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@ellebbuzz.bsky.social
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Artist, advocate, and educator. Happy to be here instead of the other place, hope to reconnect with other refugees from that hellscape.

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ellebbuzz.bsky.social @ellebbuzz.bsky.social · Jan 7
Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire
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Tonight, Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear welcome Curtis White, author of a riveting new manifesto on art, culture, oligarchy, and resistance.

See you at 8e/5p! 🍸🎱🥃

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A Prison House is not a Pleasure Dome
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September 18, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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gregolear.bsky.social
Two hours until Showtime. It’s gonna be a good one tonight.
September 11, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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repstansbury.bsky.social
Today, I voted YES to release the names of Members of Congress who used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct and other misconduct cases in Congress.

No more abuses of power and no more hiding behind a system that shields perpetrators. We will always fight for justice for survivors—period.
June 30, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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nadinesmith.bsky.social
The New York City Pride March kicks off in 14 days, but the nation’s biggest homage to gay history may be unfolding on the White House lawn.

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Laurels and Sugar Daddies
On wrestling's homoerotic origins, sex trafficking, and the 92-foot Pride installation on the South Lawn.
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June 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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nadinesmith.bsky.social
The crowd was estimated to be in the tens.
A picture of a woman in a red outfit singing at the Freedom250 event accompanied by a man playing guitar while he wears sunglasses. A close up the man’s sunglasses showing the reflection of a nearly empty field where a crowd should be.
June 29, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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To our Haitian residents and immigrant communities: You belong here. @boston.gov will do everything we can to ensure you have accurate information, access to trusted legal support, and resources to understand your rights.

We will never back down from protecting all of our neighbors.
June 25, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
I absolutely love this one.
250to250.bsky.social 250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · Jun 26
Jim Obergefell is a leading LBGTQ+ activist, speaker, producer, author, and wine entrepreneur. Here he stories the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which guaranteed the marriage rights of same-sex couples across the United States. #WeAreAmerica250
June 26, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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"No other world leader can claim to have survived and thrived on the enmity of both Trump and Vladimir Putin" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Zelenskyy may have the last laugh over Trump
Ukraine’s president increasingly looks as if he holds the future of the west in his hands
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June 27, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the fire department exists to start, not to put out, fire. In a similar vein, Harmeet Dhillon has refashioned DOJ's Civil Rights Division into an entity that perpetrates civil rights abuses rather than battling them.
June 27, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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annebillson.bsky.social
Good lord, Mel Brooks is 100 years old tomorrow, June 28. Happy birthday, sir! An embarrassment of riches from which to choose, but this is my favourite moment from his brilliant Hitchcock spoof, HIGH ANXIETY (1977)
High Anxiety- Window Scene
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June 27, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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thefive8.bsky.social
LIVE tonight! Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear discuss UFC Freedom 250, the Pope's Encyclical, CIA gold bars, and more! 8e/5p 🥃🎱🥂

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When They Go Low, Bury Them
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May 29, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Bad-ass Pope Leo XIV bitch-slaps Pete Hegseth, while inviting @anthropic.com co-founder @colah.bsky.social to his press conference:
"[I]t is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems."
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198. Sometimes there is talk of "artificial moral agents," as if machines were able to distinguish between right and wrong with greater consistency than a human being. Yet moral judgment cannot be reduced to calculation, for it involves conscience, personal responsibility and the recognition of the other as a person. Therefore, it is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems. No algorithm can make war morally acceptable. Al does not remove the intrinsic inhumanity of conflict; indeed it can only bring about conflict more quickly and render it more impersonal, lowering the threshold for resorting to violence, transforming defense into threat prediction and thus reducing victims to data. In this way, it will accustom us to the idea that violence is inevitable and needs only to be optimized. This does not diminish the importance of instilling, as far as possible, values and sound judgment into the artificial systems we build, so that they can contribute to a moral ecosystem in which humans are better able to listen to their own consciences, as well as allowing Al models to establish appropriate boundaries.
May 25, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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nadinesmith.bsky.social
“We are watching the systematic targeting of the very places where black people, black women, have excelled...
This is not an accidental byproduct...
It's what happens when you have an administration that works more like a crime family than a governing body.”

- Color Of Change DC Lobby Day
May 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
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May 25, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Everyone needs to hear this passionate conversation between Cleve Jones and @hcrichardson.bsky.social about what’s coming from the cuts in last summer’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Democrat, Republican, Independent—every one of us will be affected. Please give a listen.
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American Conversations: Cleve Jones
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May 24, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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gregolear.bsky.social
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor long weekends will stop me and @lincolnsbible.bsky.social from The Five 8. Do join us tonight at 8pm ET.
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Cuba: The Clock Is Ticking
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May 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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thefive8.bsky.social
The Five 8 LIVE tonight on 5/8! There will be an Afterhours for our members, during which LB and Greg will take questions about the show. So if there’s anything you’re curious about, drop a line and ask! 🎱 8e/5p

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The Five 8 on 5/8
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May 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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thefive8.bsky.social
With apologies to Squeeze.
Animation by CHUNK.

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What the F---
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April 26, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.
moiradonegan.bsky.social Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · May 1
Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
Bard College’s President Will Retire After Epstein Revelations
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May 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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I'm Still Mad He Put Martha Stewart In Prison
James Comey is indicted again, this time over seashells; Jay Powell is sticking around the Fed until he's sure that investigation is over; the California Coastal Commission learns a lesson.
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May 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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thefive8.bsky.social
Live tonight! Stephanie Koff and Greg Olear break down the dumbest week in recent history. 8e/5p 🥃

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Your Passport to Fascist Stupidity
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May 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
Next Reconstruction we start by hanging the seditionists and burning out the Neo-Confederacy root and branch.
May 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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gregolear.bsky.social
"If Trump wants us to believe that he’s not a rapist and not a pedophile, release the Epstein files and show us the proof, man. Show us. What’s the big deal?"

Full ramble:
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May 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
ellebbuzz.bsky.social
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Callais Decision Update Rapid Response Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Callais Decision Update Rapid Response Call · No Kings
Join the No Kings Coalition as we break down the ins and outs of the Callais decision, what this means for you, and the future. You will hear from leaders from LDF, ACLU, and more. By registering f...
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April 29, 2026 at 9:36 PM
ellebbuzz.bsky.social
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Don’t Cut Services. Tax the Ultra-Rich Instead. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/from...
Don’t Cut Services. Tax the Ultra-Rich Instead
Join Mayor Mamdani, the vast majority of New Yorkers, and the state legislature representing us to tell Governor Kathy Hochul: Don't Cut Services, Tax the Ultra-Rich Instead.
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April 29, 2026 at 11:31 AM