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The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 14h

Look if you couldn't make a hedge fund successful from 2017 to 2023, you shouldn't be running a hot dog cart, much less the economy.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats have decided, for the second election, not to respond to Musk's Nazi-like propaganda against trans people. And that will probably work this time because of gas prices. But it might not. And even if it doesn't, why would you miss this chance to expose someone who wants to destroy you?

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaron is not exaggerating one bit. This is not just some fancy way to say “I don’t like Trump” These are the ramblings of a disordered mind. The interviewers have done us a service by taking it all down verbatim.

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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My god, everything this administration does is stupid.

"Today, the passport arrives in an envelope that can look like any other letter," Rubio said. "We wanted to turn receiving a passport into an experience that people will remember and keep."

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let’s root for a new SCOTUS shorthand initialism: VCD. Vacated as Corruptly Decided.

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SpiderDIEphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is one of my dearest hopes that John Roberts will be the last Chief Justice of a nine-person SCOTUS and that he'll be forced to watch his life's work be burned to the ground. And then he still never knows a moment's peace in public.

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🏳️‍⚧️Trevorlynn 🦇David🦇 Cooper🏳️‍⚧️ @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who can't see this simple truth is not your friend. Don't trust em. If they don't support trans rights, they don't support human rights, and will turn on you the first moment they feel the need to. #TransRights

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

Trump is leaving communities in Massachusetts and disaster victims in blue states without essential disaster relief. Denying disaster relief to score political points is unacceptable. Trump must stop putting politics over people and deliver aid to Americans who need it.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh man, I have bought so many experiments this year, my tax refund is gonna be huge.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We live in a center left country with a democracy problem

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Roberts wants to demote Korematsu to *second*-worst immigration ruling.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sam Altman's malicious hacking collective keeps doing malicious hacking things. "We don't have the legal tools to stop this unprecedented hacking," wail officials who very much do have the tools. www.ft.com/content/1150...

ft.com

OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches

New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Under Trump 2.0, the White House has often ignored Congress to carry out its agenda. Entire agencies, like USAID, have been gutted. ICE has grown explosively. Behind it all is one man: Russell Vought. 🎧 Listen to our latest episode:

propublica.org

Who’s the Shadow President?

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AP NORC: Trump approval at 31 points. A majority of Americans, 51%, *strongly disapprove*. AFAIK, strong disapproval crushing overall approval by 20 points is unprecedented. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026

There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Roberts Supremacist Six have stopped even pretending to be unbiased. They’re fully onboard with the fascist takeover, they just want to be in charge of it. Fucking ghouls.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Six months ago and what has happened to our elected officials encouraging the following of the law & disobeying illegal orders? This will only continue & get worse until we remove Trump Regime from power (to start).

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I morbidly kind of want to see No-Tab Pete actually go to SFAS. It’s the “easy” part of SF schools, and many much better men have failed(45-55% washout rate). It’s designed to chew up posers like him and spit them out.

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hegseth is a great example of a common type of officer who's ended up in charge of something, doesn't have a clue how to do the job, and just falls back on PT, grooming, slogans, and searching for scapegoats. If you put him in charge of a Cinnabon he would do the exact same things.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Yeah, this is essential. It's not just fixing the egregious malapportionment. It's <subordinating> the Senate like the 🇩🇪 Bundesrat. The other thing that must happen is revamping "advice & consent" & moving it to a presumption of confirmation minus a supermajority opposed (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This is precisely why the platform must be institutional reform. We must brake the trolley & break the trolley. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not my ministry, but I sincerely hope the FOIA engines are already revved up on this.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A more general point: The owners of these models fiddle with them constantly to give the answers they want. This is why we need to distinguish among "AI" models and know who is manipulating them.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does.

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Yesterday, asked about its chatbot's many debunkings of Trump, the White House said it "will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government."
Today...lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden "political commentary." x.com/ddale8/status/...

Daniel Dale * @ddale8 • 20m
Yesterday: Trump administration chatbot says it's not true that Trump inherited the worst inflation in history.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions...

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fun fact: Engineering in the United States (especially but not exclusively Civil Engineering) *exists* because of civilian faculty at West Point.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Rome Statute ought to work like a reverse UN Security Council: unless all but 5 countries agree, you’re subject to the ICC.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026

The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glad to be back in hockey season (#gohabsgo) but good lord the ads on ESPN are bleak. - hair growth supplement - gambling apps - teaser for a “documentary” that’s paid for by Bristol-Myers Squibb as a CAR-T cell (Breyanzi) therapy success story* [which you have to search online to find out] 1/

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We continue to severely under-react to the white supremacist pogrom being carried out by Trump’s paramilitary secret police who run a system of abusive and murderous concentration camps whilst also murdering people in the streets w/virtually zero accountability so far.

theguardian.com

Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – live

More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under ⁠the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Roberts Supremacist Six have twisted the idea of “irreparable harm” beyond all meaning.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Because what do you do when you wake up and your standard-bearer is term limited, your coalition no longer works and you spent the last twenty years chaining yourself as tightly as possible to the orange-painted lead weight now plummeting into the Mariana Trench?

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.

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