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Steve Holmes

@bottyguy.bsky.social
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Born in God’s country, Chicago. Living in Durham, NC.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h
Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10h
In two years, we went from the Navy exonerating the Port Chicago 50 and the U.S. President commending them for it, to the scrubbing of displays and memorials to Black military heroes on the U.S. President’s orders. It happened so fast. We need to get him on a leash, for starters. Vote.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22h
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.
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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
DOJ set to review whether the North cheated in the Civil War.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 30/09/2026
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Magnuson’s doctors asked for approval again after providing more documentation, and then a third time. On each occasion, it was denied. It was on the third denial that Magnuson discovered it wasn’t a person who had made this decision about his treatment. It was AI." #Medicare
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AI is now deciding who gets healthcare in 6 US states – and it's already harming patients | BBC Science Focus Magazine
An AI pilot programme is attempting to cut down on ‘wasteful’ medical procedures, and patients are paying the price
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looks awesome!!! supercarblondie.com/1960s-volksw...
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Canada man turned a rusty 1960s Volkswagen camper van into a helicopter by fusing it with a scrapped Airbus H125
This Canadian man created something truly awesome when he merged a Volkswagen camper with a scrapped Airbus H125 to turn it into a helicopter
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WylieCat @wyliecat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#META is tapping into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim BILLIONS in tax credits for data center expansion. With 70% of Americans against data centers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are three proposed amendments to our North Carolina state constitution on the ballot this year, and this week, we're talking about each of them. Today is Part 3: the income tax amendment. Our recommendation: vote against all 3. 🙅‍♂️
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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San Mateo Flock Out @sanmateoflockout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Sorry, your [job/benefits/etc] application is declined because your [disease/neurotype/etc] makes you ineligible to live."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The motorist community needs to clean up its act, especially if drivers expect taxpayers to keep building car lanes.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the before times you could hear and watch this at the Kennedy Center. F*ck Trump. youtu.be/Lz1LEYxFQ5Q?...
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Laufey, dodie, and Jacob Collier perform 'Wild Mountain Thyme' with NSO | Next at the Kennedy Center
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
"rare authority" being... breaking the law?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tapping the sign, er, cartoon www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
I think that he should've had Altman arrested for running a company committing cybercrimes
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 23/09/2026
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 22/09/2026
As CNN, MS NOW, Politico Booted, White Nationalist Outlet Snags White House Press Slot 1/
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A big part of the Attorney General's job is to make sure the president of the United States isn't further implicated in the largest child rape ring of the century. And this gets less attention to the less than a dozen kids who'd like to play sprts at school.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anyhow, when China hits 80% token share, America will ban Chinese AI models and try to force Europe to ban them by threatening to destroy economies of EU countries. And that’s on free market capitalism.
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Dennis Hartley @denofcinema.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?!" - Howard Beale I guess we're about to find out. #Paramount #WarnerBros www.denofcinema.com/corporate-co...
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Corporate cosmology: Criterion reissues “Network” (****) - DenOfCinema
By Dennis Hartley (Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on April 25, 2026) Right now, the Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars to come right back and with our own money buy General ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026
Fire anyone who says this shit.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026
‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The hilarious part about Trump arguing North Carolina is a shithole is that Republicans have had supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature for a decade or so, and they have a 5-2 supermajority on the state Supreme Court, and have half of the statewide Executive Branch offices, and...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare: "I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."
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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US promised 172 million barrels in March when the SPR was at 415 million. They have only released 415-285=130 million barrels. We seem to be 42 million barrels short, have we reached bottom so soon? www.energy.gov/articles/uni...
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United States to Release 172 Million Barrels of Oil From the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright released the following statement regarding the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: U.S. SPR sees its smallest weekly drop in months as releases are nearly complete. SPR fell 400,000 barrels to 285 million, Energy Secretary Wright now says expect refilling to begin soon.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not 1950 and I hope you get your ass beat. Beyond beat!!!
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (mirror) @reprashida.govpeeps.us · 15/09/2026
Billionaires buy influence from Trump at your expense. The billionaire owner of Detroit’s Ambassador Bridge met with Trump right before he threatened to block the new Gordie Howe International Bridge from opening on time. The Moroun family donated over $1 million to Quoting Oversight Dems
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump plans to announce that the United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
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