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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Morning Kitten “The perfect box does not exis—“

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Archeologists have rejected the evidence of a “unitary” Bill Kristol, as recent scholarship has determined this sobriquet to refer to two distinct individuals active at about the same time with diametrically opposed politics

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 02/12/2025

Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear. To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/11/2025

Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, you talk a good game about fighting back against MAGA, so why are you teaming up with MAGA folks to require intrusive, privacy destroying surveillance that can and will be abused by those you keep warning us about?

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Inside a Cello Charles Brooks Photography

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 26/10/2025

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

sad for New York to reject him when his catholic, and in some ways jewish, mother survived 9/11 then died of cancer soon after moving to the city in 2003, a tragedy he was forced to relive in 2016 when his mother died of cancer. his only crime? a few fake charities and also every other type of fraud

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Ian Peters @petersracing.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S.
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BA Hocker @bahocker.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

books-on-books.com/2025/08/05/b... Please check this out! I am thrilled to have work included in this collection! It's also really fun to browse thru the books. Thank you so much to Robert Bolick for collecting my 1st dragonscale book and for this lovely record of it!

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Books On Books – Barbara Hocker

Watercourse I (2022) Watercourse I (2022) Barbara Hocker Scroll in variant dragon scale binding. L152 cm (variable) x W12 cm. 64 panels. Unique. Acquired from the artist, 10 February 2024. Photos: …

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 11/07/2025

Society says, "It's OK to take your phone out and look at it while walking." But, does society know the consequences???

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Shut the Senate down now Shut it the fuck down No collaborating with fascists

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s the same with “I just think kids should be assessed before they transition.” *Every* compromise position in this ‘debate’ is already the reality. You cannot forge a middle ground between people who are responding to the world as it is and people who are constantly lying.

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Zaakir Tameez @ztameez.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m so excited to announce that my book was published today! The book retells the life of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator who co-framed the Reconstruction Amendments. I wrote this book with my blood, sweat & tears as a student at Yale Law School. (1/x)

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you are obsessed with putting some sort of religious rule in public school classrooms (an issue in Texas right now) why not the golden rule rather than the commandments, which are not even that useful?

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

really distills the whole government perfectly here www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

"“This was an administrative error,” James Percival, a D.H.S. official appointed by Mr. Trump, wrote to his colleagues on March 30. “(Not that we should say publicly.)”

Tricia McLaughlin, a D.H.S. spokeswoman, said in a statement that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s deportation was part of “a highly sensitive counterterrorism operation with national security implications.”"

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Jay Allison @jayall.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This past week, Atlantic Public Media here in Woods Hole received a letter that begins like this... transom.org/2025/art-as-...

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Art As Propaganda - Transom

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linda2.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A Heron Bird. Just look at the layers of feathers. And look at those feet! A Heron Bird. #UKWildlife #UKbirding #Ornithology #birdphotography #Heron

A heron is perched on the trunk of a fallen tree over a lake. Feathers slightly ruffled. This conveys the structure of the heron bird with each layer of feathers identifiable. The legs of the heron are yellow but through standing in water have blackened.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/04/2025

"Nearly all public discourse about women’s rights has now been funneled into that bathroom stall, where we must all loudly pretend that a sex-segregated changing room is what generations of feminists fought and died for, rather than a holdover of decidedly Victorian gender norms."

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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"

"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...

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San Diego Humane Society @sdhumane.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My cat walks down the steps in front of me like hes the beneficiary of my life insurance.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

SPREAD THE GOSPEL!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Elon’s goal is to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the same way that a massive asteroid’s goal is to remodel an apartment building

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/03/2025

“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:

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Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns

‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

cool as hell

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

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The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

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