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Thomas Shrack

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a busted stitch in the patchwork of the flag

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 09/10/2026
There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
i have seen four different dems connect absolute haymakers just in the last 30 minutes on the bus
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026
Tom Emmer is the congressman for my hometown, St. Cloud. The growing Somali population there is who are buying up the big houses that my friends there grew up in. They’re the only ones who seem to give the city life anymore. Fuck him for talking about them like this.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lolol
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The term "projection" seems inadequate to the task here
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the first time I've ever thought a candidate's best option might be to try to sneak off stage in the middle of a televised debate bsky.app/profile/fact...
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ten bucks says Ossoff spent the 30 minutes before the debate listening to Thunderstruck on repeat
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
guy's not fucking around
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
i genuinely want nothing more in the world than to see ossoff eviscerate vance on a debate stage
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two
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lawngnomesorceress @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
if i were a republican, idk if i'd want to be breaking the seal on 'televised firing squads', what with the way the polls look lately
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/10/2026
static.klipy.com
I Learned It By Watching You
Alt: I Learned It By Watching You
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Amazing response to Collins' bullshit
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We seem to be having some success with hot smart people who are good at television, has anyone thought of trying this before
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
next dem president and congress need to seize every dime he claimed in office
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“That guy was a lion” but it’s ossoff because he is very good at sneaking up on his enemies and eating them alive
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We don’t talk enough about how deeply, chronically unAmerican this administration is.
apple.news
Vance says the US is suspending permanent visa residency program for Microsoft and Adobe — Business Insider
Updated Oct 8, 2026, 3:26 PM GMT The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from a federal program that companies use to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency, Vice President...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
that post making the rounds reminds me I already wrote USE THE WONDER OF AI TO NEVER SPEAK TO YOUR KIDS AGAIN www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Somebody was asking me tonight: Why can't Dems ever get their act together? Me (approx): Yes, sure. But can you remember a stronger slate than Dems are putting up in big races right now? Cooper? Ossoff + Bottoms? Talarico + Hinojosa? Turek + Sand? Benson + El-Sayed? Brown + Acton? Hamilton? Etc
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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How much is this story breaking containment outside of bluesky? Because hours-long torture and attempted murder on camera seems like it would make a lot of people mad?
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In July, I went to the NFL Flag Championships in Indiana to see the enormous boom in youth flag football in person. Turns out, girls love ball. My story leads off @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s November issue on women’s sports. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The NFL’s $192 Million Bet on Flag Football Is Paying Off With Teen Girls
The sport has seen unprecedented growth since the pandemic. Next up: The Olympics and a college campus near you.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:
jessica.substack.com
Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans
Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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JJ @klangton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great set of music/other recommendations from Josh in this edition of NE, always worth a look. The new Greg Freeman album really is that good, and then some. Feel lucky to have caught Greg in London a couple of months back, it was a super fun and memorable show. Man what a songwriter and performer.
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Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lost a friend today. Nothing to say. Too sad. Tell the people you love you love them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
oh bezos is *juicing* juicing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh yeah, those are definitely the Big Two when it comes to understanding socialism. Check out the big brain on J.D. here! He's definitely not an idiot.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The author of this ridiculous con worked for Collins
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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maine is all “we are fierce independent thinkers, and we are desperately afraid of any change.”
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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txlawyer @txlawyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The reason this is so legally incorrect is that it conflates intent with consent. Intoxication does not negate intent.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I also hate the “but I live in a safe state” argument. Ooooh, I can vote for my vanity candidate because I can count on enough other people to actually do the right thing, fuck off. Their “conscience” is actually sounder than yours
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
well *I* spent *19* days in heaven and i can tell you with authority that Jesus is in fact a 'street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW EPISODE: Less than 30 days before the midterms, Trump told a reporter that anyone looking for mail voting fraud should "start off by taking a look at California." I explain the real reason Trump is targeting the state and how we fight back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTC...
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ALERT: Trump is Setting a Trap for California's Vote Count
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But they're gonna have to lay off thousands of people who make a fraction of the executives' income in order to be "fiscally responsible"
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump wants you to believe that Chicago is facing “unprecedented” crime. But his own website says the exactly the opposite. Trump’s own staff can’t keep his lies straight.
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