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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 22h

Whenever I visit, always struck by the disjunction between "Washington" the synecdoche for US empire and "Washington" the beautiful city for the people, just packed with public good and beauty, a promise to be something better. It's good to be upset about the latter's destruction.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Temptation of Adam and Eve Mikhail Golubev

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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*

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Ordinary Shena @originalshena2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tom Tenney is dying and has a very modest GoFundMe up to try to pay for oxygen and his medication and to try to keep his family housed when he's gone. He's comics people. Please donate, share, anything helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marve...?

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Donate to Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter, organized by Christina Durbin

Imagine spending more than 30 years bringing heroes to life on… Christina Durbin needs your support for Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yep. Same for how people think Fox News "turned their friends/family mean & stupid." Sorry, but Fox News wasn't exactly subtle. If your loved ones were watching that stuff uncritically in the first place... I got bad news for you. It's not Fox News that made them like that. : /

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great thread: social media didn’t do much connect cranks with each other; it made formerly hidden cranks visible. The shock has been the realization that our relatives, friends, neighbors, and employers turned out to be cranks at a rate we couldn’t possibly have imagined before.

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Exhibitor Relations Co. @ercboxoffice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The grave has been dug. WB's DIGGER debuts with a horrific $8M domestic and just $20M worldwide. Look, WB thought it was financing another BIRDMAN--but with the budget of a Marvel movie. This one could end the studio. Oh wait... Your move, Skydance.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that's a relief. City council pulled the permit for the pro-ICE movie that's not a union production, has been slipshod at best with armory and stunts, and whose private, armed security people have been menacing Livingston residents. They've been a scourge.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That sounds more like a Bulgarian

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hegemon.substack.com/p/the-dictat...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Finnish companies Nokia and Iceye want to challenge Starlink and start producing communications satellite systems for governments. First satellites to be launched 2028. Great if they can make this happen on scale

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Teknologia | Nokia ja Iceye haastavat SpaceX:n Starlinkin

Nokia ja Iceye alkavat kehittää viestintäsatelliittijärjestelmää valtioiden tarpeisiin. Ensimmäiset satelliitit on tarkoitus laukaista jo 2028.

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Boiled Owl Leather Goods @boiledowlleather.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Im GIVING AWAY this Traveler notebook/passport wallet. To enter, follow this account + repost this post. Draw Oct 24 Included: -Traveler Wallet -Handmade 3.5x5.5" Notebook -Zebra F-701 Ballpoint Pen -Free Worldwide Shipping See next post for a video tour! boiledowlleathergoods.com/products/the...

Traveler Wallet made from blue and whiskey Buterro premium full grain Italian leather with tennis ball stitching. Wallet interior featuring 4 card slots, flap pocket, sleeve pocket, and notebook pocket. Handmade notebook and pen visible

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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 · 30/09/2026

[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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RatherBeHibernating @vchaud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Which book is it? I've read a few Reacher books but haven't come across this plot

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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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