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Raven's fed up @writeravenwrite.bsky.social · 16h

What the absolute fuck??

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But it’s abundantly clear that there is no public official in Washington who lies like Trump – not as constantly, not as obviously, not about as many topics ... we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar."

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Mark Anthony Neal joined OFFICE HOURS with Marc Lamont Hill to discuss his new book on fatherhood. Dr. Neal opens up to Marc about his relationship with his father and what exploring that relationship taught him about his mother and raising his daughters.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqL...

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Mark Anthony Neal & Marc Lamont Hill Unpack Being Sons, Husbands & Girl Dads

YouTube video by Marc Lamont Hill Network

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts: Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #science #Blues

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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts

Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just a good reminder, exposure isn't net neutral. We all think we are immune these very factors, in reality we are all very...very susceptible to this type of self-delusion.

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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

And ppl think we are exaggerating. I lost my job in Jan 2025 and was unemployed literally until three weeks ago. 19 months.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Paul Verhoeven has to be screaming..."it was satire!". Also, Emperor Palpatine approves....

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/09/2026

Update from @samanticka.bsky.social: Thousands of pages of public comment weren’t distributed to Committee members until 18 hours before the Committee meeting, leading several members to complain that they hadn’t been able to read them, and others to admit they had read them using an LLM (AI). 1/

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Moving on from infant mortality to boner meds

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026

This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.

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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good. I hope Ms. Attiah, continues to applying boot to butt, to the Post. This is what fighting back looks like.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"That gives some readers something enormously valuable: permission. I am not saying diversity lowered standards. Tyler Austin Harper is saying it. I am not saying progressive academics have become obsessed with race. He is saying it." cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...

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He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.

Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…

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Brent @danverzone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sharing this: 90s comic inker Timothy Dzon (West Coast Avengers, G.I. Joe) faces medical & housing crises. Signed comics ($12+) & completed sketches ($80). Send your own books to be signed too (COA included) Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Eh2...

Screenshot of a social media post. Text at the top reads: "If you feel like donating anything please do so a any time. He greatly appreciates your help at this time." Below the text is a photograph of an older, thin man with grey hair, a mustache, and a small goatee, wearing a blue tank top. He is sitting indoors next to a window and holding up two identical trading cards featuring the G.I. Joe character Dr. Mindbender.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 20/08/2026

🚨 75 DAYS TO GO! W/THE VRA DEAD, FLIPPING THE HOUSE IS EVEN *MORE* URGENT. Flipping the House blue is an ABSOLUTE MUST this year. Donate today. #Blue26 --"TBD" donations go to the eventual Dem nominee. --Nothing donated via this page goes to me. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How do I inject her “Okay, well, let’s see if you can fight. And he couldn’t.” energy directly into my brain stem.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"The Republican Party is not good for the economy. They screw it up every time. And the Republican Party is not pro-military. The last two Republican presidents have started completely unnecessary wars." Good Mike Tomasky intervention: newrepublic.com/article/2143...

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At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The mainstream is discovering that trans people are innocent despite being targeted, that those targeting us are unreasonable, irrational, dangerous, and extreme, that the purges will not end with us. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is an excellent thread that sketches out the "why" the right wing has been so successful in capturing; men, in particular. But also exploiting the time tested, "the kids today suck" that is so attractive to the olds as well. Trenchant and well thought out.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15/08/2026

This is bad bad bad bad bad. Dangerous, even.

WMAR-2, an ABC affiliate owned by E.W. Scripps, had a round of layoffs and is reprogramming some shows to stream prerecorded stories in place of live, on-air reporting and live anchors. The new format, which debuted Wednesday night, kicked off with a weather segment and was followed by local, prerecorded news stories and national reports from a Scripps team.

The decision to forge a new course comes as executives of the station’s parent company embrace an AI-driven, 24-hour streaming model for news. Scripps is rolling out the change in a dozen smaller markets, including Baltimore, before it’s adopted at the company’s dozens of local stations. Other broadcasts are expected to switch over in the coming weeks and months.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This part, the modern conception of masculinity is as something under siege and whining about it. Problematic issues aside for a second, the idealized masculinity of my formative years was built on stoicism, being a protector/defender of the weak. Not w/e the Tates or Trumps are putting out there.

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Rob Ricci @ricci.io · 14/08/2026

There is a major misconception of how datacenter ownership and usage works. Never, NEVER look at a hyperscaler's numbers for its own datacenters and think they are representative. Yes, the hyperscalers own datacenters. Yes they tend to have good PUE and, more recently, WUE.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026

I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵

everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

> Counterpoint - I like using the Internet to read articles and the ad blocker is the thing which makes that possible.

> Would the writers and publishers be better off if I didn't visit their website?

i mean if they are financially supported by advertising and you are a free-rider who views their content without seeing any advertisements, yes they are almost tautologically better off if you never visit their website

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The "Our Universe" was favorite of mine in elementary school in the 80s. The cover was amazing.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Important context for this exclusive (we're the first to publish the draft rule, but the existence of the document was earlier reported by Wired).The constitution requires that the Census count ... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-a-...

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READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not that this goes to the deeper issues people are discussing. But the Thanksgiving Holiday has basically nothing to do with the Pilgrims or anything to do with settlers or later white Americans interactions with American Indians. The holiday didn't start with the Pilgrims. The modern day ...

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

if you had “privacy features built in from the start”, would you not have built in the tamper detection/camera disabling features? also, if you had really been informed by safety experts and women’s safety orgs, you would not have produced pervert and abuse glasses. I hope Meta burns to the ground.

A Meta spokesperson said: “We designed our AI glasses with privacy and safety features built in from the start – informed by engagement with safety experts, including women’s safety organisations. Our glasses have always had an LED light that activates whenever someone captures a photo or video for their gallery.

“They also feature tamper detection technology, and we are updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed. No other kind of camera has done this and we’re proud to lead the industry forward.”

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This seems to be Ross' main super power! "I was wrong, but no matter, it wasn't that bad anyways!", as a person.

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The struggle to ratify their racism and the oppression that comes with that, is an evergreen pursuit! Definitely looking forward to another round of "those of African decent have higher pain tolerances and thicker skin".

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/x

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Opinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.

Where does the side of the angels really lie?

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

FFS. Stop listening to Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson!

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