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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 5h
First, Rudy Giuliani booked Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Then Senator Schmitt confused the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Now a GOP super PAC spent $25,000 campaigning in the wrong Portland. These people want to redraw America's borders but can't find the places on a map.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h
Walmart is the largest private employer in America, yet 16,055 of its employees were on Medicaid in just 6 states, and 15,515 were receiving food stamps in 9 states. Mostly red states. And those aren’t even national totals. #RepublicanAffordabilityCrisis
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 8h
This 👇
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6h
For the next 3 months, from Election Day through the swearing in of the new Congress in January, our movement is focused on reclaiming the power of the pro-democracy majority. Please chip in if you can to ensure our nationwide organizers have everything they need to stop Trump’s election sabotage.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6h
The regime and its MAGA minions will lie, cheat, and steal to cling to power. That’s why winning the midterms isn’t enough — we’ve also got to be prepared to protect the results.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10h
I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Enjoy the “interruption”
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404 Media @404media.co · 9h
A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. www.404media.co/her-ai-gener...
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Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'
"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Talarico nonsense being spread by GOP influencers is a typical republican “scandal” - lots of BREAKING!! And 🚨 but no actual substance. If anyone from the Paxton campaign coordinated with influencers to spread these lies, people should go to prison, and Talarico should sue the fuck out of them.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Why don’t more women report sexual assaults?”
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 11/10/2026
I've said it before, Science fiction Jerry Pournelle, who came up with the idea of a US/USSR axis running the world in his future history (which eventually becomes THE MOAT IN GOD'S EYE) would be rolling in his grave tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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CoDominium
The CoDominium series is the brain child of Science Fiction author Jerry Pournelle. The first books were written in the Seventies and set 20 Minutes into the Future, now Science and Time have marched ...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Trump just handed Putin a lifeline weeks before the midterms. Energy analysts say his Russian diesel deal won’t meaningfully lower prices. And a tanker that left Russia weeks before the announcement raises an even bigger question: How long was this in the works?
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Trump Reopens U.S. Market to Putin’s Diesel — Consumers Get Little Relief
Days after the White House invoked an emergency to ease diesel costs, Trump promised Russia new fuel sales as analysts warned the arrangement is unlikely to move prices.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
It is also rumoured that the “diesel deal” is a step toward DJT and those in his proximity acquiring shares to overseas assets of the Russian Lukoil. If and when I have credible confirmation, I will report on this. If this is true, it’s all about lifting sanctions than purchasing any diesel.
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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Scott Bessent started the “Blame Ukraine, not Trump’s War” Big Lie on Sept 5th, it looks like—Trump and other cabinet members doubling down three days later is when & why I started my Refinery Wars spreadsheet and graphing to debunking it
Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries against Brent Crude and US diesel prices by month, January 2021 - August 2026
Data sources: Ukrainian refinery strikes collected by Kostiantyn Hoholenko on Bluesky Brent Crude daily prices from Business Insider Markets
US diesel weekly prices from US Federal Reserve Database (FRED)

(Oil and fuel prices spike when Russia invades Ukraine in late February 2022, trend steadily down again as Ukraine sends drones against Russian refineries in increasing numbers, then spike once more when the US attacks Iran in late February 2026)Pie chart showing days of US Average Diesel Prices as a Percentage of Brent
Crude Highs Jan 1, 2019 - Sept 30, 2026 (2812 consecutive days) from US Federal Reserve & Business Insider data

5% ratio = 66.7% 
4 & 6 % = 30.8%
3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11% combined = 2.4%

5% = 1,876 days
6% = 475 days
4% = 391 days 
8% = 19 days
7% = 15 days
10 % = 15 days
11% = 9 days
9 % = 7 days
3 % = 5 days

Created with Datawrapper
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA is way more angry at Talarico for having the flu than they were Paxton for leaving the country with his mistress for the Fourth of July
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Jen-of-Λrc @jen-of-arc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If unidentified men approached my car w/ weapons like that, I would’ve floored it as well—especially if one of my grandkids was in the car w/ me! 😱 JFC NONE of the ICE officers were in front of the vehicle. So, I don’t see ICE getting away w/ their typical excuse: “We feared for our lives.”
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HankB @hankbxx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Once again video refutes the claim that the victim was trying to run over ICE agents.
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cep65.bsky.social @cep65.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He has a child in the car and has every reason to believe he is being car jacked? ICE is completely out of control.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aside from everything else, ISIS is a big fan of public executions. Their goal is to destroy our way of life and make us more like them, ultimately they believe we either accept their belief system or we die. This is a step in that direction. Making Hason's death public is a win for ISIS ideology.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The man had his five year old in the car. Why wouldn’t he try to get away from men running at him with guns drawn?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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EO @jimmyo13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Most jurors would understand why a driver would assume they were being carjacked or robbed at gunpoint since these masked assholes refuse to wear identification. Creating an army of domestic terrorists will be a big part of trump’s disgraceful legacy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'd be curious to see what happens immediately before that video; I wish the NYPD had made that public as well. But I have to say... on initial view, that looks indistinguishable from a carjacking, and if I'd been the driver I would also probably have floored it.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Recently, Must Read Magazines (MRM) bought three of the most legendary SFF magazines: Analog, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. MRM immediately started changing the contracts to try to take more rights from authors without paying for them.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm still logged off for the weekend but I wanted to post that I love the planet. This is a local park...parts are scruffy because they've been doing work to make it safer for turtles...but girl if this is your scruffy...
A landscape picture of a very small local lake with a blue sky and clouds back-lit by the sun.  Across the lake are trees.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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CTDrijen @ctdrijen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
huge infection risk here, went in for an edema flare up and wound up spending nearly 9 weeks with double pneumonia and peritinitis literally fighting to survive. Never mind the critical malnourishment and withholding of fluids as my BP *cratered*. Ended up with sepsis from a botched paracentesis.
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amb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2026
the onion saw this coming back in april
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you see a violation of US 18 § 592: A) Go about your voting. B) Take pictures, take notes, include the time of day. C) Do not confront; if you're challenged, get name and badge number, but do not initiate. D) Turn documentation over your county election officials and your Secretary of State.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
She then transferred to Oregon State to get her BA, where she met my uncle (he's my blood relation). Relatedly: Never underestimate these women's organizations who were doing this quiet work to help girls achieve more at a time when pressures were quite different.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/10/2026
ICE shot Oscar Bergal. They could have killed the child in his car. Enough. ICE out of New York, and all our communities, now.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 09/10/2026
72 waterfalls. 72! Okay, who has been holding out on me?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the development of the flight software that piloted NASA's Apollo program, has died. She was 90.
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led the development of the flight software that piloted NASA's Apollo program, has died. She was 90.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New York City:
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump singlehandedly raised your costs through his ridiculous tariffs because the Republican Congress refused to stop him. We have less than 4 weeks to work to take back Congress for the people and hold this president accountable. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth picked Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to lead a Pentagon future of war project. It's: -Corrupt! Big Trump donors. -Conflict of interest! Defense contractors who will recommend their products. -Dangerous! Embeds techno-fascists deeper into US defense architecture. My latest, in @ms.now:
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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