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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22h
Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the Wile E. Coyote energy of this ceiling-mounted bondage truss is so nuts I have forgotten like 70% of this movie
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
p.s. "The National Panhellenic Conference, which governs the country’s 26 major sororities, maintains that sisters can’t swig booze in sorority houses — even as the fraternity down the street throws a keg party," sending the women into enemy territory to drink. Prohibition should be on frat houses.
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Why frat bros can throw parties but sorority sisters aren’t allowed to
The new Seth Rogen film explores why Greek men and women don't have the same rights
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Farm workers really, really, really need you to vote. Farm slavery is a very real multi-million business in this country. And Trump struck down major anti-slavery rules for farms last year. "Both parties are the same" Ok... Not for farm workers, they're not!
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there is a certain undercurrent of something that can only be described as puritanism on this site, where understanding a bad thing must mean you're into that thing because apparently the only way to battle bad things is to yell loudly they are very bad someone else better fix them but not like this
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're live with @zahrastardust.bsky.social, @itslotuslain.bsky.social & @kingnoire.bsky.social right now Checking the Facts About Pornography. Join the conversation. ⬇️https://www.youtube.com/live/KKWhmZ6GcXA?si=a3TcrqJi2_rGgWlm
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Checking the Facts About Pornography
Pornography is often blamed for everything from relationship problems to broader social issues. But does the evidence actually support those claims, or has p...
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yeldnal.bsky.social @yeldnal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@courtneymilan.com The best writeup I've seen on the New Deal was web.archive.org/web/20090210...
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The Infamous Brad - Yes We Can Put Americans Back to Work. We Probably Won't, Though.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
The best way to console ourselves about the international shit sandwich buffet that we will have to consume in the coming years is to build out a massive train network, provide health care to all, and take out our aggressions on the billionaires.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Too late, injecting the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte into my own veins at home with a dirty needle
Google AI overview:

Normandy officially transitioned from a county (the County of Rouen) to a duchy between the years 996 and 1015.
This information is for general knowledge and should not be taken as medical advice; consult with a healthcare provider for any health concerns. While the territory was originally founded as a fiefdom in 911 via the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, its first rulers—beginning with the Viking chieftain Rollo—held the title of "Count of Rouen" or "Jarl of the Northmen".
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/09/2026
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
wired.com
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fellow Californians: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
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Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
It's generally been my opinion that the dudes complaining about "DEI" are signaling their work is not up to task, I've been winning awards the whole time they've been whining and sure, they will tell you it's because I'm "woke" or whatever, but that's the pathetic mewling of losers right there
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PSA: If you have an older base level Mac DO NOT update to the new Mac OS. It's packed with AI stuff and it might very well just overload your storage. I've been wrestling with it for two days and am going to have to wind back to the previous OS just so I can use my computer.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the most accurate and helpful information during this ordeal has come from paper printouts in arial font and random passengers conveying hearsay
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026
So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hangtime is the study of the time interval between first public notice of a rising right/MAGA/manosphere influencer and their first rape/sexual assault indictment www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
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SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wish we weren't living in the age of "people working out their shit, we deal with the consequences" but Newsom's broken home as a child -- life with poor mom was tough but dad's rich employers took him on cool adventures -- lets you predict literally every move he's going to make as a politician.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The degree to which police departments have financial incentives to over-respond to situations where their presence is straight up not needed at ALL, because they can make a bunch of extra money for zero personal risk, is something that even the pro-cop brigade should be concerned about.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A simple proposal: billionaires don't have to pay a wealth tax, if they agree to meet each other in cage matches. Arranged at taxpayer expense of course, we're not monsters. Losers get their wills handled by Lina Khan
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reacher (book) kills white supremacists (fictional), but Reacher (streaming) hasn't yet despite Alan Ritchson (Reacher (streaming)) wanting to because of studio fear of white supremacists (actual, government).
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/09/2026
…yeah, okay, that’s pretty much it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nature is healing: A poacher hunting rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death.
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Poacher sneaking up on rhinos ambushed and trampled to death by elephants
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 19/09/2026
Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 19/09/2026
Much amused by their definition of tradwives: “…conservative women who dress like the women in *The Sound of Music*, but without the opposition to the Anschluss.” 😏
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity. A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any time you get more than a few people who are deeply concerned with AI doom together, it seems like their natural form of organization looks like a cult; rationalism as a whole is less of a cult than it is a cult factory. Some of these cults have gone very badly. One of them is the Zizians.
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Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18/09/2026
*smashes bottle against table* STOP STEALING OUR GOOGLY EYES AND USING THEM TO PRETEND YOU MADE GOD
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also, the solar panels recharge the battery about as fast as the chainsaw draws it down? We did 20-30 minutes' worth of sawing, and it took about 30 min to recharge the battery up to full afterwards. That's 10 out of 10 yeehaws from me
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/09/2026
When prompted to enter a reason for searching Flock surveillance data, some cops just mashed keyboard buttons. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Your parents can't help you now" is definitely something you say to kids when you're the good guys.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How much of what we "know" about porn is based on evidence, and how much is based on assumptions? Next week, @kingnoire.bsky.social, @itslotuslain.bsky.social and @zahrastardust.bsky.social examine what the research actually tells us. Join us. woodhullfreedom.org/4y6waxf
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Checking the Facts About Pornography
Join us for the next installment of our Fact Checked Series brought to you by Chaturbate!
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can confirm: the Guardian headline really says this.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Autistic hyperfocus sounds cute and fun when people are making TikToks and meme posts about it, but it's a hell of a lot less fun when you can't sleep because if you don't glue the two hundred kandi bracelets on your dining room table RIGHT NOW, the world is going to meet an unspecified end.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/09/2026
dunno why my first thought on waking up this morning was about how japan started ww2 with some of the best fighter pilots in the world and by 1944 was trying to brainwash adolescents to get in the cockpit. quote unrelated?
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don’t have to wait for a judge (or five justices) to weigh in before we say that something constitutes a violation of our rights! The opinion of the public that our rights have been violated matters in a democracy.
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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's live! WANDERING MONSTERS is up on Royal Road for FREE! Click the link! Read! Laugh! Find the fulfillment and joy that has been missing in your life! Six out of five doctors say this story will purify your very essence! www.royalroad.com/fiction/1911...
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Wandering Monsters
Bloody, broke, and face down on the floor is no way to end a job, even for a “monster.” Life hasn’t been easy for Scars of No-Clan. The king has a bounty out on all monstrous folk, leaving half-orc wa...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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