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Crescent Moonpie

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 8h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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🌻Tyler Breuch @flattop100.bsky.social · 11h
Today's REAL news.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 12h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 18h
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Lexington police used Flock cams to find road rage suspect. It led them to an innocent man
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026
Join our social media storm to demand DoorDash end their silence and push for his release.
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DoorDash is abandoning it’s drivers
Why hasn't DoorDash said or done anything for Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez?
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Instagram decided to block my post from getting in front of the right people. Tut tut tut. Oh dear. That doesn’t look great does it?" Pugh wrote www.jezebel.com/florence-pug...
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citychicken.bsky.social @citychicken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 28/09/2026
Big up to workers with Autozone, the nation's largest auto parts retailer, who united to win the first union at this corporation! And that’s in spite of Autozone spending around $200,000 on an opposition campaign. When we fight, we win #MoneyPowerRespect
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last year it was ‘chatbots have been endorsing lots of people’s delusions and we didn’t notice.’ This year, its ’agents have been hacking lots of websites and we didn’t notice.’ Seems there’s a problem with controlling this technology and monitoring what it is doing.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since the oligarchs won’t take ads for the film, let’s all post this: bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk
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MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
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Crescent Moonpie @rsbarnes99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, who led the agency’s center for H.I.V. and sexually transmitted infections till April 2025, and is now the dean of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard to keep track of just how illegal this all is. DHS quietly updated policies to DELETE people with final deportation orders from databases--even while they are still inside US concentration camps. They also stopped sharing where people are held in phone calls with attorneys or family. #ICEOUT
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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator
The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, make your voices heard, y’all.  Show up for issues that matter to you, because the best way to combat any type of voter suppression is more people voting.
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 23/09/2026
For 55 years, the SPLC has stood for #justice and #equity for all — in the courtroom, classroom and communities. Check out some of the ways the SPLC has stood with communities to organize and advocate for systemic policy change at the local, state, national and international levels throughout 2025.
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Kelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beltline Rail PASSES! 🙏 Now, we have until the end of January 2027 for the Mayor’s Office, MARTA, and Beltline Inc to develop an implementation plan for all 22 miles of light rail along the Atlanta Beltline trail.
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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 21/09/2026
Tickets for tonight's premier are sold out, but a second screening is scheduled for 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Tara Theater. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-city-in-...
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A City in the Forest | Encore Screening @ The Tara
A resistance movement rallies to defend Atlanta's urban forest from the construction of "Cop City," a massive police training facility.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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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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Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As always, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s analysis of the “AIs gone rogue” bullshit is spot on. “Why do the powerful leaders of A.I. want us to panic? Because panic sells the idea that A.I. is ungovernable.” They show their unseriousness when “[n]one of them are enthusiastic about accountability."
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Indivisibles are advising Democrats to fire their advisors www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2026
AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I couldn’t have said it better, Peter Max.
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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 15/09/2026
On and off the field, Roberto Clemente embodied class and humanitarianism. The Hall of Fame joins the baseball community in celebrating The Great One today and every day. #ClementeDay
Black and white batting portrait of Roberto Clemente in a Pirates uniform demonstrating his right-handed swing. (Osvaldo Salas/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
September 15, 1963... Let us never forget the four young girls who were mudered in the terrorist bombing by the KKK at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. Say their precious names: ADDIE MAE COLLINS DENISE MCNAIR CAROLE ROBERTSON CYNTHIA WESLEY
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: As AI companies provoke intense scrutiny, former Obama White House official Jay Carney has joined an effort to “rebuild bonds” between Democrats and the AI industry. Dem operatives are joining the AI industry in droves – we’ve tracked over 100 former Biden officials who made similar moves.
Jay Carney’s new job: Rebuild tech’s bridge to Democrats

Jay Carney is heading back to Silicon Valley’s political trenches. Carney, the former Obama press secretary who left Airbnb this summer, has joined SV Angel, Ron Conway’s early-stage venture capital firm, to run a new initiative called Project Blueprint.

Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#GA Elect Keisha Lance Bottoms for Gov! Food costs are crushing us. Bottoms is proposing local leaders get the option to eliminate grocery taxes -a direct path to lower costs at checkout. Keisha sees your struggle. Vote like your budget depends on it. Vote for Keisha! #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
RIP Bob Mackie, genius.
Carol Burnett's famous "Went with the Wind" costume.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remembering Amy Winehouse on her birthday. 🤍
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Crescent Moonpie @rsbarnes99.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland…Freedom Rider. She once summarized her life's mission with a single sentence: "I'm trying to help America become what it says it is."
Joan’s mug shot after being arrested for at an anti-segregation lunch counter protest.
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 14/09/2026
#OTD in 1941, civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was born. A Freedom Rider and activist, she challenged segregation through sit-ins and demonstrations and was jailed at Mississippi’s Parchman prison. Her legacy reminds us that solidarity requires action. #TheMarchContinues
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Americans aren't a race. We're a people, united not by ethnicity but by shared convictions. That is what makes us exceptional and a beacon to the world. This is what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand."
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 14/09/2026
We must stop the Trump administration's recklessness towards the health and safety of the American people. I'll continue to be on the case.
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
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Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/09/2026
Tech fascism is becoming impossible to ignore. It's a key mechanism of the climate crisis, the economic crisis, and the democratic crisis. Use your voice to raise the alarm and fight back. The establishment can ignore some of us. It cannot ignore all of us. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OnThisDay in 1963, Henrie Monteith Treadwell, Robert Anderson, and James Solomon led the desegregation of the University of SC. They fought and were admitted, enduring threats, harassment and racist slurs. The university now has statues honoring the trio. mississippitoday.org/2024/09/11/1...
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1963: University of South Carolina is desegregated - Mississippi Today
On this day in 1963, Henrie Monteith Treadwell, Robert Anderson, and James Solomon led the desegregation of the University of South Carolina.
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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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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pretty good piece by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social about “Trump’s own unique reality, one anchored not in fact but in an expression of ego.” Includes critics using words like “delusional” “unhinged” and “brain rot”… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality (Gift Article)
With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem taught America that sexism is a symptom of a system that can be changed. 

From the fight for equal pay to abortion access and political representation, she showed that progress comes when people organize, build power and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable.

She staged protests, established domestic violence shelters, created a magazine owned and operated entirely by women and helped build a movement that fundamentally changed this country.

Her legacy is the millions of people she inspired to believe that a more just world was possible.

She lived in New York for 70 years. We were lucky to have her. We mourn her loss and will carry her work forward.
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