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First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 12h

If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 3h

It's like how they force us to read a 4 page soliloquy of a childhood memory just to get a recipe.

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 4h

It’s an NFL Sunday, which means it’s the perfect time to confirm your voter registration status. Or to register to vote. Or to request your mail in ballot. Then, vote early. But, vote. Like your life depends on it. Because in so many ways, it does.

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 23h

Fox receives higher carriage fees than CNN or MSNOW. Targeting that with legislation would be a start. Fox makes 1.5 billion a year from cable subscribers, most of whom don't even watch it. Standardizing carriage fees or changing the negotiation process, which the FCC regulates, comes to mind.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Order of BlueSky stands at the ready

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

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What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flat Earthers screaming, crying, throwing up.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The internet could probably use more photos of dogs wearing sunglasses in line at the pharmacy. So I'll go first. One with a wee blep. #TimelineCleanse #dogs #cute

An adorable golden retriever wearing goggles at a pharmacy. He's looking at the camera.

An adorable golden retriever wearing goggles at the pharmacy. He's facing left and has a tiny bit of tongue sticking out.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If they were immigrants, black, trans or gay, Republicans would be screaming it to the ends of the earth and pushing for the death penalty.

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illinirunner.bsky.social @illinirunner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like this is an un-tapped tourism promotion opportunity by Maine. "Come to Maine! And tell John Roberts he sucks shit!".

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 01/10/2026

Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/10/2026

The moment Katie Britt realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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Mark Schofield @markschofield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nearly all the Extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942)

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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This presupposes Hegseth has the a) size and b) blood flow to achieve this and sir, I think not.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

His primary motivation is because beard restrictions largely target Black men who disproportionately suffer from PFB (pseudofolliculitis barbae) and often have waivers allowing them to grow beards rather than stay clean shaven.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top actress in Hollywood, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today’s Bluetooth and GPS technology. Helluva lady.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Normal people are getting so sick of these “WOKE IS RUINING GAMING” accounts poisoning all video games discourse that fucking Vincent D’Onofiro is now aware

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In no way do i agree with you.
Deborah is beautiful and extremely talented.
She is as smart as whip and a complete nerd.
Also incredibly kind.
How perfect she is!
And a good friend.
1 am a fan of God of War. I for one cannot wait to play the new game with my son.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 30/09/2026

This is Iran's greatest mistake of the war so far. Assuming the average American has the capability to read a 26 page letter.

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Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If we didn't have the super wealthy to prop us up, no one would ever elect us!" Ya, uh, no shit.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re in line to play OL for the Green Bay Packers STAY IN LINE

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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