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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Back at the bad place during the first Trump administration, the biggest flurry of threatening replies and DMs (many of them antisemitic) I ever received was when this Kurt S jackalope quote tweeted me and sicced his army of flying MAGA monkeys on me.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In May, even. Neither AIDS nor 9/11 were punishment God sent for the sins of America, but I believe that the Republican Party is.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

RFK Jr. received "more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. from Gavin de Becker..." de Becker has been described as Jeff Bezo's "top security staffer" www.wsj.com/politics/rfk...

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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor

The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i gotta hand it to thomas massie youtu.be/RPOxBl_WMWc

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Impeach them all!

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415

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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images

The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.

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RP @george73.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sen. Wyden’s inquiry found over $1.4 billion in suspicious Epstein-linked transfers passed through JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America. “My small team of investigators did what Trump's attorney general and Treasury secretary said was impossible.”

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

He ran the kind of government that US centrists fondly envision, and as a result, he was a total failure, everyone hated him, and no one will miss him.

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Former UK Prime Minister Starmer Steps Down From Parliament

Former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving British politics after deciding to step down as a member of Parliament.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Art Deco Finland: The Helsinki Central Railway Station, built 1919.

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swandiveswim.bsky.social @swandiveswim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#Bloomscrolling #ColourADay #BlueTue Monkshood or Wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus) with its papery, blue coloured blossoms, is a mid to late August bloomer in my area.

Blue blossoms, backlit by the sun exposing the tracing of veins in the petals. They are supported by slender green stems against a blurred background of dark & light greens.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 25/08/2026

The impotent death rattle of a super power

Donald J. Trump
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The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

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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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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every true patriot needs to bake this man a pie.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 22/08/2026

Carney says the US tried to restrict Canada's ability to make trade deals with other countries as a requirement for negotiation. Sources tell CBC this included making Canada impose new tariffs on other non-US trade partners in compliance with the United States www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

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U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals - Carney says U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' after trade talks fall apart

In the final hours of negotiations, the U.S. tried to include restrictions on Canada's ability to strike trade deals with other countries, Carney said. "Unacceptable," the prime minister said flatly.....

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can you imagine the press coverage if a Democratic White House employed a disgusting pig monster like this tub of shit?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

One of Huss's close associates in the 1980s was a woman named Betty Freauf. She was the Secretary of the OR GOP in 1983-4, chair of her county's GOP for a few years, and ran for office a couple times. In 2016 she published an article about how "Hitler was one of the good guys...like Jesus."

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Memorial Day weekend, I sent to my personal e-mail list which included Oregon's GOP legislators, the movie: The Real German Genocide. I received no feedback from the elected officials but the feedback I've been getting from the 1 ½ hour movie that exposed the real Genocide of Nazi Germany has been very interesting and I'll share what some of them have written but allow me to start with what my own 50-year old physical therapist and Christian High School grad who didn't see the movie asked: "Is this a 'he said, she said' story?' And as you'll see as I disclose some of the responses, her question was valid but I pray this article will clear some of the questions that many have had.
WIDOW LADIES SPEAK OUT
A knowledgeable 73-year old Christian widow, a retired nurse with 3 children who I call my Texas "Truth Seeker" sent me among other websites about the Holocaust 10 reasons why Hitler was one of the good guys as described in. In the interest of space, you will have to read them so I have not listed them. She has also been valuable in supplying me with other websites noted in this article.

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you needed another reason to hate the Browns other than possibly starting an alleged sexual predator at QB, their owners are hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for a fundraiser. I hope they lose every game.

A flyer promoting a fundraiser hosted by Dee and Jimmy Haslam for Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026

Woah.

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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What is The Telegraph going to write about now?

A vast list of Telegraph articles hounding Jason Arday

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Guys, something is going on in the market for lettuce. (HT @tker.co)

Line chart titled "This was the largest monthly decline in lettuce prices on record" shows monthly percent change in lettuce prices for U.S. urban consumers from 2006 to 2026, seasonally adjusted. Lettuce prices plummeted 16.4 percent in July 2026, the steepest monthly decline on record, following sharp increases of 16.4 percent in May and 6.5 percent in June 2026. This drop exceeded previous record declines of approximately 12 to 13 percent seen in April 2011 and early 2010, and contrasted sharply with the relatively stable 2018-2024 period when monthly changes typically stayed within 6 percent in either direction.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This billionaire is accidentally making the case for why we need a wealth tax better than anyone else could.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/08/2026

This is a fantastic new study - I spoke to the Guardian in their coverage of it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Climate scientists and energy experts have been troubled by the rapid construction of increasingly large and energy-hungry AI datacentres, which are typically powered by burning fossil gas. The researchers did not factor datacentre energy demand into their calculations but found AI enables productivity gains in the fossil fuel sector that result in emissions at least three times current estimates for datacentres.

They cautioned that the results were a “directional and structural finding, not a precise forecast”, though the broad relationship held true across every scenario and sensitivity test they ran.

Ketan Joshi, an independent climate analyst who was not involved in the study, said the AI sector was “fundamentally hungry for fossil fuels” and that the impacts went well beyond data centres driving fossil fuel use.

“Even within some parts of the climate movement, there is still a denial that an unchecked tech industry will inherently boost fossil fuels,” he said. “Simply asking companies to throw a few scraps of cash at renewable projects is not enough to ensure the industry operates safely.”

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this

An Onion poll on "Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character?"
Columbine 0%
Scaramouche 0%
Pulcinella 0%
Pantalone 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don't know: 100%

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The July number was weak. The bigger story is that May and June were revised down too. Taken together, that's roughly 200,000 fewer jobs than we thought had been created.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/08/2026

The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What a petty little man

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Garrett Herrin @garrettherrin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

University of Michigan voters have a 100% El-Sayed precinct right now.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“May” is doing a whole lotta work here. And we can lose the “experts say…”

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gordie Howe Bridge opened yesterday, 46 days after Trump blocked it. Owner of rival bridge, who donated $1 million to Trump PAC in March, earned an estimated $6.9 million in tolls during that time as travelers and businesses endured costs of slow border crossing. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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Gordie Howe International Bridge is open! Here's what you need to cross it

The Gordie Howe International Bridge opens at noon July 27. Here's what drivers need to know to cross, including tolls, ID info and more.

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