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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 7h
Why does the LA Times keep lying about the billionaire tax, even when they're promoting it? Maybe ask their billionaire CEO. #YesOn40 #BillionaireTaxNow #NoOn41 #NoOn42
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Why does the LA Times keep lying about the billionaire tax, even when they're promoting it?
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 7h
Check out today's episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, Episode 321: Gotta Catch 'Em All, Fascism :,(
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Episode 321: Gotta Catch 'Em All, Fascism :,(
Fifteen Minutes of Fascism is a sadly topical podcast covering the global rise of the radical right. Listen every Thursday for news, analysis, historical background, and celebrations of the deaths of
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 6h
We need a real policy plan to navigate the U.S. (and unfortunately, the world) economy out of the AI bubble's aftermath. Otherwise we are going to see even deeper austerity and further belt tightening as the federal government attempts to backstop the tech industry's losses.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
anyone have a gift link?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3h
It’s no accident this iteration of fascism has most explicitly targeted trans people, immigrants, Muslims, pro-Palestine protesters… all marginalized groups MAGA can trust certain Dems/centrists to withhold solidarity from / throw under the bus
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 9h
With a collective net worth of over $2 trillion, California billionaires can afford a small one-time tax to keep healthcare affordable. Senator Bernie Sanders #Yeson40 #NoOn 41 #NoOn42 #BillionaireTaxNow
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 10h
Wrote about California's El Niño reality in today’s @sfchronicle.com. Between heat waves, widespread flooding, and a wet winter ahead, our state needs climate leadership now more than ever. Gift link! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Thanks to El Niño, California is getting a grim preview of its climate change future
OPINION: This year’s record-breaking El Niño will pass. But the global warming that supercharges it will not, Leah Stokes writes.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12h
The best possible endorsement ❤️
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Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 12h
Join us this Wed Oct 21 at 8pmET/7pmCT for our annual livestream beg-a-thon! We'll be joined by @josholson.bsky.social to discuss the rise of Ben Shapiro's rightwing movie empire, it's lurid demonization of Muslims and leftists, and we'll parse just how organic the demand for his schlock really is
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13h
National Guard troops are still patrolling the streets of DC, more than a year after President Trump fabricated an "emergency" to deploy them. Every day these troops are in our communities is another day we risk normalizing their deployment.
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Why Washington shouldn't learn to live with troops on its streets | Opinion
"Military personnel stationed in civilian neighborhoods start to blend into the scenery. We should not become accustomed to this."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13h
We speak with longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan about their new book, "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry," which chronicles the rise and fall of the tech worker movement.
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“Against Tech Oligarchy”: Inside the Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry
Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech...
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 13h
“What kind of society do we want to live in?” Alex Winter #Yeson40 #NoOn 41 #NoOn42 #BillionaireTaxNow
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13h
ICE confirmed earlier this week it had secretly used a federal government warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, to stage and to process detentions in September, despite an order from a judge barring the site’s use until an environmental study was complete.
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“Abolish & Replace ICE”: Rep. Analilia Mejia Blasts ICE for Secretly Using NJ Warehouse
Earlier this week, ICE confirmed it had secretly used a federal government warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, to stage and to process detentions in September, despite an order from a judge barring the ...
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 13h
US voters want action on global heating. So why are midterm candidates ‘climate hushing’?
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US voters want action on global heating. So why are midterm candidates ‘climate hushing’?
Polls show that Democrats and Republicans in battleground states want to hear more from candidates about the climate crisis
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 14h
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Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h
Alex Gibney’s sweeping documentary captures the video game-like sense of unreality that swirls around Elon Musk. trib.al/QwE8fRH
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Watching “Musk” Feels Like Being Trapped in a Simulation
Alex Gibney’s sweeping documentary captures the video game-like sense of unreality that swirls around Elon Musk.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 14h
Billionaires are spending $229 million to lay traps against Prop 40. Here's how to NOT walk into them. #YesOn40 #NoOn41 #NoOn42 #BillionaireTaxNow
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Billionaires are spending $229 million to lay anti-Prop 40 traps. Here's how to NOT walk into them.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
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Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16h
Earlier this week, ICE confirmed it had secretly used a federal government warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, to stage and to process detentions in September despite an order from a judge barring the site's use until an environmental study was complete. We speak with @analiliafornj.bsky.social.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15h
A new Meta initiative will collect employees’ mouse movements, keystrokes and some screenshots to help train AI models to replace them in the future. This comes after the company laid off 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce, in May.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/10/2026
Costa Rica Opens High-Security Prison Modeled on El Salvador’s Notorious CECOT
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Costa Rica Opens High-Security Prison Modeled on El Salvador’s Notorious CECOT
Costa Rica has opened a new high-security prison designed to hold more than 5,000 prisoners. It’s modeled after the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, where prisoners are denied due process a...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As I first reported on Monday, Katie Zacharia is not a lawyer and has never been licensed to practice law. The WSJ reports that she took the California Bar Exam but failed. Nevertheless, Zacharia appeared on media programs for YEARS and repeatedly called herself a lawyer. Here's a super cut:
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Tech’s cash burn on AI is peak silly. We speak w/ Clarissa Redwine and @js-tan.bsky.social, authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, in Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “My Tech Workers Have Unionized”! (w/ @emilymbender.bsky.social)
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.
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djbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
They’ve jumped the air gap. It must be nanobots! Yudkowsky was right about everything. 😭
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 15/10/2026
terrific profile of Marc Andreesen. Turns out most of the stuff he's big mad about never happened. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Why Is Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen So Mad?
The prominent investor has said the Biden administration pushed him to the political right, but sources say his grievances don’t always match reality.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026
Reminded of the fact that the J6 guys got their own wing and court-ordered remedies to their complaints about conditions in DC jails, meanwhile...
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Inmates describe eating mice and bugs in food served at aging D.C. jail
The plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit say the city’s jail knew it was feeding them vermin and didn’t do enough to fix the problem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.
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Kroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year history
The company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Not beating the charges that Ivy League universities are now hedge funds with colleges attached. 46% in private equity is wildly irresponsible financial management for an organization that is supposedly focused on safeguarding the long-term projects of teaching, research, & higher education.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Trump admin claims it found 20,000 possible noncitizens on the voting rolls in California and is seeking a court order forcing the state to segregate every ballot sent to those individuals. Remember what happened the last time they made wild claims like this? DHS has ZERO credibility here.
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero:
Trump's Claims of Illegal Voting in
Nevada Fizzle.
It was the Trump administration's latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
PEARSON: “Data centers are the clearest example of billionaires versus the rest of us” TN-9 Dem congressional candidate Justin J. Pearson tells Democracy Now no one—rural or in cities—wants data centers. His GOP opponent Brent Taylor takes money from Big Tech and carries bills for Elon/XAI.
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Follow the money: One of Prop 41 and 42’s main funders is Google founder and Trump donor Sergey Brin, whose wealth has DOUBLED to nearly $300 billion since Trump's election. Now he’s spent over $100 million to fund these sham measures that attempt to cancel out a billionaire tax.
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨 San Diego Building Trades endorses the Billionaire Tax #YesOn40 #BillionaireTaxNow #NoOn41 #NoOn42
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Did ya know Marco Rubio's brother-in-law had a $75M drug ring? And now— "Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with…the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with."
And as the nation’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio has in some respects served as a friend and accomplice of drug trafficking or criminal enterprises, earning him the moniker “Narco Rubio” from critics. The complaints extend well beyond noting Rubio’s cocaine-trafficking brother-in-law. Rather, it’s that Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with criminal enterprises that advance U.S. establishment political and intelligence aims.

