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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 38m
'Pete Hegseth Deserves To Be Impeached. Impeachment should never be taken lightly. Impeaching Hegseth is still the right thing to do.' #petehegseth via @adamkinzinger.substack.com
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Pete Hegseth Deserves To Be Impeached
Impeachment should never be taken lightly. Impeaching Hegseth is still the right thing to do.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1h
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 48m
'Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal". Industrial-scale cheating, football's “financial wild west” and sportswashing, with Miguel Delaney' via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social #ManchesterCity
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Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"
I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.”
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 17h
What. What?! WHAT?!?! futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21h
This is why I keep banging the drum that Trump is really really bad at politics. He’s got exactly two moves - pushing the serotonin button of the country’s worst people, and bribery. That’s it. That’s all he knows how to do.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
50 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party.
Hugh Scott, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes, 1973
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 21h
'Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech. For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.' Via @iandunt.bsky.social #Farage #Burnham
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026
How many local models do you run?

Pope Leo XIV
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack th Show more
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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everybody who wants to run in 2028 is going to need a clear and concrete answer to the question, So who from this Administration is in jail now because of you www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why only Congress is supposed to have the power of the purse. The Executive Branch should not be able to solicit funds for side projects.
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diaperingdad.bsky.social @diaperingdad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump and Russia. Pure corruption. bsky.app/profile/eric...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is starkest example of the war crime of “wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity“ in the 80 years since it was first codified and prosecuted at Nuremberg. A grave, continuing and tolerated breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly. She’s been dead three decades. Who gives a fuck? Leave her to rest in peace for heaven’s sake.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I sometimes think Suella's real definition of Englishness is... White, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, and that she and other headbangers are just trying to put some kind of rules & genetic science around it. But it doesn't work. And it remains blatant racism.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your sons and daughters are
10000x safer with drag queens than frat boys btw
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026
Listening to Gates on @ezraklein.bsky.social is fascinating because he oscillates between his two modes—1) AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and 2) AI will help the world's poorest—with no real effort to reconcile the two.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read this if you’ve ever wondered what that scene in Hannibal feels like, where a man has his brain scooped out one spoonful at a time. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in #Gaza. Team behind documentary push back against #IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems' #Israel #NAZA
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NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems
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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Its happening in years now not decades ‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christ almighty. My brain is now mush. There’s no going back from this level of mush
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 01/10/2026
This is what every media outlet should do - publish Trump rants verbatim, word-for-word. Not sanewash, like a certain newspaper of record.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
People keep responding that some of this already happens, and I would like to introduce them to the concept of “scale.”
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AP/ NORC Trump approval 31 %, disapproval 69%, net -38 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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President Trump’s Approval Rating: Latest Polls (Free Access)
Track the latest approval rating and polls on Americans’ approval of President Trump.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No one expected the American Inquisition
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do wonder what some politicians are scared of ….
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The death penalty in the US is obviously barbaric because it has never been applied to a president or supreme Court justice. Just based on that you can tell it's very clearly not motivated by severity of crimes or any kind of reasonable justice.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I believe the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment in all circumstances but the absurd joke of "lethal injection" is even more cruel and unusual than the others. A violent fiction to fool bystanders into thinking that they are witnessing a humane execution. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause.
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is a meta point, but why is this mf always giving christian nationalist ted talks and not whatever the job of SecDef entails?
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need the next administration to do something about this trade imbalance where the UK sends every failed leprechaun lookalike with a shriveled soul that they have over here to muck up the place and face no sanctions
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Those of us in Britain, still mostly seeing Europe through the narrow lens of Brexit, should be able to see why there is so little incentive for the EU to indulge a country that stormed out once and still cannot say what it wants" www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-t...
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The problem is they just don’t care about us any more
But when you come to Brussels, you realise how far down the list of priorities we have not fallen
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ready for movies to go MAGA? The world’s biggest entertainment conglomerate is about to formed with the merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros-Discovery. And it’ll all be in the hands of Trump acolytes, the Ellison family. Film & TV is about to shift rightward In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'Are you ready for movies to go MAGA? You better be – it’s inevitable'
A giant media merger is about to create one of the largest entertainment conglomerates in history - and it will all be owned by moguls loyal to…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UK household energy bills forecast to rise 16%, or £276, in January. Household energy debt expected to hit £7bn soon. Heating v Eating dilemma. 120,000 a year die in poverty. Companies profiteer, fuelling costs, inflation, poverty. Public ownership gives govt more policy options.
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Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years
A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They MURDERED the leader of Iran DURING negotiations. And they talk about 'good faith'. If Iran wasn't negotiating in good faith it would have blown you up.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to get the ICC to prosecute Turkish Leader Erdogan. Netanyahu currently has an arrest warrant for Genocide pending from the ICC. I suggest the ICC invite Netanyahu to a meeting to talk about Erdogan. And arrest him.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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