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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20m

Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 39m

Kayfabe

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30m

So there is clearly a moral basis for Dems to become at least as uncompromising as the GOP. But there are practical and political bases as well. The demands they would make aren't crazy or selfish or extreme. And the public appears to be with them. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1h

Has owie! Little girl with bandaged finger, painted by Michael Sweerts, born in Brussels on this day (more or less) in 1618.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 39m

One long term effect of our current politics is that even when you’ve been totally exposed as fraudulent you can just double down. Never concede. Never admit you’re wrong. It’s terrible. We are all worse for it.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 36m

Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.

Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5h

I swear, they just randomly choose one of the four and roll with it.

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Half-ass Matt @appa69.bsky.social · 4h

No human without frontotemporal dementia, anyway...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

Jessica Cantu Vuittonet, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, cast her first ballot in 2024 — for Donald Trump. Two years later, after her brother was deported, she feels angry and betrayed. ¡Dios Mio! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)

In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 46m

“Putin has gone even crazier,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Economist. “He ordered attacks on everything civilian. They want people to be afraid of going to the supermarket.” www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

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Putin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logic

A Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits

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séa @seagothman.bsky.social · 1h

probably unpopular opinion: i think nbc/peacock should air all mlb playoff games. they are head and shoulders above the dreck fox and espn put out.

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 1h

i can’t think of a sport fox does well at this point tbh

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3h

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 59m

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 4h

Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...

Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.

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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 16h

Update: I’m looking for a recording of a singspiel (Hiller’s Die Jagd, in 1769) that the textbook swears was a huge hit and that everyone knew this one lied from it in particular. Best I have is a live video recording of an outdoor performance on YouTube, in Latvian.

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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 2h

I know that I overdo the "everything starts with McCarthyism" thing, but also, if you want to understand what Senator Eric Schmitt was attempting to do there, I strongly recommend Nathan Glazer's analysis of it, back in 1953. www.commentary.org/articles/nat...

What, of course, emerges in all three passages—and in scores of others that I have not quoted—is that Senator McCarthy is engaged in a process of continuous distortion. But Senator McCarthy’s peculiar contribution to the use of distortion in politics is the invention, or at any rate the very original elaboration, of what Richard Rovere has called the “multiple untruth”—the misstatement inserted in a parenthetical remark, a subordinate clause, or even an adjective. The virtue of this technique is that it is possible to pack so much distortion into a given quantity of words as to make it certain that any effort to correct every point of error will only bore the reader.

At this place and at this time it would not be an exaggeration to describe Senator McCarthy as, the inventor of a new technique of distortion.

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In the few passages we have here taken from the record, we discern at least four quite different kinds of distortion.

First, there is the simple creation of fact to serve the needs of a particular moment. Second, there is the misreading of documents.6 Third, there is the effrontery when caught, which is in effect a repetition of the original offense: Senator McCarthy is never on the defensive, he always repeats his charges. But fourth, Senator McCarthy, when caught and brazening it out, rapidly covers his tracks by altering his previous statements—while insisting that they are still the same.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

As seen on Bernie Sanders's FB page.

A group of tech leaders sit and stand around a table with name tags, titles, and their net worth highlighted, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Lisa Su, and others.

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Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com · 2h

i've always found butterflies very hard to track in the air. had no idea it was at least part to do with their patterning. cool study!

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 4h

I still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks.

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 4h

I talked about the fires in environmental policy and law today BUT ALSO how the Cuyahoga has been recovered AND ALSO how the NEORSD is one of the best accounts on social media

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 4h

Any "morally binding" document that purportedly binds Donald Trump isn't worth the pixels it's written on.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h

Does any other major news website publish absolute garbage side by side with excellent journalism? And by garbage I don’t mean shitty political coverage (looking at you, NYT) I mean stupid, rancid, tired, mendacious trolling like this. At WaPo or WSJ it’s confined to the opinion pages.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 4h

A 1969 letter to Kissinger asserted that BMEWS issued 40-50 "false reports"/"false alarms" per year, which is basically once a week! nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/defaul...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.

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JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social · 5h

Even Fucking Hunter embraces the negative frame that he benefited from special treatment. He was targeted for special treatment! He was prosecuted under a technicality that no one has even been prosecuted under as if he was Al Capone and we had to resort to tax evasion to find a crime to convict.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Fetterman is garbage. He betrays the people who fought for him when he was at his lowest point - and that fight is the only reason he’s in the senate. Now he’s actively working to raise money for Republican PACs.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

the "trump tv" live stream that the white house launched last week currently has... 248 viewers.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 4h

Wait- so Obama had a secret plan to permanently elevate gas prices? Whoaaa

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

It is actually completely clear from context clues.

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riffle @riffle.bsky.social · 4h

He can go begging to North Korea.

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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 4h

Putin on Ukraine: Russia, unlike some others — we will not point fingers — cannot run around the whole world humiliating itself, begging for handouts with an outstretched hand. First, because it is humiliating. Second, nobody will give us anything — we know that very well.

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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 4h

Putin: In the most difficult frontline conditions, millions of people took part in the referendums. In strict accordance with international law, they made their lawful choice. It was absolutely clear and unambiguous — to reunite with Russia, with their people.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

Was not expecting Bob Costas to open up to us about feeling like he lost a step calling baseball games, and then seeing all the abuse online from anonymous users in MAGA hats after he made it clear he loathes Trump. He said he just needed to unburden himself.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 5h

A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 4h

the Teamsters have authorized a strike at the Bayway refinery in Linden, NJ. interestingly, they mention the refinery processes 275 million barrels of crude oil and 145 million barrels of gasoline each day. did the facility suddenly 1000x overnight? keeping an eye on this.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 4h

Makes perfect sense if Ross Perot runs for a third time and gets 15%

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4h

Emergency power outages have been introduced in Kyiv after a strike hit a power transmission line, according to DTEK. Zhytomyr is also experiencing emergency electricity cuts, while water supply disruptions have been reported in some districts of Kyiv. #Ukraine

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bastylefilegirl @bastylefilegirl.bsky.social · 5h

It is not. TYSM

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

there was another leader who was also named influential by TIME once,

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 5h

This Thursday @musicculture504.bsky.social is holding its 14th anniversary fundraiser at Nola Brewing featuring performance by George Porter Jr, John Boutte, Corey Henry and more! For years MACCNO has been a vocal advocate for culture bearers in New Orleans and a vital www.nola.com/gambit/music...

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Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans to hold anniversary benefit show Oct. 1 at Nola Brewing

The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans will celebrate it’s 14th year Oct. 1 with a benefit show at Nola Brewing featuring performances from the Keiko Komaki Trio, George

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 5h

average gas prices in Georgia have fallen since Sunday from $4.17/gal to $4.03/gal, with diesel down 15c/gal so far and more declines are coming as more stations start buying non-taxed gasoline and diesel

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 5h

'Trapped in the Sky', the first episode of Thunderbirds, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1965.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

RBADVISERS: “.. Nominal GDP comes in at 8.5%. The strongest growth in 20 years (ex pandemic effects) suggesting the 5.25% 10-YEAR YIELD MIGHT STILL BE TOO LOW.”

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 5h

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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