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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

achilles when he was sulking:

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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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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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Aahhhhhhhh

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026

Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd like to encourage every single historian of Nazi Germany to submit an application to this job.

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the choice to announce things in weight instead of volume is the most "grandpa got told a big number he doesn't understand" shit ever

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Jimmy Kempski @jimmykempski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(I wouldn't click on this either.)

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a death blow to social scientific research in the US

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.

This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 07/10/2026

SpaceX is basically daring lenders to pony up $40 billion so it can buy Nvidia chips on what sounds like a cocktail napkin www.ft.com/content/d3f5...

Musk's limited financial disclosures have kept some investors away from SpaceX debt in the past.
Investors who SpaceX has previously approached about financing its multibillion-dollar chip purchase said they only received a short two-page deal memo with pictures of outer space and an arrow pointing out that the company was going to build data centres "somewhere in the universeẠạ
"How are we supposed to take that to the
IC?" one of the people said, referring to the in-house investment committee that
approves transactions.

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Jimmy Kempski @jimmykempski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love when my mom makes sure I haven’t missed a little news nugget.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wanted: an antitrust policy that makes it so that newspapers can't run headlines that read, "creating a vast _____ empire"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And this is why we don't take Shelby Foote seriously as a historian. #CivilWarMemory

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kilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 05/10/2026

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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Steven McNabb @stevenmcnabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first three 2nd half drives in every game this season through week 4 (12 drives) for the Eagles have resulted in 1 first down combined.

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Steven McNabb @stevenmcnabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Number of plays in the Eagles' first 3 2nd half drives this season: WAS: 3, 3, 3 TEN: 3, 7, 3 CHI: 3, 3, 3 LAR: 3, 3, 4* (turnover on downs)

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t even like beer and I liked a Guinness in dublin. It’s some kind of magic trick.

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

School music programs are getting absolutely bodied by tariffs, per @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent last September but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump’s second term.
Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

“It’s hitting the horns, it’s hitting the strings, it’s hitting the percussion,” Mr. Hendrix said. “All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey.”

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FDR v. Stephen Miller

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No one under a certain age remembers the water gun arms race these things set off. Suddenly, the simple squeezy-trigger spring loaded squirt gun was laughably obsolete. Every battle between the new technology and the old was like a backyard Somme.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3459 is getting ready

A couple of bunnies haul a gigantic pumpkin home from a pumpkin patch, dragging it down the sidewalk in an old-fashioned red toy wagon. A third bunny rolls a smaller pumpkin sideways along the sidewalk just behind them

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

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Steven McNabb @stevenmcnabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can't think of a more fitting end to the Phillies' season than Otto Kemp being asked to pinch hit to stave off elimination.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026

… alright, so we’re getting “go back to Africa” before the N-word. Let’s adjust our betting sheets accordingly.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. 92 percent of the 2025 tariffs were passed on to US producers and consumers in the form of higher prices, compared with 81 percent for the 2018–2019 tariffs." @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3458 works better on the floor

A small bunny has all their notes and papers strewn about the floor, where they are studying while lying down next to their pet goldfish in a fishbowl. They have an actual desk, but it sits unused. It is late at night.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard.

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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FINAL: White Sox 7, Astros 3 One day after receiving a letter from Pope Leo XIV offering "abundant blessings," the Chicago White Sox have won a playoff series for the first time in more than two decades. They went to Houston and absolutely ran the Astros. Cleveland awaits next.

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Steven McNabb @stevenmcnabb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andrew Painter with the wildest way to strike out the side that I can recall to win the game in the 10th. A failed ABS challenge, a failed check swing on a ball a good foot+ off the plate, and a successful ABS challenge to end the game.

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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SCHWARBER. HARPER. BOHM. FRANZKE.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 30/09/2026

'The 20 top-performing stocks in the S&P 500 have contributed $1.7 trillion to the market capitalization of the S&P 500 since Aug. 31 while the bottom 480 stocks have shed about $1.9 trillion in value.' www.marketwatch.com/story/this-i...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This morning's softer PCE inflation numbers appear to have changed the Fed debate. Futures markets reckon the chances of a pre-election hike have fallen sharply, although it remains a very real possibility.

Horizontal bar chart titled "October Fed decision odds: yesterday vs today" shows probability of different Federal Reserve rate decisions. Market expectations shifted dramatically overnight, with the odds of no change plummeting from 57% to 29%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike surged from 43% to 71%. This 28 percentage point swing transforms a rate increase from a minority view to the clear consensus expectation for the October Fed meeting.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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