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Wisconsinite Aging Millennial Sports Humor Decent Human I will repost a bit because I respect the original poster and want to give them credit. Also, some of their words are just better than mine I appreciate you guys taking a moment to read this...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
This whole opinion is terrific. Also, *a year and a half* after a series of government officials made false statements about a federal employee to justify cutting funding off to a blue state. They also hoped to put this employee in fear, using amplifiers like Benny Johnson and Laura Loomer.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h
Okay, Katie Zacharia's claim to have passed the bar in China appears to be collapsing very fast. The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (paywall) just published this. www.scmp.com/news/us/poli...
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 2h
I assume none of these people are last named Smith or anything ending in ski?
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3 card monty with the US economy and consumers as the mark.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!
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Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 10h
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
🚨 NEWS: Trump is backing out of a scheduled deposition with BBC lawyers THIS FRIDAY, citing “matters of national importance” after weeks of radio silence. His team now wants to delay his testimony until JANUARY 2027—after discovery closes—and the BBC is asking a judge to FORCE him to testify.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h
Scoop: I obtained audio of an explosive meeting in which Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor unleashed in a tirade against her journalists, in which she defended her decisions and warned that "insubordination" is "legal grounds for firing." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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CBS’ Foreign Explosion
Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio obtained by Status.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 4h
BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."
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Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?
There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 4h
ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release www.courthousenews.com/aclu-sues-ic...
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ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release
One of the seven named plaintiffs, an immigrant from Russia, had his work authorization documents and his wedding band seized by ICE and has been unable to retrieve them after five months.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h
most economically-viable AI company
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h
Trump earlier this year: Kimberly Guilfoyle has been my friend for a long time. I love calling her Kimberlay. That’s my little pet name, right? I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends. Trump today: She was not a member of my family. I guess she dated my son a long time ago.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4h
GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h
Crazy on again off again scheduling of the appeal of 2 media parties seeking permission to intervene in this case, where, as of now, both DOJ & Trump/his former codefendants are arguing Vol 2 of Jack Smith’s report shouldn’t be released. More detail here: joycevance.substack.com/p/pat-robert...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 4h
JUST IN: DOJ has NOT been sharing evidence with Minnesota in the ICE shootings of Good, Pretti, and Sosa-Celis since the July 13 presser where local prosecutor Mary Moriarty announced an evidence-sharing agreement with the USAO, a state official now says: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Declaration of Drew Evans – #25, Att. #1 in STATE OF MINNESOTA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01007) – CourtListener.com
Memorandum in opposition to re 23 MOTION to Dismiss filed by DREW EVANS, MARY F. MORIARTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Drew Evans, # 2 Exhibit Index and Exhibits 1-4 to Evans ...
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 3h
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Why Did DOGE Exist? Now We Know.
Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending. They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves.
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 7h
I was once told by a very very smart guy that if you imagine the Republican party and it's supporters as a group of people who believe they are the only ones who work and pay every single tax dollar, their attitude will make more sense... They think it's THEIR MONEY already.
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Mr. International @rogerresists.bsky.social · 8h
Delek is owned by Israel.
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Data Center ~= a factory? New math is stupidererererererer
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 14h
Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵
Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 8h
Unreal
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 8h
Then why are you resigning? Kim? Because a better offer came up? A promo? No? Then shut up and go away please.
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Halloween Express best seller?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10h
This can happen here. This WILL happen here.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 9h
We're not sending our best and whatnot.
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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 9h
QAnon Nutjob "Katie The Liar" Bombs First Briefing 1-"One of the worst press briefings of all time" aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-a-dis... 2- More lies: There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law open.substack.com/pub/populari... thx @lincolnproject.us
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 9h
Greece may need someone to fill in???
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 9h
UPDATE: Trump was asked what state Zacharia passed the bar exam. Trump deferred to Zacharia to answer. Zacharia said, "When I moved to China." Which makes absolutely no sense. She appears to waive away follow up questions. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10h
What words can really capture the scale of the lying we've experienced these past two years? Orwellian? Authoritarian? It's staggering.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
As seen on @lastweektonight.com 👀 The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so we did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations: projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica website screenshot shows a tool titled "Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made" and prompts the user to "Begin Your Search." Below John Oliver is a box highlighting the URL projects dot propublica dot org slash rx dash inspector.
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 9h
They literally sent her half way around the world to give her a gift job and shut her up. She still failed at both. What a stupid person
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 9h
If they cut an ad to respond to this garbage, maybe Crowley could have a chance to build momentum. But Tiff and Co and their Uihlein/Hendricks money are playing it on a loop on every screen in Wisconsin...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h
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Head of lettuce challenge
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Ruhle: "Wow. I want to just read this to you. A quote from a White House official reaction to Zacharia's first press briefing. 'Getting behind the podium is tough, but she got off on the wrong foot. She needs to get much better fast, otherwise she'll break Scaramucci's record.'"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
“.. The administration has argued it is instead more like presidential advisory groups, which are able to keep more information private.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
Again, imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Ossoff: "Frankly, I'm surprised Georgia Republicans want the president here. Donald Trump is deeply unpopular in Georgia because he's a failed president who lied the country into war, who has driven the cost of groceries, fuel, and healthcare to their all time highs."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
Memory costs starting to bite: * Gartner's prelim 3Q worldwide PC shipments down -22.4% YoY to 55.4mn units, citing the impact of higher memory/storage costs .. * Smartphone unit sales tumbled 20% Y/Y in Q3 due to component shortages and price hikes .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Global smartphone shipments record worst third quarter in 14 years amid memory shortage
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% on-year to their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory chip costs and supply shortages pressured manufacturers ​and pushed up prices, preliminar...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10h
Your corruption has to be off the charts to get asked to leave by the most corrupt president in US history.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11h
After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.
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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.
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Ben @ben-223.bsky.social · 10h
*Citizens United* *Racism* *Greed*
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13h
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 10h
The government gave notice late Friday afternoon before the holiday weekend, roughly twelve hours before cutting began. Judge Ana Reyes had repeatedly demanded meaningful notice before irreversible work. Officials proceeded with a speed that deprived those demands of their purpose.
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