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Long Time Lurker. First Time poster. (Today) 05/22/2025

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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon. Prices for groceries have come way down for Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing -- oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration."
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like the guy with that squirrel tale on his head was serious when he said maybe a your child only needs two dolls.
Brown University Iran War Cost Tracker showing that the average American family has paid over five hundred dollars more for gasoline since the start of the Iran war.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Atomic Habitz Orange Mound's own MonoNeon ~ Bass. Chris Dave ~ Drums Marcus King ~ Guitar Newport Jazz Festival
youtu.be
Atomic Habitz (Marcus King, Chris Dave, MonoNeon) "Be Thankful4 What U Got" - live at Newport Jazz
YouTube video by MonoNeon
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the few times tonight when the majority of the folks on the stage were under 35.
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GENER8ION feat. Yung Lean Perform "STORM" | 2026 VMAs
YouTube video by MTV
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone is saying the midterm Republican Convention was a stable genius idea. ,,,"Trump’s overall approval fell three points from the previous week to an all-time low of 32 percent. Among Republicans, approval of his job performance dropped from 82 percent to 73 percent in a week",,,
thehill.com
Trump’s polls sink further in warning sign for GOP
President Trump’s approval ratings have sunk to new lows in several recent polls, driven by declining GOP support and souring views on the economy in a possible warning sign for Republicans just we…
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is Trump really going to try to walk up that red carpeted staircase ?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Fostering creativity in youth is one of the most powerful things we can do, especially in a time when most systems teach conformity and call it preparation. Creativity builds problem solvers and visionaries." 🧵
wearememphis.com
A Memphis Innovator Just Changed the Game in New York City
A Memphis Innovator Just Changed the Game in New York City
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
25 % of GDP ??? That is not accruing to labor. It is all capital spending.
mediaite.com
Donald Trump Asks Americans to Vote on AI Name Replacement
President Donald Trump wants people to help him pick a new name to replace "artificial intelligence," which he slammed as "inaccurate" and "very ineloquent."
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Be Careful How You Vote Vocals, Piano – Sunnyland Slim Bass Guitar – Robert Stroger Drums – Fred Grady Guitar – Eddie Taylor Tenor Saxophone – Sam Burckhardt
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"Be Careful How You Vote" Sunnyland Slim
YouTube video by quiksteppe
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's going to really blow his mind when someone explains to him that we give them pieces of paper for delicious bananas.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@atrupar.com is taking a break tonight. Here is 18 minutes of insanity. Amphetamines X Weave = 25th
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Beginning to wonder if there is a new media group similar to Tenet. Funded by Russians with the money going to ultra left wing "influencers" to make content that gets replayed ad nauseam on Republican media outlets like CBS.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Recent polling reveals folks are realizing that this liar wasn't a deal maker after all.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm more worried abt Kevin Warsh not hiking than I am about a hike. Holding rates would make him look like an obsequious Trump-puppet and wreck his market cred — stocks would sell off. A hike, even if it's later read as a one-and-done or "wait-and-see" move, is more likely to produce a relief rally.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Iran War Energy Cost Tracker showing total extra costs for U.S. consumers since start of Iran war. $821.65 per household average. Over 108 Billion total added by the time this sentence is read. Consumers have paid $59.04 billion more for gasoline and $48.59 billion more for diesel.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Delusional Billionaires
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
15/ Say the mechanism plainly. This is not a dozen countries independently arriving at the same politics on their own. It is one funded network handing out cabinet ministers, model legislation, and talking points, run out of a single Virginia office for over forty years.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
16/ The larger lesson is not that every policy paper becomes an invasion. It is that powerful networks build tomorrow’s “solutions” years before the public knows there is a plan. When opportunity arrives, their preferred policy is already waiting on the shelf.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Will Warsh try to use this news to try and keep his promise to the Conman From Queens later today?
breakingthenews.net
US retail sales up by 1.2% in August
Retail and food services sales in the United States advanced by 1.2% in August compared to last month's figures, landing at $773.9 billion, the US Census Bureau revealed in its report published on Wed...
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you want to understand the current debate about ASI extinction risk, please please read this. I explain how you've almost certainly been misled into thinking this is about saving humanity--it's NOT. The term "human extinction" doesn't mean what you think it does!
realtimetechpocalypse.com
The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think
The media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.)
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Extremely funny how he started "doing the weave" while his cult had their hands raised trying to "repeat after him" during the blood oath ritual or whatever the hell that was before he told them they were going to hell if they did not vote. 🤣🤣🤣
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
omg the first half of this 😅
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Text stating "Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down. And you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it. Within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. My plan will cut energy prices in half, or more than that, within 12 months. We will cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months. And that means for your homes too. I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months of taking office. We are going to bring energy down by 50 percent, 50 percent, 50 percent within 12 months from January 20, which is the day we go into office."
