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An American who wants to live in a free, safe and open society.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h
Ugh. The amount of people losing their jobs right now is not okay.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
BlackRock is basically admitting that the US relies on slave labor because corporations refuse to pay people a living wage.
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BlackRock's Fink says Trump deportations will have severe impact on agriculture, construction
"I think that over the next six to nine months, we're going to see a little more elevated inflation," Fink said the CERAWeek by S&P Global energy conference.
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Trump is building a global gulag www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
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Argentina in Advanced Talks to Become Destination for U.S. Deportations
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is why Veep had to go off the air. it couldn’t compete with real life anymore.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ok but what did SHE wear
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you can’t pay for gas or groceries but here’s a few rolls of quarters, don’t forget to vote republican or something
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just say “groomer school,” this is taking forever
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h
thank you to @mgiraldi.bsky.social, who pointed me to the insta acct for the photographer (www.instagram.com/kevinlohmanp...). the story and the other two photos are 24k gold.
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Are You Kidding Me?
Can this Great Horned Owl's eyes get any bigger?
I'm excited that my photo "Are You Kidding Me?" was selected as one of just 43 finalists in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, from more than 10,000 entries representing 112 countries!
The story behind it is just as crazy. I was photographing this seven-week-old owlet when a squirrel suddenly launched from a nearby branch and landed directly on its head, knocking both of them out of the tree.
And believe it or not, a squirrel knocked this same owlet out of the tree THREE TIMES that morning! Fortunately, the owlet was fine and eventually settled down next to its mother.

(photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history)second photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he isthird photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h
mistakes were made
california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I *knew* it
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San Francisco Public Works @sfpublicworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congratulations, Valkyries! You make San Francisco — and the entire Bay Area — proud. On to the semi-finals. We’ll be there cheering you on. Loud!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Peanut is in charge of her therapy and can choose not to participate.” Beaver PT www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyuWrM8N/
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Providing excellent care for this golden girl 🦫 Peanut is a senior beaver, and with her golden years have come a few specific health changes. In addition to lower mobility, she also lives with arthrit...
TikTok video by San Diego Zoo
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/10/2026
An Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.”
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jon Husted was at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in Ohio history, receiving $3.5 million from FirstEnergy. He secured a bailout for FirstEnergy and raised your utility rates to pay for it.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This guy: American hero. The question, as Ed Wasserman writes, is whether today's media would be willing to run a story of this magnitude while under assault from the Trump administration. Like, maybe the Times would, and it's no angel here, but what about networks controlled by Trump allies? HERO.
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Daniel Ellsberg’s dark chronicles of courage and foreboding
The famous whistleblower's posthumous memoir recalls moments of triumph amid moral failure.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
A nugget from Nate Cohn on Adam Hamilton in the Kansas Senate race. (Our poll had it as a tie.) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
call tom cotton’s cell phone and tell him to send our children to school in the dark so golfers can have morelight???? very cool this man has the nuclear codes but people don’t have healthcare
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Racing across the city last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani “seemed to be offering an antidote to globe-spanning distemper,” Lydia Polgreen writes. “To restore faith in institutions, you must begin from the bottom up.”
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Opinion | Zohran Mamdani Is Showing the World How It’s Done
The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was in Utah last month when Gov. Spencer Cox's new book on political depolarization came out. He wasn't doing any promo events in the state--off doing the Daily Show. So I spoke to some locals who explained why the self-described peacemaker is pretty polarizing at home. youtube.com/shorts/-eAA9...
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Book-Banning Utah Governor: Buy My Book!
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Frank DuCobb @frankducobb.bsky.social · 23h
If one were to ask friends and relatives about dependency upon employers, the numbers of those who feel trapped or tied to their jobs simply because of healthcare coverage, would certainly be surprising.
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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h
Alito's participation was likely already pivotal—and he still owns oil stocks.
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Alito’s recusal from a key climate case may be too little, too late
His participation was likely already pivotal—and he still owns oil stocks.
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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 17h
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Julie Davis @miraphoto.bsky.social · 18h
Speaking as someone who was born and raised Mormon and whose entire family still is, no way in hell they would be doing this if it’s not hitting them in their bottom line. People are betting instead of paying tithing. It’s all they care about.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h
A leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says an explosion in online prediction markets and sports betting is fostering greed among young people.
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Mormon leader decries explosion in sports betting, prediction markets
A leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says an explosion in online prediction markets and sports betting is fostering greed among young people. D.
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brent Crude: December 2024 - $74/barrel September 2026 - $102/barrel (For the MAGA trolls, 74 is lower than 102.)
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 22h
He's out of the loop on so many things these days. I wonder if they're even trying to brief him anymore or if they just let Natalie share her memes and let it go at that?
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA refused to consider additional evidence in the Cornell case. It's the whole damn system. I'm glad Letitia James is on it now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Atlantic spoke with more than 40 sources: Weeks before the midterms, Kash Patel is desperate to help Trump's Justice Department deliver numerous indictments on Trump's 2020 election lies just to please Trump. In meetings, Patel has expressed frustration that there have been no new findings.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h
Brutal (and accurate) community note with key context on Trump’s attempted voter bribery for the midterm elections
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23h
Dial-a-chud
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
Alito weighs retirement. We MUST win the Senate so we can block any Trump judicial nominee. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17h
So I haven’t been posting about the Padres because our power just went out because of billionaire greed, so I’ve been scrambling to reconnect my internet with a power block. But man, now that I have power back, this Brewers team is really good. I have Solar but no Tesla batteries.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s funny, I don’t really advocate social media bans in the piece. I do believe sports betting never should’ve been let out of its Vegas cage. But I’ve seen responses suggesting I’m making an argument for draconian laws on social media access. I’m not. I’m describing a situation.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flames and smoke now rising from an Aramco facility south of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, AFP reports.
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