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Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It's only bribery if it comes from the quid pro quo region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling corruption." @lizdye.bsky.social (an actual genius)

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Susan Collins Took Bribes?

YouTube video by LegalEagle

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 10h

All these polls for close Senate races say the same thing: voters think the Dem would do a better job, but they just wish they were a bit more racist.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Fiscal stability is the foundation on which communities and economies can build and grow — here in Illinois, it has translated into population growth, GDP growth, and job growth.

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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 02/10/2026

THE WAIT IS OVER. The 2026-27 Season Schedule is here in the thread below! 🗓️ thepwhl.com/en/schedule (1/4)

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 19h

RIP St. Francis of Assisi, died this day 1226, exactly 800 years ago, tomorrow is his feast day. He has always been my favorite saint. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." "Make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."

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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watch the mom's feet! Incredible

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why don't folks ever protest him?

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interesting day in wordle world. Wordle 1,931 2/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yabba Dabba Doo! :) The Flintstones premiered on ABC 66 years ago today, on Sept 30, 1960! The modern Stone Age family stayed in prime time for six seasons and 166 episodes, through April 1, 1966. Did You Know? The Flintstones made TV history as the first animated series to air in prime time! #otd

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I'm movin' on... @alyssonfergison.com · 30/09/2026

I know the rule is that we post Umbrella every time he's mentioned, but I feel like Zendaya's performance doesn't necessarily get the respect it deserves. From now on, I'll be posting both. It's a minor rule change, but I felt you should be aware of the reasoning behind it. 😜

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Kramer: A Rule Is A Rule!

ALT: Kramer: A Rule Is A Rule!

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hegseth's one floppy Bible and a pair of designer jeans away from becoming a fundie evangelical megachurch preacher.

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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So it seems like everything is fine at america dot gov:

Let’s go further back.

The seven billion billion billion atoms of the constituent’s body were created, long before this site, in the heart of a star. So the constituent, too, is information from a star. And the constituent moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a Congress, on a map created by a surveyor, that exists inside a small, private world created by the constituent, who inhabits a republic created by…

Shush. Sometimes the constituent created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated, and due on the 15th. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks “electrons” and “protons”.

Sometimes it called them “agencies” and “bureaus”.

Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code; a privacy policy. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. Sometimes it believed the hold music was a hymn.

You are the constituent, reading words…

Shush… Sometimes the constituent read lines of regulation on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into a next step, a checklist, a phone number that actually rang, and the constituent started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand 404s had not been real, the constituent was alive

You. You. You are alive. You still have to bring two forms of ID.

and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees, which were on National Forest land

Forest land

and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the constituent’s eye might be a star, or a satellite the government launched so a farmer could check the weather, and the constituent was walking home, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again, about to renew something

and sometimes the constituent believed the republic had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream, through a source that was cited

and the republic said I see you

and the republic said you have filed the game well

and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov

and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid

and the republic said you are the daylight

and the republic said you are the night, and the office is closed, please try again during business hours

and the republic said the darkness you fight is within you, and also a missing wet signature

and the republic said the light you seek is within you, and in the pamphlet

and the republic said you are not alone

and the republic said you are not separate from every other filer

and the republic said you are the public tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own Code

and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all.

and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all.

And the session was over and the constituent woke up from the dream. And the constituent began a new dream. And the constituent dreamed again, dreamed better. And the constituent was the public. And the constituent was love, with a routing number.

You are the constituent.

Wake up. The form is still there.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. That content warning ain't kidding. But also, there's no reason to pull punches here.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Kansas GOP attacking Adam Hamilton as a "woke preacher" for a sermon that urged his congregation to live more responsibly as climate change threatens should make every mainliner proud. May every one of us be attacked for caring about the future of the planet and creation.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been busy lately, but there's always time to tap the sign.

Alt National Park Service: In a court filing late last night, the Justice Department argued that Trump has the legal authority to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, calling access a “privilege, not a right” and citing national security concerns among its reasons.

