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Chip Bayers

@chipbayers.bsky.social
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Writer/Editor. Past: HotWired/Wired News/Wired, Newser, Adweek, USA Today. Tw: @chipbayers IG/Threads: @cbayers That’s my recently-departed Dad in the header pic.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Again, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10h
It didn't falter. It collapsed.
"As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator's Accusation of Perjury Falters," per The New York Times.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 14h
Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15h
Sam Altman is the ultimate example of “sometimes the best asset is being early.” He managed to get in the door at YC super early and then got wind that AI was blowing up super early. That’s basically his strategic advantage.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h
tell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14h
I try to do a policy 1080 every few years, just to keep things interesting
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 16h
Would be comic if it were not vicious. Actually it’s both. Sen Schmitt framed a whole perjury suggestion on the basis of Jack Smith’s attending an Atlanta Hawks game and surreptitiously seeing Fulton County prosecutor. In fact it was Iowa Hawkeyes (Caitlin Clark) in College Park Maryland
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18h
Send him in crate. We are the shithole nation. Us.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h
💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18h
We're losing billions of dollars every year, most of our revenue comes from two customers, and we believe our product has a good chance of killing everyone. We value ourselves at $2 trillion.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
If you have the Anthropic S-1, please message me at ezitron.76 on signal, i will protect your identity
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Glendy and Nixon's children are now orphans," the archbishop said... "The family was a beloved member of our community; their children received their first sacraments in our parishes..." "This is not a gray area... What is happening is gravely immoral." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis Archdiocese wants end to 'mass deportation,' says immigrant treatment 'sinful'
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called for a path to legal status for those without documentation.
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Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Officials win. Players and coaches don’t matter.
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Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another blown call by this crew requires a replay reversal.
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Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m not a fan of either of these teams and the officiating in this has been an embarrassment.
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Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Since it’s the NFL we know the fix is in.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.
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demosthenes1959.bsky.social @demosthenes1959.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One expects Netanyahu cynically did it to let Israelis die at the hand of terrorists so he could use a genocidal war to consolidate political support for turning Gaza into a depopulated desert:
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

Sen. Susan Collins

@SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  
  
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
 
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
 
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It gets talked about as gas prices and that obviously boosts it, but the Iran war in and of itself was insanely unpopular from the start, simply as a war, because voters actually do strongly hate the whole idea of yet another dumb stupid costly never-ending bloody quagmire war in the Middle East.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
A man who was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot was arrested on Thursday on charges that he recorded himself touching a woman’s hair on a Metro train in suburban Washington in March, the authorities said.
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Accused of Touching Woman’s Hair on D.C. Metro
Bryan Betancur, 29, was taken into custody on Thursday in Arlington, Va., two days after he completed a sentence for the same offense in the District of Columbia.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mike Lee thinking President Xi knows more about Americanized Chinese food than the Jewish community is an insult to both cultures.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump makes big promises while his incompetence delivers misery. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans wrecked the free market with tariffs and another stupid war and are now looking for government intervention and bailouts to fix the problem but the Democrats are communists.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Super Intelligence just killed Grandma arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This sucks I'm on a plane to Vegas and the pilots just ran outta the cockpit in squirrel costumes and whatnot #FurryInvasion
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Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Continuing to be high on his own supply.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Don't hold back on your confessions, Sir. Feel free to continue talking.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
why is alleged private citizen Ivanka Trump sitting by JD Vance, Rubio, and Bessent?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most Republicans know they’ve been aiding and abetting something abhorrent, and so their whininess and special pleas are mostly just part of the same bad faith act. But I do think they siloed themselves enough to lose track of the intensity of it, and must find this experience really disorienting.
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a representative of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, I cannot officially comment on this, other than to say, yes, this is a real video of an actual Senator on the floor of the United States Senate.
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Theory: It's just that they are all still on Twitter, and they credulously mistook Musk's manipulation of the algorithm as the manifestation of a genuine cultural change. Maybe it's not any more complicated than that.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026
Alt hed: The only other living Republican president appeared at a GOP fundraiser to help stop any attempt to curb Trump
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026
This shit is dead as disco. Needs $174 billion in debt to get off the ground and had to pull its IPO because it makes no money and won’t make a dime off OpenAI until, at best, 2028, and that is making a lot of assumptions about OpenAI’s solvency
SB Energy warned in its prospectus that the data centre projects it needs to fulfil its current contracts would require $174bn of investment.
The company said it planned to fund the majority through project-level debt but cautioned that it "may face difficulty securing the quantum of capital required to fund our project pipeline, particularly if the debt capital markets tighten"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If I ever say "it was good Elon Musk bought Twitter", several friends would know that it is a very specific cry for help and intervene immediately.
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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, I find the whole debate quite bizarre for this reason. They're fooling people with a combination of impressive statistical modelling and our innate tendency towards anthropomorphism.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When confronted by current bad economic data showing things getting worse, Republicans blame Biden. When confronted with polls showing dissatisfaction, they say the polls are wrong. When confronted with election results of voter revolts, they say the elections are rigged.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s abuse of power. Falsely labeling things an emergency or a national security need allows him to circumvent Congress and common sense.
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