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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you needed proof that investors never read the ‘risk factors’ section of the prospectus….

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Iran was supposed to save Trump this year. That didn’t work out so well so he’s looking for an “easy win” he can do in a month’s time. Hint: invading islands is never easy, especially when they’ve been anticipating it for 65 years.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The new Red Scare is a lot weirder and dumber than when they were just looking for communists in government.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any position on ICE that is less than "Shut it all down immediately and open the files" is morally unconscionable.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're now at the "we disappear those we declare to be enemies of the state" stage of totalitarianism.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Annals of AI: "Someone" wrote to me *at my personal email* (which I don't distribute) to say she was a student of mine or met me on campus several years ago (when I wasn't teaching; the second tell) asking to reconnect. Perfect English, somewhat formal, gmail account not obviously fake (based on...)

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing quite says "wrong side of history" than building a monument that you expect people to try to vandalize or tear down, so you threaten to kill them. Nicolae Ceauşescu would like a word. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

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Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Article of impeachment no. 427. Any takers?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.

NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This was one of Hitler's first acts when he came to power, too.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah. Once again: who’s going to stop him? The East Wing is gone and they’re getting ready to break ground on the fake triumphal arch.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is very true. The Democratic brand is toxic to any MAGA Republican, and most other Republicans too. They'll never vote for a Democrat no matter how reactionary they get. They should stop wasting their energy courting the right and focus on turning out disillusioned left-wing voters.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Called it. He's going to bulldoze it if he can't steal John F. Kennedy's honor.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So we're going back to Jimmy Carter's policies to deal with our national malaise?

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s an idiot. And he’s also giving away the whole game: just sub “Republican” for “communist” and you’ve got the GOP’s only talking point for the last 45 years.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next up: bulldozers. apnews.com/article/kenn...

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is barbaric. Reality TV exists for manufactured conflict. Even if a participant wants to be good, they're pushed to not be. The original Stanford Prison Experiment was bad enough. A reprise for mass entertainment is unconscionable. Gladitorial combat would be morally preferable.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very late-stage Strom Thurmond vibes today.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would love to see more big-name titles get rid of the black-hat options, especially when we're dealing with issues where the black hats are obvious for the skulls on them (i.e. slavery, the Holocaust, etc.) You can have an enjoyable game without fascist fan service.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The book asks the key question: IF Trump were a Russian asset, what exactly would he do differently?

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

computer programs like minesweeper or notepad could also bring about the extinction of the human race within a few decades, if they required setting the planet on fire

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On top of the fact that this is just extortion by the Trump administration, there is nothing that will cause the Kennedy Center to go bankrupt faster that putting Trump's name back on the building. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/a...

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Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added

The caution, contained in a draft resolution to the center’s board, comes as a federal judge decides whether President Trump’s name should remain off the building.

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chilean Australians in Sydney remember the great terrorist crime of September 11, 1973, when Washington helped destroy Chilean democracy, backing a bloody coup and murdering tens of thousands. They played Allende's final speech.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nah, he doesn't care about or understand affordability. He understands bribery, though.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We in the Seattle area were convinced they were coming for the Space Needle.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don’t know if this made the rounds already, but at an AfD victory party in Magdeburg, a kid does an obvious Nazi salute before being told, “careful with the hand.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Many people like their doctors as people and as medical practitioners. The problem arises when doctors work for health care conglomerates that place profits ahead of health care outcomes. Dr. McNicely doesn't send the bills, his office does 7 months after BadInsuranceCo decided not to pay a claim.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Really, every Democratic candidate for Congress needs to internalize this thread so they can understand how the entire U.S. economy has been turned into a scam. At very least, people need to stop buying on BigRiver. Here's Cory's book: bookshop.org/p/books/ensh...

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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for NonfictionEnshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll d...

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The whole thread, but especially this bit.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party. if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As has been the case for the past 10 years, the *only* operative question is who's going to stop him. So far, there's no answer. He ignores lower court rulings, SCOTUS has his back, and Dems in Congress won't play hardball because "centrism" or something. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...

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Trump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Gift Article)

In his breakneck construction of a grand ballroom and in many other initiatives, critics say, the president has tried to outrun judicial review.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m so old I remember when conservatives were indeed quite vocal about saying children should not have babies.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And I guess that's where I'm going to stop now that I've learned they're using AI. At least until I know they've stopped using it.

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Important read. Chomsky's one of those former 60s radicals whose politics evolved into a reflexive anti-Americanism and pro-anyone-opposed-to-us-ism, which is what led him and some of his followers to support both the Khmer Rouge and Russia's current imperialist project in Ukraine. And he's a creep.

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 30/08/2026

This is where the 1% will go to restart civilization after a nuclear attack. But it for me thinking: what if the uber wealthy built these bunkers for more people — and not for nuclear attacks but for the climate crisis that will get us all — instead of trying to leave the planet?

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

James Clyburn says on @meetthepress.com that he supports adding four seats to the Supreme Court: “A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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winterswords @chriswinters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finally broke 900, thanks to years of Scrabble. I found a Rarity-84 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 910 points · 10 rare words. Only 4 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/XQRJ4W

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OUTLIER · Day 101

kriszteli scored 910 on Day 101. Can you beat them?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.

Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.

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