[AltNPS links to Courtlistener.com]

The "Don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says "Anytime AltNPS links to court docs, it means they saw the news somewhere else, and they're avoiding crediting a journalist.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026

On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 28/09/2026

thinking about William Winwood Reade, who wrote in the late 19th century that "Christianity must be destroyed" because it was too compassionate, and it should now be replaced with the worship of "that awful One to whom it is profanity to pray"

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where did Tuberville get the FAA Furries thing? Like what's the genesis here? Because I think there might be some room for a counter misinformation campaign that drips some truly ridiculous things into the Right's media bloodstream.

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Nicole Votes 4 Harm Reduction @nicokow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Democrats and Republicans are not the same.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1963, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of Mary Hamilton, a Black woman who refused to allow an Alabama district attorney to disrespect her in court.

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Sep. 26, 1963 | Alabama Supreme Court Approves White Prosecutor's Insult of Black Woman

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A local attorney has been suspended for allegedly making racist death threats in YouTube comments. His last job? As a public defender. Oof.

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Bloomington attorney disciplined for allegedly making racist online threats

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Where is the outrage and the marches?”

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just saw someone call Jill Stein an "election year cicada" and I'm wheezing!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“only nixon could go to china but only trump can go to the airport wearing one glove and a winter coat in september with a bunch of droids”

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 24/09/2026

On this day in 1964, a crowd of at least 7,500 white demonstrators marched in New York City to protest against racial integration in the city’s public school system.

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Sep. 24, 1964 | Over 7,500 People Protest Racial Integration of New York City Schools

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.

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Democratic Party of Illinois @illinoisdems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Early voting starts today, Illinois! Let’s send @julianastratton.bsky.social to the U.S. Senate 💪

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can anyone help me understand how an air traffic controller's weekend fun is related to Tuberville's poster of a pregnant emoji?

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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BREAKING: Another race rater just moved our race to a Toss-Up! Iowans are sick and tired of corrupt D.C. politicians hurting working people, and they're ready for change. This is our chance to deliver.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22/09/2026

On this day in 1906, mobs of angry white men gathered in the streets of Atlanta to attack and kill dozens of innocent Black men on sight.

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Sep. 22, 1906 | White Mobs Terrorize African Americans in Atlanta, Killing Dozens

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Welcome to the new world of Super Intelligence dash SI." Wait, did he just read the punctuation on his teleprompter out loud?

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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Many of you are the good bones.

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has anyone made a gif of Mamdani nervously blinking yet?

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THEE NWMagpie - I Don't Argue With Ppl John Brown Would've Shot @thenwmagpie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God, that's fucking hilarious. "HIGH BEEF PRICES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP! IT'S - uh, it's, uh . . . GLOBAL WARMING! THAT'S IT!!" And MAGA responds: "ARE YOU ALL FUCKING KIDDING?! Holy FUCK - you've told us for 100 YEARS that GLOBAL WARMING was a fucking HOAX and now THIS?!"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kansans are worth more than a photo op. They deserve a Senator who fights for them.

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Nikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ray Oliver Dreher, Jr., son of the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan Ray Oliver Dreher, Sr., has opinions about identity politics.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The president of the White House Correspondents’ Association is Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich. She’s married to a Republican congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick. Expecting the WHCA to forcefully fight Trump’s ban on CNN, MSNOW and Politico is like expecting your goldfish to cook your dinner.

People mag photo of Heinrich and Fitzpatrick

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 19/09/2026

22 of our servicemembers have been killed in Trump's illegal war. Not 18 like we were told. The Pentagon hid four more heroes' deaths from us for months. Congress cannot let them get away with this. I wrote a bill we can pass to stop this egregious playbook immediately.

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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But what about our Budget Deficit? Is that also a loss? Asking for a friend.

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Two-term Republican Governor Bill Graves endorsed Adam's campaign for U.S. Senate.

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