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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 3h

People on social media have built this whole narrative of Fetterman as this guy who is chomping at the bit to flip to Rs the second he can in order to fuck over Dems, but in actuality everything we've seen paints a picture of a miserable, mentally unwell man who absolutely fucking hates the job

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3h

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3h

Remember that 21,000+ acre farm here in NC where workers keep dying? You'd think they're doing that "to make a profit." LOL no. If that were true, they probably wouldn't have gotten FORTY MILLION DOLLARS in arrears with their bank.

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How This Deadly Farmer Lost $40 Million Dollars

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3h

🔴 Zelenskyy: "Don't attack us, don't kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it's a fair deal."

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 2h

It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...

I wanted to hear about this weird new phenomenon from the other side. The Colorado plumber laughed and once again hung up the phone. The woman at the karaoke place was more patient but sounded confused:
Was I AI? Was I selling AI? Could she speak to a real person? No and no, I said, and yes: I was a cold-calling human being who wanted to hear about her experience getting cold-called by bots. (After failing to book a room with Muse, the customer dispatched another agentic solution for the job and claims to have gotten through.)
"Ah," she said. "Okay. We don't like AI calling our restaurant. We hate it." End of call.

There is something to this - computers really do work differently now and can be asked to handle tasks that used to require a human touch (or at least a cursor). But in addition to expanding the boundaries of automation, the agent-assisted power users of today are also mowing down soft and unsuspecting targets - websites, interfaces, services, and people who haven't decided how, or if, they want to respond to the replacement of customers, clients, and even friends with agents - with the advantages that come with deploying them first. Once everyone has, as Mark Zuckerberg describes it, an "exceptionally capable personal agent," does anyone?

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 15h

Charlie Brown had hoes I was a teenager during the Reagan Administration, child. No. He was not.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14h

after a substantial period of time on the "maybe stomp on EA less" train i must acknowledge this was hard won wisdom

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Dangubiti @dangubiti.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve lost track of how many small business owners in DC are shocked that their customers respond extremely negatively to their public tweets supporting Trump

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16h

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 8h

On a positive note, judging by how furious these fucks are and how they've brought out the real big guns to force Ukraine to stop, the strikes against Russia's oil industry are clearly having a very serious impact.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5h

Charlie Cook says there's no "blue wave" but a "red undertow." I think he's wrong about this. The Dem Party and candidates are currently more popular across the board than the Republican Party and candidates. And Ds are in better shape than 2018 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-11...

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Charlie Cook says there’s no “blue wave.” I think he’s wrong.

Plus, Democrats are winning the ad war despite the GOP's cash edge. Your weekly political data roundup for October 11, 2026.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 5h

An entire political commentary class who thinks the country is eternally in a state of conservativeness just like themselves and that any deviation from that is just a moment of temporary embarrassment rather than true belief

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

i'm going to be piloting a new, free public health newsletter in the coming weeks. if you've been wanting to benefit from my public health news addiction and analytic experience in peace without all the shitposts or tangents in between, this is for you! 😊

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 15h

Iñárritu kinda hates himself, kinda hates you, hates society, but really hates Republicans, and most of all hates Adam McKay. And while this makes it sound miserable. It's actually funny, eminently watchable, and the reason to see it in theaters is weirdly enough: the foley work

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 4h

Cruz curse is back on!

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing to outdo Lutnick in pure smarmy odious bullshit

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 5h

gekko not panning out as a presidential candidate just seems so obvious to me. like, even put aside all the evil shit he does, just *look at him* and try to imagine that guy campaigning anywhere outside of california, where he got to play on a mode so easy that all others are ultra-nightmare

