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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron

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John Skonieczny @johnnyskins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thank you President Trump for visiting the great state of Minnesota on primary night!!!

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Someone in front of Union Station, DC: „In England they are building a complete mini-model of the USA. It is NOT TO SCALE.”

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am interested in what they think the mechanism is to get ~0% of 80,000 global oncologists to talk about a cancer breakthrough.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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Frizident Evil @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/07/2026

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Surely the New England prep school-to-mercenary pipeline has a few other Men of the People they can conjure up. It’s not like they have to work.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Breaking Bilbo Better Call Smaug David Simon presents "The Shire" Valar & Mordor: Special Hobbits Unit "Say my name." "M-M-Mithrandir. Lathspell, I name you." "You're goddamn right."

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Their new girlfriend is women

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

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Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I guess it doesn’t bother that guy that his whole vast public shtick could be reduced to a three-step algorithm you could fit on an index card with room left over

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026

This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country.   Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. 3/4

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/05/2026

Weirdly fitting to start the day thinking of one extremely long-lived sax master on Marshall Allen's 102nd birthday, and end it thinking of another on hearing of the sad loss of Sonny Rollins.

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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

A Great Day in Harlem, 1958 photograph by Art Kane

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2026

www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order

While 127 Democrats cosponsored an earlier version of the bill, most of them bailed after Republicans altered it ahead of the floor vote.

New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States” and prohibited the institution from seeking to “identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”

Other new provisions called for “an equal representation of the diversity of the political viewpoints and authentic experiences held by women in the United States” and gave President Donald Trump the unilateral power to relocate the museum from sites already identified on the National Mall.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus announced earlier this week it would oppose the altered bill after working on it with Republicans for years.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

every warning light on his dashboard is blazing

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Look, Trump can’t be expected to fuck pasty, washed-out kids.

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

So gas is more expensive but it’s easier than ever for me to mine coal in a public park

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026

Timeline cleanse alert!! Watch to the end; pro tip: don’t have anything in your mouth..

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So these people have just decided that “ballroom” and “bunker“ are equivalent terms, although the White House has had underground ballroom-free facilities since FDR … and maybe advertising that the PEOC is no longer operational every single day on the news is stupid?

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There's now a statue of a naked Terry Jones overlooking Colwyn Bay beach, and it's really rather lovely. If you're there, make sure you rub his arse for luck. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Monty Python's Terry Jones nude statue unveiled in Colwyn Bay

Sir Michael Palin says his fellow Python star Jones would have found the statue

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 11/04/2026

Of course literally the day after that, in a world-class attempt at boredom-prevention, "Rock Around the Clock" was recorded.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

to all who celebrate...

description from Huntington library:

"A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave."

https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Some people would temper their rhetoric after inspiring one weird-ass death cult, not this guy

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

You know who else was a shopkeeper?

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, photographed in 1864

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So we need Trump to declare himself de facto ruler of Venezuela and then a US court can hold him accountable for his crimes, do I have this right

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

And a happy birthday to Shane MacGowan

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Don’t use your time machine to kill Hitler, use your time machine to grab every book a US political journalist publishes in 2029 and 2030 and bring them back here

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

And elevating other bog-standard drugs (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine) to doing things that they do not and cannot do… hmmm

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2025

Gimenez: "I haven't heard from my constituents. Americans are over the Epstein case. They have been over it for a long time ... we need to move on."

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We’re 6 months away from Trump demanding we make steel in our backyards

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

She’ll win the primary, at least, because the other candidates will be Carl Palladino, two car dealership owners dumber than Carl Palladino, and a convicted J6 rioter

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Cory Massimino @corymassimino.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.

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PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

And “I instinctively trust my fellow prep-school rich kids to keep cosplaying the right way” ain’t it

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Trump administration, in one image.

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