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It's like Ossoff and El-Sayed are in a competition to see which one can most brutally disembowel their GOP rival. Hot Jewish guy and hot Muslim guy tag-teaming against white supremacy: This is the America I love.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 7h

Was "Soupschwitz" taken?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”

Trump: The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!
If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Strong, just, compassionate words:

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 08/10/2026

I share this because sometimes a jolt of pure rage is quite invigorating and it will cleanse out your lymphatic vessels … anyway here is a slopmonger selling a "translation" of WUTHERING HEIGHTS into "modern English" to make it "actually readable."

Wuthering Heights: In Modern English (The Actually Readable Classics)
by Emily Brontë (Author), Avery Frost (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS IN MODERN ENGLISH

Yes, it’s that book. The one everyone says you should read. The original toxic love story that spawned entire genres of dark romance.

Here’s the thing: Wuthering Heights is unhinged, devastating, and has been absolutely wrecking readers for 175 years. It’s a masterpiece.

The Victorian prose, though? That’s the part that makes it feel like homework.

This edition fixes that.

Same gothic moors. Same obsessive passion. Same “wait, did that just happen?” moments. Just in language that doesn’t require you to stop and decode every other sentence.

What’s different: The prose. That’s it.

No scenes cut. No plot watered down. No study guide summary. Every chapter, every character, every devastating moment, just written so you can actually experience why this book has been breaking hearts since 1847.

You get the full story without “hitherto,” “countenance,” and sentences that take three reads to figure out. You get Brontë’s genius without the barrier.

Still Wuthering Heights. Just readable.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again I offer a hearty “what the fuck are you doing, moron?” to Jared Polis, who commuted her sentence the last time she pulled this shit

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah so that’s attempted murder.

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026

We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.

Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera.
Photo credit: Photofest

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.'
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

theguardian.com

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

vile, disgusting, irredeemable people

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reflecting on the fact that two universities I know well — USC, where I was a professor for 25 years, and Cornell, my alma mater — were both brought low not by the yahoos in Washington, but by men who regarded as their masculine right the ability to sexually assault women without their consent.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amen. I still remember the day I became rodman@well.com. Sheer pride. And no one told me I’d better get 1200 baud modem or I’d be left behind.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You might try writing AwardsOffice@oscars.org

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks, @laurencerand.com. @katekilla.bsky.social, there is a 'reminder list' for Academy members — and it may be accessible via the Academy website in January — but AFAIK there is no grand press release with the full enumeration.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe it was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey who said, if you want to know which side you're on, look at which way the police are facing.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"possible" Dear @nytimes.com, You may think that qualifying facts-we-all-can-see-in-front-of-our-eyes with a "some experts say" or "possible" is how one practices objective journalism. It isn't. Objective journalism is stating the truth when it is true. What you are practicing is cowardice.

nytimes.com

With Elon Musk’s Return to Washington, Possible Conflicts of Interest Resurface (Gift Article)

The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think if your job is looking at a screen, you should be able to sit down. The airport. Credit Suisse. Walmart. McDonald's. Rockstar Games. I don't care. Have a seat.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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Doctor Synth @doctorsynth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

4) the state department is one of the most important tools in your toolbox because it is a whole lot easier and cheaper to maintain alliances than it is to fight wars 5) the US Armed Forces were designed to be a defensive force, not an offense. The threat of our offensive capabilities was enough.

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Doctor Synth @doctorsynth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here are some of the most important things Trump & Hegseth don’t understand: 1) the Allied forces beat the Nazis. Nazis are bad. 2) the Russians, Chinese, and Saudi Arabians are not friends of the US. 3) it is important to maintain alliances across multiple nations to guarantee global security

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USA Today seems cooked. A lot of places being turned into slop mills, now USAT is one, looks like. From the link below "The obsession with AI has gone to another level....they’ve fired everyone because they feel so confident that they will get by on AI alone. Don’t get your news here." c o o k e d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, of course, heels far higher than on the shoes he gives to subordinates.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@tristanelwell.bsky.social’s art is world-class. So glad the two of you get to work together. This makes me happy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026

@markruffalo.bsky.social kicked ass throughout this entire effort and is 100% correct Next year when the debt-triggered layoffs drop all the dems who buckled to Larry Ellison's threats will be nowhere to be found

variety.com

Mark Ruffalo Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Stifle Creativity’ and ‘Weaken Free Speech’: It ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’

Mark Ruffalo is speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger once again.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Believe it or not, when I was editor-in-chief of The Sun (‘70-‘71), there had never been a woman e-I-c. That changed shortly thereafter and we are all of us the better for it. With pride we now get to see how that long arc has bent: toward justice.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gen. Jack D. Ripper had sounder ideas about masculinity.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet!"

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alas, Terry, asked and answered. They have no dignity. They have no shame. They have no sense of decency. We live in a world where words like Joseph Welch's would fall upon an army of deaf ears.

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Napier eats a KitKat while thinking about logarithms.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish physics history: James Clerk Maxwell has the lads around to show off his new Ooni tabletop pizza oven and gets ready to slice and serve which is great cos Peter Guthrie Tait is starving

James Clerk Maxwell statue in Edinburgh. In how hand is his colour wheel, which looks rather like a pizza cutter

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Legally, shouldn’t that be OpenSI now?

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everybody knows SI stands for Situationist International. Guy Debord is suing.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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