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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
While gimmicks can serve as a temporary band-aid, the real cause of skyrocketing fuel costs is Donald Trump’s policies, an illegal war, and a Republican-controlled Congress that capitulates to Trump’s every tantrum and whim.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 16h
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h
It’s not great that the OpenAI CEO thinks we should “accept some bad things” about AI. It’s even worse that he gets to dominate the conversation. trib.al/vskI542
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Sam Altman’s Personal Feelings About AI Are a Huge Distraction
It’s useful for tech CEOs if the public is talking about their opinions and moral character instead of talking about regulating their companies.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 21h
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 15h
The Justice Department implored a federal judge to “immediately” reject the motion to compel the government to provide communications between Trump and Kennedy Center officials.
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‘Enough Is Enough’: DOJ Asks Judge to Shut Down Discovery Motion in Kennedy Center Case
The Justice Department implored a federal judge to “immediately” reject the motion to compel the government to provide communications between Trump and Kennedy Center officials.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Mollz (ballz) @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
brb, i gotta regnegotiate my hall pass list with my wife.
the image is angie nixon on threads telling polymarket to: "Shut the fuck up. I'm on a payment plan like the rest of the working class. This site just showed its hand. You prey on people struggling to make it and now you're trying to tilt an election. Clearly, you're owned by billionaires.
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JUST IN: Florida Democratic Socialist Senate nominee Angie Nixon declares
"I don't wanna pay it back" about her $14,000 in unpaid federal taxes & $17,600 in student loan debt. "
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Liliana Mason: the “both sides” frame falls apart. The problem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic US democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026
"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 07/07/2026
i just think the matters of forgiveness, redemption and whether people deserve second (or third, or fourth, or…) don’t really map to positions of authority or power, because these are not things that any individual person needs to have or that can be somehow owed
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 03/10/2026
Quite the ad featuring Ken Paxton's estranged wife, Angela. "Let's talk about the elephant in the room. In a general election, it's not as much about the individual players on the team. It's about getting the whole team across the finish line. ... That's why I'm voting for the Republican ticket."
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 28/09/2026
Three national retailers—Target, Amazon, and Books-A-Million—have hosted dozens of titles from Antelope Hill Publishing, an entity designated by hate-group monitors as a primary distributor of racist and antisemitic books. 1/ www.confrontthehate.com/p/exclusive-...
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SPECIAL REPORT: How a Neo-Nazi Publisher Exploited Target, Amazon, and Books-A-Million
Following an inquiry by ConfrontTheHate.com, Target quickly removed an extremist publisher's catalog—while Amazon and Books-A-Million keep titles active for now.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Jesus fucking Christ the journalistic exposure of paragon hacking Italian journalists was a blockbuster scandal LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, and now they have an IPO??? Hell truly is empty and all the devils really are here.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that a few friends and family members of the president just kinda wander the world soliciting billion-dollar bribes ostensibly to "end wars" is a real "it would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening" sorts of deals
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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AllCaps-22 @allcaps-22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She benefits financially.
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White Plains Rich @whiteplainsrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
She can't tolerate living with this lying philanderer, but wants you to spend the next six years with him.  If that isn't the essential essence of the GOP, I don't know what is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So now we have the illegal and failing Iran war, the illegal and corrupt Venezuela op, the failing and corrupt “Board of Peace” for Gaza, the criminal and strategically pointless boat bombing campaign, and racial/gendered/political purges. Elect war crime advocates, get war crimes. It was a choice.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Head of Tennessee's prison system to resign after failed execution of Christa Pike, governor announces.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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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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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everything someone shares here from Twitter looks like what you’d see on a console in Fallout
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THEY ARE MERELY EXCHANGING LONG PROTEIN STRINGS IF YOU KNOW OF A BETTER WAY, I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT
Bob Dole and Bill Clinton hold hands during a Simpsons Hallowe'en episode
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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uicgreg.bsky.social @uicgreg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't know how this is going to work after they intubate the lady. If some staff member just unplugged her they'd be brought up on charges. They may even be eligible for the death penalty!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
The name of the investigation into the fraudulent elector scheme was "Arctic Frost." Arctic Frost is a type of orange. Senator Blackburn accuses Smith of mocking Trump's orange complexion. lol
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.
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Scripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lawmakers are proposing new legislation to block the federal government from using Flock cameras or even getting access to the data that is collected.
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New bill would bar federal government use of Flock cameras
Lawmakers are proposing new legislation to block the federal government from using Flock cameras or even getting access to the data that is collected.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.
Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the campaign pitch was that an extremely racist anti-immigration agenda was a means to the end of improving the lives of non-immigrant americans. that was always a lie but it's arresting to see them confess that this was always the end bc that rationalization was load-bearing for the 2024 coalition
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the evident glee and euphoria in DHS/admin posts like this that are, fundamentally, "we are ruining the country" is really something
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2026
This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday, Ashley’s GoFundMe didn’t receive one single donation. Reposts and likes are appreciated, but Ashley really needs donations. If you can afford $10 or more, please actually make a donation today and help keep Ashley in the fight of her life. Click here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-mom...
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Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brilliant article by @beccauliasz.bsky.social about her one-month stint in the 'Network School'.... she writes the best description I've seen of Balaji Srinivasan: '...part of an emerging techno-authoritarian intelligentsia set on dismantling American democracy' 🔥
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026
People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump being president during a massive technology affecting productivity being released can only be bad news. Do you really think we can navigate the hit to white collar productivity of GTA VI being released with his hand at the wheel?
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