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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 2h

Quinn Nystrom, a Minnesota insulin advocate, reacting to the news that Ben Golnik, the Big Pharma lobbyist who fought against affordable insulin in the legislature, is now a top advisor for the Demuth campaign:

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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

35 DAYS OUT. And it's about time we talk about Ron's stock portfolio. 174 potential conflicts of interest—including companies I am suing for Minnesota. You can’t be Minnesota’s Attorney General while holding investments that could conflict with the job.

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAGA GOP has so much in common with Putin's Russia

Photo of Ukrainian soldier at the front saying "We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid."

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The craziest compound-impurity story I’ve ever heard:

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Now That's An Impurity Story

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right-wing assholes create hard times dot meme

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Aaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also included: Pulling back the curtain a bit on why this was such a weird/difficult season for me personally, and how things have gone in the five months since I left The Athletic to go independent. (All free for anyone to read.)

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reporter: Attorney General Paxton, your opponents are saying that you killed several puppies. Ken Paxton: These are the kinds of lies you hear from Democrats. I did not kill them. I ran them down with my golf cart, but they were still howling. It was the vets who put them down, not me.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hate to see an injury like that happen to Baker Mayfield

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every force user goes by the name Skywalker. There are no Jedi or Sith, only Skywalkers. Skywalker is now a verb and adjective with Skywalker Skywalkered Skywalkerly a perfectly normal sentence that is only confusing because Skywalkers exist on 2-D good vs. evil, light vs. dark powers spectrum.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎵Shiek Mansour 🎵Went to Spain 🎵In a Lamborghini 🎵Spent an illegal amount 🎵With Manuel Pellegrini #MCFC

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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 24/09/2026

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. Lisa Demuth had no problem with Trump's war in Iran until she realized her silence was crippling her campaign. Minnesotans need a Governor who we can count on to stand up to Donald Trump when we need them to.

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Amy Klobuchar: has a plan to lower premiums and fight back against Trump's attacks on health care. Lisa Demuth: has no plan except to rubber stamp Trump's historic health care cuts that have devastated Minnesota families.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lisa Denuth has the same health care plan as Donald Trump. Nothing. If you get sick and you're not wealthy enough, you're S.O.L.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The TIE Fighter Scream: Psychological Warfare Effects of the Ion Engine's Sound

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Food $400 Data $150 Rent $800 30th Anniversary Pokemon Cards $45,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For example, the cheating Houston Astros ballpark is called Enron Field.

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I used to pay $40 to fill my tank about a couple of months ago, but right now it's almost $80. I'm losing a lot of money right now.” "You have to make a decision on gas, food." “I paid $6 for fuel today. I've never paid $6 for fuel.”

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lisa Demuth stood with Trump on gutting Medicaid. She stood with Big Pharma to keep prescription drug costs high. She still doesn’t have a plan on how she would actually lower health care costs. Her record shows she’ll do anything but that.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

Sonia Joseph y @soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims.
However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I actually want to vomit. There is nothing that can redeem this moment. We are living through a regime that is victimizing immigrants in at least as bad a way as early Nazi Germany victimized Jews. We all fucking know. We, all of us, live in the Zone of Interest.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only click through if you like to punish yourself

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE?

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's almost like the Sec of Def took the lessons from the very successful Ukrainian drone attack on Russian airfields in 2025 and yelled "LEROY JENKINS"

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 02/07/2026

As part of court expansion, each of the 6 sitting justices appointed by Republicans will be accompanied by a new justice who votes the opposite way in every case and writes a concurring / dissenting opinion that ignores the merits and is 100% insults about their assigned justice. Nominations please.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm pretty sure I saw some PFF writer mention that their projections don't take into account Brian Flores, might want to change that. #Skol

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Vikings' Fans protection spell was unsuccessful

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 12/09/2026

Eli Drinkwitz referred to Mizzou's Civil War history as a "complicated past" during his press conference tonight and said it was "bullcrap" of Kansas" to bring it up "on 9/11." There is no sport like college football

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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Diesel has now crossed $6/gallon, an all-time high. The price of everything else will go up along with it — groceries, deliveries, and your energy bill will all increase. But Michele Tafoya thinks skipping a trip to Starbucks will offset that.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"I never thought AI would try to eliminate humanity," cries AI safety researcher who prompted AI to "try to eliminate humanity."

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just saw Darnold is out of the game with a potentially serious hip injury. That just sucks.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A big, strong, burly Senator came to me with tears in his eyes, "Sir, you won my state by 16 points. Only you could make Blansas happen." I like that Blansas, no idea what that means. Blansas.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looking forward to an aggressive few weeks (at least) of non-stop questions for Rubio and every other Republican about not just associating with, but hiring a white supremacist to write speeches for the state dept.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a Michigan alum, "Michigan football is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful organization I've ever known in my life."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

lol, f*** Scott Jennings

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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In a just world, Pablo Torre would be the highest paid sports reporter in the country and Pat McAfee would be operating a jet ski rental place in Missouri.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think Hegseth has to be impeached simply because we have to tell the rest of the world that we believe he's a murderer.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There should be no amenities for the justices if SCOTUS reform isn't passed. 19th century justices didn't have air conditioning or government provided healthcare. Law clerks aren't really a necessity either.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Make Justice Thomas's financial relationship with Harlan Crow explicitly illegal and drop SCOTUS Justice salaries to $5,000.

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Ben @hbenjamin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Make Justice Thomas's financial relationship with Harlan Crow explicitly illegal and drop SCOTUS Justice salaries to $5,000.

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