Sam Waller

I have sent my ballot. You can be sure that I did not vote for any members of the Republican Party, aka The Fascist Party of America.

It's remarkable how Vance describes Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi nella Piazza Navona

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Miaganga

@miaganga.bsky.social

17h

Crowded, as usual.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

We are currently living in a reality-optional country. It's exhausting.

Buongiorno

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washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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@pastajoe.bsky.social

Replying to @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social

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David Naylor

@profcedar.bsky.social

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

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This is such a stupid thing to say. Because if it were true, we wouldn't need a Constitution and Bill of Rights written by humans. And every country would have had the same Constitution and Bill of Rights from the beginning of time.

There is something deeply wrong with Elon Musk.

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social

@jakeweindling.bsky.social

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

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Jacob Weindling

The animating principle of the Republican Party is reveling in being a bad person

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

nationalgeographic.comWhy Madison, Wisconsin, a Capital Built Between Two Lakes, Belongs on Your 2027 ListThe capital of Wisconsin has independent bookstores, great restaurants, and easy access to nature—not to mention a rabid college football culture.

Madison was named one of National Geographic’s Top 25 Destinations in the World. I lived there for four years and agree, it is a special place. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

Egret

When will America become sick of the nonsense this idiot spouts constantly?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

This is such a stupid, shameless lie for *many* reasons . . . But does this dishonest idiot think parents would watch their child get on a school bus on Monday and not even think to question their whereabouts until they showed up again on Thursday? What a fool.

This evening, a reprise performance of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet.

una vista dal tetto

cell.comMicrobiome signatures linked to cancer and treatment adverse events in a real-world cohortIn a large, real-world mixed-cancer cohort, analyses accounting for comorbidities and additional confounders indicate that most microbiome alterations are shared across cancers rather than specific to...

Gut microbiome predicts survival and treatment-related adverse events across cancers www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

comicsands.comPete Hegseth Sparks Outrage After Announcing Fort Hood Shooter's Firing Squad Execution Will Have Public Livestream

We are bringing my sister and her family to Venice to celebrate her birthday because Tom refuses to go to the US. Helen doesn't seem to mind.

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Utterly barbaric.

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The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.

nobelprize.orgNobel Prize in Physics 2026The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

The Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci docked in Venice.

buongiorno

As a scientist and gay dad, I highly recommend this wonderful book. It is literally filled with wonders.

a Sant' Erasmo

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

Tramonto dorato

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Steven Beschloss

Lyrics from Irving Berlin’s 1941 song about Hitler: “When that man is dead and gone” “Satan thought up a plan/dressed as a man/walking the earth/And since he began/the world is hell for you and me/but what a heaven it will be/when that man is dead and gone.” www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...

americaamerica.newsThis Can’t Go On for Two More YearsSwooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees

@mcnees.bsky.social

26 Sept 2025

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

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washingtonpost.comTrump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National ParkMajor League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.

Donald Trump is so crude, stupid, and lowbrow, he has no appreciation for the majestic beauty of our national parks. If a place doesn't have gaudy gilding, flashing neon, and ringing cash registers, he doesn't see worth.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

“National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands visited Grand Teton National Park this week and looked at three potential locations for a baseball park within the park’s boundaries” WTF 🤬 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social

This guy!!!!!!!!!!!

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Deborah Blum

@deborahb.bsky.social

Of course it does.

nytimes.comWhite House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Blocking Trump’s BanA federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets, but reporters were denied access on Thursday. Their lawyers asked the judge to intervene; he ordered the administr...

21 Sept

Congratulations Joe, from a queer parent who loved your book.

Joseph Osmundson@reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social

Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about. I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid. electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

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18 Sept

He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also

19 Sept

Trento

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

18 Sept

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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18 Sept

Giardino sotto la pioggia

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16 Sept

Don’t believe the lies. Trump is *not* selling $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. It’s worse. Trump is *giving away* $2.8 billion of bombs for Israel’s genocide. American taxpayers are paying for those bombs.

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14 Sept

recording from Sunday's performance uwmadison.box.com/s/62niavea0j...

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

14 Sept

And the United States can eliminate Taliban terrorist attacks in America by turning its government over to the Taliban.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Jared Kushner can make a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, provided Zelenskyy gives Putin everything he wants.

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Steven Beschloss

14 Sept

I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.

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mol.imUS flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse imagesThe ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.

13 Sept

This administration is all-in when it comes to grown men who are into abusing children.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415

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Miaganga

@miaganga.bsky.social

10 Sept