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Dan Wessner

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Polymath, Pain in the ass, Massive pain.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22h
😂😂😂
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acosta: This is a Category 5 fuck-up of epic proportions. It is likely to go down as the worst presidency that we have ever witnessed in this country’s history. That tops the first administration that ended with an insurrection.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hegseth continues to manipulate the numbers of dead and wounded in the Iran War. The tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from DOD. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing."
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1. The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean *just plain bad*.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
theonion.com
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
i once again ask what in the hell is going on with Trump's huge ass and the contraption he has on it
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a lawless gangster government that murders people routinely and nobody knows who they are, what they were doing, or whether they actually committed any crime. The US military is now a Star Chamber with Hegseth as judge, jury and executioner.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the way. I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Trump has proposed building a new fleet, with battleships at its core…But his plan would have been outdated a century ago. Unless senior Navy officials steer him off his course, the nation will spend billions to make the Navy more vulnerable and less deadly.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Building ‘Trump Class’ Battleships Will Be a Big, Expensive Mistake
The United States needs a bigger Navy. But not one that looks like this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When confronted by current bad economic data showing things getting worse, Republicans blame Biden. When confronted with polls showing dissatisfaction, they say the polls are wrong. When confronted with election results of voter revolts, they say the elections are rigged.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do we need to build a massive triumphal arch for sniper ammo and drones? We don’t have any place else that those can be stored?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just like with the ballroom, another scam by Trump to turn this into a “military complex” to prevent the courts from intervening by using “national security” as his excuse for vanity projects.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It appears that Trump’s claim last week that he negotiated a deal between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure was just another lie to manipulate markets. Every hour of every day, Trump lies about everything.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Justin Wolfers: “What we have is a carnival barker as president, a reality TV show… a fake sort of boxer, a bloke who spends his life just provoking others because provocation yields attention.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This deal doesn’t appear to be fundamentally much different than our current agreement, but naturally, MAGA will swear it’s the biggest win in history
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
"Trump’s personal imposition of his taste is a different story than that of the administration’s overall totalitarian aesthetic, which can best be described perhaps as 'free tier AI image generator with the white supremacist dial turned to 11.'"
publicnotice.co
Totalitarian art
The Hitler comparisons are sometimes overdone. But not here.
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