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William M.

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Historian, teacher, dad. Equality has to be the presupposition.

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Hope Himars 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 @hopehimars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
tillis is COMPLICIT VOTE THE BASTARD OUT !!! ALL rEPUBLICANS ARE COMPLICIT VOTE THEM ALL OUT !!!!!
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EpicallyEpicSB @seanloch7808.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
ALT: Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PLEASE NOTIFY FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA! ICE is conducting a surge in Southern CA AND The Central Valley including Fresno, Madera, Visalia, Selma, Dinuba, Sanger, Los Baños and surrounding cities! Stay vigilant and stay safe!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. The midterms are November 3. Register now at vote.org
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State Rep. Gene Wu @genefortexas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Texans!! It’s the last day to register to vote! Check your voter registration & make sure you are set for this November! Let’s go!! #txlege
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Illegal criminal impeachable. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
Going live in 15 minutes. I’ll show you the table listing the 9 Epstein redaction training videos and their descriptions provided by the FBI
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/10/2026
There are a bunch of specific things I like about our permitting bill, beyond the big important stuff — that it will lower electric costs and emissions, and lift wind, solar and battery power (BIG lift for battery), and add LOTS of good jobs.🧵
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✨ˢᵗᵒⁿᵉᵈ // STAR WARS✨ @stonedstarwars.com · 03/10/2026
“Andor” creator Tony Gilroy says it’s “tragic” that the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is threatening to “destroy the architecture” of Hollywood “in the name of venture capital”. Disney are looking like the most creative of the corporations. Skydance is the shit-hole studio run by the real shitheads.
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Tony Gilroy Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Destroy’ a ‘Healthy and Beautiful Business’ in ‘The Name of Venture Capital’: ‘It’s Tragic’
Tony Gilroy says the impending merger threatens to dismantle the very “healthy and beautiful business” he has worked in for over three decades
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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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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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.
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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September 23, 2026 Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating Senator Susan Collins for engaging in a pay-to-play scheme….
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 19/09/2026
Pound-for-pound, one of the best thing I've written and certainly a point I've only grown more passionate about. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...
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Ana Marie Cox -- Why We Should Get Rid of the White House Press Corps
Too often, the White House briefing room is where news goes to die.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So damn wrong on so many levels 😡
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“They treated us like we were criminals” 😕
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026
This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
The voter who won't back Turek or Talarico over trans sports was never going to back them. The ad just changes to a new anti-trans topic. The ads are designed to illicit disgust at trans people, and caving on sports doesn't blunt that disgust for those who these ads work on. Caving doesn't work.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026
Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
AI-generated image posted by the DHS account on X, styled as a movie poster. A blue and red robot with the Department of Homeland Security seal on its chest faces a bearded South Asian man in a blue bandana and a monogrammed shirt. A city skyline sits between them at sunset. Text between the two faces reads "SELF-DEPORT OR FIND OUT." Below, in the Transformers logo and typeface, "TRANSFORMERS: AMERICA FOR AMERICANS," and beneath that, "GET OFF OUR ROADS, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE MR. SINGH." A garbled credit block runs along the bottom.First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And instead of being part of an inescapable, global post-pandemic inflation, this is entirely self-inflicted by profound economic and strategic idiocy
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026
To many people, the notion that the “able-bodied” must labor sounds reasonable on its face, but it’s mostly just culture war; in reality, work requirements don’t ­meaningfully boost employment or do much to slash government debt.
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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 07/09/2026
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot… hartmannreport.com/p/has-the-me...
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Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot…
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Week Ahead: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
September 6, 2026
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wait, Krakatoa’s erupting? Yeah, everything’s fine
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
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USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Straits of Hormoose? 🇨🇦
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/08/2026
DHS agents secretly recorded meetings of anti-ICE protesters at churches, libraries around Minneapolis, infiltrated group chats, sought financial records, and more. The scope of the surveillance was “breathtaking,” @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social tells NPR.
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Churches, libraries and breweries: Inside DHS' covert surveillance operation
DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ahhh. The delights of the Bluesky block function. Begone bots and trolls! Away with you, chuds and shit-stirrers! So much better than all other social media apps
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Calling North Korea "unthreatening and respectful" when they send missiles, shells, and troops to kill Ukrainians is a special kind of lunacy.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The relentless, oftentimes blatantly racist coverage of Jason Arday and the continued hounding even after his death is a great example of why some people (especially in marginalized communities) don’t trust the media. It signals inhumanity and a failure to minimize harm in the approach.
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A few thoughts of mine on secrecy, military misadventure, state violence, and the nuclear legacy. positionspolitics.org/william-maro...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Both Haley Stevens and Francesca Hong lost close races. Both had tough campaigns. Both were the target of some very harsh criticism. From opposite sides of the Democratic divide.

And both didn’t wait a day to dust themselves off and get to work supporting their former opponent. Pure team player energy.

I’d like to see more male candidates have this kinda energy.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/08/2026
Since 2021, DHS has committed nearly $3 billion to surveillance and data tools, building a sprawling domestic surveillance infrastructure. Here’s what the agency is buying and its top vendors: bit.ly/4wx8EZO
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DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools
Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.
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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Is this close to toxic masculinity? Yes. But is it also right to call these freaks out for being pussies because that's what hurts them with their voters? Also yes.
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yes. The turnout is a tale of redemption after the nightmare idiocy of Walker—and maybe a glimmer of hope for other post-lunatic, post-bigoted political possibilities.
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.” ..(DaShanne Stokes) .. (cartoon David Horsey)
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
JB nails it again. The attacks on education and on universities are part of an overall anti democratic stance that demands that people stay in their assigned roles and think their assigned thoughts. No compromise, no middle ground with these neomonarchists. youtu.be/c6zJVihMO6c?...
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It's time for American liberals to have a little backbone
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William M. @wamalot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Intentional sabotage by oligarchs and enemies of education
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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