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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Knowledge has become abundant. Understanding remains scarce. ...much of humanity may understand surprisingly little about the structures and systems governing its existence." And that's just how the oligarchs like it. #inequality #democracy pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...

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The democratic danger of knowing more and understanding less

Humanity has built an extraordinary system for producing and sharing knowledge, yet many people still lack a broad understanding of the systems shaping their lives. That gap is becoming a democratic d...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Carl saw this coming

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Kenny P @todaysken.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is what the elite soldiers of tomorrow look like. The fact that Hegseth is still envisioning '80s action movies, which were never reality, shows how unqualified he is.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter rattled him. And we love it: “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music,

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Took this video of a guy getting detained and a citation for putting his hand in the water an hour ago.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Everybody thinks when he gets rich he’ll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there’s only one kind of rich person, and he’s it. Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, via Benjamin Dreyer

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

EditorialCartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social with a powerful message.

Cartoon depicting Iwo Jima flag raising-like group effort of Supreme Court justices Alito Thomas gorsuch Coney Barrett kavanaugh raising a confederate flag.
Nick Anderson.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/04/2026

Just putting these out for no particular reason:

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Trump administration checking the blocks in quite literal terms ✅️ Ignorance is strength ✅️ War is peace 🟩 Freedom is slavery

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It’s not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down; The end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

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JD303 @sjdco-xblows.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This was from 2017 after first time Trump was “elected”…chills every time I see it

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a group of men in suits and ties are smiling and talking

ALT: a group of men in suits and ties are smiling and talking

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A patriot. “For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors' eyes?” — Yeats

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

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Tom Mulder 🟥🔻♻️🖖🏻✊🏻 @toca325.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This machine kills fascists.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Give us the funding or we name the Port Authority Bus Terminal after you"

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Minnesotan born and raised, You Betcha!

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

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Frodo da Pirate🏴‍☠️ @xochiptx.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Today I feel like posting President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, for no reason at all. 😏

President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

They really stuck the landing on this one.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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jethro. 🗯️ @jethrostudio.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This plaque was demolished this week by our president. Seems relevant. h/t Patrick S. Tomlinson (via twitter)

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

It's almost like they're trying to tell us something... ht: @magacultslayer.bsky.social

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Any guesses where this is from? He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

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swmseattle.bsky.social @swmseattle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What I really resent is being treated like an idiot, reinforced by the press, because we all knew the anguish over votes was just kabuki and this terrible bill was always going to pass by “razor thin” margins.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Georgia teen Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Opinion | America's elite universities have failed in their educational mission. That is why so many of their graduates like my columns. by David Brooks

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