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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026

Videos testing whether boyfriends can pronounce words like "epitome" and "hyperbole" are racking up views on TikTok and raising some bigger questions about literacy. CNN's Leila Gharagozlou spoke to an expert who says the viral test may not prove what people think it does.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The random 4-H kid at the State Fair who did a project on chickens and also ways to stop 30-50 feral hogs

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

NSPM-7 Watch: federal agents sent an undercover informant to a Sunrise Movement meeting, obtained years of financial records for labor unions, and spied on churches during and after Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-spi...

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DHS Spied on Churches, Libraries and Union Halls in Minneapolis Protest Crackdown, Defense Attorney Alleges

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to...

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

work assistants are the best

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NYT follows: “.. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dudes rock

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"That was beautiful football... oh... that was beautiful"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2026

Sen. Ron Johnson on Mitch McConnell: "I just heard from a source that was an older photo"

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

2 kings 2:23-24 23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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scotthoots.bsky.social @scotthoots.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You still standing by this one? He shouldn't have even been on the primary ballot when we found out about the Nazi tattoo but chuds like you kept carrying water for Platner. You should go find a cave and think about your life choices for a while.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

cristiano ronaldo | portugal v. croatia | 2026 world cup | all skills & highlights 🔥🔥🔥

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 10/06/2026

THREAD: 2026 World Cup teams as Iron Chef screenshots United States

OK, so they're all looking a wee bit confused down there.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

chronicle.com

Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/06/2026

Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals

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scotthoots.bsky.social @scotthoots.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Platner used the r-word slur as recently as this year. I'm so disappointed in you and your excuses for Platner. There were also 2 other woman in the article you're referring to who had similar things to say. The Nazi tattoo should have been all it took to drop out.

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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 05/06/2026

Incredible work

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 02/06/2026

my man was absolutely locked in at the Nashville trucks race

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Kail @vivotranquil0.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just when you thought you'd seen it all

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scotthoots.bsky.social @scotthoots.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Cider, wine, and whiskey. I've never liked maltiness or hops so I've never found a beer that I liked enough to have another one of. The only whiskey I haven't liked is Jack Daniel's because of the banana note but usually the smokier the better.

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scotthoots.bsky.social @scotthoots.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live. Emery (x8) Five Iron frenzy (x6) UnderOath (x3) MxPx (x4) Incubus (x3) Amos Lee (x2) Showbread (x3) Cold War Kids (x3) He is Legend Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 10/05/2026

[at the last judgment] JESUS: And the baby prisons? EVANGELICALS: to own the libs, right JESUS: And the libs, who are they EVANGELICALS: uh mostly illegal aliens. if we really hate a pretty girl we call her fatherless. some widows JESUS: Alien, fatherless, widow, got it. So you see these millstones

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Matt @hbomatts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

alex trebek in famous paintings: thread

Alex Trebek in The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As the Camp Mystic hearings have played out over the last several days, a lot of people have been bewildered by not only the Eastlands' incompetence but by the support they've received from those within their local and camp community who argue they did nothing wrong. Why would anyone defend them?

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading. It was worth it.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

JD Vance literally turned into this kid here

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Following another long silence, Joel summarized what we needed to do next. My description of our lifesaving work had been helpful, and we would need to develop “a very simple way to describe it to the secretary,” he told us. “To be clear, we’re not looking for a laundry list of everything you want to do, you’re going to have to cut things, it’s going to have to be draconian. You’re only going to get things that are priority number one, that is all we’re going to be able to do, so don’t even send up the things that are priorities number two, three, or four.”
At that point, Nida jumped in. Out of the corner of my eye, I had noticed her picking nervously at her hands for most of the meeting, and I knew it was just a matter of time before my oft-impatient colleague spoke up.
“Can I just clarify one thing?” she asked, not waiting for a response. “This group seems very focused on what GH does to respond to infectious diseases, but we haven’t spoken much about our other lifesaving work. Just as one example, we support lifesaving care to mothers for emergency inter- ventions like postpartum hemorrhaging and eclampsia, two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths. You would also consider that kind of work to fit into our ‘priority number one,’ right?”
Another brief silence followed as Joel watched the clock, and it was Paul Seong who broke it. “I’d say that’s more of a number two,” he said dismissively, looking to Joel and Ken for affirmation.

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T. Krown @mumbles-j.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Enough.”- a real one

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Here's the HD version

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13/04/2026

presidents and their relationship to the pope, or Catholic church. 1. A letter from John Adams to his wife Abigail, after a day in which George Washington insisted Adams join him at a Catholic Mass in Philadelphia (so much of why i love john adams can be seen in this one letter)

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1774

Phyladelphia Octr. 9, 1774
My Dear

1am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly is like
no other that ever existed. Every Man in it is a great Man-an orator, a Critick, a statesman, and therefore every Man upon
every Question must shew his oratory, his Criticism and his Political Abilities.

The Consequence of this is, that Business is drawn and spun out to an immeasurable Length. I believe if it was moved and
seconded that We should come to a Resolution that Three and two make five We should be entertained with Logick and
Rhetorick, Law, History, Politicks and Mathematicks, concerning the Subject for two whole Days, and then We should pass
the Resolution unanimously in the Affirmative.

The perpetual Round of feasting too, which we are obliged to submit to, make the Pilgrimage more tedious to me.

This Day I went to Dr. Allisons Meeting in the Forenoon and heard the Dra good Discourse upon the Lords Supper. This is a
Presbyterian Meeting. I confess I am not fond of the Presbyterian Meetings in this Town. I had rather go to Church. We have
better Sermons, better Prayers, better Speakers, softer, sweeter Musick, and gentecler Company. And I must confess, that the
Episcopal Church is quite as agreable to my Taste as the Presbyterian. They are both Slaves to the Domination of the
Priesthood. I like the Congregational Way best-next to that the Independant.

This afternoon, led by Curiosity and good Company I strolled away to -#egHb¬•e} Mother Church, or rather Grandmother
Church, I mean the Romish Chappell. Heard a good, short, moral Essay upon the Duty of Parents to their Children, founded in
justice and Charity, to take care of their Interests temporal and spiritual.

This Afternoons Entertainment was to me, most awfull and affecting. The poor Wretches, fingering their Beads, chanting
Latin, not a Word of which they understood, their Pater Nosters and Ave Maria's. Their holy Water-their Crossing themselves
perpetually-their Bowing to the Name of Jesus, their wherever they hear it-their Bowings, and Kneelings, and Genuflections
before the Altar. The Dress of the Priest was rich with Lace-his Pulpit was Velvet and Gold. The Altar Piece was very rich-

little Images and Crucifixes about-Wax Candles lighted up. But how shall I describe the Picture of our Saviour in a Frame of
‚ÄòMarble over the Altar at full Length upon the Cross, in the Agonies, and the Blood dropping and streaming from his Wounds.

The Musick consisting of an organ, and a Choir of singers, went all the Afternoon, excepting sermon Time, and the Assembly
chanted-most sweetly and exquisitely.

Here is every Thing which can lay hold of the Sight Eye, Ear, and Imagination. Every Thing which can charm and bewitch the
simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Adieu.
John Adams

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story (she was an Epstein victim, then the mother of his child; he just had her deported by ICE), here's the bigger context: it was Zampolli who brought the Slovenian model Melania Knauss to the US and introduced her to Trump. 1/

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

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Baseball GIFs @baseballgifs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

C.B. Bucknor blows a call while not watching it

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