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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Irk Irwell @irk-irwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#poem #writingcommunity #smallpoemsunday #poetry
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've grown quite impatient with the utter refusal of some reporters to speak directly and the overreliance on weak, nondescript words like "odd" and "interesting"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
thelettersfromleo.com
On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty wild that the Texas Cattle Ranchers association is saying that deportations are affecting beef prices in the US because of labor shortages but Republican politicians and candidates never seem to get asked about that.
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plainsman.bsky.social @plainsman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've only watched 11 of these shows, and I feel fine.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Diesel is at nine thousand dollars per droplet but that’s a small price to pay to actually get someone in the Oval who is UNAFRAID to call out cashiers at Target for giving religion-neutral greetings during the holidays. Based and worth it!
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At Stephen Miller’s direction, the U.S. “is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their countries of origin. It’s really sleazy, ghoulish stuff.”
theunpopulist.net
Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If Iran agreed to call it the Strait of Trump he would agree to absolutely every other demand they made.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sickening.
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know the whole cuckold meme is really overdone, but there is absolutely an element of almost sexual humiliation to the way these guys behave. There are so many ways you could have answered that question without essentially thanking him for humiliating you. 
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is so funny
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My favorite bit from the historical marker for Ansley, Neb., population 450, is about the merchant in 1916 who came up with the town’s motto: “Push, that’s Ansley.” They still use it. I try to figure out what it means. But a voice keeps telling me, “Forget it, Bob, it’s Chinatown.” My brain hurts.
Historical marker in Ansley, Nebraska. It reads:

Ansley 
1886-1986

In 1886, Ansley was platted in southeastern Custer County by the Lincoln Land Company, headed by R. O. Phillips. Ansley was named for Eliza J. Ansley, who invested in real estate there. The site was purchased from ranchman Anthony Walkinson. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (later the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy) reached the new settlement soon after it was founded. In 1986 approximately thirty-five Burlington Northern trains per day passed through Ansley.

Ansley was the first Nebraska town west of Grand Island to own a power plant and water system. The Ansley Electric Light and Power Company, built by C. J. Stevens, was incorporated September 20, 1892. Destroyed by fire in 1904, it was replaced by another power plant, which burned in 1910. The Municipal Light and Power System was completed in 1911. Ansley’s waterworks company was organized and its facilities completed in 1893.
Ansley reached its peak population of 817 in 1930. In its centennial year of 1986 the town’s more than 600 inhabitants continued to use the slogan applied to Ansley in 1916 by merchant William S. Mattley–“Push, that’s Ansley.”

Ansley Centennial Committee
Nebraska State Historical Society
City Park, Ansley
Custer County
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autumn Cornfield (1950) by Andrew Wyeth
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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“And how they pawed the prairie sod.” A poem by Carl Sandburg.
Buffalo Dusk

BY CARL SANDBURG

The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how  they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The solace of open spaces www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/09/t...
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The Solace of Open Spaces
“There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration… Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not just an arch, it’s a murder arch.
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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let's just go all the way and make the arch a Transformer
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Darrow @debtandtaxes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Hilary’s emails in the private server
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The White House Correspondents Association is about to send Trump a strongly worded dinner menu
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the man with the nuclear codes
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If the White House Correspondents’ Association stood for more than partying with fascists, it would: A) Boycott White House news conferences to protest the banning of CNN, MSNOW and Politico. or B) Show up and make every question about Trump’s assault on the 1st Amendment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The most incompetent administration in history by far, populated by idiots from top to bottom putting all of our lives in danger.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This is why we have sex with animals instead.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We got Hegseth wanting to inject testosterone into service members and Kash wanting to let people in the FBI who engaged in bestiality. That’s just this week.
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Hoo boy if a Democrat ever even thought this, some Republican with telepathy would've sniffed it out and the automotive industry would've gotten a PR campaign going about how Americans Are Born To Drive But instead, a Republican said it and I find out about this the day after
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean he's not wrong that demand destruction is going to have to happen but also I think many American voters would recite the shahada and accept Ali ibn Abi as the rightful successor of Muhammad before giving up their F450
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FDR would be apoplectic
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-says-recession-u…
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do you think by now most Trump supporters know he’s a fucking idiot but they’re committed to the bit, or is it that they still haven’t figured it out yet?
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump has made 28,700 stock/securities trades since returning to office - more than all of congress combined. Note that he is pushing for a stock-trading ban for lawmakers that wouod exclude him www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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