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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 59m
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. And we certainly wouldn't have public executions. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It's about cruelty.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 20/09/2026
The folks who do believe this are taking the bait, all of it hook, line, and sinker. Libraries are not hurting sales. Folks not having enough money to function and flourish in a society that tells them to "pick themselves up by the bootstraps" (at least in the U.S.) is hurting book sales.
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pleffler.bsky.social @pleffler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Right?? We need to stop treating his verbal diarrhea as policy statements!!!!
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Judge seals video in Josh Jacobs case, at Jacobs's request. The development creates a quandary for the NFL. Will it insist on seeing the video, or will it shrug at its unavailability?
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Judge seals video in Josh Jacobs case
The video of the altercation that resulted in Packers running back Josh Jacobs pleading no contest to multiple misdemeanor charges could complicate his football career, if/when it's ever released.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Despite the bloviating and sabotage attempts, Moderna’s updated COVID vaccine has been approved by the FDA. Despite the fact that it theoretically requires one preexisting condition, the list of conditions is enormously broad also if you want to JUST LIE. Personally I’ve never had a pharmacist ask
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Moderna Receives U.S. FDA Approval for Updated 2026-2027 COVID-19 Vaccines
The updated formula for Spikevax is now approved for individuals 6 months through 64 years of age with at least one underlying condition placing them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19, and all adults 65 years of age and older. mNEXSPIKE, Moderna's latest COVID-19 vaccine, is approved for individuals 12 through 64 years of age with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19, and all adults 65 years of age and older.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/08/2026
It's so cute when couples start to look alike!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, I have seen the "smut doesn't count as reading" post and yes, it is bullshit. Take it from your friendly, neighborhood, smut-loving librarian. All reading counts as reading. Stop worrying about tallies and totals and what other people think about your reading. Enjoy yourself.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is rape culture.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Real American heroes
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Tawni Monster Mash-all @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's so gross how bigots co-opt "speaking their truths" as euphemism for spreading their bigotry.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ronald Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis—and his “dear friend” from Hollywood, Rock Hudson, who asked for help. Dr. Fauci jumped in and helped. Guess which guy the homophobic ghouls in the Republican Party revere today.
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
We destroyed Irans military then had to go back to fighting the non existent military but had to stop because we were using too many expensive missiles attacking the not-military because we weren’t flying over the country with no military because their non military was still a threat to our planes.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/07/2026
Conservatives are welcome to vote for Democrats, but they should have no say in what Democrats do. So-called "centrists" are anything but. They are conservatives who prefer fighting Democrats than cleaning up their own side of the ideological aisle.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 24/07/2026
the thing about public libraries is that they are—or at least many of them are—the one unrestricted public space in which children are treated with something approaching full civic equality with all other people. And they sense that. Our children’s room is the liveliest space in our library. 📚
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 23/07/2026
Know what's cool? When you ask a bookseller or librarian instead of a chatbot for a book recommendation or for more information about xyz, they provide you with actually useful information. And then when you read those recs, you form your own thoughts. Just sayin' 🤷‍♀
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Feels like there would be less flopping if the refs made sarcastic jerk-off gestures whenever they tried it.
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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 17/07/2026
Linking Taco Bell to this outbreak, even with the endless, decades old, untrue, poop jokes about Taco Bell is infuriating because A) They did nothing wrong and B) they pulled things and reacted faster than the Gov or the supplier who is at fault. And yet they are the ones getting hit. Do better.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The 25th was made for this moment. It won't be used because Trump nominated cowards. Impeachment was made for this moment. It won't be used because America elected cowards. The federal courts were made to stop this. They won't because lifetime appointments reward cowardice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Duckworth on Hegseth announcing testosterone screenings for troops: "It sounds like gender affirming care to me, so I'm glad he's come around ... this is just more performative bullshit from the least qualified secretary of defense in our nation's history."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
“merit” means illegal gender discrimination because women in command make pete hegseth’s dick feel soft www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A lot of men like to contest what actually counts as rape because they remember incidents in their own sex lives and they're very sure they're not rapists so clearly it's the definition of rape that is wrong
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Elizabeth @strawberrybland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We all need to be paying attention to what @flavorflav.bsky.social is doing for women’s sports.
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Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺 @carriesweet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Paxton spent the 4th of July with the British and HIS MISTRESS.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
These MAGA dummies are mad at me for my comments on the USMNT; in a snit that I wasn't "rooting" for the USA after the Trump taint. They're oblivious that they're defending a team whose members they'd otherwise send to an El Salvadoran slave labor prison. Immigrants can entertain. Just not exist.
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Jen Tantillo @chickstarr65.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They just need to find 3 goals. That’s all he’s asking.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump is pro birthright citizenship after convincing corrupt AF FIFA to allow Balogun to play, right?
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
YES!!!
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pastajoe.bsky.social @pastajoe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/06/2026
Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Democrats have offered, again & again & again, to fund every part of DHS other than ICE, Border Patrol, & the Secretary's office. This ⬇️ is a result of Republicans refusing to do that, because they believe that if our lives are made hard enough, they'll get their money for their secret police.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“Reputational damage” for being complicit in killing hundreds of thousands and dismantling the feds’ abilities to say evacuate US citizens from war zones or run basic scientific functions? Their reputations should be smeared FOREVER
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is monstrously fucked up and should be Streisand Effected to the greatest degree possible
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
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