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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The people who "don't see color," or the ones who ask "why does everything have to be about race?" are LIVID at this ad. You wanna know why? Because not only did they use a white guy, they didn't use any Blacks. No "welfare queens." That's literally it. But it's not about race
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arabellasays.bsky.social @arabellasays.bsky.social · 3h
Reminder to vote as early as you can, whether by mail or in person.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 20h
When we talk about the corrupt Supreme Court, we’re not just talking about Clarence Thomas getting paid off or Scalia doing billionaire junkets. John Roberts’ spouse getting paid by BigLaw firms would also be considered corrupt under federal law for other government employees.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h
You've been had, MAGAs.
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aly gibbs @alyssaur.bsky.social · 8h
ohhh sure seems like nobody should ever speak to any reporter working for a USA Today, Co., publication ever again lol
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 8h
🇪🇺❗️🇺🇦 The EU will not provide Ukraine with additional financial support this year until promised reforms are implemented, — FT. Brussels rejected a request to allocate funds planned for 2027 ahead of schedule. Instead, it called for conditions to be met to unlock about €34B of EU support this year.
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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 14h
"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h
No, she never gave a statement to the police. That’s what people are upset about. The police took Cornell’s word without verifying a single claim for themselves—and the claims from Cornell were false!
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 20h
Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14h
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 14h
Trump Praises ‘Great Republican Strategist’ Laura Loomer: ‘A Killer’
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Trump Praises ‘Great Republican Strategist’ Laura Loomer: ‘A Killer’
Trump heaped praise on conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, calling her a “great Republican strategist” and “a killer.” The post Trump Praises ‘Great Republican Strategist’ Laura Loomer: ‘A Killer’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 18h
Chris Rufo was also involved in destroying cancer research and US science. In 2024 he recommended: “usIng the power of the presidency to target…grantmaking” (This is a slide I prepared and showed to science orgs in 2024 to try to mobilize scientists to get in the fight. I didn’t do enough.)
[Our plan for] "eliminating left-wing ideologies in the federal government, " using the power of the presidency to fundamentally reshape the bureaucracy with a six-part program targeting budget, content, personnel, grantmaking, and oversight. The idea is to centralize ideological control over the federal agencies in the White House and create a team at the Office of Management and Budget to enforce it. We could easily wipe out a significant portion of the infrastructure for the left-wing ideologies within the federal bureaucracy and within the network of federal grantees and contractors
Chris Rufo, Manhattan Institute, 2023
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18h
"[Rep. Derrick Van Orden] bragged about exposing an unwilling patient's testicles to women he was training ... [Van Orden] harassed a teenage worker at a library in his district over the display of LGBTQ books[.]"
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h
this smells like the story here is going to involve AI in the form of an internal data pool or something
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Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 14h
Saw NAZA today, and wow. Interviews with 24 IDF intelligence officers who describe how they do the genocide. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction.
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 19h
Kind of gives the game away about the whole abundance thing tho
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 14h
"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."🔥
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/09/2026
Well looky there. Never too early to preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Legend of Skokie: A Story of Free Speech and Fascism in America
An eye-opening reckoning with the most mythologized free-speech case in American history—a legend that has shaped politics for half a century.In 1977, neo-Nazis announced plans to demonstrate in Skoki...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...
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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect
Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
yes there is a very useful book about this. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Presidential Campaigns and Presidential Accountability
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"revenge for Nixon" explains a rather significant amount of GOP skulduggery in the 21st century www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 22h
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 21h
Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.
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pacneil @pacneil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need to have such a turnout that Trump won't be able to rig it. We know he's going to try. We also know that State Governments have been gaming out how to deal with his attempts. If he succeeds in stealing voting machines and rig the election, we should have a general strike. Shut it all down.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adults go to war only when they absolutely must. They treat it as a necessary tragedy that should be as rare and brief as possible. It is only a *fucking psychopath* who *celebrates* war.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
who on Earth would vote for this cretin it is actually astonishing that he is even on the ballot
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
69% is good—but we can do better. No person you would want your daughter to be alone with would ever support this serial rapist, convicted felon, draft dodger, lifelong fraudster, foreign asset, pedophile, incest-curious malignant narcissistic psychopath.
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Stunning New AP Poll Shows Whopping 69% of Americans Disapprove of Trump — An All-Time High
New polling shows the lowest number yet of Americans approve of President Donald Trump's job performance.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This underscores why it’s so hard to cover Trump. Every sentence contains multiple lies, true, but *also* each lie is made for a different reason. Some are premeditated, some a product of dementia, some a product of being raised in a cult, some only semiconscious, some born of fear. He’s a mess.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every day things are being done at home and abroad by this regime that will take decades to undo and the stain of which will mark America forever Too few understand that permanent damage is being done to our country by the hour—even considering that we only know a fraction of it
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is unreadable. He’s incoherent. I don’t think he successfully stated a single fact, answered a single question, or provided a single example of any point he wanted to make. Not that it was clear what points he wanted to make—because he was incoherent.
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Video game YouTuber and essayist Jacob Geller was removed from his position as a cohost of video game podcast MinnMax on Thursday, MinnMax wrote in a statement published to social media." aftermath.site/jacob-geller...
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MinnMax, Nebula, And Lost In Cult Remove Video Essayist And YouTuber Jacob Geller Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Geller responded Thursday afternoon to confirm the allegations
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stephanie valentine @stephvalley.bsky.social · 22h
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MinnMax, Lost in Cult drop YouTuber Jacob Geller following sexual assault allegations
Gaming YouTuber, critic, and video essayist Jacob Geller has been removed from several industry roles following newly surfaced sexual assault allegations. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Geller was named in a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
FLASHBACK: “You call conflict of interest ‘EXPERIENCE’?” Trump’s son-in-law @jaredkushner was so triggered by the new @CNN piece on his obvious conflicts in Israel that he tweeted for the first time in weeks — so here’s when @60Minutes asked him about it👇🏽🤔
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Forbes @forbes.com · 20h
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 15h
Tariffs are about power, not economics, a continuing series
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15h
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
under old scottish law, you just gotta let someone go after a failed execution because the sentence has been carried out
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal, writes columnist Moira Donegan
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
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serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social @serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now CBD may be taken from ALL of U.S. on 12/11/26‼️ What CBD did for my father's dementia was miraculous. We had 5 extra months on hospice, laughing & talking. EVERY vertebrate has an endocannabinoid system in our brains that benefits from CBD. Humans, dogs, fish, etc. #HelpSaveCBD‼️ #WriteReps‼️
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Trump Signs Bill Delaying Hemp THC Ban Until December
President Trump has signed a funding bill delaying a federal ban on intoxicating hemp products, giving Congress until December to craft new regulations.
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