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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The funny thing about Colorado Springs is the juxtaposition between some of the most amazing geology in the world and a sizable population of people who think the earth is 6,000 years old.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/wattmind... The Trump administration seems fundamentally incapable of understanding second order effects, let alone planning for such effects. This too, will ripple throughout global politics for years to come.

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An Update

Bummed out, then not.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/wattmind... On the state of the world...and a few moments of joy.

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An Update

Bummed out, then not.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The irony of using an algorithm to tell you to stop trusting algorithms isn’t lost on me. But we have to start somewhere. If you feel like you’re drowning, it’s not an accident. It’s a synthesis of biology & tech. Here is why we need to stop playing on Easy Mode wattmind.substack.com/p/democracy-...

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Democracy on Hard Mode

Choosing Friction in a Frictionless World

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

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After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras

A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

kristi noem as porta potties: thread

Green Porta Potties to match her wardrobe.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Lots of discourse on "what's the deal with men?" Here's another perspective - progressives need to give men a righteous cause to fight for. wattmind.substack.com/p/the-honor-...

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The Honor Wars

The Ancient Drive Reshaping American Politics

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Why young men are drawn to the right, and how the left can fight back. open.substack.com/pub/wattmind...

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The Honor Wars

The Ancient Drive Reshaping American Politics

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

BIDEN'S CANCER DIAGNOSIS: shock, plus the trivia: Tapper, Politico, others exploiting his health can go to hell TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx

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Sunshine Jarboly @sunshinejarboly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

haha, if i’m supposed to be at work right now then how come i’m receiving last rites from a priest in this denny’s parking lot because i ate some clams that i found at a bus stop?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2025

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Trump is now going after Energy Star. This program and others like it are extremely valuable to everyone and should not be cut. Here's why. wattmind.substack.com/p/more-than-...

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More Than Savings: The True Value of Energy Efficiency

It's a true win-win for everyone.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Setting fire to your house then putting it out before the entire thing is in ashes, insisting you thank me for my expert firefighting skills.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Son, if you work hard, stay in school, and get good grades, one day you too can realize the American dream - 16 hour shifts at the textile factory berating unvaccinated children for their poor sewing skills. 🇺🇲

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Seriously, what in the actual fuck is this?

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Shitty tariffs or not, batteries are changing the game in energy. And it's happening faster than you realize.

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The Battery Boom is Here

The energy transition will not be deterred by poor policy.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Who did Mike Waltz intend to add? Obviously it wasn't Goldberg. So who was it? Someone with initials JG?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you were trying to tank the economy, I can't think of doing anything different than what the administration is doing now. Seems pretty clear they want a recession.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I wrote about the attention economy and the inescapable gravity of our modern, digital world. I hope you will give it a read. Shoutout to @chrislhayes.bsky.social and his amazing book 'The Sirens Call' that put a lot of my thoughts into words.

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Black Holes of the 21st Century

How Technology Hijacks Your Mind, and What to Do About It

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Ren @renvanrey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

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Black Holes of the 21st Century

How Technology Hijacks Your Mind, and What to Do About It

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Come on Google...no reason this obvious phishing scam should make it into my inbox. Do better!

A phishing email that Gmail should catch but did not!

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is every film festival though.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Okay but hear me out: A nighttime bookstore in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, tea is served to all who enter, there is an emotional support owl in each section, and a buy one / get one free sale occurs during every full moon.

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Gaetz pick is another example of how easily Trump can be manipulated. It wasn't his pick to start, but Gaetz had his ear on a plane and convinced him. Wiles was out of earshot. Whisper sweet nothings to Don and he'll give you what you want.

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alice @alice.tf · 14/11/2024

everybody atheist till they gotta update a bios

my desk showing a computer on its side with a ryzen CPU tray and a mouse sitting on top as well as a monitor showing a bios update screen

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

High resolution image of a planet 3 billion km away and its rings. Uranus by JWST. 🔭 🧪

The planet Uranus on a black background. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the right half. The patch is whitest at the centre, then fades into blue as it expands from right to left. A thin outline of Uranus is also white. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet in an oval shape. There are 9 blueish white dots scattered around the rings.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The storm has passed and the mountain is glorious!

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Chris Prato @cjprato.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

For those of us working on climate change, and for all the journalists our there - don't lose track of all the investments made under the Biden administration that take years to come to fruition. Republicans will take credit for the growth. Remind them where it started.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/11/2024

NEW: What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

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What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration

We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

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