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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 5h
The most egregious example of cultural appropriation is the right-wing, MAGA coded @Chik-fil-A now serving chicken and waffles
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah! This is very good. From the utterly indefatigable @normeisen.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now that's cool!
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some of my Chicago friends have berated me for not being sufficiently into Chgo. Blackhawks hockey, even after multiple championships. How can I muster any allegiance when the team fails to spark any hatred in the league?
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What makes her think her Republican colleagues are suddenly in a bipartisan mood? Their base does not want compromise with Democrats and likes most of Trump's policies anyway True, the Senate will not convict and remove Trump. But we could stop the war by removing Kegsbreath, and that's a start
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Peter Francis Geraci Park was right there
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I relived that awful feeling watching Derrick Rose go down and began thinking the worst. Apparently, the Football Gods want us to actually have nice things in this city
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/09/2026
New words just dropped. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/new...
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1,400 New Words and Definitions Added to Merriam-Webster.com
Including vibe coding, yacht rock, parasocial, and Mandela Effect
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just so we all understand the play here. Release initial polls showing Senate Dem candidates with modest leads. Release more in coming weeks showing the races "tightening," and their candidate gaining and ours losing ground. It's 2022 red wave, redux. No one should fall for it this time.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Bears Current mood…🐻 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUCFaGts/
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Dre is here to stay 🙂‍↕️ #extension #dandreswift #nfl
TikTok video by Chicago Bears
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sign that reads "Mike Johnson blocked me on Grindr"
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jedi2023.bsky.social @jedi2023.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies Now it’s $5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms?!? *No checks have been issued
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I played in a gay softball league. I’ve seen gay men who’ve never played baseball with a better swing
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/09/2026
"The fascists were perfect gentlemen to us cis het white folk" [Times]
Men in black were perfect gentlemen, say passengers
George Odling

Jacquetta Morris and her friends on the train from Dover with the “very polite” men who had blocked the port
With a bag full of tinned passion fruit martinis, Jacquetta Morris and two friends were all set for their annual trip to Margate for the Dreamland over-30s festival.

So carefully planned was the outing that tickets for the 12.15pm train from Dover had been booked six months in advance. What the three mothers could not have prepared for, however, were the hundreds of balaclava-clad men surrounding the station.

“The platform was just a sea of black,”

Morris, 38, said. “My friend was worried we wouldn’t be able to get on the train, but I started moving to the front and shouted, ‘Ladies first, isn’t it, lads?’ “They said, Yes, of course, and moved aside for us.”

The men had been among hundreds who brought the port of Dover to a halt on Saturday in what a council leader described as an “exceptionally well organised” anti-migrant protest.

“I must say they were all very polite,” said Morris, who manages a pub in Dover. “I did say to them straight away that I understood their cause but asked them to take off their balaclavas, though they all refused.

“One said part of the reason they were wearing them was to point out that women in burqas can cover their faces in banks and places like that, but British men are seen as intimidating if they do the same. But they were very pleasant, and it was actually quite fun.”

Morris took a picture of herself and her friends surrounded by the men, which she posted to Facebook with the caption: “Safest train in the country right now — defo [definitely] not attacking us”.

About 300 protesters had caused miles of tailbacks, blocking roads around the port and chanting “stop the boats” and “England till I die”.

Morris said: “It wasn’t clear where they were from, but it certainly wasn’t Dover or the surrounding area. Most of them had northern accents, and one told…
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
DFA Thielbar. Sick of this sh*t!
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Funky Cold Luda @funkycoldluis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RT @Cubs: are they really your friends if they don't ride for you like this?
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A Chicagoan through and through…
A map of where I get my dialect
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Baby did a bad, bad thing...
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RAD - Richardson Area Democrats @richardsonareadems.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Important note‼️ If you or someone you know wants a free round trip ride to vote in Tarrant, contact them NOW to schedule. Drivers are volunteers and it makes a difference if they know what demand will be. Also note that drivers are voter allies. They are trained to help with questions and glitches!
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Photo of Chaka Khan at the L.A. Coliseum circa 1970s’
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/06/2026
THE PLAN 1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass a bill adding SCOTUS seats 6. Fill the 4 new vacancies 7. Have nice things
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
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The Brady Bunch Opening Grid
Alt: The Brady Bunch Opening Grid
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I was a reporter in Texas, I'd regularly request all the write-in ballots for statewide elections to see who people would write in. Lots of people would write “none of the above" or Sasquatch. Dolly Parton—who's not even from Texas—would usually get a few votes.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ford: 'I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool!'
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s like Nixon talking to the dead President portraits but an 8 episode Netflix series
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Corporations and entire industries caught lying over and over again to cover their own incompetence (even though they have white men meritocracy) by blaming minorities and women and the poor? popular.info/p/lies-damn-... bsky.app/profile/dinf...
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Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics
For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have to confess to owning a vinyl 45 of this song
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bregman has figured it out #Cubs
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m now convinced Buddy Guy is a time traveler
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yep en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_S...
Lizardman's constant

In the 2013 post "Lizardman's Constant is 4%", Alexander coined the term "Lizardman's Constant", referring to the approximate percentage of responses to a poll, survey, or quiz that are not sincere.[20] The post was responding to a Public Policy Polling statement that "four percent of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth", which Alexander attributed to people giving a polling company an answer they did not really believe to be true, out of carelessness, politeness, anger, or amusement.[20]
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
news.wttw.com
WTTW News Explains: What You Need to Know About Tornadoes
WTTW News Explains on the common myths around tornadoes and how the weather events can hit Chicago.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
(Dog stares at owner): I know I just ate, but I’m still hungry
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Steve Greenberg @slgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Don’t know if anything has come of this, but you’ve got to appreciate good people. Not always enough kindness and neighborliness nowadays. On Fransico in between the Galter Life Center and River Park. Maybe we can help ring and finger reunite.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Anything related to Republicans in office requires 90% opposition before it’s reported as unpopular. Anything related to a Democrat in office is unpopular if even a handful of people oppose it. Them’s the rules.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MV-Pete!
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nearly every one of El-Sayed's issue positions is supported by a majority. In fact, his stands are the center of American politics today. Saying he is far left/left wing is just so old. The center of American politics has moved over the last 30 years, and El-Sayed's position are center now.
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Chicago Cubs say you’re welcome!
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bmcchgo @bmcchgo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I am sorry, Matthew Boyd. I was not familiar with your game
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
If you want members of this regime to be held legally accountable, you have to add four seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. Otherwise, they'll protect their fellow oligarchs like they did in 2023. 1. Win the senate 2. Block nominees 3. Elect a dem POTUS 4. Congress adds 4 seats 5. Have nice things
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
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Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them
Sophie Cunningham’s rise says less about basketball than the incentives of a sports culture where outrage, identity politics and attention have become lucrative commodities
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Dr Jon Sutton @jonsutton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It turns out I'm of an age where a song can spend 19 weeks at Number One without me hearing it.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 29/07/2026
The Trump administration announced it would end Medicare Part D subsidies, raising healthcare costs on 11 million people, mostly seniors. He doesn’t give a damn about your grandma and grandpa.
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