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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Whirly @girlwhowhirls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have a theory that well-off parents say they want their kids to get college scholarships because that's an acceptable way to say that they want their kids to be exceptional and special. It's not really about paying for college.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1845. Women working in the Pittsburgh textile mills met in Market Square to discuss the necessity of fighting to cut their days from 12 to 10 hours without a reduction in pay. The workers struck and a militant confrontation with capital resulted!

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On @bullseye.maximumfun.org , I asked Dolly Parton why she never had children, and this is what she told me. youtube.com/shorts/k6Lil...

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Why Dolly Parton decided to not have kids

YouTube video by Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/09/2026

"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

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'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries

(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...

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The False Narrative of Economic Anxiety

People are insecure, but that is not the only reason they voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"In October, over 600 current and former employees at OpenAI were able to sell their shares for a total of $6.6 billion. Around 75 of them brought home $30 million each." Tax the fuck out of all of them www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...

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More Money Than They Ever Imagined—and No Clue How to Spend It

Share sales at OpenAI and Anthropic minted hundreds of millionaires. They’re splurging on computer hardware and espresso machines.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/09/2026

"it's ok to forget about 9/11" - ted cruz

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In addition to the staggering anti-intellectualism (and brazen, incredible racism) of this administration, I'm constantly floored by how fragile they all are. Years of right-wing railing against safe spaces and snowflakes and these fools are terrified of museum exhibits and children's books.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some in the media still claim that Trump is purely transactional, with no guiding ideology to speak of. They can only claim this because they refuse to recognize white supremacy as his guiding ideology.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I really need everybody to stop giving antivaxxers any respect or “benefit of the doubt” because if you say stuff like this you should feel bad and should feel unwelcome in human society

Tweet from “Nurse Michele Talks” @Nurse_Michele

The influence of Lindsey Clancy,
potentially being a recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine cannot simply be waved away.
If Clancy is among the roughly 81% of Americans who received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, her vaccination history belongs in the medical timeline.
Peer-reviewed literature has documented neurological, neuroinflammatory and neuropsychiatric events following COVID-19 vaccination, including autoimmune encephalitis, altered mental status, behavioral changes, psychosis, seizures and movement disorders.
When there's a glaring
CORRELATION in a package insert, it is reasonable to deduct... a CAUSATION
when actions match what the package insert says it's capable of CAUSING.
It's really not complicated.

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An aunt @somebodysaunt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Frustrating because this is a clear, easy-to-understand visual example of how healthcare providers typically explain the purpose of the flu and COVID vaccines.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs—official data released this morning shows employment dropped by 4k last month and is down 42k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What this administration is doing to Haitians is quite literally the sin of Sodom. Whether you're a believer or simply looking at it from the perspective of ancient, cross-cultural wisdom, cruelty to guests is just deep, blunt wickedness.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When people tell me that they hate NYT piece X or columnist Z, I usually agree and then add, "But Tressie and Lydia and Jamelle are great." They only know of Jamelle. If you are going to read the Times every day, it's worth not just hate reading! www.nytimes.com/by/lydia-pol...

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Lydia Polgreen

Lydia Polgreen is an Opinion columnist.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On top of that, university hospitals provide crucial health services for regional cities and their large rural surroundings.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is exactly the sort thing ICE officials--and everybody up the chain of command, all the way to Trump--should be held criminally responsible for. This is not an accident, this is deliberate.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What a bit of kismet. Kera edited The Dolly Moment years ago. Today we are together again in the newspaper.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Poured myself a cup of ambition and sat down to the paper. Not bad for a girl born to be a stereotype…and Dolly, of course.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's a great night to rewatch Nine To Five, a genius farce that—unlike many film comedies!—holds up brilliantly AND is packed with great performances and legit political insight

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Vought told them he was going to do this at his confirmation hearings and Republicans approved him anyway.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i know this is presented as a rhetorical question, but the answer to “who is deciding what good science is or not?” can’t actually be “no one.” universities do (and should) act as gatekeepers.

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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is never what people mean by "pro family" for some reason.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19/08/2026

NEW from me: When Rev. Jen Crow told her congregation Sunday that court filings indicate their church was one of FIVE surveilled by federal immigration agents in recent months, she added, “We know what the work of the church is.” The sanctuary burst into applause. religionnews.com/2026/08/19/d...

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DHS, probing anti-ICE activists, spied on at least five Midwest churches, court records indicate

(RNS) — Church leaders were outraged and vowed to continue their advocacy for immigrants.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

Flock probably calls this bringing people together

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/08/2026

Bet you didn't imagine the Well Actually Humorless Killjoy would be one of the first Bluesky jobs lost to A.I.

lan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com • 14h
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them
"this is enough for another whole cat"
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Veratify @veratify.bsky.social
V found this claim is false. This is a well-known internet joke; there are no laws in any jurisdiction requiring pet owners to show cats their shed hair or say this phrase.
Real-time fact-checks on your feed:
https://veratify.ai
Errors or comments: info@veratify.ai

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just phenomenal reporting and analysis by M. Gessen on what’s happening to trans folks in Kansas—major compromises to civil rights, public accommodations, and plain old quality of life www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

92% of Medicaid enrollees are already working or fall into an exemption category.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’ve seen a lot of versions of this and like No. It’s just not true. There’s no time in history Democrats as a whole have had policies this good.

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 12/08/2026

Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...

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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras

The QB used an LLC to shield his identity.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

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Teddy Focaccia @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In late summer of 2021, I saw women in the COVID ICU who had lost their late-term pregnancies and were also going to die because they didn’t get the vaccine.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hello I reinvented Cliff’s Notes so adults can revert to being lazy 8th graders who didn’t do their homework. Give me a billion dollars now.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trump is a buffoon but RFK got exactly what he wanted here. The data are pretty clear that if you spread the vaccine appointments out then parents don’t come back for them. They don’t want kids to get the vaccines.

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

also the voices of working class folks in elite institutions are important but a huge part of the classism is the lack of attention to institutions that primarily serve the working class.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the substackification of journalism is a disaster we will spend decades recovering from. telling an underemployed journalist to just start a patreon or a newsletter or whatever, telling them to write, produce, host, distribute & monetize their own work from scratch, alone... that's nasty behavior!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I cried the day I got that first shot.

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