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Tanner Powell

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Bulk-followed my Twitter (‘08) follows… no pressure. • Isn't this place nice? FYI moderation lists are 🤌🏼: bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026
When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music
Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Kevin Snyder @guns.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I’m at the bluesky data center and I’m firing thousands of rounds of ammunition into the servers, which are proving to be surprisingly resilient
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
it's so dark that america is just an endless cycle of reinventing cultural and fiscal feudalism from first principles. like how nature keeps trying to make a crab, except it's a type of crab that grows its claw right through its own brain
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl.online · 25/12/2025
Happy birthday, Rickey Henderson. 💚
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Do you maintain any block lists we could subscribe to? You're so damn good at this.
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Bernie Lomax @bernielomax.extranapkins.net · 17/11/2025
The best part of Bluesky is I keep getting older and they stay 38.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
i would fuck up a whole box of kudos right now
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
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sean @snkhn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a man says " now i am as happy " in a black and white photo
ALT: a man says " now i am as happy " in a black and white photo
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I’m actually fine with us invading them after seeing this.
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
You basically just have to babysit yourself for your entire life
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2025
They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/09/2025
entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
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Tennessee Brando @tnbrando.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The only thing Charlie Kirk had in common with Jesus is that Christians get mad when you quote him to them.
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
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Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'
Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.
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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 21/07/2025
One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨ 📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄 Check it out:
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A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
a thin white woman in head to toe lululemon screaming at these thugs makes me think ICE has jumped the shark
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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Reel it in, bud.
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you took a time machine back to November to warn the voting public that six months into Trump’s second term he’d be about to pardon a convicted sex trafficker you might have been forcibly institutionalized 12 Monkeys-style.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Lost Cause guys: "Don't you realize that Yankee culture was an affront to the South?" The actual culture of the "civilization" of the South:
Some insight into the Southern psychology is provided by the "se- cret and sacred" diaries of James H. Hammond. Like Calhoun a cotton planter and slaveholder in up-country South Carolina, Ham- mond possessed a large ego and insatiable political ambitions. But he also had insatiable sexual appetites, which threatened to cut short his political career and to destroy the marriage that had brought him his plantation and slaves. By his wife he fathered eight children. In 1839 he bought an eighteen-year-old slave, Sally, and her infant daughter Louisa. Hammond took Sally as a concubine and fathered several children by her; when Louisa reached the age of twelve, he trans- ferred his desires to her and fathered more children. Hammond kept all of his dark-skinned progeny in slavery as "their happiest earthly condition."12
During the 1830s Hammond was elected to a term in Congress. There he earned some fame for a speech that thundered awesome threats if Congress should act on petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. If that day ever came, said Hammond, he was for "disunion, and civil war, if need be. A Revolution must ensue, and this Republic sink in blood."13
In 1842 Hammond won the governorship of South Carolina. Dur- ing his term, and for more than a year before it, he engaged in frequent sexual play with the four teenage daughters of his brother- in-law, Wade Hampton II, the largest planter in South Carolina and reputedly one of the richest men in America.
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
[pretends to whisper to Bill] “Hey thanks, man! Everyone order whatever you want—it’s on Bill!!”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Trying to imagine how Fox News would have covered it if in May 2024 Kamala Harris took a secret day trip to visit the head of CNN. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs
A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network
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Golden State Worrier @cheesegod.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Is that the hieroglyph for Divorce
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Apartheid districts. The Plot to Enslave America
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Probably one of the worst attempted memes in history.
jesus christ lady did you watch the video
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/07/2025
The day the Access Hollywood tape was released.
JD Vance tweet.
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So affirming to know that I'm not the only person looking at the cultural moment we're in and thinking "little bit too much empathy going on out there."
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Looks like they already chickened out on the title, no?
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This kind of fundamentalist garbage used to be reserved for John Piper’s website and seeing it in the NYT makes me feel fucking insane.
A New York Times opinion headline:

“Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left? How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
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Tanner Powell @tannerpowell.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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