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Riodan O'Duffy

@timthetauman.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, WH40K fan writer, committed anti-fascist.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4h
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
However, we can deflect words by questioning their reliability and why such words are being used. Are they being used as a tactic to harm? Are they being used as a tool for persuasion/coercion? But in the end, be mindful words can cause harm.
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I mull over more packing and the medical (routine, chronic illness-related, managed at the moment) appointment... Words have power. Words can be used/intended to cause and perpetuate harm. Words can literally kill. As writers, we should know that and should be mindful of it.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Had enough of ICE brutality? Here’s your chance to do something about the times we live in where human rights and the constitution don’t matter to Trump’s agents. Sign our pledge to vote and do all you can to fight back this critical midterm election. 1/
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/10/2026
Tired of the corruption? You're not alone. youtu.be/1-JIAdCm6p4
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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Alone
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026
Studios Enter Bidding War Over Napkin Stephen King Wrote ‘Ghoul’ On theonion.com/studios-enter-bidding-…
Studios Enter Bidding War Over Napkin Stephen King Wrote ‘Ghoul’ On
Film Rights To Word Jotted Down Over Breakfast May Go For Record Sum
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flight.
One of my rainbow dragons caught in midflight.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Farm workers are knocking on doors asking voters to vote for Randy Villegas for CD 22. Since they began last week, they've knocked on 4,986 Spanish language doors to a great response. Their message is simple. Randy supports farm workers. Support us by voting for Randy Villegas.
A voter holding a UFW Randy Villegas pamphlet that the UFW canvasser spoke toA voter holding a UFW Randy Villegas pamphlet that the UFW canvasser spoke toA voter holding a UFW Randy Villegas pamphlet that the UFW canvasser spoke toA voter holding a UFW Randy Villegas pamphlet that the UFW canvasser spoke to
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paulahackett.bsky.social @paulahackett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
24 years old
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it a bad sign that the PDF copy of the U.S. Constitution that has been available at house.gov now 404s? uscode.house.gov/static/const...
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Under Maintenance
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reckoning is here…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: The Trump administration knows that their policies are unpopular. They’re not stupid. Well, okay. They are very fucking stupid. I mean, really stupid. They’re stupider than I ever thought. But they recognize what they’re doing is turning away people.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Levin: Two years ago, after Trump was elected the 2nd time, there was conventional wisdom around the country, within Washington, D.C., and the elite circles who said that the smart move was to capitulate. But that’s not what happened because millions of people around the country refused to give in.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cocchiarella: You said that you do support a moratorium on data centers, but if there were to be one that had to be built, Mar-a-Lago seemed as good a place as any. Nixon: They have a huge golf course that it can be dropped onto.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Angie Nixon wants to know which eyeliner Vice President J.D. Vance uses: “His eyes look so beautiful. They pop.”
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Riodan O'Duffy @timthetauman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@genl.bsky.social For the Quebecois
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Unbelievably, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou
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Republicans are trying to ban national heat regulations from ever happening
With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety sta...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail voting by executive order. But it greenlit his administration’s use of a flawed immigration database to help states purge voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the last hours of Noem’s tenure, her agency delivered a windfall to a political donor by buying five airplanes from his firm at a substantial markup. @haleaziz.bsky.social @fahrenthold.bsky.social @nicknehamas.bsky.social @tylerpager.bsky.social @nirajc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/10/2026
Cash-Strapped Subway Threatens To Reveal Identities Of Customers Who Eat Subway If They Don’t Pay
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Dicey "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" June @diceyjune.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shame on us 🗽😔
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3 Minnesotans deported to Somalia after a month at Guantánamo
Nine men, part of a group of a dozen held in U.S. facilities in Guantánamo Bay, have been deported to Somalia.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/10/2026
Nation Horrified To Think Sexual Assault Could Happen On College Campus
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Nation Horrified To Think Sexual Assault Could Happen On College Campus
WASHINGTON—Expressing shock and disgust that an unspeakable crime could occur at a place of higher learning, the U.S. populace was reportedly horrified this week to think that sexual assault could hap...
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Suicide or not, this brave man put himself out there at great personal risk. Who wouldn’t be depressed, angry, fearful, especially given the isolation such courage spawned? May we let this hero rest in peace. May we extend more support to those courageous whistleblowers who come after him.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here @timothysnyder.bsky.social does it again with a perfect phrase: “Superpower suicide.” Except it was assisted suicide - 70+ million ignorant Americans helped put the needle in America’s arm.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 04/10/2026
Every week in my newsletter, I ask you one question about Canada, and every week you answer with alarming enthusiasm. Join my free weekly newsletter at FarAndWide.news and weigh in on the next poll.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This thread blew up. Like one of his cars.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tim Disney’s new satire graphic novel, The A.R.C., is a darkly humorous novel set in a world where if you lie, you die. Tim joins me to reflect on our current pandemic of lies that have infected our politics, our culture, our lives: youtu.be/aBM6ZUHmpWQ?...
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SHOCKING NEW Book REVEALS The DEADLY Cost OF LYING!!
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because sometimes words alone hurt. Especially when you hear them over and over again, but nothing changes behind those words.
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Very often, we hear beautiful, right, and thoughtful words from world leaders about supporting Ukraine. About how they won’t abandon us, that we are not alone, and that Ukraine must stand. But words need to be followed by actions.1/2
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

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Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

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I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 04/10/2026
Commorragh working as a real city is so important 2 my heart
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 03/10/2026
10/3 Maine Governor Janet Mills calls on Congress to urgently add money to the federal low-income heating assistance program as home heating oil prices hover around record high in Maine #maine #MEpolitics
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She's back!!! #karolineleavitt
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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The Martin Sheen Podcast @themartinpod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A great read! If you're a fan of #TheWestWing, you'll love "What's Next" by my dear friends Melissa FitzGerald & Mary McCormack. All things West Wing! Have you read it yet? #TheMartinSheenPodcast 💙
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sen. Schmitt should probably also check under Herky the Iowa mascot's head. You never know what lengths these people will go to when they are part of the Deep State! #CollegeGameday
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With #CollegeGameday in Iowa City, it looks like they have a special guest! Sen. Eric Schmitt wearing his "Hawks" jersey!
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