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Alan

@alanollie.bsky.social
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Liberal. Oregon born, still in the Portland metro. I don't post much - repost often. As long as the journalists are here so am I. - And yes, it will get dumber.

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Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team · 5h
Atmosphere update: atproto apps are growing 20% month over month, and last week we passed 1,000 daily active apps.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Lance Bottoms: “The price of caskets has gone up. Donald Trump is wreaking havoc for the living and the dead.”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1h
Imagine if, four years after invading Iraq, we controlled only 20% of it and had suffered 1.3 million casualties. Would anyone call that “winning”? Of course not. But when it’s Russia, we’re supposed to believe Putin holds all the cards.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 6h
Leaked audio of Mike Rogers calling on Republicans to use off-duty police officers to intimidate voters in Detroit in an attempt to manipulate the Michigan Senate race:
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 7h
Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
Hundreds arrested during huge protests across France. Limoges city hall is on fire.
bbc.co.uk
Protesters clash with police in Paris and across France during major day of demonstrations - follow live
Police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in the capital, where a large-scale demonstration is under way against falling education standards and the cost of living.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 6h
Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h
"The US conservative movement is engaged in a nationwide effort to reverse child-labor laws and reinstitute child labor" sounds like a crazy leftie conspiracy theory, but ... yeah. It's real.
nybooks.com
The Return of Child Labor | Alice Driver
For years I have been haunted by a grainy video I saw in 2023, when I was interviewing poultry processing workers in Green Forest, Arkansas. In those
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h
One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.
wired.com
Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h
Seems bad that some of the richest people in the world who control the platforms on which the public communicates with itself take this unhinged totalitarian freak seriously as an intellectual.
Curtis Yarvin & @curtis_yarvin
X.com
Even a radical program like "remigration" is fake and gay.
Without power it is a larp that our enemies use to scare old women. With power it is obvious, trivial, not even worth mentioning. Asking teacher if you can go to the bathroom. Explaining that you'll wipe your ass
Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 22h
Fix is for these politicians to wake up in the morning, take a deep breath, screw on their balls/ovaries tightly, and ask the public for a mandate to RULE— not "govern" for some "policy" or "issue."
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3:06 PM • 10/16/26 • 63K ViewsCurtis Yarvin & @curtis_yarvin
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Fix is for these politicians to wake up in the morning, take a deep breath, screw on their balls/ovaries tightly, and ask the public for a mandate to RULE—not "govern" for some
"policy" or "issue.
Any "agenda," "platform," "program," is stale boomershit. Only power is real
Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 22h
The record of ALL Eurocon populists is that when they win, they turn out to be in it just for the winning. They are content to go on TV, hand out sinecures to a few supporters and pretend to be in charge....
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You know RN plans to do a referendum to change the Constitution as soon as Le Pen is elected, right?
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So, like, exactly the thing you're suggesting and saying they won't do?
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Change it to what Imao?
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Surely you can't be ignorant of the fact that France never had a "Constitution" and went to shit as soon as it got one
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20h
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
nbcnews.com
Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias
A judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16h
Milk so aged it could itself be a weapon. '94 President Clinton praises Ukraine’s courageous decision to surrender its nuclear arsenal, pledging full US support for its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. He also considers it unlikely that russia would ever attempt to seize Crimea.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10h
Across the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care deserts” will only grow. newrepublic.com/article/2166...
newrepublic.com
The Increasingly Long Drive to Give Birth in Rural America
Across the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care dese...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Lacks imagination, you gotta sprinkle Obama on that shit to get the MAGA chuds really going
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19h
(Ralph Wiggum voice) I’m a class traitor!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h
golly gee, who could have predicted this? www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-vot...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/
Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil...
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ReutersMark Zuckerberg, Found...
Meta
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
New — Mike Huckabee's family company is offering $5800+ trips to Israel, so tourists can meet "top Israeli officials," even while he is the Ambassador to Israel. Plus: he promised his Huck PAC would go "dormant" if he became ambassador. That didn't happen. Over the past 2 years, it's raised $4.5M.
zeteo.com
‘The Israel Experience with Mike Huckabee’: The Ambassador’s Family Sells Trips to Israel
Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22h
Anthropic published a report on how AI has changed employment at the company. The share of junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%. Like everyone else in tech. Employees are more productive and no one has the time to review the output from Claude. Also like everyone else. The new normal.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying a waiver is in the US national interest.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Earlier in my career, I spent a lot of time using the latest methods to improve an imputation or forecast, only to run a race between the improved method and the simple model it replaced and find that a simple model is actually pretty hard to beat. What are others' experiences here?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
ICE “tried to share voter data with Palantir, the data analytics and software giant co-founded by…Peter Thiel, according to internal government documents reviewed by Democracy Docket” 10/7/26
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ICE tried to share voter data with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, new documents show
The documents said the company was preparing to enter the data into a highly controversial surveillance tool it developed for ICE.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
CBS News reports that former US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George warned in December 2025 that critical Patriot and THAAD missile defence shortages would persist until 2030. Trumpseth kicked him out in April during the Iran war. If no one’s saying it, it doesn’t exist.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
lol
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social
wired.com
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/10/2026
so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Katie Zacharia Reassigned to Previous Role of Posting Racist Conspiracy Theories on Social Media
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
💥NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! TONS of NEWS DOJ & FBI emails I obtained reveal how federal investigators probed allegations in 2022 that President Donald Trump tore up presidential records & why a prosecutor declined to pursue a separate criminal investigation www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
An email from NARA's OIG to DOJ's public integrity prosecutor in 2022. 