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 16h

Man we could break so many supermajority’s this year

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 19h

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

Ryuka, 5, said he’d prefer to keep the park — and the playground — over a road during weekdays.
“Playground,” he said softly, avoiding meeting this reporter’s gaze. “I like the ship.”
Asked what would improve the park, which sits feet from Ocean Beach, he was decisive.
“More sand,” he said, burying his hands in the stuff.
Ads separate from the “no” campaign but featured on its Instagram page (opens in new tab) argue that car crashes in District 4 have declined since the Great Highway closed and that Sunset Dunes is the city’s third-most-popular park.
Ryuka’s mom, Denise Leo, 50, supports Prop. G because it would restore the road for weekend commutes. She drives Friday mornings for work as a library aide in San Mateo and wants the option of taking the Great Highway, rather than 19th Avenue. The pathway above the highway always worked when she wanted to go for a run, anyway. Or, wait, does she oppose G?
Told that a “no” vote keeps the road closed to cars, she paused. In 2024, she pointed out, it was the “no” vote that kept the highway open.
“I’m gonna vote to open it,” she said, looking at her son. “Even though he likes it.”

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20h

Palantir is the tougher one because they've successfully wormed their way in in such a way they aren't disposable Would suggest a one-two of pursuing non-palantir options (not sure if you could spin off a govt owned maven, but worth looking at) while using non-DoD means to limit the founders' power

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18h

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The idea that people who have chosen to devote their entire lives to partisan electoral politics are indifferent to electoral outcomes is just facially insane

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22h

I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT. Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce. This will hamper academic research. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I encourage American's everywhere to support Ukraine as they engage in a long-time American tradition--crippling the Russian state. Oil refineries go boom and tankers explore the ocean floor until they pull out of Ukraine. The admins push to undermine this is antithetical to democratic interests.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early.”

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Suffice to say I'm skeptical of GOP chances in 2030, early or not, due to dynamics observed in 2021, 2022, and 2024 Those were in fact GOP waves. They're just crippled by coalition shifts as far as high-propensity voters. They're becoming the distinct national minority party. Independents hate them

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a thread I want to know more about www.wired.com/story/the-do...

Loudermilk had separately sought to depose Hutchinson until he was blocked by House speaker Mike Johnson, who was concerned it could surface damaging texts of a sexual nature between lawmakers and Hutchinson.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 10/10/2026

I think mobile network security is actually pretty good, but the ability for customers to avail themselves of mobile-network capabilities is bad. The standards are weird, nobody implements them correctly, they're trying to put aggregators in front of them to balance this, the aggregators are leaky

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/10/2026

Many homes in the northeast & in Alaska are heated with heating oil- basically diesel fuel. Now because of the administration’s war & energy policies, families are going to pay a lot more to heat their homes this winter. Our paper shows how folks heat their homes: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Map of primary heating fuel by US census tract, from our paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/ae69e6/meta

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is a very dishonestly framed article given that in the actual text of the article it acknowledges that he confirmed he stands by sponsoring the equality act after giving the answer the headline refers to, a fact that directly contradicts the headline

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is like being endorsed by jesus in texas

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The toughest lesson of adulthood? If you don’t get enough sleep you’ll feel sleepy.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This isn’t really a superpower but just assuming the Dems aren’t garbage and a have a good reason for inaction is usually pretty helpful. Like huh why hasn’t CA banned the death penalty? Oh turns out voters have to approve constitutional amendments passed by the leg and have rejected this change

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think this is the real promise in the technology more than anything else (at least for me, as someone who is not, say, a professional dev type)

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ossoff is rightly being lauded as a hater but I do want to point out that Pritzker is carpetbombing just fucking brutal attack ads against a guy he’s going to beat by like 20 points m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkv...

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Prehistoric

YouTube video by JB Pritzker

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The question of why the country flipped to allow it internally is worth chasing.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brother, the death penalty is a lot of things, but it's not particularly White

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it remains so maddening that 'overdiagnosis' is the way they fearmonger about this when essentially every country, including the highest GDP ones with actual healthcare systems, has countless people underdiagnosed from lack of availability of mental health services

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump said it, yes. The Kremlin is saying it too. Neither's word has value. I'll believe tons of fuel go from Russia to the US when I see it. But getting Russia to say this, hoping that'll ease prices for a bit, like Trump has touted foreign promises to buy American that don't happen? Plausible.

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