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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202... Take a look at the styling of a 1950's or 60's Jaguar and then have a good cry. Jaguar is a company that keeps losing it's way.
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Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV – but it’s too long for UK parking spaces
Latest model is launching in New York to target rich US buyers – and is more than 5.2 metres long and 2 metres wide
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... Higher than normal greenhouse gas levels detected now are not causing the problem, they are the result of the ongoing problem worldwide. Local levels rising are the sign that things will be worse in the future.
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New Zealand greenhouse gas levels hit record highs threatening catastrophic glacier melts
Government report finds the country could be hit with more frequent and intense heatwaves, as well as damaging storms and cyclones
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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‘All I want to do is cry’: trauma of 7 October survivors three years after the attacks
Israeli communities shattered by Hamas massacres are torn between rebuilding their lives and remembering lost friends and relatives
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He needs to be removed pronto. www.rawstory.com/trump-san-di...
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Dark theory emerges about origin of Trump's 'take out' LA and San Diego blurt
Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would let Iran attack Los Angeles or San Diego at a Nebraska rally on Monday night led MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire to raise the possibility that the president might be t...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... DUH! Did he just wake from a 50 year coma?
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Jesse Marsch: ‘We Americans have been inundated with propaganda since we were young’
As he prepares to face his home nation, the Canada manager reflects on his adopted country’s soccer, its prime minister, and its place in the world
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... This is exactly what the first reports of Covid looked like. A nice little story in a backwater news outlet covering a nondescript lab in China.
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Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures
Precautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But every last traitorous Trumpublican should suffer the consequences of their actions. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trump knows horrors so awful that Republicans commit treason to silence him
Former special counsel Jack Smith set off a MAGA triggerstorm on Tuesday after Senate Republicans bombed their questioning during a cringeworthy embarrassment of a hearing. While he was warmly welcome...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Booming? The only thing booming is the amount of debt these companies are carrying. One of the first things you learn about investing is to pay careful attention to a company's debt to income ratio, also debt to asset. None of the AI companies pass the smell test.
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The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Raised eyebrows as banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein ties dies by suicide
A British banker who exposed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to The Banker, a death that raised eyebrows and drew the attention of R...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... $90 is $90 but what is this supposed to help? My SS payment went up 3% this year but the cost of everything went up 30% at least. I once had an employer take me out to lunch to celebrate the company giving me a 12 cent per hour raise. This feels the same.
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Trump says US to send one-time $90 payment to 20m seniors enrolled in Medicare
President says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiums
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Hell yeah. He has done an amazing job of turning Illinios around bringing it back from the brink of bankruptcy where the repugnascum had taken it.
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A billionaire is one of Trump’s loudest critics. Will Democrats send him to the White House?
As the Illinois governor seeks a third term, his growing national profile has fueled speculation about a possible White House bid
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... As we go into the antarctic summer the loss of ice will just get worse.
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The New York Times noted that the Trump administration can, for the time being, resume rapid deportations to countries like Equatorial Guinea Why can't the court make a ruling that isn't temporary? If they aren't sure they shouldn't issue a ruling. Roberts is scum. www.rawstory.com/trump-suprem...
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Supreme Court hands Trump a major victory in stunning reversal
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries other their own, including those with human rights abuse allegations.According to multiple rep...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... We are long overdue for an overhaul of our food safety regulations.
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need to seize 8% of the assets of every billionaire and then tax the gross income of every one of them at 90%. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Massive Ivanka Trump problem triggers existential threat to GOP: 'Rage is building'
The Republican Party has a huge Ivanka Trump problem — and it could end in class warfare, a leading Democratic Socialist warned.“The anger and rage is building,” India Walton told Raw Story. “As we be...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” www.rawstory.com/tim-tebow/
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'This is evil': Christians say Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar buried them in debt
A new investigation says Tim Tebow's celebrity has helped draw believers into a wealth seminar that left some of them thousands of dollars in debt.The former NFL quarterback is the recurring keynote a...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s... I complained about a manager to the head of a company and was told, "you know cream always rises to the top." I told him that I had found that shit floats too.
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Toxic bosses: why do companies protect managers who make working life hell?
Bullying, manipulation and intimidation can destroy lives, yet abusive authoritarians continue to rise to the top. How do they get away with it – and can they be brought to heel?
