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rl3.bsky.social @rl3.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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intrudertimmy @intrudertimmy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Was "Plague Outbreak" on anybody's 2026 Bingo card?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a critical finding from Fox: Non-MAGA Republicans are less enthusiastic about voting than Dems or Texans overall. If this is right, Rs souring on Trump really could depress GOP turnout. Trump is also underwater statewide, including with working class. newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 02/10/2026
This is an incredible and much needed step towards justice. Bring the heat!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/09/2026
We’re going to flip a Senate seat in Florida! Join us tomorrow to meet @angieforfl.bsky.social and learn about her people-powered campaign. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Necessary Noise: #JackSmith
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Jeremy Fassler @jfassler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Katie Britt watching Eric Schmitt destroy his career, brought to you by Larry David.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
The moment when Democrats delivered healthcare to more than 30 Million additional American citizens.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: Today, Florida Governor DeSantis and other state officials voted to designate two leading Muslim civil rights nonprofits as “domestic terrorist organizations.” The state's actions are baseless and unconstitutional.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s astonishing how far ahead the 2026 El Niño is. The red line is 2026. The other warmest El Niños are the colored lines. It’s not even playing in the same league. Some of this is of course due to this natural El Niño cycle on top of long-term ocean warming… 1/
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

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Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
House on Middle Street - 1928 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.
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Old Bob @oldbobiniowa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My opinion: The apparent goal of the Israeli government appears to be total annihilation of Palestinians, in Gaza, and to render Gaza uninhabitable. Israel has become a terrorist state. They don't deserve U.S. support. The Guardian apple.news/AP36XaQZpSaW...
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61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies — Guardian US
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI ‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ ...
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eridan Xharahi (Albanian, Birthdate unknown) "Cactus Bloom", 2025. Watercolor on Cotton Paper, 12 × 17 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS PEEPS, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. A DPS screwup left voter registration applications sitting unprocessed for months. The deadline to register is October 5. Don’t find out at the ballot box that you’re not registered. CHECK IT NOW. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Women are NOT safe around men.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is a disgrace that indicted war-criminal Netanyahu wasn't arrested when he landed in the USA. It is a disgrace he was allowed to speak at the UN. It is a disgrace peaceful protesters against this war criminal were arrested. Another shameful chapter in this most shameful period of American history
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Madria ❌👑 @vulcanknitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
…Longer perspective will show that it alone can preserve in us the possibility of an accurate judgment of ourselves, and the possibilities of correction and renewal. Without it, we are adrift in the present, in the wreckage of yesterday, in the nightmare of tomorrow.” — Wendell Berry 1970 2/2
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Madria ❌👑 @vulcanknitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I am saying, then, that literacy - the mastery of language and the knowledge of books - is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only by the standards of quick profit and easy power… 1/2
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Mercurial Muse Art @mercurialmuseart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love the moment when an animal in a painting stops feeling literal and starts feeling personal. A crow or a frog can carry so much meaning once you start thinking beyond the surface. That is when the story opens up for me. #art #artsky #mercurialmuse #bskyart #arttips
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Houthi forces currently launching a ballistic missile attack on Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A US company that supplied surveillance software to the Pentagon and other agencies was allegedly secretly owned by Russian nationals, including a businessman whose Moscow-based firm sold software to Russia’s FSB, US prosecutors say.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I had to check just to make sure this photo wasn’t altered to make the Trumps look even more deranged and it’s not. This is real.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Madria ❌👑 @vulcanknitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters.” — Wendell Berry
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 25/09/2026
America has a long history of using lynching as a tool to kill, intimidate, & keep Black folks in their place. The hangings of Black folks across the country deserve extra scrutiny. The DOJ & FBI must investigate these suspicious deaths & enforce the Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The plane appearing to have been scheduled to fly third-country nationals to 3 African countries today—before an appeals court prohibited it last night—has taken off, landed at Gitmo (Somalis in ICE camp there) and is now in San Juan, a common refueling stop for ICE flights to Africa.
An FR24 map showing N352BH landing at Gitmo. An FR24 map showing N352BH going from Gitmo to San Juan.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel has just banned all Arab Parties from running in their upcoming elections. Arabs make up 21% of Israeli Citizens they have now been banned from having any representation. Israel isn't like Nazi Germany. It is Nazi Germany.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has been a spectacular failure. Voters are angry. The wave is getting big. Our job is to make it bigger. New 2026 electoral analysis 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Been A Spectacular Failure. Voters Are Angry. The Wave Is Getting Big. Our Job Is To Make It Bigger (New Video & Written Analysis)
Bob Brooks (PA-7) joins us today live at 1pm ET - going to be a good one!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/09/2026
Reject Netanyahu’s UN propaganda. Jewish Americans trust Mamdani over Bibi. AP-NORC poll of 1,022 Jewish Americans •44% of Jews view Mamdani favorably & 39% unfavorably •32% of Jews view Netanyahu favorably & 59% unfavorably Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Zohran Mamdani is a man of integrity
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“I have a strong belief that things would…they wouldn’t be perfect, but they’d be better. They’d be better. I’m confident about that. I really do.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been saying exactly this for over a year.
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