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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An old-fashioned expression because it's been barred by international law for several decades now.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026

the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. U.S. trade deficit blew out to $105.6 billion in August ... up significantly from the prior month and now up by $34.4 billion in the past two months. .. Outside of the Liberation Day swings, this is a record.” - Schwab

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 06/10/2026

Trucks have a chance to do the funniest thing.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m sure AI-evangelists will argue “you aren’t noticing the high-level stuff!” and yeah sure I guess the Lord does work in mysterious ways, but mostly I’ve just noticed the myriad ways AI has ruined my experience and interactions with tech.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Tombendel @tombendel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Skol ! Good job hanging . . . uh . . . 15 on one of the worst teams in the league. Never in doubt.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

vivek’s a republican, shouldn’t he be better at grabbing kids

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 02/10/2026

Fun fact: This is literally what "stalls" are for.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't take tips on virtue from a man who used a pic of his stillborn child for a GoFundMe campaign for his children's burial garden named "Lincoln’s Place" when the project was never built, and Ogles repeatedly refused to disclose what happened to the tens of thousands of dollars donated.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

genuinely do not understand how some people enjoy interpersonal conflict, I am going to have to have an uncomfortable conversation with someone and I would rather fight a rabid badger

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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g.h. kirsch @gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be clear, there’s nothing normal about the MAGA regime firing generals left and right just about a month before the most consequential midterm elections in recent memory. That should alarm everyone.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

just ban frats. everyone knows that’s the answer and no one seriously denies what frats are actually for, just as no one seriously denies that playing football can lead to CTE.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026

The Yuddite/rationalist primary defense mechanism is spurting out a big ink-cloud of thesaurus and number-laden complete nonsense, and then demanding that you waste your time "debating" them over it. The good news is that this trick is easily defeated by simply refusing to play the Debate Me game.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just like climate change. All the evidence will never be enough compared to the lies they made up and decided to repeat. Only shame and new laws and courts can work.

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Stephen Tustin @stustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Every scam to make you pay more has a mirror-image scam that ensures you are paid less" - @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/29/a...

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Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens’s “Gouged” (29 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Helmy @pnwdweller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Describing Pete’s size.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To whom it may concern: Exercising your legal right to say the worst and most harmful thing at any given moment does not transform you into a heroic defender of that right. It just makes you a miscreant.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."

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Waiting for the next Mr. Death

I don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith wasn't at an Atlanta Hawks game but Donald Trump definitely had troves of classified documents in his bathroom

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The more Senate seats we can flip, the fewer Republicans it will take to aid the impeachment possibility of Trump's incompetent cabinet. Time to vote like maniacs!

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These fucking nannystaters need to mind their own business.

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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Tombendel @tombendel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

$1.7 BILLION of Medicare fraud says what?

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most bizarre thing about this idiotic, embarrassing line of questioning by Eric Schmitt is that it’s totally irrelevant Even if Jack Smith went to a basketball game in Atlanta-he didn’t-there isn’t even a scintilla of proof that he met, much less conspired with Fani Willis 35 days

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

average negative Democratic ad this cycle is like, "[Generic Republican] is taking bribes from pedophiles to bulldoze your house for a data center"

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 30/09/2026

lol lmao even www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

NYT video screenshot showing Jack Smith at the Iowa-Maryland basketball game on 02-03-2024

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