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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 7d

This is the only website where most users realize farmers suck ass as far as I can tell

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The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

buff.ly

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 8d

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9d

called @booker.senate.gov to say that if Republicans shut down the government everyone is going to blame them, if Democrats cave on trans rights they are going to further cement in the minds of voters that they're wimps who believe in nothing and they will lose an entire generation of voters

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 9d

This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11d

Abolish ICE. Now.

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ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14d

"sexual matador" is the kind of fantasy you come up with if your homeschool had an abstinence-only sex ed unit.

"my favorite part is the dance with the weapon, by second favorite part is how he's always moving away from my touch while playing to a crowd and talking about Franco's campaigns."

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

trib.al

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Andre Should Be Writing @andreshouldwrite.bsky.social · 18d

thank you! Just implemented a feature you might enjoy andregarzia.com/2025/09/link...

Linkgraphs are fun • AndreGarzia.com

AndreGarzia.com website

andregarzia.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 19d

An idiotic claim like this should make people question everything else Ezra says

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19d

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

Constitutional Amendment 3
November 5, 2024
Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative
Choice
Yes
X No
Results
Votes
1,538,659
1,443,022
%
51.60%
48.40%

Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%

2022 Kansas abortion referendum
KANSAS
August 2, 2022
Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother?
Results
Choice
Votes
%
• Yes
385,014
40.84%
X No
557,837
59.16%
Total votes
942,851
100.00%
Registered voters turnout
1,929,972
48.85%

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19d

The moment you're born in America you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with messages like "People died for your right to free speech" OR "you're lucky you were born in a nation with free speech" it's drilled in day fucking ONE. To see conservatives do a 180 on something so fundamentally American is BONKERS

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 20d

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 21d

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22d

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23d

They want to kill any information source the oligarchs don't control. Free access to information not filtered through their brainwashing algorithms is a threat to their control over their hyperreal simulacrum, even in the limited audience that Bluesky has.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22d

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“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23d

This seems like a big deal - free help to deal with harassment for journalists and researchers! From @righttobe.bsky.social, the awesome folks who do those bystander intervention trainings. Check it out!

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23d

Incredibly timely news, journalist/researcher friends:

@righttobe.bsky.social just launched Expert Voices Together - a FREE service that helps journalists and researchers who are being intimidated/harassed!

Check it out at expertvoicestogether.org !

Graphic reading:

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Who supports journalists & researchers under attack?

Expert Voices Together does.

1:1 support. Digital security. Supportive Care. Safety planning.

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Prankster, Now With Corpse Bride @prankster36.bsky.social · 24d

The indie journalist movement is exciting but Substack is gonna strangle it in the cradle in a year or two the same way all these other outlets and social media sites do unless people ditch it now

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.