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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, Keisha Lance Bottoms can win this race. Instead of making empty excuses why she can't win, focus on making excuses on why she can pull this off. The gap in polling is razor thin. The ruling party is unpopular. Ossoff is kicking ass. Enough with the self-defeatism. Find an excuse to win.

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 1h

I just need y’all to see these insane photos I just took. (Nothing special, just a 10 to 30 sec exposure on an iPhone 15, vibrant setting)

A 30 second exposure of the Milky Way taken in Mesa Verde National Park. You’ve gotta zoom in. And we’ve all gotta stop being petty bitches. Look at this. We’re nothing.

A 10 second exposure of the Milky Way taken in Mesa Verde National Park.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 22h

Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism?

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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, OMB is using the apportionment mechanism to stop funding. Here it is the Smithsonian. I would note: they are not legally binding if exercised out of the scope of the President’s authority.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lmao hell yeah

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We picked the right time to head west! Or, rather, our friend picked the right time to get hitched out west!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Massive car rental fail by Budget. At Phoenix airport (hi AZ!) and Budget - who we reserved with - is closed. Sign at counter says our friends at Payless will help you. Payless is closed with a sign saying Avis will help you. This is the Avis line.

Massive line at Avis because Budget and Payless both knocked off for the night and sent all their customers here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Trump: "I didn't say, 'Oh, I'll give you the pardons if you turn Republicans.' I could've done that very easily. But I thought there would be a good chance that Cueller might say, 'Wow, he did something really wonderful.'"

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's pretty interesting experiencing even the barest fraction of what it must feel like to have your country occupied by a hostile power

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Academic research papers generated with AI are actually *worse* than software generated with AI because shitty code can give you immediate feedback in the form of bugs and code that wont compile. Shitty academic papers can take time to sniff out.

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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 08/10/2026

We are really struggling as a planet because we allowed people to become billionaires before facing a midlife crisis

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I spoke to @kattenbarge.bsky.social about the media coverage of “inconsistencies” in Jane Doe’s case, as well as my own experience with USA Today misusing my words in a story smearing her. As always, Kat understands the way victims are punished from coming forward. This article is a must-read.

spitfirenews.com

Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe

Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s the same as jingling keys for a baby. He doesn’t remember it so why not?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Natalie Harp and her bag boards Bribe Force One

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saving her to try to kill her again!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...

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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

not included in this process: an actual plan for how additional strikes on iran will reduce gas prices

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In case you were wondering, they STILL haven't managed to fix the Reflecting Pool, six months after work began

Livestream image taken from the Washington Monument, showing the Reflecting Pool still empty

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hate that she felt embarrassed. I hate that that's such a common feeling when men do anything to us without our consent. That WE feel shame when it should be the ones doing it, except they have no shame, no soul, nothing.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”

futurism.com

ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think pretty much every woman can understand this impulse right now.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know it’s easy to dunk on “naturalized citizen votes Trump and gets caught up in ICE kidnappings.” But please, read this article. It’s so much more than that.

More than 500 cases. That includes:

More than a hundred Americans held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all were people of color.

At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed.

Of the more than 300 Americans we tracked as detained for allegedly assaulting or obstructing agents, we found fewer than half were actually charged in federal court, and many of those cases were dropped or dismissed.

At least 63 Americans detained while recording.

36 Americans held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

Roughly a dozen citizens deported, mostly children.

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

really appreciate the consistency of voice in the pointer sisters' core catalog, which breaks down as: • i hadn't thought about fucking you • upon reflection, i gotta fuck you rn • when are you gonna man up and fuck me • i fucking wrecked you • it's wrecking me thinking of fucking you • neutrons

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dear Mainers, I'm reposting this as the election nears. #SusanCollins #Maine

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(I actually use this song in class to show how political themes recur and get remixed over time and it’s always loads of fun - everyone thinks they know the song it but no one does)

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, right! Yeah, 50s music in the 80s was *ancient* but you can drop an 80s song in a playlist today and it’s fine. Then again, a good portion of music today is using samples of 80s music, so…? Like, this song has ended up sampled *everywhere* and turns up a couple of times a decade.

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Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K]

YouTube video by RHINO

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 70s & 80s seem like another lifetime. Everything since 2000 is all one year.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

We don’t have to pivot to teenage kids being a bad investment if we acknowledge we shouldn’t regard people through an ROI lens.

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Mars @pscmars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am OBSESSED with that mask.

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's really easy to be like "suicide? Sure jan" in situations like this, but as the guy himself is quoted, being a whistleblower came at considerable cost to himself and his family. We often ask why courage is so rare and it's because it's often very expensive, financially and emotionally.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, the similarities aren't subtle.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For perspective, it is impossible to imagine a similarly well known member of the Trump administration interacting with members of the public like this

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.

nytimes.com

How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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