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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

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RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I feel like Erma Bombeck is all but forgotten, but my mom loved her

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

John Oliver fished this incredibly 90s Robert Downey Jr/Sarah Jessica Parker Rock the Vote PSA out of the memory hole, and now I'm compelled to share it with you. HT: @timcarvell.bsky.social

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Robert Downey Jr. and Sara Jessica Parker: Rock the Vote 1992 Ad by Lawrence Bridges

YouTube video by Larry Bridges

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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I’m just gonna note that the current head of public health policy in the US government has decided this technology should not be researched anymore.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I love this one. This was the one that made me realize these were going to work. A minute isn’t much time and I worried it was too little. But this one does more in a minute than I could do in a whole semester.

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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 27/06/2026

When Vance says "the deep state took down Richard Nixon," he isn't just defending Nixon, he's attacking the idea that Congress, courts, and a free press can check a president who abuses power. The goal is to normalize presidential impunity. For Trump now. Potentially or Vance later.

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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

❤️🤣

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

evil people tbh

Following the panel, the two shared contact information. Shortly thereafter, Scarborough approached Hussein.

“What do you want me to do, leave?” Hussein asked Scarborough.

“Yes,” replied the minister.

Hussein, sobbing, turned from Scarborough, retreating to some chairs to cry alone. Scarborough followed and sat down next to him. The pastor placed an arm on the back of Hussein’s seat, leaning in to console him.

Scarborough, in an interview with The Texas Tribune, clarified that he thought Hussein should leave the country: “If you’re going to embrace the values and the teachings that you’re advocating for, there’s no place in America for you. That’s not assimilation. That’s taking over.”

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Ryan Schwartz @ryanschwartz.tv · 08/06/2026

[chef's kiss]

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

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Erie Canal, Narrated by Pete Buttigieg

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/05/2026

Joe Biden literally wrote a memo telling staff that he’d be disappointed in them if they missed family milestones because of work.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/05/2026

What your sleeping position says about you. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/F9SWDk

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Your Personality, According to Your Sleeping Position

What your sleeping position says about you.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

No words.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

Google made its ambitions quite obvious in its I/O announcements in 2023. On Tuesday, it laid out the next stage of its plan. The company made it clear there will be no escape from its generative AI products as AI hype continues to grip Silicon Valley, despite public sentiment very clearly turning against it and the data centers needed to power it. Search is the center of Google’s business and its power, and the company is taking a serious risk with the part of its business that drives more than half of its revenue.

While there will still be a box on google.com, it will no longer be a directory to the web. Now it will be the portal to Google’s suite of services, but especially its various generative AI tools it wants to force its users to become reliant on. In part that’s to try to win the AI war against its competitors, but it’s hard not to imagine it’s also a play to build user dependency on generative AI before it has to further jack up its prices.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

GIFT LINK NYT 5/11/24: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...

Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

3,437 bound volumes. 17,000 pounds of documents. 1,400 victims. Tomorrow at noon, I'm standing at a podium in Tribeca and reading the Epstein files out loud for 24 hours straight. Please join me. Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@eliza.orlins

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Eliza Orlins

Eliza Orlins is a Manhattan public defender and outspoken advocate for our city’s most vulnerable moms, dads, daughters and sons. Since 2009, she has represented around 5,000 New Yorkers who otherwi...

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026

Immigration make Britain brilliant

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good morning! ☕ Today is the Trump administration's all-day prayer festival on the National Mall -- paid for in part by you, and supposedly open to people of all faiths -- featuring religious speakers with known records of smearing Catholics and Muslims. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Trump’s National Prayer Event Features Speakers Who Smeared Catholicism, Islam

The taxpayer-funded event is hosting religious speakers who trashed Pope Leo’s words as “pious blather” and claimed Muslims are taught to “murder and rape.”

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Kash Patel is out of control. He flew his girlfriend on the FBI’s plane to a concert. The trip was revealed in a NYT investigation into his use of FBI resources for personal use. They sat in a private suite costing $35K to $50K. The FBI refused to say who paid. www.thedailybeast.com/make-a-wish-...

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My "What the AF" for Sat May 16: He brought his girlfriend to a confidential meeting of law enforcement. I MEAN.

According to the New York Times, in early April, Republican Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania invited Patel and other top law enforcement officials to Allentown for a confidential meeting on fentanyl trafficking strategies. The synthetic opioid has killed tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

Patel brought country singer Alexis Wilkins to the meeting, where she sat at the head of the table alongside Patel and top FBI officials as they discussed law enforcement strategy and heard emotional testimony from families whose children died from overdoses, the report states.

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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 11/05/2026

Of the 355 comments submitted by Box Elder County residents, 242 (68%) were flatly against the data center, 106 (30%) expressed concerns about it and 7 — just 2% — said they supported it. The Box Elder County Commission approved it unanimously.

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How do Box Elder County locals feel about the massive data center plan? The numbers are overwhelming, records show.

Hundreds of locals filled out a county form to share their thoughts, with most falling on one side of the issue.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

BTW, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for this project.

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

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Valery St. James 🏳️‍🌈 @valerygirl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Well, you've heard about lovin' givin' sight to the blind My baby's lovin' cause the sun to shine - youtu.be/kfjXp4KTTY8

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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride And Joy (Live at Montreux 1982)

YouTube video by stevierayvaughnVEVO

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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

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RaySCline @lastmandarin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Never Forget as We Americans and other nationalities die.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Republicans want you to believe that women are the problem, but the truth is that these toxic, white MAGA males are insecure. It’s obvious they’re terrified of strong, independent women who have their own opinions and aren’t buying their misogynistic bullshit. Republican men are the oppressors.

There is no "gender war."

Women didn't take away men's right to vote.
Women didn't ban men from education or property.
Women didn't write laws controlling men's bodies.
Women didn't build systems that stripped men of their freedom.
The imbalance never ran both ways.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/04/2026

“The government’s narrative is, ‘We’ve got to track these people down who are building these apps, interfering with federal agents, trying not to be caught. My response is: ‘I’m right here. You have my name. You know where I live. If you want to do something, come do it.’”

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This programmer wants to use your phone to fight ICE

Sherman Austin's text alerts are powering community defense.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026

we all know I have no life, so:

WHAT IF COLUMBO COULD REGENERATE LIKE THE DOCTOR?

1st Columbo: Groucho Marx
2nd Columbo: Danny Kaye
3rd Columbo: Sid Caesar
4th Columbo: Peter Falk (obviously he's the fourth, I mean come on, both in terms of iconicism and timing)
5th Columbo: Jamie Farr
6th Columbo: Judd Hirsch
7th Columbo: Howard Hesseman
8th Columbo: Mandy Patinkin
9th Columbo: Eugene Levy
10th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo
11th Columbo: Adam Brody
12th Columbo: Jason Alexander
13th Columbo: Natasha Lyonne
14th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo again
15th Columbo: Omar Epps

NOT PICTURED: Alan Arkin ("War Columbo"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Fugitive Columbo"), Laura Linney (possible 16th Columbo), Don Adams/Warren Christopher (played first and second Columbos, respectively, in "The Five Columbos" TV special)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/04/2026

A cartoon by Mick Stevens. See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Fgj9Rj

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