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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The main source of economic dysfunction for young people is housing where the problem isn’t free markets but their absence. Still this only works as a defense of “capitalism” if capitalism’s advocates actually fix it — and fast. www.slowboring.com/p/to-save-ca...
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To save capitalism we need radical land-use reform
Socialism is not the answer, but the status quo isn’t working.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/06/2026
Once again we are embarking on the legal profession’s stupidest ritual: The Supreme Court treating opinion release like a papal enclave, because “just telling you what they’re doing” would require the justices to acknowledge that they are real people, not infallible legal oracles
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The Supreme Court’s Opinion Day Ritual Helps Conceal the Justices’ Favorite Lie
The justices could be more transparent about Supreme Court opinion days. They are making an affirmative choice not to do it.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
For my part I think that the open fascists currently sending my neighbors to concentration camps are worse than Pete Buttigieg but to be fair to McKay I’m a millennial and so was exposed to substantially less environmental lead during brain development
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Jake Eisenberg @jakeeisenberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here’s a super cool “IYKYK” at The K this year. After scanning some of Denny’s scorecards this offseason, Pine Tar Collective’s design team created a “Denny Font” to use for various projects including the decoration of The Walk Off concession stand on the 1B side. Check it out!
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest. bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit. but this could not be. How would thev buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people fron fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes bevond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The ertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdv trunks, and the ripe fruit. And childrer dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and he guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, bu the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float bv, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people here is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wratk
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/05/2026
The way that Republicans gain social capital with other Republicans is attacking Democrats. The way that Democrats gain social capital with other Democrats is attacking Democrats.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
time to watch college basketball for the first time this season
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/03/2026
This is because hating the Democrats is a way to build social currency with other Democrats in a way that the Republicans don't do
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/02/2026
John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/02/2026
Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
People are spending a smaller share of their budget on food of all kinds — groceries, delivery, conventional restaurants — over time as incomes have risen and the relative price of food has fallen compared to other stuff. www.slowboring.com/p/doordash-a...
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This bribe by Binance — fueling Trump’s scam crypto in exchange for a pardon — should send Trump to prison. But after his bribes from Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, ABC, CBS & buyers of his meme coin, the ethical boundaries for this crook are gone. Let’s restore them & send him away.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo--- TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Every normie lib has exactly the same assumptions about How To Do Activism -- everyone should dress nice, pander to media, obey local authorities / laws, disregard security culture -- not just because they've been fed a bunch of lies about nonviolence and the civil rights movement, but also...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2026
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I saw it too:
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Joe Biden Thought vindicated on the infamous “Republicans want to put you back in chains” remark from 2012.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
my friend is one of the eight people in New York who bought a ticket to see Melania. Last night he left his ticket on his dashboard and this morning he noticed his car has been broken into and there were two tickets to Melania on the dashboard!!!!!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hard agree. It’s just wrong! There’s a reason my community is full of Latino and Hmong and Somali people, and it’s because another America does exist and has existed. A free and welcoming America we can return to
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
stop legitimizing the fascist takeover by pretending it's normal
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
There are still 5,000,000+ pages of Epstein files that have not been released. Trump and Pam Bondi want to keep them hidden but we will not rest until we have every single file. Release the files, NOW.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 09/01/2026
Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.
A photo of Renee Nicole Good in her car moments before being shot and killed by an ICE agent.

A verbal exchange is included:

Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
*gunshots*
ICE: “Fuckin’ bitch.”
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
And now schools are closed throughout Minneapolis for the rest of the week. To protect the children from the government. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/01/2026
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The Lions have now lost five of seven since Amon-Ra St. Brown’s stupid Donald Trump dance. Everything Trump Touches Dies.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 23/12/2025
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 02/12/2025
“In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore…When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o... (🎁🔗)
So far, other autonomous vehicle companies don't report or report incomplete data.
Waymo, by contrast, published everything I needed to analyze the data: crash statistics with miles driven that allow accurate comparison to human drivers in the same locations.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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