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Spiffy Giffy

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h
When small American communities say no to big data centers, some tech companies won’t take no for an answer. mrf.lu/2f5zV
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/2e1_O... My guess. I worked as a nurse on Physical Rehab. He has extremity weakness.
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Trump Walking Video Fuels New Health Speculation #Trump #Health #LamontTyson
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/10/2026
Stevens: Endorses Abdul Slotkin: Endorses Abdul Nessel: Endorses Abdul Peters: Endorses Abdul Whitmer: Endorses Abdul Harris: Endorses Abdul DSCC: $30M helping Abdul OBAMA: Endorses Abdul Leftists: "WHY DO MODERATES WANT ABDUL TO LOSE???" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Point is: This voter lives in Michigan and has no idea what her actual, lived reality looks like. Don’t tell me that people like her would be incapable of electing a Republican in 2028, even with a bad economy and $6.50 diesel." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doomsd...
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The Doomsday Scenario
Even if Democrats crush the midterms, we’re in a world of trouble.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Extraordinary how many roads lead back to the Kremlin & Putin.” @mrjamesob 🇬🇧 reacts to Tucker Carlson “verging on defending Hitler” by questioning why 🇬🇧 got involved with WW2 🤔— echoing the territorial “poked the bear” excuse Tucker uses to defend Russia invading Ukraine
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/10/2026
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They’re all completely insane. Vote every single one of them out. Republican Rep. Moore on Watergate: "Richard Nixon was absolutely couped out of office and was framed. All of this was fake."
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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⚡️It’s Got Electrolytes⚡️ @themarchingmorons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The power of the crust compels you.🤣
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“.. One idea under discussion is insurance against losses on loans to upstart cloud computing companies, or “neoclouds”, if they default and the Nvidia chips pledged against their debt cannot be resold ..” @financialtimes.com $NVDA www.ft.com/content/d6a9...
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should pass a law where women are just legally allowed one swift punch to the face of any man who says they should "smile more".
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026
You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 26/09/2026
The independent autopsy of Nolan Wells, completed by forensic pathologist Dr. Roger A. Mitchell, argues the investigation should remain open due to several factors. “We don't know how Nolan died,” Ben Crump said. “And neither does the State of Mississippi.” buff.ly/Rd1Zza4
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Crump Releases Full Independent Autopsy of Nolan Wells, Maintains That Questions Remain
Attorney Ben Crump released the Nolan Wells’ independent autopsy, a day after a grand jury returned no true bill in the investigation of Wells’ death.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
This is actually hell, right?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congrats to liberal centrists for spending the last six weeks making hating Hasan Piker the top issue in American politics only to now have your viewpoint intrinsincly shared with the most hated man on the planet. Genius move. No notes. zeteo.com/p/netanyahu-...
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First Draft: Netanyahu Slams Mamdani and Piker Before Nearly Empty UN
The Israeli PM prompted a walkout then teed up his targets to show him up for the war criminal he is. The White House, meanwhile, pumped out pro-Trump ads of dubious sanity but also likely illegality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just spoke at Leisure World (retirement community) in Seal Beach, and the grandmas are out for blood. Loudest round of applause I got was when I said “a lot of these problems will take generations to fix, but one thing we can do right away is hold everyone in this administration accountable”
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OpenAI hacks the Australian Government this time. I don’t quite understand why these hacks don’t result in criminal charges every time. Hacking is illegal, and these systems are owned and run by companies with responsibility for their tools. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia news live: Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare
Follow the day’s news live
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Republican who runs South Dakota's elections just backed a Democrat to succeed her. "South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation; who will support election officials rather than burden them for political effect."
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Republican Who Runs South Dakota Elections Backs Democrat to Succeed Her
Monae Johnson, the secretary of state, is the latest Republican incumbent to speak out against conservative candidates as President Trump loses support before midterm elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I find these settlers unsettling
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Christopher Ware @chrisware.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Signed @eko.org's petition to the Administration demanding that they protect 59 million acres of U.S. forests by upholding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. #DidThisToday action.eko.org/a/trump-hand...
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Trump: hands off the forests!
For 25 years, a law protected 59 million acres of forests in the US – some of the last truly wild forests on the planet – and just a few weeks ago, Trump signed off to end this protection.Now, pristin
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 16/09/2026
Women have been meeting the standard since day one, that's more than we can say about Pete Hegseth.
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Cory In ATX @coryinatx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay, I’m going to say it loud and clear: White people, we need to stand up (peacefully) to federal agents who are at the polls (illegally). We need to protect our black and brown voters, who will be the targets of these fascists. Protest and record. Get into some good trouble.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No man who has ever lived has been despised by more people than Donald Trump. If you need yet another reason -
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Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz
Trump is treating the Kennedy Center exactly
how an abusive man treats women. If he can't
put his name on it and claim ownership, nobody
gets to have it.
Rapists never take no for an answer.
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Yooberz 🍤 @yooberz.postes.club · 16/09/2026
the way these motherfuckers twist together "being against murdering Palestinians" and "hating jews" pisses me off more than i can even put into words
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.
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Idle Acres @mountainmusings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I used to think that religious people were only a threat to themselves, kinda like drug addicts just using a crutch to escape reality but now that they're organized into a hateful political party hell bent on destroying a multicultural America society I see them as a threat hand in hand with fascism
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Talarico calls out Ken Paxton for repeatedly refusing to debate him. Paxton is so corrupt — and such a coward! 👀 PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
BUNCH: “.. Americans are an amazingly brave people .. They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history. .. And I will stand against wind and tide to prevent history from being erased ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For a few precious hours on a few dozen acres, we saw what happens when tens of thousands of women and girls simultaneously let their guards down.
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Daisy Chain Gave Women Room to Breathe
Inside Olivia Rodrigo's feminist fantasyland,
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kamlager-Dove on Speaker Johnson: I know he’s got to get ready for this gaslighting convention that they have next week in Dallas. I’m just going to ask Grindr to make sure you are at capacity because Republicans are coming to a town near you.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
She's the best.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/09/2026
*wanking motion*
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/09/2026
Mike Johnson on Iranians: "It's apparently part of their religion that they can just lie to someone they disagree with"
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/09/2026
Actual Nazis in Florida proudly promoting genocide but legacy media and corrupt politicians have you worried about the made up “shariah law” takeover.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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