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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Sunshine, Drawing Room.' (1905) Vilhelm Hammershøi’s interiors are his most popular pictures, and they have defined public perception of his achievements as an artist. Although he was working in the era of Picasso, Matisse and Duchamp, he has more in common with Vermeer.

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Sarah Marloff @sarahmarloff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We REEEAAAALLLLYYYY wanna know what you think. And we’re saying thanks with beer or books! www.surveymonkey.com/r/LCGR6MJ

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 22h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

patient zero for whats wrong with the democrats nymag.com/intelligence...

$Instead, BJ McCollister, who runs a Maine-based consulting firm called Frame Strategies and was Jackson’s chief of staff in the state senate, offered a choice of two people vetted by Schumer’s DSCC. The campaign went with Hilary Barrett, the former Nevada caucus chief for Joe Biden during the fractious showdown there between Biden and Sanders in 2020. (The campaign says it conducted an “exhaustive search” for the job that included more than two candidates.) Other consultants came from BerlinRosen, Hilltop Public solutions, and TKO, all powerful Washington- and New York–based firms strongly aligned with the Democratic Establishment. These firms had also been involved in Jackson’s gubernatorial efforts, but now they were in the driver’s seat.$

The Jackson campaign’s wariness of in-person events seems to merge with a general suspicion of Mainers and their conviction that they know what’s best for Jackson. A handful of them who work as staffers at this point “are treated like garbage” by the campaign bosses, according to one source. What’s more, this person went on, “in their mind, Troy is lumped in with them. There’s a vision of Maine that these folks have.” Multiple sources said campaign managers turned up their noses at some of the hokier events on his schedule, including a boisterous karaoke night and a contra dance on Labor Day weekend. “They think it’s going well when Troy is boring AF,” said another person with knowledge of the campaign. Karaoke, held at Baxter Brewing Co. in Lewiston, “was a blast,” according to one attendant, packed with people who were Jackson’s delegates or organizers. “Troy was on fire, and he was just himself again.” Members of the Washington contingent, according to multiple people present, hung out on a couch by themselves and left after about half an hour.

Another source familiar with the campaign said, “I don’t even think it’s disdain for Maine so much as it’s just disdain for, more generally, people. They want to run this campaign through numbers and spreadsheets. And wherever a campaign is connecting with people or doing anything quirky or unique, they’re like, ‘This is bad and weird.’”

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Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

boosting signal--- The Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invites proposals for works in progress to be presented at its 16th Annual International Graduate Student Workshop (April 16–17, 2027). Submission by Sunday, November 15, 2026: myumi.ch/jVNQ4

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Fiyah 💜 Angelou 🪮 🏁 @fiyahangelou.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Joshua Doss on the absurdity of the being Black in America IG @doss.discourse

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did my first proper big belly laugh in a very long time to this. Magnificent.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 22/09/2026

Before group chats and video calls, hurricane forecasters had the Hurricane Hotline. 📞 These dedicated phones helped NWS experts quickly coordinate watches, warnings and storm information when tropical cyclones threatened. www.noaa.gov/heritage/sto... #NOAAHeritageWeek

This colorful photo shows reporters filming Hurricane Specialist Richard Pasch making a hurricane conference call with the National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Digitally enhanced photo. (Image credit: NOAA)

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 22/09/2026

www.instagram.com/p/DdkYBgoxBkw/

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FUN FACT: The next president could order a CFIUS review of the $24B(+) Saudi, Qatari, Abu Dhabi investments in the Ellison deal – yes, post merger – which in turn could lead to the president requiring those investments be unwound. Of course, that'd be followed by litigation – but hey, Article II.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 20/09/2026

By rebranding as National Design Studio, DOGE has essentially pitched web design as the battlefield for the future of the administrative state

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Gerald has upped the big veg game with his matching red cabbage fit

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Join me and My 15 POUND RED CABBAGE

YouTube video by Gerald Stratford

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge crowds at the Kennedy Center protest.

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Rasmus Canbäck @canbackrasmus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

En väldigt fin text. Fick mig att minnas tillbaka då jag bodde i Israel och besökte de kristna samfunden på Västbanken. De vittnade om upptrappade trakasserier från bosättare. Nu har det eskalerat till den grad att urkyrkans företrädare ropar på hjälp. www.gadworld.se/p/palestinsk...

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Palestinska kristnas rop på hjälp mot folkmordet

Från kristendomens födelseland vädjar palestinska präster och teologer till världens kyrkor. Det räcker inte längre med medkänsla och bön. Nu krävs ekonomisk bojkott och stopp för vapenexport.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/09/2026

I'm a third of the way to my $1,500 goal supporting Scarleteen's great work and great people; Scarleteen is free & relies on a volunteers, but paid staff keep the organization going & grant funders are steering clear of sex ed so they REALLY need the help this year. pro.gofundme.com/fundraiser/7...

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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17 SEPTEMBER 1776, SAN FRANCISCO: The Spanish hold a ceremony to formally take control of San Francisco Bay. Two priests hold a mass, and cannon salutes are fired onshore and from the San Carlos in the bay. “The only ones who did not enjoy this happy day were the heathens.”

