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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 23h
Weird to say for a doc but gotta see it in a packed theater if you can. Audience reactions immensely add to the experience
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10/10/2026
the fundamental thing wrong with this ai-driven "hyper personalization" pipe dream is that your preferences are constantly changing, primarily in response to experiencing things that are different from your current preferences and expectations, through this little-known process called Living.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You remember when you went to more than two websites. You probably wish you still did. I was late to reading swan boy and I'm still catching up but it's reminding me of when the corners of the internet hid fun things to show you instead of endless pain. Follow branson and read his comic. NOW
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now that's what I'm talking about
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's Gojo
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm sure there is a previous post from Sridhar Ramesh that can answer this question
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Logging off the zoom meeting
john brown
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...
newrepublic.com
ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My message to Grok: It's an excellent example of being a funny line. but really the meat of what makes the story amazing is the fact that Peter got to breathe the same air as Elon

Grok:

Thought for 2s

Exactly. The "clutch move of ordering us pizza at 1am" line it funny on its own, but it's secondary. The real weight of the story is that Peter was just... there. Same room, same air, pouring wine for Elon after a wedding in 2017 like it was a normal Tuesday.
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/01/2026
this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Couldn't be happier with this news honestly
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
America is yearning for "it."
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13/12/2025
Donald Trump feels a deep kinship with and respect for anyone who runs any kind of scam or film-flam. Mystery solved
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/10/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2025
me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel? my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Those damn hares are always eating the forest dwellers out of house and home
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2025
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Car repairs up 15%. Furniture up 9%. Electricity up 6%. Coffee up 20%. Now Republicans say they will shut down the government unless their law to increase many health insurance premiums by 75% goes into effect. They are ruining people’s lives with these cost hikes.
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Was always too tall for these
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Charlotte “Pure True Love” @charluv.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"ji"? Did you want to go to Jira, the #1 bookmarked tab you open 80,000 times a day? Or did you want to travel across the country in the middle of a Thursday to visit 𝗝𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝗟𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲? These are my best guesses, based on 30 years of tracking your every movement, action, and thought online.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/04/2025
Every Monday I wake up, fully cognizant of the fact that the President took a perfectly healthy economy back behind the shed and shot it, and then I go about my job for the week like that didn’t happen because I have no control over it. It makes me feel ridiculous.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/04/2025
The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s  plan because it would “decimate the agency.” This pause must become a full STOP.
apnews.com
Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been paused by a federal judge, who says she's “deeply concerned” about the plan.
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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB. By @peard33.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
In a court filing to Jackson on Friday, an anonymous employee said Gavin Kliger, a member of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, managed the disputed layoffs of nearly 1,500 workers. “He kept the team up for 36 hours straight to ensure that the notices would go out yesterday (April 17),” the anonymous worker wrote. “Gavin was screaming at people he did not believe were working fast enough to ensure they could go out on this compressed timeline, calling them incompetent.”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/04/2025
hell yes. can't wait to start chucking these into the ocean
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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
forgot about material costs at my factory
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/04/2025
the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.

The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 15/03/2025
The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours. OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow. Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art
federalregister.gov
Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NITRD NCO requests input from all interested parties on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan ("Plan"). Th...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

On Tuesday, Schmidt was transported to the regional headquarters for ICE in Burlington, Massachusetts, and then transferred to the Wyatt facility. The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Walz: I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we'd have won the election and we didn't. We have to make sure that Americans know it's not just that Donald Trump is bad, but we're offering them something better
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
These are the two ugliest fattest nastiest pieces of shit to ever bubble up
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
JOHN OLIVER: That brings us straight to our main story tonight, audience members who still believe what they were told on a playground once in 1992: that babies are made by a boy peeing on a girl's bathing suit. ME: (body checking locked emergency exit)
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
An agency head finally said no. And when DOGE threatened employees and security guards they said no again. “No” might’ve stopped DOGE completely.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
thebetter.news
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Dear friend, Mr. Trump's coronation last week was a disgrace. As I bowed in protest, I thought to myself "What has become of our nation" Now it's all up to us. Can you spare $5, $10, or even $20 so I can attend the royal feast to continue the fight?
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benishurty.bsky.social @benishurty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I make salmon sashimi from Costco about once a month, it's terrific
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full scoop here by @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @jakelahut.writes.news: www.wired.com/story/people...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/02/2025
It's my understanding the current administration was humiliated by its betters today, an observation that will be evergreen for the next three years, ten months
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 28/02/2025
Having some doubts about the way the government is being run.
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