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Falsely reporting a crime is itself a crime. Hold the company executives responsible for the crime.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Fraud Task Force is important bc: 1) It chases peanuts while Trump steals orders of magnitude more on a daily basis 2) It is largely propaganda 3) It was the excuse to destroy white collar policing news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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DOJ Fraud Division’s Rise Diminishes Premier White Collar Unit

The Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downg...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sign me up for the Official Trump Administration Enemies List. It’s AI.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Blanche continues the cover up today as the senate-confirmed AG.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And the criminal trials for the executives and board members when their software commits crimes.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hmmm. The companies tell us that their software is behaving 'unpredictably'. There's a word for that. It's what's commonly known as a bug. Who's responsible for bugs? The developers and the company executives who release the buggy software into the world. Don't let them off the hook.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He does it all the time. This was not an anomaly.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nope. Not buying the spin. Trump meant every word that he said, inciting his cult to hate their fellow citizens.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They don't even try to hide their bias; look at the damage they have caused. For example, what rational person could conclude that the Constitution grants the President immunity?

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s pretty common for left-handers. They have to contort their wrists to avoid dragging their hand over the wet ink

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You’re right to blame Trump for inciting polarization; I wish more people would do so. But I also agree that “polarization” in the abstract is not the problem. It drives me crazy when political commentators blame “polarization” for our nation’s troubles.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First, hold executives and board members criminally and financially liable for crimes and damages that they commit. Make the people delegating their responsibility to AI think about the consequences of what they are doing. Every decision is a human decision. Delegating to AI is a human choice.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great T shirt! "Land of Hope and Dreams. No Kings."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When a rapist sticks up for other rapists it's called a professional courtesy.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The current AI boom is all about quantity over quality. The result will be disastrous as people delegate their responsibilities to artificial "intelligence", rather than human judgment. 2/2

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nowhere in this essay does the word "quality" appear. Nor "slop". Nor "hallucination". I'm reminded of the 1970s and 1980s when US auto manufacturers pushed quantity over quality, only to lose reputation and market share to Japanese competitors who chose a strategy of quality first. 1/2

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another reason to support Abdul El-Sayed and oppose Mike Rogers in the Michigan senate election.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looks like Eric Schmitt has a new website--I guess to campaign to be JD's VP. senatorericschmitt.com

$Schmitt Schmitt: (verb) \ˈshmit\ 1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation. 2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack. 3. To create such an avoidable mess that one’s credibility, message, and electoral prospects are left in tatters. Example: “I ended up with that cyclosporiasis invection from tainted lettuce and I schmitted myself in the grocery store trying to buy some Pepto.” Example: “During the hearing performance, he didn’t land a blow—he completely schmitted himself.”$

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another benefit is that it gets Trump's 2021 crimes back into the headlines.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Idiot MAGA senator confuses the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, and accuses Jack Smith of perjury.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mehdi’s guest here Naomi Klein: bsky.app/profile/naom...

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of people are for universal, non predatory healthcare without being anti science sociopaths.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Abdul El-Sayed [D-MI] Mike Rogers [R-FL]” Good one. 😎

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Zomney Domnitz @zomneydomnitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LeBron pushing people into working with a company that exists to get people addicted to gambling so it can take all their money. He might as well be selling crack.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE is not to be trusted. The presumption of regularity is dead. There is now a presumption of falsity.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know the answer. The buck stops with the guy at the top.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No crypto and no AI. Is this still possible?

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow! Two brilliant guys, Mehdi and Abdul.

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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Being banned from the White House is a blessing in disguise. Stop putting their lying faces on camera. Report on what they are doing, rather than spreading their propaganda.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mike Rogers couldn't be bothered to show up to the debate, but here's what I would have asked him if he wasn't such a coward:

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Mickey Lenin @thepolitburo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dear Leader was caught by photographers reviewing a demo plan for the Kennedy Center. A classic case of a toddler destroying anything he can’t have.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026

James Talarico: "I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m."

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