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Canadian born Floriduh boy living in the PNW by way of Chicago Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, LGM, Eschaton etc He/him

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 7m
Absolutely wild how you can see it in their body language - Mike Lee's smug smirk, Capito's relaxed cheer, Heinrich's pursed lips, Whitehouse's slump, both Democrats looking down and away...
Mike Lee, Shelley Capito, Martin Heinrich, and Sheldon Whitehouse promote an environmentally catastrophic "permitting reform" deal
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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 49m
This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.
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Sister Golden Bear @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 6m
They want us trans people eradicated
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7m
this money went to oil companies and petrostates, out of Americans' pockets
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 39m
lmao this story is so fucking funny
After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices:
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November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. 'It's going down, I'm yelling timber.' 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and KeSha
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The Timber of Mortality. Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done, got the Bhola Cyclone info locked and loaded. Time to transition to 'Timber' by Pitbull. The theme is trees falling, it's literallyGrok's speech continued to crumble. One entire commentary session consisted of a single word:
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13m
First term flashback.
Ivanka Trump in a white blouse with ruffled arms and a white skirt, holding a can of goya black beans like she is a spokesmodel.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2h
No. Llamas too.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
Used to be, every kid had a school and community library, along with a bunch of public money dedicated to promoting literacy, but that’s not the case anymore.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 2h
I ship Rosie Cotton!
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h
And I think he's right. People are repulsed by the regime. I'll also note that white evangelicals are some of the biggest supporters of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown, so I get Talarico's strategy here. See: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/homan-s...
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Homan Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to Evangelicals
In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2h
Was it funny to see the new White House AI chatbot, on its first day of operations, presenting the public with facts that completely contradicted Trump’s alternate reality and brazen lies? Actually, yes, it was. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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On its first day, the White House’s new AI chatbot causes embarrassing troubles for Trump
America.gov, which the president described as “damn good,” presented the public with facts that were wholly at odds with Trump’s alternate reality.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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Airwindows @airwindows.com · 2h
brb, making my reverb generator more woke So I've been running a genetic algorithm reverb constants generator for reverb matrices. It generates possible reverbs through randomness but also crossover from a bank of previous great reverbs and finds the best one, such as kRockstar2 (coming soon!)
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2h
why are you trans? wrong answers only i really wanted to be able to walk around alone at night
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 4h
Available for pre-order (Hive is the cheapest offer just now £12.49) #medievalsky #booksky #skystorians #history www.penguin.co.uk/books/452352...
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The Vikings in Britain and Ireland
The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended up ...
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 2h
okay here's 6 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u... www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/u... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.latimes.com/politics/sto... www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2h
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 7h
The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 2h
I really really love a great short story collection and THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON by Ken Liu is a truly luminous addition to my library. Liu's third collection soars with heart, with bold speculation, with keen understanding. Rooted in the present moment, always looking toward the future. Glorious!
A hardcover of THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES by Ken Liu in golden dawn light on a crowded mantel.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2h
Yes - as @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out this morning - Schmitt "got his right-wing media hit from a completely fabricated storyline." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2h
Lost in the chaos of everything; last week CDC (yes, this current CDC!) issued guidance for COVID vaccination. Last year they recommended vaccination based on "shared decision making." This year it's a stronger recommendation: "COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for all adults ages 18 years and older"

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    Two types of COVID-19 vaccines are recommended for use in the United States: mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech) and a protein subunit vaccine (Novavax; now manufactured by Sanofi US Inc).
    A 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for all adults ages 18 years and older.
    A 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine is also recommended for all children ages 6 months–17 years with moderate to severe immunocompromise; for all other children in this age group, a COVID-19 vaccine is recommended through shared clinical decision-making.
    Where a recommendation on this page describes use that is not within the FDA-approved indication, the page identifies it as off-label.
    Schedules for the updated COVID-19 vaccines are based on age and immune status
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h
There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h
HAHAHA THEY TRIED TO SEND THIS PUBLIC SERVANT WHO JUST DID HIS JOB TO FEDERAL PRISON AND FUCKED UP THEIR FACES MUST BE RED like actually, this is worse than what joe mccarthy did?
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 2h
Folks in #Florida who would be under the new flightpath are fighting this tooth and nail.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h
Sherry Turkle! Was that autocorrect or am I just on my first cup of tea? The o.g. of tech criticism.
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ARTIFICIAL INTIMACY | Sherry Turkle
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 2h
Rep. Jamie Raskin recently noted that the Trump family knows the end is coming for their government-assisted grifting, so they are looting all they can before the window closes, sort of like those people who win contests where they get 15 minutes in a store to grab all they can from the shelves.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2h
The Internet is still okay sometimes
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 2h
The early Quakers would have agreed with the Psalmist: “The law of the Lord is perfect.” We can say this with confidence, because Isaac Penington turned to this verse repeatedly, as he gave thanks for the law "containing in it the commandment which is life everlasting." quaker.org/2026/09/28/l...