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011. A group of activists started protesting in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Soon gaining the nation’s attention and spawning similar groups across the country, Occupy Wall Street was the first grassroots protest against inequality in the New Gilded Age!

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Museum of the American Revolution @amrevmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..." #OnThisDay in 1787, the United States Constitution was signed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. #ConstitutionDay

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In all seriousness, he is simply fucking lying. His DD-214 is a matter of public record, and his actual job in the Navy was as a cryptologic technician. Calling that being a spy would make Baron Munchausen go "Whoa there, cocksucker..."

Collage of Jonathan Frakes saying "it never happened"

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So the British left the EU just before the EU started reconstructing the British Empire?

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Ironic Rain on Your Wedding Day

ALT: Ironic Rain on Your Wedding Day

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026

Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ted Chiang's fav writing quote is from her essay 'Write till you drop' "There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Date TBD, but she's up for it, so coming (probably next month) to Letting Them Talk with Will Harris: Jackie Hoffman.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I fully expected the stay to be lifted and for Humphreys to be executed last night. It's an extraordinary development for now. And this really captures the broader context: georgiarecorder.com/2026/09/16/e...

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 15/09/2026

In other, and more important, news: children learn how to make rain by cooperation.

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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

August 2026 Globally,according to JMA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.71C vs, 1991/2020 norm and was the hottest August on record as follows: ① 2026 (+0.71℃) ② 2023 (+0.65℃) ③ 2024 (+0.58℃) ④ 2025 (+0.42℃) ⑤ 2016 (+0.34℃)

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota." www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-is-sti...

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ocean anomalies up to +14°F! While El Niño drives global weather patterns, its biggest impacts are arguably local in #Peru, #Ecuador and the #Galápagos Islands. The extreme warmth along the coast is disrupting one of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. 1/

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The underrated 9/11 Commission Report did not ascribe Al Qaeda’s motive to an evasively vague “resentment of American hegemony” but to animus against three specific U.S. policies: US troops garrisoned in KSA; starvation sanctions imposed on Iraq; abetting immiseration of Palestine

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.

"When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department."

An FR24 map showing N120LW flying past Malabo and landing in Yaoundé.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”

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hailey @hailey.at · 12/09/2026

Vienna, Virginia

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 11/09/2026

Ann's superb cartoon in 2003 was preamble for today's feckless media #Sheep

Ann Telnaes' searing cartoon depicting media as sheep cheerleading us into war

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Claire Guarry, 'Somewhere it's Still Summer.'

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11/09/2026

I rarely talk about how I was 6 blocks away from the WTC on 9/11. & it's less bc of the trauma and more the sheer shame of how the US turned that trauma into grist for more killing. here, I talk about how the attacks became a formative moment in my political life www.coyotemedia.org/september-11...

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I Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of Grievance

For Soleil Ho, September 11 was their political origin story.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have lived under the profound consequences for over 20 years from the failed Katrina response to today as DHS takes FEMA’s already limited resources to implement deeply cruel (and often illegal) immigration enforcement.

wounds. As every bridge, tunnel, and train in and out of the city was shut down, every boat in the Hudson descended on Manhattan. Their efforts resulted in the spontaneous evacuation of half a million people in just over nine hours, making it the largest waterborne evacuation since Dunkirk in World War II. 407
Despite the loss of the city's state-of-the-art emergency operations center (EOC), located next to one of the towers, New York City's emergency management agency did not falter. Dr.
Kathleen Tierney wrote, "both the management and the conduct of emergency response activities continued uninterrupted" and that the "response organizations in New York City were highly resilient, showing great capacity to mobilize and coordinate resources. "408 Formal response operations, many of which were improvised, were run from alternative locations. As outside agencies arrived, they were largely integrated into the already established work being done.

Existing plans and procedures were not perfect, and communication did break down at various points, but considering the scope of the situation, the response itself was remarkably effec-tive. Nearly everyone who physically could have escaped the towers got out. First responders did not abandon their jobs— instead, many sacrificed themselves to save others. The city did not descend into panic or chaos. New Yorkers made spontaneous but rational decisions to help themselves and one another. Given the physical limitations, search and rescue went well, and the immediate needs of survivors were largely met. By these mea-

sures, disaster researchers argued the response itself was adaptive and effective.'
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Government officials, though, measured response effectiveness differently. They were focused on how well coordinated formal agencies were and how well they abided by existing plans. As a result, the need for and presence of a spontaneous response was, to government officials, indicative of failure. They argued a more centralized approach to emergency management was needed. It just so happened that those changes nicely aligned with priorities of the Republican party's long-desired and newly created Department of Homeland Security.

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 decimated FEMA's au-thority. 41º It was demoted to one agency among many within
DHS, and in the process lost the relationships that had been built with other leaders across the federal government, which facilitated interagency coordination and communication in times of crisis. They also no longer had a direct line to the president, instead having to go through the DHS secretary to approve the use of federal resources during ongoing disasters. FEMA's position within DHS also left the agency vulnerable to decisions made by the DHS secretary.

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