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“Projunct Manger” [sic] as someone wrote my job title once; your average book-enjoyer; cat-dad.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Put a sociopath in the White House and he’ll not think twice about using his own staff and other humans as decoys/potential collateral damage when he learns that HIS safety could be at risk if he flies on the ill-equipped Qatari bribe/lux AIr Force One. Not surprising, but utterly disgusting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
these people are brainworms-shooting-out-of-their-ears nuts
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you are a causal watcher and you hear people saying this, and no pushback, you assume its true. No wonder people are mad. But in reality, this is what the actual evidence, still on the CDC website, says: www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccin...
More than a million pregnant women around the world have received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, before and during pregnancy. Studies have shown no increased risk for complications like miscarriage, preterm delivery, stillbirth, or birth defects.678910111213
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy reduce the risk of severe illness and other health effects from COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccination might help prevent stillbirths and preterm delivery.67141511
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW EPISODE: A federal judge in Massachusetts just issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states that don't hand over voter data to the Department of Justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsI5...
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Takeover of Your Mail Ballot
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A gentle reminder. We are all birthright citizens for the law recognizes that our parents are irrelevant to the question of our status.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
It’s this entire tiered out “gotcha” approach to talking about racism that really lets you know their main exposure to this has been secondhand memes and characterizations through like group chats
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“First of all, how is it that we have sitting, elected members of Congress going missing for months at a time?” “And how is everyone pretending this is normal?” Rep. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov continued. “This is not normal.” people.com/aoc-calls-mi...
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AOC Says Mitch McConnell’s Prolonged Absence at 84 Is ‘Not Normal at All,’ and Maybe Shouldn’t Be ‘Legal at This Point’
AOC told reporters that there should be rules put in place to manage lengthy absences and missed votes by Capitol Hill lawmakers like Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean Jr.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin sought the phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter's mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of Trump's new Air Force One jet.
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Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
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Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
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CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme
Trump at the Libertarian Convention in 2024
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/06/2026
We went from crushing overt bigotry to hearing that only overt bigotry was actual bigotry to hearing that overt bigotry isn’t bigotry at all.
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In their new book, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report that months after Jeff Bezos told Trump “the people there are terrible” at The Washington Post, Bezos made a business request on behalf of Blue Origin to Trump. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/06/2026
genuinely speechless here.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire did this
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Bootlickers are often the first to notice when the shine is coming off. Pay attention when their culinary tastes start to change
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My latest newsletter is about Thomas Chatterton Williams, who can't stop blaming racism on the left.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams and the New Redeemers
The Atlantic columnist buys what white supremacists are selling
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/06/2026
Former staffers say every call Weiss has made has gone “colossally wrong.” trib.al/6lFvIzj
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“Turned to Sh*t”: Ex-60 Minutes Staff Tear Into Bari Weiss’s Decisions
Former staffers say every call Weiss has made has gone “colossally wrong.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026
i really, truly, find this offensive
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
DC Arch public comments are now open. As much as many of us would like to simply submit “FDT,” comments are far more likely to be considered if they raise specific concerns about the project. Federal agencies are only required to consider substantive comments,
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Senate Democrats called out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday for reportedly taking a series of quiet steps to undermine federal voter protections this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Dem senators ‘raise the alarm’ over DOJ pullback on voter protections
More than 20 senators sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that “continues to raise the alarm about DOJ’s involvement in the upcoming midterm elections for partisan political purposes...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's easy to shrug off the idiots claiming that the incredibly accomplished politician Spencer Pratt was cheated out of a rightful win in Los Angeles. But they're going to make these same claims in November, so we need to carpet bomb this conspiracy out of existence right now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2026
mike johnson is legitimately in the running for single worst speaker in the history of the house
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2026
NEW: No state has taken over as many public school districts as Texas. Since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of those came just this spring. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover. w/ @texastribune.org
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Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns
Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders linked to Houston’s controversial superintendent, Mike Miles. At...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power THIS is what an insurrection looks like
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Exciting news!! Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic primary for Governor and if elected, she will make history as the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor. 
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/06/2026
Bill Pulte may not know anything about overseeing the CIA, but he seems well-equipped to carry on the mission of using the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to target Trump’s critics. That’s clearly the job the president has in mind. @davidcorn.bsky.social reports:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/06/2026
NEW: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate. w/ @opb.org
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A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford
The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 02/06/2026
"All this effort on the part of DHS to keep people from seeing into the facilities, and to keep those trapped inside from describing what is happening there, suggests that ICE feels that they have something to hide," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.
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Life inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty | Moira Donegan
The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
JACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/06/2026
The Catholic Catechism and the Baptist Confession of Faith state explicitly that God is neither male nor female, has no body or physical form. To think of God as biologically male diminishes the very nature of God. Everyone from Billy Graham to the Pope to the Anglican Church agrees on this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/05/2026
When insurance coverage for her husband’s lifesaving care was denied, Teressa didn’t stand down. She fought back and won. She found the secret to winning buried deep in her insurance coverage booklet. Listen to her story on "Paper Trail": www.propublica.org/podcast/heal...
"If you're ever in a similar fight with your health insurance company [over denied coverage], you might need to know this too." -Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica reporter and "Paper Trail" host. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Okay so the article, by @oyousef.bsky.social, is actually fantastic and is actually about the very phenomenon that I presumed it was ignorant of when I caustically tossed off my irritated comment, that’s on me
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/05/2026
A new inspector general report on medically unnecessary vascular procedures flagged $105 million in Medicare billing as suspicious. Nearly 140 doctors, about half of whom practiced in California and Texas, accounted for these "concerning" payments.
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More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds
A newly released report, which was based on a study that launched in 2024 following a ProPublica investigation, flags nearly 140 doctors across the country with "concerning" billing patterns.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/05/2026
The corruption never stops.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.
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Googleman @googleman81.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...
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Opinion | What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The economy is in freefall and the war is a quagmire but the president is laser-focused on making Americans' lives better: - White House ballroom - UFC cage match on the lawn - big triumphal arch - painting the reflecting pool - painting statues gold - his face on a $250 bill - lining his pockets
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.
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