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Reference Librarian, Blogger, Short Story Writer. CoH Homecoming MMO. Owned by a Krazy Kat. Long-time Floridian, so YES I am crazy as well. Buy my books! t.co/Qndd0QIucD

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Trump could nominate the worst person with a law degree in America and this Republican senate will confirm that person. That includes Susan Collins, who always confirms Trump’s justices. The only chance you have to keep that person off the court is to elect Democratic senators.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h
This ghoul administration is responsible for deaths in more places than anyone can keep track of.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ukraine announced the first use of their domestically produced Fire Point 7 ballistic missile against the Russians! This is HUGE!
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9h
you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h
And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.
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Neil Degrassi Highson @funkpower.bsky.social · 9h
No one would have a problem with AI if it was actually being used for what it's good for: very niche scientific applications that 99% of humanity will never hear about. Instead we're being bombarded with useless AI garbage 24/7.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h
"All their accounts differed, frequently contradicted each other and generally ran counter to the statements given by the woman to the Cornell police in 2024." What happens when they are lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Chi Phi Members Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Lawsuit Give Varying Accounts of Night
Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed and sometimes contradictory. All the men denied any wrongdoing.
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Witty Librarian of City Of Heroes @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 9h
This. While the blue collar jobs are vital, they're still just one option: college education offers more possibilities than the opinion writers care to know.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 17h
Now this,, is major news. A for sure sign something is going on in the Republican Party and not just in Kansas.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
It was an honor to attend Friday prayers at Beit El Maqdis Islamic Center with Palestinian New Yorkers today. Like an olive tree, their roots run deep in our city, stretching back more than a century and growing through every generation that has made Bay Ridge home.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 9h
🔴 Over the past month, Russia has launched a wave of sabotage operations across Europe and near its borders. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10h
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
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Debra Johnson @debj11.bsky.social · 13h
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Grandmother babysits neighbor’s four young children. Then she finds herself arrested at gunpoint and extradited because of AI
A grandmother in Tennessee expected it to be just another ordinary day babysitting her neighbor’s young children, but she found herself facing a months-long stint in jail after being arrested at gunpo...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 13h
talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.
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Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 10h
On the trades convo, I will just note that there are good reasons the UAW went for 30 and out. After 30 years, your body is a wreck.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 15h
When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 20h
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
BRUTAL! Watch this video until the end and tell me Alaska can’t flip blue. Broken promises and $9 gas. 3X Trump voters: “He’s just lying.” #LetsGetVoteReady
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 16h
NEW AD: Byron Donalds is a liar. Never trust a liar.
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 12h
He probably likes officers who weren’t slain. 🙄 But seriously, what a disgusting psycho.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Incident
Rep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12h
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 13h
They also stalked us, posted up at our places of work, our family's houses, tried to run us off the road, and harass us with phone calls to us and our family members. *No* person or agency can be trusted with the amount of data being collected and analyzed.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 20h
AGAIN, we told the Nikki Haleys, Vivek Ramaswamys, Harmeet Dillons, Usha Vances, et. al where their white adjacency games would lead to. The majority of Desi Americans understand the reality. They understand Wilkerson's "Caste" and how a familiar system works here. These outliers?
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Indiana Jones: You Have Chosen Poorly
ALT: Indiana Jones: You Have Chosen Poorly
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 15h
As a reminder, Joe Biden was the jobs president. But oh well, some of you decided he wasn’t good enough, and here we are.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16h
UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...
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🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!
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Trish @mstrish.bsky.social · 21h
Fatties, beardos, and weirdos.
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Witty Librarian of City Of Heroes @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 16h
I wanna move to NYC now.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h
I can't shake the feeling that Elon Musk returning to government service will be as catastrophic as Donald Trump returning. Democrats and the media not spotlighting his ongoing public racism and watching him to just Irish goodbye from all the damage of DOGE is going to haunt this country.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18h
[Deep breath} When you predict Oscar nominations for a movie based on pedigree without seeing it, you are volunteering to aid in a publicity system that favors movies the campaigns for which are already well funded, and by doing so further disadvantaging films whose primary merit is their quality.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18h
Got to have a fun discussion on stage with Jimmy Wales this morning about Wikipedia and free speech.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h
I mean, it's not like defeating the Nazis is considered a big one for the WAR DEPARTMENT or anything, understandable he'd skip over that.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18h
Kids & Air Pollution: A Hidden Danger Air pollution poses a hidden danger to kids, especially Black children facing higher asthma rates. Almeta Cooper reveals the critical link between air quality and child health. blackpressusa.com/kids-air-pol...
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Kids & Air Pollution: A Hidden Danger
Air pollution poses a hidden danger to kids, especially Black children facing higher asthma rates. Almeta Cooper reveals the critical link between air quality and child health.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 28/09/2026
I want new investment and good-paying jobs right here in South Carolina — but not at your expense. Darline Graham says data centers are a must. I say South Carolinians should come first. That’s why I launched DataCenterDarline.com today. See for yourself and follow the money.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 18h
More ping-ponging of reproductive choice. Why SCOTUS mattered in 2016. Why ensuring that this is protected nationally vs. state by state matters. "A proposal known as Amendment 3 would reverse that vote and ban abortion in the state constitution..." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-state...
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A State That Enshrined Abortion Into Its Constitution Is Now at Risk of Losing It
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet...
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 20h
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Penelope, High Priestess of Blocking DSA @bollymama.bsky.social · 19h
I just filled out my ballot for Illinois/Chicago elections. They are LONG (mine was 2 pages) and take time. Rep Crockett is aware people have the attention spans of a gnat, so she is shining a light on down-ballot races that don’t get attention. That is effective, proactive GOTV. #JasmineCrockett
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/09/2026
The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey shows that Americans today feel worse about the economy than they did during either the Covid-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19h
For my Friday Sick Burns paid newsletter post, I wrote about the Democratic party consultant problem and how it's killing a key Senate race. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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Fire the Consultants
The Democratic Party will win this fall in spite of the consultants, not because of them
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 19h
Trump can’t put his name on it, so he’s plundering what he can before bringing in the bulldozers.
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Jason Voorhees Darr @jasondtx.bsky.social · 19h
One of Rufo's first actions when he took over New College was to throw their entire gender studies library into a dumpster. I don't think he's too keen on books.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Witty Librarian of City Of Heroes @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 19h
port-a-potties at festivals are unisex stalls. we can do this, America!
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