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Both then and now, a lot of this has to do with the historically low levels of advanced munitions inventory. How squirrel still has confidence in the ex weekend Fox host remains a mystery.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump is honoring the ceasefire. MBS is pissed. Iran is happy. "On May 6, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump declared an end to the strikes on Yemen, stating that they were over, "effective immediately," as a result of a ceasefire between the U.S. and the Houthis, brokered by Oman."
en.wikipedia.org
2025 United States–Houthi ceasefire - Wikipedia
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
heh,heh,heh - Godless Communism “Now that these refining margins are so extreme, they literally can’t pass it up,” Babin said. “They’re going to buy crude and they’re going to put product on the market and make money.”
cnbc.com
Oil's roundtrip back to $100. Why China could determine what happens next
The U.S. crude oil price on Thursday topped $102 per barrel for its highest close since May.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
🇬🇧 It was always a risk that Brexit would lead to the breakup of the UK. 🇪🇺 One of the best ways to avoid that would be EU membership. 📊 It isn't just the people of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland who want membership - our polling shows the majority of people in England want it too.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Outside the box thinking.
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President Trump Suggests ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant as Coronavirus Cure | NBC New York
YouTube video by NBC New York
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The guy's brand has been what a GREAT NEGOTIATOR he is. Turns out, his idea of "negotiating" is crude putdowns, bullying, harassment, and mafia style strong arm threats. That is not negotiating. Great negotiator, my ass.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't know what's wrong with some of y'all. Killing folks is going to incite more violence. This was a reply to David's warning
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives.Deedyjeen account:

"We need more Luigid to get involved in disrupting the heads if business."
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
FYI #GASANDDIESELAREGONNACOSTMOREFORALONGTIME
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
While in Ireland he will be close to The Burren I hope he hears The Coiste Bodhar and Máire Rua does the world a favor.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ice is weaponizing Tennessee's HALO law. There are some great YouTube videos filmed by a Memphis activist at this link. If you allow the second one to continue playing, There is a video where his ACLU lawyer is on the scene with him and someone has a tape measure too.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He conveniently does this before tomorrow's big marathon of 9/11 anniversary news knocking this out of the headlines. Meanwhile next week, over on the propaganda network Bannon and Solomon will be saying the deep state has done a great job of covering up evidence and making it inadmissible etc.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
John Solomon is going to be disappointed
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Libertarians,,,
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“If one were to try crafting a unified theory of Trump’s presidencies, you’d have to include the Himalayas of evidence that he has simply been winging it all along, with one ill-considered diversion after another, to varying degrees of destructiveness.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Trump’s $5,000 Payout Promise Is Soaked in Flop Sweat
During the 2016 election, 8 million years ago, there was a big debate about whether we should take the many outrageous things President Donald Trump said seriously or literally, or both, or neither. S...
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Graphic that shows 15 other times a liar promised a dividend,rebate or check.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down, and we'll get them down. I think for gasoline, we'll get them below $2 a gallon.”
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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In fact, much of their language on their site leans into what I see as the right wing ideology of "adultification" In my experience, you find this kind of language used in religious extremist groups known to groom kids, such as idk... Maybe the one that was run by Warren Jeffs, just for example.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New shooter coming out !
oilprice.com
Hedge Funds Pile Into Fuels as U.S. Supply Squeeze Deepens | OilPrice.com
Relief is unlikely anytime soon, as lost Middle Eastern and Russian supplies are difficult to replace and upcoming refinery maintenance could tighten U.S. fuel markets even further.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Stacked bar chart from Data for Progress showing the share of likely voters who describe each fictional character as &quot;working class&quot; versus not working class, ordered by net margin. Homer Simpson (The Simpsons): 73% working class, 17% not, net +56. Fran Fine (The Nanny): 63%, 17%, +46. Peter Griffin (Family Guy): 61%, 15%, +46. Hank Hill (King of the Hill): 60%, 15%, +45. Phoebe Buffay (Friends): 54%, 21%, +33. Michael Scott (The Office): 43%, 23%, +20. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation): 36%, 17%, +19. Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls): 37%, 19%, +18. Walter White (Breaking Bad): 40%, 28%, +12. Liz Lemon (30 Rock): 26%, 22%, +4. Don Draper (Mad Men): 22%, 31%, −9. Dr. Meredith Grey (Grey&#39;s Anatomy): 31%, 46%, −15. August 21–24, 2026 survey of 1,175 U.S. likely voters.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The NTSB accident report from the first time this Miami plane overan the runway in 2008.
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genepull.bsky.social @genepull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Commentators are complaining that 39% polling is generously high at the Bari Weiss news division of the Ellison empire.
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