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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump attacks the press in a futile attempt to hide his failures. Here is a good list of some of them.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Misaligned AI can cause a lot of problems short of human extinction. #AI
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
Our new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll: 58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-25...
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58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better
Our new poll shows by a 56-26 margin, voters want Congress to be a check on Trump — including a quarter of Republicans
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/09/2026
A federal judge ordered President Trump to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional reut.rs/4iGBhjl
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Judge lifts Trump's White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico
A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump ​on Thursday to restore White ‌House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ​saying his ban on ​the three media outlets was likely ⁠unc...
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump is unpopular because (to name a few big reasons) he is losing a war of choice to Iran, making inflation worse without seeming to care how voters feel, overreaching with draconian immigration enforcement, and focusing on vanity projects that don’t matter to voters.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Locals should have the right to decide on the construction of new data centers. But misperceptions abound. This is not the hill to die on.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're all barely breathing now. 😥
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
About time
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#AI
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Massie exposes the hypocrisy: Some members get to vote against bills they know will pass, giving them a convenient campaign talking point without changing the outcome.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember: the Nazis are the bad guys. #GOP
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seems bad.
In the biennial report of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan organization that monitors nuclear, biological and emerging technology threats, the U.S. nuclear security score fell by 10 points to 66 on a scale of 100, the biggest decline the organization has ever recorded for any country.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/09/2026
Times/Sienna now finds Americans preferring the Democratic Party on immigration by 7 points. The pundit claim that Americans should acquiesce to ICE secret police murdering Democrats in the street and disappearing people to secret camps because it's what Americans want and will always want was wrong
Regardless of how you might vote, please tell me which party you trust to do a better job handling each of the following:
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's prudent to warn against the dangers of AI, but hyperbolic to claim it will cause the extinction of humanity.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not gonna happen.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
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We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trump and Hegseth are hurting U.S. national security. Full stop. #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachHegseth
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#AI
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ImpeachHegseth
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
89% of U.S. adults say government corruption is widespread, higher than at any point in the past two decades. #Obviously news.gallup.com/poll/713933/...
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Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pete Hegseth is a national security risk. #ImpeachHegseth
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 01/09/2026
These whistleblower allegations are extraordinary. If Trump Administration officials knowingly built a system designed to prevent Americans from receiving their ballots, that is not election security. It is a betrayal of our Constitution and the American people.
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesse Welles is my new hero. youtu.be/Lwz1XwHwWhY?...
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Knowingly giving material false testimony to Congress is a crime that carries a possible prison sentence"
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The only two scenarios in which the world successfully avoids "Al-driven existential catastrophe" involve agreements between the U.S. and China." I.e., treat AGI like nuclear weapons. #AI
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump is a President with "delusions of widespread fraud and ambitions of authoritarianism." Exactly!
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A trade war with an ally makes no sense. Plus, "Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has much more political permission to accept pain from a U.S.-Canadian trade war than Trump does."
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The US is facing munitions shortages and fears the damage that would result from Iranian escalation of the conflict. Basically, Trump lost the war to Iran. #IranWar
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"where Roosevelt said that America should speak softly and carry a big stick, Trump speaks loudly and carries a small one"
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 20/08/2026
It’s more expensive for the U.S. to borrow money than it has been for more than a decade. “If it persists, it could mark the beginning of a structural economic shift more enduring and more globally consequential than most previous episodes of market volatility,” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
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Opinion | America Is About to Get More Expensive
The impact from the bond market sell-off could prove more enduring, wide-ranging and globally consequential than prior episodes of market volatility.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026
Breaking News: The U.S. national debt hit $40 trillion after decades of borrowing. President Trump has promised to restore fiscal order, yet many of his policies have only exacerbated the debt burden. nyti.ms/4gpGitS
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The surest sign of democratic collapse is the unwillingness of an elected political party to leave office,” writes the Times editorial board. “President Trump has taken worrisome steps down this path since returning to office in January 2025.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"The president’s plan was immediately criticized by scientists, physicians, Democrats and some congressional Republicans, who said the order was dangerous and warned that it could lead to fewer children receiving vaccines against preventable diseases." #vaccines
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Independent researchers across seven countries have conducted more than 40 studies involving over 5.6 million people to conclude that there is no link between vaccines and autism"
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Anyone who's interested in stopping socialism needs to work on fixing capitalism. If we had a more humane capitalism in which workers made a solid wage; in which basic health care was a right and was free or at least affordable; in which the government was investing in the small towns where opportunity has vanished; in which those kids in Appalachia and Detroit and New Mexico were given the tools they need to fulfill their potential; in which the very rich were appropriately taxed; if we had these things, socialism wouldn't be so popular.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#IranWar
Morale is plummeting on an American aircraft carrier that's running short of food and other supplies as its exhausted crew wages President Donald Trump's war against Iran, worried family members say.

Sailors and Marines serving on the USS

Abraham Lincoln have told relatives about being served a half-cup of rice and two tortillas for a meal, and said the ship's store often lacks soap, deodorant and toothpaste, MS NOW reported Wednesday.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Cannot overstate the unreality of this situation," political science professor and national security expert Elizabeth Saunders wrote on social media. "We are losing a war. Trump has rotted out the middle rungs out of the US escalation ladder so that his options are humiliating defeat or (likely futile) massive escalation. The stockpile problem affects allies/partners all over the world."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As the poll analyst G. Elliott Morris has written, several convincing explanations existed for Trump’s 2024 victory that didn’t involve realignment, including the lingering effects of the pandemic, global anti-incumbent sentiment, and the peculiar dynamics of Biden’s ill-advised decision to run and his late exit from the race. But the foremost was inflation. Americans were angry at the Democratic Party because of persistently higher prices. Now Trump is losing support for the same reason. Not only has Trump not ended inflation, as he promised—in June, it ran at 3.5 percent—but his decisions, especially the Iran war, have driven prices higher. Voters were willing to give Trump a chance because of their disgust with Biden. Now they’re seeing the results, and they don’t like them.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026
pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky
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davidsoltysik.bsky.social @davidsoltysik.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Is this the same Matt Schlapp accused of sexual assault? www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Conservative leader Matt Schlapp is accused of fondling a male campaign staffer in Georgia
The Herschel Walker campaign aide said the conservative leader groped him without his consent in October.
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