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David Torrence

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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 5h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grifters
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, explains why US is untrustworthy: "In 2025 they offered negotiations, we accepted, then in the middle of negotiations they attacked us. Eight months later, again they offered negotiations, again we accepted, & again they attacked us in the middle of negotiations"
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
& we paid for this bullshit.
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River Ranch Dog @riverranchdog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We saw a record two-mile-long line of cars at our food bank in rural Oklahoma last week.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtu.be/RDfn8LHTTyU?... #musicsky #music #art
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Melvin Davis 'This Ain't The Way' Wheel City
YouTube video by TheSoulinnberlin
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data centers could bring to the region.
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How data center noise is different from regular noise pollution, according to a St. Louis scientist
A St. Louis scientist has spent her career studying sound and is now speaking out about the noise pollution that data centers could bring to the region.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What is it the woo woo bullshitters always say? Follow the money? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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RFK Jr. Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This doesn’t look like someone who had a good trip to the UN 🤪 REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
LOL -- The White House pool is boycotting Trump, but Real America's Voice is trying to fill in the gap. Unfortunately they haven't yet figured out how microphones work so Trump is still yelling into the void.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Never forget (Scott Olson/Getty)
2024 campaign yard signs that says "TRUMP LOW PRICES. KAMALA HIGH PRICES"
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#stl #stlphotographer #landscape
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
“for national security reasons we need to build a deathtrap to keep all of our most important politicians safe”
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not surprised by this cretin.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Trump's ICE is disappearing thousands of people in their system, hiding their locations from loved ones & lawyers, & preventing them from exercising their constitutional rights.   This is the lawlessness Republicans keep writing blank checks for. Not another dime! apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is THE best!
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees (Gift Article)
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 20/09/2026
Trump knows his 250-foot arch is a political disaster, so just like his monstrous ballroom he's now pitching it as a military installation chock full of drones and snipers. He's lost the American people on this issue and he knows it, so now he's panicking.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He's so stupid.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19/09/2026
trump being like "i prefer to think of AI as 'superior intelligence' is the best proof yet that he's totally lost whatever political instincts he had
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#neverforget
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch has obtained new images showing severe destruction at a U.S. base in Kuwait following an Iranian attack. See the images and our full report:
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EXCLUSIVE: Images Show Severe Destruction at US Base in Kuwait
MeidasTouch has obtained exclusive images this afternoon showing the aftermath of an Iranian attack on a US base in Kuwait, and based on what we've reviewed,
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) tried and failed to force voters to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections. Now, several voters are demanding he pay $80 million in damages. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri voters seek $80 million in damages after Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ redistricting debacle
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) tried and failed to force voters to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections. Now, several voters are demanding he pay $80 million in da...
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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The more you know 🌠 Missouri Election Law Missouri voters will not be getting the fantasy $5,000 bribe to vote MAGA because it is illegal.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...
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Jay Maisel, Photographer of Miles Davis and Much More, Dies at 95
His moody portrait became the album cover for “Kind of Blue.” Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Suprise, Suprise Suprise.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Worth it? The United States had spent about $2 trillion on the war effort. About 2,400 American troops and nearly 700 troops from other nations in the coalition died. More than 40,000 civilians were killed, as well as an estimated 60,000 Afghan security forces. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/w...
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The ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan: 25 Years in Pictures (Gift Article)
From the first weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal and return of the Taliban, The New York Times has documented a quarter-century of conflict and daily life in Afghanistan.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 #stl #arthill
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 #stl #arthill
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thinking about this quite a bit right now
Mass suicides in Nazi Germany
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During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War I! in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide. In addition to Adolf Hitler and many high-ranking Nazi officials like Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Philipp Bouhler, others chose suicide rather than accept the defeat of Germany.!"! Motivating or triggering factors included fears of execution for Nazi war
crimes or reprisals and atrocities by the Allies and the Soviets, Nazi propaganda glorifying suicide as preferable to defeat, and despondency after Hitler's suicide. For example, in May 1945, up to 1,000 people killed themselves in a mass suicide in the German town of Demmin, before and after
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Model in an Elsa Schiaparelli lobster hat by Horst P. Horst, 1939
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?
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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.
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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Make Germany Great Again' Kinda gives away the game, doesn't it
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There is no serious denying that Elon Musk is a white supremacist. It's not a matter of alleged subtext or parsing unstated implications. It's just right there in his own unambiguous and explicit plain English.
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David Torrence @davidtorrence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fuckery of the GOP.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 06/09/2026
The man never met a money-making opportunity he didn’t jump on. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s ‘Lake America’ rebrand gets grifty
Who could have guessed? Donald Trump’s family is cashing in on yet another one of his moves as president, this time his wildly unpopular push to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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