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Wendell Albright

@wendella.bsky.social
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Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually. "I could smell the mustard and onions."

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 44s
"And now Jim Bakker is dead. Thus ends the story of one of the great grifters in American history. Bakker demonstrates what a combination of hypocrisy and a complete lack of shame can do for you in this country. In conclusion, it is a true wonder that Donald Trump was elected president of the US."
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A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86.   Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C...
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2m
clearly just the rules to a particularly complex wargame www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 5m
appalling...
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15m
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 16m
honestly I suspect they aren't, more a 'human binky' role like Haberman wrote
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9h
October 5, 2026
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October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Mike Peters @mikepeters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5h
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18h
There is no Super Intelligence. There is no Department of War. There is no Lake America. There is no Gulf of America. There is no Fort Bragg. Any media outlet or platform that spreads these lies is an enemy of the people, determined to undermine democracy. Make note.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 37m
I know, but I'll take it
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 38m
"disenfranchising Muslims", which is to say doing what Modi wants it to do
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h
Is it woke to be horrified by what happened at Cornell--and by the "boys will be boys" excuse-making of so many then and now? If so, perhaps we should all be a little more woke?
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 44m
"The Simpsons" there, I said it
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 46m
urk
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Homer Simpson Tries to Unsee
Alt: Homer Simpson Tries to Unsee
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 55m
Siri show an example of somebody lying by omission please
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 5h
Televangelist Jim Bakker-- seen here bawling as the FBI drags him away-- finally kicked the bucket. Age 86. WHY do these creeps never die young? He and his gruesome wife Tammy Faye were the faces of Christian Nationalism in the 1980s. Here's my Bakker story:
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h
oopsie
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h
I thought you had a beef with the mountains until I read the word 'baseball'...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2h
Not true for *forecasters*. Is true for *handicappers* though. This year we are seeing why the difference here matters. Cook is now effectively saying their "toss"-up category is a holding bin for seats that could go 80-20 or 100-0 for the Democrats. Raters are not trying to forecast until E-Day
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h
"First Lady" ROFL Aaron is a naughty boy!
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.threads.com/share/BANePk...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2h
JFC.
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The investigation into threats made at Timberline High School, what's known so far
Boise Police confirmed to CBS2/FOX9 officers are investigating a change.org petition posted over the weekend alleging members of the Timberline High School foot
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2h
Early voting starts today in my state. Here's the dates for the others. Early voting is on-time voting. Waiting till election day is late
Early voting start dates per state. Election day itself is November 3rd.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h
he forgot the 'b' in 'dumbocrat'
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h
doing push-ups never got supplies to a unit or protected our personnel from enemy attack
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 1h
The polls are open, Ohio!! Vote early between today and November 1. Head to actonforgovernor.com/vote for more information.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 17h
This ad is in heavy rotation here in Ohio, blaming Sherrod Brown-- who's leading the Senate race-- for this woman's botched trans surgery as a child. 1. She was 19 when she had surgery, not a child. 2. Trans surgery on minors is illegal in Ohio. 3. She has never lived in Ohio. She's from Texas.
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Attack ad claims Dems allowed a minor to have gender-affirming surgery. It's a lie. - LGBTQ Nation
First off, she wasn't a minor when it happened....
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15h
how does one go about assembling a firing squad? (honest question)
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15h
Trump cuts grass in the way Ford built automobiles; he has somebody do it for him
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15h
they're idiots, you're 💯correct and they're not
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15h
further proof Trump sees himself only as president of MAGAs
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21h
We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19h
Oh, this is egregious.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never forget that Trumpism is the Epstein Class’ attempt at governing.
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Dancing Donald Trump with a Mullet
Alt: Dancing Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 19h
we're at the "hiring foreign mercenaries" phase of the Saudi empire
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 21h
And it’s not just about Trump’s support; it would also go a long way toward fixing the really bad approval ratings of the DNC, instead of feeding the impression that they’re weak and unmotivated.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 21h
A high profile impeachment, whether it ends in removal or not, brings massive attention to the crimes of a bad president, and anything that can whittle away at his support should be done.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 21h
Any time I post about impeachment, I get defeatist replies from people telling me it’s pointless because the Republicans won’t support it. If you decide in advance that you’re going to lose, you will definitely lose. And the value of an impeachment process is not just removing a bad president.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rome was not a jim crow society and it had extensive ties to north africa, where dark-skinned people including nubians and kushites (not just levantines or berbers!) have lived, traded, intermarried, and sometimes ruled for millenia before Roman arrival. This is historical fact. Sorry! Read a book.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h
Holy shit.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There are GOP politicians who are not pedophiles or personally massively corrupt, but all of them are in submissive thrall to a president who *is* a corrupt pedophile, and who has, by virtue of his position, made the party into his own image. It now protects and valorizes immorality and corruption.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 05/10/2026
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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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22h
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a very interesting list. I did not know until just now that humans are the only animals with a chin... gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
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What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October 4, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Fugitive Slave Act reveals the limits of the South's defense of states rights.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered.
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