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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h
filled the local duck trinket box last night... I am sure that it's already empty this afternoon, lol. will stop by next week again...
A white box labeled “Give A Take A” holds various colorful rubber ducks and small toys. The box is on a sidewalk at night. Post-it notes are attached to the box.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I suspect two things lie behind the fixation on supermajorities: 1) Dems are trying to protect incumbent moderates who intend to reprise the Manchin-Sinema role; 2) centrists want to use the specter of democracy-reform failure to extort concessions from the left. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Rachel Koteen @rck6.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What’s so enraging is I have to assume they could have had Tim Howard since they have Lowe. Or Clint Dempsey for fuck’s sake. Fox actively prefers Lalas over the many better options
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
NEW: We published emails from MLB execs to police about *another* MLB domestic violence investigation, one where Rob Manfred suspended a player while admitting the league lacked sufficient proof he assaulted his wife. More evidence of a system without standards. Issa new [eyeblack]:
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Rob Manfred said MLB didn’t have evidence Jeurys Familia assaulted his wife. That didn’t stop the league from punishing him.
Police records obtained by [eyeblack] suggest MLB investigations operate under a system without clear, consistent standards.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 23/04/2026
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...
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This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right
As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 27/02/2026
@flavorflav.bsky.social Here's another great look at women's sports.
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cbeany.bsky.social @cbeany.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yes highly recommend!!!
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Rachel Koteen @rck6.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
By the way, if you enjoyed watching the US Women's hockey team kick butt in Milan, you will definitely enjoy Take the Ice, my documentary about the early days of professional women's ice hockey. www.taketheicemovie.com
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
NEW: I spoke to the journalist and researcher Pat Ellington, Jr., whose singular work expands the fullness and depth of Black history through Francisco Lindor, Ronald Acuña, and the global impact of baseball. issa very, very special BHM edition of [eyeblack]:
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How can baseball connect of all Black history?
The writer Pat Ellington Jr. shows [eyeblack] how Francisco Lindor and Ronald Acuña helped him reclaimed the fullness of Black history.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/02/2026
Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wrote about why the Trump administration's antisemitism envoy is lying about Holocaust history to avoid the possibility that people might draw parallels between the condition of Jews in occupied Europe and the condition of migrants hiding from ICE today. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...
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The Ferocity of Responses to Tim Walz's Anne Frank/ICE Comments Are Revealing
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education, s...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act
Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.
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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There is a vigil in 45 minutes. I am still feeling sick from tear gas and not going. But at 7pm CST, whoever you are and where ever you are. Go to your street corner. Light a candle. If you are someone who prays, pray. Shine a light for Minnesota!🕯
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Starting out Sunday with some duck butts just because #birds 🌿
A brown and white streaked duck’s butt sticks out of the water, one orange leg visible. A light gray and black duck butt sticks up out of the water.
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish! There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Aloe plant "reading" black and white illustrated zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NexStar/Sinclair Wants to Keep the Ban on Kimmel? Awesome talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nexst...
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NexStar/Sinclair Wants to Keep the Ban on Kimmel? Awesome
Ron Brownstein posted this this morning on Twitter. Disney’s initial surrender over...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2025
ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It would be genuinely challenge to draw up articles of impeachment for Trump. There are thousands of individual acts which are abuses of power and almost as many breaking statute law. you wouldn't know where to start.
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Rachel Koteen @rck6.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Can't believe they missed 'primary bedroom.'
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...
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Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Orban banned Pride demonstrations in Hungary, but today’s march in Budapest drew record crowds in defiance: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...
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Big crowds gather in Hungarian capital to defy ban on Budapest Pride | CNN
Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year, is unfolding as bo...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/06/2025
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is a moment where it is historically, epically important to see the forest through the trees. Talking about what sweatshirt a guy was wearing or even the plight of his children misses the point. The president is disappearing people to a foreign detention camp with no normal legal process.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Stop using “First Amendment” as a metonym for “anything, official or unofficial, that may make me think twice before speaking.” Social limits on speech are REALLY REALLY DIFFERENT than, say, being harassed at the border by a CBP agent who doesn’t like your political posts.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2025
very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg’s story about...
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is a lovely piece on what's actually wrong with the adolescent bullshit that passes for right wing masculinity and the issue being that there are now so many ways to be a man that it's frightening for some men who would rather not have a choice www.liberalcurrents.com/most-men-don...
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Most Men Don't Want To Be Heroes (And That's Okay)
Despite the self-pity of some, there has never been a better time to be a man.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
congress right now has all the power it needs to put an end to MAGA despotism. they just don’t want to. and there is no set of rules you could devise that could overcome that obstacle.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.
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