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We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

07.03.2026 04:49 👍 5903 🔁 1232 💬 56 📌 15
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 👍 3453 🔁 1480 💬 52 📌 64

SIX YEARS OF HOTDOOOOOOG!!!!

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

In the current internet landscape, 6 years means that 1-900-HOTDOG qualifies as an "elder internet statesman".

Which is fucking stupid. And amazing. And stupid. And pizza. And I want it stick around.

Sign up for more.

06.03.2026 16:15 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

05.03.2026 21:15 👍 1092 🔁 428 💬 47 📌 68

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

05.03.2026 16:27 👍 2902 🔁 379 💬 48 📌 10

I didn't grow up with any Native American traditions beyond a knowledge of Penobscot and Mi'kmaq ancestry. But some Native stories, like the latest Secretly Incredibly Fascinating about Jim Thorpe, with @alexschmidty.bsky.social and @joeytainment.bsky.social, hit in a nostalgic way I can't explain.

05.03.2026 05:29 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 267, Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot with Alex Schmidt
Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 267, Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot with Alex Schmidt YouTube video by 1-900-HOTDOG

You can also find a ragtag team of humans, machines, and cryptids on our YouTube channel! They're always there, but this week so are @seanbaby.bsky.social , @brockway.bsky.social, and @alexschmidty.bsky.social. youtu.be/zjDIfiYXM-8

04.03.2026 14:55 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 267, Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot with Alex Schmidt Seanbaby and Brockway invite Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Alex Schmidt on the podcast for an endurance challenge. Three comedians, one bigfoot, five episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man. You do t

@seanbaby.bsky.social , @brockway.bsky.social, @alexschmidty.bsky.social, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Bigfoot are all in the Dogg zZone today. on.soundcloud.com/tTC6Hz9G1Spo...

04.03.2026 14:51 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%)

Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose
U.S. adult citizens
39
Party ID
Democrats
14
Independents
35
Republicans
68

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

yougov.com/en-us/articl...

03.03.2026 19:45 👍 4297 🔁 1194 💬 65 📌 140

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

03.03.2026 15:56 👍 3154 🔁 499 💬 90 📌 21

Having grown up a white kid in the Jim Crow south, I’d now say that pretty much was slavery, though I didn’t start to understand that until my early teens.

03.03.2026 01:09 👍 381 🔁 48 💬 6 📌 1

the NYT op-ed editor commissioned the executor of jeffrey epstein's estate to write for the paper eight times in 2025

02.03.2026 12:03 👍 1255 🔁 211 💬 7 📌 5
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 👍 13390 🔁 4255 💬 131 📌 173

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."

02.03.2026 14:50 👍 2138 🔁 304 💬 23 📌 2

Yeah, by now I'm pretty immune to that kind of manipulation from pro-war ghouls

01.03.2026 17:01 👍 389 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1

Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.

28.02.2026 15:52 👍 2925 🔁 786 💬 15 📌 8

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26268 🔁 8889 💬 289 📌 334

"Everyone is 12" theory going strong

28.02.2026 14:23 👍 4051 🔁 550 💬 46 📌 13
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On This Day In History: The Battle Of Moore’s Creek Bridge — February 27th, 1776 🇺🇸 #AmericanRevolution TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

On This Day In History: The Battle Of Moore’s Creek Bridge — February 27th, 1776 🇺🇸 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThGm78g7/

27.02.2026 15:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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this giant statue of a middle finger is in the center of Milan 🇮🇹 #art #history @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

this giant statue of a middle finger is in the center of Milan 🇮🇹 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThstqgKK/

26.02.2026 19:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

26.02.2026 03:15 👍 5053 🔁 1695 💬 67 📌 38
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“What are you reading? You look upset”
“Oh uhh just, yknow, worried about democracy”

26.02.2026 00:42 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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the American Revolution began in 1775 🇺🇸🗓️ #history TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

the American Revolution began in 1775 🇺🇸🗓️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZThpxyVWF/

25.02.2026 16:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Scientists theorize a “wet McCartney”

25.02.2026 14:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It was on this day in 1943 that George Harrison was harvested, fully formed, from the sea (pictured here) and so we celebrate his “birthday”.

25.02.2026 12:41 👍 151 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 1

Just tell him he’s great, thank you

24.02.2026 18:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

Always relevant.

24.02.2026 14:07 👍 708 🔁 51 💬 2 📌 1
The science doesn’t seem so settled after all, and it’s important to understand what happened here. The approach of left-of-center Americans and our institutions — to assume that when a scientific organization releases a “policy statement” on a hot-button issue, that the policy statement must be accurate — is a deeply naïve understanding of science, human nature and politics, and how they intersect.

At a time when more and more Americans are turning away from expert authority in favor of YouTube quacks and their ilk — and when our own government is pushing scientifically baseless policies on childhood vaccination and climate change — it’s vital that the organizations that represent mainstream science be open, honest and transparent about politically charged issues. If they aren’t, there’s simply no good reason to trust them.

The science doesn’t seem so settled after all, and it’s important to understand what happened here. The approach of left-of-center Americans and our institutions — to assume that when a scientific organization releases a “policy statement” on a hot-button issue, that the policy statement must be accurate — is a deeply naïve understanding of science, human nature and politics, and how they intersect. At a time when more and more Americans are turning away from expert authority in favor of YouTube quacks and their ilk — and when our own government is pushing scientifically baseless policies on childhood vaccination and climate change — it’s vital that the organizations that represent mainstream science be open, honest and transparent about politically charged issues. If they aren’t, there’s simply no good reason to trust them.

This is anti-vaxx logic. It is not "naive" to accept the conclusions of experts in technical fields.

24.02.2026 14:10 👍 3221 🔁 436 💬 72 📌 69