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She/Her. Law book editor, mom of 2 college students and 1 dog. Reader of history of medicine & forensic sciences, writer of nothing. Trans rights are human rights. #Humanist #GuilCo #Mefite

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/09/2026
"We must reject all calls, from all sides, to bathe in the blood of opposing groups. Groups like Give Us Your Blood and No! We Need That Blood are both acting aggressively. Yet it is clear to me that Grand Chancellor Trump must apologize for his comments. A nice apology will make this right."
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I’m a Moderate, Sane Republican Who is Very Concerned With Grand Chancellor Trump’s Demand to Be Bathed In the Blood of the Impure
“Today I, along with my Republican colleagues at the Imperial Figurehead Parliament say this in the strongest terms: America is not about extracting the bloo...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sept. 7, 1926: Five men are lynched in a Texas mass shooting apparently carried out by the police as revenge for the killings of two officers. The episode targeting Mexicans in Raymondville will eventually lead to a revelation that local authorities are operating a modern-day slavery ring. 1/8
Map of Willacy County
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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Having a FaceTime at lunch and explaining to our toddler “You can see Daddy’s at work, because he’s wearing a tie and his hair’s all neatly combed”. I think I won’t try to explain the unusual extra dimension for now. She might as well just assume he’s got a real job.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/08/2026
Don’t lose track of what else is going on while Trump draws headlines with clownish efforts at cartography.
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Heather Maxwell 🔆 @hamfist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Marvel, I dare you
Photoshop mockup of a Spider-Man comic cover using Chris Juhn's photograph of some guy in Minneapolis dressed as Spider-Man getting ready to punch out Jake Lang on the back of a pickup truck
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026
I love Minneapolis
Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Deregulation is going great.
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Outshine Frozen Fruit Bars Recalled Over Glass Contamination Concern (Gift Article)
The parent company, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, voluntarily recalled five flavors nationwide. No injuries linked to the recalled products have been reported.
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Such a cute little baby. Long life to Merle!
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
His conviction was thrown out after a prosecutor admitted he had failed to turn over key fingerprint evidence. Eligible for up to $480K in state compensation, he hasn't received a cent. The Louisiana attorney general has opposed 22 of 23 compensation claims by wrongfully convicted people.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's time: we would like to nominate ourselves to be President of Fifa www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Gianni Infantino says sorry but remains as Fifa president after executive meeting
Gianni Infantino will remain Fifa president after receiving backing from senior executives, but "sincerely apologises" for errors in his controversial private investment plans.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
England vs Norway is going to be rough for us ever since we learned that the etymology of Ødegaard is 'abandoned farm'
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is the best. My dog's only trick is trying to lick the skin off my face.
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I guess they thought she might be hiding immigrant children under her habit? /s
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is really disturbing.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Instead of worrying about what our neighbors are buying with food stamps, why aren't we asking whether they have enough to eat in the first place?
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record-guy59.bsky.social @record-guy59.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lebanese celebrity chef Abir E Saghir making S'mores/Marshmallow chocolate chip cookies. The cookies feature a gooey marshmallow center. The recipe involves stuffing cookie dough with marshmallows that have been dipped in chocolate spread beforehand. #baking #cookies #chocolate #marshmallow
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Science is cool. #histmed
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/06/2026
New in PN: Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all "No one in the administration has offered a remotely plausible explanation for Trump’s various physical ailments, and any questions about his clear cognitive challenges are met by the White House with disdain, denial, mockery, and lies."
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Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all
It's undeniable if you actually watch him.
