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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 6h
A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 5h
The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys.   The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5h
RFK Jr does 1/3 of a pull-up and walks away
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 8h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, political cartoonists tell the truth by keeping things simple.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h
"If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." And the next one probably won't be such an extraordinarily delusional and incompetent buffoon. Disgrace and disincentives on him and his enablers have to be imposed now, while we still can.
theunpopulist.net
America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome
The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Missed this Greg Sargent joint exploring options to shut down or curtail Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing office within State, should Democrats retake the House
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David Frank DeLuca @davidfrankdeluca.bsky.social · 23h
I called Sen. Eric Schmitt's office and asked the staffer who answered if the senator was a war hawk or a chicken hawk, or both. I told her I would hold until she got an answer from the senator. I encourage you to do it too. Here's his number in Washington DC: (202) 224-5721.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zoomies.. 😅
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Judging by a quick look at Twitter, the right has decided just to pretend that Eric Schmitt did not, in fact, just shoot himself in the dick and that he totally owned Jack Smith.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GOP senators and House members up for election complaining now about Trump’s actions in Iran and with deportation are laughable. You had your chance to stand up for what’s right and you did the opposite.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poland had some wise words, for Russia. They can puff out their chests all they like, they can keep killing... But this Polish Foreign Minister is 💯 correct. They will never win.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others."
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. “The choices that Trump regime has made since 1/2025 have increased the number of people who die in the field and in custody,” immigration atty and investigative journalist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Consider this for a minute: in year 5 of the AI hysteria Wall Street is hesitant to put more money in AI. But we're all supposed to rearrange our entire lives on the assumption this is a new era and AI has to permeate and guide *everything* we do.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have wondered why Mississippi’s @scolom.bsky.social wasn’t getting more attention. He’s great. And his opponent is so bad she must be hoping to sneak through because Colum isn’t well known. Glad he’s getting more press.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 28/09/2026
According to the Washington Post, the White House ballroom architect resigned after Trump pushed designs that would violate safety codes. Shalom Baranes Associates is the new firm on the project. We FOIAed the firm’s contract. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Image of a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026
pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's Trump saying tariff money is the Republicans' "income" and they can do what they want with it. The Republican Party is a Mafia-style gang, not a political organization.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kitten fight at the milk bar: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/zR...
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great demonstration of the Tyndall effect in a wooded area by the scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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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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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“I am so devastated that Christians like Tim Tebow made me trust in something that has taken so much money from me. This is evil, especially because I’m disabled on a limited income.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day 5 since Pro-Publica reported on Susan Collins corrupt operation trading campaign cash for federal contracts. What’s been her response? She’s running the Trump playbook. Claiming to be the victim of a vast conspiracy by the media and Democrats. No remorse, no apology, no accountability.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There need to be penalties for the companies and individuals who bribed Trump, not just the Trump family for taking bribes.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
It was a rare federal dataset that captured human emotions. Consumers could have their complaints about American businesses published for all to see. For years, corporations have critiqued the system. Now the narratives are no longer being published.
propublica.org
The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Sorry not sorry @thinshadeez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can own the libs or you can own your farm. Make a choice.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#AGoodPlace
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two galaxies colliding 62 million light-years away NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, also known as the Antennae Galaxies, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The long tidal tails you can see are a result of the two galaxies' collision. Official NASA source: science.nasa.gov/image-detail...
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