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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2h
I debated a Trump supporter who sent me an angry email about immigrants and ICE. Here’s how it went. www.qasimrashid.com/p/i-debated-...
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I Debated A Trump Supporter—Here's How It Went
What started as a curse laden initial message unsurprisingly ended in a racist petty tirade with subtle threats and devoid of facts—BUT with a critical lesson learned
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 2h
Well, well. If it isnt the rapist men love, even though I keep pointing out he's a rapist.....
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 8h
Paid my mortgage by phone this morning. In the past, it has been an annoying voice prompt system where I beboop a bunch of numbers to make the pmt. This morning, it forced me to talk to a bot instead and I am just irrationally angry about it. At least the boboops don't pretend to be human. #AIHater
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🌻Tyler Breuch @flattop100.bsky.social · 18h
I think it was an intentional pratfall to keep attention away from this:
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 29/09/2026
Can we talk about what an arrogant asshole Kitchen Katie is? I am a gentle person but OMG I just wanted to punch her in the face when she started in on Jack Smith with her lies and faux outrage. As though she is the intellectual equal of a man who served as a prosecutor at the Hague. GTFOH.....
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 28/09/2026
Shut up the "well, she was drunk and did drugs with them..." bullshit by asking if it would have been OK for them to forcibly sodimize one of their drunk/drugged up frat brothers and inviting their friends, Would an essay apologizing for getting caught have sufficed? Yeah, I didn't think so....
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One week out, and this is where “I’ll do it later” starts costing people. If somebody in your family keeps saying they’ll get around to it, call them. If your coworker just moved and has been meaning to update everything, remind them.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 28/09/2026
Trump is coming to Florida twice to campaign for Donalds, which seems like great news for Jolly.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 28/09/2026
We've been billed $307k to defend the indefensible. Using taxpayer money for criminal defense lawyers is as illegal as the transfer of funds from children's healthcare to a PAC running political ads to support the DeSantis agenda. floridatrident.org/governors-of...
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Governor’s office is unforthcoming about his whereabouts again; DeSantis ducking reporters
Anyone in Miami who’d have liked to have known in advance that Gov. Ron DeSantis would be in town Tuesday morning to visit the Surfside condo disaster
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 27/09/2026
This is such an important read... yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...
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Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 27/09/2026
#Florida #Pinellas pinellas.gov/dengue-fever...
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Mosquito-transmitted Dengue Fever: What you need to know - Pinellas County
What is dengue? Dengue is a virus spread through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito. You can...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
Amplify Legal sued over Arkansas' abortion ban on a similar right-to-life claim, and advocates in Wisconsin and Oklahoma are challenging abortion laws under the framework. "It is so critical to the future of the movement...to talk about ‘what does the right to life’ mean?” @greerdonley.bsky.social
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Living in a country where Brett Kavanaugh, an alleged sexual assaulter, is elevated to the most prestigious job a lawyer can have, it is no wonder that the frat men who raped this woman were punished with . . . [checks notes] . . . having to write an essay. We are not a country that protects women.
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𝓙𝓮𝓭𝓲 𝓢𝓴𝔂𝔀𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓮𝓻 🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @jedi-skywalker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “We’re putting kids in detention centers where they have water that makes them sick and they’re being traumatized and the pediatricians I’m talking to are saying they’re being tortured. We’re torturing kids 0-3 when their brain’s rapidly developing. It’s a choice”
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE plans to open a new 528-bed facility for unaccompanied children inside a Louisiana airport. The facility will be run by the 'nonprofit arm' of a for-profit prison company that has reported deaths of detainees in the state: LaSalle Corrections. www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...
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A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questions
A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 26/09/2026
Dolly Day in Nola! #NolaSky
Honoring the life of Dolly Parton at the Nola second line with BIG hair and rhinestones!
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 25/09/2026
The entire AI industry is built on lies.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 24/09/2026
Everything does not need to be run by a computer, with or without AI. A fridge is a single funtion device whose only job is to keep food cold. There is no defensible reason for making it more complicated than that.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
The SEC quietly published a proposal to rescind a measure that prevents private equity firms from buying access to billions in pension funds that belong to public employees like teachers and police.
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The SEC wants to scrap a key anti-corruption rule targeting private equity
Pay-to-play schemes were a way for firms to tap into public pension funds. They may soon be back.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 24/09/2026
Perfect American metaphor. A filthy, tattered American flag tied to the back of a semi-truck. An American rag, flown by a guy who can't afford the diesel to earn a living driving his truck and would happily give Trump a 3rd term if he could .
A filthy, tattered American flag tied to the back of a semi-truck...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 24/09/2026
1/ I keep thinking about the PB&,J challenge that is almost always part of an intro to programming. The idea is that computers do what they're literally told, even if the line of instruction is silly or wrong.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/08/2026
I loosened all the bolts on my circular saw and when I turned it on the blade escaped containment
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
Wait till he finds out the president is a convicted rapist and a pedophile!
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
An "error".....suuuuure..
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
why are our taxes paying for law enforcement to block reporters from asking a sitting senator questions
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
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Massive meat recall affects beef, pork and more: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f…
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 23/09/2026
Read more from @texastribune.org - Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029 www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Texas will appeal.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Natalie Harp story started off as a joke, a sign of how pathetic Trump has become. But the latest revelations show that she's really quite dangerous. She knows how to manipulate the doddering narcissist, and it's scary. www.salon.com/2026/09/23/n...
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Natalie Harp isn't a joke — she is Trump’s dangerous enabler
The aide’s constant flattery makes the president’s narcissism worse
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Want to take my course? It's now available, for free, below. New lessons will be released each week. I hope to see you in class! robertreich.substack.com/p/wealth-and...
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Wealth & Poverty Class 1: The paradox of widening inequality
We begin.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23/09/2026
“The truth is, nobody wants to cut Social Security benefits except for a handful of Republicans & the billionaires on Wall Street who tell them what to do. That’s why it’s no surprise that this farce of a hearing was all for the benefit of billionaire donor Harlan Crow.” Read Alex’s new op-ed here:
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House Republicans Pitch a Plan to Cut Social Security to Billionaire Donor Harlan Crow | Common Dreams
If Republicans want to cut our earned benefits, the American people deserve for them to tell us that to our faces, rather than weaseling around the job they were elected to do, and for which they earn...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
This guy simply CANNOT be the nominee.
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
Excellent read.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026
Funny how this came out immediately *after* California caved on the merger
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GOOD
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026
The Bulwark uncovered a fundraiser for Hakeem Jeffries hosted by Trump-connected lobbyists. We started asking questions, and the event was canceled. @cheetah.bsky.social explains what happened and what it reveals about how Washington works behind closed doors. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hqx0y9?utm_...
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Now What?? @mraulston.word.expert · 23/09/2026
If you can't grow your own racists, store-bought is fine....
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