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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That just shows you how subsidized this whole economic grift is. Sure maybe it's somewhat useful for some tasks but $500 a month is insane and this is just the continued implosion of the frontier model industry. www.engadget.com/2272106/open...

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OpenAI adds $500(!) Pro subscription, nerfs its existing $200 tier - Engadget

How long until every other AI company does the same?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New Gallup poll has US approval of socialism at highest level ever. Women, people of color, Democrats, and people aged 18-34 all view socialism more positively than capitalism. Among people aged 35-54 and those who make less than $99K, socialism & capitalism are neck and neck.

Positive Views of Four Economic Concepts, by Subgroup
Just off the top of your head, would you say you have a positive or negative image of each of the following?
% Positive
Free enterprise
Capitalism
Socialism
Big business
U.S. adults
77
55
43
35
Gender
Men
80
66
35
37
Women
75
45
49
34
Race/Ethnicity
White adults
People of color
74
48
50
43
78
59
39
30
Age
18 to 34
69
43
57
29
35 to 54
73
50
45
35
55 and older
85
65
34
38
Education
College graduates
81
59
44
30
Non-college graduates
74
52
42
37
Household income
$100,000 or more
82
65
40
31
$50,000 to $99,999
77
51
Less than $50,000
73
47
47
41
48
30
Party ID
Republicans
86
75
14
79
56
35
45
32
65
17
Independents
Democrats
65
Aug. 3-24, 2026
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23/09/2026

"Does Israel have a right to exist" in the American political discourse is 99% of the time a motte-and-bailey question which leaves off the implicit addendum "...as a Jewish state"? The reason pro-Israel people leave it off is because they know they can't defend it on the merits.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🔥 MUST-READ — A WARNING ⚠️ from @AOC: “Heads they win, tails we lose… should the A.I. bubble congress must not bail them out… the biggest threat to humanity isn’t A.I. — it’s the tech oligarchs themselves… @RepAOC points out A.I. companies are demanding massive investments from 🇺🇸 while LOSING money

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our president’s brain is full of mush at this point.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every vote has now been counted in Sweden, and the left-wing opposition has won over the governing right-wing bloc. The four-party left-wing coalition secured 176 seats. The four-parties in the right-wing coalition secured 173 seats.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As of today, both the House and Senate have passed this idiotic bill. It now heads to the president's desk.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

we won! the court just declared the Brooklyn Democratic Party's attempted coup null and void in a victory for democracy and common sense, Justice Jill Epstein finds that outgoing District Leaders had no right to change the rules after an election they lost iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Francis Bourgeois is what it would look like if Christmas morning joy woke up as a grown man. youtube.com/shorts/RJAyX...

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Francis in a chokehold chasing trains

YouTube video by Amazon Prime Video UK & IE

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026

If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Too many people fell for this story when it came out. Including those on the left.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.

DHS encourages “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave with some sort of $3,000 payout, its naked racism.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A huge, unexpected twist in Missouri as a federal judge intervenes to overrule the Missouri Supreme Court despite Kavanaugh's decision to not take up the matter. Suddenly a lot of uncertainty, again.

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our president has AI psychosis.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How does 🇺🇸 media stay silent about this?

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just outright Nazis at this point. Before, they used to pretend. Now it’s being broadcast via a bullhorn.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It tells you everything you need to know that depraved Israeli settlers—absolutely working on behalf of the state despite claims to the contrary—are happy to viciously assault a Palestinian woman directly in front of (and through) a NBC news crew. Every Palestinian is understood as fair game.

Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers in West Bank
The woman and crew were treated for injuries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s not conspiratorial or anti-Semitic for Al Sayed to point out that AIPAC spent $30 million to oppose his candidacy. It’s true. And it’s an extraordinary outlier in a primary campaign.

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is no separation between the Israeli military’s genocidal goals and the brutal violence Israeli settlers inflict on Palestinians every day. They are part of the same ethnic cleansing project, as Yuli Novak, executive director of Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem explains.

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW POLLING: Democrats in the first six states to vote in the 2028 presidential primary overwhelmingly demand sanctions and a total weapons embargo against Israel. View full toplines and crosstabs of our polling, conducted by YouGov, at imeupolicyproject.org/polls/2028-starts-here

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/08/2026

The newest darling of the Western center-left and frontrunner to replace Netanyahu says today on Twitter:

Gadi Eisenkot - גדי איזנקוט
@gadi_eisenkot
Translated from Hebrew
There is no Palestinian state, and in the government we will form, no Palestinian state will arise.
Rate this translation:

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They report this as a feel good story when this should be an indictment of how Republicans have tried to choke the life out of public education in the state.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/08/2026

Does anyone in the newsroom know what working means

The Democratic Socialist Running for Office While Working at Bergdorf For Eon Huntley, who won his primary in New York in June, good clothes and populist policies go together.

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

PRE-ORDER to STREAM my movie about how crypto is dumb and bad NOW @: everyoneislying.com

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Holy fucking shit. It’s hard not to read this and think that most comedians are gigantic fucking losers who go into this line of work to get laid and impose their will on women. Ffs.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social

wired.com

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FLIP IN FLORIDA: The Democratic-backed slate has flipped the school board of Sarasota County. This is a county of 400K that went for Trump by 18%. It's also where Bridget Ziegler has been on the school board. Dem-backed candidates just flipped 2 seats, adding to the 2 they already had (out of 5).

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 19/08/2026

Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social has secured reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was uncontested in the primary and is running uncontested in the general election in #FL10. Congratulations, Rep. Frost! Standing against genocide is good policy and good politics!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Better to know now that Vindman is a pathetic candidate before millions of dollars were unnecessarily spent on him. This is a Callais victory, Nixon was the public face fighting the Florida gerrymander. Outspent 13:1 in this one.

Angie Nixon will win the Florida Senate primary over Alexander Vindman.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Richard Uihlein isn't a household name—by design. But he's one of the most ultra-extreme far-right mega donors in the nation. And he's trying to buy governorships to steal 2028.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/08/2026

Completely unacceptable comments which the UK will do nothing about thereby implicitly accepting them

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Democrats @democrats.org · 12/08/2026

HUGE: Ilhan Omar has won the Democratic primary for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in her bid to serve a fifth term in the House. Congrats, Congresswoman!

A graphic featuring an image of Ilhan Omar standing in front of a waving American flag. Text on screen reads, "Ilhan for Congress." Below, a donkey and the outline of the state of Minnesota appear.

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.

bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Holy shit. This is making me so nervous.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 12/08/2026

Big drop from Dane and the race is effectively tied up. Still two precincts left from downtown Madison, each of which could net Hong 300-600 votes.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/08/2026

STOP THE COUNT

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/08/2026

An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/sile...

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