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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly TRIPLED since 2020. Meanwhile, Amazon's profits have soared by 550% in the same time frame. Watch this before you shop for Prime Day.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.

Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 29/09/2026

Are you sure, Marco? Are you sure that's not you featured in a deranged AI slop image posted by your boss featuring him planting an American flag next to a sign that reads "GREENLAND: US TERRITORY"?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026

Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.

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More momentum for XTEND. 🚀

Congrats to the team on another important U.S. defense milestone. Proud to be an investor and supplier. 🦅

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XTEND has been awarded Phase III of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone (MKLD) program.

The award follows XTEND’s recent Gauntlet II top-performer selection under the Drone Dominance Program.

Read more: xtend.me/xtend-secures-…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

why is alleged private citizen Ivanka Trump sitting by JD Vance, Rubio, and Bessent?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

oh my goodness -- I had no idea Mike Collins's hit ads on Jon Ossoff are *this* bad. Truly abysmal stuff.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My three-year-old was at the Ed Sheeran concert when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why isn't the nice white rapper performing?" And when I told her "Because an old guy who visits teen-aged prostitutes had him cancelled," she started crying.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's not a real political party, folks It just isn't

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This entire story is complete fiction. Stolen Valor Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/09/2026

the biggest “job creator” in america is walmart, a third of whose employees are on public assistance

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trump’s 9/11 comment that he went down to the scene to help has been a lie he’s repeated for 25 years. It’s his own version of stolen valor. He did nothing except go on TV & brag that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers went down. Which was also a lie.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

Elon Musk, the top Republican donor, who appeared on stage regularly supporting Republicans, says worse things than the worst thing Piker has ever said *every day* on the website he bought. Why doe no one care?

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(pointing at 1980 on the graph and just saying 'reagan again')

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ships traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all eight of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a strategically important portion of U.S. Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.

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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Vote out all Republicans !!! Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year: 🔵1965 - LBJ 🔵2010 - Obama 🔵2012 - Obama 🔵2013 - Obama 🔵2022 - Biden 🔵2023 - Biden No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To all the people whining about any commentary on Natalie Harp: We’re paying her $150,000 salary. Trump isn’t. Perfectly legitimate to ask what job serving the public she’s doing.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and my wife was deported. But at least now I don't have to see so many rainbow crosswalks.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

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The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today the Islamic Republic of Iran essentially declared that Donald Trump is too mentally deranged and pathologically deceitful to negotiate with... so they won't. And you know what? They're right. That's a normal, rational, adult position. So why don't we see it inside the US?

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

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Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️ @lvtyimby.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How it started vs. how it's going

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/08/2026

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/08/2026

Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise Face Off Alone On ‘Celebrity Family Feud’

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Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise Face Off Alone On ‘Celebrity Family Feud’

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Among so many lies about … everything. So many stupid obvious lies. Like, about *evvvvvvvery* thing.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This whole exercise isn't about COVID-19 or Gain of Function research...this is about Congress putting a retired public servant through the wringer because they want to spook scientists. This is all a part of a plan to chill scientists from taking evidence-based and principled stands against govt.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I could have sworn that Republicans wanted to make it illegal to say that America’s founders held racist beliefs.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/07/2026

JD Vance writing a book about religion is like me writing a book about golf. I hate golf and find the idea of it terribly boring. Would struggle to fake any passion for it. And that’s why Vance’s book is so hard to read. It’s a godless man pretending to be godly. Nails on a chalk board.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In the universe next door, the map did include Jewish neighborhoods and exactly the same people are outraged he’s equating Jews with foreigners.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Jon asks the question many Americans have wrestled with since January 6: If the system couldn't hold a president accountable for trying to overturn an election, what does that say about our democracy? Jack Smith and Brian Driscoll weigh in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

Q: Would you go to Ukraine? TRUMP: I would, yeah. When it's over. I'd rather have the war be over. I'm not Secret Service would be thrilled. (Biden traveled to Ukraine during the war ... )

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/07/2026

New in PN: Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve "We are living under the personalist dictatorship of a hateful clown obsessed with the news cycle and owning the libs. And unfortunately, since he has the whole federal govt at his back, his ridiculous tantrums can in fact ruin people’s lives."

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Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve

Congrats, America.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/07/2026

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

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U.S. gave Tehran details on Iranian asylum seekers, lawsuit alleges

The claim, outlined in court papers, contends information shared with Iran could jeopardize the lives of pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities and LGTBQ people.

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