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Ms. Smiley If You're Nasty⁷ 🪷 (she/her) @smileystylist.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If you live in the Metro-Atlanta area and want to support #LocalJournalism #CommunityJournalism and #IndependentJournalism, I encourage you to check out @canopyatl.bsky.social and donate to their fundraiser to support the #AtlantaDocumenters program. #Fundraiser #AtlantaNews

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Leigh-Chantelle @leigh-chantelle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

“A dark-skinned Black woman thriving with a supportive white male partner disrupts the expected narrative, making her success a target for shade rather than celebration. The focus reveals bias more than authenticity” (Ace is insufferable, always!) feminegra.com/ace-shades-n... #Nicolandria

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Ace Shades Nicolandria Romance and Sparks Wave of Jealousy Accusations

Ace questions Nicolandria’s romance, sparking backlash and jealousy claims as Olandria’s rise challenges old Love Island narratives.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A sick populace is a weak populace.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Costco made a massive decision to not carry a thing it has never carried this is awful

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 14/08/2025

BREAKING: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams eviscerates Mayor Adams — and cites Streetsblog's @sophlebo.bsky.social — in her promise to override his veto of a delivery worker minimum wage bill:

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City Council Vows To Override Mayor's 'Senseless' Vetoes - Streetsblog New York City

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams had choice words for the mayor who vetoed her colleagues' worker protection bill.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.

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Naotoshi Maeda @naotoshimaeda.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is much bigger than Costco. Anti-abortion activists are coming after all reproductive health tools, including condoms. The GOP cult is backing all of their nonsense to make it law. Your reproductive health is no longer your choice. This is not a safe country to live in as a woman anymore.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/08/2025

“Approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city. They made a total of 23 arrests," Press Sec. Leavitt told reporters. For reference, the D.C. police average is 58.7 each day. Almost no one has been arrested because D.C. isn’t actually a crime-ridden hellhole. trib.al/laZVgog

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL “They’re trying to price these kids out of an education”

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

"The public fight between medicine and government is now accelerating the nation onto a path where advice diverges over not just COVID shots but vaccines generally." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working

The Trump administration’s COVID-revenge campaign has laid the groundwork for Kennedy’s larger agenda.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Hyperfocus and inertia are the same nervous system. They're YOU. We design ramps to start and exits to stop without wrecking your week. 5-week AuDHD cohort. Small group. Pay as you can. All welcome www.theautisticcoach.com/audhd-group-...

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

RFK's Covid vax misinfo/disinfo fueled the distrust that has made public health folks' jobs harder & more dangerous. Now, he's using the lack of trust to justify dismantling our public health protections. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

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The CDC Shooting Proves How Dangerous Misinformation Can Be

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to acknowledge how his anti-vaccine rhetoric endangers public health workers.

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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025

This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/08/2025

Oh look the thing I've been talking about for fifteen years, yelling about for ten years, and screaming about for four years, all while being called an alarmist and reactionary, is here. Thank you in advance for your "nobody could have foreseen this" comments. Can't wait to repeat the whole cycle.

BREAKING: US layoffs have surged to their highest level since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/08/2025

Reporting on the way conservatives planned to promote Prager U while they were defunding PBS would have been useful context for readers and the general public.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

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Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians

“I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

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There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp

Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Here's how NYT explained that TRUMP'S FUCKING DEFENSE ATTORNEY went to meet the sex trafficker who "stole" his spa girls, turning one into a sex slave. No mention of his name, no mention of his role as defense attorney, no mention that sex traffickers don't go to prison camps.

Seeking to quell the backlash, the Justice Department dispatched a top official to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s longtime associate who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. On Friday, Ms. Maxwell was moved to a lower-security facility. That fueled speculation that Mr. Trump might commute her sentence or even pardon her in return for her cooperation.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 04/08/2025

In Eswatini, hospitals go dark. Mothers are sent home to die. The US walked out. Not quietly. Just efficiently. What happens when the dream of care becomes an abandoned promise? The numbers are real. So are the bodies. No one is coming. Not unless we say something.

