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Piet Sawvel 🌵

@extrano.bsky.social
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Paterfamilias. Enticed by feral singletrack, untracked powder, and onsen. Mechanically inept.

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The network state takes shape. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
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These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World (Gift Article)
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵NEW: Kennedy drew $4 million in book advances from Tony Lyons, a publisher who also runs MAHA groups that accept $$ from health companies with business before HHS. The advances were set the month when Kennedy dropped his presidential bid to back Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Kennedy Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA (Gift Article)
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great article by Parker Yamasaki on the North South gravel race across Colorado via @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2026/09/06/n...
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A 643-mile bike race across Colorado draws adventurers from around the West. But what are they really seeking?
When it comes to gravel racing it’s about the grind and a bag full of snacks. And at the North South bike race, now in its 6th year, you don't even have to finish.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Latest quick report for @bellingcat.com: satellite images show miles of new road constructed deep in the Big Bend National Park backcountry near campgrounds and scenic canyons. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...
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Satellite Imagery Documents New Border Patrol Road Construction in Big Bend National Park - bellingcat
Satellite images show new road constructed in Big Bend National Park in southwestern Texas, part of a US Customs and Border Protection "Smart Wall" installation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Beautiful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/r...
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To Save Japan’s Heritage Homes, People Are Shipping Them Across the World (Gift Article)
Millions of abandoned kominkas are scattered across Japan. Now, teams of enthusiasts are dismantling and rebuilding them overseas.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A republic, if you can shake it down www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I love cycling past this farm. It’s impressive.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Spain-Austria: Spanish Republicans who fled to France after Franco seized power were deported en masse by the Nazis to the Mauthausen camp in Austria. Among the prisoners were Catalan photographers Francisco Boix and Antonio García. They found SS archives of photo negatives of the camp and (1/3)
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congrats to hella fast Victor Bosoni. #tourdivide bikepacking.com/plog/victor-...
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Victor Bosoni Wins The 2026 Tour Divide!
Hats off to Victor Bosoni, who just won the 2026 Tour Divide and did so in record time. Learn all about his potential record-setting ride here
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thanks, @swordsjew.bsky.social A great read, though it resurfaced PTSD from growing up in a charismatic community tied to Amy Coney Barrett’s People of Praise. Sadly, you can no longer watch Francis Schaeffer films at Sambo’s restaurant in Appleton, Wisconsin, because of woke.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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John Adams quote projected on DOJ building in protest of $1.8B fund
“A government of laws, not of men,” reads the phrase that lit up the side of the Justice Department on Tuesday.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Google’s AI-synthesized results claims yet more victims. #npr www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n...
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NPR trims jobs in newsroom overhaul as it confronts era without public funding
NPR is offering buyouts to journalists as it overhauls its newsroom, with the threat of layoffs to follow. Two recent gifts totaling $113 million are primarily dedicated to NPR's tech infrastructure.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Productivity dependency is outpacing AI governance datacenterdude.com/career/produ...
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Productivity Dependency Outpacing Governance | DatacenterDude
We've watched this pattern play out across four generations of enterprise IT. AI tooling is next, and this time there's nothing to repatriate.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14/05/2026
Xi bringing up Thucydides while talking to Trump is so hilarious and mean
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
You know things are going well when HR is scheduling webinars with a psychologist on “Coping with Distressing Current Events.”
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10/04/2026
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NYT: Vance Faces a High-Profile Test of His Negotiating Skills With Iran Talks

5 MIN READ
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
In early March, US “intelligence” helped the Ecuadorean government bomb a dairy farm. archive.ph/Rx7rI
The remnants of the dairy farm that was destroyed by Ecuador’s military, which claimed it had been used by drug traffickers.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Ocotillos are aflame in Tucson.
Flame-red ocotillo flower detail with the Rincon Mountains in the distance
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sad trombones
Standard and Poor's 500 index stocks categorized by sectors and industries. Size represents market cap. Red signifies losses, green gains.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Today: Arizona Trail singletrack leading to Kentucky Camp near Sonoita. #AZT
Wispy clouds over a savanna-like section of the Arizona Trail near Sonoita. In the distance are the Santa Rita Mountains, commonly known as Long Mountain. Ce:wi Duag is the Tohono O'odham name. Native plants and grasses surround an adobe casita at Kentucky Camp near Sonoita, Arizona.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
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How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
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Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List
David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our VP of HR impressively knits 4 taglines: “When we each own every moment, we can unleash genius and thrive together as one team.“
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Tucson Mountains at dusk, seen from the 2026 SAUER-ita race course. Type 2 fun at its finest. Props to Dexter Kopas and Henley Phillips for creating a phenomenal route and gathering this band of misfits. thesauer.weebly.com/race-info.html
Tucson Mountains at sunset with streaks of pink, orange, and gray colors typical of the Sonoran Desert. Taken about 10 miles (16 km) SE of Vail, Arizona.
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Piet Sawvel 🌵 @extrano.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“My entire adult lifetime,” Vance wrote, “has been shaped by presidents who threw America into unwise wars and failed to win them.” www.wsj.com/articles/tru...
WSJ Opinion: Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars
He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas. By J.D. Vance, Jan. 31, 2023 2:21 pm ET
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this
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ceej @ceej.online · 28/02/2026
a tweet from the “department of war” calling the start of ww3 “OPERATION EPIC FURY”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Inside the Fight Over the Epstein Files
How an unlikely duo of lawmakers partnered with victims to try to hold the powerful accountable
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/02/2026
"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting. The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration. Read it here:
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault. Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not. My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
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US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BYE BITCH
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026
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ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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