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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
wrote a newsletter about tide pools, river projects in portland, and how dipping your human body in the water is probably enough for a pretty good life taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/minus-tide/
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Minus Tide
Sometimes you just need to go and look at the water.
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
we all had our little cry during the bad bunny halftime show right
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
final fantasy vs. fascism
Final Fantasy Tactics quote: What purpose do laws serve when even those who would enforce them choose not to pay them heed?
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
simply an incredible number of lies stuffed into 161 words
DHS statement on the jan 24 DHS shooting of a man in MN: At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. 

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. 

Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. 

The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. 
 
About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement. 

This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
never not thinking about the AI bros putting creatives on the chopping block first
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I wrote about going to a national park as escapism in the year 2025 and how you can only ever run toward america, even when you try to run away. taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/bear-guys-an...
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Bear guys and wolf guys
Things I thought about on the first half of a solo road trip... I leave Portland on a Monday in late September with a plan to stop one night in Spokane on the way out to Glacier National Park. I’ve n...
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
i'm not on ~ social media ~ a lot these days but if you want to follow my writing + photography, check out my newsletter ! taylorhatmaker.ghost.io
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rough hewn
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Another explicit warning from Pritzker
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Blue-State Governors Warn Trump May Use Military to Disrupt Elections
Blue state governors sound the alarm that an increasingly “authoritarian” Donald Trump could use the military to try to disrupt upcoming elections.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
world bad garden wild, free
green bean harvest in a glass container a pink zinnia pops with orange nasturtium behindchocolate cherry tomatoes ready for harvestbasil really going for it
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
in my protecting my peace era (not explaining the meme bullets in a professional capacity) 🙏
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
so has anyone heard from the etsy witches lately
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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A person dies of measles in West Texas outbreak
At least 124 cases have been reported in Texas, with at least 18 hospitalizations. Most are children.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...
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Breaking: US FDA Cancels Upcoming Adcomm Discussing 2025-2026 Flu Vaccine
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting next month was scheduled to select strains for the 2025-2026 flu vaccine. The cancellation could mean delays in vaccine availabi...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
2025 vibes at the vet
a sign at a vet front desk indicating that it has been 0 days since a dog pooped in the lobby
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
He’s using his illegitimate position in government to steer federal contracts to the companies he heads and to shield those companies from regulatory scrutiny and law enforcement.
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Brian Kibler @bmkibler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It's always good to see an elected official who truly represents the people.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The $400M worth of State Department Teslas? Trump admin said that started in Biden White House. But I obtained a document showing the amount Biden's State Department planned to spend on EVs: $483,000. Former WH official on $400M: "I don’t think this is a clerical error" www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...
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A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal
The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
When people speak derisively about “activism” and “activists” they’re typically referring to marginalized people speaking about their lived experiences of oppression in a way that is intended to undermine their credibility
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21/02/2025
One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.
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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Sports Have Become a Battleground for the Anti-Trans Agenda and We Must Fight Back. Me for @sbnation.bsky.social www.sbnation.com/2025/2/14/24...
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Banning trans people from sports was never about protecting women
Trans rights are human rights. Period.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."
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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 15/02/2025
Every single year my anxiety brain tells me that this is the year no one turns out...and every single year we break the previous year's record. Together, we raised half a million dollars for @translifeline.bsky.social!💜💜💜 Trans rights are human rights, and all are deserving of equality and love. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
still think we should try this
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/02/2025
A federal judge ordered the nation’s premier health agencies to restore online access to several websites that monitor HIV, health risks for youths and assisted reproductive technologies, which were abruptly taken offline to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.
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Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted a restraining order temporarily reversing the Trump administration’s moves to remove scientific data.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/02/2025
You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
pottery studio has been PACKED lately i’m sure it’s got nothing to do with the looming constitutional crisis
some tea cups in progress in the leatherware stage on a messy tall shelf
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/02/2025
Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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World - yesterday

As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
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Christian Mott @cjmott.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It's important to keep emphasizing that what Musk proposes in this tweet is illegal. Congress created the CFPB, just as it created USAID, the DOE, etc. Neither the President nor a billionaire can dissolve them by fiat. Doing so is a violation of the law and the President's constitutional duties.
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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This was a really smart take. www.404media.co/email/343266...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW: Days after Trump's inauguration, ICE changed the timestamp on its archive of press releases to 1/24/2025--causing a flood of stories about mass arrests to shoot to the top of Google search An immigration atty said "it was creating terror in the community” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This constantly gets brought up in response to AI criticism. No one objects to these applications. They object to the consumer facing dreck that's being marketed to us as groundbreaking and forced onto our devices.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/02/2025
Elon Musk Offers Self $10 Billion Federal Buyout theonion.com/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk Offers Self $10 Billion Federal Buyout
WASHINGTON—Saying he was just more deadweight hampering the executive branch’s ability to function efficiently, Elon Musk confirmed Monday that he had offered himself $10 billion to resign from his position as head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. “Like many other federal employees, I too have been presented with a buyout option as part […]
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/02/2025
oh cool the guy in charge of the pentagon is too dumb to even make his venmo private prospect.org/politics/202...
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Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It’s very cold and rainy/borderline slushy outside, but well over 50 people have turned out to Portland City Hall to protest the city issuing Zenith Energy a Land Use Compatibility Statement earlier this week.
Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo speaks outside City Hall. Protests carrying signs against Zenith energy. Nick Caleb speaks outside City Hall.
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