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Owen Collins

@owenscenic.bsky.social
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A theater person in small town Virginia.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 18h
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
what an asshole
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
Illinoisans have lost access to food assistance because the President wanted to make himself and his friends at Mar-a-Lago even richer. He made families choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills by driving up costs and cutting SNAP.
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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LAist @laist.com · 02/10/2026
Newsom vetoed a bill that would have penalized secretly recording people with smart glasses in private spaces. 🔗 Read: vist.ly/5kpsk ✍️ Sophie Austin | Associated Press
Two men on stage with microphones speaking; orange text overlay about Newsom vetoing a smart glasses bill.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And heaven forbid you have a carry on larger than a pencil case.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/09/2026
And media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why you can't record media anymore, even though the VCR was incredibly popular, and how that connects to trucks you can't repair, printers that won't work without the most expensive ink, and believe it or not Trump's tariffs. Better things exist, why can't we have them?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/09/2026
Republican politicians have promised their trickle-down economics of tax cuts for corporations would help you. But it’s just not true.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/09/2026
“Call for Cotton”, 1967 thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8281818...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19/09/2026
"There are numerous laws in place that already prohibit many of the harmful activities engaged in by the large AI firms. But those laws are mostly not being enforced sufficiently to make a meaningful difference, because in America, we simply do not enforce the law against the powerful."
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AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss and David Ellison thought their changes to CBS would be popular. Elon Musk thought his changes to Twitter would be popular. For years, they claimed they spoke for The People, forced into wokeness by the leftist elites who control everything. They said that because they believe it.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It looks like ICE is freaking out over all of the unqualified, un-vetted, un-fingerprinted desperation hires, so now officials are mass firing everyone that should have never been hired in the first place. wapo.st/3VfSxCd
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 15/09/2026
Quite a recent pattern: - GOP candidate in Fla. marched alongside neo-Nazis - Husted fires aide over Nazi photo - Collins fires aide over swastika images - State Dept hires speechwriter whom DeSantis fired over video with Nazi imagery - Trump rewards Paul Ingrassia, who said he has a “Nazi streak”
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Republican state legislative candidate marched alongside neo-Nazis, adding to pattern
As a rule, state House candidates’ backgrounds tend not to generate national headlines, but once in a while, there are important exceptions.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$9.5 billion not to work… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A powerful heat dome — which will become the strongest on the planet Wednesday — will tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central U.S. “I don’t even know what to say anymore,” meteorologist Pete Delkus said. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
washingtonpost.com
It’s almost fall, but this record heat dome didn’t get the memo
The strongest heat dome on the planet will soon tower 3.7 miles above Tennessee, drawing extreme heat and humidity into the central United States from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 THE KAPOW HANDBOOK IS FINALLY DONE!!! 🚨 6 months, 5 authors, and 60 pages later, we’ve written a guide on how to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics. And we’re not gatekeeping this info either. Get a free digital copy on 9/21 at kapow.works/handbook !!!
Me, holding a spiral bound notebook that reads “how to KAPOW the system”Two pages of the book, one is an FAQ asking why campaigns haven’t been doing this the whole time. The other is a black intro page for PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE that reads “Cynicism is for losers. We can build the world we want to see.”Two pages on how to make a mutual aid hub in your campaign office with loads of
Polaroids of our office and volunteers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(WSJ) - American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they say it is here. @wsj.com $CVX www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13/09/2026
Americans are feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s war of choice in the grocery store, at the gas pump, and on their bills.
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Inflation ticked up in August, setting the stage for the Fed to hike interest rates
“The fate of the September meeting lies with August CPI,” Citigroup economists wrote.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s astonishing to see this, even though we saw it coming months ago. White = 10°F + above normal in the El Niño regions. Its immense! In the air, a regional warming of 10° is no big deal. But in the ocean it’s immense! Think about how hard it is/ how long it takes to cool/ heat your pool. 1/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/09/2026
The Biden White House guys who had the meeting on AI with Andreessen have *just now* figured out that they should point out that Andreessen has been intentionally lying about it ever since in order to drum up support for the fascists. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WAIT www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump
Setting the record straight about the venture capitalist’s meeting with us in the Biden White House.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 11/09/2026
A hefty industry-oriented consortium is quietly organizing to burn California's landmark plastic and recycling legislation to the ground. What you need to know www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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Leaked emails reveal industry plan to kill California's plastic and recycling laws
Leaked internal memos reveal how a packaging alliance drove a widespread lobbying and marketing campaign to dismantle California’s landmark plastic and recycling laws.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Both vaccines and anti-monopoly laws were so effective we forgot what caused the decline in child deaths and the rise in living standards for ordinary people. We let one be demonised and the other be rolled back as a result of forgetting. (Halfway down thread)
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A reminder that the federal minimum wage ($7.25) hasn’t been increased for 17 YEARS. Happy #LaborDay.
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The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds | Fortune
“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in a recent report.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
*Looks like we're in for some real-deal G7 climate-crisis survival, after all those years and years of costume-play prepperpunk *Expect to have the ruling oligarchs loudly blaming you for your own suffering *Also, if you efficiently save your own community, expect to be repressed by armed police
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform
“One minute, they are a treasured record of human thought. The next, they are twelve searchable megabytes and a manageable quantity of mixed paper strips goi...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026
Hey look at this * Rising Customer Durability, Falling Business Dynamism www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/rese... * DOGE Affiliate Asked for College Credit for Participating in Takeover www.wired.com/story/doge-a... * Why office workers are turning against AI www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-office...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
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USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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USPS Whistleblower Warns New Rule Could Keep Voters From Getting Ballots—What To Know
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/09/2026
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.” [nytimes.com]
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just gonna keep pointing out: White voters mostly *sided with the protesters* during BLM 2020 protests. Many pundits cited @owasow.bsky.social's research on protests hurting Dems in the 60s, but I interviewed Wasow and he correctly predicted times had changed: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2026
Under Donald Trump, American families are spending an additional $3,800+ on everyday costs like groceries and gas. Trump:
Trump signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/08/2026
For 50 years, the Black Ensemble Theater has bridged communities through theater arts. This month, and every month, we celebrate Illinois' entrepreneurs whose successes power our economy and uplift our communities. Thank you to Black Ensemble Theater for all you do for Illinois.
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LAist @laist.com · 28/08/2026
Newsom is pushing for a proposal that would give an environmental carve-out to a Santa Monica developer who is a Newsom appointee to state commissions and longtime donor. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5gegs ✍️ Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters 📸 AaronP/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images
Santa Monica beach with pier and text about Newsom's environmental decision.
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