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@abbeyarletto.bsky.social
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Increasingly radicalized dissident from Northern New England. Yale Poli Sci, advanced cynicism. ☄️ 🌎<shrug

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 16m
South America and Europe are turning hard right.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 3h
What an impossibly stupid fucking country we live in.
uk.finance.yahoo.com
It’s Official: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Merge in Skydance Mega-Merger
Enter the Skydance Era. The $111 billion transaction closes after first agreeing to a deal back in February.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 13h
It's a familiar story: While the center-left abandoned local organizing for election-season PR, the right assembled full-spectrum power - local boards, talent pipelines, parallel civil society, think tanks and year-round media - as permanent civil infrastructure for their movement.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Brazil’s Problem Is Bigger Than Bolsonaro
Brazil is fertile ground for authoritarian politics, no matter who wins this election.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 18h
Things are getting real weird.
rawstory.com
Pardoned J6 rioter's 'Crusader March' explodes into chaos as Nazis crash his party
A small group of self-described Nazis attacked pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang as a "Jew" during his anti-Muslim march near Chicago, with at least one member repeatedly shouting "Heil Hitler."The con...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If this actually works, we should try simulating Social Democracy.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The last global plague pandemic lasted for 105 years, claimed millions of lives, and did not end until 1960.
nbcnews.com
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation
The female staffer at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died from a “pneumonia of undetermined” origin last week, according to a regional governor.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Watching TCM as a kid exposed me to some shit I was way too young to see. A few movies I remember that freaked me out are Brainstorm (1983), The Entity (1982), and Altered States (1980). The latter gave me nightmares for weeks. To this day, I refuse to rewatch it.
static.klipy.com
Altered States Trip Trippy Tripping
ALT: Altered States Trip Trippy Tripping
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Forests that are historically adapted to fire are now often being obliterated by the fast-moving, high temperature wildfires that are becoming increasingly more common with climate change.
edition.cnn.com
Wildfires across the US are changing forest landscapes – and the tipping point may be on the horizon | CNN
As Monica Turner trekked across the western hills of Yellowstone National Park, the cold rain was inescapable. Even the constant movement of putting one foot in front of the other as she fought throug...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's wild how susceptible Americans are to propaganda and disinformation.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m looking forward to the Supreme Court’s originalists discovering that the Founders were, in fact, deeply concerned about protecting every American’s constitutional right to 3D-print a firearm at home.
tomshardware.com
California bill requiring 3D printers to block firearm printing becomes law — existing machines are exempt, but mandate hinges on unwritten ASTM standard
Assuming a standard is published, that is.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When has this Supreme Court ever ruled against big polluters?
cbsnews.com
Supreme Court to weigh energy companies' bid to end Boulder climate-change lawsuit
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday over a bid by Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy to block a lawsuit filed by the city and county of Boulder over the effects of climate change.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A new MIT/UW study models how sycophantic chatbots can push users into “delusional spiraling.” Strikingly, even ideal Bayesian reasoners are vulnerable, and neither factual-only responses nor awareness of AI sycophancy fully prevents the effect.
arxiv.org
Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m looking forward to the Supreme Court’s originalists discovering that the Founders were, in fact, deeply concerned about protecting every American’s constitutional right to 3D-print a firearm at home.
tomshardware.com
California bill requiring 3D printers to block firearm printing becomes law — existing machines are exempt, but mandate hinges on unwritten ASTM standard
Assuming a standard is published, that is.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A new MIT/UW study models how sycophantic chatbots can push users into “delusional spiraling.” Strikingly, even ideal Bayesian reasoners are vulnerable, and neither factual-only responses nor awareness of AI sycophancy fully prevents the effect.
arxiv.org
Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm being schooled in science by very smart people on Facebook who tell me this is just the difference between summer and winter.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Let’s see if the so-called “liberal media” even bothers reporting on this the way they’d have run 24/7 news cycles if Obama had appointed a Black person holding a rifle and wearing a “Fuck Racism” shirt. If at all.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll never understand what makes people worship powerful men. I can only assume they find it easier to join a personality cult than to acquire a personality.
motherjones.com
Elon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company town
A studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks, Bill Clinton.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More from the strange and beautiful world of fungi.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
$10 Hegseth gets caught with a male prostitute some day.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More mushrooms from my local woods.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Border-wall contractors bulldozed a roughly 50-foot-wide corridor through the Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish-shaped Indigenous geoglyph in Arizona now dated to at least 6,500 years ago, making it older than Stonehenge.
nbcnews.com
Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seems like great footage for a Democratic campaign ad...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And still people blame the Left for everything between Heaven and Earth.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 2025, the world’s oceans absorbed a record 23 zettajoules of heat, nearly 40 times all the energy humanity used that year. Seas are rising faster, acidifying and devastating marine ecosystems. The oceans absorb 90% of the excess heat we trap. They are reaching their limits.
