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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

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Charm City Indivisible ❌👑 @charmcityindvsbl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

a first amendment violation is when your constituents laugh at you for lying badly

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How do you forget to spike the ball

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

What if we all died and the only reason that we're seeing Mitch McConnell is because we're in hell?

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Charm City Indivisible ❌👑 @charmcityindvsbl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s so interesting! Hey, out of curiosity, what exactly does Anduril do?

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

PublicPrivate
5.0%
15.0%
25.0%
35.0%
Women's share of all managers
41.3%
24.3%
Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No lies detected

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

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My favorite 'defense' of the rational actor model goes something like - "Okay, but the rational actor assumption holds once you account for different interests, preferences, and the actor's identity!" Yea. That's called constructivism, welcome to the party.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everything I have learned about this person today is against my will and yet it does seem to be necessary

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Charm City Indivisible ❌👑 @charmcityindvsbl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And, if you’re in Baltimore, you have some fantastic worker friendly options to fill the void! @redemmas.org , Common Ground, and Thread are all worker co-ops, with CG being unionized with UFCW local 27. Buy coffee that backs labor! (Plus, they ALL have better coffee than Starbucks. 👀)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“When ICE agents raid homes, when Medicaid is stripped from millions, when unhoused populations are criminalized, both politicians and media speak of ‘policy,’ not ‘violence.’ In this scheme, ‘political violence’ can only be what threatens this system, not what the system itself does.”

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What Is Political Violence?

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 31/08/2026

incredible reaction image

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/08/2026

main thing keeping me going these days is that I intend to live long enough to watch them suffer, you know?

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is both some effective frame-bridging, and a clearer defense of the basic concept of rights than we get from many current politicians.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026

I do appreciate why people are in some cases a bit squeamish about this Natalie Harp story and want to be careful not to malign her, but on the other hand I think she might be an actual Ghostbusters demon

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

During the AIDS crisis, a lot of men died alone or comforted by non-family because their parents had cut them off. Where the hell are the articles --and the judgments-- about parents who cut their children off or abused them so badly separation was survival?

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steph @upwiththestars.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

my pillow guy crashing out over losing his primary is incredible content. transfixing.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/08/2026

imagine a future where *we* appropriate the vicious symbolism of ICE in a merciless crack-down billionaires and the MAGA class: fancy production value videos of bashing down their fancy doors, slapping bags over their spray-tanned heads, black helicopters, shattered ugly gold homewares, etc etc

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boonque שאלוט משאול @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you allow framing like this, you are legitimizing the view that there's a problem, like with trans people in sports. There's no reason you couldn't frame this as "some people don't want Mamdani there; we investigated who and why."

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/08/2026

Welcome to Local Landmark Wood-Fired Pizza. We do things a *little* differently around here 😏 (crust sucks)

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

A bejeweled suit with a cape with pink lining

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is, again, well-meaning. It’s also anchored in a Pollyannaish model of how power and public life operate. Public trust in science isn’t eroding because of misleading soundbites from environmentalists. It’s eroding because of an ongoing propaganda campaign to erode public trust in science.

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The 51st @51st.news · 04/08/2026

On August 11, 2025, life in D.C. changed overnight. A year later, with the National Guard set to be on our streets until 2029, we want to hear from D.C. residents: What questions do you have about the ongoing occupation of our city? More questions for you in our full survey:

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Reflecting on a year under federal occupation

On August 11, 2025, life in D.C. changed overnight as President Trump announced a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of National Guard troops and federal law…

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The MAHA movement are a bunch of bigoted eugenicist cranks who believe food regulations are government overreach, vaccines kill, children with autism should be sterilized for the good of the gene pool, and an issue like a peanut allergy or celiac disease is a sign of evolutionary inferiority.

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

imho if we ever do get a silmarillion adaptation the first episode should be a wordless hour-long sequence as the ainur sing the world into being. if they do anything else theyre cowards

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