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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
perfect tweet
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h
Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
not to downplay what my math friends are going through but I think this metaphor applies to so much of modern life for so many people www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...
It's as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what's around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.
Instead you're perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 08/10/2026
Mav saluting at Ice’s funeral
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yup I’ll read that
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
77 Candles 🎂 today for the glorious SIGOURNEY WEAVER
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
anybody know where Angela Paxton was at the time of this fundraiser?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A world in which citizens of each nation are taught to be rigid and bellicose nationalists, while nations unapologetically pursue maximal national power. Luckily History contains no examples of that going badly.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The strategy spun out of Project 2025. Dubbed the Donroe Doctrine, a ludicrous name designed to echo the 19th Century Monroe Doctrine, the aim was for total US control of the Western Hemisphere which Trump and his backers see as America’s sphere of influence.”
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Trump In South America
The Far Right shift is almost complete
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023
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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Laika & I wish you all a beautiful Wednesday evening.
A ruddy Abyssinian cat and a middle-aged white man with glasses stare intently into the camera.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The new issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Featuring articles on Trump’s deadly invasion of Memphis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Democrats’s “Woke” Panic, and Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves. hammerandhope.org
Illustration of a tree-lined Memphis street with a woman holding a flower next to a bird and butterfly
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 07/10/2026
Haiti postpones elections indefinitely as gang violence hampers preparations
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Haiti postpones elections indefinitely as gang violence hampers preparations
Haiti has indefinitely postponed elections scheduled for December and February, the electoral council said Tuesday, citing technical and operational requirements as gang violence continues to disrupt preparations. The delay leaves Haitians without a vote as authorities struggle to register voters and secure areas needed for the poll.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That’s a warm radiator under Wheezy’s corrugated cat-throne, and the heat rising through it induces quite the luxurious recline
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 21/08/2024
metal rollercoaster frame in thick fog being taken over by dark green foliage
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it's always fun when a Trump lackey says something so insane it momentarily breaks a Fox host
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Best NBA local crew in the biz back together!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
did you know that the characteristics that deem a victim "not credible" also overlap with the characteristics of the people most likely to be abused? not credible ≠ not victimized
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Andy Orin @andyor.in · 05/10/2026
he really sees the world through the lens of roadkill, huh
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is absolutely incredible content, like an entire feature film about a giant zucchini competition compressed into two minutes
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
"…and that we would struggle against people who fought liberal democracy for no reason other than an atavistic desire to fight against *something*. Often, those foes of liberal democracy are fighting the spectre that still haunts our world: feminism." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-h...
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The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hundreds gathered on Saturday in Springfield to mourn and remember the life of Pierre Damas Bel. “The service was somber, at times passionate, and included calls to action and encouragement to come together.” “Members of the Bel family could at times be heard wailing in anguish.”
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Hundreds gather in Springfield to remember Haitian student Pierre Damas Bel at funeral service
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is a...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We asked dozens of librarians about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say.
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is libra season, the one time all year when I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do. I shall not be moved.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's Oct 3. The midterms are a month away, but early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots will start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home. bingo.cip.uw.edu
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"Rigged Election" Bingo
Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
whoever my photographer is, he sometimes liked to get a little artsy, as in this photo.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a mess.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/10/2026
if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WSJ tracks how many local cops are getting rich arresting a single migrant. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
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Exclusive | How Local Police Get Paid Big Money for Just a Few Immigration Arrests
The Department of Homeland Security gives local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm trying, Chicago Pope!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/10/2026
So former NFL kicker Jay Feely is running for Congress as a MAGA guy and his opponent just put out an ad with a bunch of his missed kicks lol
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
look on the bright side! you couldn't go through a dark night of the soul if you didn't have a soul
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HURT ON A LADDER? INJURED ON A CHUTE? NEED YOUR JUST DESSERTS? CALL 1-888-SUGA-LAW
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”
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