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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

From Doug Mills on X: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Special Assistant to the president Natalie Harp join President Donald Trump in Marine One he arrived in Wasilla, Alaska yesterday.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

OMG she is brutally bad at this

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Seeing so many unserious, unqualified, and generally mediocre political figures sporting a JD in their resumes makes me wonder, is there really much to a JD degree anymore?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nothing to see here but the President of the USA protecting foreign powers helping the Iranians target and kill US soldiers....

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If Republicans are so concerned about “beating China” in the AI race, they could, you know, tell the President to follow the law and stop creating avenues for China to get US-made chips.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026

ProPublica designed a reporting experiment to demonstrate how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. We succeeded in opening two schools. No credentials or background checks required.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Musk gripes about Ukraine hitting a Russian bot farm in retaliation, but not a word about Russia’s wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian civilians in a war *Putin* started and which *Putin* could end today

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 11/10/2026

And to rub salt in the wound, these tech companies are forcing local officials on city councils or county boards to sign NDA’s so they can’t even tell their own constituents what’s going on. No wonder Minnesotans don’t trust these guys.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 11/10/2026

Data centers epitomize the power Big Tech has over communities. People point to these buildings as proof that Big Tech plays by a different set of rules, and get pissed that data centers are built over the objections of the people who live around them (often with taxpayer $$)

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What are we even doing anymore as a country? This is disgusting.

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We interrupt your daily doom-scroll for some hilarious frivolity.

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John McKenzie @jwmckenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One peril of being ensconced among like-minded decision-makers is that you grow accustomed to winning arguments without successfully rebutting your adversary. Without practice, the capacity to rebut diminishes as well.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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McMaster Religious Studies @mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Online Book Launch of Eileen Schuller and Carol Newsom's The Thanksgiving Scroll, the newest volume of The Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Register for the 1-hour event, which will take place over Zoom on 13 October, 2026, 11am EDT/4pm BST/6pm IDT. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t know what’s funnier: Schmitt showing what a complete and utter doofus he is, or that he actually believes anyone would want to go see the Atlanta Hawks.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I’m pissed off about gas & food prices.” “Are you regretting your vote for Trump?” “Yeah. A lot of people are.” “America’s not Great Again?” “No. They’ve run it into the ground.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No country that shows such cruelty to children can ever claim to be great.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump, his cronies, and his family are just doing a smash-and-grab on the US treasury and living it up. Meanwhile, us peasants are paying $4.30 for a gallon of gas, over $1,000 on groceries per month, and struggling to afford health insurance.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️

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bfriedman.bsky.social @bfriedman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why am I paying for that propaganda? Someone needs to sue the administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Senate acquitted Paxton because Lt. Gov, Dan Patrick, was the trial “Judge” & took $3mil in bribe & didn’t allow pertinent evidence in against Paxton, effectively fixing it to acquit him. He wouldn’t let prosecution present their case. Even Paxton’s impeachment counsel is endorsing Talarico.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We simply cannot survive with governments that are for sale.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/09/2026

Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember this? Who’s the stupid one now?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...

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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants

A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 24/09/2026

This is a familiar pattern that repeats itself every time Republicans get on this voter fraud kick. Another familiar pattern is Republicans who complain about voter fraud not living where their voter registration says they do.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

100k registrations in a blue year in urban areas? Gee hard not to be conspiratorial about that given recent polling.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Let’s kick off our cheapest, best patients for fun”

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

oh my goodness -- I had no idea Mike Collins's hit ads on Jon Ossoff are *this* bad. Truly abysmal stuff.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For God's sake, this is craven. The Russians have been trying to obliterate US companies in Ukraine repeatedly and with some success. The US government says nothing at all.

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump defends Russia—who is clearly our adversary—at every turn. He even undermines our national security and our alliances just to defend Putin. How is this not “giving aid and comfort” to a dangerous enemy of the United States?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Shaheen: "He seemed to say Russian children have also been displaced & kidnapped, & that's just not true. It's Ukrainian children the Russians have taken back to Russia. They've taken them from their families, thousands of them. It is very clear who is violating intl law here, & it's not Ukraine."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the US bombed an Iranian school, killing over 100 kids, it involved over-reliance on an AI targeting system called "Maven," which based it on outdated information. I called it in @foreignpolicy.com in April Now confirmed in @bloomberg.com report of Pentagon investigation

Keep Humans in the Loop
AI has a place in military targeting—but it needs safeguards.

By Nicholas Grossman, a professor of international relations at the University of Illinois, editor of Arc Digital, and the author of Drones and Terrorism.

Pictured: A woman passes an art installation featuring portraits of some of the school girls killed in an apparent U.S. strike in February, in Tehran.on April 12. MAJID SAEEDI/GETTY IMAGES)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/14/ai-targeting-iran-school-airstrikes-pentagon-anthropic/

APRIL 14, 2026, 1:57 PM
In the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, airstrikes hit an elementary school in Iran, killing at least 175, most of them children.

From: https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/14/ai-targeting-iran-school-airstrikes-pentagon-anthropic/

This time, AI may have played a role, perhaps relying on old information. The school was adjacent to Iranian naval facilities and had once been a part of them. A large language model like Claude or ChatGPT could make that kind of error by consuming outdated information at a higher volume and giving it greater weight than more current info—or perhaps by failing to spot something a human might have caught, such as a school sign or children playing.

From: https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/14/ai-targeting-iran-school-airstrikes-pentagon-anthropic/

The public doesn’t know if AI chose the Iranian school, but we know the U.S. military is using an AI-powered system called Maven in Iran to help identify targets. Similarly, the Israeli military used a system called Lavender to identify targets in Gaza. Both wars featured a record-high rate of precision strikes compared to previous air campaigns.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/14/ai-targeting-iran-school-airstrikes-pentagon-anthropic/

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our system of healthcare is being destroyed by people who don’t remember the past, who are wholly ignorant of what they’re talking about, and who are too arrogant and stupid to figure that out.

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Phil Strickland @drpdstrickland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Note that this is the standard Republican position on giant corporations. No need to protect people from harm. We trust the billionaires to do that for us.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026

Today’s GOP has turned losing an election into a paranormal event.

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