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Tony Moonbeam II @moonbeamii.bsky.social · 20m

Platner is a grifting asshole, just like his sensei Bernie Sanders

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Mike Gehrke @mikegehrke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Old enough to remember being told Democrats had a chronic image problem that would cost them the midterms.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Shameful. And the new Dem Intelligence Committees need to investigate it. Ukraine should attack every energy production and data center it can. This is showing how weak Russia is right now as they squeeze what they can out of Trump before the midterms. This is Putin's desperate last try.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Of course there are no examples of who is & is not using these tactics, & no definitions of “doing the best” vs not doing the best, no consideration for what works for the candidate & against the opponent You run differently vs white supremacist Collins vs the sitting Senator Collins Vibes!

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ossoff, Brown, Colum, Peltola and Hamilton are each running very different campaigns, but the common element is a candidate who knows who they are and what they're good at and sticking to that. People looking too hard after election day are probably going to miss this, which is really basic stuff.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tapper is a cynical opportunist. As such, he can be trusted to be a reliable indicator of which way the wind is blowing. This and other moments suggest he believes maga is a spent force. He might evem mention Trump's dementia after the midterms.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13/10/2026

Since 1948, adjusted for inflation, we've also "given..." $184 billion to Egypt $175B to Afghanistan $158B to Vietnam $131B to Ukraine $109B to Iraq ...and another $3.2 TRILLION to over 240 other countries, many of which have FAR worse human rights records than Israel. foreignassistance.gov/data

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ForeignAssistance.gov is the U.S. government’s flagship website for making U.S. foreign assistance data available to the public. It serves as the central resource for budgetary and financial data prod...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My whole area was Republican Town from Family Guy until 2016 and had a mass change to the point we don’t even have a GOP mayor as of 2025 In 7 years we took a State Senate seat and the mayorship along with other municipal races that like 500 people vote in. Changes can happen and quickly

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

theclimatebrink.com

What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 30/09/2026

Confused by all the debate about the new permitting reform bill? Here is a quick cheat-sheet of the most important provisions, and their likely impact on emissions:

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/09/2026

Don't worry, in light of new information, people will simply move the goalposts.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's not just the gas prices, you've got to dig deeper. What we are seeing is the unraveling of his 2024 coalition. He has slipped dramatically with Latinos and slipped less dramatically with his core base of white no college voters. This was occurring before the gas spike. Concurrently, there's

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Antonio Guterres says he has never seen a death scale like he’s seen in Gaza So what he’s telling me is he is blind! Bc each of these other wars ahead of it are far higher

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Maine poll has 40% Right track 45% Wrong track That seemed goofy to me, so I looked at their June poll, which was 33% Right track 61% Wrong track At RCP, other than a few Rasmussen outliers, they don’t have a single national poll w right track in the 40’s since March It’s goofy.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And this—THIS—gives away the game. Traister & the people she depicts as the authentic little guys taking on the corporate DC machine were excited by Platner bc he was running against the Democratic Party. But Jackson defeating Collins doesn’t feel like a victory to them.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not only is this not what happened, this shows that Piker is tankie scum and an authoritarian at heart.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Earlier today I found this image of Joe holding his daughter Antonia when she was a little girl (she is now in her 3rd year of college, like my daughter). I cried.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gillian Anderson spoke up for children in Sudan who are affected by the current civil war. Guess how it went in the comments? warchildusa.org

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

Sonia Joseph y @soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims.
However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Would you like to clarify? Because it seems pretty important for the world to understand who exactly is claiming to have deep insight into AI. So now would be the time for you to correct any misunderstandings and explain.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The Catcher Race Riot of 1923 began and ended the same as they all did—a Black man accused of a crime and all hell breaks loose. Many of you—including myself, never heard of this one. Pull up a 🪑my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kevin Kruse blocked me over this reply, so I just want to re-iterate what all the Macklemore defenders are defending when they jump up and down with anger over him being dropped from a tour:

Macklemore dressed as an offensive Jewish stereotype with large fake hooked nose, hair, beard, and doing a Sig-Heil Hitler salute to a crowd of fans, many of which are also doing the Hitler salute, all in a gross display of antisemitic anti-Jewish hate.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The mistake Kraft made was not simply pointing to this as the reason he was uncomfortable. This, to me, is beyond the moral event horizon.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think Sheeran should just say "he dressed up as a fucking antisemitic caricature" and leave it at that but hey what do I know

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Benwest500 @benwest500.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This shows the low trustworthiness of the LA Times

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

oof what a bad look.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We flipped 41 seats 8 yrs ago LBJ & Obama (in 2008 but not 2012) are the only Dems since FDR to get a greater % of the vote than Biden did, which was 6 years ago. And in 2022, despite surging inflation, Democrats had the best midterm for the party in the White House since FDR. That was 4 years ago

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

you know people, people with real jobs in media loudly declared over 2 years ago Joe Biden had "late stage dementia" a term they clearly didn't understand, and yet here he is, still out and about in public talking to people and doing events, miracle cure I guess.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026

Donald Trump and Joe Biden at 9/11 ceremonies today. Trump in DC. Biden in NYC. (REUTERS)

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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes! This is even an issue for election results. Endless debates over "if only Biden had....if only Harris had...." when incumbent parties were losing globally in the post-COVID inflationary environment. Some people don't know this context. Others have an ax to grind.

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Evergreen 🌲 thread:

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 26/08/2026

If you're on Bluesky, you probably know and love "For You" by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social — hands down the best discovery feed on this app. I wanted to build an homage to it, but with a twist: what if *you* could control the algorithm's dials? Introducing: For Your Consideration 👇

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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The toxic MAGA male culture seeps into this tone deaf ad provoking violence behavior against women. It's not a laughing matter Callaway Golf and Good Good needs to boycotted.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton wrote movingly about her childhood deprivation and put her fame and fortune into the action to uplift children. Her passing is another loss in the link to living memory of a world of mass material deprivation in the United States that is literally inconceivable to people now.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

culture victory 🫡 (peterson listing tax cuts as the number one driver of debt would have been unthinkable a few years ago)

peter g. peterson foundation, Fiscal Outlook
4 Ways the United States Got to $40 Trillion in National Debt

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Benwest500 @benwest500.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey everybody, look, it's the internet left again, practicing politics again

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Wendyb2 @wendyb2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wonder if Medicare For All people understand it's far from free. My husband and I are on Medicare and pay many thousands of dollars a year in premiums and there are still deductibles to be met. Also eyeglasses and dental aren't covered requiring additional insurance for that.

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How many low-info lefties reaming him out for this even know that Medicare is a public-private system? They think "Medicare for All" = single payer = universal healthcare and don't realize that while many nations have universal healthcare, far fewer have single payer.

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