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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 17h
A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.
The corrupting influence of money in politics can be seen in the ghoulish way some liberal lawmakers and organizations have come out against Prop 40. All we have to say is that those people — Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and all the rest — have betrayed you. They have chosen to take the side of the absolute impunity of the billionaire class over your right to health and life. They would sooner see you and millions of Californians like you sicken and die before calling on the richest people in the history of the world to pay a fraction of their fair share.
Vote yes, and don't forget.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/10/2026
If you live in… Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Today is the last day you can register to vote! Text your friends and family. Check on your co-workers. Make sure the people in your life are registered to vote: BetterInAUnion.org/check
betterinaunion.org
Check Your Voter Registration Status
Have you moved, changed your name, or you're just not sure of the status of your voter registration? Fill out the form below to check your status.
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Michael G @michaelgolden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
White Witch from the 90s BBC version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I would go hide behind the couch.
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Michael G @michaelgolden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Boy, I wonder why AI is being shoved down our throats.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
foul balls are a huge concern for major league baseball. fans typically keep the ones they catch, and there's not exactly any good reason to buy a ticket to a baseball game if you have your own baseball at home you can look at anytime you want
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it was @pbump.com who pointed this out, but an absurd amount of adults believe their kid has a chance at pro sports. When you put that incentive there, it really adds a whole layer to the trans sports panic.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
can't believe someone made this lmao
an FTL parody of the "just leave" meme with a Kestrel model ship in the background 

Just walk out, you can leave!
Pulsar
Zoltan thing
Phase 3
Abandoned sector
Giant alien spiders 
Slug light cruiser
Playing stealth b
16 mantis if you're quick
Auto scouts with 200 evade
Friend ships

If it sucks... Hit da bricks!!
Real winners quit
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Neon White (Steam) is $7.90 on Gamebillet buff.ly/rDgw8Cg
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Michael G @michaelgolden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
FTL for $1.99
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025
happy labor day
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone not focusing on this stuff and pretending some social media asshole matters more than the new Gestapo should be thrown in the slammer next to the criminals in the current administration because they're the same person
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/12/2025
Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five
Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every day I have to hear about some asshole
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...
theemancipator.org
The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean
browndailyherald.com
After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This podcast clip contains one of the most devastating pieces of video ever captured. listen to bst.png with me and @demilardner.bsky.social
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
it's a shame that a few valid criticisms of higher ed culture are buried in so much seething resentment and incuriosity. are people really "tack[ing] pronouns onto email signature with the righteous zeal of Martin Luther hammering his 95 theses" or are they just doing something that takes 10 seconds
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/08/2026
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
theonion.com
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Moonlighter is free to own on Steam (offer ends August 9th) buff.ly/j9In9yf
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph  showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
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Michael G @michaelgolden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Don't forget, we're almost out of gas too.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/07/2026
What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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Michael G @michaelgolden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Chris Martin is not an MLB-caliber reliever anymore! Please stop pretending! He is trash! He came into this game with a 2.19 HR/9! Now it's worse because he gave up another home run! Because he sucks!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2 panel comic

Panel 1 is titled “Journalist logs into Twitter”
Image shows a Pink Guy performing a high jump. He easily sails over a tall barrier that says “Racism, Nazis, Homophobia, CSAM and Bigotry”. He smiles and waves at the reader.

