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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 17/05/2026

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 23/02/2026

This week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The arguments I have received from the pro-ICE world are “it all happened so fast” but looking down your barrel through an open window at the side of a person’s head and pulling the trigger is murder.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/01/2026

This week marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, which ushered in a new era of political corruption. The Brennan Center has released a new paper outlining nine concrete solutions for reform: bit.ly/4jUFb6I

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Apple’s App of the Day is our app for using apps less! A small win in an admittedly losing battle, but I’ll still celebrate it!!

App of the day: Make time to focus and earn really cute rewards. Focus friend, by Hank Green.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“You may have voted for whoever you voted for; you may have done so for whatever reasons you did. But surely the desire to be ruled by Elon Musk was not one of them.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government. This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose. This is insanity.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Alternative headline: "Billionaire Cabinet Pick of Billionaire President Gives Richest Man in the World Control of Your Retirement and Healthcare" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I sound like a broken record, but to understand what's happening in government look to Musk's Twitter purchase. Before Musk officially closed his deal for Twitter in Oct. 2022, his team demanded that the company freeze all payments to outside contractors and vendors. bsky.app/profile/eric...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The plan is to crash the economy to suppress wages.

Marc Andreessen
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A world in which human wages crash from Al --logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero.
Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/01/2025

Here's a quick piece I wrote up on how to understand DOGE as a very blatant attempt at procurement capture, a simple way of making government spending corrupt to benefit the tycoons. Please do pass it along & share any feedback! www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/D... (Thx for the nudge to write it!)

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Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 17/11/2024

How the foundation of Bluesky was built is so crucial for the future of social — so much so that @rmac.bsky.social & I wrote a whole chapter about it in our book. From day 1, @jay.bsky.team was insistent on independence, a decision that was extraordinarily prescient. (1/2)

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