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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

I think pretty much every woman can understand this impulse right now.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15h

Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 13h

75% of the Louisiana families who lost SNAP after the enactment of the Republican reconciliation law were cut off for procedural reasons. Families are losing food assistance due to paperwork issues, not because they no longer meet eligibility requirements. veritenews.org/2026/10/07/f...

Many states, including Louisiana, have placed pressure on applicants to submit more information more often to verify their eligibility to reduce the state’s payment error rate and limit how much the cost of benefits shifts to the state.

“It’s been a race to drive down those error rates,” Llobrera said.

He said the challenge of implementing new program restrictions and requiring more documentation has increased the burden on applicants and state agencies. The agencies have to process more paperwork on a tight timeline without enough staff. This can increase the likelihood of errors when processing applications, potentially leading to rejection of benefits for more people. It’s also harder for applicants to meet additional verification requirements.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 15h

Correction: Scott Colom would be the first Black person *elected* to the Senate. The chamber's first-ever two Black members, Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, served during Reconstruction before the direct election of senators.

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 16h

It’s wild to me that it hasn’t triggered more of a “wait I thought more cops = less crime, less cops = more crime, but apparently it has nothing to do with the number of cops?” conversation nationally.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"There’s so much hypocrisy in this society. And if we want America to be a free society we have to stop telling lies. Because we’re not free & you know we’re not free." ~Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Civil rights activist/organizer Hamer was born in Mississippi OTD in 1917. Image: Library of Congress.

This black and white photo shows a Black women in a dress, Fannie Lou Hamer, seated at a table. She has a microphone clipped to the front of her dress.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

India is one of the major cases of democratic backsliding. The Modi government is abusing state power to give itself advantages in elections, purging voter rolls—with a flimsy pretext—in ways that target Indians Modi doesn’t like, in particular Muslims, the minority he’s been violently repressing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My man looks like Gaston selling timeshares

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Netanyahu has been re-elected multiple times. Brexit was a national referendum. AfD’s recent gains came in a free and fair vote. National Front/Rally gets its support freely too. Putin rigged the system, but independent measures have consistently shown him popular. Many want this stuff.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

The first thing that his son will do is free his father and go on a revenge campaign against everyone involved in holding his father accountable. Somehow, Brazil saw what the US went through with Trump 2 and decided, what if we elected Trump Jr instead.

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lori @lorilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly, i think most democracies have been in an anti-incumbency wave since the pandemic. It explains Lula's election, as well as Biden, Trump, and what seems to be a blue wave midterms.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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lori @lorilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i really think that this is just more anti-incumbency, which actually explains lula's election, as well as biden and trump, and the midterm elections.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MeanCat has a lurking game par excellence

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Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Missing from this AI debate is that the arts are essential to humans through production as well as consumption. Making art changes minds, bodies, and relationships. Artmaking is a transformative act that changes the artmakers in important ways that ripple out, changing human society as a whole.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putin apologists of the right (eg Tucker Carlson) and left (eg Noam Chomsky) got what they wanted: a U.S. government that treats the war as not Russia’s fault, cuts military support for Ukraine, and pressures Ukraine to give up land in exchange for the Kremlin’s word. It has not resulted in peace.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".

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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nobody has more contempt for Trump voters than Donald Trump. The most libbed-out suburban wine mom can’t come close.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in an idea world we'd be able to just say: if you want to be a bricklayer, be a bricklayer, & be mindful of the cost it will exact on your body; if you want to be a venture capitalist, be a venture capitalist, & be mindful of the cost it will extract from your soul. but it's not an ideal world.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MeanCat lounges while Sweet Potato Pie Pup ‘sneaks’ out to Tinkleland. The tiny tyrant has decided to allow for a field trip.

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Nate Mook @natemook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even under attack, Ukraine’s gas stations are the best in the world. Of course they are wearing bow ties serving up Nathan’s hot dogs. 🌭

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

the polling is already apocalyptic for Rs what if it’s still overestimating them what a beautiful world that would be

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A cute little reticulated beetle, Tenomerga cinerea. This odd lineage last shared an ancestor with more typical beetles like ladybirds and scarabs nearly 300 million years ago.

Macro photo in dorsal view of an elongate tan beetle with large antennae and dark brown markings on its elytra, standing on a pure white substrate.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, the US is very publicly losing a war of choice that rocked the global economy and is going to cost his party a massive election loss. And the SecDef’s priority is getting a bunch of subordinates together to lecture about how important lifting weights and tucking in your shirt is. Pathological!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026

No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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lori @lorilk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just FYI, Brock Turner served a total of 3 months. 😡

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s. The. Little. Kitty. and she’s evidence of being spectacular. As she napped during my Evidence class.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grumpy Face Blacky Whitey will always get up for a bedtime snack, even when she’s sooooooo comfortable. She’s one of the best kitties ever to grace the tiny kingdom of Skinnerville.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most Bluesky targeted ad I've ever seen lmao

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