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David_j_roth

@davidjroth.bsky.social

Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.

February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM

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Arizona Right Watch

@azrww.bsky.social

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM

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Ryan Marino, MD

@ryanmarino.bsky.social

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13d

Dept. of Justice over here like pornhub

January 30, 2026 at 7:32 PM

PMcWaters

@pmcwaters.bsky.social

This is so funny from a cartoonishly corrupt man. I still hope it happens

NPR @npr.org · 16d

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad. n.pr/4t3yQtH

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins those calling for boycott of World Cup in U.S.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

n.pr

January 27, 2026 at 10:11 PM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

this is explicitly forbidden by the fourth amendment, there should not need to be "guidance" because it is IN THE CONSTITUTION & in fact the drafters used these exact examples in constructing the amendment

January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM

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Patrick Windrose

@patrickwindrose.bsky.social

January 25, 2026 at 2:26 AM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:
#3E #GoodvsEvil

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:

We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.

He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

January 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM

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Nicole Bedera

@nbedera.bsky.social

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM

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Osita Nwanevu

@ositanwanevu.com

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM

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nullrend

@nullrend.com

reskeet if you've ever shoveled your neighbor's sidewalk

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · Jan 7

I say “why is it always us?” but it’s because we love and stand up for our neighbors and they fucking know it

January 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM

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Louisville Clinic Escorts

@lce.bsky.social

This is the agent that murdered the woman in Minneapolis on 1/7/2026.

January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM

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Winged Wheel Podcast

@wingedwheelpodcast.com

Raymond showing Larkin his appreciation for that OT winner. 🥰 #LGRW

December 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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🔫Scott Martin🛼

@youcaughtscott.com

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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Stella

@antlervel.vet

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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The Cold Dude

@2house2fly.bsky.social

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL

@edsbs.bsky.social

Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Dec 3

Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."

He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."