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Bruce Overby

@boverby.bsky.social
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Prize-winning author. MFA - Queens University of Charlotte. Order “The Cyclone Release” now: www.amazon.com/Cyclone-Release-Bruc…

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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A truly amazing podcast.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"When A.I. is trustworthy, comprehensible, and predictable, it can be successfully integrated.... A.I. companies, therefore, will need their systems to become safe, because that’s where the money is." Yeah, just like our "safe, trustworthy" social media platforms, right? Yeah, I don't think so.
newyorker.com
The Long Doomsday of A.I.
After industry-wide calls for A.I. regulation, what’s most concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've often said that tech leaders know how to make themselves money, and that's all they know. Their complete ignorance of sustainability and refusal to study, develop, and adopt green tech in their mfg cycles are the best evicence. Outside of balance sheets, these people are fucking idiots.
theguardian.com
Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Republicans in Ohio obviously excited about the "Trump Bump" they're about to experience in the midterms.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/09/2026
"The bully is mad."
trib.al
Elon Musk Seems Legitimately Shaken Over This New Documentary
Documentarian Alex Gibney had a very rich source of material to draw from for his upcoming documentary titled "Musk."
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe there's something to this "Sharia law" thing. 🤔
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can someone help find this fucken guy's ball so he can take it and go home!
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Fema under the current Trump administration has turned down more than 30 disaster declarations and is taking longer to approve requests when it grants approval." But don't worry. Trump will have his new ballroom and vanity arch, and all his billionaire pals have their massive tax break...all good.
theguardian.com
Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics
Record inundations wrecked homes and took seven lives but Trump has not approved emergency aid and the state has cut funds for environmental agencies
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Great report from CAP. (General rule: If The Drumführer files a lawsuit over something, it *must* be read.)
americanprogress.org
The Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Urban Crime
New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just a quick reminder that every dot on this map is an illegal violattion of UN resolutions. (Maps by Frank Lowenstein of J Street, published in The New Yorker online)
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm incredibly honored to receive a Literary Titan Gold Book Award. It's humbling to see TRISTAN 4 AMERICA alongside such distinguished authors and truly great books. #WritingCommunity #LiteraryTitan #Tristan4America literarytitan.com/2026/08/07/l...
literarytitan.com
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Fiction
The Literary Titan Book Award honors books that exhibit exceptional storytelling and creativity. This award celebrates novelists who craft compelling narratives, create memorable characters, and we…
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seriously, is there a bigger douche anywhere in the country? I think not.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Utter fuckwittery.” Well worth 13 minutes of your time: Leah Litman explains why the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday on The Drumpführer’s Election Chaos Executive Order is complete and utter bullshit. youtu.be/PSCRCU_1NIo?...
youtu.be
BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s WILDLY ILLEGAL Executive Order
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bummer. Guess she’ll have just to go on with her puppy visits and spa treatments.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A story only the New York Times could love. 😊
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What's really beguiling about all this is that it never had to happen. These tech oligarchs have enough money between the couch cushions to generate all the green power they need, reduce negative impacts, and make communities whole. These are actually very stupid people. #RunawayGreed
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the most depressing thing I've read this week. "She had to train an AI to devise a detailed schedule for a hypothetical two-day shoot, including identifying necessary filming permits, potential location hazards, ... lists of personnel per shot and cast needs such as child protection."
theguardian.com
‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm sorry, I know I'm not supposed to Trump-shame, but who are those fucking IDIOTS in the Wal-Mart hardhats standing behind him?!?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fuck is Patel's problem? Head too fat for a Stetson? Or Stetson too white for his fat head?
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
RIP to Don Nelson. I didn't always love his decisions on the court, but his legacy, both as a player and a coach, is undeniably sensational. www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/09/d...
mercurynews.com
Iconic Warriors coach Don Nelson dies at age 86 after more than 1,300 wins
“I spent 50 years in the NBA,” he said. “Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it?...
