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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 10h
www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc... Tour promoter Messina Touring Group said owners of upcoming venues would not allow Macklemore to remain on the bill, and he was quickly booted, causing a PR nightmare for Sheeran and those running the shows.
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Macklemore’s Decade-Old Smash Becomes A Major Hit Again
Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us” returns to the Official Singles chart for the first time in more than a decade, reentering at No. 100.
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Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social · 12h
$227M is what these corrupt billionaires collectively paid for a seat at this table so that YOUR tax dollars will be deployed toward THEIR profit. Btw- they became billionaires from a market that YOUR tax dollars created - it's corrupt- it's theft - and it's WRONG!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super Intelligence."
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 11h
. BBC All in the UK know Trump is a criminal Jack Smith said the president was responsible for the violence on 6 January 2021, when hundreds of rioters stormed the US Capitol Smith said his team had “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” The US want to imprison Smith . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 17h
Rep. Behn is calling on Governor Lee to issue an immediate reprieve for Gary Sutton and every scheduled execution following tonight’s botched execution of Christa Pike. aftynbehnfortnpress.substack.com/p/rep-behn-c...
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 17h
Earth is the only known world with naturally occurring forests. This does not prove that wood exists nowhere else, but it demonstrates just how extraordinary Earth's forests are. Each tree is a living testament to billions of years of biological evolution and the complexity of our planet's biosphere
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Celebrating National Poetry Day with 🍁Patricia Young’s 🍁 ‘Sign of the Times’ ‘The last elephant on earth took apart the house we'd spent our lives building. Board by board, nail by nail. She sang as she ducked electrical cables and phone lines, a harrowing song of scorched earth.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 10h
www.tiktok.com/@thegoodliar...
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Are people tired of billionaires? ##interview##hm##politics##billionaire##money
TikTok video by The Good Liars
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 16h
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 10h
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-... Trump took credit to himself for ending the U.S. engagement in Iraq—although he confused the names of two different Iraqi operations—complaining that it was “very bad decision-making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place”
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 11h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w... What is clear so far is that there was a bloody clash in the cockpit miles above the desert of Saudi Arabia, that intervention by passengers and crew members saved the day, and that the roughly 170 people aboard endured minutes of mortal terror.
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A Bloody Attack on a FlyDubai Plane Headed to Israel, and a Terrifying Plunge (Gift Article)
“I don’t deserve to die like this,” said one passenger on Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The motive of the cockpit stabbing remains unknown, officials said.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 11h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... For humans, morality has rarely depended on simply following rules. Values are inherited and imparted over time. Anthropic was aiming to make them embrace morality in a matter of months, as fears intensified of their accelerating power and inability to be controlled.
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
Trump is now running pro-Iran War propaganda commercials on Fox News paid by for taxpayer dollars
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 13h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/m... “The modern habit is to tell everything, isn’t it,” he said one day over lunch in an unrelaxed tone. “Let’s start a new fashion of people not communicating their central despair!”
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Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret (Gift Article)
The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Way to go, California! Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill yesterday banning law enforcement (ICE) from using electric shock gloves.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
If Evil was a middle manager it would report to Stephen Miller for performance reviews.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Midnight and sunshine.. 😊
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎥wowt6 (9/29/26) 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/7m8NN...
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'I WILL NOT BE SILENCED': Jack Smith defies Trump prosecution threats in Senate testimony
YouTube video by First Alert 6
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
Maybe impeachment is like an old engine that needs a few false starts before it roars to life
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People are really furious at Huckabee over at Xitter. Which feels like it could be a teachable moment.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 30/09/2026
This is a really good discussion about Kate Manne’s most recent book on fat phobia and fat bias called ‘Shrinking’ www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/25/1...
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Fighting fatphobia
In her first two books, philosopher Kate Manne, PhD ’11, tackled misogyny and male privilege. For her third, she took on what had long been a bane of her existence.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o... much of the trouble involves the president treating the public treasury as his own to use as he sees fit. Trump rejects any distinction between himself and the office he holds. The presidency belongs to him, as does the nation itself
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Get His Hands on the Power of the Purse (Gift Article)
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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yezzurp @yezzzurp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"your pet sleeping in bed with you is gross!" Not really. Sorry that you'll never know the pure bliss of your dog/cat curling up against you on a cold night and looking like a precious baby.
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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 30/09/2026
What’s going on America? Somebody has to say it out loud. I keep asking that question in my office and in my car, and today I am putting it on paper because none of us gets to stay silent anymore. www.uncensoredobjection.com/p/whats-goin...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Morally binding” “Police yourselves” lol ok
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “California must use every available tool to stand up for our communities under attack from ICE’s secret police terror campaign,” he said in a statement after it passed the legislature.
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California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents
State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u... “I like the idea that we could bring back an America where it’s embarrassing for wealthy people to say, ‘Even though I could afford this, and it will improve public services in our state, I’d rather fight it,’” Mr. Jennings said.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed. (Gift Article)
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K9qsWE/ too toxic even for them in this administration
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9/29: Three high-profile resignations at DOJ yesterday that you need to know about. Please watch and share.
TikTok video by Liz Oyer
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-jack-... Jack Smith hearing
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NEWS: Jack Smith Hearing Blows Up in GOP's Face, Trump Adviser Braces for "F**king Rough" Midterms, Survivor Speaks Out, and More
Good evening.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That is the recognition I believe is spreading now. Anger by itself can exhaust us. Recognition has to become a reason to find one another and undertake work we could not sustain alone.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking about her today...
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/wvKC3...
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Lyndon Johnson’s legendary powers of persuasion
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 28/09/2026
Lennie Moreno says what so many have been feeling but couldn’t put into words. I am a new fan of this man! #Blues #PalestinianLivesMatter youtu.be/xpDN1uBAnmc?...
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How the Macklemore - Ed Sheeran situation could be a transformative moment
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Ground beef already hit a record $6.92 a pound in August. Industry groups are warning these disruptions will push beef prices even higher. This immigration “crackdown” is hitting workers, ranchers, the food supply chain and our wallet.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-curren... The US government is becoming financially dependent on a private company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands to finance its own borrowing. And the man running the Treasury is the one making it happen.
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The Currency Killer Part IV: The Machine
They built it in eighteen months and it has been turned on. We have three weeks to make a change.
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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration on Monday plans to release new fuel economy standards that would relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under threats from Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr, Jimmy Kimmel had to put his interview with James Tallarico on YouTube. Yet Trump is free to use taxpayer money to run political ads on Fox.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven’t we had enough rogue AI agents escape from the company systems that run and own them already? You’ve probably read the stories. In July, there was the incident when OpenAI, during testing of one of its models, had its
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHY VOTING EARLY MATTERS! #momsky#sheshed
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Charles Rock...Politics, Religion, Other Stuff @charlesrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Charles Rock...Politics, Religion, Other Stuff @charlesrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump, Mean Girl www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o... As he becomes even more self-destructive, the Republicans could — in a late-breaking fit of attempted self-preservation — do so too. Teenage girls can’t invoke the 25th Amendment on their bullies, but this cabinet theoretically could.
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Opinion | Donald Trump, Mean Girl (Gift Article)
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
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Thank you silence @lorien111.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o... The word “hand” has been enlarged to mean help itself: lend a hand. Hands also represent work: all hands on deck. They are signs of approval: give her a hand. Or the basic gesture of surrender: hands up. The sealing of a deal? Put it there, pal.
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Opinion | Hold My Hand, Warm My Heart (Gift Article)
Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both.
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