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Madeline Bergstrom
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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” —Kurt Vonnegut
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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jeymccreight.bsky.social
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here

Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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jamellebouie.net
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 13
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
Absolute queen shit
Rep Yassamin Anasari has set up a table and a sign saying "Mike Jonhnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files, CHANGE MY MIND" outside Johnson's office.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
We wanted to understand how young New York City voters feel about Zohran Mamdani. So we talked to three retired cops at an Outback Steakhouse in Staten Island.
October 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.
October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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muellershewrote.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.
July 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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karlbode.com
The NYT story on the Colbert firing doesn't even mention the fact that CBS is now owned by the right wing billionaire Ellison family, a very close political ally to Trump.

Kind of relevant, yeah?
CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
The governor of Puerto Rico has signed a ban on all gender-affirming care under 21, marking an enormous escalation in the war on trans people. Conservatives are banking on using PR as a test case, and those behind this have been clear they oppose GAC at any age.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
The law approved late Wednesday applies to those younger than 21 and calls for 15 years in prison for any violators, as well as a $50,000 penalty and the revocation of all licenses and permits of medical staff.
July 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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tomh4.bsky.social
The hilarious thing is that Andreessen is not nostalgic about his hometown at all, says @rickperlstein.Bsky.social. “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet,” said the man who now calls them “my people.” prospect.org/power/2024-0...
My Dinner With Andreessen
Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series
prospect.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
Marc Andreessen went to a goddam state school! Stop bitching about Stanford (about which he’s delusional) and just promote your damn Alma matter! Why is this so hard?? www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...
July 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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niais.bsky.social
I don't know which members of the press have time tomorrow, but it seems like having a many people as we can tracking this FTC event about gender affirming care for minors would be a good idea.

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC Releases Agenda for Workshop on Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices in “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
The Federal Trade Commission
www.ftc.gov
July 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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sarahdohl.bsky.social
The SCAM PACs are coming out of the woodwork again. And it's just everything wrong in politics. If you see anything from "The No Kings PAC" here are a few things you should know. 🧵
Mobile screenshot of a No Kings PAC petition page. At the top is a cartoon crown logo reading “NO KINGS PAC.” The headline urges visitors to “SIGN THE PETITION TO IMPEACH TRUMP,” calling Trump a “TYRANT” and “wannabe KING.” The text claims Democrats have introduced new articles of impeachment and asks users to submit their email address. The design mimics grassroots mobilization but appears geared more toward harvesting emails and generating outrage-driven donations than toward real organizing or impact.
June 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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samthielman.com
I’m sorry, “yes we sourced a story using stolen personal data about a nonwhite politician brokered by a neonazi BUT the story illuminates the complex nature of racial identity” does not pass the laugh test
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public
July 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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purplechrain.bsky.social
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT: “he is a south Asian man born in Uganda?” bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT: “and the source is a eugenicist who opposes affirmative action because he thinks brown people are an inferior race! cool!” bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT: “I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi”
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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billiejsweeney.bsky.social
The nyt is eager to declare victory over trans ppl.
Bullshit. Here’s another take:
“The notion that the trans rights movement was wrong to push this court challenge is both a departure from facts and the story the Christian-right legal movement would prefer be told”

newrepublic.com/article/1972...
What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Trans Rights Ruling
The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.
newrepublic.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM