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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

To be clear, the official position of the US government is that Black Haitian lives don’t matter and it is absolutely the institutional version of hate mail telling people to kill themselves It’s genocidal

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”

Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Stephen @stephenmk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Finally reading The Edge of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted from a book about physics. The breadth of references is stunning: from Einstein to Aime Cesaire to Mission Impossible to Star Trek. Fascinating, compelling read.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The point of putting it this way is to emphasize that the message "here is what the public thinks, so stop thinking differently" is always for the left; the right KNOWS that "public opinion" is a thing to work to change to fit what it wants.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The right has been investing in media for a long time, because they know you can use the media to shape public opinion; one of the way mass media does this is by telling the public what "public opinion" already is, to try to convince the public not to have a different opinion than "capitalism good"

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.

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strap-tap @strap-tap.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Curtis Mayfield's Superfly over Olivia Miles highlights 🥽 Credit to @seanahurd.bsky.social #WNBA

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Stephen @stephenmk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This book was a fascinating behind the scenes on the business of basketball, LeBron, and the Lakers. An in-depth view of the good and the bad of all parties.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So often, when this city comes together, it is because we are forced to by a moment of tragedy or adversity. What a gift it is to be brought together by pure, unfiltered joy."

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Stephen @stephenmk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m almost finished reading The Shining, first @stephenking.bsky.social novel I’ve ever read. It’s really good! Going to follow up with a rewatch of the film.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

why wasn't this reported at the time? for this classic reason:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2026

a perfect sketch. one of the funniest things ever put to film, imo youtu.be/n-Bfkc6lZok?...

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Save Corncob TV | I Think You Should Leave | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

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NBA @nba.com · 31/05/2026

Dylan Harper’s mom, Maria, breaks down her message to him during their postgame embrace 🫶 Dylan Harper will make his first NBA Finals appearance in his rookie season!

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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/05/2026

“Power under capitalism comes from capital itself, and we need to figure out how to have collective control of that.” Read the full interview by @charlespulliam.bsky.social:

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Boots Riley wants you to wake up and smell the class struggle

I Love Boosters is telling a story about the power of working class solidarity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

American evangelicals hold Trump above Christ in practice but if you put the question to them directly they will take some offense

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026

This product should not exist. www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

“The OpenAI team debated alerting law enforcement about a teen that some in the review meeting believed was contemplating shooting classmates at his Texas high school, the people said.
Often when he came home from school, the chat logs indicated, the teen asked ChatGPT to role-play a scenario in which he would shoot his teachers and classmates. He uploaded images of himself with a gun.”

““The kid would tell ChatGPT let’s fantasize about shooting up my school,” one person familiar with the conversations recalled. “And ChatGPT would play along.”
He uploaded a map of the layout of his school, as well as photos of cheerleaders whom he said he wanted to imagine killing, along with their boyfriends, the people familiar with the matter said. In hourslong sessions, he asked ChatGPT to create scenarios, such as how he would enter the school, which victims he would encounter, and when he would open fire.”

“ChatGPT remembered the names of the classmates he said he wanted to imagine killing, and advised the teen on where he would enter and exit the building, and what he could say when cops arrived, the people said.
OpenAI leaders ultimately decided not to contact authorities about the Texas teen. He hasn’t committed any acts of violence that employees are aware of.”

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The folks most invested in pushing it see this flattening out of novelty as a feature not a bug. It’s the same impulse that gives us a thousand sequels and super hero and live action versions of animated IP movies.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Um… I did not know this was a thing.

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orangejuliusesq.bsky.social @orangejuliusesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This tweet came 11 years, 6 months & 27 days into LeBron's career. It’s been 10 years & 11 months since the tweet & the fuckery continues

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 15/04/2026

Love reading audiobooks? Trying not to support big tech? Hey hey 👋 We're an audiobook company that shares profits with indie bookshops. Not only are we a Certified B Corp, Social Purpose Corporation, & 100% employee owned, but our audiobooks are DRM-free—meaning you can listen to them anywhere.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2026

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Our readers are not products to be bought and sold by corporations. They also deserve a site that loads fast, where information isn't locked behind paywalls or designed to lure you into being tracked. prospect.org/2026/04/06/w...

If you’re a Prospect reader, you’ll notice the difference immediately. When you open our website on your device, our articles will load faster. Your phone won’t stutter through a wall of ad scripts. You won’t accidentally tap a banner when you’re trying to scroll. It will just be a faster, cleaner, more respectful reading experience.

Other sites offer something like this—if you pay. We’re going to provide this experience to every single reader, regardless of their ability to purchase a subscription.

We see it as an experiment and a question: Can a nonprofit news organization sustain itself through the trust and generosity of its readers without selling their attention and data to the highest bidder?

We think the answer is yes.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Starting today, @prospect.org has removed all programmatic ads, because we believe that respecting you as readers rather than monetizing your attention will earn trust. This is what the site looks like, with all space reserved for stories about ideas, politics and power. prospect.org/2026/04/06/w...

Prospect.org homepage, now programmatic ad-free.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Mamdani warm and gracious easter greetings

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

EXCLUSIVE: “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Casualties Under Trump in the Middle East The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or injured during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts. theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...

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“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

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Stephen @stephenmk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Losing the war that we started that never had any clear objective while repeatedly antagonizing our allies, who all refused to help us because the war was so stupid, and ending up in a worse position than we were before this needless war started. masterful gambit.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

we need to use the term “slopportunities” until Oxoford English Dictionary recognizes it

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

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