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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@jessnevins.bsky.social idle question, but do you know of a simple list of major Golden Age supers *with* their creators. I saw a comment elsewhere regarding which creators are Jewish or goyishe (Namor & Wonder Woman), and I wanted to see a more complete list.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 04/08/2026

"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW

This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6. That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle. The court cannot write a different ending.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social Have you seen Wishbone's retelling of the Odyssey? It's only a half-hour, and I'd love to get your thoughts on it. youtu.be/1_ImiOm0ulI

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Wishbone dog - Homer sweet homer

YouTube video by Halvichka

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I completed the canon! As of tonight, I've seen stage productions of all Shakespeare's plays (plus two apocrypha) Took us years to find anyone staging Henry VI, but NAATCO's production was well worth the wait.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Reid as Lestat looks like @colleendoran.bsky.social 's art come to life.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So what was the combined viewership of all the #KennedyCenter livefeeds? Advance prep to counter the narrative of his UFC ratings

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

@cincopaul.bsky.social the Official Tony Awards Playbill has been posted online. First time I've seen one; massive section with bios for this year's Broadway debuts (yours is on pg 62) playbill.com/article/flip...

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Flip Through the Official Tony Awards 2026 Playbill

Follow along on Broadway's biggest night with a digital edition of this year's Tony Playbill.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“It’s only racial gerrymandering if Elbridge Gerry did it himself.” — #SCOTUS, one day soon.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm reading this right now. The legendary Vonda McIntyre's final novel, edited by @nisishawl.bsky.social, out from Aqueduct Press. A feminist Minoan alternate history. Stunning. Sci-fi author's last novel links ancient Minoans and Pacific Northwest share.google/Q0fSTMO2U69r...

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Seven years after her death, sci-fi pioneer’s last novel bridges Minoan and Pacific Northwest history

Clarion West celebrates posthumous publication of 'The Curve of the World,' a different kind of Odyssey by Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre.

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Anton @anton.beauty · 27/04/2026

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Massive thank you to KitKat, for giving all the other corporations the opportunity to make the same joke on April Fools Day, thus sparing us from their attempts at "original" humor.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I think people need to understand that when you're quibbling over Graham Platner, coming up with hypothetical scenarios where voting for him is a lesser evil, or worse, defending him outright, you're literally asking what level of Nazism is OK in American politics. The only answer is none.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is not funny. Courts only do this when America's in extreme duress.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor. And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south. They're slavers.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I agree, quite apart from the merits of the case. Alito could only defend the Supreme Court's authority to intervene by grievously misrepresenting the facts. The reality is that there's no plausible argument SCOTUS had the power to do what it did. Why didn't that matter to six justices?

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

For your viewing pleasure in these trying times: Snow groomin' the human (me). Scientifically, the behavior is called allogrooming, or (as I pronounce it) "'allo! grooming"

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

@catbus.phd - that's my grandfather! (Nathan Kaplan, not the documentarian)

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 06/02/2026

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

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Kraz @thatkraz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Anthropic: we've created AI People: you fucked up a perfectly good auto-complete is what you did. look at it. it's got depression

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 04/02/2026

I just want to call this line from petitioner's counsel out specifically: "We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger." Bars.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 04/02/2026

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The Problem with Early Warnings ~ Charles Rafferty

CHARLES RAFFERTY

The Problem with Early Warnings

People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres.
How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/01/2026

It was the kind of audacious idea that can make a fortune. Combine a widely loved concept with a just as widely loved item. What could go wrong? Pre-opening sign-ups filled up in minutes. In practice, though, they couldn't make the cat library work. "They won't stay on the shelves."

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

As @gretchenmcculloch.com often notes, your knowledge of language includes the ability to understand and create sentences you've never seen before.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@rahaeli.bsky.social - fyi, some positive news in these trying times: there *will* be a soundtrack album for the current revival of Chess. [I've been wanting to compare the timing/orchestration of this production with the previous albums since I saw it.] www.broadway.com/buzz/206612/...

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Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele & Nicholas Christopher Are on Board to Record a Chess Broadway Cast Album

Every night is about to be One Night in Bangkok. The new Broadway production of Chess is set to record an official Broadway cast …

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is that papers and passports are all temporary and arbitrary based on who holds power. It taught us that no human being is illegal. And no excuse made by a ruthless and brutal regime will change those immutable facts. Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

So Aaron, I came across an article from 2014. Between 2010 and 2012 US border agents stepped in front of vehicle 62 times to justify shooting. Guess whose name is mentioned Jon Ross has been under review for repeatedly doing this www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them

An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I didn't discover Tamora Pierce until adulthood, but I grok. Because she's been writing Tortall for decades, you can see how much her craft has improved over time. And Steerswoman (by Rosemary Kirstein) is a series which deserves more love & more readers.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 21/12/2025

I continue to no understand how these things are allowed at all. There are SO MANY edge cases they're unable to handle, and their failure mode is disruptive at best, and sometimes outright dangerous.

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Ms. Lis @mslis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

There's also Roger Ebert's famous "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it." North wouldn't have been half as disappointing if not for Rob Reiner's track record until that point. Even Ebert acknowledged Reiner was "a gifted filmmaker" and hoped it was merely a lapse.

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North movie review & film summary (1994) | Roger Ebert

I have no idea why Rob Reiner, or anyone else, wanted to make this story into a movie, and close examination of the film itself is no help. "North" is one of

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

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