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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 21h
The nation’s largest food distributor, Sysco, is buying Restaurant Depot—a deal that could drive up costs for restaurant owners and, ultimately, consumers. I’m calling on the FTC and DOJ to put a pause on this merger and protect independent restaurant owners and the communities they serve.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19h
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 23h
There is nobody else in sports I can think of that goes from a standard rotation player to one of the best to ever do it in the post season the way we see with Kike Hernandez. Unreal #Dodgers
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#politics #money #oligarchs #California '...the top 99 individual and corporate political donors in California spent more on campaigns and lobbying from 2005 to 2024 than did the bottom 99.9% of the state’s residents, businesses and organizations combined.' capitalandmain.com/new-oligarch...
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New ‘Oligarch Index’ Tracks California’s Biggest Political Spenders
Over two decades, the top 99 individuals and business organizations spent more on campaigns and lobbying than the bottom 99.9%.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reminder that Peter Thiel hates you and probably wants you to die
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 03/10/2026
A Russian Mi-2 helicopter was spotted being transported on the roof of a pickup truck in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Something went wrong. #Russia
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.
theverge.com
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I keep telling everyone that Thiel is the most dangerous and most out of his mind of any of these evil tech billionaires. He needs to be stopped. Period.
codastory.com
Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story
His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
arstechnica.com
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 16/09/2026
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community… Nurses are advocates first. We’re trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that’s what we’re doing.” @nationalnurses.bsky.social
therealnews.com
'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Monday, so a deeply compromised Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to enable Trump fraud www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Elon Musk's lawyer is running for Congress. He's also a lobbyist for military tech and data center energy companies. One client was Viktor Orban's U.S.-based nonprofit. And he helped draw the district he's running in! His Dem opponent thinks she has a shot in a seat that went 60% for Trump in 2024.
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Elon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American Prospect
Chris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Guys, I think maybe we've gone a bit overboard with all the capitalism stuff...
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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Perspective: The National School Lunch Program feeds 30M kids a day at a cost of ~$16B per year. We just spent an extra $100B on energy for no reason. Think about the choices America is making right now. www.axios.com/2026/09/07/i...
axios.com
Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers
The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Absolutely terrifying.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026
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politico.com
Crypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s son
Chris Larsen, John Griffin and Mark Ein are angel investors in a new financial exchange led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s 22-year-old son.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bring back the corporate death penalty www.salon.com/2026/08/19/b... #corruption #law #Blues
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Bring back the corporate death penalty
We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hegseth is clearly in neck deep shit with the budgets. All of the unprogrammed activity...sweet baby cheeses, it must be stunningly bad. Just setting fire to dollars everywhere - Middle East, Venezuela, Maritime Murder Spree, the Occupation of DC, the LA campaign...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
wired.com
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In some ways I am happy we have mass surveillance because watching this guy is funny as fuck www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnM4...
youtube.com
Serial ‘butt sniffer’ arrested again in San Fernando Valley
YouTube video by ABC7
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
sfchronicle.com
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is the most slop-tastic president in the history of presidents. Imagine posting this while US bases are under attack as if this is some sort of video game and not real life, with real humans getting hurt, and real consequences.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There's a large wave of bot accounts that have just begun pushing bullshit in favor of billionaires and AI and it's creeping me tf out. Someone was arguing w/ me about why data centers aren't bad and...of course this is their pinned post at the top of their feed:
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026
www.tumblr.com/brucesterlin...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ecuadorean fishermen say drones attacked them in the Pacific — English-speaking men in US-flag uniforms, no insignia. 8 missing, several injured. Flight data shows a patrol plane shifting course to stay pointed at all 3 boats. It's on no Pentagon roll, registered to a UPS store mailbox in Virginia.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm going to burn this whole thing down I swear to god I can only handle so much of this. Just what we need to boost mid-term results - tax cuts for capital gains! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump Weighs Call for Capital Gains Tax Cuts as Midterm Boost
President Donald Trump is looking for new policy pledges he can present to voters ahead of the midterm election, according to a top economic aide and a former administration official, including potent...
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Chuck Schumers's daughter is Amazons longest serving lobbyist...she is handling the bill Zohran is putting up to make contractors be given employment. It's a big club and you and I are not in it.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fuck these people. We tax them heavily or we are going right back to the world we read about in Oliver Twist; extreme poverty for the vast majority and a handful of men controlling everything. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Sergey Brin Crosses $100 Million in Spending to Fight Wealth Tax
Billionaire Sergey Brin has now poured over $100 million into his fight to stop a wealth tax in California.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is widespread and completely unsustainable for maintaining a coherent society that can agree on reality.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the onion ass headline
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Israeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concerns
LONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...
acteff.org
Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint
Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social I think you're going to love this one. You will truly never, ever be happy again.
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Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The number of bots on this site is too damn high
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Too Damn High Jimmy Mc Millan
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