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I am having a bad day. I've got two major speaky-things early next week and have broken The Evil Tooth. No dentists can fit me in, so I'm going to have to just... drug up and carry on. To cheer me, you, everyone up, let's talk about murder.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
At around 5am, after voting all night, Senate Republicans voted to give ICE $70 BILLION more in your taxpayer dollars. No reforms or changes made.  We can still fight this.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/06/2026
This is Baby. She is celebrating her first ever International Corgi Day today. Personally thinks she should be celebrated every day, but this is a good start. 14/10 (IG: cooperandbaby_corgi)
a tiny corgi puppy sits atop a wood table and tilts her head dramatically at the camera. she resembles a fluffy toasted marshmallow. her ears are a little rounded at the points, and her markings make it look like she’s wearing two perfectly matched white ankle socks. she’s surrounded by lush greenery in the background.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post. After Charlie Kirk was killed, I was accused of gross misconduct simply for stating the truth about America’s racial double standards when it comes to political violence. We head to arbitration tomorrow. Let’s go.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is…not gonna happen.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It will buy you one gallon of gas by the end of Trump’s term. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
May 26, 1926: A Hungarian court convicts 22 of 24 defendants in a plot to counterfeit 30 billion francs ($3.5 billion). The conspirators led by Prince Lajos Windischgraetz, an ally of German Fascists including Hitler, sought to both damage the French economy and raise money for far-right causes. 1/3
Columbia, S.C., StateWindischgraetzNational police chief Imre Nadosy, another guilty conspirator
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
May 25, 1926: Symon Petliura, a Ukrainian revolutionary who went into exile on the losing side of Russia’s civil wars, is assassinated on a Paris street. A gunman fires five bullets into the 47-year-old, a deed he says avenges Jews massacred in pogroms by Petliura’s army. 1/6
The assassin, Sholem Schwarzbard, in his mug shotsIrish Independent, Dublin
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
May 24, 1926: Robert Whitman, a con man and bigamist on an epic scale, is arrested at a Philadelphia hotel on charges of fleecing $185,000 from two of the 47 brides he has marred in his long career. He had posed as a noble named "Lord Beaverbrook," as well as a doctor, scientist and world traveler.
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Jared Polis (@colorado.gov) is the weakest, most spineless, most pathetic waste of a man in the Democratic Party, and that includes John Fetterman. Commuting Tina Peters is fucking pathetic. We deserve better.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/05/2026
It's Billy Joel's birthday today, so we are obligated to post this ridiculous piece from our archives: "Did anybody else feel like the entire song was about how the only thing that makes our pathetic lives worth living is listening to him play the piano?"
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Billy Joel Plays “Piano Man” for the First Time At the Bar He Based the Song On
“Did anybody else feel like the entire song was about how the only thing that makes our pathetic lives worth living is listening to him play the piano?” May ...
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today’s good news— but can we stop calling it the DEPARTMENT of government efficiency? There is no such department and never has been. DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/05/2026
clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 30/04/2026
Patricia Gamboa, executive director of Mano a Mano Unidos, started a nonprofit organization by delivering groceries after immigrant families stopped leaving their homes during the Trump administration's deportation campaign.
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Oak Brook resident helps immigrant families still living in fear after Operation Midway Blitz
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/04/2026
CAPYBABIES
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
they are the best and the brightest, many people are saying www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The best and the brightest
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When going out with children it's very important to let them know what's expected of them. @ogaduke_
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 24/04/2026
Today in History: Black protesters stage ‘wade-in’ at whites-only beach in Biloxi
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Today in History: Black protesters stage ‘wade-in’ at whites-only beach in Biloxi
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 22/04/2026
www.them.us/story/jim-do...
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MSG Security Allegedly Tracked a Trans Woman’s Movements, Including Bathroom Breaks, Down to the Second
A bomshell report in Wired details an extensive use of the venue’s facial recognition system.
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 20/04/2026
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The Front Room @thefrontroom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It certainly SOUNDS plausible. #histmed, sorta
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John Dandridge @jonthetherapist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
On this day Apr 16, 1945 Major League Baseball Refuses to Integrate After Black Players Are Verbally Abused To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Apr. 16, 1945 | Major League Baseball Refuses to Integrate After Black Players Are Verbally Abused
Learn more about this history of racial injustice.
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Defector @defector.com · 15/04/2026
World Cup transit is broken before it has begun: defector.com/world-cup-tr...
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World Cup Transit Is Broken Before It Has Begun | Defector
On Tuesday, the Athletic reported that NJ Transit plans on hiking up the price of return tickets to New York Penn Station from World Cup games at the New York New Jersey stadium in East Rutherford,…
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A new office cat joined this week. Steve is doing the onboarding. Steve loves cats.
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