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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My gosh. Fetterman pretended to be sick to avoid meeting three paralyzed veterans from rural PA…and then went to do a Fox interview on Israel. He agreed to meet a lawmaker who drove from PA to talk about homeless and working people…and then bailed & met pro-Israel Bruce Pearl.
One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman's staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He'd told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn't feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn't want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran."He was available. He just chose not to meet with us," Williams said.
Even when Fetterman does agree to meetings, he often cancels, according to former staffers.
Also last April, Fetterman agreed to take a meeting with another state lawmaker, Liz Hanbidge, who drove down from Pennsylvania to introduce herself, and to discuss programs that help the homeless and working poor in her county. But when Hanbidge arrived, according to staffers who were present, Fetterman claimed he hadn't agreed to the meeting. The aides spent more than an hour pleading with him to talk to her; staffers eventually met with Hanbidge in his place.
Fetterman did take another meeting that day-with Bruce Pearl, the former college basketball coach and Israel advocate. The pair discussed legislation that would affect college sports, and Pearl thanked Fetterman for his stance on Israel, Pearl said in an interview.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/09/2026
In January, Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal. That, however, seems to be no match for the oil wealth Rodríguez keeps sending north. Republicans who used to talk about elections in Venezuela now say the oil deal can proceed first.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business
Delcy Rodríguez sends him oil. He protects her from elections.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/09/2026
I also think people discount this. How big it was, but also how many normal average people who had never done anything like this were out there. It made it very hard to spin up a "radical agitator" narrative since folks were like, "hey but I was there and I'm normal" bsky.app/profile/gwen...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everyone needs to understand the Hugging Face hack. It’s natural for us to worry that AI will kill jobs and make high school essays even more lame. But we also should worry about AI enslaving the whole human race.
nytimes.com
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the endgame for TX "core reform": wiping out any traces of the last 100 yrs of scholarship in the humanities, but also wiping out the humanities. This is coming to every system in the state. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
statesman.com
UT proposes cutting more than 100 'narrow' courses from core this spring
UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hey @stateofstlouis.bsky.social you got any Missouri nature photo contests for, uh, this? substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I took this photo of a turquoise spring in the Ozarks and thought “Oh how perfect, a little black butterfly landed on the yellow flower as I stood here” but it turned out to be two gross bugs having s...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
fetterman's leap to the right seems closely related to his laziness. R electeds don't have to try. the right wing media sphere lets them do and say anything without any pushback. you don't need to prepare. you don't need to pay attention. just regurgitate garbage and soak up cheers and donations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
Rather than rely on tried and true methods, General Dynamics proposed a new production line to build artillery shells for Ukraine. The Army signed up to buy three without knowing if the machinery would even work.
propublica.org
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
WSJ spends some time with John Fetterman and finds, whatever his politics, he’s an objectively vile human being. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Look, you can campaign with Trump and lie on his behalf all you want, but showing him our internal emails crosses a line
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
Alt: Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, played by Marlon Brando, looking somewhat like Fetterman in the Wall Street Journal photo.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you are in the U.S. Senate, and a major national newspaper runs this kind of photo of you, is that good?
Eerie photo of Sen. Fetterman from Pennsylvania with strange color and lighting. Wall Street Journal.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
imagine how fuckin dysfunctional that place must be on a daily basis lol
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Mike Lee stands for nothing.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be
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Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I see a fresh batch of John Fetterman texts is going around. Here are some of the Fetterman texts I obtained in my investigation for New York mag
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man, fuck this shit, fuck that guy. I have long admired Dietram's scholarship and turned to him for mentorship when he was chairing a NASEM committee I was funded through. It is so so so depressing to feel that any man in my professional circles could at any time turn out to be like this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
cbsnews.com
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man he really put “fuck them kids” in writing.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Holy shit. It's hard to explain what a point of pride CHOP is for Pennsylvania and Philly in particular. This is wild. Like this is the equivalent of saying I hope someone runs over Gritty and sets fire to his carcass
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They just got back from 5 more weeks off, after multiple other very long vacations. They never work.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 04/09/2026
America is so pro-Israel that we decided to make Asia pivot rather than pivot to Asia
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South Korea said considering deployment of military forces to Hormuz amid US pressure
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Police say attacker 'neutralized' after attempted stabbing in Jerusalem's Old City; no cops reported injured * IDF strikes in northern Gaza after shots fired toward troops, none of whom are injured
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’
theguardian.com
Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026
Fascinating reporting on how churches are fighting back against Germany's far right, via @liamsadams.bsky.social. Remarkable how much overlap there is between the American religious left and the efforts chronicled here, despite wild contextual differences: religionnews.com/2026/09/03/a...
