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Lisa Thompson
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show me the dogs of bsky!
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weratedogs.com
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
lkthomp.bsky.social
Powerful
azrww.bsky.social Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 16h
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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jamellebouie.net
"power holds no value unless it is exercised"
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h
I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
What's been weird to learn is that other leaders of institutions act the same way. Some of them hoard and protect their influence like it's money because they, too, are rich. You don't get rich by giving your money away and (they seem to believe) you don't get powerful by exercising your power. But, in fact, that is often how power works: using power can help build power. At the very least, power holds no value unless it is exercised, which alone is a valid reason to exercise it. If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful. I'm talking here primarily about the huge, obvious loci of power — the centers of power that exist in part to serve as checks on other centers of power. Congress vis-a-vis the presidency. The media relative to the government. Higher education in contrast to misinformation. But they often aren't serving as checks on what's unfolding, or are obviously and bizarrely using their power only sparingly, garden hoses aimed at protecting their own homes from the wildfire. So it's left to individuals, who have stepped up where institutions have not.
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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froomkin.bsky.social
Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf
VII. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ara C. Regr
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
"I can be a pedophile all on my own" is not the flex he thinks it is.
If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epstein and I would still have 99% of my mind available to think about other things.
February 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has a chance to do the funniest thing of all time
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello on stage at Minneapolis’s First Avenue about six minutes ago
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
lkthomp.bsky.social
This is a lovely tribute to a lovely human.
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
Sticks
January 29, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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alexmstein.bsky.social
First Springsteen, now Billy Bragg.

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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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January 29, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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mutsy67.bsky.social
When I say #Arizona is the tip of the spear - THIS is what I mean. The GOP agenda always gets telegraphed from AZ. And looky here - they have introduced a measure to REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT. Letting legislators choose our US Senators.

Remember we were the Fraudit state. Pay attention to AZ
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January 28, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
lkthomp.bsky.social
Please enjoy this lovely thread.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d
I have now lived in the British countryside for most of my five decades on earth, within which time I have come to know it well. I thought, for newcomers to the place, I'd write a short guide to some of its more interesting aspects. You will find them in this thread.

1. EXCITING VILLAGE EVENTS.
My friend Rick was over here from Manchester, staying in my spare room, last week. Rick didn’t leave his home city for the first time until 2022 and didn’t even know what a donkey was until 2019, when he was 58, but now that he’s been to Devon, where I live, a few times, the pollution-coated twat thinks he’s William W***ing Wordsworth. “Slow and dreamy, the cow is the tortoise of the field,” he announced to me pompously on Friday. I didn’t reply, as I dislike confrontation, but the dude was talking utter shit. When properly motivated, British cattle can move at speeds of up to 65mph, as can be witnessed in our annual village Milk Race. Here a herd of Jerseys are challenged, over 18 miles of varied terrain, to beat a quad bike, normally driven by Sue who runs the post office, and Bill, a former Olympic runner who lives in the old mill. As usual, this year the Jerseys came out on top, leaving Bill (far right, in his customary Parisian designer denim) pathetically wheezing and crooked, although as you can see some of the herd’s progress has been impeded by their investigation of the cottage to the right, having heard the distracting opening bars of Paula Abdul’s 1988 hit ‘Straight Up’ coming from an open window.
January 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
once again when i tweeted this years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
tweet of mine from 2017: I haven't worked out the details but I'm pretty sure we can fix this mess with closed-circuit TV and a replica of the Fox & Friends set.
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
They hoped they could generate that response in Portland, but found dancing frog costumes.

They hoped they could generate that response in Minneapolis, and even stepped up their own violence to get it, but they only found a community getting stronger.
January 27, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Late night timeline cleanse - post pictures of your creatures judging you
Our dog comfortably ensconced in the fluffy comforter giving me the side eye for noticing her presence
January 25, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.

This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13d
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:

@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Well I’m not a senator, so my powers of calling it into question are pretty much limited to writing and protest. But you could make an issue of it on the US Senate floor every legislative day.
murray.senate.gov Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 15d
This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
January 21, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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angryalgonquin.bsky.social
#uglydogs
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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ronsteenvoorden.com
Good Morning with a photo from the Isle of Islay after sunset with the village of Port Charlotte in the background. Enjoy your Sunday 😊

#sunset #islay #scotland #portcharlotte #sea #nature #seascape #photography
January 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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glendunlap.bsky.social
Sunset tonight up at La Cumbre Peak above Santa Barbara. Never gets old for me! #Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara
Burnt Orange clouds at sunset over the Pacific Ocean with dark foothills in the foreground
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 AM