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America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 20h

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 14h

Naomi Wolf vibes. Absolutely embarrassing.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17h

"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YES WE ARE TOTALLY A CREDIBLE MOVEMENT WHY DO YOU ASK

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because for a lot of men and women, dominating children is the only absolute, god-like power they will ever have in this existence.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 28/09/2026

Yes yes, sports fans know: if the players are fighting in the locker room, it famously doesn't matter. Good teams fight in the locker room all the time. (also, fighting is … not … emotional?)

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

Oh he’s going to do the migrant caravan thing. I hope people ignore him.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if anyone asks I’m a lawyer and this is protected

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you’ve known any loggers this is a minor miracle. not water into wine but, like, water into Labatt

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

just gonna note that none of this stuff I’ve seen from Jackson this far has him using anything like a slur. he works blue but he doesn’t work dirty

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bush v. Gore on steriods

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Guy who never stops talking about trans children has thoughts about grown men who seem to be pretty obsessed with trans children

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jennifer was asked for one word and delivered an incoherent string of anti-LGBT bigotry because Republican loyalists experience cognition on a level somewhere a bit below that of Cleverbot

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026

I'm happy to see The Americans so high on this list, and The Night Of on the list at all. I don't see it, but I think DEVS was really underrated and I'd love to see it on here. I liked Fleabag but it seems too high; I think it's to offset the extremely "dude with red flags taste"-ness of the top 4

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026

(ok but I'll watch Psych on purpose)

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would be hilarious / amazing if AI is what finally got us single-payer

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 25/09/2026

not to single out max, who is great, but there's this interesting thing where folks on both the left and MAGA right are extra suspicious of any tech folks who profess to care about the societal impacts of what they do. i get the cynicism but i'm really not convinced the alternative is preferable

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026

I think that's a compelling argument but those aren't the only two options. A company *could be* held to a standard of liability for what it platforms *while also* being held accountable for not doing so properly. I think the issue there is that companies that large don't ever see real consequences

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Whilst this system is very much not working for the majority of people, for the small minority who govern this system, it absolutely is working. So all of thethings that make us think of chaos and catastrophe and apocalypse are creating profits for those at the top." @graceblakeley.substack.com

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#MEpolitics: This piece from the BDN editorial board reads like a sponsored campaign ad for Susan Collins, especially as it curiously claims the allegations of corruption are based solely on the word of the disgraced Navatek CEO, ignoring the myriad other evidence presented by @propublica.org.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#MEpolitics: The difference in coverage Susan Collins receives from major national investigative journalism and media outlets compared to major Maine-based outlets is rather concerning. Local media like the BDN and PPH tend to show far more leniency—bordering on deference—to Collins.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026

Holy shit I had no idea the guy our government bullied into suicide for sharing free documents for free *actually warned us* about the guy our government is bullying everyone into propping of because he stole every document he could, free or not, to build a chatbot for profit

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.

I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 24/09/2026

What is the -ocracy for "rulership by your most regrettable family Facebook connection"

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Chernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

McCrery informed the White House that Trump’s ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above.

In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump’s desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure’s maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building’s footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026

That Fucking Newspaper is trying to make “the mayor has a comms team” into a watergate level scandal

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 23/09/2026

tfw your small-government appointees accidentally advocate for small government

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 23/09/2026

It's so funny to me that the movement to bring back some mythical ideal of manliness is run by and populated with total loser dweebs

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s amazing how since Reagan and Thatcher people in the West seem to have forgotten it was in fact perfectly normal and expected for governments to fully own critical national infrastructure and not make a profit of it

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/09/2026

"We must reject all calls, from all sides, to bathe in the blood of opposing groups. Groups like Give Us Your Blood and No! We Need That Blood are both acting aggressively. Yet it is clear to me that Grand Chancellor Trump must apologize for his comments. A nice apology will make this right."

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I’m a Moderate, Sane Republican Who is Very Concerned With Grand Chancellor Trump’s Demand to Be Bathed In the Blood of the Impure

“Today I, along with my Republican colleagues at the Imperial Figurehead Parliament say this in the strongest terms: America is not about extracting the bloo...

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/09/2026

Me in the 2000s: fuck the information gatekeepers! Haha! Freedom and democracy! Me in the 2020s: can the two or three remaining information gatekeepers please do their job? Democracy is on the line.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...

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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC

The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Each of those names means something different. That’s like saying, “They call it America, the USA. They call it Texas! They have more names than (etc. etc.)”. Fucking moron!

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 22/09/2026

will the superintelligence know how to spell "dumb" or understand the word "groceries"

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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 22/09/2026

this is … the exact opposite of how insurance should work. having a lot of people paying in who don't use much or at all is good, actually. it's also why single-payer would work best: a single pool that everyone pays into and everyone benefits from when they need it

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So they sign up, pay a premium, and never file a claim. Wow, what an incredible fraud scheme.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The same people who insist you are supposed to think Hasan Piker is the literal devil invite this guy to their cocktail parties and think he's cool

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