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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hell yes, the Senate races matter - a lot. President Dipshit could nominate a rabid raccoon to replace Alito and a Republican senate will confirm. Guaranteed. 100 percent. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
We must build the transit, cities, and systems of care - the infrastructure - our species needs to carry on human civilization. We can't keep hitting snooze on this, lest we are finally awoken by seawater lapping at our pillows.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
Just as the post-war world made millions comfortable, educated and happy by putting them to work clearing the rubble and building something better, a post-oligarch, post-American world can offer us all all the hard, rewarding work we want, performing the essential work of care and rebuilding.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
esquire.com
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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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
On Tuesday, while we were distracted, the "Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group...
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From Surveillance State to Kill Machine: Has the Line Already Been Crossed?
What began with data collection is rapidly evolving into something far more dangerous: systems that can decide and act to kill people here in America…
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
What Hoskins did was not Trumpian fire and brimstone, bellowing about the criminality of Democrats and immigrants to try to overturn elections. It’s the unsexy, quietly effective cheating made possible by placing party loyalists in key bureaucratic positions.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trump’s Attempts to End American Democracy 
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'd add also that the denial of the results of the election has become a political bellwether to the point where it comes up in confirmation hearings
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s interesting to me that no one ever follows up on this. Do you think you have superior genetics? If so why? And i think it’s because everyone knows what it means so it would be uncomfortable to ask
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
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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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(watching as people complain that my friend has just set the social contract on fire and fostered the rise of a brutal fascist regime that has led to the deaths of millions) "Oh come on, now, be nice to your neighbor"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
a key reason why rape culture persists is because men do not fear reprisals from *other men*. they do not expect other men to care if they raped someone. they do not expect other men to treat them poorly. they believe that most men will doubt a victim's story and demand evidence.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Modern far-right xenophobia is not only totally repulsive to the average decent person, but it is fundamentally heretical to both the civic and spiritual heritage of nations like the US that owe their success and very existence to robust immigration.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

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nvidia “Unites States”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump, the GOP, right-wing media, and the Online Right have had remarkable success with vague insinuation and repetition. Their target audience—which includes not only Trump voters, but mainstream media—love running with insinuation, and treating it as on par with, sometimes greater than, facts.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I really hope people take time to reflect on why these people are extended the benefit of the doubt and their approval is solicited by almost every mainstream political actor in our country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For people just joining us, here's what's happening. AI types sold a bunch of B2B snake oil to C suites who forced it on employees. The promises they made haven't come true and now they're pivoting to a protection racket trying to scare those same idiots who believed the first set of lies
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By reducing the cost and technical difficulty of worldwide publishing to almost nothing, the internet has also destroyed any pressure to maintain standards governing which information circulates. Instead of institutions structuring the public’s collective mind, you get this roiling ocean of ideas.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been convinced for some time that that social media is the taproot of the madness that has slowly consumed our politics. Traditional media was full of gates - some editorial, some practical, some economic - that prevented ideas from spreading freely. Social media has few, close to none.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 28/09/2026
The Privatize-Losses-Not-Just-Gains Challenge levels Common sense: High Economic sense: High Difficulty: High (due to corruption)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” said one.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is what true fascism looks like, running deep cover in a policy proposal so impossibly boring to read that hardly anyone notices that your primary goal is quite simply to regulate your friends and dynamite the administrative state into oblivion
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/09/2026
"Obama tried to freeze Fox out" is a complete lie and it's incredible that Jake Tapper feels the need to both-sides this
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
"Officials who pretended to care about freedom in other countries have demonstrated that they’re willing to trample it at home. The problem isn’t just that we’re ruled by a thug. It’s that we’re ruled by men who will do and defend whatever the thug says."
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As Trump Abuses the Press, Republicans Cheer Him On
His allies excuse and defend his ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.
propublica.org
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And @katelynburns.com put a fine point on it, pointing out how taking on data centers aggressively, especially Musk's especially filthy ones. This could help them defang the trans-hate gambit Elon used in 2024 and 2026, which he uses to undo democracy and make Democrats scared to show solidarity.
burnsnotice.com
The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People
Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/09/2026
It's cool how when I was growing up and my parents were growing up, this country would brag about how it wouldn't allow stuff like this, checks and balances, honor, whatever, take your pick (not saying it wasn't bs), and then one day they all just stopped, like they'd never said any of it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Once again, the imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII, was a grave mistake. It was designed for an era that no longer exists, in which we had two normal pro-democracy political parties. It is now being weaponized by far right authoritarians & we can never do that again.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A salutary tale in How It Happens - institutions actively grant fascism the power it craves before it really holds that power. It happened last time, it happened this time and it will happen next time, whenever and wherever that is. In the meantime, let’s hope the US escapes before it’s too late.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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