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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 04,1947
P1- NANCY IS SITTING ON THE FRONT ROW AT THE MOVIE THEATRE, SHE IS FRIGHTENED WHEN A MONSTER APPEARS ON THE MOVIE SCREEN 
P2- NANCY GETS UP AND RUNS UP THE THEATER AISLE 
P3- NANCY IS SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE THEATER, WHERE SHE IS FEELING MUCH SAFER NOW.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump's Venezuela oil deal is naked imperialism. The US uses its control over the country to claim $65B barrels of oil. Venezuelans call it a joke b/c everyone knows once the US installed regime falls, this deal gets tossed in the trash, writes @deanbaker13.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y849vjfz
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Jelly Pumpkins @jellyzedsy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I cannot stop laughing at this. They were so close to cracking lmao #InfoWars #MAJA
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Nightime Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,— Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don’t we do something about natural stupidity.” ~ Steve Polyak
A rectangular lettered sign in a parking lot in front of a building with a stone forefront on a cloudy day:
“Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don’t we do something about natural stupidity.”
~Steve Polyak
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services
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Michael Hibblen @hibblen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sad to learn NPR Political Correspondent Don Gonyea confirms he is among staffers who voluntarily accepted buyout offers. It was a joy talking with him on the air at KUAR in 2015 after he covered Mike Huckabee's presidential announcement in Hope, Arkansas. www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-region...
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NPR's Don Gonyea On Another Huckabee Campaign And Hope, Arkansas
The small, southwest Arkansas town of Hope is again under a national spotlight for its connection to a presidential campaign, as former Governor Mike…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/05/2026
1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
A woman with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a reddish-brown corduroy jumpsuit.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1/ We had a huge investigation on glyphosate (aka Roundup) drop yesterday showing that Monsanto (owned by Bayer) warped the science for decades leading the National Forest Service and timber companies to douse forests in herbicide. You want to watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=il75...
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The Secret Plan to Cover the World in Herbicide
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/04/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM
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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job
Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/03/2026
On March 13, ICE agents surrounded Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal in front of his home in Texas as he prepared to drive his children to school. The 41-year-old father, who had served alongside the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, died in ICE custody the next day.
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Afghanistan War Veteran Dies in ICE Custody One Day After Arrest
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal served alongside US troops. He died at 41 after ICE arrested him in front of his children.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2026
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yes we should commit it to memory Another brilliant soliloquy from the 1961 film Judgement at Nuremberg. youtu.be/TyS98_jQIA0?...
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - What A Country Stands For Scene (10/11) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2026
Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official. 1/
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Fuck no. A million lawsuits now. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
politico.com
Trump administration invokes emergency powers to restart oil operations off California coast
The Energy Department cited U.S. military dependence on foreign oil.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Abolish ICE and CPB
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
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The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
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DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery
The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13/03/2026
You know what we're not griping about enough? That Donald Trump's face is going to be on U.S. currency—on $1 coins—later this year. This will be the first time a living president has appeared solo on a coin, and one of the very few times a living individual has ever been on U.S. coinage.
designs for the obverse of a dollar coin featuring Trump, via https://www.usmint.gov/news/media-kit/semiq-dollar-coin
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/03/2026
NEW: Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I teach an entire ten week graduate seminar on how money is political and they just ... minted it out.
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves
The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
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DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch
A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new...
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Michael Hibblen @hibblen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
U.S. Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner is speaking right now in England, Arkansas at her first campaign event since securing the state’s Democratic primary. She noted incumbent Sen. Tom Cotton has outraised her 10-to-1, but told supporters she will outwork him to win with a shoe-leather campaign.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The value proposition/priorities war the Bezos-Scott kids are being exposed to must be even more insane than we realize.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The things the Trump admin did in the name of efficiency don't seem very efficient.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
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Dauphne @dauphne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Nice! Weeding Cotton is underway. #ARpx
Picture of Hallie Shoffner and Mike Beebe with text reading: Hallie Shoffner endorsed by former governor of Arkansas Mike Beebe; Shoffner for Senate
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🌬CasuallyLucid🌀 @casuallylucid.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"About 3,000 people a day on average live in tents at Camp East Montana" in a state of medical neglect, overcrowding, malnutrition, unsanitary conditions, and emotional distress. For 5 months, a 911 call comes in nearly every day. These are concentration camps, and the stories are heartbreaking.
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/03/2026
Currently, SSI households have a poverty rate of about 29.2%. But if the SSI Restoration Act were passed, that would drop down about 60% to 11.8%. That is roughly in line with the overall poverty rate for households in the United States. - Stephen Nuñez, @rooseveltinstitute.org
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes* Arkansas state house special election. Flip from R to D.
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Arkansas Archeology @arkansasarcheology.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Tomorrow in SE AR there is an Open Lab Day and in NE AR there is a presentation about pottery. Get all the details on our events calendar: archeology.uark.edu/learn-discov...
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Calendar of Events - Arkansas Archeological Survey
Every month you can count on interesting archeology programs and events all over Arkansas. Many of the events are sponsored by different chapters of the
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28/02/2026
Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Nothing BUT chaos & carnage in the Middle East right now thanks to the Epstein War Video footage of the gunfight that ensued, between U.S. Marines & Pakistanis protesting the attack on Iran, after a breach of ​the Karachi consulate compound’s outer wall; resulting in deaths of 10 people 👀alt text
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/03/2026
A South Park writer has launched a new website following the death of three American troops in President Donald Trump's war with Iran, as a wave of criticism online prompted #SendBarron to trend Monday.
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'South Park' writer’s new website targets Trump's son with military recruitment push
A South Park writer has launched a new website following the death of three American troops in President Donald Trump's war with Iran, as a wave of criticism online prompted #SendBarron to trend Monday. The White House has called President Trump "the president of peace" — but the internet had a diff...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Never forgiving a single one of the fucks responsible for this
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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion *** The bill “prohibits all abortions from fertilization, without exceptions for rape or incest.” It’s supported by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. 2/20/26 … 1/
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TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion
SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers
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Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years
Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
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