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I mostly RT. I'm a blue dot in Ohio, USA. I used to get mad at myself for still getting upset & shocked at cruelty. But it's actually my 💔 & soul crying out at each injustice. We shouldn't want to lose that. often Team Cringe 🫣 she/her

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4h
It sounds a lot like Trump is asking Iran to attack US cities ahead of the midterms, he's even proposing who they should attack.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 8h
will you people shut the fuck up
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 6h
UH -- JD Vance just wrapped up with this comment about... Democrats?! "They are ruthless. They will do whatever they need to do, right up to cheating, and right up to lying, right up to putting somebody on the ballot who has no reason to be there other than to help them steal an election."
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h
Hastert ain’t dead
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h
Having scrolled through way too many Doral pictures on TripAdvisor I can say sometimes it looks as nasty as the Times photo, sometimes less so. But it never looks as white and pristine as the publicity shot. My guess is like all buildings in a swamp climate, frequent pressure washing is a must.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h
Can we fast forward to the eagle and liver part.
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Sam Altman Thinks He's the Prometheus of Silicon Valley
In a new interview, Altman compares AI to fire and OpenAI to the Greek god that gifted the power to humanity.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 6h
If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 4h
definitely the actions of someone who has taken steps toward rehabilitation and repair (that he has never described or even admitted to) and never raping anyone ever again. that’s how people who have really Done the Work act
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 3h
And ICE never released what their base number was that grew by 413%. 8 to 33 is 413% growth. Which given they went aggressive? Is a reasonable increase because when people are being treated with contempt and hostility? They react as they’re treated.
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 5h
this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...
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‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.
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dial “m” for marlo @marlo.ooo · 5h
wait katy perry tried to buy a convent but it became a property dispute with the nuns who were trying to buy it back as well and it became a years-long legal dispute and one of the nuns (in the courtroom), one who had begged katy to “please stop” (i am unsure of when) JUST DIED IN THE COURT???
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 3h
at my last job the company had an ex-FBI head of security who would follow up on any death threats and usually reassured me with something like “we looked into the guy and he doesn’t travel outside a 50-mile radius of his small Texas town.” whether that could be part of the issue, who’s to say
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 5h
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor
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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 8h
too bad for him Iran has no problem with the people of Los Angeles or San Diego, only his pos ass
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16h
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h
I was honored to visit Our Lady Salam, the first Arabic-speaking Lutheran parish on Staten Island. Its congregants hail from as close as Hylan Blvd to as far as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, & Egypt — yet have planted roots in our city. Many carry the weight of war and genocide daily.
Mayor Mamdani greets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.Mayor Mamdani meets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.
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Fabian Nicieza @fabiannicieza.bsky.social · 11h
Please donate and/or share if you can.
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 12h
I fully believe that this is Wayne's culture, because it's recognizably lower class white culture of the kind that JD Vance correctly excoriated in Hillbilly Elegy. However, it's not American culture or even PMC white culture. It's just hick culture.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13h
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 12h
Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 17h
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 10h
Kushner's resort island is covered in nuclear bunkers
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 18h
Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026
It's worth adding (and I really struggled with how to approach this in the piece) that the joke stealing AI comedian is apparently also an Only Fans model. So dudes are now paying money to consume AI generated adult content. This future is dumber than I ever could have imagined.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10h
In Minnesota, wrongful convictions have been a focal point of political campaigns. Before she was a state rep, Amy Klobuchar was a prosecutor. From 1999-2007, Klobuchar oversaw a 600% increase of Black men being sent to prison, including wrongfully convicted Myon Burrell.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10h
With anti-Blackness built into the fabric of everyday life in the U.S., Black Americans are the most likely to be wrongfully convicted of a crime and represent up to 60% of all exonerations in the country despite making up less than 14% of the total population.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10h
Last Friday was Wrongful Conviction Day. In Minnesota, prisoner advocates estimate the number inmates serving time on wrongful convictions -- crimes they did not do -- to be at least 200. The state's unit to review wrongful convictions closed in July with 160 cases still under investigation. 🧵
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Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation - UNICORN RIOT
Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to "eliminate" the state's Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 ...
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 17h
Meanwhile Ellison nepo baby's CBS under Bari Weiss: bsky.app/profile/joel...
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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 10h
Edit: blind people notice the pattern just fine, lol. Must be some other explanation.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 12h
A very strange political tactic trying to make villains of pediatricians— a group generally respected by most everyone and depended upon and still very trusted by most parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h
1. BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over a rapidly growing measles outbreak. New York has confirmed 108 cases this year, including 92 since July 15. Pennsylvania is dealing with an extraordinary outbreak: 1,004 confirmed cases so far this year.
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MallOwO 🖤💀🎃 @frm777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well said, ty
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The plan is to fund individual scientists directly and fast, and cut what universities are paid to support their research. In practice that means no infrastrucutre, no shared equipment, no lab manager, no institutional home if a study runs long or a result takes years to pan out.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h
NEW: Fresh off of announcing her intent to resign as the Episcopal Bishop Washington (a process that will take ~2 years), Bishop Mariann Budde is featured in a new election ad that references her Trump sermon as she urges people to vote and "choose love, not ICE." religionnews.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Bishop Mariann Budde, in new election ad, urges people to vote
(RNS) — 'I am asking for your courage to love your neighbor, to respect the dignity of every human being, and now, to vote,' Budde says in the new ad, which references her headline-grabbing sermon to ...
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🖖🏳️‍⚧️ T'Lynn 🦇 David 🦇 Cooper 🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 13h
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma... Hey, Marsha continues to get bad news, and we all love Marsha, and we're broke, and Marsha's broke, and we'd all appreciate it if you could donate and/or share this as far and wide as you can. Maybe we'll get lucky. Let's hope for the best. 🩷💚🩷
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Donate to Support Marsha's Battle Against Cancer, organized by Carol Melton
Marsha has endometrial cancer, metastisied to both lungs. Without insurance, she … Carol Melton needs your support for Support Marsha's Battle Against Cancer
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10h
With 29 days until election day, Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown is confident -- and not openly superstitious. He's declaratively saying that he's "going to win" in Ohio's battleground Senate race I asked him why he's confident =====>
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 11h
Tillis writes in his book that he regrets voting for Hegseth and Kennedy. And he says there are about 30 of his GOP colleagues that feel the same as he does. So basically, he’s admitting they don’t have any spine. 🔄 apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 10h
Viral AI-Generated Comedian Steals Jokes And Is Rewarded With Millions Of Views
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Viral AI-Generated Comedian Steals Jokes And Is Rewarded With Millions Of Views
Tiffany Sloan has over 375,000 followers on Instagram and also isn't a real person but a gen-AI nightmare
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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 10h
Queen Hayley
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 10h
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 11h
meanwhile on Xitter...
Curtis Yarvin post on X on 10/5/2026: "Every time I’m in the UK I hear this. More and more people asking, subtly or straight out: what would Hitler do?

As if it was that easy. Have you looked around you? Man, Hitler wouldn’t even know where to start" 102.3 k views, 4:11 a.m. 74 replies, 51 shares, 997 hearts, 95 saves.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h
Aldermen give $261 million settlement for police abuse lawsuits initial approval www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Aldermen give $261 million settlement for police abuse lawsuits initial approval
The historic mass settlement proposed by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration would resolve 16 lawsuits alleging disgraced Chicago Police Department Det. Reynaldo Guevara framed men for murder.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 11h
Chuck Lorre not holding back:
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14h
did you know that the characteristics that deem a victim "not credible" also overlap with the characteristics of the people most likely to be abused? not credible ≠ not victimized
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13h
"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
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