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Capricious

@capriciously.bsky.social
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-cynical optimist, wanderer, former librarian, looking for blue sky -a little of this, a little of that; lately a lot of politics -what's happening now is class warfare on a global scale

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
Sound advice.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Hegseth finds nothing more exciting and wonderful than the prospect of a good execution, preferably on camera, taped and with plenty of bullets flying. Just ask the 234 Ecuadorean, Colombian and Venezuelan fisherman he's murdered so far in the last year. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16h
NATO Military Committee completes its first visit to Ukraine in eight years and its first-ever meeting in Kyiv. ​ ​Clear sign to Moscow that #NATO support for Ukraine remains a central priority.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 17h
Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 18h
The story, by @telliotter.bsky.social, is here. The point of course isn’t that there’s anything wrong with hiring on H-1B visas but that this the purest “for thee not for me” slop imaginable; DOGE, as another example, had several apparent foreign nationals working with or directly for it.
wired.com
A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know I shouldn't be surprised by headlines like this anymore... but wtf
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump announced the opening of a new $6.6 billion shipbuilding factory in Baltimore. It will be partly funded by the US Navy ($2.9 billion), will be owned by Anduril Industries, a defense company owned by Palmer Luckey, a Trump ally and major donor for the Republican party. Luc... TAT: [Corruption]
theguardian.com
Trump announces $6.6bn defense shipyard owned by top Republican donor’s firm
Baltimore project to be partly funded by US government but owned by defense firm Anduril, founded by Palmer Luckey
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wild news from the NYT: Two of Trump’s top political strategists, Chris LaCivita and James Blair, took in hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide election consulting to the pro-russia authoritarian leadership of Republika Srpska www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Key point that @aselrod.bsky.social makes here is that some of these figures offering the most vile male-supremacist responses to this have gigs within mainstream media as well:
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 06/10/2026
🛑 NEW: Reports of 'plague' in Irkutsk, Russia have set off a wave of speculation and anxiety. To help combat misinformation, we have setup a live tracker to continuously assess new claims. As of right now: reports have LOW credibility. Read more here. irkutsk.america2.news
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The Irkutsk Plague Report — live credibility tracker
What is confirmed, what is not, and who is spreading which claims about the reported plague death in Irkutsk, Russia.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump's popularity across America's historical NATO allies roughly equals that of the plague virus.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump diverted $176.9mn from a congressionally appropriated human rights fund to instead fund fascist political parties across Europe, Canada and South Africa... in most cases, funding the exact same entities that the Kremlin supports. Another example of Trump-Putin collaboration on the global stage
theguardian.com
Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad
Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never thought i'd see the day when a US president called for a foreign nation to destroy two major American cities and people cheered.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reuters has tracked 40 cases where migrants granted US legal protection after being persecuted for their LGBT status were deported to third countries in Africa that either criminalize same-sex relations or have been described by the State Department as... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]
reuters.com
Trump's deportation push forces dozens of LGBT migrants onto hostile terrain
Two years ago, a mob assaulted Abdou Latifou and threatened to kill him after he was seen kissing the man he loved.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...
cnn.com
US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
nytimes.com
The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Does anyone tthink the smartest reporters in DC don't know Trump is building a dictatorship? Of course they know. The question is why they won't tell the public loudly and clearly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m more sympathetic to the median voter (derogatory) than most people on here but it seems like the only way you can instill some sense of civic virtue is to shove the consequences directly into their face after the fact
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The "Do Nothing Congress" that Harry S Truman ran against in 1948 was roughly twice as active as the Congress over which Mike Johnson presided from 2025-26. bsky.app/profile/sahi...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
David Horsey, Seattle Times
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With everything else going on it can be easy to forget how much we're making Cuba suffer right now.
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Coast Guard Says It Stopped Ships Carrying Fuel to Cuba (Gift Article)
The Coast Guard has intercepted two small boats it says was carrying illegal fuel to Cuba as the United States enforces an fuel blockade aimed at Cuba’s Communist government.
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
404media.co
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Both can be correct
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
to make the corruption more palatable to a dim and befuddled electorate you need to occasionally engage in public interest performance art with the help of Rupert Murdoch's propaganda empire
nypost.com
Exclusive | FTC opens sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other ‘super intelligence’ models
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation before one of the AI models went rogue during a test — in what’s since been dubbed the “Hugging Face incident” — but the ag…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's not just that it's a false dichotomy. It's also that "culture wars" is yet another example of how we are only able to discuss Every. Single. Topic. In. 🇺🇸. Politics. using the talking points & terminology of the right. We & the media are under no obligation to do that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One important policy lesson from this story is how Facebook committed blatant tax fraud in 2013 (Zuckerberg's stock options as R&D) and still hasn't been forced to pay it and thus learned that tax fraud is an acceptable business practice and so is doing it again.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Satirist and former South Park writer Toby Morton has launched the website TheCornell7.org to target seven students accused in a civil lawsuit of drugging and gang-raping a female student at Cornell University.
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Home | The Cornell 7
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally showing some grit?
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Capricious @capriciously.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In case anyone forgot ...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Just because we played footsie with these creeps for decades doesn't mean we wanted to marry them" ...but also: good for him. Due to the US's two-party polarized politics, fragmenting our authoritarian coalition requires high profile breaks like these from within the Republican Party.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 28/09/2026
Wow. Check out the European numbers on favourable views of the US versus favourable views of China….
Screenshot showing poll of how 36 countries see the US and China. Large majority has a more favourable view of China than the US including most European contries
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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