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Bookdragon, gamenerd, dicegoblin, CR Critter. Non-binary cryptid, crutches and snark. What more do you need? They/them, Autistic, Pagan, Gothy delight. Curses often, unapologetically further left than Marx, because I recognize women's invisible labor.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h
Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.
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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Trump: "CNN & MSDNC’s Ratings have dropped considerably. The primary reason is NO CREDIBILITY! They only write badly about a man who won the Election IN A GIANT LANDSLIDE... & whose Popularity has grown because of the unprecedented SUCCESS our Country is having on both the World Stage, and at home."
Trump: "CNN and MSDNC’s Ratings have dropped considerably. The primary reason is NO CREDIBILITY! They only write badly about a man who won the Election IN A GIANT LANDSLIDE, winning all 7 Swing States, the Popular Vote, and 86% of the Counties, etc., and whose Popularity has grown because of the unprecedented SUCCESS our Country is having on both the World Stage, and at home. CNN and MSDNC, to show you how fake they are, today refused to cover one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng. The event was magnificent — Actually made for Television but, because they’re Fake News, and because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to “TRUMP,” they refused to be there. That’s why they have such poor Ratings. Tonight’s State Dinner at the White House, for President Xi, will be spectacular! The Media will be in attendance. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
this piece aged well: Why Trump’s “ban on the free press” will go down in flames
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Why Trump’s “ban on the free press” will go down in flames
Very illegal and very not cool.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This mans' imagination is next level
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True.......
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 23/09/2026
The autistic self-advocacy movement would not exist without the work of the self-advocacy movement started by people with intellectual disabilities. We take pride in that history, and we see our work as a continuing part of that movement. autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/w...
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What We Believe - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Our Motto: What is “Nothing About Us Without Us”?“Nothing About Us Without Us” means that autistic people need to be involved whenever autism is discussed. When non-autistic people make decisions…
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23/09/2026
Here’s the truth: We can protect Social Security and even expand benefits if everyone paid their fair share! @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social
A post from Senator Elizabeth Warren. The text says, "A teacher earning $60,000 pays Social Security taxes on every dollar she earns. A worker earning $184,500 does too. But someone earning $10 million pays tax on just the first $184,500. That doesn’t make sense. We can protect Social Security if everyone paid their fair share."
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Basil Gentleman 🦋 @basilgentleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let me sum up the whole #Iran war for you in one meme lol 😂 #Trump
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NCPSSM @ncpssm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Oliver takes down Medicare Advantage - especially United HealthCare - for overbilling taxpayers for patient care.  #johnoliver #medicareadvantage #medicare  #healthcare #healthinsurance @lastweektonight.com
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/09/2026
Diesel fuel costs 71% more than it did before Trump’s reckless war.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
have you noticed how the FBI and DOJ's line about every single ICE shooting is that "the investigation is ongoing" so they can't say anything? (Or hold anyone accountable.) Reminds of how Trump's tax audit was going on for years and years.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
DURBIN: Do you still stand behind the false statements you made on social media after Marimar Martinez was shot? KASH PATEL: They are not false statements DURBIN: She's never been charged with a crime after being shot five times PATEL: You want her to be charged for being shot?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel: "We did not want to punish victims of beastiality"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Whitehouse grills Patel on Epstein 👇 WHITEHOUSE: Am I accurate in suggesting the missing 37 pages likely include FBI contemporaneous notes from interviews w/woman who said she was assaulted by Trump? PATEL: I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced 3.5m pages W: But not these 37
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/09/2026
No one person, no billionaire, no political party, and no President gets to decide our leaders before voters do. Learn how you can help protect America's free and fair elections with No Kings this Thursday night. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/noki...
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?
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God @thegodshow.com · 02/09/2026
JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask where are the Epstein files.”
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
By request, here's the short "educational" film that played during the pre-show as part of the 2009 fair exhibit for "AL'S BRAIN IN 3-D."
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Your Friend The Brain
YouTube video by alyankovic
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.
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Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mail-in voting lawsuit: Colorado AG joins 20 states suing USPS over new election rules Mail-in voting lawsuit: Colorado AG joins 20+ states suing USPS over new election rules share.google/xRDOGGrtkerd...
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Mail-in voting lawsuit: Colorado AG joins 20+ states suing USPS over new election rules
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Toast @simplytoast.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShwW...
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There I Finished It
YouTube video by Alex E.
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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Apparently Cara the artists app has been scraped a 2nd time. It’s become fish in a barrel for wee arseholes trying to “own the arrogant artists” as I saw one comment say. I’ve deleted my account there. May do on other socials as well where it’s older non glazed/poisoned art posts.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/08/2026
BREAKING: The Minnesota attorney general sues the Texas governor to compel the extradition of an ICE agent charged in a nonfatal shooting.
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Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial
Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott to compel him to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Christian Castro to stand trial in Minnesota for his alleged shooting of a victim during Operation Metro Surge.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/08/2026
A major new Brennan Center study tested how artificial intelligence may affect the upcoming midterms. Watch as election experts discuss the results: bit.ly/4gjTZdS
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How will AI affect the midterms? (with Larry Norden and Abdi Ahmed)
Listen as the lead authors discuss their findings, and read the report yourself here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/does-ai-fight-o...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/08/2026
US sanctions International Criminal Court president, Treasury Department website shows reut.rs/4qm76j4
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US sanctions International Criminal Court president, Treasury Department website shows
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge who is president of the International Criminal Court, according to ​the U.S. Treasury Department website.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🚨 The Department of Energy admitted that Russell Vought cancelled hundreds of grants in October 2025 "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state." It is long overdue—Democrats MUST move to impeach Vought, and Blue State Republicans need to answer for their complicity.
