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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How it's going

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"challenging democratic norms" is a crazy way to say "installing a fascist regime" but go off tote bag guys

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matt @battmutler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All together now: "There is no cloud; it's just other people's servers."

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

In Wisconsin, a police officer allegedly used Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic, according to a police affidavit for a case set for trial this month.
In Kansas, a police chief who tracked his ex through Flock sneaked up on her while she was intimate with another man, a state police certification body alleged, leading to his firing.
In Florida, a deputy speeding to stop a young actress he’d added to a watch list for a license-plate tool called Guardian nearly caused a head-on crash, according to a police report and video from his dashboard camera. The deputy was arrested in March, and his attorney declined to comment.
And in California, prosecutors said a former deputy, Alexander Vanny, used Flock as part of a months-long campaign of “stalking” and “humiliating” his former fiancée that also involved following her around town and installing a hidden camera in her roommate’s bathroom, according to a sentencing brief.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

but surely everyone has seen who framed roger rabbit, the popular movie that came out (checks notes) thirty years ago (double checks notes, crumbles into dust)

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.

More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.

As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/07/2026

Biden outlived this whole crew.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

omg be fucking FOR REAL

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18/05/2026

And that's on a Monday, when a lot of people have WFH days in hybrid work policies

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/05/2026

They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The WSJ employs a lot of actual journalists but if you are one of them it's important for you to know your bosses and your colleagues in the opinion section prefer you personally to go to prison for doing your job than for trump to lose

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Jeff Bezos is spending $$$ on The Post's Trump-friendly opinion section, building a new studio and pumping out YouTube videos that have delivered just dozens of views. “It does feel like this is just for an audience of one,” a staffer said. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

status.news

The Post’s Opinion Divide

As Adam O’Neal carries out Jeff Bezos’ vision for The Washington Post’s opinion section, staffers tell Status they question the paper’s priorities in the wake of sweeping layoffs.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Nodding www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP. If they won't take easy shots across the bow like this, would they really do bigger, more important things that need to be done? Break up firms that bribed Trump for merger approval? Investigate executives who arranged the payments? Impose accountability on organizations, foreign governments, judges, and others who participated in the Trump-era bonanza of venal and intellectual corruption?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Whenever I see a video of one of our tech billionaires at some conference where they hold forth like the visionary gods they imagine themselves to be, I can’t help but think we are so cooked that these maladjusted psychopaths now own our political system.

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

monday motivation

“again, follow your dreams, because unqualified idiots are paid to do things they shouldn’t be doing every day, why not you” — spencer hall

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 15/04/2026

People tweeting "The New York Times sucks" didn't make the paper kill its Public Editor position, @sulliview.bsky.social tells @parkermolloy.com in today's DEPTH PERCEPTION. But she gets it—from its handling of Trump to Mamdani—she's got criticisms too. depthperception.longlead.com/p/margaret-s...

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

bluesky is actually paying homage to an ancient internet tradition known as "signing off." it is a lost art, but people would "disconnect" and maybe return to the family computer after finishing dinner and homework

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/04/2026

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/04/2026

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

United States Ambassador To Italy Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Listens To The Words Of Pope Pius Xii,During An Audience At The Pontiff'S Lakeside Summer Residence.13 October 1955

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I just had an idea, what if this was what we should be using the space program for and not for funneling trillions of dollars into the pockets of billionaires?

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Will the NYT headline be “Increasingly erratic Trump threatens war crimes” or “President deliberates over war strategy”

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

a new YouGov poll shows 25% of Americans falsely believe Iran possesses nuclear weapons and 45% believe the also false claim Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. So I examined why this misinformation is so widespread––namely sleazy, innuendo-laden Iran coverage by US media.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

No. Scholarship requires people to engage with source materials, craft their arguments, and participate in a dialogue. Stop treating AI models like they possess consciousness or can create new knowledge. They cannot.

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

Correction notice from the New York Times reads: “A correction was made on March 13, 2026: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly John F. Kennedy Jr.’s religious affiliation. Mr. Kennedy was a Roman Catholic, not a “WASP” (an epithet used to refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants).”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 09/03/2026

your average r/stocks poster now has "William T Sherman didn't go far enough" as a baseline, things are going Well for capitalism I see

WTI crude is up 24%
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This is what we get for Abraham Lincoln not letting General Sherman absolutely shitface the entire South. This is what we get for letting Southerners vote in the first place. Get ready folks, the best is yet to come! The dumbest people in the US are the ones with all the voting power, yay!!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

politico.com

Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it.

Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had
participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the
drills.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I can't wait until this is integrated into the AP's coverage!!!

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%)

Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose
U.S. adult citizens
39
Party ID
Democrats
14
Independents
35
Republicans
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"Benghazi may not have been a fruitful inquiry for Republicans on its own terms. But it was the means by which they discovered that Clinton used a personal email server...On the merits, this discovery should not have doomed her. But in practice it did. There’s no Trump presidency without #Benghazi."

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Mike Pettigano @mvpettigano.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

American Journalism, everyone 🙃

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