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Ann Ahrens 🇺🇦 @aahrens430.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This paragraph should be shouted from the hilltops:
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is the “cOvId ToOk My FrEeDoMs” guy, BTW.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 20/07/2026
"Not the warmest of receptions" - Rebecca Lowe
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
President Obama once delivered a speech in an open field for four hours during a thunderstorm while leaning against a very tall, pointy metal pole. President Trump should do the same, but for six hours, to demonstrate his strength.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Some videos speak for themselves
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
wtf did i just read, am i having a stroke
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃
Wendy O / Kootie-Pie Koopa and Milli VanilliMario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Franklin said impeachment is needed for a leader who "rendered himself obnoxious," which is now one of my all-time favorite phrases
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I mean, I know we make the 1984/Big Brother comparisons, but this is pretty much 2+2=5
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/04/2026
Priceless post from the official White House social media
Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47
X.com
Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis!

The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026
www.theonion.info
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
insidehighered.com
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Is he capable of speaking the truth or is he actual stuck in "opposite day" like we used to have a children?
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
WTF?! Literally what the actual fuck?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ohhhh. There it is. Got it.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...
cnbc.com
Sánchez to Trump: Spain won’t ‘applaud those who set the world on fire just because they then show up with a bucket’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has emerged as one of the European Union's leading critics of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
this whole era is just a series of rejected sketches from Benny Hill
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
People should take notice of what's happening in Rogers Park in Chicago right now. The right-wing media machine has zeroed in on the 40th Ward's Black queer alderman in the aftermath of a shooting, vilifying her description of the victim being in the "wrong place at the wrong time" as victim-blaming
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Me too
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/01/2026
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
OMG yes!!! Like I've earned some "happy feeling" from my school and they crap all over them by being the actual bad guys! Ugh!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
IL Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning federal immigration agents that swapping/altering license plates during Trump's ICE raids is against the law & "will not be tolerated." A Plate Watch Hotline has been implemented for people to report cases of license plate tampering: (312) 814-1730
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/10/2025
Fuckers need to pay.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/10/2025
Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As of 1430 CDT on October 8, 2025, ARNORTH has received two requests for protection support. First, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested federalized National Guard personnel to support protection of federal property and personnel at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois. Second, the Federal
Protective Service (FPS) requested federalized National Guard personnel to support protection of
the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025 due to two high profile cases involving
DHS activities and personnel in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
But let's be honest, they are testing the waters to do just that ... overturn Gay Marriage. We should be cognizant or it will come to that
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 01/08/2025
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 24/07/2025
Caption really did clear up some confusion.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“Her cornea was torn from her eyes popping out of her head when she read that her schedule included attending a human trafficking summit”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/07/2025
District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I’ll say again: They’re literally starting another constitutional crisis to distract from the Epstein thing.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/07/2025
In a time of rising tyranny, a cake steeped in ancient rebellion feels just right. Jamie Schler bakes a gâteau sans rois for the season of defiance. Try it yourself!
contrarian.substack.com
No Kings’ Cake
Resistance and renewal can arise from reclaiming ancient customs.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Is it bad for the dictator if we're speculating about how deep he was into the biggest child sex trafficking ring of the century?
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njshepard.bsky.social @njshepard.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We're literally being run by idiots. Literal idiots
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
By now, you may have seen the headlines: Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been spreading antisemitic content. This started after Musk explicitly retooled Grok, removing what he called “PC filters” and inviting users to feed it “divisive truths” that are “politically incorrect but factually accurate.”
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: A Trump DOJ investigation has found that this photo does not exist, and if you saw it, no you didn’t
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