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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 19/08/2026

' ' MÉTAMORPHOSE

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Chris Sicard @sicard.io · 13/08/2026

"Reflect on my concrete, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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Chris Sicard @sicard.io · 14/07/2026

Just saying, whoever is president on Jan 20th, 2029 should immediately send a video team into the Oval to record tearing all this stuff off the walls as an ASMR style video Have a chemist off to the side to test how much of it is fake gold Post it to YouTube the same day for incredible catharsis

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

Two panel comic. Panel 1: an anglerfish is washed up on the ocean shore, laying in the tide. It thinks to itself, “it’s so beautiful.” Panel 2: wide shot of the beach, rocky cliffs, and sky at sunset, with the anglerfish still laying in place. The anglerfish continues thinking to itself, “I might have never known.”

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

Back Of Gatorade Bottle Features Recipe For Gatorade Casserole

@andrewfleer.com actually collecting the ingredients for this for some reason

It's so wet

An unbaked Gatorade casserole
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Update: 30 minutes later, it's still very wet.

Maybe 20 more minutes?

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We're going to try just a little longer.

For the record, it smells horrid

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After an hour, I think this is the best we're gonna get

Baked Gatorade "casserole"
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Gatorade casserole soup in a bowl
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Y'all I'm scared to try it

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It smells like hot tuna, with a lingering sweetness of the Gatorade

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Why haven't we heard from a SINGLE Democratic state about steps they're taking to counteract the post-VRA GOP power grabs in Louisiana and Alabama and South Carolina and Tennessee? Do you think this is going to fix itself? Why is it so fucking difficult for Democrats to fight back?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

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Chris Sicard @sicard.io · 21/04/2026

@bencollins.bsky.social It's time to change your username to John Onion www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

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Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.

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Silly 👑 ART CLASS UP @sillychaotic.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hey #PortfolioDay I love colors, strange patterns and surrealism ✨ (sshh im late i know)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Genuinely have always felt like a serious dramatic show about two Jedi solving Star Wars crimes every week would be ridiculously entertaining

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026

Artemis II lifts off

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 13/01/2026

I drew this, go read it!

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 10/04/2025

ZONE A2 - 2441 AD //

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

2016-03-16 Saturn RGB - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/FhRsdC

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

vamp fatale 🦇 // #FFXIV #Dawntrail

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2025

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/11/2025

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft

As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...

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Birmit @birmit.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Well come and well met, my brave little spark How long you've wandered, burned bright as a star Oh, I have awaited you patiently all this time 💫 #ffxiv (Illustration wip)

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Birmit @birmit.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hey #PortfolioDay💫🗡️ I'm Birmit and I draw things

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

hunter's moon // #Bloodborne

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Yllande @yllande.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Witch Yor 🎃 #SPYxFamily Too early for trick or treat... but she doesn't know!

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 17/03/2025

Zone A2 - 2122 AD //

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 28/05/2025

Tonneau Transit 🚅

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that. The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom." Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/08/2025

As a DC resident I feel like I should say: This is a complete and utter lie. My kid, under age 12, walked to school last year into an area close to downtown. Telling the truth is an important thing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I have a little personal project that I've been adding things to now and then. It's called Penumbra and it explores the beauty of space. Here are some Penumbra pieces - all painted in Photoshop 🌠

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