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Serenity3_18

@serenity318.bsky.social
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Opinionated Aquarian Pottymouth who knows a little about a lot but, in the grand scheme of things, I'm as ignorant as they come. Bodies of water and thunderstorms bring me serenity. I will block any sorry arsed lowlife who uses R*t*rd as an insult.

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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...
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Something Like People
A poem
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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President Homelander
Donald Trump believes he can do whatever he wants—and his followers are determined to prove him right.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?
If only AI can save us from AI, the world is in trouble.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About Schools
Much of the protesting by students has become an exercise in nihilistic resentment.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms
Pentagon planners are weighing options, though no final decision has been made.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Zombie Originalism
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Battle for Hormuz Is Not the War
More oil is flowing through the strait, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has won.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Every joke is a tiny revolution... The big function of humor is to suggest that the world is not as it seems, and that it is capable of being changed. That is why all totalitarian regimes fear it." George Orwell
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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6 popular products sold at Walmart, Amazon recalled for serious safety risks: Return ASAP
The CPSC has issued recalls for over 200,000 products sold at major retailers, citing hazards such as fire, burns, explosions, and child entrapment risks. Here's how to tell if you have one.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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The Missed Opportunity of ‘NAZA’
A provocative Israeli documentary should make viewers think about their own moral parameters. Instead, it distances them from the war.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health
Weight-loss companies that offer the drugs are professing care for more than their customers’ waistline.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The DOJ’s Collapsing Probe Into a Supposed Anti-Trump Conspiracy
It’s buckling under the weight of strategic errors, staff turnover, and, most of all, the facts.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI Has Gone Rogue
It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.  
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America
This place is much too dangerous.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good Grief! www.yourtango.com/self/old-sch...
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Schools Have Banned 11 Old-School Games They Think Kids Today Are Too Fragile To Handle
Adults often think kids are too fragile, but they're quite resilient. Unfortunately, schools have banned many classic games for fear that they're too intense.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Houthis Have a Rich Sense of Irony and Timing
Supposedly decimated last year, they are back and stronger than ever.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Let’s Get Specific About These Doomsday Scenarios
How exactly is AI supposed to kill us all?
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore
Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“A factory of targets… there was approval once to kill 500 people…” 👇🏽 new trailer for ‘NAZA’ (‘collateral damage’) — a Guardian-produced film with testimonies of 24 IDF soldiers Israel doesn’t want you to see. (released free online next month) More: jewishcurrents.org/naza-will-ch...
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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ICE Says It Can Detain Immigrants as Long as It Wants. Will the Supreme Court Agree?
Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may soon have the final say.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s Public Service Announcement: ‘Love Me’
Taxpayers are funding a campaign-style ad for the president.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hearing on Flock cameras. Worth listening to if/when you have 1.5 hours. youtube.com/watch?v=kNEW...
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Deferential President
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he’s waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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RFK Jr. Took Money From Key Health Agency for His Own Security Detail
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took millions from the Office of Minority Health in order to fund his exorbitant security costs.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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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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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever
Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.
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5150-47 @suffernofools123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in fact, show up early and vote. don’t wait for Election Day. early voting begins in Texas on October 19th
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am...
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The AK-47 Weighs 7.7 Pounds, Cycles at 600 Rounds a Minute, and Is Good to About 350 Meters. Between 40,000,000 and 100,000,000 Have Been Built. The Entire M...
Kalashnikov's trick was not precision. It was the opposite — loose tolerances, a tapered case that extracts from a filthy chamber, and a free-floating firing pin. Sand gets in. The AK-47 runs.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Rise of Parasite Authors
First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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50 Songs That Explain America
From Sinatra to SZA, Appalachian folk to Detroit funk, a journey through the music that showed one British critic this country’s soul
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Press Is Not the Root of Trump’s Problems
He’s in a predicament of his own creation.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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How to Regulate the Ghosts
You don’t have to know everything to do something.
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Serenity3_18 @serenity318.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Tennessee Lawmakers Demand Answers on Safety in State Youth Prisons
Lawmakers cited a recent WPLN and ProPublica investigation that found that juvenile justice facilities run by Tennessee businessman Jason Crews repeatedly failed to report abuse and other serious inci...
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