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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 27/09/2026

Have the fascists murdered over 200 people on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific? The regime has bragged about it. Pretending that we need some kind of "investigation" is absurd. It's ridiculous and wildly counterproductive. Literally hundreds of millions of Americans see how dumb that is.

Picture of a fascist-enabling dirtbag who fiercely opposes impeachment yapping bullshit about how they're going to have endless toothless "investigations" into crimes that were committed openly. Apparently they want clips of themselves talking tough in committee hearings for their YouTube channels.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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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 🧵

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, 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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

making this my new email autoreply

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026

they were very subtle about it, but if you looked closely you could see the signs

A bunch of creeps at the RNC holding up “Mass Deportation Now” signs

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

future generations, if they exist, are gonna say really, you flushed democracy itself down the toilet for THAT dumbfuck??

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“you still got my support, but you gotta do something” 🐆💀

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would be really nice if reporters asked Trump why he isn't giving everyone $5k now, when he has full control of Congress, instead of uncritically repeating his lie about giving everyone $5k if the republicans retain control of Congress in 2027.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I guess what I'd like but do not expect is some memory of this event. For next time the right wing press or politicians act horrified at some perceived leftist slight against The Troops they're just reminded that, no, we've seen their revealed actual values, they don't actually care; and we move on.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/09/2026

Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/

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Federal departments, agencies, and offices with respect to the identification of additional priority virus families and other viral pathogens with a significant potential to cause a pandemic" (42
U.S.C. § 285f-5(e)(1)).
Through this agreement, NIH will leverage OASW ND-CBD's procurement, grants, and funding network to allow for critical basic science
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support the translation and advanced development of medical countermeasures.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/09/2026

“‘Root causes’ like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction”: seems about right, as a policy from an admin comprised entirely of dicks.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026

Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.

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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors

New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.

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_Mark 🏳️‍🌈 @marxgbaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Funniest possible example to choose

As a result, Armstrong has no plans to start a charity or a foundation.

"So far, I've just been like 'I'm not going to do that.' My fear is that it just gets captured by some ideology and I lose control over it," he said. "If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

peter oberacker, whose grandfather was a nazi, is currently a state senator who serves on the 'New York State Senate Republican Antisemitism Working Group'

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”

Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.

As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Analysis | Seminarian James Talarico’s knowledge of the gospels and life of Jesus could leave him out of touch with Texas’s Evangelical Christians.

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Art Martin @gartmartin9.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is clear now that the WH press corp has known for a long time about the extent of Harp's influence on Trump and the danger she posed to American security--yet, except for a couple of generic profiles, nearly two years ago--they kept quiet about it---until Ossoff spoke

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

that fuckin sharpie pen hurricane dorian thing seems almost quaint today but just another example of everyone bending backwards to support his fuckin lying delusions

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

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Rackletang 🧌🦇🕷️ @rackletang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Remember kids, the reason we say "ACAB" is because any good ones that slip through the screening process will be retaliated against.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis

A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

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