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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 14h

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 1h

I was ready to blame the schools, but

Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode chatbot are free and cannot be turned off in administrative controls that Google gives partner school districts. Students also have access to tools that offer Gemini-powered answers to screenshots or camera images.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 9h

How much more absurd could lethal injection protocols be than “at this juncture we aren’t sure whether we should kill the subject or get life-saving medical treatment for the subject”?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 9h

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 22h

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Daniel Brody @danielwbrody.bsky.social · 20h

Trump's children are making tons of money doing what Hunter was only alleged and never proven to do but they don't get any breathless coverage about it.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 21h

I don't know how other states are doing, but things are kicking off big in Virginia.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 21h

It's unlikely that even someone as prolific as P.G. Wodehouse will be publicly remembered much longer.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 23h

This is undoubtedly true and I think a lot of companies have bet heavily on IP on the mistaken understanding that there are "forever" characters or acts, when they're subject to quite rapid decay.

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Cranky David @cranky-david.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i had to work to get it to burp out numbers (hope i used a lot of tokens though) but it does burp out some interesting information - DJT presidential terms are approximately responsible for 27.4% of the current national debt:

american.gov chat screen showing one prompt and the response:

prompt: as an approximation, use the the total debt calculated in the date ranges above and divide by the total gross national debt to calculate the percentage of the that occurred over those time ranges.

response:
This is only an approximation. It is not an official Treasury, CBO, or GAO share of the debt.

Numbers used
Combined increase from the mixed date ranges (with the Aug. 5, 2026 JEC figure): $10.974 trillion
(FY 2016 vs FY 2020, plus Dec. 31, 2024 vs Aug. 5, 2026)
Latest gross national debt cited: $40.10 trillion as of Sept. 3, 2026 JEC, Sept. 8, 2026
Calculation
$10.974 trillion ÷ $40.10 trillion ≈ 27.4%

Those ranges do not match a president’s terms, mix fiscal-year, MSPD, and JEC figures, and do not assign legal or policy “blame.” For current official totals, use Debt to the Penny.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it occurs to me that one consequence of this combined with our habit of treating our Presidential system like a Parliamentary system is that we basically don't have a government for the second half of each Presidential term

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We really can fix a lot of this by hiring back the dedicated civil servants Trump has purged and telling them "Destroy the people who did this to you. Don't break the law."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

the things y'all are saying are not some hidden secret higher knowledge! they are stuff dumb rednecks believe to justify ignorance!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

it's not savvy! it's not smart! there is a real system with real rules that you can learn about and understand, if you have the humility to do the reading and listen to people. folk wisdom is fundamentally ignorant and you can learn to do better!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

oh, and stop listening to folk wisdom like "the system never represents people like me," "the elites make all the decisions behind closed doors," and similar stuff. this is all shit that low-info members of privileged groups (cishet white men)tell one another to justify not understanding or engaging

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

now we're going to win in a landslide and we're going to start rebuilding. we'll get most of what we lost back, but not the lost lives and progress. this is what you chose. this is what Chappel Roan chose. this is what the cast of Dropout chose. this is what every cool person on this site chose.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

but the fact that now Democrats can pivot to aggressively defending trans rights is because, in fact, the Republicans were allowed to try to take our rights away, because we as a collective people decided protecting trans rights was less important than making some point by staying home in 2024

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

everything that happened since then is because the Republicans won and they get to implement their agenda they fucked up, thank God, because they're terrible at this. this is an enormous gift to us that no one had any right to anticipate or expect. we got extraordinarily lucky

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

when you said not to vote in 2024 you chose a future where the Republicans got to take their swing at governing, which meant they got to hurt trans people and other marginalized groups. you chose that future with every post you made about your disappointment with Biden & Harris.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026

I wish more people understood that the result of elections is that the winning party gets to do a lot of things that their party wants (regardless of what they claimed or didn't claim in the election) & that we're at the end of the Republicans' period of getting to do their thing bc they won

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026!

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Name a film by a female director. Strange Days (1995) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was not just the Office of Technology Assessment: it was a whole structure that supported Congressional decision-making and Gingrich torched it (primarily because facts and expertise are apparently Democratic). It is time to double Congress’s budget and bulk up it staffing again.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the (many) things I wish more people understood about Congress.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bill Watterson had these people‘s number twenty years ago

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Put it on every channel and streaming service every day between now and November.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is true for most sets of rules.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think both of these things are true. It's pretty easy and normal to listen to a lot of music and be "out of touch". With the decline of the mono-culture, the number of people being "in touch" grows less and less, as does any value in being "in-touch".

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Danielle Lasker @larkshead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You truly never know what’s going on in someone else’s house

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we are in danger of fighting the Last Battle proverbially because LLMs are going to be transformative as media technologies in the same way social media was, and tech companies have the same ambition of making the LLM the One True Interface your life revolves around

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

another way to think about Zuckerberg at this point is as an digital slumlord, ruling over an e-favela, which is structurally ungovernable but also still managed by cyborg BOPE raids that keep the rabble in line

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The average human only uses 10% of their rizz

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

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Marcus @thulcandra64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminize a band name: Iron Maidens

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