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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 8h

If you've got Apple TV (and if not how are you watching Ted Lasso hmm?), my friends' superb doc "Holding Liat" just got there. It's unforgettable. It follows one of their relatives, who was taken hostage on Oct 7 from one of the kibbutzes in S. Israel. Such a thoughtful film, a conversation-opener.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I usually do a week on epistemology in my STS classes & DANG some of the stuff women students report hearing from men profs about their existence at a university is somehow still mind-boggling to me. almost like the "oppression" of anti discrimination isn't slowing these guys down AT ALL.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Picking apples is also cool, but apples will not warn you of carbon monoxide. Repeat - apples are not a substitute for working carbon monoxide alarms.

A carbon monoxide alarm growing on an apple tree. The text reads: Get a fresh one! Carbon monoxide alarms have expiration dates. Check the date on your carbon monoxide alarm.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Bananas will not warn you of carbon monoxide.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People say our best days are behind us, but I say America is at the beginning of a new golden age.

Liquid Death/Mr Beast peanut butter cup-flavored seltzer collab

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17/09/2026

listen, Americans you guys have a pretty neat country but every day you’re finding a new way to pour lighter fluid all over your pants

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve been a member of five labor unions in my life. I’ve seen firsthand what working people can accomplish when we stand together. The rights and protections workers have today weren’t handed to us. Generations of workers and organizers fought for them, stood their ground, & refused to back down.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Jane Addams: the first American woman awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize, 1931, her efforts to revive the ideal of peace & champion social justice globally. She co-founded @aclu.org, 1920, and is the "mother" of the #socialwork profession in the US. She was born #OTD in 1860. #CivilLiberties #HistSky

Black-and-white historical photograph of Jane Addams (1860–1935), the pioneering social worker, suffragist, and first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Addams is seated at a dark wooden desk, her body angled toward the viewer while her right hand holds a pen poised over a piece of correspondence. She is dressed in a formal, dark, three-quarter-sleeve jacket over a white, high-collared lace blouse. Her most striking accessory is a large, dark, wide-brimmed hat adorned with voluminous, light-colored feathers. A thin dark ribbon is tied closely around her neck, and a long, fine chain hangs over her chest. Her expression is composed and serious, characterized by heavy-lidded eyes and a direct gaze that conveys intellectual focus and resolve. To the viewer's left, a tall glass vase filled with light-colored roses sits on the desk, providing a soft contrast to the room's spare, interior background. The composition is a classic portrait that captures the dignity of a woman whose work at Hull House transformed American social reform. The mood is scholarly and dignified, highlighting her status as a leading public intellectual of the Progressive Era.

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Aunty Em 💅 @unhingedauntyem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Louder for the people in the back

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 07/09/2026

i present to you: today's new york times lead opinion piece. if this doesn't make you realize whose side the times is playing on, you're dense and i can't help you. they are doing free advertising for fascists. there are very few places we can turn to for propaganda-free news now

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OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
ERIKA KIRK: WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT GRIEF

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026

Perspective.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The declining labor share of income is the class war crystallized and everything progressives want is downstream of putting the power of capital on a leash. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...

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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow

Capitalism or humanity, but not both.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We're in the world, not against it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

= 1,000 words

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 02/09/2026

life is a series of forecasts. we live based on trends, preparing futures by available data and good judgement. and yet there’s a 100% chance that today will have some level of unpredictability for all of us. be safe. be kind. the person you meet may be weathering a storm.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sometimes I feel like half the things that are wrong with the NYT would disappear if they just wrote headlines that reflected the content of the article

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hello, if you want to do archival research and need to email archives staff a question about the collections, please DO NOT let AI write your query to the archives! This goes for historians, genealogists, media, social scientists, community activists, and the general public.

Man walking down stairs, wearing a sign that reads, "NOT WANTED."

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

A red, blue, yellow and white work of textile art by Faig Ahmed that appears to be a traditional Central Asian carpet but is woven to look as through it's melting onto the floor in a puddle. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That edited collection you're thinking about doing? Don't.

