iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 11h

The Ukrainian air force confirms that russia's ally, the United States, has stopped providing early warning of ballistic missile launches. The Americans withdrew this support from Ukrainian defenders in order to make strikes by russian terrorists on civilians more deadly.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump earlier this year: Kimberly Guilfoyle has been my friend for a long time. I love calling her Kimberlay. That’s my little pet name, right? I hope you come back here in 12 years or whenever the term ends. Trump today: She was not a member of my family. I guess she dated my son a long time ago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

TRUMP TODAY: "She wasn't a member of my family. She I guess dated my son a long time ago" TRUMP NOT EVEN 2 YEARS AGO: "Kimberly has been a close friend and ally"

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11h

demonstrating a reckless disregard for the truth and waiving any 230 watershed with the same act, impressive

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 13h

Thread. Even by the standards of Trump 2.0, some extremely scummy actions and behavior. Just awful.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

forever-wars.com

The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon

It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely one of the best. Such a loss. RIP.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 16h

“Musk then prevented any community notes from appearing on Sortor’s post for many hours, ensuring that no one could debunk the bogus claim before it reached tens of millions of people, and suspended accounts that dug into its veracity” @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...

laura-bassett.com

Anatomy of a fake scandal

WSJ obtained video of Ken Paxton partying with literal fugitives in Dubai, so Republicans panicked and invented a story about Talarico checking into a psych hospital. It backfired.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14h

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 20h

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

bbc.co.uk

Two-part documentary on J.K. Rowling announced by BBC Factual and BBC Scotland

The documentary will use her life as a lens through which to explore three decades of profound social, political and technological change

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 15h

I was on the telly.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

a big reason (though not the only one) that so many elite institutions capitulated to Trump immediately in early 2025 is they had learned through long experience that Dems are too chickenshit to punish them for basically any reason. but things can change!

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 16h

"...no one is ever really interested in anyone else’s AI output. ... It is like listening to someone else’s dreams. No one cares." Spot on, from @gilesyb.bsky.social gileswilkes.substack.com/p/can-you-tr...

gileswilkes.substack.com

can you trust AIs to produce your think tank research?

yes and no

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trying again after a date typo! Judge Reyes reschedules tomorrow’s hearing in East Potomac golf course case for Monday, Oct. 19. Orders that Gregory Wischer and Jessica Bowron attend and prepare to present sworn testimony.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

This is well worth a read on the need for *durable* consent if/when rejoining the EU. For the very same reason, I don't see how a referendum could be avoided (politically).

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 16h

Almost, but not quite, Bismarck’s resignation as German chancellor.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17h

Fuuuuuck this guy

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 17h

Short thread. It’s a choice.

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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 17h

One epic burn gets followed by another.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 17h

Post competence administration.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 17h

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17h

A simple "I'm sorry, Your Honor, for causing our line attorneys to lie to you over and over in court" will suffice, Acting Deputy AG McCotter.

The Department of Justice is proud to have attorneys—like the one here—who keep their poise and respectful demeanor, even in the face of judges who unfortunately fail to reciprocate. The ethics canons require judges to maintain an appropriate temperament; a few fall far short.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23h

The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18h

I am struck by how consistently transphobia and Islamophobia coexist in the same elite media circles as forms of approved bigotry, even as those same circles continue to whine about cancel culture and liberal censoriousness. It shapes and shades everything the industry produces.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 20h

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/10/2026

10/10 no notes

@ 3d
blklyonx
What's the difference between:

A: Transwomen
B: Women

Let the "tolerant" crowd explain this one. I'll grab
popcorn.

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Trans is an adjective. It's a descriptor. Like tall or fast
or smart. A trans woman is just a woman who was
assigned male at birth and then transitioned at some
point in her life. Just like a tall woman is a woman
who is taller than the average woman. It's just an
adjective. It's really not that complicated.

For instance you are a stupid, bigoted man. Whereas
I am a cool and nice man. We're both men. I'm just
kind of a better type of man.

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Diem @diemtf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This movie has a Delorean in scenes set in 1955 even though that car wasn't invented until 1981

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s like writing up an Epstein profile and ignoring his sex crimes

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

presswatchers.org

The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What a lede ☠️ www.washingtonsun.com/sports/washi...

As soon as the clock hit zero, Dan Quinn ripped the headset off his backwards-ballcapped head and spiked it to the turf, in much the same way a well-prepared quarterback of a well-coached team might be expected to do with the football, when his team is out of timeouts and well within range of a game-winning field goal in the final, ticking seconds of a critical NFL game.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh man 😂

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

milarch.org

Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Which is not to say that the left doesn’t have its own share of haters and belittlers. But it’s not an all pervasive, foundational assumption.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Agreed, though I think that many people in the center and on the left have a romanticized sense that synthesis can be achieved by these conversations. People on the right, in my experience, see arguments from the left as beneath contempt.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was wrong, and likely stupid. Not “here’s where we see things differently.” Just box A.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For my sins, I did attempt to engage on several occasions with much more conservative people than me on Twitter, as was. What I invariably found was that though I tried to be clear about understanding them they absolutely were not interested in understanding where I was coming from.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As described this makes no sense. If her father committed a crime (highly doubtful) he can’t be prosecuted because (1) it’s past the 10 year statute of limitations and (2) he’s dead. But this could be part of a *civil* effort to denaturalize Omar. That needs judicial approval and will go nowhere.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

apnews.com

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A few years back, the BBC asked me on to talk about asylum, but then the researcher started to panic because I wasn't "balanced" with someone who hated asylum seekers. I guess the BBC's definition of "balance" only goes one way

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