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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026
"the sages did not yearn for the messianic era so that jews would have dominion over the earth or the gentiles, or be exalted by them, but so that they could be free to exist as jews, living and studying torah, without anyone to oppress or disturb them." —rambam
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
lol in the modern era, I haven't seen this many celebrities speak on politics at the same time. Perhaps this was necessary.
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SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
90 Years Ago today! All them fascists bound to lose!
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️
The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Annie Howard wrote a big John Prince deep dive ahead of this month’s celebrations for what would’ve been his 80th birthday
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America still needs John Prine - Chicago Reader
On what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This has made my day 😎💙😎
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am guessing it is a deliberate reference to Daniel Defoe www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44081/...
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from The True Born Englishman
The western Angles all the rest subdu’d; A bloody nation, barbarous and rude: Who by the tenure of the sword possest One part of Britain, and subdu’d the…
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
taken from discord
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Luxembourg Airport has suspended all operations, no arrivals or departures, due to drone activity.
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
today @ minor lits ... The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri
I. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that…
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... now require renewal energy too
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Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres
Government announces before vote on moratorium that any projects above 50MW must submit assessments in planning process
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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.” — Octavia Butler 🧪
A JWST image of the “pillars of creation”
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 13/09/2026
I wrote here about the last time thugs with power tried to strip citizenship from immigrants based on their politics.
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Lessons from a Red Scare
The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.
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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Country blues guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy performing "Hey Hey Baby" live in 1956. Song can be found on his 1955 album Big Bill Blues. #Blues #BluesMusic #CouhtryBlues m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHB...
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Big Bill Broonzy Hey Hey – Live 1956
YouTube video by Filippo M. Sposini
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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When your beak is a spear, then your tongue must be an arrow. Flutter your Gulars!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.mediaite.com/politics/dum... THIS !!!!
mediaite.com
Dummy Website Redirecting People Looking For GOP Convention Info to the Epstein Files
The New York Times reported on the internet sleight of hand on Friday, noting “It wasn’t a hack,” as many first thought.
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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Have you seen/heard this? youtu.be/dSnn0uGtnww?...
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Albanian women's tray spinning song "Tepsije"
YouTube video by Joe Leeming
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
September 2 is not the same without Wendell Berry allpoetry.com/poem/1262591...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry
The Wish to Be Generous

Wendell Berry

All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all will burn in man's evil, or dwindle in its own age. Let the world bring on me the sleep of darkness without stars, so I may know my little light taken from me into the seed of the beginning and the end, so I may bow to mystery, and take my stand on the earth like a tree in a field, passing without haste or regret toward what will be, my life a patient willing descent into the grass.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The tattoos of the Pazyryk ice mummies are of paramount importance for the archaeology of Iron Age Siberia Re-examining the tools and techniques employed in Early Iron Age tattooing High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Right forearm tattoo (left side oriented toward the wrist): A) current state; B) deskewed, evening out skin folds and compensating for the desiccation process; C) idealised artistic rendering (illustrations by D. Riday).
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looks like LIV Golf is mercifully going belly up. The league's bankruptcy settlement offers players pennies on the dollar. LIV's net operating losses exceed $5 billion. You hate to see it. www.ft.com/content/5051...
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LIV Golf prepares for imminent bankruptcy filing
Challenger golf league is negotiating a funding package with BC Partners for a slimmed-down circuit
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SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written. A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours…for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds…” William Carlos Williams, "Paterson"
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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My Dolly Parton story is that she contributed a foreword to a book I edited, and that book make the NY Times best seller list - yet more evidence her book magic was every bit as great as her music magic.
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Wayfaring Strangers
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in t...
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 20/03/2025
The Tonearm is an online journal of unexpected music and culture, a shared exploration of what it's like to create cool + meaningful things. Check out our latest articles + podcasts: www.thetonearm.com/linkinbio/ and don't forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Talk Of The Tonearm ✨
The Tonearm logo — it's a globe but it's also a turntable.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/08/2026
My first story for @prospect.org in my new role ⤵️
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 19/08/2026
In the face of repeated threats to its licenses, ABC has "moved from capitulation to resistance," writes Prof. @bechamilton.bsky.social, w/tnx for an assist from Marie Miller at the @rcls-nyu.bsky.social :
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Trump Administration and Media: Keeping Track of the Big Picture
This graphic tracks the use of State power to help identify linkages between individual developments and broader trends.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/08/2026
Y-I-K-E-S.
A full list of organizations is here. The researchers had high confidence that these organizations had their credentials exposed:

Nvidia Corporation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Samsung Electronics
samsung.com
Salesforce, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
ServiceNow
Siemens AG
S&P Global
Airbus US Space & Defense
John Deere
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Thomson Reuters
FedEx
Munich Remunichre.com
MediaTek Inc.
Volkswagen AG
Deloitte
The Kroger Co.
Siemens Energy
Thales Group
X Corp (Twitter)
Zscaler, Inc.
Epic Games
Orange S.A.
HP Inc.
Philips
Fortum Oyj
Vodafone Group Plc
Carl Zeiss AG
Deutsche Bahn AG
NGINX, Inc.
BT Group
Liebherr
Krungthai Bank Public Company Limited
Roku, Inc.
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We’re celebrating 40 years of “Fall On Me” today (the first single from the band’s fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986). The video was filmed & directed by @michaelstipe.bsky.social
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026
The postponed Blanche confirmation vote is a win in and of itself. A big win. History will remember that we made our voices heard, and that his own party rejected him. That matters!
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.
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Real Person @growlerballtorture.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This could have been a Truth Social post
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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Welp, they drained the reflecting pool and there’s no sign of the alleged 350 foot gash. There are some tire tracks, though…
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SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Obviously a Bluesky user!
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The answer is that everyone reads all day long, probably at a greater pace and breath than any time in human history. They just don’t read linearly and in the same organized fashion as before. This is a transitional time, and reading practices will recalibrate.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 08/07/2026
Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done with her. The one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance.
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max1969.bsky.social @max1959.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” -- D.H. Lawrence America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up
Once you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Chiasmus is the X figure of speech: the first half is flipped & mirrored. We're not "an asylum for the persecuted," but we "persecute those seeking asylum." It's a compelling form that helps your brain to remember the message. Your brain notes the chiasmus, it stands out for repetition & opposition.
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