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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

MAYBE THE NATIONAL GUARD SHOULD BE STOPPING TRUMP FROM LITERALLY TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE?!?

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Jeff Janowick @jjjanowick.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings Lansing

Protesters in front of the Michigan Capitol

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 4d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 5d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6d

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

www.youtube.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 13d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Grist @grist.org · 20d

"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference."
— Jane Goodall, March 30, 2024,

grist.org/looking-forw...

Jane Goodall’s legacy of empathy, curiosity, and courage

As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure.

grist.org

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19d

run easily and swiftly

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 25d

This only happens to you once

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27d

Will it be ever thus?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Sep 20

’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 20

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

Gift link:

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 18

This guy will now decide which jokes are appropriate.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 18

They are absolutely allowed to do that.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Sep 18

Trump on the networks:

“All they do is hit Trump. They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that.”

Kaitlan Collins C @kaitlancollins
The president on Air Force One: "When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that's all they do — if you go back, I guess they haven't had a conservative one in years, or something
— when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They're licensed.
They're not allowed to do that."
1:09 PM • 9/18/25 • 105K Views

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 15

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · Sep 15

Europe is on the edge of full-on war with Russia, our Asian allies are freaking out over grotesque treatment of their citizens, we're blowing up boats in international waters and Israel is escalating. Yet Republican leaders are obsessed with randos saying mean things about Charlie Kirk on Tik Tok.

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Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social · Sep 7

Our lives are analog.

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