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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Disappointing day for the world’s richest man.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mayor Mamdani frantically fixing the subway tracks, struggling to look enthusiastic and keep a huge smile on his face, as the rush hour 3 train hurtles toward doom because Doc Ock has destroyed the track and brakes, while Spidey stands by looking useless.
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Spider Man2 Doc Ock
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Folks, looks like we’re setting up for a Cape Fear Season 2 - Even More Fear.
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Conan O'Brien Crying 'WHYYYYY'
ALT: Conan O'Brien Crying 'WHYYYYY'
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cue further insane incitement on XAi and (fingers crossed) massive margin calls.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This Wilson / Nolan dust up is gonna be like those battles the poet sang of long ago, in which Athena, daughter of Zeus, she of the bright eyes and dark mien, swoops down from Olympus to pluck a combatant from the field because he or she is dear to her and then, later on
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Scorcese: “ You know, in retrospect my original take on Cape Fear was too restrained. And didn’t go far enough in giving Max Cady a backstory. I’m gonna make another, but this one’s going to be 6 times as long and ten times crazier! No - let’s make it twenty times crazier for good measure!”
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’m starting to think that nobody’s going to come out of this Max Cady situation looking good.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hard to know where to even start with this one
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ace diplomacy from Mister President Businessman and his Yale Law School VP.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Guy who just lost a war thinks stalling the nomination of not even remotely qualified yes man with no clear support to a position of immense power somehow gives him leverage in gaining support for his effort to undermine the election, which has even less support. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Delays Nomination to Pressure Congress on Voting Bill
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
While we’re on the topic of the Odyssey, if Hollywood is determined to release Homeric epics featuring each member of the Ocean’s Eleven cast, I’m waiting for the Iliad featuring Elliot Gould as Achilles, Bert as Patrouklos and Grover as Hector.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One would think overseeing the 21st century’s biggest supply chain crisis in his first term might have taught the President something about global supply chains… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Get your own oil’: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war
Many countries in Europe have called the conflict illegal, with some blocking Israeli and US planes from moving weapons through their airspace
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Reckless doesn’t even begin to capture this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s advice
Exclusive: Trump’s decision will be driven by envoys’ judgment on whether Iran is stalling on a nuclear deal
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Unfortunately, as we’ve seen, far too many attorneys and compliance professionals view their roles this way, which has done so much in contributing to the erosion of the rule of law and our constitutional system of government in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’
ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year, enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives. Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agenda
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Oh. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Take the vaccine, please,’ Dr Oz urges amid rising measles cases in US
Health official’s endorsement comes as South Carolina faces hundreds of cases and US risks losing elimination status
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Converting the factory which makes your primary product into one that will make an imaginary product with no proven market is quite a strategy. stocks.apple.com/A6MkCkT7rT5O...
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Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X — TechCrunch
The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The problem with bending the knee to authoritarians is that once you do, they know nothing prevents you from doing so they next time they come calling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A development that was both expected and completely unnecessary. A consequence of the administration’s contempt for experience and any viewpoint that contradicts its destructive, poorly thought-out objectives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries
State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@theliamnissan.bsky.social > Liam Neeson
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Only one thing here looks weak and decaying, Mr President. And the photo says it all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The revolution may not be televised. But it will be led by frogs wielding subway sandwiches for those following on social media.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sandwich guy may have been acquitted of assaulting ICE, but it looks like he’s guilty of crashing Blue Sky.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is the surest sign yet that this company will soon be the Pets.com of the AI bubble era. finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
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OpenAI seeks US government backing to fund $1tn expansion
OpenAI has said it might need government backing to fund a trillion-dollar spending plan amid concerns that the AI boom is being funded by enormous levels of debt.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Exhibit A on “Why Acting Does (and Should) Not Translate to Having a Role In Politics” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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George Clooney says replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris ‘was a mistake’
Actor says Harris ‘was given a very tough task’ because ‘she had to run against her own record’, and extends an olive branch to Hunter Biden
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Vile. This is what our country has become under Trump, the Republican Party and their enablers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s immigration raids continue through Halloween in Chicago and Los Angeles
In Chicago suburb, protesters confronted ICE agents, whom Evanston mayor said ‘assaulted’ residents
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Best article I’ve seen on Trump’s destruction of the East Wing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Important story - the firms that capitulated in the early days of the administration set the tone and precedent of institutional collaboration that we are living under today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump?
