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AAron Leckinger

@aaronl1968.bsky.social
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Just another liberal vegan in southern California. Dark in the daytime. #PHiSH #fz #Reds

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1h
www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika's Fantasy Epic Is One of the Most Astonishing Animated Movies Ever Made
The stop-motion adventure Wildwood, directed by Travis Knight, is so astonishing and intricate that it's hard to even fathom.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1h
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/1...
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2h
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
hollywoodreporter.com
‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Ambitious Stop-Motion Epic Is Both a Technical and Emotional Triumph
A teenage girl enters a mysterious kingdom in search of her kidnapped brother in Travis Knight's animated fantasy film, voiced by an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2h
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goldderby.com
‘Wildwood’ stuns critics: Laika’s Oscar front-runner is ‘one of the most astonishing animated movies ever made’
Travis Knight’s fantasy with Carey Mulligan and Jacob Tremblay tops 'Toy Story 5' in Gold Derby’s Academy Awards odds amid rave reviews.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 15h
DOJ Civil Rights Division redefines mission away from discrimination www.npr.org/2026/10/11/g...
npr.org
Reshaped civil rights mission at Justice Department transforms its work, workforce
Harmeet Dhillon has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 15h
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) vowed Saturday to force a House vote to block Russian oil purchases, challenging President Trump's diesel deal with President Vladimir Putin. www.axios.com/2026/10/10/f...
axios.com
House Republican, invoking Reagan, moves to block Trump's Russia oil deal
Already, outgoing Republican Rep. Don Bacon said he'd sign the petition.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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TAKING THE LONGER, MAGICAL WAY HOME TO WILDWOOD
Behind LAIKA’s stop-motion animated film 16 years in the making.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Netflix Is Sharpening the Layoff Axe
Facing pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price, the streamer is prepping for a round of layoffs in the near future, per sources.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
City officials said an ICE agent fired multiple rounds through the front windshield of the suspect's Honda CRV. Officials said a man was in the vehicle and a child, believed to be his son, was in the back seat. abc7ny.com/amp/post/per...
abc7ny.com
ICE officer shoots man in vehicle in Marble Hill, Manhattan | abc7ny.com
An ICE officer shot a man inside an SUV in Marble Hill, Manhattan, on Thursday. A 5-year-old boy in the back seat was not hurt.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in way that, until last week, were an integral part of working at OpenAI," the safety researchers' letter reads. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/...
cnbc.com
OpenAI defends decision to fire researchers: 'These decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out'
OpenAI has defended its decision to fire three safety researchers for what the AI lab has described as a "significant breach of trust"
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The guidance allows the attorney general, deputy and assistant AGs, the FBI director, U.S. attorneys and other Senate-confirmed presidential appointees to speak at rallies, canvass for votes and even serve as delegates or officers of a national political party www.cbsnews.com/news/ag-blan...
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AG Blanche, other high-level DOJ appointees can take part in political campaigns, memo says
The Justice Department has loosened the guidelines for the attorney general and other senior ​political appointees, allowing them to participate in political activities.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
reuters.com
USA Today sues OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
USA Today Co and several newspapers it owns sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court ​on Thursday for allegedly infringing their copyrights by ‌using their content to train its large language models.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 08/10/2026
As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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nbclosangeles.com
Warning horns sounded before news helicopter crash in Chatsworth, NTSB report says
The federal agency released its preliminary report on the crash that killed NewsChopper4 reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw and a man on the ground, Edy Gutierrez Mejia.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Have you guys noticed that Republicans who were a rubber stamp for Trump for the last decade are now suddenly pretending to be defenders of democracy? Amazingly, Senator Thom Tillis is finding his courage right around the time his book tour is launched. How brave! Read my take at the link below ⬇️
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Phish • 100 At The Garden • '26-'27
YouTube video by Phish
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
US will rescind policy targeting oil and gas industry methane leaks
The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it would soon propose ​scrapping a Biden-era rule aimed at curbing large leaks ‌of methane from oil and gas operations.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layof...
businessinsider.com
Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams
Amazon faces new layoffs affecting seller support, engineering, and customer service amid its cost overhaul and AI investments.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump wrote that Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of his 2024 presidential campaign, and James Blair, a campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff on leave of absence, "are outside consultants" and "do not work for me other than as outside consultants" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If seeing “8647” spelled out in seashells bothers you, but “let them take out Los Angeles” is just a joke, congratulations. You’re in a cult. www.threads.com/share/_pVcKq...
