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curious & critical 🔹 overeducated ace van traveler 🔹 public administration, fact checking, editing 🔹Octavia Butler was right

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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two people have wished me a Happy Monday today
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Office No Man
Alt: Lawrence, the neighbor in the movie Office Space, saying, "No... No, man"
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's the time of year when it's fall in the morning and fall in the evening and summer in the afternoon #PNW
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Israel's blockade of empathy for Palestinians is finally showing significant cracks
nytimes.com
Israeli Allies Ban Trade With Settlements as U.K. Cites ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ (Gift Article)
Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Britain saying Israel had “turned a blind eye” to violence against Palestinians.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No, I don't want to use your app instead of your webpage. And if you make me use your app, no, I do not want to rate it. #Enshittification #SurveilanceCulture #IDontWantToUseYourApp
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Someone wrote all this down and thought "this will be great for a court filing", which is itself an indictment of our current political and social structures
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Why are you pointing that phone at me?" **suspicion** #Caturday #CatsOfBsky
A grey striped cat with a white belly curled up on blankets stares suspiciously up at the camera.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Does anyone in #communications land have recs for books on communications from an #AntiWhiteSupremacy angle? Maybe from #black, #indigenous, #feminist, #anticolonial, or #community focused authors? Looking for new (to me) perspectives #Comms #Bookrecs #PublicRelations #MediaRelations
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 01/05/2026
The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
it is not inevitable or even likely that social media, as we know it, will exist for the rest of our lives. future generations will look much more harshly on this stuff than we do smoking.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The dildo brigade has come to Los Angeles. Couple dozen people have come to the Metropolitan Detention Center to protest ICE, bringing bags of dildos with them. This is lowkey surreal to see in person
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For the amount the US spends on healthcare, we should have a system where this high-risk pregnant woman isn't SOL when one doc goes on vacation #USHealthcare #M4A
Screenshot from r/AskDocs 

36 weeks pregnant, history of stillbirth, doctor leaving for a month with no alternative OB

I am 30F and 36 weeks pregnant. I have a history of going into labor early and have had two stillbirths, two second trimester miscarriages, and one ruptured ectopic. 

My doctor has just informed me today that he will be going on vacation from the 37th week to the 42nd week of my pregnancy. He is the only doctor at the practice and canceled my remaining appointments. He referred me to an alternative practice for my remaining appointments, and I contacted them and they do not accept my insurance and denied me as a patient. I called my doctor back about this and he responded “uh oh! That’s no good!” and told me he needed to get off the call to perform a c section. 

I called 20 other practices in my area and they all turned me away due to being high risk and so far along in my pregnancy. I called the hospital where I deliver and asked them what my options were and they gave me a list of five offices, but all were practices that had already turned me away. The planned parenthood in my area doesn’t provide this type of care and told me to call OBs in my area. I left my doctor another voicemail and he never called back. 

