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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 27/04/2025
Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Good on Greyhound! #goodtrouble
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I've said this before but I'll say it again If your reading recommendations (especially if you are an industry professional of some kind) include no works by Black authors Then I urge you to *seek out and read* more work by Black authors
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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#ACAB
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 literally any 🕯 good news 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Please, please, please stop using AI. Its environmental impacts are devastating. People keep using it for social media trends that die in a week - but when people, animals, and/or the planet die, it’s forever.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do
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Liz Garton Scanlon @lizgardensalad.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is beyond alarming, everyone. Write, call, show up on Monday if you're able... Screaming Red Alarm in the Texas Capitol open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
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Screaming Red Alarm in the Texas Capitol
This one's about public libraries. Here's what to do.
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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is a screaming red alarm for Texans who care about books and intellectual freedom, and it’s about restrictions in *public* libraries (not schools): HB3225 will be heard in the House State Affairs committee on Monday morning.
Screenshot of bill alert for HB3225, the Texas bill that would keep anyone under 18 from accessing anything but children’s books. The bill will be heard in committee on Monday, April 14.
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Ty @tychapmn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Timeline cleanse
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/04/2025
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Trump administration believes it has the legal authority to abduct any individual-citizen or immigrant, documented or not-and illegally deport them to another country without due process. It further claims that it can extinguish all of that person's constitutional rights by imprisoning them in a foreign nation. And it asserts that once that person has been locked away abroad, the U.S. government has no power or responsibility to bring them home, even if they were indisputably deported in error.
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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I don't care if ANY of them have gang ties or criminal records. They should never have been sent to this place.
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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
i'm holding your hands, gently april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.
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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
ICYMI nearly 400 library books were purged from the US Naval Academy - a college for adults. America- our first Amendment rights are under attack. This is not a drill. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dei...
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M. T. Anderson @mt-anderson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
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Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week
For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/03/2025
Damn! Canadians aren’t messing around—they’re even pulling already imported alcohol off the shelves. We’re being erased, and I don’t blame them.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
See Dems? Not that hard!
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 01/03/2025
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"So don’t make any long-term bets on getting your checks on time, keeping your lights on, buying a home for the first time, or enjoying Yosemite. Don’t assume all the things that work now will still work tomorrow." www.wired.com/story/doge-w... thank you @wired.com for staying on top of it all
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it | Letters
Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness"
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 15/02/2025
this thread is the whole thing. however comma Black women have been SHOUTING this for months on end, but a lot of y’all (even the liberals and progressives) somehow struggle to hear a message unless it’s delivered by a white dude, and that’s on y’all.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/02/2025
NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.
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Kevin McShane (Verified) @kevinmcshane.org · 13/02/2025
Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Hold on Zuckerberg. Panel 5: "You're all fired," Zuck says.
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yup: “Now that they have control of all the levers of government, they can subjugate, oppress, and exploit Black labor through pure economic means, just as long as white folks and especially white women stay in line and keep dutifully voting for white supremacy.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid
Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
White House has fired the USAID inspector general after his office's blistering report on the consequences of Trump's aid pause. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump fires USAID inspector general one day after blistering report
Paul K. Martin, appointed by President Joe Biden, was dismissed a day after issuing a report assessing the Trump administration implemented its aid freeze and stop-work order.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Oh hey. Just reading up on revolutionary anarchist theory.
a four panel comic strip; Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. In the first panel, Calvin, a small boy with spikey hair and a striped tshirt, runs joyfully across the panel. In the second, he comes to a halt as an off-panel character shouts "calvin, stop running through the house." In the third, he stands still to address the reader, and says "the law is on teh books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it." in the fourth, he is still running, vanishing out of the panel, while the voice futilely yells "calvin!" after him
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Ty @tychapmn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If Tupac lived to see the early 2000’s, white america would’ve tried to convince me Justin Timberlake was the better songwriter.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/02/2025
“The president has threatened to “take over” the city, and two Republicans in Congress recently proposed legislation that would take authority from the D.C. government.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Trump expected to order a crackdown on D.C. crime, homeless encampments
President Trump has called D.C. a ‘nightmare of murder and crime.’ He is considering an order to crack down on violent and petty crime and clear homeless encampments.
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Ty @tychapmn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Some white folk are too quick to praise mediocrity & performativity imo. Rather than compare Swift to the likes of Kendrick, it would be more apt to draw Drake comparisons. They make the same product for different demographics.
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Ty @tychapmn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you use AI to produce creative work, you’ve lost sight of what the purpose and beauty of art making.
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