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JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is the "force majeure" notice from Oracle a smokescreen for their fear that the AI bubble is bursting? "...[Oracle] is looking to delay payment on the campus, dubbed Project Jupiter..." Are "regulatory hurdles and local opposition" acts of God or foreseeable events? www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Oracle shares drop on report it sent 'force majeure' notice about data center project
Oracle is reportedly looking to delay payment on Project Jupiter if it the data center fails to come online in 2028
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Georgia has arrested women over pregnancy loss, one for putting miscarried remains in a dumpster, another on murder charges for taking abortion pills. Meanwhile, choosing not to vaccinate a child, a choice now tied to real child deaths, carries no legal consequence in Georgia at all.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/05/2026
I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/05/2026
WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A whooping cough outbreak in an elementary school down the road. Meanwhile I finally got around to reading Candle In the Dark and only a few pages in, you get to its eerily prescient passage. Sigh.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A GOP that- Rationalized murder. Fetishized violence. Killed with remorseless glee. Pardoned violent mobs. Threatened genocide. Which raises the question: have Democrats gone too far?
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National Foundation for American Policy @nfapresearch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A federal employee asked ICE to detain and deport a widow so he could gain the inheritance of her late husband’s house, per a probate judge. At 85 years old, the widow was not likely the “worst of the worst” ICE claims it targets. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Will Dispute Led ICE To Put 85-Year-Old Widow In Immigration Detention
Personal motive involving an inheritance led Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and detain an 85-year-old French widow.
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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What a week to be giving a lecture at Fort Ticonderoga on the Canadian campaign during the American Revolution, which was doomed by an outbreak of smallpox and mixed messaging on whether not soldiers should inoculate.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.
Leonard Gall (left) architect of the new ballroom, stands with Hitler and Albert Speer at the other major construction project in 1936, the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in MünchenThe new ballroom and reception hall attached to the Old Reich Chancellery, with the floor removed to reveal the Vorbunker. Illustration by Christoph Neubauer www.atelier-neubauer.de
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aidualc.bsky.social @aidualc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Who could have imagined the Church of England would speak out in support of the pope
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
The federal government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant. This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.
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Greg Fingas @gregfingas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“they want polluters to be able to cause broad public harm without consequences.” How has this type of subservience to the worst corporations not been turned into a slam dunk countermessage?
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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ll never understand these performances of institutional guilt at a time of unprecedented state assaults on free expression and academic freedom. Esp since the story of higher ed over the past decade is not a “woke” takeover of campuses but increasing rationales for and mechanisms of that assault.
Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher
Education's Problems
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia's role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.
April 15, 2026Updated 4:04 p.m. ET
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
1/ I was reading an investigative piece about Viktor Orban's party scrambling before Hungary's 2026 elections. Buried in it was something that stopped me cold. His team was panicking because social media companies had changed how they operate in the EU. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Buried in the chaos: the big ugly bill passed solely by Rs at Trump’s demand accelerates the crisis for Medicare and SS. Per CBOs updated projections, Medicare could be insolvent by 2040—10 yrs sooner—and SS by 2031. All this to give tax cuts to billionaires and leaving the rest of us struggling.
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February 26, 2026
It appears the State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History
The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.
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US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This indicates the FBI wanted to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on this woman’s account. She refused to cooperate. When Trump came up an FBI interview, her lawyer demurred, citing her “fear of retaliation”
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OPB @opb.org · 25/02/2026
In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.
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Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid.’
Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23/02/2026
Through her eyes: "I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
this is a really powerful piece.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Radiocarbon dating shows these prints date to the late Iron Age — moments in the lives of people who walked this landscape two millennia ago, a few centuries before the first reference to the Picts. #Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen! More to follow! www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/?...
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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach
Storms which recently ravaged Britain's coastline have revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on an Angus beach - one of only a handful of locations in the UK where markings of this kind have ever been di...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Refunds for corporations, but not you. finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent...
Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said any refunds from tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court would amount to “ultimate corporate welfare,” suggesting he sees no benefit flowing to American consumers.

“If there is a payout, it’s just going to be the ultimate corporate welfare,” Bessent said on Fox News Friday hours after the high court’s ruling — which left unanswered the question of what happens with money already collected.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/02/2026
A federal panel made up entirely of Trump appointees just greenlit his massive ballroom, reportedly larger than the White House itself. The panel received 2,000 public comments on the East Wing renovation. 99% were negative. They approved it anyway. Unanimously.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”
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aidualc.bsky.social @aidualc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
No medical intervention is risk-free. It’s senseless to fear a routine immunization while preventable diseases can result in invasive procedures, IV antibiotics, permanent brain damage. We need to be willing to ask hard questions about medical neglect of a child www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate
EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication f...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Cc: John Roberts
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
both parties are not the same
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What in the cotton-picking dystopia are we doing now?
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Trump claims to 'fix' housing? Meanwhile, families face climbing prices & can only afford a literal shed on wheels! He blames everyone but the profiteers he protects. #TrumpAffordabilityChaos
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/02/2026
FACT CHECK: Of the ~$170B+ in Ukraine assistance approved since 2022, an estimated 55–65% was spent in the U.S. — replacing older weapons, boosting domestic production, and funding U.S. defense contracts. Roughly 20–25% went as direct budget support to Ukraine. It was not just cash sent overseas.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. 

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The American empire, with typical extravagance, is trying to do both.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?
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JR Walt @jrwalt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Extraordinary piece by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social.
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shorttimer.bsky.social @shorttimer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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raventerp1.bsky.social @raventerp1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Herbert Hoover economics on steroids. Just what Putin wants Trump to do. fee.org/articles/the...
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The Catastrophic Results of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1929-30
What exactly was Smoot-Hawley? Its stated purpose sounds eerily similar to the goals that Trump has espoused. It was, said its title, “an Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign coun...
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.
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Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Everything Charlotte writes is worth reading, but please give your time to this. “The country needs to understand the career that Hegseth is so shamelessly slandering in his quest for political retribution.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Perp walk #venezuela
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