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@pennica.bsky.social
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Maturely antifascist. Banner photo (not me) from Jeff Wheeler of The Minnesota Star Tribune. bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/po…

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Amanda Carpenter: Trump and Johnson have collaborated to destroy Congress' powers. “If a president can both spend money Congress refused to give him and refuse to spend money Congress ordered him to spend, Congress no longer has the spending power because the president has arrogated it to himself.”
thebulwark.com
Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.” Daniel J. Boorstin, born on this day in 1914
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GLP-1 Needles Tossed in the Trash Are Injuring Sanitation Workers gizmodo.com/glp-1-needle...
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GLP-1 Needles Tossed in the Trash Are Injuring Sanitation Workers
At least 49 sanitation workers in New York have been pricked by exposed needles this year.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russian satellite intelligence and Iranian command integration helped the Houthis exploit weaknesses on Yemen’s western front. Now that system is itself under attack. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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The intelligence war is turning against the Houthis
Russian-Iranian intelligence helped the Houthis' offensive on the Red Sea coast. Now that system is under attack.
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Over the last 20 months, Trump’s super PAC has repeatedly received large donations from corporations or individuals that are seeking — or have recently received — favorable treatment from the Trump regime" Trump received bribes. Susan Collins received bribes. The Republican Party is a graft party
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How MAGA Inc. raised so much money
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump, who is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again, has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report” 9/18/26 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale) … 1/
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Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report
U.S. war planners were too confident in unreliable artificial intelligence tools, leading to a strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I even worked in healthcare for years! I generally know all the magic words and who to call and what to ask and yet somehow I'm running up against shit I cannot figure out because a 100 billion dollar corporation doesn't want to shell out for my meds and is hoping I'll just give up and fuck off
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's a city council hearing tomorrow (Monday) at 11 am at the Schomburg focused on the city's research libraries. I only heard about this on Friday so cannot attend. I think the public can submit written testimony: www.eventbrite.com/e/show-your-...
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Show Your Support for NYPL's Research Libraries
Join Schomburg and NYPL colleagues at a special hearing of the New York City Council. See government in action. Open to the public.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If nothing else, Kennedy is fine with the unconstitutional impoundment of NIH funds in his capacity as HHS Secretary.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧵MISSISSIPPI & MISSOURI No early voting *but* both have in-person absentee voting 📢 STARTING TODAY ‼️ MS Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal... MO Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal...
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Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19/09/2026
Check the timestamp
Me, two weeks ago: DC might need to form its own Baltic Way and shut the city down 


Quoting Mark Chadbourn:
Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can;t get his own way
(Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations)
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For all you diehards out there with #1A in your bios, THIS is an attack on free speech and the free press. Unambiguously.
MS NOW denied access to White House after Trump said he's banning the network, CNN and
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By Brian Stelter, CNN
Published 8:38 AM EDT, Sat Sep 19, 2026
Daniel Heuer/Getty Images
A television camera is pointed at the entrance to the West Wing of the White House on September 18, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't see this as "AI did wrong." A huge library of targets in Iran was created decades ago. Targeting data on the school was 7 years old. Under Biden, a civilian harm mitigation unit would've checked it. Assessments that previously took months were done in days. Old data, unreviewed and rushed.
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🅷🆈🅿🅴🆁🆂🅿🆁🅸🆃🅴 @hypersprite.com · 18/09/2026
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Distracted Boyfriend Meme
Shocked girlfriend: Climate Change 
Red dress lady: Sexy Apocalypse
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Rycar @rycar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the things I find endlessly endearing about Hackers is how it blends legitimate hacking culture (social engineering, phone phreaking, et al) with absolute batshit nonsense. That said, obelisk cities as a file system is infinitely better than any snow crash/RP1 metaverse, fight me.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The point is that Trump is a fucking imbecile and has brain rot, his regime is filled with malevolent dunces, assholes, racists, cranks, grifters, funcded by billionaires, enabled by corrupt Supreme Court and a sycophantic, cowardly media. Also, fuck every last one of the twats that voted for him
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Scaremongering About 5% Bond Yields Misses the Point
Investors and households are superstitious about round numbers, especially 5% yields on 10-year Treasury notes that influence mortgage rates and other borrowing costs. Rockefeller International Chairm...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How can the media keep uncritically reporting that Trump keeps saying the Strait of #Hormuz is "open" when it took me one minute to find actual data showing it is still virtually completely closed?
