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Map guy in Seattle, formerly DC. I like some stuff and don’t like other stuff
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Sunkissed Peaks
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It’s really frightening.
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sweetie π
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remember when all we focused on were murder hornets and killer clowns in the woods those were good times
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Micah Loewinger
3 days ago
I've never had this type of convo with an official before. But it was clear that my future access to Hamilton was contingent on fulfilling his request. I don't need access but it did illustrate for me the pressure that beat reporters are subjected to
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Hunter Y. Rus
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New solution: if you see people complaining about bluesky being a bubble, don’t engage, just block them. Make it true for them
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
"For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history." Well played,
@mcsweeneys.net
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/were-diversifying-the-university-by-hiring-more-crackpots
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Kyle Griffin
4 days ago
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell sharply to a new all-time low in May, at 44.8, from 49.8 in April. It plunged to levels not seen in data collected consistently since the late 1970s.
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If you love water that tastes like plastic, get a collapsible reusable water bottle!
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I made a map shirt:
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian
5 days ago
for my latest piece on
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, i spoke to recent grads about the joys and limitations of booing tonedeaf tech CEOs obsessed with AI
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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
‘They deserve everything they’re getting.’ (Boos.)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/935602/graduates-boo-ai-ceos
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The Democratic Coalition
6 days ago
CORRUPT AF: A pair of new reports released this week by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics disclosed thousands of stock transactions made by Trump in the first three months of 2026. Read more here: https://yhoo.it/49MywaH
#TrumpCrimeFamily
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
6 days ago
On the tube
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ryan cooper
6 days ago
I'm so old I can remember when Donald Trump (and the media) spread hysterical lies about the Ebola outbreak in 2014, which Obama handled quite well
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/ebola-outbreak-public-health
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victoria scott
7 days ago
I’m sorry I only accept Taylor Lorenz-initiated discourses if she’s posting them on here. we must to stop relying on imported discourses from hostile foreign powers like X Dot Com to fuel our posting wars, as a matter of Bluesky national security and poster sovereignty
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Drew Magary
7 days ago
I wrote this! Hooray seniors!
defector.com/wow-americas...
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Wow! America’s Graduating Seniors Really Fucking Hate AI! | Defector
As a rule, a college graduation is a miserable affair. If you’re an outgoing senior, you have wait around for hours on end in the sweltering heat, all while hungover and wearing a full-length black go...
https://defector.com/wow-americas-graduating-seniors-really-fucking-hate-ai
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Aaron Rupar
7 days ago
Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."
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Faine Greenwood
about 2 months ago
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
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Saad Asad
7 days ago
San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...
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Phil Lewis
8 days ago
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
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public health guy
8 days ago
RFK Jr. shuttered this lab and fired the director last year. should be a scandal
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FactPost
9 days ago
Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)
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Molly Jong-Fast
8 days ago
I’m so furious about how stupid everything is
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Alex Hanna
8 days ago
Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)
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Matt D. Wilson
9 days ago
I think we could learn a lot from these young graduates and mercilessly boo anyone who talks about AI like it's an inevitability at every opportunity
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Ilhan Omar
9 days ago
We need a ban on stock trading by the President and Members of Congress. It’s bullshit that elected officials are getting rich off the backs of the American people while having access to insider information.
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Jeff Lazarus
9 days ago
If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.
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Kevin M. Kruse
10 days ago
Even when it's an entire stadium booing them, the AI hucksters cannot wrap their heads around the fact that no one wants the shit they're selling.
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Lex Vaughn
11 days ago
"The mayor hurt my feewings by not liking me and my sociopathically greedy biwwionaire friends enough -- excuse me I have to run away crying now 😭😭😭."
#ImJustaBiwwionaire
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
12 days ago
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
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Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
https://www.wate.com/news/education-schools/alex-haleys-roots-to-be-removed-from-knox-county-schools-libraries/amp/
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Robert Cruickshank
11 days ago
If people wonder why we don’t trust Sound Transit when they insist rail to Ballard isn’t being canceled, just delayed, this is a big reason why. They can’t give a date for completion. Will it be done in time to ride it from Ballard to the Space Needle for its 100th birthday in 2062? One wonders.
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Sound Transit Insists It Has No Idea When Light Rail Will Reach Ballard
Seattle leaders have been urging Sound Transit to provide a date estimating light rail's arrival to Ballard in light of plans to defer the station indefinitely, but the agency is insisting it doesn't ...
https://www.theurbanist.org/sound-transit-insists-it-has-no-idea-when-light-rail-will-reach-ballard/
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Micah
11 days ago
the problem for democrats this fall is going to be picking which horrifically out of touch statement they want to highlight because there is a new one every single day
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Miranda Yaver
11 days ago
One of the Democrats’ biggest shortcomings is their failure to take victory laps. They move on to the next thing before voters understand how the ACA will help or is helping them, understand how the IRA expands prescription drug affordability. Most voters are low info. We need to connect the dots.
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Cannonball Adderall
13 days ago
“This isn’t a call to violence. It’s a call to play hardball, fill the streets, and embrace ambitious and aggressive reform. Anything less is to miss the moment. It’s to stand flat-footed as history happens to us.” 🎯🎯🎯
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Frankendarling
12 days ago
Just remembered this incredible chain by
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Sherrilyn Ifill
13 days ago
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Mueller, She Wrote
15 days ago
Trump posted about 60 times over a few hours last night. He has these mental breakdowns a couple times a month these days, but last night was especially delulu.
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Rebecca Spang
15 days ago
Historians sometimes describe the French Revolution as having begun with the « aristocratic reaction » of the 1780s that tried to undo social change and ignore new realities. We’re currently experiencing something similar
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
15 days ago
You know, I am starting to suspect that this supreme court may not be entirely on the up and up.
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Cabel Sasser
16 days ago
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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ProPublica
16 days ago
“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.
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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1778454007&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Miranda Yaver
17 days ago
My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Scott MacFarlane
19 days ago
It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so
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David Roberts
18 days ago
So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.
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US intel community agreed before war 'Iran wasn't developing a nuclear weapon': ex-counterterrorism chief
Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said the U.S. intelligence community agreed prior to the war that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-intel-community-agreed-before-war-iran-wasnt-developing-nuclear-weapon-ex-counterterrorism-chief?intcmp=xpal_politics
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Ryan Packer
20 days ago
Only 7% of the nearly 18,000 people who filled out this survey said that delaying or cancelling projects should be the first thing that Sound Transit considers to rebalance the ST3 plan. 74% ranked it dead last. Securing new state and federal funding was the #1 response.
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Ari Berman
20 days ago
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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I hate the 76 team NCAA tournament. 64 is ideal, 68 is good, more is pointless.
@ncaa.bsky.social
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Timothy Burke
20 days ago
I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'
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Popehat Has Gone Absolutely CRAZY!!!
22 days ago
Some people disapprove but I think this is good practice for the kids to learn patience and empathy when their grandparents get dementia
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Matthew Gertz
22 days ago
We fought. We won. Others can too.
www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...
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Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission
https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/media-matters-secures-complete-and-total-victory-against-federal-trade-commission
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