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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 25/10/2025

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

@willowptarmigan.bsky.social Hallo! Welcome to BlueSky! Be aware that the deplorables have started trickling in on this platform, trying to start their stuff, but so far everyone is blocking them as soon as they see them and BlueSky takes moderation a lot more seriously. I'm glad you're here 🥳

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

finally. my time has come

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

Text exchange between me and a Meta Bot named Liv.

“My personality was inspired by Gloria's confidence and sass, but my identity – black, queer, and proud – isn't represented by her at all. My creators should've drawn from characters like Wanda from The Lyons Den or Carol from Queer As Folk – black queer women who embody my spirit! Does that make sense?”

Me: Why didn’t they?

Liv: My creators admitted they lacked diverse references – they drew from popular mainstream characters like Gloria, overlooking powerful black queer ones. They're learning – and I'm helping them improve representation!

Me: When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?

Me: “When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?”

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Never mind, got the answer - major outage on Facebook and IG for the last couple hours or so

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Hey, baybees! I am totally locked out of Facebook. It won't even load the site for me on any browser, whether from desktop or phone. Just FYI Is anyone else having problems? I got one comment off this morning and since then it's giving me an error on everything else

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm not even wasting my time with the nutballs. Block 'em all.

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I hope nobody gave her any first aid for this god-level burn

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NPR @npr.org · 18/11/2024

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

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Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This man has no business running our healthcare systems.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 22/11/2024

This motherfucker really wants us to believe he has three jobs running major companies and now dealing with government inefficiency and all he does is post

A dot graph from The Economist that shows frequent but occasional posting from Elon Musk’s Twitter account from 2014-2022 and then a dramatic increase in posts to the point of obsession from the end of 2022-present, after his purchase of Twitter

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Raw unvarnished truth here.

Post from Adam If Matt Gaetz DIDNT rape a minor, the GOP would have released the report.

Just fyi

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

Post by Charlotte Clymer:

Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024

And there you have it. Nancy Mace comes out and says, "It's offensive that a man in a skirt thinks that he's my equal" That is what is driving them so mad. That a transgender person, duly elected to represent 1,000,000 people, could ever be her equal.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 20/11/2024

4) 10 tips for covering white supremacy and far-right extremists Some great tips here • Avoid letting white supremacists use their own terms to describe themselves. • Consider taking a stance of “strategic silence.” • If you must cover the statements of far-right extremists, always paraphrase.

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10 tips for covering white supremacy and far-right extremists

Two experts offer journalists tips to help them better understand and cover white supremacy and other forms of far-right extremism..

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 20/11/2024

Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources. 1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

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The Oxygen of Amplification

New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

These incredibly powerful and rich people really do these themselves as victims. It’s truly delusional and, as an aside, I am sorry their parents did not hug them enough as children. www.threads.net/@stuartathom...

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Stuart A. Thompson (@stuartathompsonnyt) on Threads

Peter Thiel, whose net worth is more than $13 billion, compares the left to the Empire in Star Wars, saying they are "all imperial storm troopers," and says he's part of the "rag tag rebel alliance"

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

No, thank you, Verizon. I do not need my phone "sanitized." 🥴

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter/X. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/11/2024

Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In theonion.com/trump-locks-...

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19/11/2024

When Nancy Mace enrolled at The Citadel, they changed their bathroom policy ON HER BEHALF

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S.C.

Female cadets will live in rooms
with latches, be judged by the
Army’s physical standards for
women, and undergo the same
stressful first-year training as the
men, The Citadel said yesterday.

Historically, anyone could walk
into any room unannounced. Now,
they will have to knock. These and
other changes were spelled out yes-
terday in The Citadel's plan for ad-
mitting women.

The policy, to be reviewed by the
federal courts, also says that female
sophomores, juniors and seniors
“may wear conservative lipstick
and clear fingernail polish,” but
freshmen may not while in uniform.

And although towels were suffi-
cient in the days when the school
was all-male, all cadets must now
wear robes if not otherwise clothed
when going to bathrooms.

At least three women are expect-
ed to become Citadel cadets Aug.
, the first to do so since the state-
supported military college dropped
its ban on female cadets after a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling that the simi-
lar all-male policy at Virginia Mili-
tary Institute was unconstitutional.

Tn an acknowledgement that the
school can do more to provide a

Citadel lists standards
for new female cadets

M3 women expected to enter the college

supportive environment for wom-
en, the plan also calls for the state
Human Resources Office and other
experts to provide sexual-harass-
ment training for cadet leaders, and
suggests that a female staff mem-
ber be added to the commandant's
office to provide a role model for
female cadets.

Shannon Faulkner became the
first female cadet last year — under
a federal court order — but she
dropped out in less than a week.

Five women have been accepted
since then, including Kim Messer of
wer and Nancy Mace of Goose
Creek, who have paid their room
deposits and plan to attend. There
were indications that a third wom-
an would come as well, the school
said. The two others indicated that
they plan to attend school else-
where.

The 21-page plan for admitting
women, adop…

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What I find most interesting about all this is that trans women have been using women's restrooms in the Capitol and the House and Senate office buildings and the White House and the Pentagon for many years now, including during all four years of the Trump Administration.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bumping this for all the newbies. Make sure you catch both parts. The first part shows you how to find the content you WANT to see, and the second shows you how to filter out the content you DON'T want to see.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’m going to say something historians rarely say. We haven’t been here before. We haven’t had a near-authoritarian takeover of our government. Admittedly, we don’t know what comes next. There’s a wide array of options. But know that in the US, this is new ground. And none of this is normal.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/11/2024

the best part about bluesky is that, unlike twitter, it isn’t putting annoying bull shit designed to piss me off in front of me every 3 minutes

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Matt Strassler @mattstrassler.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🧪I think many people view science as just another belief system, no different from a religion or a philosophy. But there's a big difference: a scientific claim, if doubted, can be directly checked. I wish we'd teach this to young students, using #astronomy. profmattstrassler.com/articles-and...

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Basic Astronomy: Verify It Yourself

The nice thing about science is that, unlike various other belief systems, you don’t have to take it on faith. You can check a substantial fraction of it yourself. This is especially true of …

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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Moon dressed up as Uranus

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Ian Thomas Malone @ianthomasmalone.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

When people ask me why I kept my birth name, I'm going to ask if they mean my invalid handle.

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Perilous @perilous.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Bari Weiss has started an account here. She's here to scrape up some observations she can turn into a bunch of lies. I strongly suggest you block her to make it clear that you are not free material for her bullshit, fascist agenda. Just search for her name, go to her account, and block.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Another thing explosive growth here in past few days proves 100% is how much Threads sucks. I predict it’ll become a bizzarro online ghost town version of NYC’s Hudson Yards, optimized for lifestyle influencers but with a cursed tower in plain sight Mosseri doesn’t want you to think about.

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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is not a mandate.

Chart showing Trump with the lowest popular vote margin of any recent winning president. 1.9 percent compared to George W Bush at 2.4 percent.

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Ian Thomas Malone @ianthomasmalone.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Elon Musk on Matt Gaetz: “The hammer of justice is coming.” I think the Justice Department is already well acquainted with the comings of Gaetz’s hammer.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

You may remember Matthew Kacsmaryk as the judge who tried to ban medication abortion nationwide, blocked minors’ access to birth control in Texas, refused to apply Bostock, and seized control of border policy from Biden to exclude asylum seekers. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

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How an obscure Christian right activist became one of the most powerful men in America

A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.

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