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Ethan Mikolay

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h
RFK Jr. says AI can offer patients “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and has the power to “free us from medical tyranny.” He spoke at an industry-backed MAHA Summit, whose sponsors included AI companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
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A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4h
The White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry.
White House about reducing immigration from Muslim-majority countries to near zero
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12h
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actual headline in today's WaPo.
Headline: At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding US consumers run into resistance.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 27/09/2026
They tried nothing and they’re all out of ideas
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 1991, a former KKK “grand wizard” repeated the “great replacement theory” while debating Christopher Hitchens. He was concerned about a “third world invasion” that’s “robbing & stripping” the “Euro-American” of “everything he’s got.” This is the Republican Party’s position today. Same position.
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Christopher Hitchens VS White Nationalist :Part TWO
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A move some lawmakers called illegal” Journalism, what is it, anyway? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want to know how to improve confidence in elections? Stop Trump lying about vote fraud
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/09/2026
You might be surprised to hear me say this, but I think Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party. Just not for the reasons you probably think. He has a sharp strategic mind and the credibility to say uncomfortable truths to his own people and be heard rather than exiled.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking back at this - simply disgraceful and reckless reporting and framing from POLITICO. They should be ashamed of themselves and offer followups noting how the fu*ked up but ofc they won't bc no one cares about accountability for political/media elites in DC www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
"Ahead of Trump speech, DHS says it found thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls
A draft press release viewed by POLITICO said noncitizens were registered in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin testifies before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. Mullin answered subcommittee members' questions about his department's FY2027 budget. FEMA disaster assistance, detainee deaths in immigration detention and other subjects. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The draft press release by DHS, headed by Markwayne Mullin, does not indicate evidence was found that noncitizens voted or explain how it reached a number that appears to be higher than previous reviews have found. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

By John Sakellariadis and Maggie Miller"
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Peter Davies @petermdavies80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol "could"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, we have "cancelled."

Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz
I know I got cancelled for it but I stand firm that X is back. This platform is where the most influential people post about tech, media, business.
(quoted post is about Jeffrey Katzenberg posting on Twitter for the first time???)
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
President Trump lambasts court order overturning press ban, saying that Politico was within two week of obtaining nuclear weapons.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
 NYT hed: Glenn Beck is Sorry About All That. Spoiler, he actually wasn't.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Former Trump supporter in media and/or politics? Opinion discarded. It's that easy and nothing of value will be lost. You helped create the dumbest stove-touching in living memory. Sit there and shut up while we try to clean up after you
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/09/2026
There is a plus side to this: A large WPA-style jobs program hiring people to undo all this shit.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23/09/2026
this is bad news for basically everybody but it would be fascinating to watch elon and bari have a Dumbass Off
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is called "making your move into Republican politics."
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Looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular faces rape and drugging charges
Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the rape charge
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026
jason benetti you are my GOAT
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week. It will be there second major job reduction of the year, after Xbox eliminated 1,600 roles in July. Microsoft, which owns Xbox, Bethesda, Activision, and Blizzard, made over $100 billion in profit last year.
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Exclusive: Xbox to Cut Hundreds of Jobs, Consolidate Game Studios
Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans. The Microsoft-owned firm also plans to consolidate...
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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
absolute peak use of ‘if you changed all the words in that sentence to different ones then it wouldn’t be so funny, would it?’
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?
Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
on one hand this is good pushback and is needed. On the other hand, the political press being willing to play good lapdog and nod along while he abused literally everyone till such time as he started beating them too tells us a lot about the character of the people in that pool
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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagine giving a shit if literally anyone else is getting classified info when our DoD is run by an alcoholic white nationalist Fox News host
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20/09/2026
WARNING WARNING WARNING AN ARAB MUSLIM MIGHT RECEIVE CLASSIFIED INTEL???
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could become eligible for access to classified information if elected in November.
Members of Congress generally are not required to obtain a formal executive-branch security clearance, though classified access is still subject to need-to-know rules.
The issue is drawing scrutiny from national security and policy experts, who point to El-Sayed's past associations and statements. His campaign disputes the criticism.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
we fought an entire civil war over this and they're pretending it's a natural backlash to some annoying oberlin students
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We all knew who this guy was before Bill Cassidy did the above and confirmed him. Now we are shocked, shocked that the longtime antivaxxer gave an antivax speech at the antivax conference run by his antivax org.
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