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A Thousand Autumns

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kids aren't in private school, but had we not moved they would be in a Charter school and this does a lot to cover my own conflicted emotions about the whole thing
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A piece I knew was coming but wasn’t ready for @nhannahjones.bsky.social revisits her decade old piece now that her daughter is 16.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All this stuff about AI bros wanting to slow down AI development just means they’ve been grinding midterm polling data. I don’t think there’s much more to it.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dem: We need to vote to protect our children from fascism! Trans: I will vote to protect trans children from fascism! Dem: Not them. Other children! Vote to protect the other children! Trans: I will vote for anyone who'll protect trans children from fascism. Dem: Wny do you love fascism????
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It occurred to me that it's been a rough couple of days for the Muppets.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/08/2026
Tim Cook's legacy is spineless capitulation
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Tim Cook Is An Embarrassing Coward
Apple CEO Tim Cook represents soulless, rudderless contrition, unburdened by consistent ethics or any sort of overt moral compass, desperate to delude you into believing that fascism can be a reasonab...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Here's a fun game, let's see how long a mid-size American city can go without electricity before the New York Times notices. Two weeks, so far. (Clarifying: not actually fun.)
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MaxFunHQ @maximumfun.org · 21/08/2026
The state of Kentucky has the juice www.sos.ky.gov/civic-initia...
A green guy with a large mouth ringed with regular, sparkling white teeth leers threateningly. Red, white, and blue text reads I VOTED 250. This masterpiece was created by Cash L., Fleming County ElementaryA crayon and pen interpretation of the Elmo in Hell meme with the text I VOTED. This masterpiece was created by Suzy H., Woodford County MiddleA yellow face shaped like a gumdrop with black circles of eyes and a flat mouth. Text scrawled in black reads VOTING TIME. Brutalist. Minimalist. A masterpiece by Walden F., Veteran's Park Elementary
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Seems bad?
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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Data show Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg underestimated how many people would be targeted when he agreed to give ICE more time to detain immigrants at the city jail.www.lpm.org/investigate/...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
that one dostoevsky quote about how to judge the degree of civilization in a society now applying to a US warship turned prison barge. our leaders don’t give a shit about these people.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026
The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
maybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
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Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while OS X saw only limited movement over...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026
It’s true, it’s just terrible that JK Rowling hasn't washed her hands since 2018..
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 30/07/2026
After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a Kentucky jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – as she has sickle cell anemia and is now in a health crisis. From @justinhicks.lpm.org
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Woman detained by ICE at Louisville airport says she isn’t receiving needed medical care
After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a local jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – now she’s in a healt...
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just sent an email to Rand Paul's office asking for Proof of Brain. I'll let you all know if I get a response.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Digital illustration of the original jaggedy pixel Space Invaders from the original video game game. They have been 3D-ified and covered in bright gradient colors and weird textures and they are glowing. They are hovering over a starfield around a block of similarly 3D-ified and colored and glowing pixel lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A lot of education tech is extractive. Schools are underfunded but governments keep shoveling money at tech as a magical cure-all. Most school districts don’t need more tech. They need well-paid teachers, never-ending school supplies, and good textbooks. They want in on the grift.
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@omgsidewalks

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On a day trip, we met this super-sweet pup. She does not need to be rescued but the temptation was mighty.
A photo of Dixie, a 6-month old, tri-color hound dog.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, took a different tack, placing Trump's misjudgments in separate categories:
There are three categories of Trump failures: disasters of mismanagement, disasters by design and disasters of greed.
What are the achievements of the second Trump presidency thus far? Persistent inflation, sluggish economic growth, an unpopular war, aggressive immigration enforcement that has outraged many and the shredding of the safety net to fund a large tax cut.
In his second term, Moynihan argued,
Trump no longer feels the need to be bound by precedent, norms or good advice. We can see this at the superficial level (the Reflecting Pool) or for issues where there are extraordinary stakes, such as the Iran war.
Trump has lost any inhibitions he had while creating a bubble where he is surrounded by yes men.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026
The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.maptap.gg July 19 98🔥 96🏅 99🔥 98🔥 98🔥 Final score: 980 I should hang it up after this.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026
As a result of the systematic dismantling of what few regulations we had (we’ve always needed MORE!!), which was a prime motivator among billionaires & corps throwing financial support behind Trump, everything will be Russian Roulette. One preventable disaster after another. And we’ll be on our own.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Election results:
Everyone gets a Puppy: 49.9%
Diarrhea Forever: 50.1%
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
U.S. troops aren’t supposed to be policing an American city just because the president thinks it’s enemy territory. There’s no reason for this guard deployment to Memphis and definitely no reason for them to be shooting or killing ANYONE there Out
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I had a 20 minute conversation with my Senator this morning…
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Airplane! - Boring Story Scene
Alt: An animated gif from the movie Airplane! In which Ted Stryker is implied to have hastened a woman’s death with his boring stories.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 09/07/2026
📣 A reminder that if you donated to the Graham Platner campaign via ActBlue within the past 90 days, here's the instructions on how to request a refund: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
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A Thousand Autumns @wellsbe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I forgot how much I enjoy This American Life. This week’s episode about Maximal Americaness was great, especially the segment on Lake Michigan’s dunes.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A digital illustration vaguely based on my favorite episode of The Simpsons, ‘Cape Feare’ (s5e2). We see the tall, awkward figure of Sideshow Bob with his big palm fronds of hair and an angry and sinister look on his face as he looms over Bart from behind. Bob has opened the front of his ragged shirt to reveal his chest tattoo which is just red lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
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