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YoteDan ❌ 👑

@heffbombs.bsky.social
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Left of center consumer of political and #climate news. East Bay, CA. I am not a bot. Reposts may imply interest, agreement, or just mockery. Recovering wildlife biologist. Resistance member. Twitter refugee.

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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 1h
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h
For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h
Once again we have a choice between something really really REALLY bad and something that's never quite as good as we hoped. That shouldn't be a hard choice.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 02/10/2026
President Trump tried to unilaterally cancel funds for programs supporting refugees and asylees, minority business development and housing counseling assistance. That's not allowed. We lay out what you need to know about Trump's "pocket rescissions":
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Three things you need to know about Trump’s “pocket rescission” proposal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump's proposed so-called “pocket rescission,” which attempts to claw back $810 million in funds appropriated by Congress, is illegal.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/10/2026
Until we scale up those alternatives, the world will continue to face the two energy problems of today. Read the article by @maxroser.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/worlds-energ...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
JFC
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Rocky Kistner @therockyfiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This looks good. Scientists can save us from political lies and deception by pursuing the truth and following the facts. We should be supporting their work, not the claptrap coming from self-interested politicians. How? Vote for politicians who believe in science. @michaelemann.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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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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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amen!
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we don’t hear about it on the news and the government stops monitoring it…does that mean it doesn’t exist?
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I haven't seen any news coverage yet of Cameron Hamilton's announcement that he has re-defined the entire field of emergency management to include only preparedness and response activities related to coordinating police, fire, and EMS. Seems like something that should get some attention.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The annual, gigantic, always-indispensable @taniel.bsky.social November election guide is out today. There is no better place to learn about the downballot, so bookmark and share widely: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear America: this could be us too! cleantechnica.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Uruguay EV Sales Report: Sales Soar in August as Market Share Reaches 56%! - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not every situation but got a lot of mileage out of "Yeah, man, or you could just treat women with respect and find a cool girl who wants to date you." So much misogyny stems from deep insecurity.
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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelrooy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two weeks ago my voter registration in Texas was unavailable. Today it was active. Check and make sure you’re good to go!
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Winnable Democratic Races 💙 @winnabledemraces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💙💙💙💙💙 REMINDER: James Talarico is the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas. @cookpolitical.com ranks this race as Toss-Up. This race is absolutely winnable. @jamestalarico.bsky.social #VoteBlue
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Stephen Tustin @stustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Virtually every vendor you engage with, from your landlord to your corner deli, wants you to install an app whose terms of service requires you to sign away all of your privacy rights, forever, in exchange for nothing." - @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/c...
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Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is something so vulgar about the kind of conservative who came from a modest background, but strives to climb the same social hierarchies that once disadvantaged him by endlessly and shamelessly flattering those he now insists are our social betters.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s really just this.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
It's frustrating because everything you need to understand Trump you can get from watching him for 5 minutes. It's all right there. The falsehoods are just an extremely predictable outgrowth of it. It's just that the media shies away from clearly stating *what kind of person he is*.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am really being forced to learn about all of this against my will, but do I have it right that the majority of those at the top of America's AI industry are also part of a rape cult led by a dude whose highest education is middle school and whose claim to fame is writing a Harry Potter fanfic?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Interventions aimed at reducing affective polarization ... often promote empathy and perspective-taking across ideological divides *without considering whether the underlying attitudes sustain or undermine the very conditions that allow for democratic discourse and evidence-based reasoning*."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The objective of Republicans has always been trolling liberals, not achieving any helpful goals. The simpleton Ronald Reagan is a good example. He blathered on about how much he was in favor of smaller government. Well, guess what? The federal government was *larger* when he left office.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe I just happened to look up at the Tv for like 30 seconds and saw the 49ers put that touchdown together. What a play.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Neat trick from Senate Republicans: pretend they are running away from Trump in the national media and then turning around to keep voting for him. Just days ago Kennedy voted to keep Trump’s endless war in Iran going.
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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@ncaa.bsky.social WTAF??
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a must read and share.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly. But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: demdock.com/46PkXFM
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wonder where all the free speech abolitionists are these days?
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s that time of year…
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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jaythinking.bsky.social @jaythinking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very different world when I started in tech. I rue the day it turned so evil with these billionaires who can’t be satisfied till the end of days. Selling your soul to work for them isn’t worth it but a hard decision when bills are mounting in this economy where the rich are sucking it all up.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026
Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.
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Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who could have foreseen that there were less-than-noble purposes behind this administrations “immigration policy”?
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sucks to be right.
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YoteDan ❌ 👑 @heffbombs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So so true…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CNN is about to travel the same dark path of WaPo and CBS News. They will say it's not true. They will ask you to ignore what you see and disbelieve what you hear. Instead, I suggest you support independent media. You can start with Democracy Docket but there are many others. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In case you have any questions about why Trump declared war on higher education
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