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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
Adults have stopped visiting one another, and it's threatening the state of American social life, @dkthomp.bsky.social writes. He examines four explanations for what he calls "the great disinvitation":
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Death of the Dinner Party
The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.
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Mandelbrot_BU @mandelbrot2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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America’s Bond Market Is Entering a Crisis With No Historical Parallel
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you see this business about Don Jr.'s wedding in The Bahamas?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How can anybody vote for her? I mean, seriously. What a liar and a fraud. This is brutal.
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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Book banners tried to have me arrested. Tried to have me fired. Tried to destroy my life. Thankfully, I didn’t run into any of them at the Emmy Awards.
Martha holding an Emmy Award for The Librarians documentary
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
vt.tiktok.com/ZSq2EydMa/ Vote 💙.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Real abuser shit, "Everything I've done has been for this family. I've sacrificed so much for you, and all I ever get in return is criticism!" *thwack*
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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First Among Equals @pyncster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The phrase "If the truth shall kill them, let them die" is not by Marcus Aurelius; it is actually a popular misattribution originating as a paraphrase of Immanuel Kant by novelist Ayn Rand. Noooooo!
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Norway's Prime Minister marks Trump's homework
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I flunked algebra and hated math, but this story was inspiring, and a testament to working collaboratively. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I would like to extend my congratulations to all the winners of this most prestigious award. You earned it! 🏆 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“There’s a literacy crisis!” Teachers: We know! Help us! Read with your kids! Allow less screen time at home! Go to school board meetings! Demand a return to phonics! Push for less tech at the elementary level! “Nah. We’re just going to keep blaming public school teachers.”
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For instance, lead plaintiff Michael Lemmon says that “the thought of being interred in the shadow of what I believe to be a personal vanity project is profoundly disturbing to me.” … 2/5 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In my view, the disruption that the arch will cause to the unobstructed sight line, a
symbol of national unity, will disrespect the memory of our veterans. I hope to be interred in Arlington Cemetery alongside my fallen comrades when I pass away. The thought of being interred in the shadow of what I believe to be a personal vanity project is profoundly disturbing to me.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rabies cases rise in areas where vaccination rates fall among pet dogs. And the anti-vaxx sentiment has absolutely made it to people’s decisions about their pets in the U.S. There is so much about the rabies example that demonstrates just how oppressive the U.S. health apparatus is.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.
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Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students
Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@victorerikray.bsky.social captures something very important here: the Trump Administration’s definition of “discrimination” (and also “diversity, equity and inclusion”) is untethered to any statutory civil rights or constitutional law. It literally made up from fever dreams.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots Charles Houston was born on this day in 1895 in Washington, D.C. Known as The Man Who Killed Jim Crow, he was the NAACP’s first special counsel. He engineered a brilliant strategy to dismantle segregation in public schools, laying the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. /1
Charles Hamilton Houston. Houston was the architect and master strategist of the early Civil Rights Movement. While other icons led protests, he used the law as a weapon to systematically dismantle state-sponsored segregation from the inside out. He engineered the multi-decade legal campaign that turned the “separate but equal” doctrine against itself, laying the legal foundation that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education. He discovered, trained and mentored Thurgood Marshall, passing down the blueprint that Marshall used to finish the fight against Jim Crow. Ultimately, Houston did not live to see the legal victories of the 1950s and 60s, but his legacy remains foundational: He drew the map, built the machine and trained the generals who won major battles for civil rights.
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Sabrina McDaniel 🌊💙 @sabrina-mcdaniel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
` 60+ Cherry Trees were cut down in DC to make way for a golf course for Trump. This act violated a court order. They did it anyway because the law doesn’t apply to this administration. These trees were gifted to the American people by Japan in 1912. More destruction by a criminal government.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This video really clarified my hatred for chatbots and their vapid, suck up speech patterns. youtu.be/MXEInc6Zy7Q
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Making 3 AI's Count to 100 Together
YouTube video by Husk IRL
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Jersey Girl @jerseygirldc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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TDS is making farmers go full mask-off. I’ve never seen anything like it.
YouTube video by Farming While Beige
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Every word of this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The sad reality is that Mr. and Ms. MAGA in Hickory, NC will watch Fox now and think they will somehow be the beneficiaries of the Venezuelan oil theft because Trump is doing it all for the people.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Good for a college study in the maliciously deceptive manipulation of data: the Census Bureau says it found 24,000 noncitizens who voted in 2020. They had to match voter records to citizenship records. But citizenship records are missing SSNs, so they use name, address, birthday, and gender.
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Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A story for our times. triblive.com/news/world/h...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy — a vessel that set a U.S. military record for unin...
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Despite everything, Cherry rebuilt. He continued serving, attended the National War College, retired as a Colonel, and became a symbol of Black military excellence and resilience. Halyburton left active duty, earned a master's degree, and spent over two decades as a (cont)
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Few are guilty, but all are responsible." Just have to note that, as bleak as this moment is, we are here to transcend ourselves and repair what we can. And I work on that too!
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Hundreds of Gaza children join a mass swimming lesson to cope with trauma
In Gaza, the war has upended the lives of an entire generation of children. In an effort to help them cope with the trauma of the conflict, an NGO has launched a project in Khan Younis: a huge swimmin...
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 20/08/2026
The US recorded its first federal budget surplus since 1969, in 1998. Bill Clinton was president. By 2000, the surplus grew to $237 billion. Today, it pays more than that in interest every few months.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The National Association of Black Journalists gives Stephen A. Smith the “Thumbs Down” award for his “recurring public pattern of disparaging public commentary directed at prominent Black women across politics, sports and media.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tom is absolutely right about this.
Tom Nichols: I think [Donald Trump] genuinely resents people with honor and discipline, in part because they baffle him but also trigger some sort of internal shame
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Forgiving infrastructure assumes people make mistakes. A person on a bike who loses their balance and falls shouldn't pay for it with their life just because there was no buffer between them and a vehicle 100 times their weight.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh look, the “fiscal conservatives” are running the government again.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/08/2026
The U.S. health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — some of which are kids. But children in this role lack access to the state or federal resources available to their adult counterparts, leaving them with few places to turn. nyti.ms/4c9Uohw
A teenage boy wearing a red T-shirt and holding a bag of prescription medication stands next to an older woman wearing glasses and a purple T-shirt. A headline reads: “The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.” Photo by Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.
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Lois Norder @gainvestigate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The project will cover nearly 6 square miles. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 03/08/2026
College leaders are cutting programs, laying off faculty—and digging into endowments to pay operating expenses. In extreme cases, schools are covering day-to-day bills with funds gifted for other purposes, without the donors’ knowledge or consent. on.wsj.com/4wAqjzL
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The Struggling Colleges Raiding Their Endowments to Pay the Bills
It’s the last resort for institutions on the brink: tapping restricted funds from donors to keep the lights on.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/08/2026
The law firm Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. A New York Times investigation details the inside story of its transformation. trib.al/YQawT9z
A tall building photographed from below. Text reads: "Times Investigation: How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee" Photo by Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
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