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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 16h
We're pretty poor, but if I get one of those Trump $500 ACA refund checks, I'm gonna donate it to some Dems running in the midterms.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amy Klobuchar's father was a sports writer.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Gift" link. “The advertisement raises deep concerns about the Trump Administration’s use of taxpayer dollars and its compliance with federal laws that prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the promotion of a political party or candidate..."
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 12 years old, Cai Thomas has a treble voice so pure and clear that the moment he begins singing Laudate Dominum, the whole atmosphere seems to become more serene.
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This article is really terrifying. The last option is that Trump tries to declare martial law on or around November 3. “Either martial law, or step aside,” he told us about Trump’s choices in the last scenario. #ElectionInterference #MartialLaw #Blues #SheShed
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sunderland driver Brandon Alderson was on his way to work when he spotted a man in distress in a layby and stopped to help instead of driving past.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Enjoyed this article about the growing number of men adopting cats, bucking gender stereotypes. Apparently Mamdani is allergic to cats, but has been getting allergy shots because his wife wants to adopt one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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Dave Franco, Jordan Poole and Other Everyday Cat Dads Are Redefining Gender Stereotypes (Gift Article)
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers
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Mrs. Peabody resists 🦋👊🦋 @peabodya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are being run by “a clan of predators,” writes Anne Applebaum in this devastating assessment of the moment. A clan of predators And nothing in today's letter counters that characterization... Until we hamstring the regime in November and cancel it in 2028 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
This is a great read.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026
“The No. 1 problem the Kennedy Center has had is President Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump Rips Apart His Coalition #PolitiZoom
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Trump Rips Apart His Coalition
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’ve never seen a cat so clearly roll its eyes. Original post
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📌MUCH more on this here ...
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NOW OR NEVER
A follow-up letter to the most incompetent mainstream media in American history ...
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foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social @foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Buffalo Bills Fans Sang O Canada Last Night And A Handful Of Fragile Americans Completely Lost Their Minds deanblundell.substack.com/p/buffalo-bi...
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Buffalo Bills Fans Sang O Canada Last Night And A Handful Of Fragile Americans Completely Lost Their Minds
Up to 20% of that crowd drives in from Ontario, and a few tough guys still got hurt by a 90 second song.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Police pledge to wipe out crime.
9 cops and a K-9 pose with 650 rolls of seized toilet paper.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING News: More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Dept’s casualty database. | WashingtonPost archive.today/vGi3A
Soldiers carry the remains of Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, killed in an Iranian attack on an air base in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in July. (Photo credit: Evan Vucci/Reuters)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
September 17, 2026
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September 17, 2026
In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sculptor Transforms Scrap into Moving Metal Figures
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Explorer Rowan @explorerrowan.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lot of poor Americans complain that jobs went overseas, and while that's true sometimes, a whole lot of formerly middle class manufacturing jobs went to the prisons. Why pay for labor when you can get FREE labor from prison slaves? Everyone should be anti-prison.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here we have a lady trying to feed a baby kitten. And here we have a guy trying to bludgeon the kitten to death with a brick. It is important that we get both people's thoughts on what should be done with the kitten.
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💙Grendellily💙 @grendellily.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The trump administration and its ass- kissing sycophants are no longer a protected species as of November this year. You have the electorate’s permission to harpoon the hell out of them …as of now!
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Pdxeagle @pdxeagle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks to John Oliver this is still a valid website:
screamintothevoid.com
SCREAM INTO THE VOID
SCREAM INTO THE VOID
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Vys (of Limsa) @vysgaming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now Finneas (@billieeilish’s brother) pulls out of his @edsheeran dates in solidarity with @macklemore & 🇵🇸 Maybe Lee Greenwood or Kid Rock are available? 🤷🏼 www.instagram.com/p/DdUdYF1zZ4...
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JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What an utterly fascinating, heartbreaking look at what can happen to kids promised MLB bonus money in the Dominican Republic. www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises
Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New season, new Golden catch and run out of bounds. Grrrrr. 🧀
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THEE NWMagpie - I Don't Argue With Ppl John Brown Would've Shot @thenwmagpie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I enjoyed Mike Luckovich for years, and then he created this cartoon. I sat and cried for several minutes. Then I cut it out of the Los Angeles Times, and I've kept it ever since. Thank you, Mr. Luckovich.
Mike Luckovich's editorial cartoon showing the 9/11 NY firefighters who died in the collapse of the Twin Towers, finally making it to the top.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Another three days of not being able to watch the Brewers because of MLB's stupid blackout rules. 😡
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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🎁Gift Article to share full article The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found By Colson Whitehead Nov. 11, 2001 www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...
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The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Gift Article)
Colson Whitehead essay about when he first defined himself as New Yorker through memories of riding subway; says New Yorkers always see city through eyes of first glimpse; each person defines it for h...
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samcombs.bsky.social @samcombs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🥲 Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/n...
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She Filmed the Towers That Morning. 25 Years Later, She Finally Watched. (Gift Article)
A young college graduate filmed the World Trade Center attack from the fire escape of her Chinatown apartment. For many years, she avoided looking at the footage.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my last Globe 🎁 story for the month and it's worth it. I teared up multiple times, from the children's birthday party right through to the last story of the New Yorker who keeps returning every year. This is such a reminder that there are so many good people in our world. #GiftLink 🎁
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On a sombre anniversary, Gander welcomes the ‘plane people’ back to the Rock
With Canadian-American tensions at a fever pitch, the kindness and generosity of townsfolk still overwhelms 25 years after 9/11
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On 9/11, I was at the US Capitol, as a Capitol Police Officer. Faxed my thin resume to a CIA recruiter on 9/12. The next 25 years have been, in profound ways, a direct result of those two days. It’s what you do with your days that makes your life, not what you almost did.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RS with your home river. Clinch River TN and the Tennessee River
Clinch River TN Tennessee river near Chattanooga
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you think if the events of Sept. 11th 2001 happened today, that we would pull together as countrymen like we did back then? Or are we irredeemably fractured as a society? I don't know.
Photo of the World Trade Center towers under attack on 9/11/01.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can I interest you in a Thomas Pannone perfect game (after he fell behind 3-0 on the 27th batter no less)?
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Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Hitchcock made films today.
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Metisse @metisse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w...
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Six-Week-Old Infant Died From Measles, Lancaster Coroner Says (Gift Article)
The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.”
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Post a 90s pic of yourself
Photo of me holding a photo of Jerry Garcia, in front of a tribute to Jerry at Hard Rock Cafe Orlando on August 10, 1995, the day after his death. Photo credit: Art and Auction Magazine.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Brice Turang! That was a beautiful safety squeeze! #BrewCrew
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