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Sessha Batto

@sesshabatto.bsky.social
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Sword wielding Buddhist writer of transgressive homoerotic fiction. sesshabattousai.com Agender, aromantic, asexual...triple A for the win!

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 4h
need so badly for everyone in the country to understand that whatever they do to people like Nidal Malik Hasan, they would also do to you.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h
President Trump told millions of seniors he was giving money that Congress had set aside for Medicare improvements to them. “You are receiving a One-Time Payment of $90 to offset some of the cost of your October Medicare premium,” he wrote.
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Trump emails Medicare enrollees about $90 payment, touts his policies
The unusual move, which comes weeks before the midterm elections, has been derided by Democrats and advocates as a stunt.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h
Cassidy Hutchinson’s crime was providing honest testimony about what an unhinged lunatic Donald Trump is. This made the thin-skinned twit angry.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
It should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h
Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
“I’m a 1st generation Memphian— my dad was broke, became a millionaire. I won’t apologize for that.” MEMPHIS councilman Chase Carlisle cries as he reacts to the public disrupting after they were not allowed to speak as Chase and 6 others voted to delay a data center moratorium🤔
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
Thinking this is wrong does not make you a communist, despite what @MarshaBlackburn says
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
Because it’s gonna cost that much to fool voters like we usually do with culture war bullshit to distract them from how badly we fucked up the economy with incompetence and another new Republican war.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 4h
Of course live-streaming the firing squad execution of a Muslim America is beyond sick. But announcing it now, weeks before the election, is also pretty clearly (to me) a campaign move by the GOP. They want the outrage from elected Dems so they can twist it into anti-Dem messaging. Disgusting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
Body cam footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social scopp here: www.404media.co/watch-footag...
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💙 𝓜𝝄𝒏𝓽𝓮_𝓐ℓ𝓽𝝄 💙 (everywhere) @montealto.bsky.social · 10h
😳 GET A LOAD OF THIS SHIT: The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Wells Fargo over the bank's years-long effort to increase homeownership among Black Americans. www.rawstory.com/scott-turner...
rawstory.com
Trump official makes hostile move against bank for seeking to boost Black homeownership
The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Wells Fargo over the bank's years-long effort to increase homeownership among Black Americans.The Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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Darren @darrenantonovich.com · 10h
As someone who worked in law enforcement for close to 20 years (not a cop), NEVER TALK TO THE COPS. They are not your friend. They are allowed to lie to you to get admission to a crime. Also, they are a group of dumb asses that peaked with a 2.5 gpa in high school.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 12h
Give me your rested, your rich, Your already educated, yearning to breathe free, The elite human beings of your slightly chilly shore. Send these, the homeowners, flying first class, to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Sessha Batto @sesshabatto.bsky.social · 10h
I agree Stolen Intelligence is far more accurate...and people still don't fucking want it
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Chalian: "Look at Donald Trump's approval rating in the Buckeye State. He is down to 36%, 28 points underwater."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
“As much as $5 million in SpaceX two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding US commercial space transportation.”
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 13h
Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile?
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Sko Hayes @skohayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When a campaign to ban abortions in Missouri launched its first TV ad last month, the commercial made no mention of abortion. Instead, it focused entirely on the state’s transgender community. No paywall. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
kansascity.com
In push to ban abortion, Missouri Republicans focus on transgender community
As Missouri weighs an abortion ban, Republican supporters attempt to shift the conversation around Amendment 3 to the transgender community.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14h
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct LGBTQnation Ninth Circuit rules against the AZ legislature’s attempt to force trans people to get surgery before they can correct gender markers on birth certificates, upholding a federal court ruling from last year. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/cour...
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Court rules state can't force trans people to get surgery before updating birth certificates - LGBTQ Nation
The judge called it "improper" to deny trans people the right to change their gender marker through a court order, rather than surgery.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
🚨 IOWA SENATE SHOCKER: Josh Turek is within striking distance of flipping a seat Democrats haven’t won since 2008. Trump carried Iowa by 13 points in 2024. But anger over the economy & the Iran war has transformed the race. A Turek win would help Dems take back the Senate. Let’s finish this. #Vote
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h
RFK Jr is a eugenicist and you should not listen to him. Do not drink raw milk.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h
When you’re so caught up in AI that you forget what it means to be human…
Alvin Sng @alvinsng
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My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 17h
A privileged rich kid - who made his fortune scamming workers - giving a science award to a privileged rich kid - who made a fortune taking credit for other people's scientific/engineering achievements - is possibly the most on-brand thing this admin has ever done. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump to award National Medal of Science to Elon Musk
President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.  Mu…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
New in PN: Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet "Should November be the disaster for Rs that analysts predict, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck POTUS with a ticking expiration clock: he'll become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman."
publicnotice.co
Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet
His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 16h
In our 2026 end-time capitalism we've got lotsa muckrakers exposing corrupt business practices, but paltry few politicians willing to *actually pass legislation* to regulate these practices. Read this excellent 🧵 on surveillance pricing.
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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 18h
This is such a great documentary! I'll never be into digital books. I need to feel the pages between my fingers. I need that smell. 🥹 #books #reading #literature #literacy #antiquities #library #bookstore #history #historian youtu.be/oM17mX_C0Cw?...
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The Booksellers | Full Documentary | WATCH FOR FREE
YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19h
This is indeed very frustrating and I find it hard to respond to. But to some extent it is just the price one pays for being decent when others are not. I would really rather not be like those people, I do think on net I'm happier with the state of my soul this way.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I sure would like to hear more of this.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/10/2026
Great, so we send people home to be future competitors. "Universities may face up to $100K in fees for foreign students to work in U.S. The policy could sharply curtail access to a popular work program & lead to further disruptions to international enrollment." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
washingtonpost.com
Universities may face up to $100K in fees for foreign students to work in U.S.
The policy could sharply curtail access to a popular work program and lead to further disruptions to international enrollment.
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Steevo @exsk8pnk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I found several links to news articles; this is the only one I found lacking a paywall and it's dated from this past June. "The Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead in Social Security records as part of an immigration enforcement push, according to a whistleblower."
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DOGE plan would have marked 2.7M living people as dead: Whistleblower
The Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead in Social Security records as part of an immigration enforcement push, according to a whistleblower.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/10/2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is telling one story about the economy; the bond market is telling another, @willgottsegen.com writes in The Atlantic Daily:
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Bessent vs. the Bond Market
The Treasury secretary is telling one story about the economy; the bond market is telling another.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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Make The Planet Great Again... @turquoisemarble.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So you have to sacrifice so Trump can grift another billion or so. Suck it up, Yankee Doodle.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump will not respect the election outcome. What a shock. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This MFer appointed the past *two* Fed chairs. He’s about a month away from claiming Biden started the war in Iran.
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Greetings, Professor Falken 💗💜💙 @blackeyed-susie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't even put my anger into words. We had more or less eliminated measles. But the eugenicist in charge and his bullshit desire to let sicker people die had to go and fuck it all up for everyone. Nobody has to get measles! It's fucking preventable!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Senate Republicans took a wrecking ball to affordable coverage. Now 80% of ACA enrollees say costs are higher, and people are forced to choose between keeping insurance and paying for basics. Republicans lit the fire. Do not let them escape the smoke. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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