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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 14h

This is from British politics, but given that this horseshit is global— There are NO tax cuts in modern times in the US or the UK that are “paying for themselves”. This is a peddled fairytale, and you should heap scorn on anyone pitching it to you. Just laugh in their face, send them running

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my guide is especially helpful if you care about an issue a lot and want to know the (often dozens of local) referendums that will affect it. here's just a sampling on housing/transit/climate!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely wild thing to say in public let alone at the UN

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh and if you think there isn’t a backroom deal between Newsom and the Ellisons to give him favorable coverage when he runs you are a fucking mark

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 21/09/2026

For all his anti-Trump grandstanding, Newsom is hopelessly ill-suited to handle this authoritarian moment. If Americans want to restore their democracy, they should kick out every one of these establishment Dem assholes at the soonest opportunity.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AG Bonta, the goal was for you to not allow massive media consolidation in the hands of autocrats and their acolytes, and you're announcing the terms of how they bought you off. You can't sell that here.

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You do not hate Gavin Newsom enough. You just simply don't. If you have any hate for this Patrick Bateman boss boot licker in your heart, triple it. That's a start. Media consolidation at this scale is venom straight into the veins of the public. Insane how fast they caved before the midterms.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Links to quick and convenient message to Governor’s office for CA residents

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with CA that would make the state abandon its net neutrality law, broadband affordability, and public safety protections. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality,

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws,

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Recovering from being this stupid is going to be a lot of work

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The crudest thing about Trump 2 is the *mixing* of personal corruption with government business—arbitrary US moves can be appealed only by funneling money to Trump and family. One is continually struck by the hollowness of a Supreme Court that decided to SPECIFICALLY SHIELD that co-mingling!

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“But while a scientist might look at an evolution in opinion as the natural outcome of the scientific method, in which researchers form a hypothesis and then challenge it by running experiments or analyzing data, in some corners it became proof of a cover-up.”

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s really irritating being able to see how American media works now that the Overton window is completely broken/owned If somebody else was president, we’d be hearing about this stuff for months or years— but now they disappear by the end of the week

Soldier’s widow denied benefits because “not a war”

Soldiers’ deaths falsely misclassified because “not a war and also I just called ‘time out’”

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

China's Cyberspace Administrator outlined five key risks to AI, namely inherent technological vulnerabilities, model-control risks, evolving threats from AI agents, malicious misuse & societal impacts. Translation here if you want to see how China views AI: www.geopolitechs.org/p/the-five-b...

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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Asked why reporters had been instructed to lower the window shades on the plane, Trump said that it was “because you’re probably on a dangerous flight." “But if I go, you go. Right?" Trump added “Perhaps someday you want to change professions”

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If any of you Harvey Pekar fans are looking for a one-of-a-kind item, Pekar's daughter has his old copies of Rolling Stone for sale on ebay. She's raising funds to archive his papers. Many have the mailing label w/ his name & address! Grabbed one of these myself! www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why hasn’t the rest of the country been doing this? Why wasn’t Buttigieg doing this when he was transportation secretary? The reason why DSA is so powerful is because they show that *nobody* else is fucking politics does *anything* in the public’s interest anymore

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The first segment of this week's This American Life features Rick Cole (@urbanistcole.bsky.social) talking to Ira Glass about the surprise military "exercises" in Pasadena and elsewhere which were ostensibly training for the World Cup. This is fantastic radio; a must-listen

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I Couldn't Help but Notice - This American Life

People dealing with new, glaring, massive changes happening right where they live.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If the political party in charge was reversed, you would never stop hearing about this for years— perhaps deservedly so… But the way things are, I assume this won’t be discussed again by… next week?

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Was hit by this. Worth checking.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff.

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I once lightly groused that Substance Painter didn’t support my 3D space mouse, and the CEO himself appeared to assure me support was on its way. Old school Twitter had the juice.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Once at [Large company, ~20 years ago], new managers came in and demanded every bit of a huge app be “more purple”, setting design back several months. To this day, I dunno if they *really* thought it needed purple or were just juicing money from the other business unit funding us. Project died.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This decimation surely presages more transfer of public wealth to private hands—we’re the nation who *voted* to have our pockets picked and get nothing back for it

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 11/07/2026

Bruh

While employed by OpenAI, he accessed and used his former colleague's Apple-issued work computer that was authenticated to Apple's network, without Apple's authorization.
• While employed by OpenAI, Mr. Liu also exploited a rare, previously unknown authentication bug to access Apple's shared network folders.' Upon discovering that he had this unauthorized access to Apple's systems, Mr. Liu did not report it, return his stolen Apple-issued work laptop, or delete the program that allowed the access.
• Instead, he celebrated his improper access, exclaiming in a message left on his colleague's Apple-issued work laptop "LOL" and that it was "so funny." Then, over several weeks,
while developing hardware for OpenAl, Mr. Liu surreptitiously accessed and downloaded dozens of Apple's confidential hardware-related files, including voluminous, detailed information about unreleased products, engineering presentations, technical specifications, and proprietary project data.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I agree, but remain frustrated as this perfectly preserved Nintendo Power Glove is either proof that we can make rubber that doesn’t break down—or that Power Gloves are magic

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

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BUG-EYED HELL CAT @californiahorst.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Supreme Court and Congress love their smol bean Mr. President. Of course he can have some market manipulation and self-dealing as a treat, anything baby wants

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They are shooting off *over 120 times* more fireworks than last year. I figure will be garish and unpleasant, on top of the warnings not to be outside without an n95 because of excessive smoke. These desperate, fumbling losers literally cannot do *anything* right.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had burritos from this place while inebriated on a number of occasions

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Government regulation is *good*, actually—and when it’s not around, companies act like crooks

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Love to wake up in the mornings to find out which of my long-standing rights I get to keep

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