religionnews.com
As the far-right in Germany aims to take power, churches are fighting back
BURG near Magdeburg, Germany (RNS) — The AfD may gain power on Sept. 6 in Saxony-Anhalt, posing a direct threat to refugees and the German churches that serve them. Inspired by past resistance in East...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TODAY’S CHALLENGE: Which of these men do *not* appear in the Epstein files? (ANSWER: It’s a trick question. They ALL do.)
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
totally honest question wat record
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Comotrekker @comotrekker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never have they ever been here before. Never. Why do we suddenly need them here now??
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looking back on it, the aesthetics that so appealed to people were actually one of the bigger red flags
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Your Hardcore Dad @dansbadsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Cena has been more helpful to children at CHOP than John Fetterman
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everything is terrible, but here's a story about my little town's public library doing great things for people who can't get to the library.
keenesentinel.com
New service brings the library to homebound people
After spending her afternoon as a crossing-guard at Keene High School, Susan Hansmeier arrived at the Keene Public Library’s circulation desk to pick up a hardback book and two audiobook CDs.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/09/2026
After having dealt with the shambling corpse of Dianne Feinstein for an extended period of time I know how much it sucks to have someone who is not fit to serve ‘representing’ you in the senate. Fetterman’s contempt for his constituents is shameful.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How many 25 year old meme maker groypers are on the federal payroll right now I wonder.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For those catching up, 3 major state supreme court rulings this evening. 1. Missouri court blocked GOP's 2025 gerrymander & validated a veto referendum 2. Missouri court validated measure protecting direct democracy 3. Maryland court validated a Dem measure meant to pave the way for gerrymandering
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
my heavens
pablo torre tweet with "new investigation. tomorrow." above a pic of the owner of the dodgers giving the president a jersey with his name on it.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think a lot about how many states keep loosening oversight of homeschooling while other people get this kind of punishment for their kids just being outside
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The White House website now has "arcade games" like "Protect the border from the coming horde" and "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande". There are cruel, insane children running the country. www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/
Screen capture from  "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande"  gamesScreen capture from  "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande"  games
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Imagine if this station hadn’t changed its call letters in the 80s? They could’ve have had WTAF NEWS…and a whole promo campaign that leaned into the call letters… SMDH…
Logo for 

WTAF-TV
Channel 29
PHILADELPHIA
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Seen a Waymo just sitting stationary in the bike lane the other day. Thanks California Dems for bringing yet another surveillance tool to our communities and making it even less safe for cyclists.
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K, here and there @khereandthere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Demuth booth at the fair is a ghoooooooost toooooown and it’s hilarious.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Between this and the AfD targeting Bauhaus (how original), it’s really blatant how often fascists make world-changing decisions based on buzzwords and vibes
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am levitating
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
I for one think it is very nice of the president to give us all another communal destruction item to work out our frustrations on via sledgehammer in 2029
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
What cars have wrought.
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Jacky Alciné @jacky.wtf · 04/09/2026
Folks in Haiti talk about this. Unfortunately, it was when the US Army decided to bomb parts of Haiti during the 1917 invasion.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
just trying to imagine what the reaction would have been to Kamala Harris cracking jokes about attending a commemoration of the Oklahoma City Bombing
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/09/2026
there's gotta be so much money just being stolen at this point, right? like lost pallette of cash in Iraq shit happening every day?
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