Panel 2 is titled “Journalist logs into BlueSky”
The Pink Guy is doing the high jump again, however, this time, a much smaller barrier just says “Smugness”. The Pink Guy is clinging to the barrier, trying to hook his leg over it. He yells “Hnnngh I CAN’T GET OVER IT”
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you or someone in your house is not trans, the only thing you should ever think about trans kids is “How might I brighten their day should I come across one?” Beyond that, you’re a fucking weirdo who is extremely useful to nazis.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice
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fraser ramon @fraserramon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pride month and Juneteenth, bad month to be an MLB middle reliever
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If a man like Byrne, who said absolutely jaw-droppingly transphobic things that I've attached here, can still be regarded as an elder statesman of comics and get high profile deals like this published, then we have a long way to come as an industry and I would be a coward not to say that.
He said: "Many people are tortured and driven by a desire to have sex with children. Our societv frowns on this, and such people are considered mentally ill. We do not accommodate them, we do not respect them.
"How is being "transgender different? Given all the twists and turns that have happened in our general understanding of how the brain and mind work - still a work in progress - how difficult is it to imagine a future in which it will be determined without doubt that "transgender" is, indeed, a mental illness?
"How will we feel about all those people who, instead of actually helping them, we encouraged in a program of self- mutilation?
"This is a long, long road, and so far we have taken barely a single step upon it."consider myself a pretty worldly guy. Not much surprises me. But 1 just read that "Caitlyn" is foregoing the, ah, unkindest cut of all. (She's keeping his penis.) So...'splain this one to me. How does this make "her" something other/more than a man in drag?
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
here's what i wrote
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the office was bound by higher law — that his power wasn’t absolute. He never understood that he was an officer of the Constitution and a servant of the people; he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.

It was because of this fundamental misunderstanding — itself tied to his bottomless solipsism — that Trump tried to twist and turn the presidency into an extension of his ego. To the extent he failed to accomplish this, it was only because he was stymied by those around him — officials who chose to honor their commitment to the Constitution over the interests of one man. Those same officials now warn that if he is given another term in office, he will rule as a tyrant.

America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies. In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
if you’re not a parent, you can’t even imagine how difficult it is to travel on a plane with a toddler: somewhat difficult at times. have you ever done something that was somewhat difficult at times? i didn’t think so
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Christian and Miles Cameron @phokion.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Cover release! This is the cover for the first book of my new Epic Fantasy series. Books 2 and 3 are already written! This glorious cover is by @franvegas.bsky.social and it’s my favourite… ever!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/05/2026
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying To Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
important Sports Statistic from this newsletter
Shakira World Cup appearances in last 20 years: 4
Italy World Cup appearances in last 20 years: 3
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
DO YOU ???? - dashare.zone ADMIN
SAME GUYS TELLIN US THE SAME SHIT, THAT THERE COMPUTER IDEA IS GONGA CHANGE THE WORLD, ,, AND FROM NOW ON WERE GONNA HAVE TO USE THERE COMPUTER IDEA, WE CANT USE THE COMPUTER ON OUR OWN ANY MORE, ITS ALL GOTTA PASS THROUGH A NFT OR CRYPTO OR SOME "A.I" OR "LLM" ACCORDING TO THEM, WE CANT JUST EMAIL AND POST IN PEACE, BECAUSE WERE GONNA GET LEFT BEHIND, AND GUESS WHAT, THAT BULL SHIT NEVER WORKS, THE ONLY REASON THE "A.I" SHIT KEEPS GOIN IS BECAUSE IT HAS TRILLIONS INSTEAD OF JUST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS GOING INTO IT, SO ITS GONNA GET PROPPED UP FOR LONGER, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY ITS THE SAME LIE AS THESE SOCOPATHS BEEN TELLIN US FOR DECADES, THERE JUST MAD THEY DIDNT INVENT THE COMPUTER IN THE FIRST PLACE SO THERE TRYIN TO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US, IM JUST GONNA KEEP POSTING, FUCK THE TECK BROTHERS, AND DA TEXT "REMEBER NFTS? NOT REALL? SORT OF? THE SAME GUYS WHO MADE THAT BULL SHIT ARE NOW TELLIN US AUTO-COMPLETE IS INTELLIGENT AND IT HAS FEELINGS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Christian and Miles Cameron @phokion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The last ‘Captain of Venice’ ad… out today! And just for historian, reenactors and armoured fighters, some photos of rare originals from the National Historical Museum in Athens, all probably of late 14th-early 15th c. Italian manufacture.
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