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Leibz

@benleibz.bsky.social
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Elon Musk is a clown shoe so I’m here now. Red Sox | Suns | Bills fan; Pokemon nerd; Pessimistic Progressive; He/Him

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
If this woman has ever expressed an opinion that wasn’t both extremely stupid and extremely evil, I’ve never seen it.
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pretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 7h
the reality is that the only "annoying thing we deal with every day" that we need fixed is that we're fuckin' broke and we all live with the knowledge that if we slip up once we're at risk of homelessness and that's a problem that AI developers *TELL US* they want to make WORSE
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 7h
begging people covering sports to stop referring to athletes maybe facing consequences for their (alleged) violent actions as "adversity"
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h
i don't want to be all hyperbolic here but since the kennedy center is literally designed as a memorial to a us president this is to me like taking a sledgehammer to his actual grave while pissing on the stock photo of the judge in the case the utter contempt they have for the rule of law, man
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 19h
If it’s “mind-boggling” to you that a country rounding up immigrants & throwing them in concentration camps before deporting them to random countries without any due process or prior criminal record would see a dip in tourism, you shouldn’t be the head of the U.S. Travel Association.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 22h
Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m sure much more nefarious election interference is on the horizon and I don’t think we have any means left to stop it
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Epstein emails show he literally advised *all* these freaks, over decades, up til his death, on how to use transphobia as a wedge to make their expected victims more vulnerable Dems could have just not accepted Epstein's framing of trans rights as an essential part of being viewed as electable
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@aelkus.bsky.social he’s gonna totally fucking do it. He’s gonna destroy the Kennedy Center—one way or another.
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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are no words for how idiotic this is.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you remember when we had conflict of interest policies?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meme of a person with a tricycle for a brain that goes “ding” in their head
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.com · 01/10/2026
This smells like a coup.
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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Christie left office in absolute disgrace and with like a 4% approval rating but is still presented to the public by the political media as if he were a popular moderate bsky.app/profile/prin...
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 01/10/2026
They’re already building concentration camps and here they’re looking for SCOTUS to say that they can simply grab people off the street and imprison them in camps indefinitely without any form of due process
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 01/10/2026
America yearns to know why they should care about a random streamer they’ve never seen or heard that doesn’t have any position of power
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker
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Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's White House hates Americans so much they put their "paid for by the U.S. government" disclaimers right over images of Trump in the corrupt and illegal political ads they made with taxpayer money
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Robbing the country blind & Congress & SCOTUS are wholly complicit to all of it. A nightmare.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Horrific that the Supreme Court gets to weigh in *in favor* of putting a person to death.
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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth is attacking our country more effectively than he is attacking Iran.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another big win for Newsom: helping abusers and governments escape the consequences of child sexual abuse
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken" 😬 Disposable vapes are also horrible for the environment, throwing away so much plastic, batteries, and electronics.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026
“You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.“
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: CBP just seized an American attorney's phone as he returned from Palestine, despite it containing attorney-client privileged communications. …Here's some interesting context — this attorney is married to another lawyer who *just last month* filed an ethics complaint against this Florida judge:
Zeteo news story headline:

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Says, 'To Be American Is to Be a Zionist'

Judge Roy Altman boasts about taking '10% of the entire federal judiciary in America" on trips to Israel, and promotes his genocide-denying book from his chambers.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just another quote that would end the political career of anyone pre-2015. It will get no news coverage.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m sure the troops will love this one
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026
"How is this not an Onion headline" is the wrong question. That's the old question, from the old world, from the time of the Old Republic. The question now is, "How is reality now contained entirely within the paradigm of the Onion?"
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And all of this falls into the “endless year-over-year growth, forever” mantra from shareholders in the modern economy. It’s not enough to make a profit. You have to do everything in your power (which is becoming increasingly insidious) to make MORE money for shareholders, who are never satisfied.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i think the much-discussed "what's wrong with the video game industry" issue falls along similar lines. weaponization of dark patterns to turn what should be a fun activity into a grim addictive grind that serves to benefit the game's publisher
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s wild to me that celebrities doing ads in favor of sports betting aren’t getting more backlash. Just a morally reprehensible thing to do and yet there’s very little public pushback on their decision.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is what maga voted for
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Leibz @benleibz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just definitional kangaroo court horseshit from republicans.
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