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Man Shaking Head Nope Reaction

ALT: Man Shaking Head Nope Reaction

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today, on everyone’s screen.

Movie poster a black figure holding a cell phone, a road at night below and the McConnells.
Text: I KNOW
THAT YOU DIED
THIS SUMMER

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One of the great People’s Scholars, and writer of the definitive book on the Young Lords. Her class on race and empire (offered for free with a radical bookstore) introduced me to thinkers who changed how I saw the world. What a devastating loss

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924

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Joe Okonkwo @joeokonkwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -- James Baldwin, born #OTD 1924

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Time to pre-order your copy of this must-read story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and what we never learned about how private charity became the nation’s answer to social welfare provision: geni.us/buyfireinthe...

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Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity

Buy from your preferred store:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2026

‘I Was Once A Normal Little Boy Like You,’ Disney World Donald Duck Warns Terrified Child theonion.com/i-was-once-a-normal-li…

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Is there an editor at the New York Times whose official job is to put lipstick on pigs?

NYT headline: Despite New Attacks, U.S. and Iran Signal Glimmers of Hope for Diplomacy

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/06/2026

Journalists who depend on confidential sources should be alarmed that journalist Catherine Herridge has been ordered to pay $800 a day for not burning her sources. Congress must pass a strong shield law like the PRESS Act to protect journalists. Our statement 👇🏽

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Court forces reporter to pay $800 a day for refusing to identify source

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:New York, June 24, 2026 — A D.C. appeals court declined yesterday to pause an $800-per-day fine against investigative reporter Catherine Herridge for refusing to identify her con...

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is really good. For a while I was worried that they’d missed the entrenched skewing of any benefits by legacy telecoms, but they nailed it. Now we have everything bad about the legacy telcos plus the Musk Starlink pseudo-alternative.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/06/2026

BEAD was intended to give underserved communities billions of dollars for high-quality, future-proof fiber networks. But under Trump and a group of tech moguls, Build Back Better has been transformed into “tear down quickly.” Read more from @karlbode.com and @seangon.bsky.social: buff.ly/NmgmAPS

Verge headline: Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
by Karl Bode and Sean Gonsalves

Photo illustration of Elon Musk's silhouette revealing a small town. An error pops up, "You are not connected to the internet"

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 24/06/2026

seemingly b/c they believe it will allow studios to better protect them. But why would studios do that? It seems like a risky bank shot to me, a kind of AI trickle-down economics where you give more power to the bosses and hope they drop some crumbs your way. What am I missing?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026

Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.

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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m in Minnesota, which has its own cultural weirdness, but when I coached 6YO’s soccer team this spring, I had to pull the team aside after the first game and literally tell them, “if the other team has the ball, it’s okay to go get it.”

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 20/06/2026

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/06/2026

What would the other U.S. presidents have thought about the White House’s fight night? @petridishes.bsky.social imagines the commentary:

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And Now a Few Words From Our Former Presidents on UFC 250

What would Thomas Jefferson say?

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oh honey no they are not not not. John is right

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11/06/2026

CONGRATS AGAIN to "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME REIMAGINED" by Talissa Mehringer, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A music-film remix celebrating 1930s choreography & style. Full film ⤵️ archive.org/details/drea... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This book is so good, demystifying and MUCH needed.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

How your email actually finds me.

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OliverRupert @olivierrupert.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We Can’t Confront #Fascism Without Addressing White Settler Colonialism Why Indigenous resistance is central to the fight against white supremacy. (2018) inthesetimes.com/article/fasc...

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We Can’t Confront Fascism Without Addressing White Settler Colonialism

Why Indigenous resistance is central to the fight against white supremacy.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/06/2026

This makes me wonder if Trump will get the truly earth-shattering level of boos that he deserves tonight at MSG. But I gotta have faith in my fellow New Yorkers. ❤️💪

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Actually, both the colonial and postcolonial co-exist- continue to exist within each other… a ‘time present of things past.‘ European linear time makes us think of progress as inevitable with its passage. In the words of Martin Luther King ‘Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.'"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/06/2026

What Are We Donating To Goodwill?

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