In his role as secretary of state, Rubio has protected, praised, and propped up a murderer’s row of Latin American leaders who each have ties to the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with.

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For years, Rubio has praised former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, and defended him against allegations of bribery and fraud. The Pentagon has identified Uribe as a Colombian politician “dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels,” as being “linked to a business involved in narcotics activities in the U.S.” and being a “close personal friend” of Pablo Escobar. On the other hand, Rubio perhaps appreciates Uribe’s efforts to stamp out communist insurgencies in Colombia – to the point of committing war crimes.

Rubio said last year that Ecudoran President Daniel Noboa “has done more just in the last couple years to take the fight to these narco-terrorists… than any previous administration.” Five months before that, Noboa’s family fruit business was revealed to have trafficked 700 kilos of cocaine to Europe. (Notably, this summer, an anti-corruption activist who was investigating ties between Noboa’s family and cocaine trafficking was found dead in her home with a noose around her neck; and days later, a prosecutor who had been investigating the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats carried out by the Trump administration was shot dead in the streets).
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#LandBack win! After 170+ years, a stretch of the Oregon coast is coming home to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/rea...
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Siletz coastal land return builds on broader reclamation effort
A donation-funded $120,000 purchase will return 6.8 acres on Oregon’s coast to the Siletz tribe, adding to its homeland reclamation efforts.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/10/2026
A piece in the November 2023 New York Review of Books catalyzed my interest in tech extremism and led to my book. It's great to see things come full circle with Sue Halpern's very positive review of "The Nerd Reich." The Plot to Delete Democracy www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Plot to Delete Democracy | Sue Halpern
In The Nerd Reich Gil Durán shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into ...
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
attempting to take the citizenship of one of the only Muslim members of Congress, jointly the first Muslim woman to be in Congress along with Rep Tlaib, is the US conducting the kind of race war and ethnic cleansing that the skinheads dreamt about in the 90s
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
My latest for @theverge.com - Meta has once again built tech that lets one person’s desire for individual convenience endanger the privacy of everyone around them. And unlike with pervert glasses, there’s zero way to even know when your privacy is violated. 🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlD
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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
You may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t.
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djbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I loved the way you handled that interview! This was perfect: “The point of naming [fascism] in its early stages is so that you can fight it before it reaches its late stages.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/10/2026
Join us at an event near you. This link takes you to a third-party site. No Kings will know you came from us, and their privacy policy applies.
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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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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/10/2026
This Saturday, we’re taking action with No Kings in all 50 states to make our voices heard and defend our democracy.
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'No Kings' October 17 protest: 2,500 rallies, marches, and parties in all 50 states urge Americans to vote early in midterm election
Thousands of events are scheduled for Saturday, including voter drives and local election defense workshops, in a united push for voting rights.
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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Online & free: Sustain Penn State's Intersections film series screens Ghost in the Machine on Wed 21 Oct, 6:30pm EDT, followed by a panel on AI and ethics with Dr. Fred Fonseca and Dr. S. Shyam Sundar. Open to everyone. Register for the link: intersections.psu.edu/ghost-in-the-machine
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The Lever @levernews.com · 15/10/2026
NEW: Exxon signed up 100K+ stock owners to automatically vote however the company’s board recommends. Now Trump’s SEC has cleared Tesla and GoldmanSachs to do the same, and signaled any other company can too. From @freddy-brewster.bsky.social: www.levernews.com/wall-street-...
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Wall Street Wants Your Vote on Autopilot
Exxon, Tesla, and Goldman Sachs are turning passive investors into an automatic voting bloc built to crush corporate dissent.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/10/2026
As the president proceeds to hurl racist insults at and accuse Rep. Ilhan Omar of fraud, it's good time to remind everyone that there's data that proves that Trump often directs his wrath at Black women specifically.
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Is Trump a racist? Let’s look at the stats.
Whom does he call "low IQ" the most?
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