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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

He makes a good point.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 2h

Golden-fronted Woodpecker. It is found in the southern United States (mostly Texas), Mexico and parts of Central America. It is 22 to 26 cm (8.7 to 10 in) long and weighs 65 to 102 g (2.3 to 3.6 oz). Males and females have the same plumage except for the pattern on their heads. . 📷: @ckclickz

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1h

Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h

Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 44m

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1h

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 3h

whoever decided to split this clip into four separate sound bites that they could drip out to the media knew exactly what they were doing.

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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 2h

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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 2h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

Related news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 7h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

new way to describe michael tracey just dropped

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 9h

I wrote about James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages, the “literacy crisis,” and the point of the written word for The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

In truth, reason has its work cut out for it in any medium. The value of the written word lies not in an intrinsic tendency toward the rational but in its intrinsic difficulty—difficulty measured not in the complexity of any given text but in the basic demand writing makes of us to turn to resources beyond our eyes, ears, and experiences for an understanding of the world. The data on reading that Marriott and many others have pointed to suggests, so far, that we live in societies where fewer people may want to read seriously and with sustained attention, not a world in which people are now less capable of doing so than in the past. If so, that is nonetheless a problem. But it’s not one that will be solved if we understand the fight for reading primarily as a technological battle that has already been half or mostly lost.

We need a new literacy for the present and a world that has been irrevocably changed from the reading world we took for granted decades ago, not a pining for older forms that will never be dominant again. We need to discover how to read seriously not only on the printed page, but also on our screens, which will entail convincing the public that serious, difficult reading is worth their time. All the more dauntingly, we’ll have to do so without making the untenable promise that a life of reading will deliver them a world that seems more intelligible, orderly, and satisfying.

The case for reading isn’t that it simplifies life but that it vivifies and deepens it. In this Marriott does, to his credit, offer his readers a model reader to look up to: the sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, who once said the things that mattered most to him were “variety and the enjoyment of diversity.” Marriott enjoys the way Montaigne “joins stray ideas together, leaps from one subject to another and asks weird questions,” and his ability to include in a single essay “subjects as diverse as sneezing, seasickness, farting, Socrates, amphitheaters, the Spanish conquest of Peru, the Roman general Mark Antony and more.” Montaigne’s motto, “Que sais-je?” means “What do I know?”—a sentiment Marriott admires: “It is the motto of a man of the age of print, whose books showed him that nothing could be taken for granted any more.”

While the dawn of print opened up seemingly endless possibilities for men like Montaigne, the man Marriott describes is also, very probably, one who would have loved reading the internet, and thought seriously about how readers might fight, against all odds, to think for themselves and make the most of the digital age. That is our grave and heady task. That is the nature of our crisis and the nature of our opportunity. “Even in the worst-case scenario,” as Marriott writes, “reading and a cultural reverence for reading will be around for a while yet. And that means those of us who value books and reading still have a chance to make our case.” He’s right. But we’ll need a better case than his.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?

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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 11h

Yikes. “Those events were three separate events that were not reported to the proper channels.”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Kimb @kimb.dev · 21h

I think this is part of why they're so scared of the DSA. They're used to the democrats treading water and answering to rich donors who just want a less vulgar status quo than the Republicans. Actual reform breaks kayfabe.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My favorite thing about the Kimberly Guilfoyle donor texts scandal is that it has to be humiliating for her that it’s now public. And it’s got to sting to know that it must have been Eric Deters who leaked her messages instructing him to help her commit tax fraud and cover up the scheme.

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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one, and why three adults would allegedly conspire? to hide what Swiney did/was doing. And I wish I hadn’t actually read the details of what he’s been accused of 🤢

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb

Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Put November 14 on the calendar as well, this will be the first meeting of the VFS in nearly 25 years. We are the 4th iteration of the society that was started in 1913 by Edgar Allan Poe Prof of English at UVA Charles Alphonso Smith.