What do I do? How do I obtain care for four weeks? How do I prevent a stillbirth without care?
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10/04/2026
Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts? October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied February-November 2025: 75% denied December 2025: 84% January 2026: 91% February 2026: 95% tracreports.org/phptools/imm...
Jan-15	45.4%
Feb-15	52.4%
Mar-15	51.0%
Apr-15	49.8%
May-15	48.0%
Jun-15	47.6%
Jul-15	49.5%
Aug-15	54.8%
Sep-15	53.1%
Oct-15	52.1%
Nov-15	52.8%
Dec-15	53.3%
Jan-16	57.2%
Feb-16	58.3%
Mar-16	56.7%
Apr-16	54.2%
May-16	55.3%
Jun-16	51.9%
Jul-16	56.9%
Aug-16	56.6%
Sep-16	50.3%
Oct-16	56.2%
Nov-16	55.6%
Dec-16	55.1%
Jan-17	56.3%
Feb-17	59.4%
Mar-17	60.3%
Apr-17	59.4%
May-17	59.9%
Jun-17	61.7%
Jul-17	65.9%
Aug-17	64.2%
Sep-17	63.0%
Oct-17	63.5%
Nov-17	62.3%
Dec-17	63.7%
Jan-18	62.0%
Feb-18	64.5%
Mar-18	64.5%
Apr-18	61.8%
May-18	64.6%
Jun-18	66.9%
Jul-18	68.6%
Aug-18	67.6%
Sep-18	68.0%
Oct-18	68.5%
Nov-18	66.5%
Dec-18	67.7%
Jan-19	74.1%
Feb-19	68.1%
Mar-19	69.8%
Apr-19	68.4%
May-19	65.1%
Jun-19	66.0%
Jul-19	65.7%
Aug-19	68.3%
Sep-19	68.5%
Oct-19	69.5%
Nov-19	67.7%
Dec-19	67.0%
Jan-20	69.5%
Feb-20	70.7%
Mar-20	69.3%
Apr-20	61.0%
May-20	63.7%
Jun-20	66.3%
Jul-20	59.7%
Aug-20	55.7%
Sep-20	63.6%
Oct-20	63.0%
Nov-20	64.9%
Dec-20	65.4%
Jan-21	62.9%
Feb-21	56.7%
Mar-21	56.4%
Apr-21	58.7%
May-21	61.4%
Jun-21	55.3%
Jul-21	43.7%
Aug-21	45.8%
Sep-21	47.2%
Oct-21	49.3%
Nov-21	44.4%
Dec-21	44.4%
Jan-22	46.7%
Feb-22	51.7%
Mar-22	49.7%
Apr-22	43.8%
May-22	41.2%
Jun-22	45.8%
Jul-22	52.7%
Aug-22	55.5%
Sep-22	54.0%
Oct-22	52.7%
Nov-22	50.6%
Dec-22	46.8%
Jan-23	47.1%
Feb-23	49.8%
Mar-23	47.8%
Apr-23	49.7%
May-23	45.8%
Jun-23	45.6%
Jul-23	45.2%
Aug-23	43.4%
Sep-23	42.9%
Oct-23	44.2%
Nov-23	45.5%
Dec-23	46.5%
Jan-24	47.9%
Feb-24	46.4%
Mar-24	47.5%
Apr-24	49.3%
May-24	50.8%
Jun-24	50.8%
Jul-24	52.1%
Aug-24	56.6%
Sep-24	59.2%
Oct-24	59.1%
Nov-24	62.0%
Dec-24	60.3%
Jan-25	64.1%
Feb-25	71.2%
Mar-25	73.0%
Apr-25	75.1%
May-25	75.4%
Jun-25	72.0%
Jul-25	73.9%
Aug-25	74.8%
Sep-25	78.3%
Oct-25	78.8%
Nov-25	78.2%
Dec-25	84.4%
Jan-26	90.5%
Feb-26	94.7%
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Your employer buys EyeMed vision: the premiums go to Luxottica EyeMed sends you to in-network providers: LensCrafters, Target Optical, Pearle Vision, Glasses'com. Every one is owned by Luxottica You walk into a store and select frames: Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada, Coach, Versace. All made by Luxottica
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Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose
How an Italian orphan built a $27 billion monopoly that controls the brands, the stores, the lenses, and the insurance.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
President Trump threatened to obliterate every power station and bridge in a country of 90 million people on Tuesday night in prime time and basically no one is bothering to even ask him how that is not a “war” that would require authorization from Congress under Article I of the Constitution.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yesterday, my friend saw a poster at his work about things employees could do for Earth Day The poster was made by AI
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
But we want daycare, Medicaid, and Medicare. And we don't want to spend billions of dollars blowing up schoolgirls and oil fields in the middle east.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/04/2026
Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I appreciate that when the #BBC refers to the US birthright citizenship issue they call it "ending birthright citizenship for babies" US media is afraid of this kind of accuracy
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
donimath.org
donimath.org
The Most Pro-Feminist Legislation in a Generation (We Checked the Math)
The SAVE Act has given 69 million American women a financially compelling reason to reclaim their birth names. The Department of Nominal Independence did the math. Congress did not.
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give. PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you"
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The "are we the baddies" skit but with golden noose pins
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
*alarm bells ringing intensifies*
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I feel like my entire life is being lived in between the point that a huge tidal wave casts its shadow over my town and I start yelling about it, and the point where the wave crashes over us and destroys everything. Anyway how's your Tuesday going?
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 31/03/2026
x is populated by people who failed 11th-grade english, drove three startups into the ground, make mid-six-figures, and own two cybertrucks. bluesky is full of folks who hold two phds, have won prestigious awards in their field, can't quite consolidate their hold on fulltime work, and ride a bicycle
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I wanted to thank whoever's skeet about the Anthropic deadline clued me into that, because a friend's parent had works on the list that no one knew about. But I can't find the specific skeet so I am sending this thank you out to the general Bluesky galaxy!
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/03/2026
Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/03/2026
Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices
Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It doesn't just add death by hanging - it makes it the DEFAULT sentence. #AbolishDeathPenalties #FreePalestine
A screenshot from The New York Times with the headline "Israel passes law to hang Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks"

Underneath it, it says "Experts say the law was written in such a way as to ensure it was unlikely to ever apply to Jewish extremists who commit similar crimes"
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I've been waiting in line for "cheap" gas at a station in CA for half an hour and I swear I can feel the swell of judgment from everyone in line as we watch people fill up: BRUH are you FR are you WASHING YOUR WINDOWS RN?! Did you GO INSIDE to pay??? SHAME! SHAME! #TrumpsGasPrices #FuckTrump
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Go fash lose cash bb
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The obvious solution to the Cesar Chavez parade/street/etc problem is to rename them after Dolores Huerta
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/03/2026
my take on birth rate discourse: If the only way our species can keep going is by forcing the half of the population born with Unlucky Organs into reproductive slavery, we should go extinct, and good riddance
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"I love how dumb koalas are. They're like the evolved version of a fucking amoeba!" #ThingsMyFriendsSay
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This was completely unnecessary. It did not have to happen. Everything that has happened since February 28th did not have to happen
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Everyday, current events make me feel more like an adult version of David After Dentist youtu.be/txqiwrbYGrs?...
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David After Dentist
YouTube video by booba1234
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We wanted to know what will happen next in Iran. So we talked to three Joe Rogan fans at an Arby's in Harrisburg.
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Do We Have To @thebestjayne.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A friend's response when seeing this: "Yeah, like, we objectively elected the world’s most embarrassing fascist. I do in fact morally condemn the plurality of my fellow citizens that did that."
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/02/2026
Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
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