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Alabama by birth. California by choice.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 6h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Life comes at you fast
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026
Next they are going to strip car insurance from anyone who hasn’t had an accident recently.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!
Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026
This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A journalist absolutely needs to ask Trump the precise period in which he believes Germany was great
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand. You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption. In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we’ll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices. JOIN: bit.ly/GroceryDriveTX
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Think I give a damn about what this Piker guy is saying when the richest Nazi the world has ever seen is bankrolling the destruction of America via the Republican Party?” — how every Dem should answer questions about Hasan Piker
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hope you guys will read and maybe share this. It was important to me to say. I am fortunate to get to say it.
al.com
Archibald: AL.com should remember where it came from
The loaded headline on the opinion piece read “Auburn is getting a new mosque: Tommy Tuberville warned us to pay attention.”
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.
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Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I spent 18 months documenting Rocky’s trial lawyer’s ties to the KKK, even knocking on an old Klanman’s door and letting him touch my body as the price of getting the information I needed. The court dismissed the case today.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Then in the Fall of 2026 Trump declared war on Canada and ordered the indefinite detention of all clouds that displeased him.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 28/08/2026
The problem with this argument is that no matter what Jeffries might manage to achieve on "bipartisan basis" with the Trump administration, it will not put a dent in the actual fascism (ICE invasions, Dem-run states denied disaster relief, persecution of trans people).
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey man, when I called to schedule an MRI appointment at my local VA last week, they told me there were no openings until NOVEMBER. Maybe work on that before you start calling for more war with Iran. You can't even take care of the combat vets you have. Why are you trying to create new ones?
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Patric Reynolds @patricjreynolds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The man stands like a centaur getting a prostate exam.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you want to go to a trade school, great? Think college isn’t for you? Ok. But that’s not what this is, this is the government trying to do culture war social engineering while also staring down their noses at poor kids and preemptively deciding things like: I don’t want you as my doctor, next
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it was a generational fumble for the dems to pull back on letting coach tim, our gentle midwestern uncle, stand in front of a mic and express disgust and bewilderment at what an absolute grab bag of misfit freaks this admin is. this is weird! these people are fucking weirdos!!! it’s yucky!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 08/08/2026
A Carville-like figure criticizing the party’s direction in 1992 would’ve been born in 1910 (older than Reagan). His relevancy would have peaked in the 50s. He’d thus likely complain that the Democrats have focused too much on civil rights, women’s rights, abortion, and is too open to LGBTQ.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/08/2026
Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
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Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/07/2026
BREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno decries "moronic politicians that listened to the words of a megalomaniac"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama www.al.com/news/2026/06...
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Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved to Alabama
Tuberville claimed Alabama residency in August 2018. He and his wife voted in Florida three months later.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 
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