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@james-howard.bsky.social
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Old tech guy with too many hobbies. Frequently waylaid by jackassery. Texas, not Texan. Opinions expressed here are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Stuffing the Passer @stuffingthepasser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luther Burden is a man of compassion and forgiveness… *pulls out and cocks a pair of pearl-handled six-shooters* …too bad I’m Luther Burden the Third
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Senate can pass a bill to regulate college sports, but they can't pass bills to lower the price of gas, groceries, or healthcare. They can't rein in Trump's thirst for war in Iran or trade wars with Canada, but they can tell college athletes how often they're allowed to transfer. Cool.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing catch. But… he’s not wearing socks but leg warmers?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all. Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
The White House •
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WALLE HOUSE
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
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COMMUNISM HAS NO
PLACE IN AMERICABenny Johnson • • Follow
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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pete Hegseth went to the A&M game and they lost to Kentucky for the first time in over 70 years. THERE IS NO BATTLE HE CANT LOSE.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
At that point he just changes his name to Roy and gets different super powers.
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Ted Lasso Roy Kent Annoyed at Kid
Alt: Ted Lasso Roy Kent Annoyed at Kid, who enjoys his interaction with his football super hero.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.
Screenshot from article: “A recent example came last week when the Department of Homeland Security posted an image on social media depicting an Indian man with the words "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh."”
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So here's the problem at the bottom of it all: Frenk is engaged in a kind of politics-of-recognition charade, where he wants to tell certain constituents that he really hears them, really sees them, wants to lift them up, and his way of doing that is to endorse their false view of this symposium.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So today, the UCLA Faculty Senate, in its understated and careful way, issued a rare rebuke to Frenk, expressing "concerns and reservations" about the obvious lack of respect for academic freedom that his statement conveyed by amplifying these false charges of support for terrorism and antisemitism.
dms.senate.ucla.edu
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 12/09/2026
Analysis by @saulelbein.bsky.social, who has spent years documenting dangerous "zombie" oil wells, found more than 25,000 plugged wells across Texas are at critical risk of failure—50 times more than had previously been reported. This map helps you find them.
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1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
Our state's homes are built above a hundred years of drilling by an industry that was never made to clean up after itself.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his ̶s̶a̶l̶a̶r̶y̶ trillion dollar IPO depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair (paraphrased)
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A legendary Medicare fraudster almost slipping up on illegal PAC coordination is pure brand consistency.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know what’s a great idea? Let’s do The Jungle again except with corruption Never a better time to go vegetarian y’all www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
The cuts of meat covered by Trump’s proclamation aren’t fresh sirloins, rib eyes and filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years. They are the quintessence of generic industrial meat, imported here to be subsequently processed in massive grinders that combine pieces of tens of thousands of cattle from multiple countries, mainly into fast food hamburgers.One of the worst food-safety scandals occurred in Brazil, the world’s largest exporter of beef. In 2017, the Brazilian federal police raided nearly 200 meatpacking plants after allegations that government inspectors and politicians were being bribed to allow the sale of contaminated beef. Rotten meat treated with ascorbic acid and other chemicals to mask the contamination had been sold to hospitals and schools in Brazil and also been exported. Executives at the Brazilian company JBS, the largest beef producer in the world, later admitted to bribing inspectors.Why did Mr. Trump come up with this scheme to import hundreds of millions of pounds of beef?

“Regime Change,” the recent book by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, contains an interesting clue: a White House meeting last November between President Trump and Joesley Batista, whose family controls JBS.

Mr. Batista had long been considered persona non grata in Washington, having been jailed in Brazil as a result of, among other things, paying $186 million in bribes to almost 2,000 politicians, including three Brazilian presidents, to obtain state financing for his family’s company. In 2019, after JBS bought several American meatpacking companies, Senator Marco Rubio and his colleague Robert Menendez deplored JBS’s “admitted criminal conduct,” its “business relationships with Venezuela’s Maduro regime, as well as its growing reliance on financing from entities aligned with the Chinese government.” The senators argued that allowing JBS to own U.S. companies could endanger America’s food supply and national security.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
UCLA vs Cal, a Classic Big 10 vs ACC Matchup
Score app for UCLA vs Cal NCAA Football, 14-10 UCLA leading with 10:04 left in the second quarter
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
Weeks after Trump budget chief Russell Vought told Congress that fintech startup Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...
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Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting (Gift Article)
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
your nephew is hooked on opioids because cops took the drug prevention money and spent it on flock cameras to stalk their ex wives
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.
Tribute-style portrait of a Dolly Parton performing in a ruffled light purple blouse, arm raised and singing into a microphone, overlaid with the lyric: "You're just a step on the bossman's ladder / But you've got dreams he'll never take away."
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Absolutely wild.
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XgenMattie @matchew65.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Taylor Farms (the parent company of Taylor Fresh Foods) donated $1 million to MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, on March 26, 2025, just days after the Traceability Rule extension. It’s not hard to follow the money." 🤔 Excellent rundown of the current FDA problems/corruption. 👇🏼
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. is imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products after last-ditch negotiations failed. Canada promises to match the tax.
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US is set to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products
The United States is set to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products early Saturday after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."
nytimes.com
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/08/2026
Also, in the thread where the State Dept official "reveals" the docs, she then misrepresents what the docs say and mean. It's conspiracy theorists getting mad at conspiracy theorists because both of them misunderstand documents in different ways.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Schiff:
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ve owned many sporty hatchbacks. And still do.
Hyundai Ioniq 5N (a grey EV hatchback) in a mostly empty parking lot just past sunset
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camacho @bencamach0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New from me: www.inadvertent.news/p/fusion-cen...
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Fusion Center Ran Flock Searches on Behalf of Feds, Santa Ana Records Show
State law prohibits ALPR data sharing with federal and out-of-state agencies.
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Glancing at this photo, I thought someone in Cleveland crashed their Lamborghini into a bank lobby. Who was the architect? Batman?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
this is genuinely one of my favorite photos of WW2 because its just so alien to what we think of as the Mall
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie”
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Jim @james-howard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The cross over I didn’t know I needed.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM? > We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions. 1/n
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Noelle Schultz @nrvschultz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
💯. A great example is how Bill Ackman made it his life’s work to ruin a black woman’s life over accusations of plagiarism and anti-semitism. Then it came out that his new wife had also been credibly accused of plagiarism. With a straight face, he said when his wife did it, it was different.
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