that’s how you burn a source
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"tell me you don't have a single black person on staff without telling me you don't have a single black person on staff"
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They’re really going to regret Callais. Callais will ultimately be seen as the chance to get off the ride before court packing. But Dobbs AND Callais? Two of the biggest issues to the two largest and most organized Dem blocs? The court signed its own death warrant.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2026
This is straight-up evil. Yom Kippur is on Monday — the moral contradiction is impossible to ignore. 📌 REUTERS: Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the town of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian residents. Burned trees that are “thousands of years” old.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
ballsandstrikes.org
A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
Sure, sure, because this makes sense. Deregulate all pollutants, unless it's abortion medication in drinking water...
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“If the test finds any trace of abortion pills, conservatives will use it to legitimize their new legal front in the war on reproductive rights. The cruelty really is the point here, not science or health.” @jessicavalenti.bsky.social @motherjones.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social @lessbadproblems.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington apparently can't keep a pub or restaurant open. sounds like they could use an influx of immigrants to liven the placed up
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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