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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 54m

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes I think about how the total prison time from the My Lai Massacre was 3 days, and-

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 11h

My suffering is a big misunderstanding and injustice but yours is well-deserved and properly tailored

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 11h

If anything, your suffering is insufficient, that insufficiency is an insult to me

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 12h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 16h

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

I hurt some guy today
For content for my stream

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Jays probably mad that the Yankees kept impressing players tbh

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ In the last two years, the United States has supplied $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel.

$21.7 BILLION.

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza

A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide

responsiblestatecraft.org

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

LouFromBoston @loufromboston.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans have a very well organized think-tank (Heritage Foundation) for strategizing and coordination of messaging. They control what we are seeing day to day.

The Democrats have nothing. No sense of leadership, no direction, no messaging. We need a think-tank asap!!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

While Asha recognizes the need for a modern day Gandhi, she cannot do it herself because she fulfills a far more important role: that of posting

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Toxie should primary Schumer

io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 1d

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

gizmodo.com

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a small thing, but I am enjoying his change from ”transgender for everybody” to “transgender from everybody.” It’s fun to contemplate what that means.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, if I am a trailblazer of smart financial choices, society is doomed

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 1d

one proposed way to save OpenAI is for Sam Altman to come to your house and take all of your things from it so that they're his things

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 1d

"There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it."

Image showing the destruction of gaza which has been going on for 2 years you fucking dumbass

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