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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Here's an offer you can't refuse. They have a 40% off sale this week too, heartily recommend swagging some bargains. Their non-fiction list is peerless and the fiction is generally top notch too.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23/09/2025
🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates women at a rate more than 3x any other founding NATO country
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
They like Trump and want to help him
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2025
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
London UK: JD Vance balloons spotted at the anti-Trump rally.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/09/2025
Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."
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Patrick Welsh @pbewelsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Yeah no thanks, mate, I'm not risking a stay in ICE's dungeon because some redneck in customs doesn't like who I follow on Instagram, even knowing they'll probably let me out eventually. Visiting the US is currently a material danger for most Europeans
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Of the many things Democrats don't seem to have an answer for is the increasing consolidation of media by right-wing billionaires. I don't know how they expect to govern in an environment where every social media app and "mainstream" news outlet is controlled by the far right.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ma'am you banned students from hanging whiteboards on their own dorm doors so nobody might write something that could hurt someone else's feelings
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Oh, you know the ones.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
lol new clown car just rolled up
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
They should really ask Keir Starmer how the tactic of suppressing your base while trying to become a lite version of the opposition has worked out.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that Pres...
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
Notice how everybody telling you to put your name on some papers circulated by GOD KNOWS WHO are all white folks. Do not sign anything. Do not put your name on ANYTHING y’all. You dont know where its going. See a flier? Show up. Dont sign NOTHING
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/09/2025
Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My new shirt design is a very serious PSA that I was asked to make, because apparently a lot of people don't know. roryblank.bigcartel.com
A drawing of a grim reaper drifting in a toyota sprinter across a grid landscape in front of the outline of downtown detroit, with a big skull looking over it and a wingding in the corner with a skull and cross bones, a vertical black block down the side of it says "extreme danger!"
big text at the bottom says "lilies are toxic to cats! Do not expose your pet cat to lilies it's very bad for them!"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!
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Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I obviously don't have a generally high opinion of Ezra Klein, but my opinion has never been lower of him than when he writes that he and Charlie Kirk believed in the "continuing possibility of American politics". At that moment, Klein is either dumb or complicit. Kirk believed in no such thing.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Dems have spent all day mourning a man that literally called for this, btw
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/09/2025
#OtD 11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working class activists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8360...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty)
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11/09/2025
This is how you do it
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”
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State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.
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Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Starmer's government arrested 1.3K people in a single month for carrying signs with a slogan on them
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