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Boris B

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Girl dad. Urban educator. Musician 📯Amateur ornithologist. Ally. Dreamer

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a new interview, Bill Gates speaks to the imminent dangers of unregulated AI that could easily result in mass death. He does not hold back. (Gift link to the full interview: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...)
So why is anything needed beyond — and is anything needed beyond? — the simply natural incentives under capitalism and normal corporate reputational management?

Well, I almost can't believe you're asking that. This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone near.
In other areas, do we just say: Hey, release your drugs? There's no F.D.A., there's no airline safety board, there's no requirement that cars use seatbelts. Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep humans safe? You know: Oh, you're shipping opioids. Somebody should just sue you.
I mean, we've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying: Oh, we can bankrupt the person who does that.And you say there's filtering. There's no filtering. You can take an open-source model that can create bioweapons and disable any monitoring of any kind, and this exists today.
So no, there is no filtering of any kind.
And so say you kill 100 million people — you want to use a lawsuit?
I almost can't keep a straight face.And part of the reason I'm speaking so loudly — as loud as I can — is that you can't rely on the industry to self-regulate here. I mean, it's just insane.
The only question in my mind is: Do we wait until a cyberattack causes massive damage and a bioattack causes massive damage, and then the monitoring safeguards are required in these models to minimize the chance of that happening many, many more times? Or can we be wise enough to put these things in and require these things to be put in before millions of deaths?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I watch lots of stuff on YouTube: cooking, history, politics, etc. I’m also an atheist from a fundamentalist background and watch content from biblical scholars. I’m really tired of getting ads for religious stuff, MAGA adjacent content like TPUSA, and PragerU. I really wish I could tailor ads
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As fas as I’m concerned, the lesson we should take from this is that cops will do whatever they think they can get away with unless we hold them accountable Honestly, nobody should be surprised. Our oversight systems for the police are severely lacking
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe they’re not supporting Paxton, but all those other nominees will be a rubber stamp for Trump. GWB is no ally of democracy and he never has been
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Turns out lauren boebert was the one eating cats the whole time.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We have these Barred Owls 🦉 in our neighborhood and I absolutely love hearing them call to each other in the woods at night while sitting on my screened porch. It’s so thrilling and brings me immense joy every single time 😊
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.
John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump EPA Ends Climate Regulations for Power Plants
This is one of the administration’s most significant climate rollbacks.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
their line was that people **asked** to be put in these cages, that it was what they wanted: "facility staff said... detainees asked to spend time in the enclosures." www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/p...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development…Interior leadership gave state leaders just three days to produce the lists and told its directors the issue was a top priority, according to a former BLM official”
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This moment from 25 years ago still holds a special place in my heart, along with the NY Phil’s memorial performance of the Brahms Requiem after 9/11 youtu.be/ToECtXPMvNM?...
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Star Spangled Banner played at Buckingham Palace- Sept 13, 2001
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Facts!
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
2027 = deadly Medicaid cuts. Many clinics did their projections & shuttered their doors across the country. There will be maternity care deserts throughout the midwest. Here in NYC major healthcare systems are already denying Medicaid. For every Medicaid $1 lost, it will negatively impact Medicare.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CHICAGO (AP) - US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average as the Iran war disrupts the flow of fuel worldwide. @apnews.com
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7f
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cas is absolutely right. Here's a great new paper (open access, so freely available to all) that makes the case: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Penelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After being forced out of the military, many trans service members have yet to receive tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they are owed, leaving them destitute and homeless. (gift link) wapo.st/4qN0TNq
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A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/08/2026
Limited public discussion of the trust fund's shortfall has experts worried that most Americans don't fully understand the problems Social Security faces — let alone be able to weigh in on solutions. n.pr/4hZFtu6
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The Social Security trust fund is running out, and yet it's not a top campaign issue
Limited public discussion of the trust fund's shortfall has experts worried that most Americans don't fully understand the problems Social Security faces — let alone be able to weigh in on solutions.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We are currently in Chapter 13 of Project 2025. You can find the destruction of wild horses on page 528 static.heritage.org/project2025/... Project 2025, top of page 529: "Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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@iamashleystearns @iamashleystearns.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🧵 What's going on? Sarah Kendzior will tell you, just as she always has. [Only] Trump is not a true fascist. Fascism requires allegiance to the state, which Trump lacks. The biggest threat to the US is not fascism but mafia state autocracy. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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The End of Days Inn
What Trump’s team wants to do to America, and how to fight it.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As a native Oregonian, this absolutely enrages me. Trump’s never seen nor set foot in these places. Even if he had, I don’t think he has the capacity to marvel at the beauty. I truly hope that ppl with more power than me can stop this wanton destruction @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Woke Bill Kristol strikes again!
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Friendly reminder that the Republicans unanimously voted for this guy to be Speaker of the House 
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14/08/2026
Despite U.S. government claims that “no one has died” as a result of its foreign aid cuts, the AP finds that more babies and pregnant women are dying in Nepal after the closure of programs aimed at saving their lives.
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You know those texts from random ppl offering to buy your house? I got one today that was written to my brother in law and listed his address in a totally different state!!! We don’t have the same last name and the only connection is that he married my sister, who took his name Creepy AF!!!!!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On August 8, 1974, Pres. Nixon resigned, due in part to information uncovered by an investigation of the U.S. Justice Department, and under pressure from congressional Republicans On August 8, 2026, Todd Blanche was confirmed by Senate Republicans, ensuring DOJ will never investigate Pres. Trump.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dravon Rangel Leyden
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: This is the first in a series of stories by Democracy Docket examining the Trump administration’s grave threats to the 2026 midterms. It offers an overview of the multiple ways Trump could interfere with the vote — and threaten U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...
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How could Trump rig the midterms?
Trump may try to undermine a fair vote this year. Here's how.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Friendly reminder that Republicans elected this guy to be speaker UNANIMOUSLY
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How did Iran attack our water supply? The EPA “under the Biden administration proposed…to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers…The EPA rescinded the order, however, after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Acting AG Todd Blanche plans to outlaw abortion nationwide: We're working to get solutions so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state. We're putting policies in place so that states can't do things like mail abortion drugs. We will have victory, and it will be permanent.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
At least six of Ms. Rashid’s clients were barred from attending their own separation board hearings because they refused to cut their hair and appear in the uniform of their sex assigned at birth. One was a master sergeant in South Korea with 17 years of service who was allowed to testify by video, but only if she turned off her camera.

“I have gone to pretrial confinement hearings where somebody is so addicted to meth that they are throwing up on my shoes,” Ms. Rashid said. “They were allowed into their own hearing.”
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Dear fellow Democrats, When you circle the wagons, you’re supposed to aim your fire outwards at the enemy Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk Signed, Someone who’s really tired of losing because of stupid bullshit
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