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Rob Jones

@robertwjonesii.bsky.social
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I study literature and flashing lights. Scholar (Especially fringe science and William Burroughs) Asst Prof /English All views are solely my own and do not represent the views or opinions of any institutions or organizations that I am affiliated with.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CEO of shuffle confirms it Best CEO of an online casino ever
Noah from Shuffle says yes this is real
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Murder porn for the masses, brought to you by this militantly Christian administration.
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list Only white men were left in place.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 07/10/2026
You can't get a more explicit example of how efficiency and merit are not things that the Trump administration actually believes in.
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zap Branigan incarnate! Thanks to Barry Curtis
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump redirected $176.9 million from a US human-rights fund towards global right wing groups, including $40 million for an “anti-communism” consortium and $1 million for fascist groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court days before the presidential election.
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Trump diverts $176.9m of Human Rights aid to far-right groups; targets Europe, Canada and South America
Marco Rubio overrode congressional holds, a Democratic aide said. The money funds opponents of Brazil's supreme court days before its vote and Europeans who reject "gender ideology", as Trump official...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026
iso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.”👶
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026
This is what you do when things are very stable 👇
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
IMPEACH AND REMOVE RFK JR
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Obamacare, while far from ideal, has been better than the previous system in every single way. Not even one aspect is worse.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh. My. God.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
Pope Leo, the first American pope, in Paris. I’m still not used to hearing a Pope speak with an American accent.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/09/2026
These mf are literally the Onion
OpenAl Publishes 5,000-Page Report
Illustrating Downsides Of Water
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦 @manhasnoname.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@rokhanna.bsky.social this is where you and all other Democrats fail. Your response to Joe should have been, “What is wrong with you!? You’re advocating to your audience the pillaging of a sovereign nation. That is a war crime. You should be ashamed of yourself.” Your weakness is killing us.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thought this was newsworthy enough to post a Twitter screenshot
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 22/09/2026
“Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by the tech giants reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.“
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Excalibur encounters a CGI 1999-era dragon, and we've thrown in some holographic demons too–for free! Let's discuss the excellence of Crusade episode two: "The Long Road"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch: Crusade’s “The Long Road” - Reactor
A mining colony is menaced by a fire-breathing dragon...
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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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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...
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Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions
A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.
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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good day to remember that Scott was president of Columbia/Hospital Corp of America when it committed the fraud operation against Medicare that led to the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history, over two billion dollars. That's $2,000,000,000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sc...
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Rick Scott - Wikipedia
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
you don't say... the fascist administration will be using existing carceral infrastructure to punish its "enemies"? No one could have predicted.
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Lisa Clayton @lisaclayton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please share to get gorgeous Diamond a home 💕
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Has anyone asked Mark Carney lately if he still thinks the Iran war was "worth it"?
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Carney again praises U.S.-Iran peace deal after calling war 'worth it' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is again praising the new U.S.-Iran peace deal after calling the war "worth it" — if it ensures Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So which one of Kash’s friends trying to join the FBI had a bestiality conviction on his record?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Jane @janeb1234.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oswestry church preserves rare 1661 Welsh englyn stone share.google/7yhTPIR6T1Bj... #Shropshire @shroppiemon.bsky.social @red-ducks.bsky.social
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Rare 17th century Welsh poetic gravestone preserved in Oswestry church tower
Rare 1661 gravestone bearing an early Welsh englyn survived thanks to Victorian restoration work at an Oswestry church.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just in case anyone forgot.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few days ago someone armed with multiple weapons attacked a Democratic gubernatorial candidate
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Catherine has a more detailed accounting of specific monetary pledges. No doubt, the checks are in the mail. bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/09/2026
Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic.
Graph showing cumulative research sharing across platforms, including Twitter - April 2023Graph of April 2026 cumulative research sharing including "X". One third of what it was.
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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Top Republican Donor Elon Musk?
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James Freeman @james-t-freeman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Full disclosure: I’m an #LSU alum. But this is bad; Kim Mulkey has stepped in it in a way that goes straight to her character. This was a stab in the back. It also was stupid if she thought she could jam Koval into staying and ALSO thought she wouldn’t destroy team chemistry. I mean, WTF??? 🧵 1/
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Ukrainian center Kate Koval details leaving LSU after recruitment of Russian player
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The legal profession is going to have to deal with shit like this, or we're done.
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marjmar.bsky.social @marjmar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The big museums are becoming morally bankrupt. My hospice nurse can't get tickets but this awful person gets special treatment. Shameful
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Heather in SF @heatherinsf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Boo on them. I hear tickets to see the tapestry has been sold out. Access to art should not be made available to rich people over access to the average person.
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 31/08/2026
He spent 27 years on death row as a wrongfully convicted man. What comes next? Solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent on death row in Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.
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He spent 27 years on death row as a wrongfully convicted man. What comes next?
Solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent on death row in Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The good news is I never heard of this brand and never buy pre-cooked or pre-seasoned tofu products— just plain tofu. Specific product recalled is: hodo CHILI CRISP LIGHTLY FRIED TOFU UPC 850565007842 Over 10,000 cases sold in 29 states were recalled due to possible ink contamination. #Recall 🍽
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Tofu recalled in 29 states, including throughout Tri-State, for contamination
Tofu was recalled in 29 states, including throughout the Tri-State, because it may be contaminated with ink.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for Donald Trump and his government. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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