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Toast @simplytoast.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No is a spell. No is a salt ring that Encircles my peace.
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Toast @simplytoast.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fussing at someone for being transphobic online, and it occurs to me, Gender is like Handedness. Babies know if they are left or right handed, Long before they have words for it, before they understand that one is more common, and the other has only fairly recently been accepted in society. 1/2
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working people can't afford gas. Working people can't afford utilities. Working people can't afford rent. For once, can Trump's administration focus on THAT instead its tired ass "owning libs" mentality?
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
When we talk of faeries, we are often talking of terror. For all the flower fairy propaganda and J.M. Barrie's tinkling bells, true faeries rarely have any love for humanity. The true faery is as likely taloned as wearing a dandelion dress and has teeth hungry for blood. – #CLNolan
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 20/07/2026
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Today’s federal minimum wage is a poverty wage. Low wages have left Americans with the largest gap between income and living costs, leaving them under-compensated and over-spent. It's time pay people enough to live on: fortune.com/2026/07/20/m...
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The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds | Fortune
“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in a recent report.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
“I know change is hard, but Mommy and Daddy had a long and serious talk, and we think the best decision for our family is moving to the ad-supported plans,” said Olivia Barnes
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Parents Sit Kids Down For Difficult Discussion About Moving To Ad Tier
PITTSBURGH—Attempting to soften the blow with a promise to go out for ice cream later, local parents Dylan and Olivia Barnes reportedly sat their children down Monday for a difficult discussion about ...
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A. Rivera @bloodravenlib.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#BarelySatire > Mitch McConnell Clarifies Absence Due To Brief Planned Trip To Afterlife theonion.com/mitch-mcconn... Just a brief out of body experience folks, nothing to see here. #KentuckyHuckster #GOP #PartyOfStupid #occultsky
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Mitch McConnell Clarifies Absence Due To Brief Planned Trip To Afterlife
WASHINGTON—Explaining that the public had no reason to be alarmed over his temporary leave, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) clarified Friday that his absence from Congress was due to a brief planned trip ...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/07/2026
Greenlanders reject Trump's renewed push for control of island reut.rs/4voEBSF
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Greenlanders reject Trump's renewed push for control of island
Greenlanders attending a traditional kayaking championship in Nuuk rejected ​U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call for U.S. control of ‌the Arctic island on Wednesday, saying its future should be decided by Greenlanders themselves.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In 2023, the Supreme Court cut the amount of sensitive streams and wetlands it can protect. Under Trump's EPA, data center developers are breezing past federal regulations to build their projects immediately. Some are even withdrawing their permit requests, all without penalty.
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The ‘time-consuming’ permits dozens of data centers are skipping
A court ruling shrinking the scope of the Clean Water Act has allowed new data centers to speed through the federal permitting process. Communities are feeling the effects.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/07/2026
When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn't always add up.
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Why losing weight isn't just about counting calories — and what to do about it
When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our new study shows how dangerous Trump's health care cuts are: More than 600 hospitals across the U.S are financially vulnerable to cuts or closures. That means hundreds of communities stand to lose access to life-saving care! This is a 🚨red alert!🚨 bit.ly/4wtlZlA
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Federal cuts threaten 600 financially vulnerable hospitals nationwide
More than 600 financially vulnerable hospitals across the United States are set to experience an aggregate increase in financial deficits of between 50 and 75 percent. The financial losses, estimated in a new research study, present an extreme risk of c...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/07/2026
If you’re feeling conflicted about the weekend’s festivities, we understand. But this isn’t the Trump 250th. This is America’s 250th — and that means a celebration of and recommitment to a founding ethos that we’ll never bow down to a king or accept tyranny against our neighbors.
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America's 250th
By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Same here. 👍 🇺🇸
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/07/2026
Grandpa thought AI Teddy Roosevelt was real... it's okay lets get you to bed.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/07/2026
Barcelona introduces heat-monitoring bracelets for its outdoor workers reut.rs/4eIlJsT
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Barcelona introduces heat-monitoring bracelets for its outdoor workers
With Spain already sweltering ​under successive heatwaves that caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in June, Barcelona ‌has begun to hand out heat-monitoring bracelets to its outdoor workers to act as an early warning system for health risks.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/07/2026
Meanwhile Mayor Mamdani has significantly increased funding in education, social services, libraries, and parks. Proof once more that safer communities come from investing in people—not punishments.
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Collective for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CALL IT WHAT IT DOES: a Medicaid termination rule! CMS’s new Medicaid rule framed as community engagement ties coverage to verification and paperwork. Eligible people can still be denied or terminated. Public comments are due by July 31. Links in full carousel at CRDJustice.org/resources. [1/8]
Red graphic with large bold text reading, “Call it what it does Medicaid termination rule.” The top says “Center for Racial & Disability Justice” with slide number 1. A yellow circle with a red arrow appears on the lower right. A bottom banner includes a document icon and reads, “Rule: CMS-2454-IFC” and “Comments due: July 31, 2026.”
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