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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 13/09/2026
Comic ✍️: Devil's advocate by Mike Luckovich Get more comics in your inbox 👉️: signup.dailykos.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6. Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity. Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe. We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2026
As incredible as this new therapeutic is, it took over 100 years of this treatment to come to fruition. This breakthrough was only made possible thank to federal funding, which is currently under attack. Get involved here: zurl.co/MjIIs or donate here: zurl.co/yS8Xb
Blue textured background with text that reads "Science is an unfortunately slow process that is filled with more failures than successes.
When this progress happens behind closed doors and paywalls, it’s not hard to see why Americans feel scammed.
Especially as our loved ones suffer and our paychecks are spread thinner and thinner.
Ras is just one success that took over 
100 years to come to fruition.
These breakthroughs are only possible 
because 1% of the government’s budget went towards research & development."
Bottom right corner features a microscope.Poster urging support for science and cancer research with headline "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE," text saying research funding has been slashed and a call to donate or volunteer, paired with a reaching hand graphic and the Statue of Liberty.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Solar power made up 12.1% of US electricity this June, up from 10.3% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 9.3% of US electricity, another record high!
A graph of solar's share of US electricity
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026
I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
REPUBLICANS STARTING A WAR: Understanding history is for the weak, we have big bombs so our glorious victory is inevitable REPUBLICANS WHEN THE WAR GOES SOUTH: This is Jimmy Carter's fault
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bookmark Firemap.live for updates.
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FireMap: Track Wildfires in Real-Time with NASA & Local Data
Explore real-time global wildfire tracking with data from NASA FIRMS, EFFIS, and local authorities on FireMap.live.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
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What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - The MAGAs, in "Stigmatized!" IN WHICH the intrepid couple do their own scientific research.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/07/2026
The Trump admin continues to dismantle our clean energy sectors and defund research into clean energy. The new OMB rule will further enable political appointees to block funding for climate research. Fight back by leaving your public comment here: zurl.co/2ZHsp Article: zurl.co/RXK6S
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European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th
Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issues
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
Then meeting them halfway is not a remedy. It can be complicity. Then treating both sides as equivalent is not neutrality. It can be normalization. Then conflict and resistance are not the disease. They can be part of the solution.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
Why does it matter what term we use? Because diagnoses imply remedies. If the problem is polarization, the solution is civility. Dialogue. Lowering the temperature. Finding common ground. Compromise. But what if the problem is right-wing radicalization?
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fifteen years ago, Republicans fought to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Now, with the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” many Americans are expected to face higher healthcare costs or lose coverage over the coming year. Who, in their right mind, keeps voting for this party? Listen to this.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
new toon: a late night visitor www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The visitor
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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mikeconnaghan.bsky.social @mikeconnaghan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Fox News is an extremist propaganda operation, and they don't care how many people they [hurt].
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/07/2026
America: Birth Of A Nation | Official Trailer The Onion's look back on 250 years of American exceptionalism premieres July 3, just as our Founding Fathers predicted.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
These are not “far left” positions. These are incredibly popular positions.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BY a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court has determined the U.S. Constitution has plain words that actually mean what they say. In a dissenting opinion, Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh argue they are dread pirates and therefore the U.S. Constitution is more a guideline than a hard rule.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵
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mikeconnaghan.bsky.social @mikeconnaghan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The more people who realize how blatantly anti-reality these corrupt murderous clowns are, the better. Though it's hard for many to accept, that just means the effort to show it must be relentless.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/06/2026
For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction. Read more at the link below!
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The great solar-coal flip | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Solar passes coal, super El Niño looms, and show your warming stripes Coal built the Industrial Revolution - now wind and solar are beating
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 12/06/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today is a good day to remind people of the report about ads being placed beside Nazi content on Elon Musk’s Twitter that so triggered Musk he is trying to destroy Media Matters www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk...
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As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The people of Albania have been protesting the Trump family for 11 days straight because Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to build a $2 billion luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive coast site. Solidarity with the people of Albania standing up to billionaire greed. 🇦🇱 🎥 @olsimeraj on IG
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There are 6 days to go in this Kickstarter and a $10k gap to close. I am genuinely wondering if we get there. If you have thought about backing this project, now is the time. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
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That One Matt Bors Comic
A book about how “we should improve society somewhat” conquered the discourse
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/06/2026
Demand that Republicans vote NO on the reconciliation bill and focus on funding our communities instead of Trump’s secret police. Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo... Call: indivisible.org/actions/gop-...
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Tell Your Republican Senator to Stop Bankrolling ICE Brutality | Indivisible
Republicans are trying to ram through billions more taxpayer dollars for ICE to terrorize our communities, on top of the slush funds they got from the Big Ugly Bill last year. Tell them to vote no and...
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/05/2026
Right-wing think tanks and climate skeptics glommed onto this debate to make a handful of bad-faith arguments that have relatively little to do with the generally good-faith academic discussions about the merits of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. trib.al/tkVEbWG
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Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition
​Researchers concluded that one future climate scenario is unlikely to happen. Right-wingers went wild.
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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If solar panels or heat pumps blew up entire apartment buildings as often as natural gas systems do, they would be banned tomorrow.
youtube.com
BREAKING: At least 11 people unaccounted for after explosion at apartment building in Dallas
YouTube video by NBC News
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/05/2026
Close Delaney Hall. Close them all.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“James Talarico thinks real men protect kids instead of listening to some gravely voiced fuck stick who wants to give them mother fucking polio because he doesn’t believe in science and went to the ‘I fucking made it up’ school of medicine” Sorry but responding to this shit ain’t hard.
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