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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 10h

EXTRAORDINARY MOST EXTREME EVENT IN ASIAN HISTORY Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with up to 10C margin (! world record) everywhere from Turkey to Japan We are witnessing something beyond imagination. MINIMUMS >32C in Middle East, tropical Night in Central Asia

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 22h

Maria Artini 1894-1951 #Italian engineer 1918 1st woman electrical engineering uni graduate in Italy 2nd woman graduate @ Polytec Uni of Milan. Worked 4 Edison energy @ #Milan helped design & construct country's 1st high-voltage (130 kV) power line in Brugherio-Parma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_A...

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP to Annie Dillard, whose work frequently left me unable to speak sensibly for several minutes after reading it. This essay, This Is The Life, was my entry point for her work

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Iran war, the mass deportation campaign, the trade war with Canada, the affordability crisis, the Kennedy Center, the Epstein mess, the measles, Jr.’s Russian wedding, the embrace of Putin—is there not one GOP leader who has the guts to say this ain’t working? That’s a rhetorical question.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dem leaders: Impeachment is a waste of time that doesn't accomplish anything! GOP leaders: We must seal the House and flee the city to avoid the consequences of this looming impeachment vote

newrepublic.com

House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment

Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

washingtonpost.com

Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years

The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pakleds been running things for a few years now.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

should have spent more time worrying about the killer robots, who knew?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This thread asks why Trump saying “I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." isn’t getting as much media attention as his obviously farcical $5,000 proposals. They ignore it when he says crazy things that are true, and take seriously the crazy things he says that are not. Sanewashing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Punctuation is life saving… #BookSky 🐊

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2

A Mighty Girl

Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them.

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire.

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16.

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner.

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation.

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.

The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute.

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention.

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed.

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days.

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.

None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

--> If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner --

https://www.dangerassessment.org/DA.aspx

For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"... in a world beginning to turn away from oil, the United States has become the biggest force trying to insure we keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere. If the rest of that ice is going to fall off that Nepali glacier, this will be why." billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin...

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The growing rumble

Politics--alas--is what we need

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

trump says he can start making things perfect for you if he can manage to deport 20-30 million of your neighbors. but what if i told you i could make things significantly better for you by deporting just two or three guys

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 30/08/2026

Doonesbury on the DC occupation

Doomsbury comic featuring a reporter interviewing a member of the National Guard at the reflecting pool in DC

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Slammed" Volkswagen Beetle: the classic German with a lowered suspension

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Aug. 25, 1926: The Mussolini regime declares its intention to ban all local elections in Italy, eliminating most of the last vestiges of democracy in the country. Elections have already been suppressed in towns under 5,000 population, and now larger cities will be ruled by Fascist appointees.

Cartoon by Paul Plaschke, Louisville Times

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't know! Why would we want to blow up lifesaving immunizations and food inspection? Why would we want to start an unnecessary war draining defense resources? Why would we undermine the higher education and research that power our nation's economy? We have no idea what's going on with you people

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“An El Niño is not a storm. It does not arrive with wind and fury and then recede. It is a reorganization of where rain falls on Earth... The warm water is only the mechanism; the failed harvests are what people will actually live through.“

4hunger.org

Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind

How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Defending LGBT rights isn't "woke" - it is defending democracy from the creeping fascism of the dual state. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

The worst thing about getting beaten by the Lynx isn't the beating they put on you on the court, it's the fact that they do the Electric slide after they beat you. #wnba It's humiliating and you can't do anything about it 😬😬😬😬

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Minnesota Lynx do the Electric Slide Dance

Alt: Minnesota Lynx do the Electric Slide Dance

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So Trump is now saying the "ballroom" is actually "the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself" He's also extended soldiers in D.C. until Jan. 20, 2029, his last day It's impossible to not to imagine the very worst

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I loved the Ragin' Cajun back in the day, but the man has lost a step. Wish he'd sit down and STFU.

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The rationale that pushes an artist to produce works of art lifting directly from an urban landscape is in opposition to the special reverence historically applied to fine art." www.revuecolle.com/revue-articl...

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A Brief History of Décollage | Collé

From wheatpasted city walls to the Venice Biennale, Gabriel Allred traces décollage, the art of removal, from Rotella's torn Roman posters through Vostell's Fluxus happenings to Mark Bradford's mercha...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s so cool that the U.S. government posts like fucking psychos

U.S. department of Energy tweet with a creepy image of Trump where he looks like a character from They Live. His eyes are illuminated red and the words read: NUCLEAR
RENAISSANCE
ACTIVATED.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

a headline from the Society for Experimental Biology reads "Think that fishes and amphibians don't have necks? Think again"

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s gonna be hot, you don’t need much. And should you find you need a thing, shopping there’s much more fun than at home. Now which pen(s) and notebook to take, that’s a poser.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

did he not have a horse

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Gilliam @reddeerranch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Of course we respect the Dead.

Grateful Dead concert poster, skeleton in roses

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Every photo of Louis Pasteur looks like he's had enough of your bullshit, and I can't blame him.

A photo of scientist Louis Pasteur from the 1800s.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2025

Steinbeck, East of Eden

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Modern DAR members tend to join because they're interested in genealogy and feel a connection to American history. The "Southern ladies who lunch" vibe is fading.

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qatz @qatz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Local writer @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social keeping some excellent company.

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