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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Closing in on 10k now. I won't be able to keep boosting this over rosh Hashana, so if you could help this spread before that, that would be fantastic
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.
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riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Somedays it’s hard to distinguish NR headlines from @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
b) you can no more prompt an LLM not to hallucinate than you can prompt it not to use electricity; it’s a fundamental part of its architecture
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
a magnificent thread (don't let bluesky's terrible threading design make you miss half of it) mcm tableware and trans issues:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026
this is cartoon villain level shit but the first time an ICE agent reaches down to scratch his balls and tases himself is going to be incredible content
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
8 years ago.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This editorial is indeed blunt, in your face, sweary, and absolutely 100% correct. I'm happy Science published it. It needs to be spread far and wide, because it strips away all the usual mealy-mouthed crap when it comes to discussing Trump and makes it clear who he is and what he's doing.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Now, the bill of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is starting to come due. Since last July, when the OBBBA was signed, more than 4 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost coverage. Coverage is plummeting across the country."
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
nj.com
This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
American rural landscapes dotted with data centers and concentration camps
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/07/2026
Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.
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The Screaming Butt Naked Patriot @buttnakedpatriot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On one hand, it seems astounding that RFK Jr.’s anti-vax organization didn’t vet her before including her in a lawsuit against AAP, in which she claimed that vaccines killed her twins. On the other, it shows the endless capacity of anti-vaxxers to take the word of a random person over facts.
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Mom Claimed Vaccines Killed Her 18-Month-Old Twins. Now She's Charged with Murdering Them
Andrea Shaw was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
He's killing the ducks. He's killing the birds. He's killing the wildlife of the people who live there.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/07/2026
"This is a theme among even the most strident of anti-authoritarian dissidents with the benefit of hindsight: a wish that they had tempered their all-or-nothing posture and had been less rigid in message and strategy."
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Shame Won’t Save Us From the Autocrats
One mistake anti-authoritarian movements keep repeating—and the urgent lesson for Americans.
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Local Resister @projectspacetime.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh, look. A proper reflecting pond.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Bríd 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @brid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan
As per Wikipedia: Hammerhead shark illustration from 1735, Japan, from the Illustrated Guide to the Products of Oki Province
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...
Screenshot of a PatriotTakes post on X describing a 6-minute Republican opposition video outlining Ken Paxton's corruption, originally distributed by the NRSC, that has since been made unlisted on YouTube. The post includes a still from the video showing a black-and-white image of Paxton with a graphic reading "2011 - TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE" and text describing Paxton soliciting investments in a technology company called Servergy while serving in that role.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio today justified attacking a regime that shoots its own citizens. What about a regime that investigates co-workers bore witness to the killings?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Trump is not just making SNAP more burdensome, he is also preventing willing states from shifting some of that burden away from clients by limiting the use of existing tools like automatic renewals. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...
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The Trump Administration Has Changed Almost Every Aspect of Food Stamps
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Why didn’t the mentalist see it coming?
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Before anyone takes this seriously, recall that Larry Johnson is the guy who claimed, before the 2008 election, that there was a tape of Michelle Obama “railing against Whitey.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hey, I think we found the judicial activism.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There’s no excuse why Democrats haven’t flooded the airwaves about the plethora of sex offenders and pedophiles Donald Trump has personally put back into our neighborhoods.
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riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Between Hungary and Iran, JD Vance is having a great week
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm so glad @donmoyn.bsky.social is drawing attention to this Direct File issue. It was proof (again) that government can do good things to make people's lives better/easier but the Trump admin with help from Elon Musk & for profit tax prep companies killed it. Democrats should resurrect it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...
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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
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Jeff Mosenkis @mosenkis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For those of us who already know the death of free file story (thanks @justinelliott.bsky.social ) Don makes an even more important here: government *can* make things easier for citizens, if we let them
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We shouldn’t expect Trump to moderate in the face of mounting losses - whether they be political (midterms), military (Iran), or policy-driven (courts) losses. A lesson of January 6th is that when faced with a loss, Trump becomes more extreme, not less - just like other aspiring autocrats.
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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump's war on Iran has reminded me of Putin's war on Ukraine in so many ways, not least of which is this one: a cadre of advisors being too scared to tell the President what they really think, only to be horrified when he unleashes what they should've stopped him from doing in the first place.
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riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Golly, I wonder who could have leaked this top-secret meeting info to the NYT? 🤞 he doesn't get arrested.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The people upset over our opposition to this stupid war in Iran are claiming we "don't support the troops" and yet, they're completely silent about ICE agents being parked outside Marine Corps graduation ceremonies ready to detain the undocumented family members of new Marines.
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riotbrrd.bsky.social @riotbrrd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This seems bad
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession. Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The naming of Ayatollah Khamemei today ensures that the majority of GOP senators will continue to think the exact same guy has been running Iran since 1979
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