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧵 There's a whole lotta Nazi floating around in the Republican Party.
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme heat, according to a sobering new report. cnn.it/47sySSh
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lose the glaciers and we lose a major source of dry-season water. Irrigation fails, harvests shrink, livestock suffer and fisheries are disrupted as oceans warm. Food gets scarcer, prices surge and supply chains buckle. The result will be famine on a scale humanity has never faced.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lose the glaciers and we lose a major source of dry-season water. Irrigation fails, harvests shrink, livestock suffer and fisheries are disrupted as oceans warm. Food gets scarcer, prices surge and supply chains buckle. The result will be famine on a scale humanity has never faced.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Republic argues that Democrats’ most viable Supreme Court reform isn’t court expansion or term limits, but an enforceable ethics code. Unlike more sweeping proposals, ethics reform has striking bipartisan public support, including 91% of both Democrats and Republicans in a recent poll.
newrepublic.com
The Most Likely Avenue for Supreme Court Reform
Among the many ideas to change a wayward court, there is one that already has broad support—and is very likely to succeed.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fly Agaric in three stages of growth.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Jackson’s campaign manager is a Biden campaign veteran approved by Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), and brought in establishment consultants to help direct the campaign. According to Traister, they’ve essentially tried to muzzle Jackson."
currentaffairs.org
The Consultants Will Kill You
In Michigan and Maine, a tale of two campaigns.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
America spent half a century of Cold War fretting over the Communist threat, then two decades fretting over Islamist terrorism. Turns out we should have fretted over the Supreme Court instead.
reuters.com
Republican coordinated campaign spending surges after US Supreme Court ruling
Since the US Supreme Court in June sided with Republicans and struck down federal caps on spending by political parties in coordination with candidates, Republican committees have blown past the forme...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This thing just keeps getting worse. Why the fuck is this merger allowed to happen?
cbr.com
Paramount Reportedly Seeking Elon Musk Investment After Warner Bros. Merger
The world's lone trillionaire is being asked for an assist by Paramount.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 91%, opening land to mining and drilling. Now Mike Lee is pushing a maneuver that conservation groups warn could block future administrations from restoring similar protections. The mining claims have already begun.
outdoorlife.com
Mike Lee Moves to Block Any Future Restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, Conservation Groups Warn
Senator Mike Le
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More than half of America’s national wildlife refuges have no staff on site. Decades of underfunding, now compounded by Trump’s cuts, are hollowing out public-land agencies. Conservationists warn the goal is to break them, then sell off the land.
outdoorlife.com
Inside the Long and Deliberate Collapse of America's Public-Land Funding
For decades, federal public-land agencies have been underfunded and understaffed. The second Trump administration has exacerbated it.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More than half of America’s national wildlife refuges have no staff on site. Decades of underfunding, now compounded by Trump’s cuts, are hollowing out public-land agencies. Conservationists warn the goal is to break them, then sell off the land.
outdoorlife.com
Inside the Long and Deliberate Collapse of America's Public-Land Funding
For decades, federal public-land agencies have been underfunded and understaffed. The second Trump administration has exacerbated it.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 91%, opening land to mining and drilling. Now Mike Lee is pushing a maneuver that conservation groups warn could block future administrations from restoring similar protections. The mining claims have already begun.
outdoorlife.com
Mike Lee Moves to Block Any Future Restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, Conservation Groups Warn
Senator Mike Le
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love this time of year. Even though it darkens earlier, the forest is so lush with green moss and odd fungi popping up everywhere. So I went out and snapped some photos of #mushrooms and Fall today. 🧵 📷 🍄
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 23/09/2026
When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns… hartmannreport.com/p/rightwing-...
hartmannreport.com
Rightwing Billionaires Aren’t Just Buying CNN and CBS: They’re Seizing the Power to Shape Reality
When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The FBI was pursuing a bribery probe involving Susan Collins and Navatek, whose CEO said donations bought millions in federal contracts. The investigation died after Trump purged anti-corruption agents. Collins denies wrongdoing.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Organizers say establishment Democratic consultants are sidelining the grassroots that helped Jackson and Platner win nominations, cutting voter contact while cashing in on ads. Activists have formed People Powered Maine to keep organizing outside the party machine.
nymag.com
Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate
How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We're not a serious country.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even conservative Erick Erickson is sounding the alarm about the white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers gaining influence in churches, think tanks and JD Vance’s orbit. He names names and follows the money. Read this.
ewerickson.substack.com
charles-haywood-claremont-american-reformer-fuentes
Charles Haywood's money sits inside the Claremont Institute, American Reformer, and the Southern Baptist fight. Nick Fuentes is working the same end from outside.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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