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Midwest nerd. All opinions my own. That doesn’t mean they’re right.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm absolutely losing it. Everything in here is made up (we hired an actor, rented a car, did not use AI, obviously), but he just invents a whole-ass world. Boner pills are a helluva drug.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson says opposition to data centers "is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory."
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
different way of looking at gasoline and diesel prices...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The racist thing. The most racist thing he can think of is “the kind of thing Trump likes to do.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
MS NOW: "Breaking as we speak -- MS NOW and CNN have just been blocked from attending yet another White House event ... I was told to reach out to Steven Cheung"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two arms marked China and Hegseth clasp over a caption that says "Examining the U.S. military's sensitive parts"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Semafor @semafor.com · 23/09/2026
Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
Only some of the bets will allow margin trading, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Dr Oz: "There are 5 times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes"
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"Trump makes George W Bush look popular by comparison" -- Enten unpacks Trump's -42 approval rating on foreign affairs and how "it's the lowest any president has ever had on foreign affairs"
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Newsmax host Greg Kelly: “These are exciting times. There’s no reason to feel down. We are winning in Iran. Gas prices were higher under George W. Bush 20 freaking years ago! It is amazing what they have pulled off.”
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This reads like satire
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This Ford exec put her family's Claude assistant on a PIP. ChatGPT has taken over.
Whitney Stefko Dover built a family chief of staff with Anthropic's Claude. The agent, named Claudette, has fresh competition for her job.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm at the Triumphal Arch. I'm at the Sniper Drone Plaza. I'm at the combination Triumphal Arch Sniper Drone Plaza.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From the official Dept of Education account on X, an endorsement of Bo French's racist tweet about Indian students at a University of Texas football game. Just awful.
A photo of a Texas football game with a largely white audience shown and the caption "Make college football great again."
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump just posted... a poll about renaming AI?
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/09/2026
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bear mama makes herself comfortable: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: The Weather Channel
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump tells boat owners they can now "go slightly faster than 10 miles an hour, like 120 miles an hour if you're crazy. But you can go as fast as you want, and we have that order -- it's all signed, sealed, and delivered. So congratulations ... it's common sense" What could possibly go wrong?!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
a little schadenfreude, as a treat www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...
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Thousands of Ed Sheeran Tickets Remain Unsold for Singer's Tour, With Prices Down to $65 Online
Ticketmaster still has seats to all remaining Loop Tour dates, while some resellers are listing Sheeran tickets for below face value. See the latest prices and offers here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "And remember, Cooper was your governor when you had Helene. They call it the biggest water hurricane. It was all water."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump takes credit for the fact people dine out in Washington DC 🥴
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has now dropped out from the Ed Sheeran tour
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NARRATOR: THIS WAS CALLED ‘FORESHADOWING’
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump, in North Carolina calls North Carolina "one of the worst" states "in the whole nation"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump on his Iran war: "You have a higher gas -- it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Things really shaping up for Republicans in the mid-terms
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I present to you, out of diesel in North Texas
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Netflix Turning Debunked Stanford Prison Experiment Into Equally Unethical Show nerdist.com/article/netf...
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Netflix Turning Debunked Stanford Prison Experiment Into Equally Unethical Show
Netflix is launching a new reality show based on the thoroughly debunked, wholly unethical 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My coping strategy at work: mentally replace 'AI' with 'the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'Let's speed it up using the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'As ever with the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy, check it twice.' 'This whole thing's a disaster. Bloody boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.'
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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