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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did she end 8 wars and save the world from nuclear annihilation like Trump? RIGGED AND STOLEN!!!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ISIS also engages in public executions.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a select club Hegseth has us joining.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tavern Brawl, after Gillis Van Tilborgh, 17th c, 📸 by @HagyPhoto

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“She won the Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1975 and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. But none of this says what she meant to us. She was visionary, prophet, and mystic, and there are no national prizes in those arenas.” – Amy Frykholm

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Annie Dillard’s unrestrained hallelujah

The visionary writer showed us that paying attention could make us certain that the world is...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI data centers are sucking up water and power. Industry PACs are spending millions to buy our elections. And AI is already being used to facilitate online scams, deny insurance claims, and price-gouge consumers. Sam Altman's response? We should "accept some bad things happening." Hello?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With 3 Catholic SCOTUS Justices seated in front row who all voted to execute Christa Pike, in Sunday’s Red Mass homily, Archbishop Broglio preaches: “Caritas certainly has a place in the law school just as it has a place in every angle of society.” www.cathstan.org/local/at-ann...

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At annual Red Mass, Archbishop Broglio urges lawmakers to ‘direct our thoughts in the ways of peace’ - Catholic Standard

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump is in Nebraska right now and just started looking around the crowd for the Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate. And before anyone says it's an easy mistake, he's not in Omaha. He's in Grand Island, nowhere near Iowa. He's losing it, guys.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Covfefe is a real word, I win every golf tournament, tariffs are paid by exporting countries, stealth planes are invisible, windmills cause whale cancer, the Continental Army took over the airports, nobody but me ever knew that the word “dumb” ended in a “b,” and my uncle was smart, so I am, too.

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The boy could do this forever.” A poem by Ellen Bryant Voigt.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY

In the front yard, my father and his son
are playing ball, the round egg arcs
toward a lap of brown leather, the sound
of an axe on green wood, a bass
hitting the water. The boy
could do this forever—only one glove
between them and he has it—the fireflies
already discernible on the hillside,
the grass wet, he doesn't falter
as he skirts the waist-high crabapple
or backs across the gravelled drive.
What am I after? Not shagging flies
on the lawn with my father, and not
drying the last dish with a fresh towel.
My father is a stationary target
through increasing dark, and out from my brother's
cocked proficient arm, the ball leaps,
of its own volition, into his hand.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But not a basket of them. That would be beyond the pale.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"creative" is an interesting choice of words here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

The extraordinary move — holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.F.’s primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the National Institutes of Health.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 02/10/2026

Bessent, soon: "I think it's great that data centers can and do harvest your family's spines"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jan Crawford, the CBS reporter who interviewed Alito, attended Paramount CEO David Ellison's dinner in April honoring Donald Trump. A reporter who valued a reputation for nonpartisanship would have steered clear.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump era, in a perfect nutshell.👇

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Darrow @debtandtaxes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump telling the monthly parable of the hot dudes

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1 month into the Iran war, Donald Trump said it would be over "in about two weeks." That was 182 days ago. That's why we partnered with VoteVets to build a calendar of every single time Trump said the war would be ending. Go to AboutTwoWeeks.com and see for yourself.

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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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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.”

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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants

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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.”

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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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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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