An engraving of a Quaker meetinghouse in Philadelphia, a man and woman standing in the spacious yard in front of its entrance. The building is flanked by trees on both sides.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 2h
Two glimmers of hope yesterday came at the appeals court level, with the en banc DC Circuit looking poised to allow Judge James Boasberg to resume his contempt of court inquiry in the original Alien Enemies Act case and the 11th Circuit handing Trump a loss in his bogus settlement with the IRS.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 2h
In the defining legal struggle of our time — whether the federal judiciary will sustain the rule of law long enough to preserve the essential core of a democracy for us to repair, rebuild, and re-enlarge after Trump II — the jury is still out. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of...
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 2h
Two Middle Eastern wars in a row where United States foreign policy consisted of applying our leverage, finding we didn't have it, & completely failing to even articulate a Plan B because all the alternatives threaten someone's vested interest
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 2h
I was curious if this broke through so I talked to some st louis folks and apparently all the upper middle class middle aged dads at youth soccer and basketball last night were mocking him.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2h
Florida’s Republican governor recently ordered the removal of Flock cameras from state highways. Angie Nixon, the Democrats’ U.S. Senate nominee in the state, also opposes the technology.
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A Rural Florida County Quietly Built a Flock Camera Network. Now It's Dismantling It. - Bolts
The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 2h
A federal judge in Manhattan blocked New York state from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting landlords and real estate industry professionals from using algorithmic pricing tools to set, and potentially inflate, residential rents.
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Judge blocks New York rent-setting software ban
A federal judge in Manhattan blocked New York state from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting landlords and real estate industry professionals ​from using algorithmic pricing tools to set, and potentially inflate, residential ‌rents.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2h
“Tropical countries in the Global South are likely to be the worst impacted, but no part of the world will remain entirely untouched.”
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A Powerful El Niño Could Bring Mild Temperatures, Flooding, and Less Snowfall to Different Parts of North America This Winter
Learn more about the shifts in weather that may arise thanks to a powerful El Niño this winter and what the impacts on North America could be.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/c...
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Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts - emptywheel
Far right propagandists and Chuck Grassley are outraged that journalists' communications -- communications that showed Trump defrauding MAGAt voters -- were among the things Jack Smith obtained from t...
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 17h
Never doubt the positive effects of participating in online social communities with medically fragile hermits. Moral support, fundraising, networking, etc. can have outsized positive effects on lonely people like me who really, *really* need a win. #ShareGoodNewsToo #MutualAid #HelpSky
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
“Texas Republicans redrew several House districts last year with the assumption that the Hispanic voters who moved toward their party were part of a new, durable coalition. But many of those voters have turned against the Republicans.”
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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)
In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 2h
My hypothesis is that jurisdictions that let police screen rape cases arrest, prosecute, and convict at a lower rate than those that have prosecutors involved from day 1. We have never had data to test it, but we might now. This is one of my current projects.
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beverlyangel.bsky.social @beverlyangel.bsky.social · 2h
If you have a state surplus store near you, go shop there. A lot of the stuff TSA confiscates gets dumped at state surplus stores for sale. The one in Austin TX has about a zillion knives of all possible descriptions. You just might find your hubby's own knife there. Can't hurt to look.
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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 2h
I always take a self addressed, stamped and padded envelope with me when I fly so that if anything inadvertently left in my bag is confiscated, all airports have a post office drop. Just mail it home on the spot.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2h
Ping @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 2h
“Latin American countries can do little to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or cool the waters of the Pacific,” write Dan Restrepo and Ricardo Zuniga. “If they are to weather these crises, they will have to band together in ways that have eluded them in the past.”
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The Two Shocks Upending Latin America
Why the region must brace for a new wave of turbulence.
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 2h
The First Ever Graham Annable Doodle Collection is AVAILABLE once again! The previously SOLD OUT volume returns for a second printing! An excellent gift and a delight for folks who enjoy chameleons with mustaches! ONLY at: gricklemart.com/first-ever-g... #grickledoodle #cartoon #funny #book
A chameleon perched on a branch has adopted the owner's dark hair and mustache, prompting the wide-eyed man to stare in surprised recognition through the glass — a visual joke about the chameleon's perfect mimicry. Caption reads "The chameleon had gotten quite good."The first ever GRAHAM-ANNABLE doodle collection — playful book cover with the title at the top and a cluster of wide-eyed green frogs at the bottom while a long-necked white goose peeks over them. Available from gricklemart.com
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 3h
What if they threw a Nazi rally and nobody came? “So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good…” #RadioFreeAmerica #politics thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Paxton: Trump GOP midterm convention ‘dropped our numbers’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in the Lone Star State, said that the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas hurt him politically.  “So to be honest with you, the n…
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 2h
Here's what Blanche is going on about: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Jack N @splhcb.bsky.social · 4h
How soon until Google Maps changes the spelling on its app??
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