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I used to help make cartoons in SoCal, now I work in Boston … & live in Portland. My town has better breweries than your town. BS & MS from @bostonu.bsky.social

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 19h
I've always firmly believed that JD Vance knows how submediocre he is & that he attacks minorities and immigrants because he knows he's only gotten where he has due to unearned white male privilege.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In excusable, nostalgia drenched coverage in lieu of exacting account of mentally unstable rants. This is truly reprehensible non-journalism. See: www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...
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In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats)
The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You’re worried about the bills you can’t pay because of Trump & Vance. They’re focused on lying to exonerate Richard Nixon.
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maine's Senate race is a pure Toss Up. In the DDHQ Forecast, Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson both have a 50% win probability. This must-win seat for both parties is the closest Senate race in our forecast.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh it is OVER for both Cornell and those seven rapists. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case (Gift Article)
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
$20 million represents the total income tax payments of 1,053 households. A thousand American families worked full time for a whole year just to pay for Trump’s campaign ads.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/10/2026
From 1950 through 1995, the entirety of MLB's postseason aired on free TV. Here's where that line has gone every year since then.
year	FREE %	BASIC CABLE %	FANCY %
1950	100.00%	0%	0.00%
1960	100.00%	0%	0.00%
1970	100.00%	0%	0.00%
1980	100.00%	0%	0.00%
1990	100.00%	0%	0.00%
1996	71.88%	28.13%	0.00%
1997	76.47%	23.53%	0.00%
1998	76.67%	23.33%	0.00%
1999	74.19%	25.81%	0.00%
2000	74.19%	25.81%	0.00%
2001	100.00%	0.00%	0.00%
2002	97.06%	2.94%	0.00%
2003	73.68%	26.32%	0.00%
2004	70.59%	29.41%	0.00%
2005	66.67%	33.33%	0.00%
2006	70.00%	30.00%	0.00%
2007	39.29%	60.71%	0.00%
2008	31.25%	68.75%	0.00%
2009	40.00%	60.00%	0.00%
2010	34.38%	65.63%	0.00%
2011	34.21%	65.79%	0.00%
2012	29.73%	64.86%	5.41%
2013	31.58%	63.16%	5.26%
2014	25.00%	68.75%	6.25%
2015	16.67%	75.00%	8.33%
2016	20.00%	74.29%	5.71%
2017	21.05%	73.68%	5.26%
2018	18.18%	75.76%	6.06%
2019	21.62%	72.97%	5.41%
2020	22.64%	73.58%	3.77%
2021	21.62%	72.97%	5.41%
2022	22.50%	77.50%	0.00%
2023	26.83%	73.17%	0.00%
2024	25.58%	72.09%	2.33%
2025	31.91%	68.09%	0.00%
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.
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mainejosh (he/him) @mainejosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The anti-Troy Jackson ads, calling him a “20 year Augusta Politician”, might play differently if his opponent wasn’t a (checks the calendar) TWENTY-NINE YEAR Washington politician. #MEPolitics
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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mainejosh (he/him) @mainejosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quote with what you think would earn Walt’s disapproval/confusion.
Walt Disney looking frustrated.Bob Chapek, short-term CEO of Disney, looking smug
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump signed as President of the Unites [sic] States.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Trump To Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’ On All U.S. Documents theonion.com/trump-to-rename-ai-sup…
“Even the Constitution?”

Anton Pastranak, Systems Analyst
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A tweet from Hillary Clinton dated January 12th 2016 "A Republican president could stack the Supreme Court with justices who will rip away all of the progress we've made"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd like to think Sleepy Joe found a sympathetic Wilmington witch who was good with curses.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is now using taxpayer money to run his 2024 campaign ad, but changes his campaign logo at the end to “PAID FOR BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT”
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always remember that when voters were considering their vote in 2024, The Ohio State University put their full Epstein-Wexner-Strauss-tainted hand on the scale for the Trump-Vance ticket by vouching for Vance's character. Indefensible. Disgraceful. And so Ohio State University.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vance graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio State. Which says a lot about Ohio State.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump thinking the problem is America wants more Trump.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
“Test-takers will be expected to safely merge onto the highway and then successfully weave their getaway vehicle through traffic while being tailed at high speeds by the police.” — William Deiboldt, California DMV spokesperson
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California DMV Adds Highway Chase To Road Test
SACRAMENTO, CA—Saying the newly instituted changes better reflected the realities of modern driving, officials at the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Friday that they had added a hig...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Traded them for F-35 parts.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tucker Carlson reveals Trump told him the consequences of the Iran war don't matter because "in the end, we all die anyway"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A big factor keeping Collins in the lead in Maine is the whiteness of Maine. She leads 51-45 among white respondents, who comprise a whopping 91% of the electorate. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1-If Fetterman votes for the resolution, then Collins wouldn't have been able to vote for it (or else the resolution would pass). 2-Remember Collins only votes with Democrats when it doesn't matter.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump’s administration falsely labeled birth control as “abortion.” And then they wanted to LITERALLY set millions of dollars' worth of contraception on FIRE. Contraception is under attack, too. We’ve got to speak up and fight back.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More bad news for my fellow Jews.
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Sunkist Fruit Gems, a colorful staple of synagogue celebrations, discontinued
The kosher confection appears to be the latest victim of private-equity firms acquiring classic candy brands and then shaping them for the mass market
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In today's FAFO news ... 😈🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO | CBC News
The Michigan tourist who recently went viral over a Facebook photo where she and three family members appeared to be wearing "Lake America" sweatshirts has parted ways with her employer.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a real who’s who of who’s to blame.
Some of America's most prominent chief executives are expected to attend a state dinner at the White House Thursday
honoring the arrival of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The list includes some of America's biggest tech titans, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Michael Dell and Sundar Pichai. Jane Fraser, the head of Citigroup, is also expected to attend, according to a Trump administration official who previewed the guest list on the condition of anonymity.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 23/09/2026
Mozilla's new ad campaign skewers tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk bit.ly/4xBAuDZ
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Mozilla is plastering New York with posters mocking tech billionaires as part of a new marketing campaign
The Mozilla Foundation skewers Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk in a new poster campaign promoting its fellowship program.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People don’t know this but each Flock camera has a delicious Wonka Bar inside.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
You should be angry about this. Everyone should be angry about this.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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