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Michael Thomsen

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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Party with a dozen 1 year olds: Email regarding party with a dozen 1 year olds & talking about what makes babies suck better. These were between Mark Tramo (a UCLA professor), John Brockman (literary agent) and Epstein." open.substack.com/pub/booksbeh...
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Most pitching strikeouts in a 9-inning game (all regular season and postseason games in MLB history): 17 strikeouts ← 190 times 18 strikeouts ← 83 times 19 strikeouts ← 24 times 20 strikeouts ← 10 times 21 strikeouts ← 1 time (🔥tonight🔥)
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says 'I'm against abortion' but says 'I'm in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life. Someone who says that 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT BUT IT IS
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ICYMI — Fetterman: “I’m a lifelong Republican” 😬
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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤖 Alex Pavlovic Happy Mike Krukow Day!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.
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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤖 David Calvert 🔁 by John Shea
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
RFK Jr. received more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in D.C. All were gifts from Gavin de Becker, a security consultant and supporter.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor
The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Susan Slusser @susanslusser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i spent time with Mike Krukow at his Reno home last week for a wide-ranging conversation about his career, his health and his broadcast partner: Mike Krukow opens up about life in and after baseball — and the first time he met Duane Kuiper www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
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Mike Krukow opens up on life after baseball — and first meeting Duane Kuiper
After 37 years of calling Giants games, Mike Krukow shares everything from his first impression of Duane Kuiper to a moment in the booth Howard Stern wouldn’t let anyone forget.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “This is not slander or pejorative or innuendo; it is the plain truth of the matter, a conclusion drawn from simple observation.”
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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just saw this commercial on SNF, and I aint gon lie, it had my full attention. Wasnt expecting that
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Andrew Curry @hulkrunning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m not an ad man, but I can’t help but think there are a couple more places on the field where the Mastercard logo could fit. Maybe over the 9/11 tribute? #Astros
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/09/2026
If only there were a law that said: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned" We could call it 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Everything about the Giants other than the bullpen is so much fun right now that the bullpen just wants you to see more of it. And they're not wrong.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Andrew Baggarly @andrewbaggarly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This needs to be the last MLB game that Doug Eddings ever works. Period. End of story.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/09/2026
the clock is expired and nobody has touched the ball. this is ridiculous!
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dear Pablo Torre, Could you please check in on the Dodgers? Thanks. With respect and admiration, - All Giants fans
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You’re not alarmed enough 🚨
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Suddenly due process matters.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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USPS Whistleblower Warns New Rule Could Keep Voters From Getting Ballots—What To Know
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/08/2026
M-W
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“The fact that I’m even having to sue and fight in a court of law for this is mind-boggling,” @katiephang.bsky.social told me. “I should be joined by every member of Congress...in saying, ‘Shame on Todd Blanche for continuing to protect the Epstein elite.’” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Confronting the Rich and Powerful Epstein Class
‘Six Questions’ with legal journalist Katie Phang
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McCovey Chronicles @mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
this is, far and away, the worst season I've ever followed for any team, in any league, in any sport
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
> @dow.bsky.social
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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One woman was killed and six people were wounded after a russian drone targeted a suburban train running between Lozova and Kharkiv‼️ ​Officials report that the train was stopped early to evacuate passengers because of an attack alert.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely. Instead, these tax cuts have added at least $10 trillion to the debt. The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The real COVID scandal? U.S. did FAR too little! www.economist.com/united-state... "...many Americans died because so many failed to take the vaccines..." "America’s lethal underperformance once again went ignored when the Senate recently questioned Fauci..."
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The real covid-19 scandal is still unfolding
The failure to reckon with lives needlessly lost will make the next pandemic deadlier
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