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I went to a farming school and a teaching school, but ended up a lawyer.

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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 19h
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 20h
The most hilarious thing is he doing this over DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME.
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notjewelosco.bsky.social @notjewelosco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you ever think about how society looped back to medicinally branded sodas
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Ian rudderbutt @reasonablemustelid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rico Charges @NoChorus

Once at my granny's house my uncle excitedly said a James Bond film was on the tv. My Da said "sure they're all the same, a load of lads shooting at one lad then a mountain blows up." My uncle got really mad at how reductive that was then became furious when the mountain blew up.


Rico Charges @NoChorus • Sep 29, 2021

My Da, of course, knew it was the one where the mountain blows up at the end. This was a foundational lesson which illustrated to me that walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something that people
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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 22h
Worthy challenger to the "it was all revealed in a dream" footnote.
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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shame on the NYT for describing the Trump admin withholding $1.4 BILLION in allocated research funds as a “creative way to work around Congress.” This is not creative, it’s open defiance of Congress and is doing immense damage to “basic” science research.
Trump
Administration
Trump Accounts
Doubts About Hegseth's
Some National Science Foundation divisions pulled back research proposals in order to comply with White House guidance to carry over funds. Alex Kent/The New York Times
By Adam Sella, Christopher Flavelle and Irena Hwang
Oct. 2, 2026, 2:41 p.m. ET
The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.
The extraordinary move - holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.E's primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress.
Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MAGA isn't just a fascist movement, it was a fandom, and the main product sucks and the memes are old and the fandom personalities are jerks and the conventions just aren't as much fun anymore and now you get the wrong kind of attention if you wear the merch Even for chuds, that takes a toll
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a really interesting legal question!
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx has been fined $57,647 for campaign finance violations, the largest such fine in state history. A hearing officer ruled that the Marx campaign intentionally took illegal contributions, writing: "the scale of the violations are without precedent."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In what way is United States national security better now than it was in February before Trump attacked Iran?
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kid is gonna have to hear "We had to call the fire department!" for the next 40 years of his life.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.
Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!" 
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!" 
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..." 
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Paul Rudd as John Lennon says 'Great Record'
ALT: Paul Rudd as John Lennon says 'Great Record'
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
youtube.com
MBMBaM - The Meaning of the Gambler
YouTube video by FutonForensic
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But seriously, what's the difference?
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Darwin gets it.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guy with a lot of problems: I need to clear my schedule tonight so I can watch Steelers-Browns.
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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol and also lmao
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The two things that are guaranteed to make me cry are It's a Wonderful Life and Roger Rosenblatt's essay "The Man in the Water," so you can imagine how I feel about Antonio Varacalli's story.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To some extent the entire unitary executive project is downstream of Nixon.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Judge orders Reflecting Pool case dismissed with prejudice, banning Jeanine Pirro's office from bringing forth the David Hearn case again.
nbcnews.com
Judge bars Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing Reflecting Pool case after Trump comments
Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case against David “Davey” Hearn with prejudice.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As is tradition, I wish you a very
A costumed Lori Lightfoot wishes you a happy Oct. 1
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026
To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026
This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the angle from behind the 3rd base coach looks so bad
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes but if MLB can make a few extra dollars because streamers want to use October ball to sell a few extra subscriptions, even at the cost of ruining the regular season and angering fans? They really don't have much choice do they?
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really proud of this mate.
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 30/09/2026
The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask
The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
- He wants to what? - Well, mayor, those killings recently, Gordon says they’re vampire-related, so we need to have stakes- - Jesus. Is this a Batman thing? - Yes. - Of course. Lou, the election’s in two weeks- - I know, but there’s a chance some could come back- - I know how Draculas work, Lou!
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MagnetCarta @magnetcarta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
News you can use!
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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