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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.

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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says

Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 1h

Why do you suppose he put the word "checks" in quotation marks? And "nearly $100"? Like $99.99? Sounds like an infomercial that ... sells you things you probably shouldn't be buying.

Trump: "I am pleased to announce that my Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts. This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs. We are finally using this Fund, along with my Most Favored Nations Deals, to substantially LOWER costs for our Seniors. I pledged to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, which were on the verge of RUIN by Joe Biden, who foolishly and maliciously let tens of millions of Illegal Aliens into our Country, and we are doing just that for America’s Seniors. This is separate from the equally substantial Refund 'Checks' we are sending to One Million Americans who were overcharged for their Unaffordable Care Act plans by Joe Biden.

Because I delivered on this very important issue for the American People, they can also rest assured the highly popular $5,000 Trump Dividend will be distributed to every U.S. Citizen if, and when, the Republicans win the Midterm Elections! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

3. Members of Bryan’s band also wore shirts supporting the Palestinian cause, including his drummer, who wore a jersey honoring the memory of Hind Rajab. Zach Bryan has a second show at Gillette Stadium tomorrow, Saturday night.

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 1h

You gotta love seeing a hefty "fuck you" to a billionaire first thing in the morning. ☕

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Mike Peterson @csotd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Series of Unfortunate Events, as seen through the pens of Clay Bennett, David Rowe, Deflocked, Jeff Stahler, Mike Luckovich, Nick Anderson, Schott & Sharon Murdoch www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

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CSotD: Come to the Talent Roundup

Sometimes there a story so ridiculous that people say “The jokes write themselves.” But Eric Schmitt (R-Mo)’s questioning of Jack Smith was so breath-takingly asinine that he left very little for the ...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the original video via YT. I think the human reaction to observing this jellyfish during a very expensive, very technically demanding ROV mission should be entered as testimony of the human ability to appreciate the beauty of nature. A delightful thing beneath the seas. 😀🪼🎆

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A Burst of Deep Sea Fireworks: Halitrephes Jelly | Nautilus Live

YouTube video by EVNautilus

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can tell gop polling is dog shit because they’re suddenly performatively caring about racist slurs

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of like how the military recruits. Especially now under Hegseth. The exceptions were in leadership, graduates of the military academies, which is why Hegseth is now culling that pool. Again. ICE is another example of this type of recruiting.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today was a big Monarch butterfly release. Bunch of pupae emerged and fluttered off into the garden.

Three orange, black and white Monarch butterflies exercising their wings after emerging from their pupae. They are resting on the walls/floor of a clear plastic box sitting on green grass.

Three Monarch butterflies resting on a paper towel in a clear plastic box before taking off into the garden.

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Buttercup Q. Skullpants @zoombox350.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Membership in a fraternity signals to prospective employers that a job applicant is willing to conform to corporate culture (no matter how depraved) and cover up criminal wrongdoing.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You don't get to claim to be the superior gender if you're proudly calling yourself a fucking animal.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the baseline argument is young men are just unevolved gorillas, which is what the defense of those men boils down to, why aren't more men offended at being likened to animals. You're cool with that? You're SELF LABELING with that? Okay. Why are unevolved gorillas in charge and not in zoos.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People who a decade ago tore themselves open to retraumatize themselves, can look at *literally fucking anywhere* and see exactly how much that accomplished. They now have fewer rights than they did then.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The context of *this* wave of visceral rage at rapists is that in the past decade we've seen them take complete control of the government, turn the entire economy into their ponzi scheme, gain trillions of dollars of exploited wealth. We've seen an opposition party abjectly fail at stopping them

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This thread is very good. It certainly describes what we have been seeing up close and personal specifically from the Trump administration, from Republicans overtly for decades in particular and even from Democratic responses to those actions generally over the same decades.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026

There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very happy to announce that my article with Benton Wishart “Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era” has been published in the latest issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 01/10/2026

I think it tends to look something like this Goat Tree, but these goats are obviously not ripe yet...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Early autumn yielded a particularly good windfall at the Sheep Tree this year.

Dozens of sheep gather at the foot of a wise old tree in Herefordshire, waiting for it to tell them stories.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

But of course, not remembering this stuff is vital to denying the fact that the same people have been in charge of the party for decades so they can pitch triangulation as the brave new strategy that’s never been tried every two years.

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only reason to take away women's phone is to reduce their chances of escaping and/or getting help. They do it to make their potential victims more helpless, to increase their chances of being able to do whatever they want to them.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Democratic politicians have fumbled the bag so hard that we have not one, but TWO Supreme Court justices who have been credibly accused of sexual assault. Joe Biden never apologized to Anita Hill for how she got treated and got handsy with women all the time. YOU, A MAN, ARE NOT UPSET ENOUGH!

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Louis CK sexually assaulted a woman and after less than a decade he's getting Netflix specials while Dave Chappelle talks about how the woman who was assaulted has a "weak spirit". You, a man, are not upset enough about rape culture.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Chris Brown got accused of raping someone on a yacht own by adjudicated sex criminal Diddy and four years later he has a country wide tour and is getting Congressional medals from a Congresswoman. You are not upset enough about rape culture.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

men are not upset enough about rape culture. we do not care. no one is gonna repost this shit because MEN DO NOT CARE ABOUT RAPE, and women know it.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

the world's richest man has credible sexual assault allegations and suffered ZERO consequences from men. the president is a legally adjudicated rapist but you will never see a male elected official or pundit call him a rapist, and men did not find that disqualifying.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

a key reason why rape culture persists is because men do not fear reprisals from *other men*. they do not expect other men to care if they raped someone. they do not expect other men to treat them poorly. they believe that most men will doubt a victim's story and demand evidence.

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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Finally, some news that feels good to share.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone needs to work on their stone, cold, we-gotcha-by-the-short-hairs face. It's hard to believe that these folks don't have smart enough aides working for them to check their fantasies to see if there's even an inkling of truth in them before sending Foghorn Leghorn out to strut and honk.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Pedinska @pedinska.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't think I've ever seen a US Senator self-destruct quite this thoroughly ever before. These folks drool over imagined/manufactured gotcha moments the way their leader drools over underage tiddies.

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