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What the closure of USAID is really costing the world

The abrupt withdrawal of American funding has stranded millions of patients and will be felt by countries for years to come

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If you think prohibiting people on SNAP from purchasing “junk food” is good, you’re clearly more interested in punishing poor & disabled people than you are in healthy living. The rich can eat as much junk as they want, but the poor must cook for themselves or go hungry?

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID "A major international study has revealed a troubling surge in gut-brain disorders like IBS and functional dyspepsia since the COVID-19 pandemic." scitechdaily.com/why-your-gut...

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Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID

IBS and gut issues are rising fast after COVID, and scientists believe long COVID may be fueling the gut-brain chaos.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

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DaveC3- Manny Rutinel for CO CD 8 @davec3.solidarity.social · 05/08/2025

Woo hoo, solidarity my friends

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2025

A thread of photographs from today's "Families Stand Up for Gaza" protest organized by @socialists.nyc, @jvp.bsky.social, and many other groups. A Palestinian mother weeps while speaking to the crowd. The big "SHAME" heads on the displays behind her featured Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand.

A woman in a keffiyeh, with tears streaming down her face, speaks before a big cardboard display of Chuck Schumer's face with the words "SCHUMER" and "SHAME" on its forehead.

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Ms. Smiley If You're Nasty⁷ 🪷 (she/her) @smileystylist.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

After putting it off for months, I'm finally watching the final season of #HandmaidsOnHULU. Rewatching S5, Ep10 to get back into the story, but I may have to rewatch all of Season 5, because I feel so behind. Whew!

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a woman wearing a red shirt and a white headband

Alt: a woman wearing a red shirt and a white headband

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 02/08/2025

WATCH at Bryan Steil ton hall, his constituents told him it's time to for him to step down.... There are options: Randy Bryce and Gage Stills are running against him.... Steil only won with 54% of the vote.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/08/2025

63 percent agreed that the Trump administration “is hiding important information” about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Of those who said the administration is hiding information, a staggering 81 percent blamed Trump for it. EXCLUSIVE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2025

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 04/08/2025

Since the start of Trump’s second term, colleges in both blue & red states have signed contracts with ICE & CBP, ‪@julialuz.bsky.social‬ reports. Universities have become yet another set of tools in the government’s mass deportation arsenal. prismreports.org/2025/07/31/h...

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How universities are deepening ties with federal immigration agencies

ICE and CBP are merging with institutions of higher education to form a new academic police state to assist in immigration enforcement

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

what right wingers mean when they say immigrant

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink guy and White guy are having a chat.
White guy: Urrrgh! I’m so sick of immigrants! I’m moving to another country

Panel 2:
Pink guy: So, you’re gonna become an immigrant?

Panel 3:
White Guy: Well yeah, but I’m white, so y’know…

Panel 4:
White guy: Not like, an immigrant immigrant

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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"At the 13th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on #HIV Science held in #Kigali, #Rwanda, from 13-17 July 2025, @who.int presented the first-ever guidance for countries to develop comprehensive & integrated programmes for triple elimination." #IAS2025

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WHO Issues First Guidance for Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B

Global commitment encourages countries to provide the most effective person-centered care to pregnant and breastfeeding women.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I don't see how there can be any realistic doubt that Trump and the GOP are already engaged in a major effort to manipulate the 2026 elections. If they succeed, the Republic is over. A lot will come down to what portion of traditional Republican voters stay loyal to their country, and to democracy.

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Trump and his allies mount a pressure campaign against US elections ahead of the midterms | CNN Politics

A few weeks ago, Republican election officials in Colorado began receiving unsolicited calls and texts from a GOP consultant who said he was working with the Trump administration on “election integrit...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 04/08/2025

people who aren’t in the upper midwest can’t understand just how bad the air is i was outside with my dog for three minutes and my eyes are already watering and my lungs burn this is just every summer now. in this “climate haven”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2025

A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 04/08/2025

I have come to learn that it's quite radical to believe that Black and Brown folks deserve dignity, especially in a hierarchy that upholds rich white people at all costs. What's taking place right now is these ol' boys networks trying to reel it in back to when they had power exclusively.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

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