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11/24 Twitter refugee.Investor.Musician.Deadhead.Multi-gen Washingtonian. Formerly political field ops and talent mgmt. Currently developing a multimedia project. I like Dark Stars from 1969. #Resist #goodtrouble Tell your dog I said hello!

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 15h
“Russia invaded Ukraine. The first country to surrender was the United States,” — Canadian political analyst Michael MacKay.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm old enough to remember when republicans used to complain about federal government overreach. Where are all the StAtEs RiGhT's people???
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt, lawless president in modern history. It’s not close.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sure we can trust Hegseth and his team to properly address this problem. /s
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guy should go live in a war zone for a while and then report back
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our failure to support Ukraine will be a forever stain. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
nytimes.com
Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't wait to see the stage portrayal of the Trump Administration. I see Trump being portrayed similarly to King George In Hamilton. Portly and petulant, maybe slightly effeminate, and completely erratic. The working titles in my mind are "Covfefe" and "Diaperman"
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The kiss of death
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really important coverage of Trump's move backwards on disability rights. www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...
npr.org
Trump administration reverses stance on integration of people with disabilities
Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this is your brain with a side of bacon. You know which I'm voting for...
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just wait until she reads about factions in Federalist No 10.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Will conservatives again fund truck convoys to DC to protest the price of fuel or no?
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt is a complete piece of slime, but also in true republican fashion he and his team are completely inept.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My grandfather was a retired Marine Corps General. Purple Heart, Navy Star, service in WWII. He's over at Arlington with my grandmother and his war buddies. Fuck Hegseth. He's a shiny tool for his boss, a megalomaniac who is compromised by foreign influences and seeks to destroy our country
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses #TheHill
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump looks like Don Ciccio sitting in the garden in The Godfather II. Guy looks baaaaddd.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This scum should be driven from football. And USC football should be sanctioned for clearly condoning this sort of behavior. Stephen's celebrating after the hit is a result of poor coaching allowing that sort of celebration after the hit www.si.com/college/usc/...
si.com
Lincoln Riley Delivers Statement On Dante Moore Hit Following Loss to Oregon
The heavyweight battle between the No. 12 USC Trojans and No. 20 Oregon Ducks got heated following Desman Stephens' targeting call, which coach Lincoln Riley br
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
USC player should be ejected and not allowed to play for several games, if not the rest of the season.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That USC player should be ejected for the rest of the season for that hit. And USC should be fined mucho bucks.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every single person who knew AND suppressed proof that Trump raped children should be prosecuted as an accessory.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's not enough for Democrats to win in 2026 and 2028. I want to see the Republican Party completely destroyed. Laws were broken. I want to see criminals who used the power of public office to enrich themselves investigated and put on trial.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Narrator: The despots and authoritarians then welcomed him to town.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My quote of the day I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nice job republicans and trump.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truckers are going to convoy to DC to protest Trump and his high diesel prices, right? Right?
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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Texas Statewide Poll (Marist) Senate 🔵James Talarico 50% 🔴Ken Paxton 44% Governor 🔵Gina Hinojosa 49% 🔴Greg Abbott 46% 9/17-9/20 Link to poll: maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just gonna note his use of first person here: I. Not We. Not America. Not US service members. Nothing about Congress. I.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Trump is unable to broker a truce with Iran while leaders from most of the world are at the UN, it will be a foreign policy and executive leadership failure of epic proportions. The Art of the Deal guy can't close one of the most important deals in his life
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These people manufacture things to be outraged about.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right, Iran doesn't understand the U.S. political system and doesn't know Trump isn't on the ballot. What an absolute buffoon.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Low energy Trump reading straight from the teleprompter during his lies and braggadocio at the UN. What a complete embarrassment.
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Volunteer Blue @volunteerblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Who else wants to elect a Congress that will show up for work and then actually work for us, all of us? If you are not sure how a sliver of your time can make a difference, talk one on one with someone who is happy to help: volunteerblue.org/action-coach...
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Republicans plan to kick almost 1 million Americans off of their health care: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Vance-Led Task Force Set to Remove 760,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments
The Trump administration is planning to impose stricter eligibility requirements for ACA subsidies as part of a campaign against fraud.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Senator Whitehouse on the Senate floor right now talking about Epstein and Trump ties to Russia. www.youtube.com/live/zML49aB...
youtube.com
US Congress LIVE: “There Is a Cover-Up Afoot” | Sen. Whitehouse Exposes Trump, Epstein, Russia Ties
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Dark Star 1969 @darkstar1969.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You've heard of the yoga position downward dog? I think this is upward bear. Maybe.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IRAN SUGGESTS OPENING THE STRAIT SOON, 'WITHIN 7 DAYS' ONCE US BLOCKADE IS LIFTED – KYODO.
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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fronts used by the Kremlin to pass £6.9bn in forged banknotes to western banks through Kyrgyzstan
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PIMCO: “.. A blue wave? .. it is not surprising that more folks are wondering whether it could be a wave election or not. .. .. average polling has Democrats up in 8 of the 9 races, and if that were to translate into wins, Democrats would win the Senate by +2 (52-48).” [Cantrill]
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Via PIMCO:
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