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ramblingj @ramblingj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just got a shipping notice for my signed copy of #AmericanHagwon from Yu and Me Books. I cannot wait!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Think about how long it has been since you first saw headlines about Harvey Weinstein’s violence. Nine years after #MeToo went viral, his case(s) are still working their way through the criminal justice system. This is (one of a long list of reasons) why survivors don’t report.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: They steal billions from us to build robots that kick the crumbs out of our mouths.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026
i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Chaotic Good @indyugh.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
Also we haven't had adequate raw materials for most disinfectants since the US decided to play war. 3M couldn't even make surgical scrub for months. Hospitals were like "use these lesser products and hope for the best!"
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Forget treating Donald Trump as a politician. Donald Trump is a crook.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 03/09/2026
Thank you, Gloria, for fighting to make this world a better place for women and LGBTQ+ people — at work, at home, and in every community. May her memory be a blessing.
None of us can be liberated if other groups are not. - Gloria Steinem. HRC logo
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Textbook racist. Piss-frosted incontinent incompetent fucking racist.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
After a lifetime of being prophylactically *pleasant*, I adore being mean instead. I love how being strong makes me embrace the conflict of the dialectic. Let’s. Go.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Max Miller is cruel and abusive.
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He and his consultants think we are all too stupid to understand a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, with a child, would "act normal" to stay safe. If someone HURTS YOU and they are stronger than you and you can't get away, this is A PROTECTIVE RESPONSE.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Social scientists have found that when men think their masculinity is being questioned, they may dismiss that challenge as irrelevant, they may quietly feel bad or insecure, or they may overcompensate by trying to behave in a more stereotypically masculine fashion. And that last reaction is where the dollars are. Be a man and buy a gun. Get the manly cereal for men. Wipe your butt with the wet wipes for men. Get the manly-smelling deodorant. Eat the manly steak. It’s no coincidence that gambling apps and crypto companies have spent so much money on ads that make giving them your money seem adventurous.

Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...
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Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
8 years ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Have you noticed the tributes to Lindsey Graham don't cite any actual legislative accomplishments that benefited his constituents? It's a lot of "he was a strong voice" & "got along with everyone"- generic stuff you could say about anyone. His actual legacy is fluffing Trump & reckless war-mongering
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rand Paul, a man deemed unscrupulous and appalling by people who sift through celebrities’ garbage cans to opportunistically cash in on their most personal secrets.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/07/2026
GOOD: A unanimous official statement condemning a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell BETTER: Voting NO on Todd Blanche’s confirmation
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
YES HE IS - he is destroying the USA, one department by department. He is there only for HIM
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/07/2026
The FBI has ADMITTED it has the Epstein Files redaction TRAINING VIDEOS that an anonymous FBI source told me about last year. TODD BLANCHE was required to release these under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. TODD BLANCHE is unfit to serve as Attorney General. VOTE NO. @judiciarydems.senate.gov
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Was just talking with a friend about how jeans, a red checked button down shirt and a newspaper from that day is an easy dead Mitch McConnell Halloween costume and now she sends me this:
The scene from Devil Wears Prada where Emily Blunt and Gisele Bundchen are dressed like stylish snobs asking straight brown haired Anne Hathaway what she’s wearing only now Hathaway is in a red checked button down and the print says “are you wearing the MIT…” “the Mitch McConell proof of life photo ensemble? Yes I am.”
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EPSTEIN LIST @epsteinlistishere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A federal judge just ordered all of the Epstein files to be turned over to him and DOJ must defend each redaction. This is solely because of Katie Phang’s @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit. Yay independent journalism! #TRUMPANDEPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEINFILES
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
💥 This order clearly reflects that a federal judge does NOT just believe what the Acting AG Todd Blanche represents and has ordered him to basically “prove it.”
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Vicki Jared @vjared.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A federal judge just ordered all of the Epstein files to be turned over to him and DOJ must defend each redaction. This is solely because of Katie Phang’s lawsuit. Yay independent journalism! 👏
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026
WHOA!! Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) just STRUCK a person asking him a simple question about rural hospital closures. Reporter: Do you still think rural hospital closures are a myth? Nunn: I said I'm with a constituent. You should protect their privacy! *SMACK*
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good old Dolly! #BookSky
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Real, real bad. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
cdc.gov
Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wow.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The framing here is notable: “a concerning sign” … “for the U.S. economy.” Not for “the U.S. health care system.” Not for “people’s health and stability.”
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
apnews.com
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Army is scaling back the legal resources it offers soldiers going through the disability evaluation process, limiting the support they'll receive as review boards determine whether they are fit to serve or should receive medical retirement benefits. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:
stripes.com
Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process
The disability evaluation process determines whether soldiers can continue to serve or whether they should receive medical retirement benefits.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)
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