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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23m

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 6h

Republican: here's a cyanide sandwich Democrat: here's a crushed glass and ham sandwich Trans person: could I get the ham sandwich with no crushed glass please Democrat: this is why you deserve the cyanide sandwich

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

So what we’re saying is … we can’t just bootstrap our way out of gross inequality and a system constructed to keep certain people at disadvantage And the people in charge of AI and the government know this .. And constructed plans to make this happen .m

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Spock Says Fascinating

ALT: Spock Says Fascinating

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h

The radical change of saying you'll do very obvious things that people desperately want and desperately need.

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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 6h

"we need folks to have literacy with the black-box computer program that runs entirely on remote corporate servers and produces nondeterministic output" is a pretty wild assertion, agreed

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OKSOTHICK. @sayitaintsoph.bsky.social · 5h

Men pretend not to understand consent until you suggest they’re the drunk ones getting bent over and sodomized. Suddenly the boundaries are clear. Yeah I bet.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 5h

I think, if Democrats ever get back into power, they have to make anti-monopoly a core policy focus (ideally, as part of a larger anti-corruption focus). This will be a very hard sell considering Ellison’s Saudi sponsorship, but a foreign-backed media monopoly is simply incompatible with democracy.

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Paramount Skydance Secures $24 Billion From Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Funds for Warner Bros. Deal

Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has received commitments of close to $24 billion to back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, Variety has ...

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 7h

claude, put all my resentments on display in fewer than twenty words

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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 5h

It’s funny to me that men are so often ready to fight about parking spaces, hair cuts, video games, etc but can find such deep wells of civility when it comes to squaring up on the rapist behavior in their circles. Why do so many of you have such an otherwise unseen ability to talk it out then?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 19h

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 16h

This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 14h

yeah and like more people need to understand that: 1) "staying out of prison" is actually one of the most popular reasons why assholes support fascism, and 2) Elon Musk and other billionaires are not compatible with a functioning liberal democracy.

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Monzo (Dirtbag Leftist) @nequalone.bsky.social · 14h

Dr. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social offers a very rationale view of AI risk. These companies are creating malware that they are releasing on the network. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @theyoungturks.bsky.social @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social @emmavigeland.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14h

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 23h

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

Christa Pike survived not one, but two, lethal injections. She had requested a firing squad and was denied. Tennessee put her through cruel & unusual punishment that was tantamount to torture. Abolish the death penalty. The state should not be allowed to kill people.

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Christa Pike ‘conscious, speaking’ nearly a week after botched execution: ‘Her recovery is medically unprecedented’

Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said on Tuesday.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 20h

The utter contempt "AI" corporations have for *everyone's* craft and livelihood is appalling.

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 20h

An industry of clout-chasing Ideas Guys whose sole interest in any field is how they can bust in, rip labor off, extract all surplus value, and move on leaving wreckage everywhere.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

“If you thought Cornell was bad, just wait for us” That’s a text message from high school football players allegedly directed at one victim in Idaho who they were saying should be raped & murdered Make no mistake, all the men defending the Cornell 7 are enabling these monsters.

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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: WA Ferries wanted you to think their workers are whiny babies who make $350k. The truth is more complicated and more sympathetic --- workers making $65k, engine room paid 20% less than above deck, and those making the big bucks working 70 hour weeks. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/washing...

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Washington State Ferries Tried To Turn You On Their Workers By Posting Eye-Popping Salary

Ferry service has returned mostly to normal after 23 Ferry engine room workers called out sick, shutting down 13 out of 18 vessels on Monday. While there’s no official confirmation workers coordinated...

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US Out Of Chicago @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, totally bsky.app/profile/hann...

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Melissa 🫘 @mlynnmich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You should pay them a fair wage with out forcing them to work hundred of hours of overtime to earn it.

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ChofuAlum @chofualum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WHY would they have to work that much overtime??? Sounds like forcing/expecting employees to work OVERTIME instead of paying enough employees to cover all shifts all the time is a BAD MANAGEMENT issue, not an employee issue.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you expect him to propose to Natalie with a ring from Jared’s? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Meredith O’Rourke, Secretary of Shakedowns

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

That’s quite a bribe! “All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/10/2026

We are not nearly mad enough at the state AGs who took the settlement to end the Paramount/WB merger.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aid and comfort to the enemy

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump's Ohio rally crowd chanted: "Deport! Deport!" But don't overlook this: New NYT poll finds Trump underwater *on immigration* even in Ohio, which he carried by double digits. MAGA sadists are yelling in a shrinking bubble. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2162...

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

The problem is not that we believe we can do it. The problem is that too many people get excited it will happen but don't do any work to make sure it does, and then they have to perform extra cynicism to get past their embarrassment at acting like they believed in something.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2026

A permitting bill that accelerated O&G production by making it easier to build or expand O&G infrastructure, like the Senate draft, would accelerate O&G companies' methane pollution. I think it's important to ask how modelers model increased methane pollution, if they model it at all.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/10/2026

they making? If they choose to ignore pollution from exports, and also don't clearly acknowledge that ideological choice early in their talk or paper, then what else might they be sweeping under the rug?

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The internet was and in some places still is great because people love interacting and making art and sharing what they just saw in their home town or on their travels and scribing elaborate rants and playing games and making friends and meeting new people and inventing personae and collaborating an

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

even things like g**gle maps, which used to be AMAZING and now is obstructive, obfuscating, all but useless advertising and misinformation bullshit - even big coordination things like that CAN BE DONE without the comemierda companies - wikipedia, among others, shows that.

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