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/n... "A tool created with the sincere goal of enhancing our respect for animals could end up having the opposite effect by turning them into playthings that we can pester and control."
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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?
As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the way most Americans have gone through life. The problems of, an unfair justice system, job discrimination, housing discrimination and all the other problems they were shielded from by white privilege just let them skate through life. www.rawstory.com/texas-republ...
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'I mean, wow': Lifelong Republican's '60 Minutes' confession becomes a lightning rod
A lifelong conservative Republican drew accusations of privilege after telling 60 Minutes that a data center is the first issue in his adult life to directly affect him.Dave Lowe lives beside a propos...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
John Roberts needs to end up in prison along with other treasonous members of the court. www.rawstory.com/missouri-ger...
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'Indefensible': Appeals court's 'procedurally bananas' election move leaves expert aghast
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion impacting the 2026 midterm elections that one legal expert described as "indefensible."On Monday, the court ordered Missouri lawmakers to use...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Manslaughter isn't enough. He fired the shot 40 minutes after sunset. You never ever fire at a target that you can't identify. Positively identify. I'm willing to bet that if they check his eyesight he fails the test and is probably legally blind after dark.
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US hunter charged after fatally shooting woman he mistook for a deer, police say
Walter Moorhead, 74, jailed on suspicion of manslaughter after allegedly shooting a woman while hunting in Delaware
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... WTF is wrong with people?
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Elderly man allegedly beaten to death in Virginia Walmart by parents of employee
Bert Atienza and teen worker reportedly exchanged words before parents showed up and allegedly attacked shopper
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Please stop calling the criminal class elite. One man one vote, all men are created equal and all that. OK? Buying congress so you can pass laws to make your criminal activity seem less criminal doesn't make you elite.
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‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... I keep hearing about how rouge AI did bad things. Where's the proof that any of it happened? Oh, well we can't show you the inner workings of our system. And yet the media, the people who will not report without proof just keep on reporting. Complete bullshit.
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Blind panic signals something monstrous just unraveled in an AI lab
Humanity's last 300 years have seen its share of paradigm shifts: the power of steam mechanics, electric power, the assembly line, robotic automation, computers, the net. They all upended the status q...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Agents my ass. A programmer wrote a program to do a dirty deed and assigned the running of the program to a set of computer processors, not "agents". The processors did what they were programmed to do. Don't fall for this bullshit.
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AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers
Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The point of the datacenters is to force anyone that needs to store data pay for the storage space at one of these data centers. Which will also give them access to absolutely all the data in the entire nation. The billionaires need to be dealt with.
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Steve Jones on the pros and cons of AI datacentres – cartoon
To drink or to think – that is the question
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... I refuse to allow any other subject taint this solemn day. If you are too young to have any memory of this day please take some time and watch some of the tremendous documentaries that have been produced. It has been 25 years and this day still brings me to tears.
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Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold
The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci... So we start the end game of the AI scam. We should be very afraid of out of control computer programs forming "communities". No evidence of such given.The Government should nationalize the industry to prevent tragedy. So the gov. ends up holding the debt, the rich walk.
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Anthropic researcher's resignation sends warning about the dangers of AI development
Jacob Coxon, who said he spent three years doing research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, said Tuesday on the social platform X that the two AI companies are more focused on beating each other and globa...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Not 2 wks ago I mentioned this The climate models do not account for feedback loops because there is almost zero research on any of them However they mostly are mathematical. If releasing x amount of methane does this then releasing y amount more may do this
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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump... We already know the despicable piece of dung was in another part of town crowing about how now that the World Trade Center Towers had fallen his building was the tallest in Manhattan. He is a sick scumbag.
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Firestorm as Trump's 'despicable' 9/11 rescue tale unravels: 'Who are these lies for?'
President Donald Trump repeated a dubious claim about his actions on Sept. 11, 2001, during a ceremony Tuesday honoring emergency personnel who died during the terrorist attacks 25 years ago.The 80-ye...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... China's total greenhouse gas emissions cross 14 billion metric tons of CO₂ equivalent annually, meaning coal power alone drives nearly a third of the nation's entire climate footprint. they need to clean up their own act before they start pointing fingers.
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How the Nepal-Tibet disaster became the latest victim of China’s ‘Clean Internet’ campaign
The online campaign used to focus on tackling cybercrime and hacking but has since expanded to suppress information that differs from official narratives
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Why would a public employee conducting public business worry about being recorded?
