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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h

Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 10h

A Trump White House energy adviser helped override state law and court orders to restart an old and dormant pipeline on the Central Coast responsible for one of the state’s worst oil spills. Now she’s a top executive for the company that owns the pipeline.

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Senate Democrats probe former Trump official’s connections to oil company

Democratic lawmakers are seeking information on former White House official Brittany Kelm's work with a California oil company.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 11h

“most significant threat to national security” In 2026 I would add “most significant threat *after* the corrupt, pay-to-play, conspiracy theorist-filled, anti-expertise, raving lunatic-filled wacko asylum that is the Trump administration”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 12h

Yep, Satya must have missed a payment or failed to show up to dance in one of Trump’s parades of corrupt tech billionaires

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h

Pay to play, baby...

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 12h

“Making cuts to mandatory spending - you’re gonna have to do it. Or there is no solution. We have to suck it up.” Republicans since Reagan slash taxes for the rich and pile wars on top. Notice how they never take responsibility and never consider revenue to keep these essential programs afloat

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah these Trump mf’ers are also the ones who intentionally disassembled US counterintelligence capability and harass US academic researchers. They famously love Russian election interference

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 22h

I remember long ago being excited about “smart” home tech. Now I just want dumb tech. Just do what I bought you to do and no more. Stop with the bells and whistles surveillance and data extraction. I want un-enshittification as a service. Put that in your marketing brochure

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/10/2026

If they try to revive this scam and cut a single check, we'll move to tax the full amount of every payout so not one dollar of your money ends up rewarding people who attacked our democracy.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/10/2026

Every single one of these claims better be shut down. Todd Blanche promised Congress the January 6 slush fund was dead. January 6 defendants are suing taxpayers for payouts anyway.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another unsafe scam for more universal surveillance and mental manipulation for oligarch control.

Muse as Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. the latest example of Trump advisers profiting from far-right politicians abroad who have sought favor from the U.S. president ..” @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t even think about calling it a catwalk

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing am not sure about - when US president jokes about letting foreign adversaries nuke America’s cities do Republicans still chant “USA USA USA” or nah

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they should invent a US president who doesn't hate the US

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hopefully our intelligence and law enforcement communities aren’t too busy writing Antifa fanfic to notice if something’s being planned

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But it’s Ben Shapiro at the helm so… obviously.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I saw the video of the vehicle that is supposed to represent Renee Good’s car? I don’t like the sense that these people are trying to plant false cultural memories by changing material facts of this ICE murder. They are hiding their deceitful propaganda behind a creative license

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Accents are a whole different thing yeah. I wish they had Scottish accents because that’s cool but then I’d need a translator

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do. Not like that means anything though. I also have Claude and ChatGPT speak in male voices.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sidebar: I am so grateful we have people who love science as much as Julio but going forward people pls put your detached retinas before the email readings omg

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I often think about how the rise of the neo-fascist right corresponds to the declining numbers of WW2 vets around to slug them right in the face.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only Texans can mess with Texas and they just might do

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/10/2026

With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

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These Extremists Are Running for Election in November

With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like for all of the fvcking morons to start having a bit more humility. But I suppose now that we elected the biggest American idiot of all time as POTUS, all of the lesser morons think they should do it.

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Safety is a setting. These companies test it, price it, and decide where to set the dial. When a safer product is less engaging or threatens advertising revenue, safety loses.”

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“When Meta announced in January 2025 that it would stop proactively enforcing rules against violence and incitement, hateful conduct, and bullying, we measured what happened next: abusive comments tripled.”

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benfranklinsaid.bsky.social @benfranklinsaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Big Tech companies often tell us that algorithms simply respond to what users want, but CCDH’s research tells a different story. The shaping starts before you’ve knowingly shown the algorithm anything.” counterhate.com/blog/ccdh-fi...

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CCDH Files Amicus Brief, Claiming Social Media Could Have Radicalized the Buffalo Shooter — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

New York’s highest court will decide whether algorithm design can be put on trial. CCDH is getting involved.

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