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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2025

The number of assaults on law enforcement in ONE DAY on January 6th is higher than the number of assaults on ICE officers over a decade.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/05/2025

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/05/2025

Georgia bans organ donation of someone who died w/o their consent—but Georgia’s 6 week abortion ban is now forcing a brain dead woman to stay alive w/o her consent because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she went brain dead. Even a corpse in Georgia has more rights over its body than do women & girls

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

1. The person was under 16 2. Multiple reports suggest there was more than one victim, including girls "12 to 14" 3. When asked about it Rose said, to a reporter, "It was 55 years ago, babe" 4. Children under 16 legally cannot consent. There is no such thing as "consensual sex" here 5. Fuck off

Craig Calcaterra: Pete Rose raped children and today Rob Manfred paved the way for him to receive the highest honor Major League Baseball can bestow.

@dcnats.bsky.social: That's a bit of an overstatement. Consensual sex with a 16 year old is not "raping children"

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T... @t-a-r-m.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

That's the first thing the Pope did, was get on the honker with his datebook in hand...

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 07/05/2025

The navy told me their fighter jets keep sliding off the USS Harry Truman so I asked how many jets they said they just go to the pentagon and get a new jet afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding jets to the Red Sea and then Pete Hegseth started crying.

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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An adult who uses a racial slur against a 5 yr old is a very bad person who deserves social exile. I don’t care what the five year old did. HE IS FIVE. The fact that this woman has now raised nearly $1 million as “the victim” in this situation is the lowest low I’ve seen in a very long time.

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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

KANSAS CITY MAKES WOMEN'S SPORTS HISTORY 🩵 KC & CPKC Stadium loves women's sports! The US Rugby Women's Team broke a new attendance record (10,518) in the stadium on May 2nd vs. Canada 🏉🏟️ 📸 @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social @ilonamaher.bsky.social

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

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Brandilyn @mommab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's unwise to leave them offerings. Be wary of any gifts they give - there is always a catch. Never give them your full name. This works on SO MANY LEVELS.

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S. A. Hunt @sahuntbooks.com · 05/05/2025

Being President is unskilled labor. Being in Congress is unskilled labor. If a frail 80-year-old clinging to consciousness by their fingertips can do it, it is unskilled labor.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It's a smart move because most foreign powers already have Mike Waltz's contact information.

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da da™️ drew @adrew.dadguy.pro · 04/05/2025

the republic has fallen

a sign at the Waffle House that says "nightly 11:30pm - 6am to go only"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2025

Hell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

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Brandilyn @mommab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A minor can be charged as an adult at the age of 13 in Mississippi. Fix your heart or die.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pritzker sounds off the political equivalent of Jerry Maguire’s manifesto, "The Things We Think and Do Not Say". He is going to be a force in the days ahead.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 29/04/2025

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Best way to start the day toast, sunshine and happy donkeys #ToastTime

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

i hate these stupid mobile game ads that are like "my husband cheated! help me get revenge!" and then the revenge is a makeover. girl fuck that, hit him with your car

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The Bittersweetheart @anathematrix.warped.dev · 22/04/2025

So RFK says that autistic people don’t pay taxes And then Dr Oz says that everyone has a responsibility not to be a burden And now we hear there will be an autism registry so that the trumpers can keep track of all the genetic criminals You and I can see where this is going.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 18/04/2025

"you need to treat harry potter like the tesla brand" i will refuse to get into a harry potter book, movie or video game from here on out

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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We live in a world where echidnas LITERALLY sweat milk and blobfishes exist and there are shrimp who punch better than 90% of humans, and we're weirded out by people determining their own gender identity asjfheyfjgjcgelgh

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If Karoline Leavitt or anyone in this administration has receipts showing that Mr. Garcia is a member of MS-13, or engaged in human trafficking, they’d be presenting them in a power point presentation every single day.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

An easy face-saving way out of the Abrego Garcia mess for the US would be for Pres Bukele to announce tomorrow that in his sovereign mercy, he is returning AG to the US. If that happens, no one should be fooled: Bukele is a two-bit dictator who will do exactly what he thinks or is told Trump wants.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That’s what makes me mad about all this citizenship talk. Illegal immigrants like Elon Musk and Melania Trump feel entitled to ask non-white natural native born American citizens to show them their papers. And it’s gots to stop.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A military parade for a draft dodger and felon.

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Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It's Autism Acceptance Month. If you are not already accepted by an autistic person you have 27 days left.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Kurt Vonnegut man

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Denmark lost soldiers at basically the same rate as the US in Afghanistan. They’re a great ally, and they sent their own sons and daughters to fight and die in solidarity with the United States after 9/11.

Number of foreign soldiers killed in
Afghanistan
Country # Deaths #

Population (2010)
Deaths
per million
USA
2,461*
309 million
7.96
Denmark
43
5.5 million
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident…is largely untested. Largely, but not entirely. It was ruled unconstitutional in 1996 — by President Trump’s sister.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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Law in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump’s Sister

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Please, my dermatologist, she's very small

Nextdoor post reads: I have a dermatologist who wants to donate clothes? She's a size small! Lot of new clothes and some used where can she donate them too?

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Having meatloaf for breakfast. BECOME UNGOVERNABLE, EMBRACE CHAOS

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Brandilyn @mommab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

IT'S LUNAR ECLIPSE TIME!!!

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Brandilyn @mommab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One month to the day after this happened, Trump would bring pediatric cancer patient Grace Eline to the SOTU as a special guest. All while gutting children's cancer research.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Senate Democrats, At the end of today, you're either going to own the shutdown or you're going own Trump's agenda of chaos and destruction. Choose wisely.

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