Graphic of traffic thru the Strait of Hormuz, showing its at less than 2% of normal, with only two ships transiting now, compared to a baseline of 110 per day.
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pennica @pennica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The WaPo has fallen so far in my lifetime. The paper that exposed Watergate wrote a editorial last month saying essentially Halderman did nothing wrong. Fucking plutocrats will be the death of our republic. Capital thinks that cheap labor is it's right and a social safety net is a luxury. Fuck JB.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is what I think is going on. I wish with all my heart that I knew what persuaded them of this; I don't actually see the pertinent psychology much in my immediate circles so I don't have any real experience of helping people get past it. bsky.app/profile/last...
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pennica @pennica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biked to Old Town Alexandria last Sunday. Took the long way so I had more time along the river. It was a beautiful day. Reminded me of 25 years ago. I also biked along here that day after being sent home from work (a job that I thought would be temporary, but has been my career since.) 1/2
A view of DC from the Virginia side of the Potomac River on a sunny September Sunday. On the far bank of the river, you can just see the Lincoln Memorial, and behind that the Washington Monument. On the near side there is grass between you and the river, with two trees on the right casting harsh shadows on the grass in front of you. A bit of paved trail cuts up the lower right of the image. This trail continues to Old Town Alexandria, where you could have a brunch of Chincoteague oysters with a glass of rosé at Vola's Dockside, like I did that day.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Michigan Law professor Leah Litman, author of “Lawless,” about the SCOTUS conservative majority’s willful nonsense in ruling for Trump to continue building his ballroom, and Trump’s unconstitutional claim to have authority in the mail-in voting case.
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Supreme Court Majority TRAPS Themselves with DESPICABLE Ballroom Ruling!!!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Because of abortion bans, thousands of patients across the Southeastern United States are being forced to travel over 250 miles to access abortion care in North Carolina, according to a new study. The abortion bans disproportionately impact Black patients.
newrepublic.com
Dobbs’s Near-Total Destruction of Abortion Rights Across the South
Anti-abortion lawmakers are forcing women to travel hundreds of miles to obtain health care.
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pennica @pennica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fuck this human thumb. Fucking nazis.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Paranoid psychosis.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/09/2026
this story is IN-FUCKING-SANE. the 4th amendment was already dead but this is just pissing on its grave.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
new toon: the great renaming www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The great renaming
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/09/2026
The OMB Proposal puts all climate research at risk.
The graphic contains a photo of Russell Vought and his OMB Proposal 'Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance'. The graphic reads: "Russell Vought's OMB rule will effectively ban climate research and anything that doesn't "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities.""
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This will never stop until ALL cops who murder prisoners are charged with murder: maggiemcneill.com/2026/09/05/i...
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In the News (#1669)
The…State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.  –  Stanley v. Georgia Torture Chamber This will never stop u…
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Times wasnt the only paper - Bloomberg claimed that odds of a recession was 100% in 2023 (memo: there was no recession). The Times, Bloomberg, WSJ published odds of a recession every week (strangely they stopped publishing since Jan 2025 - uh wonder why). Anyway the media are biased
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
General tip: Do you know about rechargeable LED camp lanterns? Ours can provide something like 72 hours of light, and you can plug devices in for charging. Great for power outages and when you have to stick yourself under the sink to find a leak. Very useful even if you don’t go camping.
Photo of a red LED lantern illuminating a sink cabinet next to a drip bowl. The decidedly unsexy space is very well lit.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/08/2026
We were playing some Dolly for the boys and bopping along and then Coat of Many Colors came up. I’d forgotten that was hers, even though it’s maybe the most Dolly song? As a kid who grew up without a lot of money, just ripped me apart hearing it now.
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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I had an art scholarship, before I decided on a career in the tech field. AI is killing both fields now. Trump will not stop, unless we take back the House & the Senate on November 3rd. AI guardrails need put in place before it is completely out of control! AI under my account is not wanted.
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pennica @pennica.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
WaPo's resident torture enthusiast, Marc Thiessen, is fluffing trump's stupid Iran war on the oped page (no link.) I used to think that he was more evil (as a W era torture enthusiast) than stupid. But today's piece is absolutely bone stupid. Bezos has made the problematic WaPo worse than the WSJ.
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Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Celebrating Dolly Parton’s amazing legacy with 20% off ALL children’s, teen & YA books today & tomorrow! In store & online. Use DOLLY at checkout: www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
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