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white male endorsed, puts guns first
A Virginia elections campaign SMS message with image showing a smiling Black woman flanked by two smiling white men and the words “Vote for Winsome Earle-Sears for Governor. John Reid for Lt. Governor & Jason Miyares for Attorney General. NRA-PVF Endorsed,” followed by text reading: “Hi, I'm Sarah with NRA-PVF. Early voting for the Virginia General Election begins this week! Be sure to elect Winsome Earle-Sears for Governor, John Reid for Lieutenant Governor, and re-elect Jason Miyares for Attorney General on or before Tuesday, Nov 4th. Paid for by National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund, FPAC-17-00608. Not authorized by a candidate.”
September 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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pretty standard stuff, though, the spiritual warfare appeal

recalling this, on my phone from Virginia governor race (where i’m on GOP lists because of family) — Sears a Black conservative narrowly trailing her white Dem center-lib opponent:
A screenshot of a political campaign text message from the 2025 Virginia governor’s race reading: “This is spiritual warfare. It’s Winsome Sears. I wrote a reflection on Isaiah 59:19 for your review. Please read it here: win-26.co/i7v3ks”
September 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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the deleted post, from earlier today on a device where i’d left bsky open
screenshot of a now deleted Bluesky post by Senator Elissa Slotkin, reading: ‘We are in an AI race with China right now. The last time we were in such a race – with Russia on nuclear technology – we won because we set up the Manhattan Project. We need that level of ambition again, for the modern age.’
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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somebody at @apnews.com is done mincing words
A screenshot of a Google News news-story aggregation page with links to five articles: AP News, “Israel targets and kills Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif as toll worsens on Gaza journalists;” Al Jazeera, “Israel kills Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera staff in Gaza: What we know;” NBC News, “Israel kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists in airstrike, claiming on worked for Hamas;” CNN, “Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strik on Gaza – live updates;” New York Times, “Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says.”
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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no outlet specializes in making Donald’s perspective central quite like the @nytimes.com
A screenshot of a Google News story/topic feed, with headlines reading, sequentially, “Millions in US expected to protest against Trump in ‘No Kings’ demonstrations” (The Guardian), “Trump, Who Has Likened Himself to a King, Bristles at ‘No Kings’ Protests” (The New York Times), “Watch livestream: ‘No Kings Day’ protests set for hundreds of US cities” (USA Today), “Opinion | Diminishing Protest Returns” (The Wall Street Journal), “Millions of protesters are expected at ‘No Kings’ rallies nationwide as President Trump’s military parade takes place on his 79th birthday” (CNN).
June 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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thanks, and 🖕
A partial screenshot image of an email sent from LinkedIn’s notifications system to Paul Bowman, showing the email’s subject line, “Paul Darron, congratulations on 16 years with LinkedIn!”
April 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Google offering me blog fare from hate-stoking policy org the Gatestone Institute as newsmedia content this morning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatesto...
A partial screenshot from a web browser view of a user’s Google News homepage feed. Of three linked articles under the “Energy” news subject heading, the third is a post from the website of the right-wing policy org the Gatestone Institute, titled “Europe: The Fall of the Holy Renewable Empire,” by Drieu Godefridi.
December 27, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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everyday american capitalism and ordinary folks taking financial hits in the homes and energy consumption game

we’ll title it SOLAR: IS IT BAD FOR YOU?

carry on, @npr.org
Partial screenshot of the web-browser view of a page from the website of National Public Radio. The page is for an NPR report on harm to consumers in the market for single-family residential solar panel installations, with the title “The Dark Side of Rooftop Solar.”
September 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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you could be forgiven for wondering whether maybe at CNN they haven’t just decided to start filing these under Entertainment
A screenshot of my Google News feed from morning of Thursday, September 5, showing the first feed grouping of ‘Top stories,’ four headlines about a firearms mass-killing at a high school in Georgia the previous day. The third headline of the four, from CNN, has the headline ‘From Algebra 1 to Barricading Doors: How the Georgia School Shooting Unfolded.’
September 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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amazing
A screenshot of a tweet from Anti-Defamation League executive Jonathan Greenblatt reading: “Why does former President Trump feel the need to specifically call out that Governor Josh Shapiro is Jewish? Why does he feel compelled to falsely tell the world that Gov Shapiro ‘has done nothing for Israel?’ This election should be about issues, not identity. The campaign should be about debating policy not invoking prejudices.”
August 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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how i know the Harris campaign is doing okay
A screenshot of my Google News feed from afternoon of Saturday, August 17, showing the first feed grouping of ‘Top stories,’ four headlines about policy ideas advanced by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The highlighted feature article, from Fox Business, has the headline ‘Former White House Economist Warns Harris’ Agenda Could “Shut Down” th…” (headline displayed incompletely). The other three headlines are, in order, “Cracks in the Wall of Media Praise for Harris? Multiple Outlets Eviscerate VP over Price Control Plan” (Fox News), “Opinion | The Times Demand Serious Economic Ideas. Harris Supplies Gimmicks.” (Washington Post), and “Harris’ Plan to Stop Price Gouging Could Create More Problems Than It Solves” (CNN).
August 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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such hands, lord
July 10, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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politico: extremism triumphs, darkness falls
screenshot text: “But frantic political maneuvering in the days that followed saw Macron’s team and leaders of parties on the left muster their forces in a national effort to thwart the far right. Hundreds of candidates on the left and center of French politics pulled out of the contest to avoid splitting the anti-Le Pen vote. Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. Instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far left. ”
July 7, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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google news distributing anti-union lobbying operation Illinois Policy’s blog posts as if they were journalism — positioned ahead of actual news stories, in fact

nothing new, of course, just an instance i thought i would capture and post today, for whatever it’s worth
Screenshot of Google News ‘Local News’ panel for a Google account with Chicago address. Of three headlines offered, the first reads ‘Recap: 1 year of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, watch out in Year 2.’ No publisher identification appears with the headline. Screenshot of Google News ‘Local News’ panel for a Google account with Chicago address. Of three headlines offered, the first reads ‘Recap: 1 year of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, watch out in Year 2.’ The contextual-menu dropdown, clicked, reveals that the publisher of the story is an organization called Illinois Policy, a right-wing anti-union lobbying group rather than a newsmedia company.
May 15, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Knew nothing of any new royal image unveil before minutes ago, when i hit this post scrolling. Feed had me covered, though.
May 14, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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she would however evidently be the first to urge that we notice certain threads of connection
April 28, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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hey everybody it’s 11 weeks to May 1, one week until the 144th anniversary of 21 Feb 1848 ❤️

@cartoonistcoop.bsky.social
In foreground, cartoon figures of a steel-nib dip pen and a square-bottomed india ink bottle, Cartoonist Co-op mascots “Nibford” and “Inkling,” are side by side, to viewer’s left and right respectively. Both have anthropomorphic limbs and large round cartoon eyes. Nibford, the pen, makes a heart gesture with their hands. Inkling, the ink bottle, has a heart-shaped speech balloon coming from them with the words “Nothing to lose, Loves, but Chains” appearing in it, written in something like a 19th-century standard English script style. The two figures are superimposed on a flat red background with a large raised-fist-symbol drawing, as if made with chalk, discernable behind them. The fist holds a rose.
February 14, 2024 at 6:37 PM