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Tom @tangmu.bsky.social · 14h
O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to die -Don Henley
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.
Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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Tom @tangmu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Greek life was suspect when I was at university, and I remember a few people saying, I assumed joking, that they wished the volunteer organizations I was involved with could replace them. Get our own letters and build an alternative community based on public service instead of hazing and parties.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Robin OG ANTIFASCIST! @rokkinrobin55.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe not ALL women, but definitely MOST of us. Maybe not EVERY University, but MOST of them! Maybe not ALL men, but a whole fucking lot of them, and if we do not teach them that "Locker room talk" is NOT acceptable, things will never change. Gonzaga, too ellieleonard.substack.com/p/gonzaga-to...
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Gonzaga, too
I’ve said many times that I’m grateful not to consider myself a “survivor,” especially in the context of some of the darkest things I cover in my writing.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Tom @tangmu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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The Fountain: Golden Light Effect
Alt: The Fountain: Golden Light Effect
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Think for a second about how utterly brainwashed you need to be to hear this story and not instantly clock that the parents’ version of the story was bullshit.
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Jack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is frying me
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/09/2026
I know we’re numb to this, but it is really bad that journalists and politicians both feel so comfortable lying. Society cannot sustain itself when its elites just lie like this.
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Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sending a message to your current audience that you'd prefer to have a different audience results in losing the former without gaining the latter. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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Refurbished ‘60 Minutes’ Debuts to a 19% Ratings Drop
The “60 Minutes” Season 59 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers, down 19% year over year.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
All of us who worked in COVID wards saw the horror of COVID. All sorts of people died- those with comorbidities. Those previously healthy. They died fast and often alone, except for their nurse (heroes). This guy can go fuck himself with his revisionist history 🤬🤬🤬
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Oldfatuglynbroke @oldfatuglynbroke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump favoring gas station chain was selling stolen gasoline. Everything is always a grift with these people.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk.

A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The grand jury report on the Florida embezzlement scheme is blood-boiling. It's clear beyond serious dispute that the current AG of Florida was part of a shameless, calculated plan to steal public funds from sick children to gift the Republican Party & his own PAC. drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC...
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Grand_Jury_Report.pdf
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
why is this? are they making an objective news judgment that this twitch streamer is more newsworthy than a congressman running for reelection? or a news judgment that the allegations against piker (bad opinion) are worse than the allegations against miller (domestic abuse)? if not that, what?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CBS Miami got the actual grand jury report implicating Ashely Moody and Ron DeSantis in stealing Medicaid funds to put into political campaign. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: You don't see this everyday. Wyoming GOP voters rejected a ton of Republicans who wanted to crack down on voting. They ousted nearly all members of House Elections Committee, incubator of new restrictions. And: SoS primary was won by a man who rejects fraud claims + defends election workers.
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Wyoming Voters Oust GOP Faction that Wants to Crack Down on Elections  - Bolts
In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the far-right Freedom Caucus lost a lot of ground in the legislature.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: here we go on rocket docket to STOP the usps rule Motions tomorrow, responses Sept 4, replies Sept 8. The court is moving fast & so are we @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org are proud to represent LULAC, SFI, ASA, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.
Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The ICE episode of The Pitt was praised as fair to all sides, because while it showed ICE negatively, making life worse for the ER and regular characters, it also showed the ICE officers letting their detainee get medical care and honoring the lead doc’s request to stay out of the way while waiting.
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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For the Europeans who could need a bit of context here: - Stars and Stripes is a journal for the US soldiers. - it goes back a long time (it was already running in WWII) - famously, it is independent from the military hierarchy. - this is a big deal.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They lie about the progress of the war. They lie about the conditions of the troops. They suppress independent reporting. Welcome to Trump's and Hegseth's military. wapo.st/3UsenSA
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That's the real reckoning we need after Woke 1: Anyone who claimed woke was the biggest threat to truth, justice, and the American way circa 2020 is either a liar or a fool. Their opinions about politics and society are forever invalid and they should be in no position to influence anything.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

Kalshi Politics

@KalshiPolitics
TODAY: WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE ODDS:

🟦 Francesca Hong: 95%
🟦 David Crowley: 5%
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Tom @tangmu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Americans still broadly believe in democracy and that elections are the primary means to push back against government overreach. And the government has reached far beyond its grasp in the upper Midwest. A reckoning is coming soon, and with all that momentum it's heavily blue-shifted.
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 11/08/2026
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Women entering a voting booth with white hoods and red robes. Exiting the voting booth wearing whatever clothes they choose.
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LaMeep @lameep.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When the Big Beautiful Obituary happens and there's party across the land, the GOP will try to shame us. Talk to the hand. ✋
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NEWS: I spent the afternoon reviewing more Epstein files. Todd Blanche is named throughout. Trump's own claims are undermined as well. You want to see this. Meanwhile, Trump is considering declaring victory and pulling out of Iran without a nuclear deal. And more. Subscribe to support my work:
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Sunday Update: More Important Epstein Files Undermine Trump Claims, Trump Floats Ending War Without Nuclear Deal, and More
Good evening everyone.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This might be the greatest example of "Twitter isn't real life."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More important, the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. That disposes of the specific charge that research that Fauci’s agency funded produced the virus. It did not.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/08/2026
If you are a lawyer barred in Minnesota, I will personally sponsor your admission to the District Minnesota (you need one other person as well) and teach you how to do habeas cases. It's going to be all hands on deck.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I see mass deportations have ushered in a golden age of American prosperity, exactly as promised.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm a broken record on this, but I'm compelled to say once again that this is absolutely not what the attorney general should be. The Attorney General isn't supposed to be the president's lawyer. He's supposed to be ours.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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