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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, billionaires yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top. As a result, a billionaire media company closely allied with the president will soon own one of its closest rivals, including some of the nation’s critical news outlets. Saudi Arabia will co-own those outlets, too.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The response to these questions about trans kids playing sports is very simple: “Stop bullying literal children, you freaks.”
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026
I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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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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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I genuinely don’t know what to write. I’ve tried multiple pithy comments but they all feel hollow. I’m just tired of obvious weirdos and arseholes having thriving careers despite clearly being awful to women & girls, having multiple allegations over decades. I’m sick of it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I know everyone is probably quite sick of discussing Platner, but I want to say that I have been thinking a lot about his infamous Reddit comments and how easy it was for some people to dismiss his victim-blaming around sexual assault.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's surreal that the man has spent the week fueling a pogrom, calling for the jailing of the UK government, spouting great replacement theory racism and then selling a stock whose value is 95% vaporware and we are supposed to pretend that this is all normal.
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...
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My Case Against the Washington Post Goes to Arbitration This Week
Eight months after challenging my termination, my case against The Washington Post will finally be heard by an arbitrator.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Please note that Katie Miller ain’t even attempt to say that her husband isnt ugly 😭
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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A spotify playlist of various artists where all songs are either “running up that hill” or “rolling down the hill”
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT
The Economist
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Make what you will of Elon Musk, SpaceX is capitalism on rocket fuel—a marvel of free markets
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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Legacy media outlets need to highlight the connection between the white supremacist hatred fuelling Elon Musk's DOGE cuts to aid programs for AIDS and Ebola prevention, and the death toll we're seeing now. None of this is accidental.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Tapping the sign again. Teaching is one of those jobs conservatives are horny to cede to Ai because it reduces tax-fueled infrastructure, but we as a species won't ultimately cede to machines once we see the first generation damage of screen-taught teenagers. So much WORSE than pandemic zoom school.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2026
A big driver of my depression over the last year is the complete lack of any accountability for all the cruelty and atrocities committed. Instead, it seems like everyone is rewarded for it and they'll never face consequences. It's black pilling to realize the world is this unjust.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/04/2026
It's because it breaks people's sense of justice and the social contract. If the world's richest man on his way to being the first trillionaire can just causally kill millions of people with no repercussions, it means there's no absolutely no societal accountability. Instead, he's rewarded for it.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Art of Pretending there’s a Deal
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
OMG Kash Patel appears to be a drunken national security threat "Meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights." "A request for 'breaching equipment' ... was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors."
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
imagine if you hit powerball. imagine if you find out youre the secret heir to genovia and youre really anne hathaway. imagine dragons
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
looks like JD Vance really fucked the couch again huh
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/04/2026
Same energy as this post. They'd gladly accept millions dead, war crimes, rampant corruption, rapists in charge, and every other issue with the Trump admin as long as they get to hate trans people openly. It's a sickness. bsky.app/profile/leba...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/04/2026
The work of healthy democracy is knowing when to say no
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
NEW: Israeli strikes killed seven paramedics this morning, as well as the three journalists targeted in this car. According to other media in the group, the car was clearly marked with “PRESS” on the sides & roof. A violation of Article 79 of the Geneva Conventions. Israel’s Gaza Playbook.
Black and white photo of the remains of the journalists’ car. It is still smoking and burnt out with debris scattered on the road. Photo credit to Mohamed Safa, Executice Director of PVA, first posted on X
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why do Republicans currently control the White House, Senate, and House? Did Democrats forget to do the fraud in 2024? Decide it wasn't worth it this time?
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m at ICE HQ
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wild that America has a president who regularly goes “I’ll start World War 3” to tank the stock market and then at the last minute says “j/k I’m not invading Greenland/Iran/Canada/etc” then the market jumps back up with mysterious people making a killing after he backs down. An amazing coincidence.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱
people.com
Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment
Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.
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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You do not need to run at me with all the reasons this is not a surprise. But I’m still disappointed in Warren, whom I sincerely hoped would win the 2020 presidential primary and for whom I voted. We have to do better, and even in the twilight of her political career, I hoped she still wanted to.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14/03/2026
Oh no people were targeting the DOGE boys? www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What if the United States had a Congress or a Constitution?
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Noem deserved to be fired. That is a win for the forces of the Constitution. But the fact that Trump launched a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and then days into it fired his Homeland Security secretary is a level of reckless incompetence that should get him fired too.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped. Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned
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