JOIN US!
FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE NEWLY REVIVED:
To VirgINIA
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Society
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NOVEMBER 14, 2026
1-3PM
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE
428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA
Featuring:
Mac Traynham, Willis, VA
"Clawhammer Styles of SW VA"
FREE! JOIN US! LEARN ABOUT OUR PLANS AND GET INVOLVED!!
Dena Jennings, Nasons, VA
"Afro-Virginian Banjo"
WITH other special guests!
https://virginiafolkloresociety.org

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💀norfölkology🎃 @norfolkology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tim’s keyboard must’ve run out of numbers

As of 27 September 2026, at least 77,271 people (75,225+
Palestinians! and 2,046+ Israelis)
[71[81(9][10] have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including 270 journalists and media workers, "'! 120 academics, 12! and over 560 humanitarian aid workers,
[13] a number that includes 393 employees of UNRWA. 14. A study by OHCHR found that 70% of the Palestinians killed in residential
buildings or similar housing were women and children. 15][16]

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m on a flight next to a guy who is listening to Seinfeld with no headphones and all I hear is the laughtrack and the worst bass noises of all time every 15 seconds and all I can think about is this.

Pftompkins.bsky.social: The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/10/2026

For the first time, we’re partnering with labor unions to speed up and modernize hiring for city jobs. It should be easy, fast, and fair to find a good-paying job serving the city we call home — and after 100 years, we’re due for an update.

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Mamdani Enlists Unions in Push to Overhaul NYC Hiring

A new mayoral task force will study the dysfunctional 143-year-old civil service system and propose changes in Albany.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Local master of Piedmont guitar John Jackson playing with the Mando Mafia old time band. Really a killer record! Browns’s Ferry Blues

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Brown's Ferry Blues

YouTube video by hiccuptruck

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Bronstein-Nematode @bronstein-nematode.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One person has died in Russia and the media's hair is on fire. So far this year, the DRC has reported 9000+ cases and 3700+ deaths from Ebola, a disease with an almost 50% mortality rate. The Trump has cut aid funding, while front line medical workers go unpaid. The media's response...crickets.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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The Cavalcade Of Asshats Murders Civilians For Sport @mers0274.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I regret to inform you the White Sox are now doomed.

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Moundville Cat Pipe carved Glendon limestone c. 1000-1500 CE Mississippian culture Moundville, Alabama, USA #handmade #carved #stone #GlendonLimestone #Moundville #cat #pipe #Mississippian #culture #MoundvilleAlabama #USA #precolumbian #ancientart #art #sculpture #mythology #zoomorphic #effigy

This zoomorphic artifact is the Moundville Cat Pipe, a famous Mississippian-period effigy pipe carved from limestone.The Mississippian culture was an advanced Native American civilization that flourished from approximately 800 CE to the 1600s across the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.
Recovered from the Moundville Archaeological Site in Alabama, USA.
Mississippian culture (dating roughly between 1000–1500 CE).
It portrays a stylized feline (often interpreted as a panther or underwater cat) with bared teeth and coiled, swirling lines around its face.
A heavy ceremonial pipe bowl, featuring a characteristic cavity in its back used for smoking sacred tobacco rituals. The original artifact is currently housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We stand on the shoulders of giants." Speak for yourself. I stand on my own shoulders. I'm all rolled up into a ball. My head is fully up my ass

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"

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dona 🍤🥔 @aldonanana.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

The AI generated New Yorker cartoon. I’ve put the caption “Christ, what an asshole” over the incredibly shitty caption the AI generated

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 06/10/2026

Thousands of students protested the Cornell 7 on campus today. ✊🏼 Here they are participating in "The Rapist Is You" or "El Violador Eres Tú:" a 2019 Chilean feminist performance piece created to draw attention to violence against women. ❤️‍🩹

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lots of people are trying to square the circle by saying dems outperform in midterm years and republicans outperform in presidential years when trump is on the ballot, and I ask you to consider that Trump has simply lost the juice entirely.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

45 asylum seekers imprisoned in Georgia's Folkston ICE detention center went on hunger strike today. Some have been in this concentration camp for three years. They demand immediate release into the US, protection from re-detention and deportation, and reunification with loved ones.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hastert ain’t dead

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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bitch your state police are running interference for Jake fucking Lang

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026

From photographer Evan Stone: a member of Lang's crew inside a silly string covered car waved what appears to be a gun at the crowd this afternoon. A Bridgeview police officer can be seen peering inside the vehicle. He then swipes its side mirror back into position:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026

Lang's crusader march group is well outnumbered; besides the police (including those in riot gear) there are yellow concrete barricades separating people from Lang & co. There's a big sign truck with Lang's face on it that says "go home pedophile"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026

Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.

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