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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
npr.org
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I were still in the wh press pool, it would be such a no brainer (tho it’s not like I ever was granted decision making power): no one go until this is lifted and if you do, you are no longer a member of the WHCA
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Occasional reminder that Congress could pull the plug on Trump’s military misadventure with a funding cutoff.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“They are going to spend many millions of dollars against Democrats no matter what … Democrats can either welcome their hatred, a la FDR—promise to save jobs and people from A.I.—and reap some of the financial and political upside. Or they can stick with neoliberalism and get it coming and going.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So which one of Kash’s friends trying to join the FBI had a bestiality conviction on his record?
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Before COVID, the grab-and-go deli sandwiches at my local market cost $4.99 each. From 2020 to 2025, they stayed around $7.99-$8.99. Now they are $12.99-$14.99. It's all airport pricing now. It's "They're trapped here. They'll pay whatever we want," except for the entire country.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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This is a Dumb Timeline @seabirb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Isolating ourselves with our own choices
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/09/2026
“They’re taking care of utilities and taking care of datacenters and the bill is posing as a consumer protection measure when in reality it will increase costs on consumers across the board." - Jim Walsh of @foodandwater.bsky.social on the Ratepayer Protection Act
theguardian.com
Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn
Experts say Ratepayer Protection Act ‘posing as a consumer protection measure’ and will raise prices on working people
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This is a Dumb Timeline @seabirb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I just, I can't
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/09/2026
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I want to talk to you about an article @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social published yesterday that should be getting a LOT more attention than it currently is -- It's all about how the US Census Bureau is overrun with staffers from a notable MAGA think tank.
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/09/2026
I know we’re numb to this, but it is really bad that journalists and politicians both feel so comfortable lying. Society cannot sustain itself when its elites just lie like this.
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Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 THE KAPOW HANDBOOK IS FINALLY DONE!!! 🚨 6 months, 5 authors, and 60 pages later, we’ve written a guide on how to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics. And we’re not gatekeeping this info either. Get a free digital copy on 9/21 at kapow.works/handbook !!!
Me, holding a spiral bound notebook that reads “how to KAPOW the system”Two pages of the book, one is an FAQ asking why campaigns haven’t been doing this the whole time. The other is a black intro page for PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE that reads “Cynicism is for losers. We can build the world we want to see.”Two pages on how to make a mutual aid hub in your campaign office with loads of
Polaroids of our office and volunteers
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrest him?
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14/09/2026
A Russian businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin financed celebrations in the Bahamas that immediately followed Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding to Bettina Anderson earlier this year. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4xt2wlg
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Poor Righteous Teacher @brothaskeeper.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
"Well, Lesley, I have produced a 4-point plan to counter the rise in gas prices that examines the quality of one's 1.) Shoulders, 2.) Chest, 3.) Pants, and most importantly 4.) Shoes, and how one can perpetuate the jiggalation of said quality...."
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13/09/2026
Across the country and up and down ballots, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras, the AI-powered nationwide network of automated cameras that record license plates and other characteristics of all passing vehicles. to.pbs.org/3UH6Rn2
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Flock cameras become midterm campaign target as voters balk at tech companies' power
Although police say the cameras are an invaluable crime-fighting tool, some critics say their pervasiveness amounts to unconstitutional warrantless mass surveillance.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nothing divided the citizens more than “Citizens united” 😕 💰
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This is a Dumb Timeline @seabirb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Doesn't matter that this is an obvious lie. People have already heard it, and it will change votes. It's literally a bribe and impeachable.
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This is a Dumb Timeline @seabirb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remember that time when Waltz was roasted for a timeline that didn't exactly matchup for his foreign travel?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the record, as Trump ups the volume on the necessity of denying voters, voter fraud (especially by non-citizens) is not a thing. It's a figment of a deranged and criminal mind.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Life in one of Trump's contract concentration camps: "Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
nytimes.com
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatme...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reminder that we still don't know what happened to the stolen docs flown on a plane to Bedminster where Trump was hosting a golf tournament with the Saudis.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
4.5 Benghazis
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bitter Trump razes 40 symbolic weeping willow trees outside Kennedy Center commemorating the assassinated president - days after felling 60 cherry blossoms gifted by Japan in 1912 www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
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Bitter Trump razes 40 weeping willow trees outside Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump has overseen the removal of the symbolic weeping willow trees from the Kennedy Performing Arts Center as he continues to change Washington, D.C.
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Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
First they came for the Rose Garden then they came for the White House lawn after that they came for the reflecting pool then it was the cherry trees and the Willows. The sycamores also fell. All of these trees are part of the national park system and protected under law so when will he be arrested?
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
💯 "the purpose of a system is what it does" -- Stafford Beer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
The purpose of a system is what it does

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The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer,[1] who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".[2] It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to ...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
What did Kash do
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Awesome, our taxes just bought the pedophile Nazi death squads a bunch of torture gloves.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2026
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become. www.wired.com/story/how-an...
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How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Whomst could have predicted this, other than Sonia Sotomayor, who very specifically did predict it
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
“Axon and Motorola carry seemingly identical features to Flock — and for critics, identical concerns.”
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Boston police stopped using Flock, then turned to its competitors for license-plate-reading surveillance cameras - The Boston Globe
Two Boston city councilors told the Globe they were unaware of the pilots and they believed they should have been notified in advance.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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