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Parker Molloy

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Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.

November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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The Daily Show

@thedailyshow.com

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself?

"fork lady is eroding public confidence."

"ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field."

"lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability."

that's what you sound like.

September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Farnoush is an AP UN correspondent.

Dan is a former White House speechwriter.

newrepublic.com/post/200833/...

September 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Anna Meier

@annameier.bsky.social

When you say "the link between Tylenol & autism is unproven," you're saying "this link isn't proven, but it could be, because autism is a disease and can & should be cured if we just understand what causes it." Stop pathologizing neurodivergence so you can avoid embracing neurodivergent folks.

September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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It's ME(Jaime)

@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

Here is your morning's dose of Hope for Humanity

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · Sep 3

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I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier.
I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.
I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here.
After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face.
I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again.
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Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together.
I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first.
My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night.
I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out.
So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day.
I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special.
I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

You guys see where this is going? Right?

September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Pamela

@pjmilam1.bsky.social

I got a mention in this excellent piece by @wendiaarons.bsky.social
📣🐜📣

www.texasmonthly.com/travel/why-f...

Screenshot of article about fire ants in Texas. Colorful art with cartoon drawing of an ant in the grass plus text

August 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.

July 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Once in a lifetime opportunity to give this woman a chop suey sandwich and tell her it’s a regular hamburger.

Naomi Wolf saying “I don’t even know what this is, Salem, MA” with a picture of the sky.

July 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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Jarod K. Anderson

@jarodkanderson.bsky.social

I bet you project mental thanks to some lovely aspect of nature you encounter outdoors now and then.
Do me a favor. Project a little of that awe for nature at your own body, your mind, the miraculous bits of nature that allow you to be here and reading this.
I am very thankful that you are here.

July 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 20

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

www.statnews.com

May 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

NASHVILLE… ICYMI…
www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-re...

May 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone

WASHINGTON—Looking around with despair as he searched for an open seat in the Pentagon cafeteria, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was reportedly forced to drink his lunch alone Wednesday. Acco...

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April 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Satan

@thedevil.bsky.social

April 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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Todd Stein

@toddstein.bsky.social

Here is Senator Rubio (2017) calling on the Chinese government to provide due process protections to prisoners and calling on the U.S. not to send anyone there unless China proves is it abiding by int'l human rights law - standards Secretary Rubio is helping the US and El Salvador violate today.

April 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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The Onion

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Aaron Rodgers Goes On Ayahuasca Retreat In Search Of New Interview Anecdote
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Aaron Rodgers Goes On Ayahuasca Retreat In Search Of New Interview Anecdote

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—In what the 41-year-old New York Jets quarterback described as a “transformative experience,” Aaron Rodgers confirmed Wednesday that he’d gone on an ayahuasca retreat in search of new interview anecdotes. “When I first did ayahuasca, I knew immediately that I’d found something that I could talk about for hours on all types of media […]

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April 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.

April 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Joe Walsh

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

Do you see the problem?👇

April 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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Mark Cuban

@mcuban.bsky.social

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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John Fugelsang

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social

This isn't The Art of the Deal.
It's insider trading with a bad comb-over.

Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires
Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast
Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’
Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same

Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.