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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
KNOXVILLE: “Their pregnancy excitement turned into their worst nightmare… Tennessee (Republicans’) law, enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, complicated an already heartbreaking pregnancy.” “We were forced to travel to save Amanda’s life” www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
MEMPHIS: “Authorities said Tyrin Johnson turned toward the National Guard with a gun while running from them… But autopsy shows a bullet went in his back and exited through his chest…” One Guard member who fired was 19 — too young to be Memphis PD. No body cam. #UnSafeTaskForce
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...
An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2026
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this
A screenshot of an opinion by Oliver Kornetzke from August 18th, 2025. There’s a photo of a tired, bloated Donald trump over the opinion that reads: behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleeves of economy, man, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a clansman, the sexism of a back alley creep, and the greed of a hedge fund ghoul – all spray painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a country fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been – arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed, exalted as ambition, and corruption worship like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol, proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spike, it doesn’t just lose its soul – it shits out this bloated, obscenity, and calls it a leader.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."
We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Midway through Fahrenheit 451, we learn that the U. S. government has launched a series of unprovoked wars against smaller countries, just because it can, while the population is so hypnotized by amusements & devices that hardly anyone knows the wars are taking place.
“Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the rest of the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard the rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? ... Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Today is the day when the political Right remembers a single portion of one sentence Martin Luther King said in 1963, removed from context, while completely ignoring every other thing he said, wrote, and worked for.
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jimpers crimpers @jimprov.sendusyourmoney.com · 14/08/2025
Attachment issues
Artist Kelly the satirical cartoonist
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sandwich man leaving court
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/10/2025
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/10/2025
Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you’re an Expanse nerd you probably remember Prax talking about simple-complex systems and cascade failure in book 2. Liberal-democracy a simple-complex system and we're seeing a cascade failure, right now. This one is pretty good. Read the whole thing. www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-...
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Democracy, Simple-Complex Systems, and ‘The Cascade’
Things fall apart.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Battle of DC is underway, brave US troops march on the nation’s Capitol, meeting the enemy head on in a desperate struggle against littering. With steel in their hearts and plastic bags in their hands, the troops brave behind enemy lines.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Oh my God
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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Moonchildjs @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Taylor Swift warns about voting for Marsha Blackburn for governor.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Please read and keep sharing. This is the deposition that Ghislaine Maxwell fought to hide. I attached the wrong link earlier, so this is the correct one. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Apropos of nothing, your regular reminder that it is not in fact necessary to platform bigots. slate.com/technology/2...
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We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.
They aren’t arguing an actual side. They’re not “just asking questions” out of curiosity or ignorance. Don’t give them the chance.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
these vintage library promotional posters go so hard
[vintage book posters, from the 1910s to the 1960s, with slogans like "develop the power that is within you" and "for greater knowledge, use your library often"]
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Adam Wren @adamwren.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Where the hell are the libertarians?” Buttigieg says. “If you think the Clean Air Act is tyranny, what do you have to say when you're talking about getting rid of habeas corpus?”
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14/04/2025
In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials. nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
A quote from Sarah Stillman that reads, “What I found . . . is hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues in county jails.”
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This was….five months ago
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New lawsuit just dropped against Musk. Stick this shit directly into my veins
Fire intro to complaint against DOGE
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The day after Fred Korematsu Day, government websites related to the internment of Japanese Americans are taken down.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The greatest moment in broadcast television history.
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markrenken.bsky.social @markrenken.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture - defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
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The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.eurosky.social · 07/12/2024
Ah here, could she not just put up a tree like the rest of us.
Photo featuring Englad's queen Camilla with kids and reindeer. The caption reads: Camilla decorates royal household with sick children.
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General George Fella @jezko.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Fellas, I don’t post here a lot but you should absolutely know this // help me spread the word! Violent crackdowns are happening in Tbilisi, Georgia. We are fighting for our lives here. Please, please, please help us spread the word.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Long story short, under Supreme Court precedent there is a border search exemption that means we have greatly reduced Fourth Amendment rights within 100 miles from the borders. Which happens to cover nearly two-thirds of the US population
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