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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I know Musk is high on the list of Most Responsible For How Things Are but the person I loathe most is Jenny McCarthy and whichever editor/producer platformed her. Once someone decided she knew more than a doctor we were fucked forever. She's the reason people believe TikTok and YouTube.
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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 4h
i'm a dog walker and this is my friend Maisie. she was in a real, "NO THE WALK IS NOT OVER YET" kinda mood today.
Little scruffy wire haired doggo with a black nose. Chin on paws, her eyes are very much saying DO NOT GO HOME STAY HERE WITH ME.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7h
This period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h
Here's a case study in how third-country deportations work. Trump has sent over $400M (!) to some of the most repressive countries in the world to put your former neighbors into the custody of torturers. www.justsecurity.org/157413/us-de...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11h
This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.
From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11h
If any non Fox reporter gets an interview with McMahon they should ask her to explain what it is that she thinks AI does and how it works
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 21h
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12h
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h
The bubble is undefeated.
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Andre 🇨🇦 @iamcdn.bsky.social · 11h
three losers who thought they had their moment to shine
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h
In light of Eric Schmitt beclowning himself trying to skewer Jack Smith, this piece from @davidcorn.bsky.social provides useful context www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 12h
JCO for the win.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 13h
Catherine Herridge, everybody.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14h
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
The lawyer for one of the alleged Cornell rapists is accusing the victim of lying for a "money grab" (what?!) but not even the New York Post is buying this bullshit.
nypost.com
Accused Cornell frat bro’s lawyer dismisses heinous rape claims as ‘money grab,’ claims client only guilty of ‘immature comment’
Horrific allegations that Cornell University fraternity brothers gang-raped a co-ed are nothing more than a “money grab,” a lawyer for one of the accused has claimed — while  insisting his Ivy…
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 16h
Interesting details on how the Iowa steel deal got done. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Mesabi executives have leaned on a Trump-world insider as the company has sought to expand its footprint in the United States. The company hired Jason Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, as its lobbyist, paying him at least $240,000 through his company SHW Partners, according to lobbying disclosure records. The government of India also hired Mr. Miller’s company, paying $150,000 per month for “strategic counsel, tactical planning and government relations assistance on policy matters before the U.S. government,” according to federal filings under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 16h
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole".
"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole" truncated to "Fresh Butt ... hole".
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
aight i had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
ballsandstrikes.org
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026
pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
donmoynihan.substack.com
DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
N12 (Israel) - The Israeli prime minister and the Emirati president secretly met Sunday at the Abu Dhabi airport where Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince Mohamed bin Zayed to issue a denial that MBZ had warned him in advance about the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks. www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...
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דיווח: נתניהו ביקש מבן זאיד: תכחיש שהעברת אזהרה לפני 7 באוקטובר
ראש הממשלה המריא אתמול לביקור חשאי באיחוד האמירויות בצל סערת ההתרעה, שם הוא נפגש עם הנשיא - כך חשפנו ב"מהדורה המרכזית"
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
meidasnews.com
“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
between this and Medicaid and more, trump and his party have set up for so much of this country to fall off a very steep cliff starting next year. It is going to be really bad. We are going to stay on top of it at @zeteo.com
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This is amazing, and also, it looks like Van Gogh painted an oyster
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