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Paulette Poncelet

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the clergy of France in Notre-Dame on Friday that the Church cannot close in on itself, hours before 80,000 young people filled the Stade de France to hear him. “The Christian community is not a refuge into which we withdraw in order to protect ourselves from our age.”
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In Secular France, Young Catholics Treat Pope Leo XIV Like a Rock Star
An estimated 300,000 lined his route to Notre-Dame, where he told the clergy to put communion with Peter before personal preference. France baptized a record 21,000 people this Easter. Here is why.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
Pope Leo, the first American pope, in Paris. I’m still not used to hearing a Pope speak with an American accent.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
The Cleveland Guardians celebrated their third straight playoff trip after a 1-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
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Guardians heading back to the postseason, but the job isn't done just yet
The Cleveland Guardians celebrated their third straight playoff trip after a 1-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 25/09/2026
Above the Clouds I, 1963 #georgiaokeeffe #precisionism
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 24/09/2026
This contracted school bus company owner talks how the skyrocketing cost of diesel. “It was $1,980 to fill up our buses. You max out your credit cards, and you hope to get to the next pay period.” Making America Great Again, bankrupting one small business at a time.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Kennedy Center has long displayed artwork donated by foreign governments in tribute to JFK.. According to internal documents reviewed by The NY Times, Richard Grenell, Trump’s first handpicked director of the institution, pursued a plan to replace those works with art selected by Trump patrons.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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🚨TOP Admiral JUST WARNED US…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👇🏽 #AbolishICE
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
JD Vance walked right into this one. He never saw the follow-up coming. “People who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted.” Kaitlan Collins: So about January 6th…
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Donald Trump might yet demolish the Kennedy Center But he will never vanquish the spirit of America And whatever he destroys can-and will-be rebuilt
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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the beginning of the questioning about Venezuelan oil, he asked about an auditor: "Has Treasury hired an independent auditor to review those flows?" - Sean Casten "Uhh...k..k...KPMG." - Scott MumbleMunch KPMG should have have the money information. Here's the full 5min grilling:
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Scott Bessent Fires Back At Sean Casten Over Questions About Money From Venezuelan Oil
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on the U.S.-controlled system for selling Venezuelan oil and assets: "Congress doesn’t have oversight...there’s just rogue bank accounts out there with Venezuelan money."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We shared an image of Gaza earlier that was apparently not real, saying it’s what macklemore was booted from tour for protesting. Apologies. Here, this is real:
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/09/2026
When the Taliban swept back into Kabul in 2021, millions of Afghans suddenly faced an uncertain and dangerous future. to.pbs.org/3UY9lh3
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'The Last Free Women' follows 4 Afghans rebuilding their lives after escaping the Taliban
When the Taliban swept back into Kabul in 2021, millions of Afghans suddenly faced an uncertain and dangerous future. Among them were two young sisters whose ambitions to study medicine and law were t...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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We Need to Protect College Sports from Ted Cruz
ELIE V. U.S.
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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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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children. n.pr/4j86NXt
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Pediatricians raise the alarm on the effect of Trump's immigration crackdown on kids
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026
Dems need to flip 4 Senate seats while holding Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire. 5 seats if Fetterman flips. Let’s start with North Carolina. Roy Cooper is arguably the strongest Democratic recruit in the country for an open Republican seat. #BlueWaveIn50Days 🧵
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NONE of these fucking people have been "duped."
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Oil and Food Prices Are About to Explode due to Trump and Netanyahu’s Escalating Iran War
The failed Iran War escalates and now includes the Houthis in Yemen, who control the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, and Saudi Arabia, whose 800 mile pipeline was attacked. Here comes the economic fallout.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15/09/2026
As the challenges facing immigrant communities continue to make headlines, comedian Jenny Yang is taking a different approach in her nationwide stand-up tour. to.pbs.org/4gXk02E
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Comedian Jenny Yang takes act to stages inside immigrant grocery stores
As the challenges facing immigrant communities continue to make headlines, comedian and writer Jenny Yang is taking a different approach in her nationwide stand-up tour to raise awareness of those dif...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: Leo XIV, the son of a librarian, spent his 71st birthday at the Vatican Library, where he inaugurated a new exhibit on water. Leo faced intense right-wing criticism for dedicating his September prayer intention to clean water. On his birthday, we’ve published seven rare photographs of Leo.