I just wanted to close the loop on our end with this. My office completed a preliminary inquiry into the matter of the torn records from the Trump Administration and found that:
1. In June 2018, NARA warned the Trump Administration that the practice of tearing records was not permissible. The Trump Administration provided assurances that it would stop. In approximately March or April 2021, NARA determined that the practice had continued through the end of the administration.
2. From the very limited number of Trump Administration records reviewed by NARA pursuant to special access requests, only a very small quantity were torn.
3. Both classified (secret and top secret) and unclassified records were torn (including two partially torn records found in the 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago).
4. The nature of the tears varied from partial, halves, quarters, and smaller pieces. However, no records were torn in a way that they were not able to be realigned and put back together.
5. Some torn records were taped back together, while others were placed in their multiple pieces and intermingled in accordion folders.
6 pra practice did not seem to follow a rhyme or reason, and did not appear to be a discriminant
7. There is no way for NARA to know who exactly tore the records, but it is implied by how the records were labeled and some records were attributed to President Trump, and recently one box containing torn records was attributed to Matthew Sheehan, former Deputy Counsel to Vice President Mike Pence.
8. As a side note, classified records were found intermingled with the unclassified records and isolated as necessary for proper handling.
Please let me know if given this additional information, this is a matter that PIN is interested in.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The US is seeking to release up to 17 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help curb fuel prices driven up by the war on Iran, Reuters reports. NB: the US uses 20 million barrels a day The strategic reserve only has 283 million barrels left, the lowest level since 1982
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 16/10/2026
⚡️ "Even when Bill Clinton was president, Putin was waging war against Chechens... That war taught Putin a lesson: if he uses oil and gas to tempt the world, many politicians will look the other way," President Zelenskyy stated, highlighting a long-standing Russian tactic.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 16/10/2026
‼️ Ukraine has run out of missiles for Patriot air defence systems – WP
pravda.com.ua
Ukraine has run out of missiles for Patriot air defence systems – WP
Ukrainian officials tell The Washington Post that supplies of Patriot interceptors have dwindled amid intensified Russian strikes. Irregular deliveries and global demand for air defence missiles are a...
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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The global far right are all Russian assets, bought and paid for. Whether they are traitors or mere unwitting useful idiots is an academic question at this point.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW: Yeah, not good
wired.com
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/10/2026
Richard Branson

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Founder at Virgin Group

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I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly nothing is what it used to be. 

The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?

How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering? 

The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily. How much worse can it get? 

If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for. All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus. 

Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes.
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Alan @alanollie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Alan @alanollie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
So the Tesla Roadster presentation was a fun joke right? RIGHT??
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Alan @alanollie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Well, today was a painfully awful day 😑
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
James Talarico raised $64 million (?!) in the third quarter of his Senate campaign. More than any Senate candidate has ever raised in the third quarter, per his campaign. 97% of donations were $100 or less, with teachers being the most common profession of donors. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
huffpost.com
James Talarico Campaign Raises Record-Breaking $64 Million In Third Quarter
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. Core Final Demand #PPI pierces 5% a level never seen in its history outside of the immediate post-pandemic period. New inflation paradigm? We think so.”
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Alan @alanollie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The norms failed us in spectacular fashion. Using them as a foundation for the future is idiocy. A non starter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026
will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/10/2026
Russian media - watch this.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I watched Florida taken apart by corrupt rightwing governors who destroyed so much. Oregon might not be perfect, but it has a functional government that has preserved many human rights other states have lost. Please don't take that for granted-- reelect Kotek as governor. Hold fast.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Every morning, Putin must wake up and wonder what he did to be so goddamned lucky. “The plan was pitched by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. But it startled European capitals and Kyiv, raising questions about the US’s intentions.” ⤵️
US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart
Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump's negotiators during meeting in
Miami
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/10/2026
aaand there it is: if he merges he gets more control and it fast-tracks his trillion dollar pay package capital markets are just a machine that hands wealth to Elon Musk regardless of literally anything else now I guess www.wsj.com/business/see...
wsj.com
See How a Tesla-SpaceX Merger Gives Musk a Shortcut to His $1 Trillion Payday
A critical clause in the CEO’s Tesla stock award would wipe away lofty performance targets if a merger happened.
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