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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 04/10/2026

Is this your view of parents today?

friendintally.bsky.social @friendintally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@nickofferman.bsky.social on the Daily Show you talked about Gen Z having little sex. You didn’t see the connection with them living with variants circulating of the airborne SARS virus that causes COVID. Repeat COVID is awful, and you can too easily share it with the ones you love. Gen Z is sick.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life It’s like spraying yourself with asshole repellant. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/being-forc...

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Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life

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friendintally.bsky.social @friendintally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@jimmykimmel.com Palmer Luckey’s a billionaire, his Anduril is a major U.S. military contractor. Anduril won the Autonomous Surveillance Tower Program resulting in the deployment of hundreds of Anduril Sentry Towers along the border with Mexico at a cost of "hundreds of millions of dollars".

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are actually lucky Trump is so stupid and greedy he did not ban exports on diesel prior to the midterm elections. That would have helped Republicans in the midterms but then his oligarchs would have made less money off of American farmers and truckers.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His wife should divorce him. He has very violent ideations that he doesn't hesitate to voice publicly. This is why women choose the bear.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Montreal? Not now, Ebola. Very bad timing. 😷

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Teach your boys to be men.

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 30/09/2026

Just one of the stories from this Friday's free edition. Subscribe at the site for more.

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 01/10/2026

I think mine are actually curved.

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 01/10/2026

It is not often that I am pictured with the Honorary Unsubscribe honoree. Meet this week’s, Bill Halterman.

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Bill Halterman - Honorary Unsubscribe

I'll miss the hell out of him.

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 01/10/2026

Then there was that time when Trump signed an agreement with the A.I. tech bros on “Super Intelligence” ...but the White House couldn’t quite manage to spell “United States” correctly.

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 02/10/2026

Is this available for people? Asking for a friend.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tech Plutocrats Cannot Lead Us Into A Healthy Future "It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/tech-pluto...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026

Christa Pike was sexually abused and raped from the time when she was a toddler until almost a year to the day before she was arrested in 1995 at age 18 for murdering fellow teenager Colleen Slemmer when the two attended a job training program for troubled youth in Knoxville.

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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim

Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026

“Universities cannot credibly defend academic freedom while remaining passive when an entire class of applicants is denied access to examinations or admissions services because of nationality, residence, or Iranian-issued identity documents,” said Reza Khanzadeh.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026

“There is no world in which the U.S. preventing young Iranians from taking English proficiency tests leads to the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and yet that appears to be the rationale for this cruel new policy,” Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said in a statement.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026

3 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Respirators are an indicator of intelligence. People who understand science wear them. It freaks me out that most of my doctors/their nurses don't understand science. My dentist does. My neurologist does. My pharmacist does. Spielberg does. I do. Smart people wear respirators to avoid COVID. 😷

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm on the crosstown bus and a very drunk person has decided that tonight's their night to cause a ruckus. #smh Now I might have to de-escalate. Send prayers.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You scared? You sound scared.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In San Francisco on September 30? Join @kevintfrazier.bsky.social for a @lawfaremedia.org & Libations hang out!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FOX: We’re active with Iran—how do you get out? El-Sayed: You don’t get in in the first place. We had an agreement that had contained nuclear weapons. We did not need to do this, so the first time the dunce got elected he pulled back on the agreement.

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friendintally.bsky.social @friendintally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social Jon heard Ari Emmanuel say over and over that he doesn’t believe “genocide” is the right word for what is happening in the WEST BANK. Jon Stewart, why didn’t you simply ask, “isn’t it the right word for what Israel is doing in Gaza?” @jonstewart2028.bsky.social

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 22/09/2026

Across #Gaza, children are back learning with UNRWA. Learning gives children space to think independently, discover their potential and keep believing in what they can achieve. UNRWA continues to support children as they learn, grow and imagine what comes next. #UNRWAworks

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

KNOXVILLE: “Their pregnancy excitement turned into their worst nightmare… Tennessee (Republicans’) law, enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, complicated an already heartbreaking pregnancy.” “We were forced to travel to save Amanda’s life” www.wbir.com/article/news...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you!

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Look how well COVID precautions worked in 2020 and 2021. No measles, either. And an entire strain of influenza was eradicated, to boot.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Measles at the Children's ED in Cincinnati. 😡 Unvaxxed and unmasked people are a menace to society. 🖕

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friendintally.bsky.social @friendintally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@ejdickson.bsky.social re your Wired story on a college girl being exploited, FYI, you should know that hair falling out and strange rashes can both be COVID symptoms - and airborne variants of that SARS virus continue to arrive in Florida. Bad wave coming through now.

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Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Amazon warehouse servicing Victoria BC is Just 2 yrs old. In the elder-dominant #yyj airport hamlet Sidney, BC, many seniors need work. They need to pee, thus they can't drive deliveries. Amazon is continually hiring & losing younger drivers.

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Comrade Trump is out there convincing people American IT is not fit for purpose." "He's doing more to get people to stop using oil than Greta Thunberg if she lives to 100." Cory Doctorow doesn't hold back on Donald Trump's complete ineptitude. @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New maxim required? When you owe the banks 1M$, you're in trouble When you owe the banks 1T$, you own the government (!!?? Shurely shum mishtake)

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe not an apocalypse, per se ... @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

One of those questions came from a young man who said something like "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

I said, "Yes, that's right."

He said, "OK, but what can we do about that?"

So I re-iterated the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a prime example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net would term ‘criti-hype’. There are real damages from LLMs & genAI, e.g. the power & water used; how they’ve pushed up memory prices making phones, laptops etc more expensive; the trillions of $ wasted. But AI isn’t going to wipe out humans.

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Æðelwułf @iamdarkink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net is right. The safety scare is largely about inviting regulation that will lock out cheap competitors more than do anything for real 'safety,' like who has access to your prompts and under what terms? 1/3 pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b...

This is a disaster all around: the AI companies are locked in a Red Queen's Race, a fatal beggar-thy-neighbor doom-loop. The only way they could escape that trap is by signing a nonaggression pact amongst themselves promising not to compete anymore. But there's two giant problems with this: first, it is incredibly, fantastically illegal under antitrust law, because it represents a conspiracy among the dominant players to cease to compete with one another, and; second, it leaves the field open for the further development of Chinese "open weight" models that customers can run on their own modest, low-powered computers, which are presently lagging the US "frontier models" by a mere four months:

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b... #Pluralistic

Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some will say no no it wasn't me that enshittified America. Wrong. It was. We are a people or we are not a people, and anyone saying they are not part of the problem is demonstrating that they are part of the problem.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And I'm sorry but no midterm victory can make up for the damage we have done to ourselves. We didn't shoot ourselves in the foot. We shot the foot clean off. It ain't growing back.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am not saying everything was good 10 years ago. I am saying it was better than now. No matter how bad it was 10 years ago, and there were terrible things going on, it was better than now.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now? Everything is a scam. Leaders are cheats. Courts are rogue. Corporations are lawless. Russia beat us without putting up a fight. Disgraceful.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In one decade, we threw out the rule of law, the Constitution, fair competition, knowledge and know-how, and competent leadership in the public and private sectors.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everything was better 10 years ago. Prove me wrong.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

America enshittified itself in one decade. That's all it took.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/09/2026

17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs. Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

NEW: Judge Sullivan isn't buying Todd Blanche's excuses for refusing to hand over handwritten FBI notes underlying four Epstein survivor FBI interviews. He's ordered Blanche to hand them over for in camera review by 9/24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

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