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NOVA. Dogs, gaming, politics, sci-fi, and general nerd things…away from the Bad Place 🌈

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Striking: Internal polling from the Dem-aligned House Majority PAC finds strong dislike of Trump vastly outweighs strongly favorable sentiments toward him even in red-state House districts he won. This intensity gap is a key factor in expanding the map for Dems: newrepublic.com/article/2151...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There’s appetite for anti-trump and there’s a reason for that
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear America Voter, This is what the Trump admin is focused on today, when they aren’t insider trading, making everything more expensive, selling pardons, and taking bribes from cronies. Vote out all Republican enablers of this corrupt and pathetic regime.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026
I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/
A medieval siege engine, tended by gnome-sized purple figures. Around it are several human-like figures with robot heads, clad in medieval garb. Their legs are missing, tapering off into nothingness. The giant floating head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar overlooks the scene. Each of the robot people is being closely observed by a distorted, grotesque version of Zuckerberg's avatar head.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The claim was a lie. Trump had no evidence of vandals. He makes shit up all the time. That's the big story, the never-ending story, the story that needs to be reported over and over.
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Jon @thejonpk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
@washingtonpost.com this is why so many of us left. You suck.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading. It was worth it.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
😂
One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” 

One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, 

Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions.

Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders.

This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
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Jon @thejonpk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have achieved peak Wordle
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Jon @thejonpk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
@nbcnews.com weird to censor this
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Jon @thejonpk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@schumer.senate.gov I don’t think more training will do it
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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com · 26/01/2026
Honored to share the words of Former President Obama and Michelle Obama. Make your voice heard and contact your legislators at www.5calls.org. Support with donations at standwithminnesota.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Aside from the references to his service as a Marine, this should be the baseline response for every single elected Democrat. No mealy-mouthed focus-tested mumbly whining. If you're not fucking furious, get out of the fucking way or an infuriated electorate is roll right over you too.
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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
When empires decline. It’s rare in human history that we can so readily identify one man’s name with the decline of empire but at the current pace of American devolution, it’s clear that name will be etched in eternity and most likely in faux gold letters: Trump. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...
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The Decline of Empire
What happens to a people whose identity changes from being the dominant force in the world to being one among a handful?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Merck will soon be paying you $300 every time you get one of their drugs that used to cost you $50
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
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Justice Department again fails to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James
The Justice Department also tried and failed last week to secure a new indictment against James in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won't be stunned by the greed of the elite; They'll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

The working class didn't just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them.

They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.

Not because it helped them.
But because they were told it would hurt someone else.

And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.
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Jon @thejonpk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social How about a little solidarity here?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/11/2025
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/10/2025
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
BREAKING: Norwegian Nobel Committee offers Trump a special participation ribbon if he promises to stop pouting and shut the fuck up about not winning the prize.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
big tough guys deploying tear gas to protect us from inflatable dinosaur Halloween decorations
an ICE agent with a long gun walking in front of inflatable dinosaurs holding jackolanterns
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...
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We're Not Done Yet - Fred Wellman for Missouri
YouTube video by Wellman For MO
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Weak, broken, insecure men who get power and use it to cosplay. That's what we have.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Boycott Disney. Cancel your Hulu subscription. Cancel your Disney+ subscription.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I just woke up from a long nap, can someone tell me if Trump has already apologized to the nation for falsely blaming the Kirk assassination on the left when—as with both his assassination attempts and 85% of political violence this century per the data—it was a far-right nutjob?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It’s a deliberate information warfare strategy. There is a first mover advantage to putting out a narrative. Media is afraid to contest bc if that narrative is correct, they will be accused of bias. If IT’s wrong, they shift blame anyway (“leftist professors”). No accountability, win-win for MAGA
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2025
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
To the National Guard members picking up trash in front of the White House: there is a 350lb. sack of shit in the office of that building that needs to be removed. Thanks.
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SirNapalot @sirnapalot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Issac Asimov
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
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PAWS (Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society) @phillypaws.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This sweet, sad marshmallow really needs a foster! Thumper is having a hard time at the shelter, often squishing himself into corners or under blankets to feel safer. He lost his home for the 2nd time in 2 years after his adopter became too ill to care for him & is so stressed he's barely eating 🧵
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