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@mosesbates.bsky.social
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16h
it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
And here we are, with Trump and Putin colluding to tamper with another American election again.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz on Trump's deal with Putin: "The Ukrainians have been attacking Russian refineries as part of the war. The president has been clear in asking the Ukrainians to stop."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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Bimp (watch Fallen Angels) @korbobimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Few thoughts 1: The best take on this by anyone 2: Good on AOC for calling target out specifically fuck Target 3: this is exactly what we need from her this is the AOC I love
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rule # 1 of winning debates (and elections) is force your opponent to fight on your turf, don't ever wander onto theirs. Pedophile protector party has zero space to talk about people's lives & choices - attack your opponent not the people your opponent shames, blames and reviles.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My Heart goes to VIRGINIA THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS Last night in Sterling VA. Following a critical power failure at the Vantage Data Center So they ran back-up diesel generators that produced ROARING LEVEL NOISE & HEAVY DIESEL EXHAUST causing residents to flee VA has the most DATA CENTERS VOTE
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
* ICC STRONGLY REJECTS US SANCTIONS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION * ICC SAYS SANCTIONS ARE AN ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE @reuters.com
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize reut.rs/4zoCXDd
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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Flat-out cowardly journalism: NYT calls DOJ’s malicious and illegal witch hunt “star-crossed” and says it “continued the erosion of the principle that politics must be kept strictly separate from federal law enforcement.” “Erosion”? It is long gone. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social : “Live-streaming an execution is absolutely medieval. These people (Hegseth, Trump, etc) claim to be Christians — it’s like they’re doing a tribute act to ISIS.”
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA! Does it really surprise anyone at all that the WH Chief of Staffs daughter is cozy with a Putin well connected Russian? Nothing to see here… #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks MAGA Powerbroker’s Nepo Baby Busted Sucking Up to Putin Ally www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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MAGA Powerbroker’s Nepo Baby Busted Sucking Up to Putin Ally
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ daughter has been pictured at a Bosnian gun range beside an ally of Vladimir Putin. Katie Wiles traveled to the semi-autonomous region of Republika Srpska, wher...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whether it’s Democrats giving students the day off for Martin Luther King Day or Texas Republicans reducing school to 4 days a week to finance more tax breaks, both parties have cut the number of school days.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
imagine being a professional politician so bad at politics that in the current climate you had to say, “my ideas and my inherent charm aren’t working against the people who made gas $8 a gallon & are kidnapping the ice cream men. i should release an ad about which humans i think are less human.”
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A worthy successor to bombshells such as "whats in the Mayor's wife's Spotify playlist" and "the media has been exaggerating the suffering of Palestinian children"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Eric Deters: "Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter. Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me. She's doing it right now in Greece. I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff."
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky Is Spot On.......
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Trump moved the ethical line" perfectly reflects the collaborationist thought processes of NYT. No he didn't. The ethical lines were the same before as they are now. It's the collaborators who have moved the lines—but to be clear, they never had any in the first place.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Since taking up his post in April 2025, Huckabee aide David Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present Netanyahu in a favorable light.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the only time republicans ever face consequence of some sort is from the voters. voters turn out and say over and over: what these people have done is wrong. and then the dems they empower just shrug and the media continues to normalize the absurdity.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
why do republicans feel so free to be corrupt and bigoted? they face almost no consequences. the "opposition" party doesnt take them to task for it and they are fixated on flipping gop supporters instead of cultivating their base. the mainstream media is in full-on capture, worred more about money.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s not like Republicans ever had an issue with the President’s son exploiting the proximity to power before or anything.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
As always with Rs, the sense is not so much that they deny the physical phenomenon of climate change as the presence or absence of the phenomenon simply never enters their thinking. They interact with it *purely* as a partisan matter, something libs care about. No awareness of a world beyond.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since launching on Oct. 7, 1996, Fox News has spent the past 30 years airing a nonstop stream of bile, misinformation, bigotry, and stupidity. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Fox News celebrates 30 years of lies, racism, and smears
Since launching on Oct. 7, 1996, Fox News has aired a nonstop stream of bile, misinformation, bigotry, and stupidity.
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Moses @mosesbates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I make it real simple to determine we'd better have similar interests...
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Moses @mosesbates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'd be certain Megyn Kelly would be fired for this, but then again Trump is somehow still President, so what are we really doing here y'all?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are few major cities in the United States that are as closely integrated with the military as San Diego. In keeping with not giving a damn about military losses in his criminally insane war against Iran, he’s saying let them wipe out San Diego! reportingsandiego.com/the-role-of-...
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The Role of San Diego's Military Bases: Economic Impact and Community Relations - reportingsandiego.com
San Diego's military bases serve as crucial hubs for national defense and strategic operations. They support the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard,
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Cayman Islands source gave Blum incriminating intel on 20 ultrarich Americans defrauding the US Treasury. He took it to the IRS in Miami, where a special agent looked over the documents and told him to get lost. Blum had expected gratitude. “This whole thing is a career killer,” the agent said.
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Oligarchs are robbing America blind, and the IRS is powerless to stop them
The Wealth Defense Industry and its politicians have seen to that.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
here's Monday's post: "What the fuck is this?" — How did we Nazi this coming? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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What the fuck is this?
How did we Nazi this coming?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe fascists are responsible for fascism. Can we start there?
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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump said Iran could wipe out major American cities yesterday. Invited them to do it. Not even a headline.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks, Ken. I feel it’s my duty as a longtime member of the Resistance to do whatever’s possible. All the best from Hamill with one “m”. 👍
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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