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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How many other issues have support from 91 percent of Republicans AND Democrats? Corrupt, bribe-taking Supreme Court Justices, who decide cases based on falsehoods and hypotheticals for their own personal gain, are unacceptable to ALL Americans. Corrupt Justices need to be held accountable.

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Marquette Law School Poll finds approval of United States Supreme Court declines from 47% to 43% | Marquette Today

Also: A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds approval of the United States Supreme Court dipped to 43% in September, down from 47% in July. Disapproval rose to 57% in September, from 53...

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you dig even one millimeter down into the bedrock of “boys playing girls’ sports” you’ll find a toxic layer of believing that girls’ sports should be banned altogether because girls who play sports are tomboys and lesbians that don’t adhere to traditional feminine gender rolls.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We don’t just need “AI” regulation, we need tech regulation and liability. It’s not just about “AI”, it’s about search, social, and commerce too. For far too long we’ve let algorithms push addiction and falsehoods that harm users, protect monopolies, increase division, and prompt people to hate.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Could you imagine if a car company said, “We’ve built a new car that uses tens of thousands of times more gas than previous models, doesn’t get you where you’re going any faster, and sometimes randomly veers off the road but we don’t know why”? That’s what “AI” companies are saying right now.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you have to set the device you’re on to impose limits on how long you can use the device you’re on…

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead, the list puts forth that there’s not a single anime produced in the last 26 years that’s better than Scandal (100) or The Gilmore Girls (99). That feels purposeful to me. Intentionally ignorant. And classist, to be frank.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 25/09/2026

This reminds me of explaining the rules of Kinky Mario Party on a live Our Relationship Pod at PAX that was billed as “a thing Ify is doing” to fill an open slot on Sunday and me watching as a small family stood up and walked out. Lol

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All white supremacists hate JFK, whom they blame for integration. It drives them insane that JFK is the only modern President with Federal monuments erected in his name. The common thread of this administration has been erasing JFK, along with the norms and policies he originated, from our country.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why doesn’t it occur to newspeople that the public may have liked the sound of the “AI” sales pitch, but the more they’ve encountered and used the product the more they’ve decided it is just a bad product? Why do they assume that falling opinions about “AI” must be due to “ignorance of the masses”?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“…Engagement ultimately fell by as much as 50 per cent … ‘you spend a lot less time on the platform,’ he said.” That’s why “Meta” forces you to manually choose the chronological feed every time you open their platforms instead of letting you keep the chronological feed as your default setting.

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Instagram boss warns users will be 'overwhelmed' without algorithm

The head of Instagram says the average person who turns off their algorithm will have a much worse "user experience", as Australia debates new opt-out laws.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Frump posted a (slop) picture of Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, central America, Greenland, and Iceland as part of the United States, so why are U.S. newsrooms focusing on Iceland’s and Greenland’s reactions, not the fact that Frump wants open borders with Mexico, the Caribbean, and central America?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My husband and I were just joking about what Lisa Calderon does between elections, since she runs for Mayor AND LOSES every single time. I get why Kyle Clark would interview Calderon, but I honestly don’t think she deserves his time.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Update: 7 lies to confirm your prejudices. 3 misleading claims to try and convince you to buy something. 6 falsehoods to show that you’re a good person, or someone else is a bad person. 1 obvious thing with an obscure headline. No way to just see articles from specific magazines. It’s disgusting.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A near supermajority of spending now comes from the wealthiest few, who mostly hold their wealth in stocks. As long as those wealthy few can continue to spend, stocks can continue to do well. As long as stocks can continue to do well, those wealthy few can continue to spend.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good for Mark Carney. Good for Canada. Bad for the United States. Frump has significantly harmed us once again, while pushing our close friend and ally farther away.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I once told a Chinese exchange student that part of the United State’s economic success comes from courts holding corrupt officials accountable, and I sometimes worry that conversation somehow lead to the ridiculously corrupt, bribe-taking, delay-until-it’s-too-late courts we have today.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I still think markets and local governments are downplaying the medium-term risks that quantum poses to data centers. Colorado’s history with abandoned mines and oil wells is a cautionary tale of the environmental and economic disaster that awaits us if we fail to plan for this inevitability.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Democrats seem unaware that the “immigration crackdown” is largely about the census. It is one of the reasons Republicans forcibly move people to “red states” upon detainment. That way, even if deportations are not successful, “red states” can count the imprisoned as part of their population.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Why is social media abuzz with woke 1? Is there a woke 2? Is it time for woke 2?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's a line from it: "Colonists under the rule of King George III could expect more transparency and more commitment to justice than Americans can expect under President Donald Trump."

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12/08/2026

I get so surprised when I log on and see a hubbub on what social media has the most users because I don’t think the migration to bsky was about being the most popular social media site, it was about having a social media site that was pleasant to visit and be a part of.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Apple offered me 3 free months of “Apple News” and, as the saying goes, “Holy clickbait, Batman.” “Apple News” is less newsy than “Fox News”. It’s not even fluff and distraction. It’s just straight up falsehoods. I am appalled.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Social scientists have found that when men think their masculinity is being questioned, they may dismiss that challenge as irrelevant, they may quietly feel bad or insecure, or they may overcompensate by trying to behave in a more stereotypically masculine fashion. And that last reaction is where the dollars are. Be a man and buy a gun. Get the manly cereal for men. Wipe your butt with the wet wipes for men. Get the manly-smelling deodorant. Eat the manly steak. It’s no coincidence that gambling apps and crypto companies have spent so much money on ads that make giving them your money seem adventurous.

Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know dissing BlueSky as an unnecessary extra, and saying that it isn’t as good as the anti-sex (and thus doomed to fail) Threads, is what all the cool and popular kids do, but if you’re a Democratic politician that still posts on “X” but DOES NOT post on BlueSky, that says something about you.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you haven’t heard how protectionist and pro-oil policies have destroyed the US auto industry’s competitiveness, that global sales of US brands have plummeted over the past 2 years, and that we pay the highest prices in the world for cars no one else wants… You may be living in a US media bubble.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If Frump got elected while Obama was President, and Frump got elected while Biden was President, but Frump did not get elected when Frump was President because of a lack of election security, isn’t the logical conclusion that Democrats run secure elections and Republicans run insecure elections?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Astronomy, biology, and history tell us that DST is a bad idea, which didn’t live up to its promises, and making it (instead of Standard Time) permanent is anti-fact and anti-science. Democrats who support permanent DST are pandering to this era’s worst qualities. Is this really the best we can do?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It should be a much bigger scandal that Frump was legally required to get Congressional authorization to continue the war, attempts at providing that authorization failed decisively, and yet the war continues.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Why is every newsperson in the United States just Cher in Clueless saying, “I thought they declared peace in the middle east”?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Am I the only person that thinks the image of the Democratic Party could be improved if they stopped sending texts and e-mails that are indistinguishable from spam?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It’s wrong to say that Frump’s personally terrible performance on Iran is an indictment of US military capabilities. Frump fired all of our top Generals and Admirals and has promoted based on personality instead of merit. With that kind of leadership, is it even surprising that our military failed?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Frump literally says “I love the inflation” and we don’t get a single article about his mental condition?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Frump’s entire funneling funds to his most violent and deranged followers thing is even more disgusting when you know that the amount he is trying to secure for those violent criminals is $1.776 billion. Newsrooms that print $1.8 billion in their headlines are misleading you.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Jerome Powell is not a good or courageous person. He is a monopoly loving Trump appointee whose top priority has been fighting against fair and equal treatment of workers, worker’s rights, and better working conditions. He is, in large part, personally responsible for the worst inflation since 1990.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I am pretty upset that there is no legitimate national news organization left in the United States.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

As capitalism becomes monopoly, profits for the monopolists increase - propping up stock prices - but opportunity for everyone else falls. Confidence in the ability of individuals to succeed in small business plummets. So, even as stock prices rise, everyone except the monopolists sees a crisis.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The really disturbing thing to me is that, even after all of this, tens of millions of Americans will go out there and vote for the Republican Party this November, and they will do so while telling themselves that they are moral and decent people.

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gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 16/05/2026

your periodic reminder that modern LLMs still do not pass the Turing Test

A prompt asking ChatGPT Pro to complete an ASCII art letter S.

ChatGPT’s response:
I’ll preserve the same thick, slanted ribbon style and continue from the exact point you left off.

(after 2m 43s of processing time)

ASCII art of something that is definitely not an S

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The massive jump in the Producer Price Index and declining Real Income would have House Republicans more concerned if they hadn’t already gerrymandered their guaranteed victory. What I don’t understand is why the Democrats can’t turn this into a Senate landslide. Why do they ignore so many States?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

To borrow from Eisenhower… The cost of one officer is this: more than 20,000 school lunches provided free of charge. It is five families housed for a year. We pay for a new police car with a fully funded restaurant. We put one person in jail for one night instead of feeding a family for a month.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wall Street is now pricing in nearly 4% inflation as the new normal for the US, a rate consistent with some of the world’s least productive economies. Although it gets much less attention, the Federal Reserve, like the Supreme Court, is going through a major, country-ruining, institutional failure.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If YOU were elected President, what would you focus on? Would you try to improve people’s lives and make the world a better place? Or would you focus on killing people, imprisoning people, defacing national monuments, making elections less fair, and building a ballroom for yourself?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It’s really poignant how bad Google Search has become, but because we’ve allowed them to have a monopoly we literally have no other choice.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I’m sorry. You will not be receiving the next digit in my health insurance group number. Please, get in your hatchback and go.

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“Frump says grass is blue and sky is green, some Democrats disagree” - Every US News Organization

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Has anyone compared the accuracy of Google’s AI (“Gemini”) to the accuracy of Google’s previous “Search Preview” feature. If Search Preview is more accurate than AI, and it costs less to generate, shouldn’t that still be Google’s preferred product? Why aren’t tech investors asking this question?

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Daniel Foster @fosterprogress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Glancing at a near future “sci-fi” short story that I wrote back in the day and, I just have to say, I wish we still called “apps” widgets and “smart phones” digital assistants. The language we’ve chosen to describe apps and smartphones completely misstates what those things actually are.

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