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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 22h

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 22h

Good news: I’m a genius! 🙄 Bad news: One word short of 👸🏼🐝. Dangit.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 22h

Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 23h

Unfortunately paywalled without access to either NYT or The Athletic, but this what I needed to explain that bizarre double play.

“This is my 39th year,” O’Driscoll said. “I’ve scored 2,500 games. Never have I seen that before. And I got it right — which is scary.”

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Making sense of Brewers-Dodgers 8-6-2 DP, the strangest double play in postseason history

What will you tell your grandchildren about the strangest double play in postseason history? Here's everything you need to know about it.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 1d

Read.

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‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 1d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 1d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

“[T]he picture of Vought that is being presented in major mainstream outlets is, unfortunately, severely flawed and misleading in ways that will only serve the regime.”

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 2d

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

Brewers deserve it. Hope they beat the pants off the Dodgers.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

DAMMIT!

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

Why is Kittredge still in? WHY?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3d

It’s remarkable to realize Diane Keaton created a signature look and sensibility back in the 1970s and for about half a century continued to be a creative inspiration for how to be yourself in a world that tries so hard to put you in a box. Well done, Diane Keaton. RIP.

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll be joining a local No Kings protest next Saturday. Will you? 🇺🇸

IndivisiblePHL ❌👑 @indivisiblephl.bsky.social · 4d

Are you bringing a sign to next Saturday’s (10.18.25) event? Hosting a sign making party? We’d love to see photos or video (time lapse is great) of Your sign making process. Remember these helpful tips

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

Take time to notice the beauty surrounding us.

It helps.

The Wild Images @thewildimages.bsky.social · 3d

For the #BlueSkyArtShow

It is now Autumn time

When the aspens #glow

Voyageurs National Park

Captured Sept. 29, 2025

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#photography #naturephotography #scape #fall #autumn #art #nature #eastcoastkin #thewildimages

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Editor Mary 🐝🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @editormary.bsky.social · 3d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

Many of those compositions were penned overseas and dumped in our country without sufficient tariffs collected. A city that isn't a Democratic hellscape would have played more Copeland and John Phillip Sousa. #MAGA

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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