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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.
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Harry Heymann  @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
apple.news
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
it's possible some folks are just confused, so to be clear: there will be a theatrical release of "MUSK," barring some kind of bizarre last-minute development... it's just the streaming release that's under threat rn please go see the movie in the theater, ticket sales send a strong message
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Republican nominee for Maine’s 2nd congressional district Paul LePage says he supports Trump and ICE but is outraged they are deporting one of his relatives: “He’s being deported because he came from a country that’s not to the liking of certain people in Washington.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yep it is definitely coercive control when you hear a phrase you do not like
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/09/2026
Byron Donalds removed every mention of Trump and his endorsement from his website. What happened ;/
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is the idea here to kick a bunch of healthy beneficiaries who don't answer their phones or respond to random emails (so, young people) off their plans, to destabilize the markets?
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Riverboat Chris @riverboatchris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Help I have lost my political sway because my former cocaine dealer dropped out of a political race just for being a rapist and now the new guy won't listen to my friends or I! Mods! Mods!!
Ryan Grim complaining about a NY Mag article where former Jackson staffers complain that Jackson brought in out of state professional staffers for a campaign of  national significance.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These are two of the least liked guys in Texas. "You don't like Ken Paxton. Why is Elon Musk supporting him?" seems like an easy sell to a majority of Texans. Talarico and the national Ds should make noise about this.
nbcnews.com
Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”
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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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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026
you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
we fought an entire civil war over this and they're pretending it's a natural backlash to some annoying oberlin students
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Democrats @democrats.org · 18/09/2026
Fighting for working people from Michigan to Florida. 46 days to elect Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon to the U.S. Senate.
An image of Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon talking to each other.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
Universal took one look at Ed Sheeran and decided to just show the damn movie!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
thehandbasket.co
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This NYT headline is bullsh*t. A 21% percent decline in audience is not a dip, it's a plunge. 10.3 to 9.7 would be a dip. 10.3 to 7.9 is a serious decline. Say that. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/b...
nytimes.com
‘60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Sees Dip in Ratings
Just under 8 million people watched Sunday’s season premiere, down 21 percent from last year. Viewership for the N.F.L. lead-in fell by about the same.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
This is part of a pattern: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another clear and knowable downstream consequence of letting scammers get rich off crypto was that that money would boomerang back into politics in ways that were highly likely to try to skirt around fundraising laws and distort policy incentives.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.
independent.co.uk
Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico
Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Russian salient north of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine has collapsed. Ukrainian forces are moving into this area, conducting mopping up operations.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design, it inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue
Read more here.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/09/2026
uh oh, looks like somebody is getting cranky about the movie that documents his words and actions! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Elon Musk attacks film-maker behind documentary about him
Tech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/09/2026
"MUSK" and "You Can See Everything" are this fall's Barbenheimer
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump spends his days padding his pockets, obsessing over plans to build monuments to himself, sleeping in meetings, and occasionally sending out fake announcements about illegal rebates. No wonder gas is heading to $5 a gallon.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/ A gang of 'black recruiters' in Russia has been arrested for spiking men's drinks with drugs, kidnapping them, selling them to the army, stealing their money and emptying their bank accounts, and marrying them off to 'black widows' to steal their death benefits. ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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