It’s not inconceivable that, had the firms resisted the President’s executive orders, his momentum for lawlessness might have been curbed.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“Aren’t you a little short for a …clone trooper?” May we all find a reason and the strength for a New Hope this Halloween. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“C’mon guys, we really ought to forgive the Red Skull his youthful indiscretions and nominate him for higher office so we don’t alienate all his Hydra supporters and so he can bring his extraordinary Hydra charisma and ideology to the US Senate”
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a cartoon man is looking through binoculars .
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, & world’s richest man (who helped get the President elected & served as a key advisor) all regularly engage in behavior that would get them escorted from the building by HR of any employer, government agency or nonprofit. Let that sink in.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Bush 41 vomited on a Japanese diplomat and it was more dignified than that
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
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Fox News employees expressed concerns network was intentionally aiding Trump, legal filings reveal
Survey responses cited in $2.7bn defamation lawsuit filed against Fox by voting technology company Smartmatic
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Historically this has … not worked out well for those betting on Argentina.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Sounds totally routine. I try to have 4 routine medical checkups annually. Because my fantastic US private health plan includes this very standard benefit for all healthy people. To stay healthy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump to visit Walter Reed for ‘routine yearly checkup’, the second since April
Purpose of Friday checkup at US military medical center unclear for oldest man to be inaugurated president
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Barry White > Bari Weiss
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If someone’s spending all their time & energy trying their hardest to get you to hate folks that are different from you, instead of running the 37 different companies they’re supposed to be leading as CEO, a good rule of thumb is to ask why.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The world lost someone today who represented the best of humanity, while deepening our understanding of what that means, & of other creatures on our shared planet. A life well lived, pursuing meaning & her passion until the very end. RIP Dr Goodall & thank you. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
theguardian.com
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Would not be surprised at all if Putin’s recent incursions into NATO (including US) airspace, Hegseth’s summoning of the flag officers to Quantico, Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland and Zelinskyy’s warning of a potential Russian attack on another European country are linked. 1/
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Shame we never saw the same justice here in the US that France and Brazil achieved with their corrupt former leaders. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Sarkozy’s spectacular downfall marks turning point in France’s struggle against graft
Experts say political legacy of former president convicted of criminal conspiracy now appears impossible to rebuild
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Moral bankruptcy and abject cowardice.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Butch: “See you in Valhalla, brother” Sundance: “what the hell are you talking…” Butch: (winks, with a grin) Sundance: (looks at Butch quizzically. Then a broad smile spreads across his radiantly handsome face as they both burst out laughing) Fade to black. #RIPRobertRedford
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
All the universities, including my alma mater, that capitulated to Trump’s illegal attempts to extort them could have joined Harvard to stand together for the rule of law. Instead they cleared the way for further consolidation of authoritarianism in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
theguardian.com
Judge sides with Harvard and orders Trump to reverse billions in funding cuts – US politics live
Federal judge in Boston orders reversal of administration’s cuts to more than $2.6bn in funding research grants
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Can the President replace the existing Vice President with Stephen Miller by executive order?” JD Vance, August 29, 2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/08/2025
@ruthmarcus.bsky.social‬ reports on Pam Bondi, whose Justice Department has vigorously defended even the most extreme elements of Trump’s agenda, and demonstrated a willingness to exact revenge against the President’s political enemies.
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Pam Bondi’s Power Play
Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
When the next financial crisis hits, does anyone think Trump & Bessent have the expertise, authority or credibility to calm markets & coordinate a response? When the next pandemic spreads, does anybody believe RFK Jr has the runderstanding, experience or plan to stop the spread & develop vaccines?
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A shameful abandonment of Ukraine, European and US security and principles. Still, entirely predictable - Trump understands only his own self interest, not the interest of the US and our allies. What was Trump offered in Alaska to carry water for Putin? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump to back ceding of Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of peace deal
Details of post-summit call were leaked in which US president supports plan for Kyiv to give up Donbas region
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Democratic officials at all levels need to do whatever it takes to stop this. Once we go down this path, any chance of reviving elected democracy is lost until Trump, Vance & their enablers are removed from positions of power. Look at Russia, Turkey and Hungary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump says he’ll seek ‘longterm’ control of DC police and signals he’ll target other cities next
President’s comments come as White House takes credit for dozens of arrests as part of campaign to fight ‘crime crisis’ its leaders say doesn’t exist
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I think this guy has taken an average of 1 1/2 taxpayer funded vacations for each month he’s been in office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘We don’t want him’: Dance Against Vance in Cotswolds in protest at vice-president’s UK holiday
About 100 people turn up for ‘not welcome’ party in town of Charlbury
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Thank you @theguardian.com - at least one major news outlet is highlighting this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored
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