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump is interrupted by protesters a 6th time at his Texas rally What’s the record He seems really annoyed www.threads.com/share/_6QH6O...
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Vince D. Monroy (@vincedmonroy) on Threads
Trump is interrupted by protesters a 6th time at his Texas rally What’s the record He seems really annoyed
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For every 1 percentage point increase in tariffs, consumer goods prices rise by about 0.25% after one year. That means a 10% tariff on all imports would push consumer goods prices about 2.6% higher within 12 months. www.scrippsnews.com/life/money/r...
scrippsnews.com
Research shows tariffs push prices higher for up to a year
New research from the New York Fed found that for every 1 percentage point increase in tariffs, consumer goods prices rise by about 0.25% after one year.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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yahoo.com
Mamdani Clears More Than 10,000 Children Off NYC’s Child Care Voucher Waitlist, Bringing Huge Relief To Families
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking yet another step to help low-income families in the city.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Top Republicans are giving up on races in purple territory and racing to save seats in deep-red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Republicans enter triage mode as their election hopes continue to dim
Top Republicans are giving up on races in purple territory and racing to save seats in deep-red states.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
Disney lawyer says US seeks to censor, control ABC broadcasts
A lawyer for Walt Disney urged a US judge on Tuesday to ​block the Federal Communications Commission's early review of licenses for its eight company-owned ABC TV stations, saying President Donald Tru...
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Plans for a £200m data centre on a Microsoft's former UK headquarters site have been submitted for review. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Data centre set to replace Reading's Microsoft headquarters
Plans for a £200m development have been submitted to Wokingham Borough Council.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The United States Explained in Three Simple Words: "Follow the money."
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
reuters.com
OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over 'Astra' AI model
OpenAI was hit with a trademark lawsuit in San ​Francisco federal court on Monday over its ‌new "Astra" AI model from a software company that says it has been using the "Astra" name since 2021.
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rogue OpenAl bots disrupt Wikipedia services The Wikimedia Foundation discovered that unauthorized Al agents made unapproved edits, tried to hack a note-taking tool, and flooded systems with heavy traffic, which likely caused a partial outage in May. www.reuters.com/technology/w...
reuters.com
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates online ​encyclopedia Wikipedia, said heavy traffic from OpenAI's ‌rogue agents was possibly tied to a disruption that its data service experienced in May.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
GOP nominee for Colorado governor, Victor Marx, says he does not regret slamming his wife into a door: "I'd do it again" www.threads.com/share/BAleVz...
threads.com
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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nbcnews.com
Fuel industry warns truck stops not to sell red dye diesel after Trump lifts restrictions
“We do not expect most reputable diesel retailers and fuel marketers to do this,” said several industry groups. “There’s limited upside.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
ALEXANDER: Why wouldn't McConnell's constituents be better served if he stepped down? TILLIS: It's the same Q people ask of Biden A: Biden is no longer POTUS T: But guess what? We're following the bad advice of people who supported him. The difference is Mitch's brain is as strong as it ever was
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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
the-express.com
Stark numbers show US has lost 81 planes and $3.3BN worth of helicopters in Iran
A new report shows the scaled of US losses during the conflict with Iran, which began in February.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't understand why the Cornell rapist would flee to Dubai when he could've stayed in the US and become a Republican politican, pastor, SCOTUS justice or maybe even president.
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