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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick Confidence is what you feel before you really understand the problem. ~Jerome Powell Not looking for followers, don't + me to lists.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As Churchill famously said, we shall debate fascist semantics in the New York Times, we shall debate it on Channel 4 News, we shall debate it on the BBC (coming soon)... We shall never surrender! @astra.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cd0kC...
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But IS IT fascism
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 03/10/2026
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Are we on the verge of an exodus? In a hate-filled climate, Canadian Jews are weighing their options
Some Jews are considering leaving the country – and this Oklahoma city is welcoming them with open arms
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
Corruption exposed: Let me break down why the Supreme Court got it wrong in McDonnell v. U.S. and how we can fix it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 10/10/2025
Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...
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Nature @nature.com · 25/09/2026
Requests to collaborate from semi-autonomous agents are a new phenomenon — something many find strange and slightly unnerving go.nature.com/4j6UH19
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AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time
Many scientists use artificial intelligence in their work, but agents are increasingly soliciting researchers for collaborations.
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Nature @nature.com · 27/09/2026
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Science shows ways to keep the brain sharp go.nature.com/3V1488l
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
Nature - There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're contemplating a knee replacement, this might interest you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGYp...
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Osteoarthritis - New hope for the knee | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If there were any justice in the world, nobody would cover or carry this logorrhea word salad.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
another way to think about Zuckerberg at this point is as an digital slumlord, ruling over an e-favela, which is structurally ungovernable but also still managed by cyborg BOPE raids that keep the rabble in line
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am endorsed by @1199seiu.org, SEIU Florida Public Services Union, @neatoday.bsky.social and Florida AFL-CIO. I’m a union organizer by trade and a union member today. #AngieForFlorida
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: Ukrinform, the state news agency of Ukraine, reports that a Russian drone has struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, causing a fire. Last month, we reported on a visit to one of the research groups housed within the complex, which studies fungi across the country.
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Ukrainian Mycologists Are Not Giving Up
As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work.
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evil.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Grateful to have this out in @intsecurity.bsky.social. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and I show how Cold War analogies obscure more than they reveal about US-China relations. 1/6
Title page of 'The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies' by Eun A Jo and Jessica Chen Weiss.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. Oh my.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To be clear, Justice Jackson is the circuit justice for the First Circuit and does not report to John Sauer.
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Texas Voters! Check your voter registration online: www.votetexas.gov/register-to-...
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Usually, kestrels won't let me take their photo, but this little lady wanted to make sure I got her good side. 🪶
Skeptical female American kestrel perched on an orange post, cocking her head to the side.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 23/09/2026
The price of gas in Deadhorse. You know who can’t afford these gas prices? Hardworking Alaskans. You know who can? Multimillionaire Dan Sullivan, who voted more than 10 times to jack them up.
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Julie Hampton @juliehampton20.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
10 for Texas: Talarico and Bobby Pulido. #PostcardsToVoters #VoteBlue We're reaching out to dems who usually skip the midterms. Helping down-ballot candidates get on voter's radars. If you're a postcard writer for these midterms, DM me and I'll send you some free postcards.
Colorful postcards to get out the vote for democrats!
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Texas has broken our 💔's before, but maybe this will be the year TX voters will restore our faith. 🤞 If you can knock doors or phone bank, the time is now. A few other TX candidates to help are @jamestalarico.bsky.social , @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social & @hollytforjudge.bsky.social Who else?
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/09/2026
The reason that OpenAI delayed its IPO is because its finances fucking suck
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Old grievances...that's *always* the message.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
You May Now Kiss the Bribe — A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Minnesota, it's time to vote. mnvotes.gov
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starting to wonder if spite & grievance are better predictors of longevity than diet & exercise.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We said from day one that Christian Castro would not escape accountability. We said it when he fled to Texas. We said it when Texas refused to extradite him. And we said it when we took the fight to court. Now, Castro is facing his charges and the legal process can move forward in Minnesota.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More than 1,500 academics and economists from 100-plus countries are urging global leaders to join an initiative against extreme inequality, calling current unfairness “a policy choice that can be reversed”. (Guardian)
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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Postcards to Voters @tovoters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're organizing volunteers across the U.S. to mail handwritten election reminder #PostcardsToVoters for 9 Democrats in 6 states: Cooper (NC) • DeFranco (GA) • Earls (NC) • Lacore (SC) • Ossoff (GA) • Powell (NE) • Pulido (TX) • Shah (AZ) • Talarico (TX) Email: Join@TonyTheDemocrat.org Write on!
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh hell no www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Exclusive | The FAA’s $875 Million Plan to Use AI to Ease Air-Traffic Woes
The air-traffic tool is expected to debut in the Washington, D.C., area as soon as Monday.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
these quotes are the DEFENDANTS, describing THEIR OWN CONDUCT as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” as well as describing their products as “largely substitutive, period” and “will get more and more substitutive as they get better.”
This case is about, as Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science put it, “an astonishing theft
of unprecedented proportions”; SF1437, perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history.”
SF1652. Defendants repeatedly copied millions of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted articles in their entirety
without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI products. OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT
wrote that “[p]ublishers” face an “existential threat” from those products, SF1466, which, he said,
“are largely substitutive, period” and “will get more and more substitutive as they get better.”
SF1473-74. Such admissions eviscerate Defendants’ “fair use” defense because substitution is
“copyright’s bête noire.” Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 598 U.S.
508, 528 (2023). For Defendants to prevail on this defense “would,” the same Microsoft executive
recognized, arguably “make a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’” SF1450.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*Benjamin Netanyahu outlined the traits he wants in the Ed Sheerhan's new support acts *Don Jr.'s Russian wedding sponsor explains who should lead Ukraine *Rob Schneider details what he is looking for in the new head of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I keep seeing a tv ad from @drannieandrews.com where she promises to work w/ Republicans to cut taxes & keep families safe. If voters *really* want a Senator to work with Republicans, they'll vote for a Republican. SC Dems have been running on "we're GOP Lite" for decades & keep losing elections.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
A lot of people really have no idea what's coming with the energy crisis in the coming months. A lot of the crisis from the start of the war were postponed but those tricks can no longer work. We're about to see the worst energy crisis in 50 years.
Screenshot of an X post by The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) reporting breaking news about Saudi oil exports.
The post reads:
"BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled, due to the East-West pipeline being shut after last week's attacks and Yemen's Houthis taking over the entire Red Sea coast, per three sources to Reuters.
Yanbu had five to seven days of crude stocks left for export when the East-West line went down, per industry sources on Saturday, and cancelling late-September cargoes means Riyadh does not expect the line back before they run out. Europe has been taking Saudi crude through Yanbu because Hormuz has been closed since spring. On top of the pipeline, the Houthis appear to have struck the YASREF refinery at that same port this morning."
The post is dated 10:20 AM · Sep 15, 2026, with 155.9K views.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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Boidle @boidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our so-called pro-life government. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mitch McConnell is excited to get back to doing what he loves, taking away people's rights and healthcare
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
but yeah…the Mitch is back
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/09/2026
Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they're calling the "New Battlefield Project," intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up. to.pbs.org/46mYIXy
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How Democrats and activist groups are planning to push back if Trump tries to interfere in midterm elections
The anxious contingency planning as voting gets underway has become a marker for how fraught democracy has become in the country that once stood as an example to the world.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You laugh at Machiavelli and his whole "mercenary armies are unreliable" thing and then.
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