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Gordon Luster @gordonluster.bsky.social · 4h

Ashkenazi Jews include many of the leading individuals in every professional field in the western world. This video doesn't try to explain that, but it suggests to me that the tiny European population ancestral to modern Ashkenazis included some very gifted folks who passed down those gifts. Maybe.

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Gordon Luster @gordonluster.bsky.social · 5h

This is insane. Play baseball in the cities, in established ballparks.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 12h

Allrecipes: The FDA & CDC are investigating an E. coli O26:H11 outbreak linked to cheese made with raw milk. Sierra Nevada Cheese Co. is the source of the outbreak, which has sickened 13 people in 9 states. It's almost like we stopped ingesting raw milk for a reason. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 15h

Birds of a Feather 👇 👇 👇 👇

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

Could things get worse with another 2 years of Republicans in control? You do the math.

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 17h

. The time is now . . . #Midterms are coming - fast ! 🩵 🗳️ 🩵

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 16h

Trump pulled the U.S. out of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, joining the only previous quitters: Russia and Belarus. What a fucking dream team. Apparently “drain the swamp” meant fire the lifeguards and let the sewage run the country. abcnews.com/amp/US/wireS...

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound ) DAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2O26 #ICELAWLESSNESS You may have seen sketches but please listen as this horrific tragedy unfolds I can't imagine a 13 years old sitting there, then he bursts into tears & says "I have no one, I have nothing " How does the judge sleep at night?

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax

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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’

Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.

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David Russell @docfossil2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Over the centuries wars have been waged by young men who don’t really hate their enemy on behalf of grumpy old men who hate the opposing grumpy old men.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I give the GOP credit for knowing their voters. They convince them to wage culture war when they’re actually in a class war.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, Republicans hauled in Jack Smith to testify intending to discredit his investigation into Jan 6. What they accomplished was to show Smith operated with integrity and conducted a solid investigation that shows Trump’s guilt. AND they showed themselves to be incompetent toadies to boot.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That is an extraordinarily high bar.

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Gordon Luster @gordonluster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sitting here in Japan, I feel a little left out.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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Miriam @miri100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It certainly made him look like a jackass. Thank you Senator Klobuchar

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing is clear: elected Republicans are STILL all in on defending January 6th as nothing more than a “spirited debate.” One can safely assume that means they will also be in support of the NEXT insurrection. These MFers MUST be held accountable on November 3rd, 2026.

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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today before Senate.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump will never stop bending over for Putin and the Russians. He just wants to get paid.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .

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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 finance

themselves 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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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."

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