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The Son of a Librarian: Pope Leo XIV Spends His 71st Birthday at the Vatican Library
Leo opened “AQVA,” a Vatican water exhibit, two weeks after MAGA Catholics mocked his water prayer. Plus seven rare photos of the pope, one from each decade of his life.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 15/09/2026
touched so much grass this summer i barely posted. the next few years might be rough but this good green earth will go on, you know
grass in the alps
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"If Ukraine wanted to withdraw to that line..." If they went backward? Gave up MORE territory? Never heard something so nuts. "If you give us those parts of Ukraine your army took back, then we'll call the war over." Right. Hitler in his bunker: "If you give us Stalingrad, we'll give up. Honest."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/09/2026
Institute for the Study of War v
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MORE: Russian generals have reportedly asked Putin for an additional 800,000 troops to sustain and likely expand Russian offensive operations in the face of enormous Russian casualty rates.
Russia does not have the training and administrative capabilities to absorb, integrate, and train 800,000 recruits at one time, particularly if Russian authorities try to do so alongside the semi-annual conscription cycle that normally starts in October.
The increasing Russian casualty rates and declining recruitment rate will likely force Russia to conduct some form of mobilization in the near term, but the type and scope of mobilization Putin may choose is unclear at this time.
The Russian General Staff likely wants to use the additional 800,000 troops to implement its offensive plans throughout the front rather than only in Donetsk, and the scope of any potential mobilization likely depends on what operations Putin authorizes.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Kitty of Caerbannog @caerbannogkitty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
military colleges will ponder the strategic mistakes but few loom larger than letting a corrupt and bankrupt asshole dig a huge hole, cost people a ton of money and then walk away with his own money and dump the problem on everyone else - it's his Atlantic City Playbook on a global scale
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Disgust as Trump tips Kennedy Center toward bankruptcy with 'mafia-like MAGA hit' #RawStory
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Disgust as Trump tips Kennedy Center toward bankruptcy with 'mafia-like MAGA hit'
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is the goal to do as much damage in as little time as possible?? from @nytimes.com "Admin plans to announce that the US will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas."-->complete erasure of Biden & Obama's most impt climate polices
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Time to die.
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Christopher Hale (@christopherjhale)
“We should perhaps be a little less fearful of Islam.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Timothy Snyder (@snyder)
Trump’s Iran war enables Putin’s war in Ukraine. The terrorists are in power and they stick together. And why is the United States still fighting a war against Iran? The war is lost and it is very un...
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Abbas Abdulmalik (@abbasabdulmalik)
Professor Jeffrey Sachs says ten US billionaires own the US government, the news media, and social media. They have already destroyed democracy.
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Gil Duran (@gilduran)
JD Vance is a THIEL-billy, not a hillbilly. He’s a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. He’s had many names and religions. He hated Trump, now he loves Trump. He’s a “carbon lifeform wearing kha...
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Paulette Poncelet @pmponcelet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Christopher Hale (@christopherjhale)
The last voice at Ground Zero today belonged to Catholic Michael Massaroli, whose father was killed in the North Tower 25 years ago. “I’ve had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NEW: Conservative Catholics are attacking Pope Leo XIV’s newest Black bishop, Robert Boxie III, for saying that racism is why so few Black men reach the episcopacy. Asked why the United States has so few Black bishops, Boxie didn’t hedge: “The short answer is racism.“
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Conservatives Attack Pope Leo XIV’s Newest Black Bishop, Robert Boxie, for Calling Out Racism
Pope Leo made Robert Boxie the first African American bishop ordained in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Within hours, Calvin Robinson and a swarm of accounts turned on him — and some began defending the...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Another epic backfire
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