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/jared-kushne... When will the media start saying that the piece of shit in the oval office is a Russian asset, and by extension so is Kushner?
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Jared Kushner's 'absolutely abhorrent' Ukraine proposal slammed by security expert
Comments by Jared Kushner about a possible "win-win" situation for Ukraine and Russia were slammed by an appalled national security expert.During a Monday appearance on CNN, Alex Plitsas responded to ...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Germany is overdue, At least twice a century they develop an overwhelming urge to take over the world.
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Why is far-right AfD’s state victory significant and what might happen next in German politics?
Aftershocks of party’s win in Saxony-Anhalt will ripple across Germany, with two more state elections this month
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/mike-rounds-... It's too bad we don't have any anti corruption laws on the books with any teeth in them. Not rules, not guidelines, laws, with serious consequences.
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Shock as Senate staffer exposed as Meta & tobacco-giant lobbyist: 'Most obvious conflict'
A senior staffer working for Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) has been cashing in as a lobbyist for multiple major corporations constantly under scrutiny by Congress, according to a new report. Newly surfaced ...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Another article where we just pretend that the oil industry hasn't bought almost every member of congress and openly bribed the president.
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How climate denialism finds its way to the US 's highest office – video explainer
Climate change denialists have found support in the highest office during the second Trump administration. The Guardian's fossil fuel and energy reporter Dharna Noor explains why such rhetorics could ...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... Why not read an actual non fiction book, such as "For The Sake Of All Living Things" by John Del Vecchio? I guarantee it will change your life.
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‘It leaves holes inside of you’: graphic novel aims to remember the history and horror of genocide
Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides is an audacious and personal new look at genocides from Germany to Palestine
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk... What this says to me is that farmers have money to burn. We really need to look hard at who actually needs assistance.
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Charlie Kirk corn maze mockery triggers conservative host: ‘Give me a break!’
An Indiana farm is facing mockery after unveiling a corn maze honoring slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, and Fox News' Joe Concha wasn’t pleased about it.Kirk was assassinated last year while sp...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘Concerning’ Trump health signs flagged by expert: ‘Side of his mouth starting to droop’ www.rawstory.com/trump-267782... Good. Hurry up and die.
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‘Concerning’ Trump health signs flagged by expert: ‘Side of his mouth starting to droop’
President Donald Trump exhibited several “concerning” behaviors during a White House meeting earlier this week, behaviors that could point to a number of health-related issues, forensic psychologist J...
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When people ask who is going to pay for universal healthcare tell them we are going to levy a .25 cent tax on every share of stock traded in the US markets. That would raise $2.7 billion per day.
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... What bullshit. The only threat this computer presents is that the investors lose everything when people wake up to the fact that AI is worthless. Corporations that use AI are finding it necessary to hire people to clean up the "AI slop".
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‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?
A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Who the hell gives a shit how he feels about human development. He makes movies. He may know quite a bit about the film industry but he is not qualified to comment on cutting edge neuroscience. He's just another dinosaur waiting to pass into insignificance.
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... I am not in favor of the death penalty. It should be reserved for the worst. This woman should have been sent for mental health treatment a program designed to teach people how to become functioning citizens. No child should ever be thrown away the way she was.
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Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims
At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-econom... Anyone really stupid enough to believe that 162k jobs were created in August? The first thing he did after the election was destroy the bureau of labor statistics. The truth is nobody knows what is actually going on with the economy or anything else in this country
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A dirty little secret betrays a supposedly rosy report for Trump
The Labor Department reported this morning that the United States added 162,000 jobs in August. That’s more than expected, especially given how few jobs the country has added over the last few months....
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/c... The piece of crap should be in prison.
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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan
The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter... I often say that I will recite the Pledge of Allegiance when this country starts living up to the promises it has made.
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Even high school reporters are facing censorship now
As teenage journalists deal with threats to their school newspapers, they’re calling in attorneys for back up
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Leave it to a repugnascum to try something this sleazy.
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Missouri state legislative candidate accused of trying to plant cocaine on opponent
Republican candidate Thomas Ross and former campaign manager allegedly devised plan to stash drugs in rival Louise Secker’s purse or vehicle
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carlkerstann.bsky.social @carlkerstann.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Should have been done long ago. Things should be shown in the correct locations and proportions.
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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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