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@verybookish.bsky.social
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Queer, fatty, scifi geek. Introvert, socialist, atheist, pacifist. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17h
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of the expert analysis I have seen on a Diesel export ban says it will disastrously backfire and cause negative unintended consequences so I fully expect Trump to go through with it.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I knew this would last only a couple days. Pathetic.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Masked gunmen threaten elementary school kids. Are they Feds? Or are they extremist posers? Unclear. Either way, horrifying hoodline.com/2026/09/colo...
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Turman Elementary Colorado Springs ICE Incident Alarms Parents
Masked men with guns confronted kids walking to a Colorado Springs elementary school. No agency has confirmed who they were.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve been obsessed with this possible trendline for a decade. If you cut the things that keep people who remain in state healthy and increase access to guns guess what happens
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Peter Paige @thepeterpaige.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let’s Streisand the fuck outta this thing…
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Bobby Ray Stacy @bobby-ray-stacy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
. These data centers are bad news and we don't need them. I have written 3 major articles on these. The whole thing is shady as sh#t and has been rolling out in the most corrupt, oppressive and tyrannical fashion possible. And God only knows what we've got coming when all these are up online. .
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It just keeps getting better.
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Peter Paige @thepeterpaige.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And THIS is why gas is unaffordable, inflation is back on the rise, and food is about to get even more expensive, since diesel, which powers almost the entire trucking and shipping industry, is at record highs. Thanks, Trump!
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
July 31: Susan Collins "says that by the end of August, body-worn cameras will be deployed nationwide and worn by all ICE agents in the field."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Because Trump is mad at our closest ally, Canada, he decided to buy potash (a key fertilizer ingredient) from one of the world's most notorious cruel dictators, Belarus' Lukashenko. Typical for Trump, he didn't bother to check before announcing his big deal. Belarus doesn't have any potash to sell.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Beyond morality, I think this sort of stuff is a strong recession indicator. My prediction is that as the economy gets more and more uncertain and existential for people, we will see more advertising leaning directly into outrage, pain, xenophobia, loneliness, nostalgia, gambling, and addiction.
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New reporting shows that Palantir AI targeted the school in Iran. Send this piece of shit to The Hague.
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Michael @miketwomey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It really was a whole time of that. Either the rapture would get us, or Y2K would get us, or the tornado would get us, or the Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman meteor would get us, or the Tommy Lee Jones or Pierce Brosnan volcano would get us, or etc etc
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026
“The secretive, close relationship between the son of a sitting U.S. President and a member of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s inner circle raises serious national security and public corruption concerns,” Rep. Robert Garcia wrote.
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Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding
Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financia...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do we need ICE? Abolish ICE should be a litmus for any candidate moving forward.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 1982, the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled Vanessa Redgrave's contract to narrate Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex over her pro-Palestine statements. Private companies and parties can be sued when they violate "protected rights" like the Right to Free Speech and Redgrave sued and won. 44 years ago.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What is with all the democrats scapegoating trans people? Marcy Kaptur's new ad is the worst I've seen but I've seen at least five dems in the past week attack trans people. They're letting republicans move them to the right. WEAK! youtu.be/NCApPUryCOs?...
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This is the Most Transphobic Ad a Democrat Has Ever Run
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north. Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background as its chair.
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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A FOX News contributor who currently sells (grifts) unregulated products online including, “a 2-ounce liquid blend that includes turmeric and ginger root marketed under the name “Soothe”” for $24.99, and another supplement containing kava-kava root, which the FDA has linked to liver damage & failure
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Peter Paige @thepeterpaige.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Actually, that’s YOUR legacy, Dr. Cassidy. YOU gave Trumo the deciding vote to approve RFK Jr. This is on YOU.
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