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I only really listen to Dinosaur Jr and Yo La Tengo these days.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Same energy
The “Guy in a Bear Suit” moment from The Shining
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think more people in US should be paying attention to this... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
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Opinion | Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany (Gift Article)
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an exhausted detective leans over his desk with a spread of paperwork and folders. He says, “I’m in too deep. Where is the Spaghetti Man?” Panel 2: on a photograph littered among the evidence, a single small drop of marinara sauce drops with a “plip!” Panel 3: viewed from below, the detective examines the drop of sauce with his finger. Behind him, in a ceiling corner, a rotund chef with a mustache - presumably the Spaghetti Man - holds himself like a spider against the walls.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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USPS Whistleblower Warns New Rule Could Keep Voters From Getting Ballots—What To Know
“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
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Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter. - The American Prospect
Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...
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Jim Cummings @jimmycthatsme.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.
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Wendy Fry @wendyfry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...
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Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds
Private prison company CoreCivic sold two California properties to the Department of Homeland Security. It will continue operating them as ICE detention centers.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.
CoreCivic said it anticipates that the sale of the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego County and the California City Detention Facility in Kern County will bring the company an estimated net proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion.
The sale closed on July 2, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with the federal government paying $739.2 million for the 1994-bed Otay Mesa facility and $732.6 million for the newly-opened 2,560-bed California City facility. The two properties were sold under separate purchase agreements, signed and completed on the same day.
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
people who are more willing to work with fascists than democratic socialists are called fascists
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
literally watergate
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
NBC is ready for Trump to die, for Vance to blame everything unpopular now on Trump, and for the white supremacist patriarchal Christian nationalist Theil era of control to just sweep in and do what they will. NBC is owned by Comcast. The Comcast PAC helped fund Jan 6th & the East Wing demolition.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why isn’t the follow-up a recitation of Trump’s initial demands: unconditional surrender (didn’t happen), regime change (didn’t happen), destruction of their military (mixed results), elimination of enriched uranium (not in the “deal”), end support for proxies (not in deal). Challenge these guys!
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Sophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This article details how Peter Thiel, the man behind Palantir, takes journalists to an "AI court" to silence them. It explains why he's threatening to take the Met Police and @london.gov.uk to court for backing out of a contract. It seems he bullies people into submitting to his will
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
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Elder Skunk of the North @loranskunky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the kicker in the nyt’s best 100 restaurants list is pretty special
100: KABAB KING

In 2019, I interviewed a young rapper known as Mr. Cardamom who had shot a music video at this proudly scruffy Jackson Heights institution, where the attitude is as brusque as the kebabs are tender. "The service is horrendous, and it's beautiful," he told me. "You can make direct eye contact with some-one, and they will not come to your table." That rapper is now the mayor of New York City, and if the biryani here is good enough for him, it's good enough for you.
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII
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REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT
YouTube video by don hertzfeldt
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Frame #18300 from S04 -E18 - Battle Beef-628214
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 18/05/2026
President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.
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CREW statement on Trump-IRS settlement - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump plans to use nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to pay off his friends and allies—including potentially January 6 insurrectionists.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org
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rbtd @robotd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Congrats @kumail.bsky.social !!! Good job task-mastering!
Kumail Nanjiani looking proud after his Taskmaster episode win
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...
application window that shows a list of localization keys and localization text.application window that shows UTF16 and ASCII codes for each character in a text string.application window that shows a magenta carat at the location of every space variant in a text string.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son
Gavin Newsome my son was very proud of me he's very familiar with Clavicular
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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Far Side cartoon: “Through a gross navigational error, the *Love Boat* steams into the Strait of Hormuz”

Cruise ship with lots of happy people partying on it sailing into a bunch of mines and gunboats.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2026
📢 Journalists: Have you used the Wayback Machine in your research or reporting? Share your story & support: ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/journalists/
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open
Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 08/04/2026
That is one hell of a change in NYT headline
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 08/04/2026
And change in the abstract to match. Sanewashing will continue until morale improves bsky.app/profile/nytd...
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...
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How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate
Southern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Time to impeach, you mean. The avenue you, personally, can actually do something about. Not the avenue that depends on his own weirdos to do what you refuse. You don't get points for recognizing a problem if you also refuse to fix it. Get a clue, or get primaried.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Here is something that needs to happen: If the White House insists on giving illegal orders, then Democrats need to publicly tell senior leaders and service members, once again, that they'll have their backs should they refuse to carry them out. Otherwise, they're just going to carry them out.
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Top Aides Advise Trump Blasting Iran’s Infrastructure Is Fair Game
Officials say hitting power plants and roadways is necessary to cripple Iran’s missile and nuclear programs.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
if you like Wet Hot or They Came Together or Stella, please go see Napa Boys I can confidently say it’s the greatest Sideways/American Pie direct-to-video sequels parody ever made
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.
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Socket @socket.dev · 31/03/2026
🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...
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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from...
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHu...
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Rafael Concepcion built an app to help immigrants avoid ICE raids. Then came death threats. Hacks. An app store ban. He even lost his job. Read @brendankoerner.bsky.social on one man's obsessive mission to resist ICE -- and the incredible personal toll it's taken.
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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/03/2026
This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...
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San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody
Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited...
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