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You had me at "Super rich complain..." 👍
theguardian.com
Super-rich complain but experts welcome Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax
New York mayor’s policy set to generate revenue and address housing crisis despite outcry in some quarters
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There is no bottom.
theguardian.com
Trump loyalist Todd Blanche confirmed by Senate as US attorney general
Major win for president as former personal lawyer wins approval despite outcry over $1.8bn slush fund
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@smotus.bsky.social wins the Internet, 8/7/26.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
He drove up inflation for no reason. He wasted our time and money. All while increasing the deficit and stealing our money to enrich his family and cronies in the fossil fuel industries. And now, with all that damage done, he's forced to give the tariff money back. #VoteBlue #Democrats
theguardian.com
US refunds $100bn of Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs
More than half of tariff income refunded after supreme court ruled Trump’s levies were illegal
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
But yeah, let's talk about shit that happened years ago under Xavier Becerra.
theguardian.com
Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
Federal lawsuit alleges kids are being repatriated despite many of them qualifying to remain in the US legally
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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Michele @burienwino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
IT'S THE GUNS. Seattle is not unsafe because it's Seattle, it's unsafe because it's in America. When more children die from guns than cancer or car accidents, IT'S THE GUNS.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This dude is Barack Obama with better speech writers. (Sorry @jonfavs.bsky.social.) PLEASE watch this entire clip. (Seriously, people, it's a minute long.)
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bro, suck it up and hire some woke joke writers. Outside of MAGA hell, you bomb every time.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gas and grocery prices are skyrocketing. AI is taking your jobs. Service members are dying in a war with no endgame. Children are going hungry. And THIS is what Republicans are spending YOUR TIME and YOUR MONEY on. There is only ONE PATH to effective government: VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER.
theguardian.com
Republican-controlled committee refers former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith for criminal investigation
Committee accused of trying to ‘weaponize’ justice system via ‘laughably weak and vindictive criminal referral’
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
As if I needed another reason to hate the fucking Dodgers… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
As Dodgers head to White House, loyal fans are conflicted: ‘Trump is tearing this city apart’
After ICE raids and protest crackdown, the LA team’s supporters are ambivalent about the World Series winners’ visit
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Five'll get you ten this motherfucker just bought stock in a T supplement company, most likely the one about to get a no-bid contract from DOD. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Graham famously said of Biden: "If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person, you've got a problem. He's the nicest person I've ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created."
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well, at least he lived to see the complete obliteration of Iran's nuclear program... Oh, wait...
theguardian.com
Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, dies after sudden illness
Republican served in Senate since 2003 and was sharp Trump critic before becoming one of his most loyal backers
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sensationalist headlines like this are the reason I no longer subscribe to The Atlantic. Some years ago we were treated with a cover declaring "The End of Men." Yeah, how'd that work out
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Jesus, cut this dude's fucking mic.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Real originalism means asking what the Founders would have wanted if they had lived long enough to become furious about anchor babies." Classic.
mcsweeneys.net
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Okay, just gonna say (and I'm sure I'm not the first): this dude is *ripped*
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2026
Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Petty much?
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I defy anyone to read this (it's very short) and explain to me like I'm 5 how it is anything but a complete capitulation by Witkoff, Kushner—and yes, Trump himself.
mercurynews.com
Read the 14-point draft memorandum between the US and Iran
The US and Iran are expected to formally sign a memorandum of understanding on June 19 in Switzerland, paving the way for 60 days of talks aimed at ending their war for good and putting strict new lim...
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social
youtube.com
Trump's Censorship Plan BACKFIRES in Blistering Court Ruling
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“Trump signs an agreement that funnels billions to the ayatollahs’ regime, leaves the nuclear infrastructure intact, preserves the ballistic [missile] threat as it is, and throws a lifeline to the murderous regime in Tehran." — Yair Golan, Leader of Israeli Democrats Total shit show.
theguardian.com
Dismay and defiance in Israel as US and Iran move to end war on ‘all fronts’
Defence minister Israel Katz says military forces will not withdraw from territory seized in south Lebanon
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Will you look at that. A whole bunch of Democrats in Democratic-Party–dominated Los Angeles appear to be choosing two Democrats to vie for the job of Mayor. The most obvious outcome imaginable, but do you think that's going to prevent calls of "rigged election!" from the GOP? Yeah, I think not.
theguardian.com
Nithya Raman leads Spencer Pratt in LA mayor’s race as vote-counting continues
Progressive and former reality TV star have been battling for the number two spot to face off against Karen Bass
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Some MAGA somebody want to explain this to me, because I—and, for once, the majority of the U.S. House of Representatives—ain't buying this bullshit.
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Bruce Overby @boverby.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Chaos, the new legal framework of the YOLO Court.
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court greenlights Alabama’s racial gerrymander, signaling free rein for states to discriminate
The new ruling, to which all six conservative justices signed on, suggests that, in practice, almost no federal protections remain for non-white voters, even in extreme cases.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 02/06/2026
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