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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The world the tech bros are building. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do. www.gadgetreview.com/virginia-dat...
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," the Observer reports Burnham saying.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “This week was very difficult for us, not only geopolitically, but also because of massive Russian attacks on our civilian infrastructure. They attacked our energy sector 196 times, our gas and oil 20 times. So far, they've killed 153 civilians.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2026
Flash floods hit northern Nepal on Sunday, sweeping away buildings and at least one bridge along the Budhi Gandaki River. The torrent comes just weeks after a devastating flood on the border with Tibet that killed more than a thousand people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
Responding to Trump’s escalatory remarks, Zelenskyy on Sunday criticized Trump’s framing, telling ABC News that it is near universally understood that the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has led to higher prices—not Ukraine’s strikes against Russia.
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Trump blames Ukraine for spiking oil prices around the world
While lifting sanctions against Russia and striking deals to obtain their diesel.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 11/10/2026
From @gaigedavila.bsky.social: “We’ve seen a sea change, in just two years ... from what we saw in ’24, where we saw a substantial number of Latinos vote for Trump, vote for Republicans. If you look at polling, consistently now you’re seeing a complete flip in the other direction toward Democrats.”
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South Texas Is Moving On from Trump
The region looks poised to return to its centrist-Democrat roots, as the president fails to bring down costs and the reality of mass deportations takes hold. But 2028 could be another test.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
BRENNAN: Are you comfortable with any US official asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to government officials? BARRASSO: No I'm not, but the focus today is making sure that the American people know just how far to the left the Democrats have gone
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thousands of Brazilian students took to the streets a few days ago to protest right wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro after he won 2 million more votes than the incumbent, President Lula, in the first round of the election. Claims of US election interference abound. 1/
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/
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Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference
Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
James Talarico surprises Bleachers’ crowd at ACL with a message to GO VOTE 🗳️
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ramaswamy made his money through a scam. That's not success; it’s corruption. This election is the big chance in our lifetime to do something about the people who think politics is just there to enable ever bigger personal grifts.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They’re saying that I want to abolish prisons, but that’s crazy. After all, we need somewhere to lock up crooks like Ashley Moody. What kind of person steals $10 millions dollars from sick kids? #AngieForFlorida
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy International #DayoftheGirl! We’re excited to share that the Girls Opportunity Alliance will be providing more than $1 million to 25 incredible grassroots organizations supporting girls in 15 different countries. go.obama.org/rR77FF
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Ryan Williams leads the Claremont Institute—a Project 2025 partner—& belongs to a “Christian” society started by Charles Haywood who glorifies Francisco Franco, Spain’s deceased murderous dictator. Claremont alums Jack Posobiec & Josh Abbottoy (of New Founding) glorify Franco too. This was Franco 1/
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 10/10/2026
This is outrageous. Donald Trump just announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, and Treasury immediately lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports through April. Those sanctions exist for one reason. They limit the money Putin can use to wage his brutal war on Ukraine.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks for letting a politician crash your party, ACL!
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/10/2026
Top story, from our magazine by Jorge Meave Jr.: "The 2010 Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited dark money in American politics, and the right has used it with devastating efficiency. And they do this not by writing treatises but by writing checks."
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It's Time for the Catholic Church to Distribute the Loaves
The Vatican holds an estimated $73 billion in assets. That is an institution with the resources to move policy, fund organizing, and match the moral urgency of its own documents.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
KKK
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Anthropic discloses more “unintended model actions” including ones affecting US government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. “Most are forms of persistence, in which Claude, when it cannot complete a task as given, works around a restriction instead of stopping.”
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Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge gains 4) Repeat This is why we must get Big Money out of politics — and support the candidates who will fix the system.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/10/2026
11-3-26: Stain Removal
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 10/10/2026
Protestors in Syracuse, New York have surrounded Trump's motorcad, preventing it from moving, and chanting "Fuck Donald Trump." October 9, 2026
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...
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AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE
After federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today is Let Freedom Read Day. It's also the last day of Banned Books Week. We know books bans won't miraculously stop today. Whether you have 5 minutes or an hour, do one small thing today to fight book bans! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe #LetFreedomReadDay
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another new poll from the Washington Post shows us ahead of Susan Collins, but we aren't letting our foot off of the gas. A promising poll doesn't mean anything if we don't vote. Check your registration, make a plan to vote with your community, and VOTE EARLY! iWillVote.com
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instead of being afraid, we’re getting organized. ❌👑
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No Kings: Vote Early — Leah Greenberg
YouTube video by New Haven Democracy Project
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ken Paxton avoided impeachment in the Texas Senate after his associates donated to Lt. Dan’s war chest. We can’t afford another four years of corruption and kickbacks. #BanDan and elect Vikki Goodwin in November 🇺🇸
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what Christo-fascism looked like — specifically the Romanian fascism of the 1930s. Hegseth is a Christo-fascist. (1/3)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
NEW: Big Tech companies reveal to Congress they expect YOU to keep subsidizing their data centers. AND they’ll keep using NDAs to keep the public in the dark. I’m not letting them get away with it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. www.commondreams.org/news/ai-electi…
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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll | Common Dreams
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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