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Chüy Caballo

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
one more reason to keep impeachment of Blanche on the table
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h
Text from Senator Murphy that reads: Just landed in Florida to campaign today for Angie Nixon and David Jolly. And I’m donating and raising $100,000 into the voter turnout operation here.

Don’t sleep on Florida!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12h
Another way to say this is that the internet is basic infrastructure and should not be subject to the whims of unstable private actors.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12h
Elon's apparent cutting off of Ukraine's Starlink access underscores the dangers of the U.S. contracting with an unstable Nazi. There is no way a deranged civilian (or any civilian) should have that much power over an ostensible American partner.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Update: There is a rapidly emerging fire weather threat in parts of SoCal Thu-Fri in places that have not seen significant recent precip (esp. western LA metro). A warm Santa Ana event will bring strong, gusty winds even to lower elevs, but vegetation moisture highly variable.
Fire weather risk map from NWS Los Angeles depicting high (level 3 of 4) risk specifically across western LA metro on Thursday.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Greg Abbott has backed off data centers, but sticks by his equally unpopular policy of funneling money out of public schools to unregulated "alternatives." Why risk re-election over this? I dig into who is funding Abbott: Billionaires who want theocracy. www.salon.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Who really controls Greg Abbott?
The Texas governor’s war on public schools is bankrolled by donors who want a Christian state
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Make no mistake—the weaponizing of federal law enforcement to go after elected officials who the President deems as “political opponents” is a chilling and dangerous abuse of power that must be stopped. We stand in solidarity with Rep. Omar and the Somali American community, and Rep. McIver.
Today Trump’s Department of Homeland Security raided U.S. Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s house in a gross abuse of power. This comes as DHS and DOJ have abused and weaponized their power to pursue Congresswoman Rep. LaMonica McIver for doing her job this last year. 

Make no mistake—the weaponizing of federal law enforcement to go after elected officials who the President deems as “political opponents” is a chilling and dangerous abuse of power that must be stopped. 

We stand in solidarity with Rep. Omar and the entire Somali American community which has been under attack by this President time and time again, and with Rep. McIver who is still fighting this abuse of power in the courts. 

We will not stay silent.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the age of AI/super intelligence and the gringo computers can't spell El Niño with the little snake on the N.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I truly cannot think of a reason to live stream an execution other than continued normalization of the government killing people such that they don’t have to bother hiding their violence anymore
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anyway, the proposed televised execution by firing squad made me think of displays of power and this memory surfaced.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But I can't get over the visual of the actual Train occupying the freeway. It was definitely meant to intimidate and create disruption for others trying to use public infrastructure. And the stark contrast of people who look like your neighbors vs. the aggressive freeway displays.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On surface streets, participants were also driving around: I noticed them in San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles. Up close, it's your average American family. People had their children, pets, friends. It had the elements of being a civil demonstration within its discrete elements.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To put a finer point: They effectively took over US-101 for the length of the train. You'd basically have to wait for them to pass. And it didn't seem to end; I recalled feeling a sinking feeling in my stomach: 1. He's gonna win again, and 2. There is stark visual vernacular to January 6.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Individual vehicles were driving in a close, tight formation; we're talking maybe 1-car distance as opposed to the safer 3-car distance.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As we headed south on US-101, the train was going north through San Luis Obispo. Both northbound lanes were fully occupied by trucks, cars, vans, RVs each with massive Trump flags, US flags, and others MAGA banners. And it didn't seem to end as we kept driving south.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
About two years ago and some change, I remember getting caught up in a "Trump Train" in San Luis Obispo County when I was out on errands with my mom. It was a massive display of power.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vote Yes on 40; No on 41, 42, and 43!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...
Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We were just discussing this in my grad-level Media, Technology & Democracy class yesterday.
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New Report Says WNBA Trans Debate Is Being Pushed Online For Profit: 'The Point Is to Sow Division'
The trans athlete fight feels inescapable online. Data startup GUDEA says the data shows a different story
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While main risk will be inland flash flooding due to very heavy rain across desert/mountain areas, there could also be some notable rain/wind/coastal flood impacts along SD/Orange County coastlines. Accordingly, I'm now writing a short-fused Weather West post on shaky hotel wifi.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The NOAA National Hurricane Center has just issued a Tropical Storm Watch part coastal Southern California, including city/county of San Diego. This is only second time such a product has ever been issued for any part of California (TS Hilary in 2023 was other instance). #CAwx
Official graphic from NOAA NHC showing projected path of TS Rachel, including Tropical Storm Watches that have been issued for northern Baja, CA, MX and southern California, CA, USA.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.
Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Would sure be nice to see more candidates explicitly running against this. Elon spending money for your opponent is a GIFT, Democrats. Voters hate this shit. They hate this guy specifically. Break out the big bats and go after it!
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There are people out here who are like, "You gotta just hear what they have to say. They could be right about some of the worse-case AI scenarios." And I'm going to tell you they have expended ALL their social capital.
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Chüy Caballo @anthroslug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The combined populations of the Los Angeles and San Diego metro areas is about 16.3 million people, a little less than half the entire state pop. of California, and greater than 46 individual states, surpassed only by Florida, New York, Texas, and California.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
watch this and the billionaire tax it is designed to negate pass at the same time what a stupid people we are
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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