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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h
A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Kimberly Guilfoyle knows where a LOT of bodies are buried, but she probably exposed herself, legally, badly enough that Trump can keep her quiet. Paolo Zampolli, on the other hand? I HIGHLY doubt Trump and Melania could afford him to go rogue. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Nasty email fight between 2 top Trump appointees spills into the open
The messages offer a window into interpersonal conflicts within the administration.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 17h
Just low level grifter scum all trying to weasel their way into getting a cut of something.
But many of his Instagram posts also appear to provide backup to Landau’s assertions that Zampolli has gone far beyond his remit on cultural issues, including posts of meeting the energy minister of Romania, working on nuclear energy issues in Hungary, attending World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings, meeting with the United Arab Emirates’ director of foreign direct investment and even discussing with an Argentine official how to send that country’s astronauts to space.
In the emails, Zampolli has defended his actions, writing in one that he disagreed that his “work has strayed from the President’s interests,” and cited his endeavors on a Boeing deal that brought jobs and was welcomed by Trump.
“He should be busy worried about the careers, about the polling,” Zampolli told POLITICO of Landau, not “one of the most loyal friends of the president.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This feels like if Spy Magazine had done a feature back in the day imagining the kind of stories you'd see if the short fingered vulgarian somehow became the leader of the free world.
President Donald Trump sparked a wave backlash after posting an AI-generated video of himself wrestling and cuddling a tiger just hours after sharing real footage of a young British man being fatally mauled by one.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Real wage growth down for the sixth straight month. “Americans have experienced zero wage growth, in real terms, since [Trump] returned to the White House.”
nytimes.com
CPI Report Live Updates: High Energy Prices Pushed Inflation to 3.7% in September Ahead of Midterms
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, faster than a month earlier, as gas prices surged 34 percent.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
✊ solidarity with people of conscience and conviction
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This anti-humanism, god-complex, apocalyptic-accelerationism, AI successionism, whatever you want to call it, needs to be squashed like a bug
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Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#MajorJasonWatson is being held in solitary confinement 24/7. Military law draws hard line in cases such as this. Article 13, UCMJ prohibits punishing service member who's awaiting trial & says confinement may not be "any more rigorous than the circumstances require" www.military.com/air-force-ma...
military.com
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14/10/2026
Why has hasan piker done this
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14/10/2026
They rail about 'communism' but then put a commissar in charge of the press to enforce adherence to official doctrine.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You know the approach is truly working when a “Centrist” like Brooks comes in and acts as the civility police.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good summary of the keystone cops attempt by far right scam artists to claim Talarico had a mental breakdown. But I wish there was more focus on the person behind this, a groyper street thug from Oregon who is a fan of the Freikorps and whose political ideology lines up 88% with Hitler’s.
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James Fishback is the true heir to the DeSantis governorship!
This is giving major 2018 Florida GOP gubernatorial primary vibes.
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In 1919, Germany's defeated soldiers came home only to be stabbed in the back by socialists and communists who wanted to burn the nation down and install a Soviet-style dictatorship.
The Freikorps rose from the disbanded Imperial ranks and smashed that red revolution before it could finish the job.
A century later the same poison is back—now joined by something even more alien.
Far-left radicals still despise their own people and culture, while Islamists answer only to Allah, reject every core of German and Western civilization, refuse to assimilate, and carry out violence in the open name of their religion.
Germany will not be saved by tolerance, dialogue, or more empty promises.
It needs a modern Freikorps-men who put the homeland first and are prepared to stop both the leftist traitors and the Islamist invaders at whatever cost.
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I am not helping out my cause with this one.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don't know if this is true but I want it to be true.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is the leader, but the party is behind him 100%. Any politician still identifying as a Republican after this is a Russia-first treason weasel.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The greatest foreign intelligence operation of all time
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
American inventory: / 200+ killings of people on boats / 100+ Iranian schoolgirls massacred / ICE's street executions / Helping Russia finance its war / Targeting Somali Americans as “garbage” / Stealing Venezuela's oil / Inflation up / Hidden Epstein files Wake up. Vote against all Republicans.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What a disgrace
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are at least FOUR Trump huge oil corruption stories from just the [double checks calendar] last two days. There's the NYT story about Trump selling out Ukraine to get a $2M donor a big contract. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
nytimes.com
In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners
A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, what do you know! Another shakedown by the MAGA Mafia!
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also, $40 billion!? Seriously? Does everyone in America have one?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/10/2026
Phone Chomsavanh was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and lived in the US for four decades. He'd never been to Laos, but that was the "home" country he thought he'd be deported to when ICE grabbed him at his place in Florida in June 2025. That is not what happened. prospect.org/2026/10/07/t...
prospect.org
Third-Country National Stuck in Airport for Days After Release From African Prison - The American Prospect
Finally out of the prison Trump expelled him to, Phone Chomsavanh’s fight for freedom hit one more snag.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026
Wynn's Law remains undefeated.
Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 07/10/2026
$80 billion in debt. That portends massive destruction at some of the nation's greatest entertainment and journalism enterprisess, ... to fund meglomania.
deadline.com
Skydance Credit Rating Cut By Fitch Citing Heavy Debt Load
Ratings agency Fitch has cut its debt rating on the new Skydance citing “significant execution and integration risks” and higher leverage.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why are all these mfers masked?! These fucking people can’t not be villains for 2 damn seconds!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A list of 250-year-old things that Trump has destroyed in 2026 1. The Grandmother Tree 2. The United States of America
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They don’t value “freedom” “dignity” or “life” in any congruous ideological way. They value in-group signifiers.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Building a permission structure that’s 90% bullshit is the job of the “conservative intellectual” and just like the Nazis did it, too. Bad-faith, ends-justify-means, incoherent dipshittery. www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...
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From Shitpost to Bullshit
The Function of Conservative Intellectuals
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Package” is literally this dudes favorite word. You could do a super cut with him saying it.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Lomez-Rufo podcast gives us a snapshot of the conservative movement's metabolism in action.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...
unpopularfront.news
From Shitpost to Bullshit
The Function of Conservative Intellectuals
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope there’s a real concerted effort to dig through the bureaucratic internal comms, design iterations and approvals on all the faux Nazi propaganda shit that they pump out.
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wait til he shaves his eyebrows off
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even funnier when you think back to this:
December 3, 2020
COTTON, COLLEAGUES
INTRODUCE BILL TO STOP "DOXING" OF GOVERNMENT
WORKERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James
Arnold (202) 734-0430
December 3, 2020
Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Stop
"Doxing" of Government Workers
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“No consequences, ever” seems to be the singular, uniting ethos with all of these guys
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A raving lunatic drowned by the weight of his own decisions and speaking absolute nonsense youtu.be/os_9ms22LRk?...
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Cape Fear: Max Cady's Death (1991)
YouTube video by Shaun O'Hagan
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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He's gonna go out like DeNiro in Cape Fear
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think it's bad that the president's brain is mush. time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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