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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 19h

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 · 03/10/2026

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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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next they’ll be stripping out the copper plumbing

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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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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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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lucky Strike unfiltered, like my Gramps (RIP)

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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

That pull quote sounds like a threat to human actors.

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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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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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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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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I heard that they are very abstract.

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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh and drop the stupid encore, we all know you haven’t played that one famous song. Just play it.

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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah we need more 45 minute 12-song bar sets. I like to get out of the theater in under 2 hours.

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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator

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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He’s all of Villa’s defense and most of its offense in this match

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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

I’ve probably seen off four white barbers in my life. Now it’s just great clips, cause you can’t count on the whites men barbers to stay alive.

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Steve Holmes @bottyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I get my senior citizen discount at Great Clips monthly.

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