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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/07/2026
Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. map.citationneeded.news
A screenshot of the map, with a side panel open showing Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Side panel contents: Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Intermediary Entity When Walter Shaub, then Director of the Office of Government Ethics, called on President Trump to divest from the Trump Organization during his first term, Trump instead transferred his operating businesses to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Many had urged him to use a blind trust. Critics argued the DJT Revocable Trust fell far short of that standard: Trump remained the sole beneficiary, his son controlled the assets, and Trump could revoke the arrangement at any time. Shaub later commented that the arrangement was “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective” and that “setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust—it’s not even close.” Established 2014 Sources ↗ Stenglein, Christine, "OGE Director warns Trump’s business plan insufficient", The Brookings Institution, January 11, 2017 ↗ Craig, Susanne, and Eric Lipton, "Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire", The New York Times, February 3, 2017 ↗ Kravitz, Derek, and Al Shaw, "Trump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants", ProPublica, April 4, 2017 ←controlled by Donald Trump Jr. According to a 2024 regulatory filing, Donald Trump Jr. "is the sole trustee and has sole voting and
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Seth Zuihō Segall @sethzuihosegall.com · 24/07/2026
My new essay for The Existential Buddhist:
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Choosing Inner Perspectives – The Existential Buddhist
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ergalvin.bsky.social @ergalvin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This guy seriously suggests iran should pay for us to bomb them www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQw...
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PA Rep. Scott Perry suggests Iran might pay for $200 billion request by Trump for war against Iran
YouTube video by PA Wire
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 19/02/2026
The risk of being killed in a politically motivated attack in the US is low, a Cato study shows. Excluding 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, most deaths come from right-wing attackers, followed by Islamists, and then left-wing attackers. www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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ergalvin.bsky.social @ergalvin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Trump’s Claims About Noncitizens Voting Are False. We Can Prove It.
A number of states have undertaken investigations into noncitizen voting, cross-checking voter rolls with citizenship status, and found it virtually nonexistent.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
this is probably fine
Bloomberg
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Industries Consumer
Protein Is Showing Up in
Doritos, Waffles and Now Even Pop-Tarts
Food companies say consumers are seeking nutritional benefits even in foods that aren't considered healthy.consumerreports.org

Protein Powders and Shakes
Contain High Levels of Lead Protein supplements are wildly popular, but CR's tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day
By Paris Martineau
Investigative Reporter
October 14, 2025
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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Dan DePetris @dandepetris.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Some thoughts on Day 4 of the Israel-Iran war.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 30/04/2025
it was the trump stock market before, because it was going up. now it’s the biden stock market, because it’s going down. this is not difficult to understand.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/04/2025
Someone just spent $8 million on $TRUMP memecoins after the president announced that the top holders would be invited to join him at a private dinner at his DC golf club. The purchases were funded by a Binance account, suggesting the wallet owner is not based in the US.
Solscan screenshot showing four purchases of a total of 655K TRUMP tokens for approximately $8 million
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 23/04/2025
not surprising. if you own the platform, you make the rules.
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They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
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Amni Rusli @amnirusli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
feels like a scene from a dystopian movie
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Good Goals, Poor Implementation" www.econlib.org/good-goals-p...
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 12/03/2025
surge in gop satisfaction with the way things are going in the usa: up 58 points largest increase since gallup recording began in 1991 (dems are sad though)
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 10/03/2025
how about we compromise
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/03/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sherifa Zuhur @sherifazuhur.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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salluisig.bsky.social @salluisig.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, a Christian Nationalist with the slogan “Make America Great Again” is elected. Shortly after, Olamina’s camp is invaded by armed vehicles called maggots. This is now what I picture the maggots looking like.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"FCC Investigates Radio Station Over Coverage of Immigration Raid" buff.ly/4hWmZrh
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Only slightly different.
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/01/2025
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025 🔗 www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist calls fellow tech titan ‘super-smart’ but guilty of ‘overreach’
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