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Corey Pein

@coreypein.bsky.social
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author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter

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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stress ball still from The Elephant Graveyard, "David Lucas's Comedy Grift Has Reached Its Tragic End"
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oregon could try competitive primaries idk
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe this is known as the waifu stance.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Choosing Texas beep boop
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republicans once again not beating the stupid allegations.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my god the direct use of the hot dog guy sketch from I Think You Should Leave in a political ad
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The generals never budge once they take power. It's the same everywhere.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's you who are snobs, for denying the singular truth of my personal taste.
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv now feels like a frontline city - due to constant attacks by jet-powered Russian drones, and a shortage of air defence missiles. My report
theglobeandmail.com
Kyiv under constant bombardment from Russian drones as winter approaches
A new, more dangerous kind of Russian drone has rendered the city’s air defences less effective
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm going to be so mad if Trump strokes out mid rant and there's no pool audio.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Song of the summer of 1996, if you disagree you are an ignorant yokel m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCx4...
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The Jesus Lizard - Trephination
YouTube video by spycory1
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Concise and yet expansive
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've spent a few hours with The Blood of Dawnwalker and really enjoyed the high tension. When I'm posed with a choice I find myself pausing the game and thinking about it for 15 minutes! Fun! But maybe not for everyone.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'90s fashion is back but what about '90s suspicion toward supposedly popular things foisted upon us by corporate shills? What about that vibe?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sen. John Fetterman says he's a "lifelong Republican" before Major Garrett has to correct him
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Song sucks, video is terrible, cast me into the sea
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like I need to dig in to this space lasers thing but do I?!
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
slop for the pigs
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"founded in 2018 with backing from investors including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos"
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If this is true, why has Obsidian been silent about their subordination while Bethesda and Microsoft make the statements?
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
World's richest man encouraging pogroms again and you've got some people out there saying the website is better than ever
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very 2003 vibes, reading critical reporting on the US in the European press
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
lemonde.fr
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'I don't know my address' sounds like something a mob capo would tell the police.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"David Flippo"
washingtonpost.com
Trump-backed Nevada Republican exaggerated Bronze Star award in two campaigns
Congressional hopeful David Flippo said his staff made a mistake in an announcement video in 2023. The video was deleted three years later.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Don't know what to say anymore
Protesters amassed in Gosport, Hampshire, after rumours spread that the migrants might be brought ashore by lifeboats there. Police closed off access roads to the marina as activists rallied by Thomas on YouTube arrived to attempt to block the boat’s arrival. Crowds of masked protesters confronted a line of police to chants of “let them drown” sung by a child over a megaphone.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
🇬🇷 🐷 Greek 'Piggy Island' offers unique tourist experience The tiny Greek island of Atokos has become a unique tourist sensation, with its pig population swimming and sunbathing alongside human visitors.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pretty grim and gross to see that Anthropic valuation, given that Claude was trained on all our stolen books.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Capital-W Weird
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Perfect airplane movie, no headphones required
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
To me the second-most striking thing about the new Trump photo, after his hair, is how slim he looks. Sudden weight and hair loss covered up by a toupee? Or body double wearing a Mission Impossible face mask?
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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Jerusalem Post argues indebted Americans should be conscripted into the Iran War.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Suspected arson attack at a refugee accommodation centre in Berlin a few days ago. Four injured, dozens evacuated. www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
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Berlin: Brand in Geflüchteten-Unterkunft: Polizei ermittelt wegen schwerer Brandstiftung
In einer Spandauer Unterkunft für geflüchteten Menschen hat es am Samstagmorgen gebrannt. Mehrere hundert Menschen mussten das Gebäude verlassen, die Feuerwehr war mit einem Großaufgebot im Einsatz. N...
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CNA @channelnewsasia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Risk of lake burst near China-Nepal border disaster site wanes
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Risk of lake burst near China-Nepal border disaster site wanes
Satellite images suggest that water in the lake has been slowly flowing through, decreasing the reservoir gradually, reported Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, citing the Water Resources Ministry.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/08/2026
If Reuters can tell when insiders are making bets on Polymarket that telegraph US military actions, it seems fair to assume that America's foreign adversaries can too www.reuters.com/business/fin...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: More than 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on military secrets, research finds
More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat ​bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20/08/2026
Academic who raised plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday suspended by his university reut.rs/4qt4pfO
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Academic who raised plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday suspended by his university
Nathan Cofnas, the U.S. academic who raised plagiarism concerns over the late ‌Cambridge professor Jason Arday, said on Thursday he had been suspended by Belgium's Ghent University and was under investigation for discrimination.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
August news cycle autopilot
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's vital to RW propaganda to define the working class on racist terms and to establish that no authentically working class person can ever be a socialist
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is this the guy who ordered up a private militia?
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
J. Mascis is looking good for his age
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Erowid report
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"labor unions, a climate change group, socialist collectives"
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota’s Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The only thing that unites these disparate phenomena is that reactionaries experienced them as personal attacks
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/08/2026
A new story in my ongoing reporting on Prairieland, and it's about one of the most chilling things about this case: how the DOJ has attempted to cast ordinary activism as suspect and criminal. And: how supporters of the Prairieland defendants have refused to be broken apart by that.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s DOJ Tried to Break a Texas Activist Community. It Failed.
Many of the activities used to incriminate the Prairieland defendants—who received extraordinary sentences—are the stuff of ordinary organizing. Their supporters weren’t scared off.
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Matthew Reichbach @fbihop.com · 13/08/2026
One journalist I know almost exclusively refers to PIOs and other spokespeople as "spokesliars." He has a decent relationship with some PIOs and not with others, but his stance on them is clear.
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