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Mark Cappelletty

@cappelletty.bsky.social
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Writer, Reader, Decent Home Bartender, Record Collector, Movie Nerd, Toledo native, Man About Town. Story Analyst, IA 700

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking forward to about 5ish years out when news media coverage of this is like "wow, Skydance collapsed so quickly and is desperate to sell of WB how did this happen" as if it wont like like the 4th or 5th time in a row exactly this thing has happened.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So I guess if everyone who was on Epstein Island writes an essay, that settles it, huh?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 16/09/2026
Trump’s EPA is putting our air and our environment at risk to please Big Polluters. Global warming is real; the science proves it, and this irresponsible administration is openly allowing greenhouse gas emissions to further contaminate our planet. This is DANGEROUS.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TODAY’S CHALLENGE: Which of these men do *not* appear in the Epstein files? (ANSWER: It’s a trick question. They ALL do.)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of concealing from a federal judge its efforts to implement key parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order before November’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump administration is ‘hiding’ efforts to implement anti-mail voting order, Democrats tell court
Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of concealing from a federal judge its efforts to implement key parts of the president's anti-mail voting executive order.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Wowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s worth pointing out that the one thing you never see in these news stories about the “doubts about vaccine safety” is any real world evidence that vaccines are unsafe or causing harms
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Any reporters going to ask her about Elon's litany of racism and anti-semitism? Like this: bsky.app/profile/razz...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Pretty wild that an obscure conspiracy theorist at OAN is now the gate keeper and filter for what the president is exposed to on the internet as well as what he posts on social media. No wonder his lies have gotten even more bizarre & twisted since Harp became his human printer.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's still Lake Ontario. And the Gulf of Mexico. You're welcome.
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Mark Cappelletty @cappelletty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
this is how they treat geographical and naming disputes for every country, rather than having someone decide “this is stupid and we are going to manually override the decision because we think it’s stupid” unfortunately we elected a stupid man with the power to order GNIS to change names
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Teri Goodson. 🚨🆘🇺🇲🆘🚨 @terigoodson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u... Trump essentially used our Navy as pirates to steal oil from Venezuela, then he opened a foreign account that he controls for the money the oil brings. This is just another theft. He doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself.
nytimes.com
Trump Says Venezuelan Oil Will Refill U.S. Stockpiles, but It’s Not So Simple
New projects can take years to produce meaningful amounts of oil, and that’s especially true in Venezuela, where infrastructure is in disrepair.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
The Imagination Library, founded in 1995 by Dolly Parton, has handed out hundreds of millions of books to children over the past 31 years. But the organization is not immune to the state-level budget cuts threatening public libraries and other educational nonprofits across the U.S. trib.al/9X75g83
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My fake company that trades imaginary gleepglorps in an obvious Ponzi scheme is sick of being asked to contribute to the society that made it all possible.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
First, Dolly Parton. Now, Tim Curry. Tell me, do the deaths of 80-year-olds occur in threes? Asking for the world.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here’s one for your friends who see US atrocities in Iran and, with good hearts but all the depth of a cartoon, decide that makes the Iranian regime good guys. A US/Iran *teamup* to deport & likely murder Iranian dissidents.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The AI companies claim their technology will enhance human creativity. But they are quietly undertaking a massive campaign to destroy human creativity. Let me tell you the story of the AI companies' effort to feed rare books into their AI models and then destroy them.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big Tech's favorite think tank wants Democrats to focus oversight on the Trump admin and avoid investigating corporate collaborators. The Taylor Farms cyclospora saga shows why that would be a big mistake—Congress can (and should) investigate both admin incompetence and corporate malfeasance.
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Corruption is a Two-Way Street
The Taylor Farms Cyclospora Outbreak shows why Congress must Investigate both Trump and his Corporate Accomplices
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John Ragosta @johnaragosta.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Supreme Court extremists are out of control. There is no basis for presidential authority over state election systems. (Conservatives used to oppose abuses of power.) They want Trump to be king. They need to be dealt with. But first everyone must VOTE! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court hands preliminary win to Trump on mail-in ballots executive order
The Trump administration wants to exert greater control over mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterms despite the primary role states play in overseeing elections.
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vomitgoblin.bsky.social @vomitgoblin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What the actual fuck, these people are pure, unfiltered crazy.
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When you see how often Trump relies on the Supreme Court as his last line of defense when he's doing something illegal, it really stokes the burning rage towards those people in 2016 who said, "Don't try to threaten me with the Supreme Court" when they complained about Hillary
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/08/2026
Every progressive gets chased around about their relationship to Hasan Piker. Has ONE reporter ever asked JD Vance about his embrace of the insane and anti-democratic ideas of Curtis Yarvin? Or about his relationship with democracy-hater Peter Thiel? The imbalance is stark.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Democrats should be unafraid in saying that Roberts on the Court is comparable to Mike Johnson in the House and John Thune in the Senate. They're all in thrall to Trump.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“I’m making hospitals maul children’s genitalia,” has to be first-ballot Sociopath Hall of Fame material.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m watching a documentary on World War II. The Nazi higher-ups were still praising Hitler’s genius while the Russians were only 12 miles from the city center of Berlin. Just like the Republicans still loyal to Trump as the party goes under.
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
michael's view
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lots of focus on Natalie Harp's being one of three aide shepherded out of Turkey while lesser priorities such as Marco Rubio remained on the plane. But check out who were the other two: Dan Scavino and Walt Nauta, the man who kept the secrets and lied about them in the Mar-A-Lago prosecution.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fun reminder - in two weeks Sony is going to delist 500+ digital movies. If you bought one, they’re going to vanish from your library too. Oh, and no refunds, you didn’t actually own them in the first place www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...
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Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For
"I won't be back"
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Rep. Laura Friedman @friedman.house.gov · 17/08/2026
I don’t trust the Trump Administration to let this go. That’s why I’m pushing for Congress to pass the No Taxpayer-Funded Slush Fund Act, because this administration should not be using your hard-earned money to pay off Trump’s loyalists.
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Blanche rescinds fund for Trump allies after GOP senators threaten to block his attorney general bid | The Associated Press
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
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"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling "Unsafe". Salem rich trials. 🔥🔥🔥
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can't come up with one positive reason for these data centers to even exist.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Eerily similar to the verbiage on the Access Hollywood tape, except instead of bragging about assaulting women he’s talking about pilfering historical artifacts, most of which we will likely never see again.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is an INSANE thing to say and believe.
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Mark Cappelletty @cappelletty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These two sonofabitches are first in line for the guillotine.
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