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Jayson Merryfield

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was a particularly enlightening/depressing article of theirs I appreciated. Really great reporting. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is one of the most horrific stories I've seen reported in a long time. An utter indictment of fraternity & sorority culture, sports media, elite Universities, and as always, the utter cesspool that is Twitter.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A 9/11 thread
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 11/09/2026
"Alberta is so determined to usher in a wave of AI data centres & increase oil and gas production that it is considering rewriting legislation and creating government-owned corporations that would force private companies to invest in natural gas pipeline expansions..." By @drewanderson.bsky.social:
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job theonion.com/smoke-alarm-sick-of-be…
Smoke Alarm Sick Of Being Yelled At For Doing Its Job
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if only there had been clues
Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"But her emails" on steroids. El-Sayed's posts are completely innocuous but Bari's minions are framing them as a controversy to keep the antisemitism accusations in the news cycle.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Terry Gross: Did you ever go to one of the midnight screenings [of Rocky Horror] back in the '70s and watch the movie with the people who were reciting along?

Tim Curry: [The first time] I had to call the theater because you could never get in. I said, 'I'm in it, and I'd really love to come and see it and get an eyeful.' And the operator said, 'You're the third Tim Curry to call this week.'
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1980 baby here: I consciously remember the Challenger disaster, because I wanted to watch cartoons at daycare and the news had totally taken over the TV so no Flintstones for me that day. Some #cancon here: I recall writing a pamphlet supporting Ed Broadbent in the 1988 Canadian Federal election. 😅
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
What's the first historic event that you remember?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This U-Haul lady has some GUNS and I’m so intrigued by this marketing decision. 💪🏻
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.
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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)
As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.
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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
en esta economía??????
nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/08/2026
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There's a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 17/08/2026
I didn’t know what traumas Hayden Panettiere had endured but this is all so very sad, exactly what #MeToo has been fighting to end 😡
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Hollywood Failed Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere, the star of “Remember the Titans,” “Heroes” and “Scream,” passed away at the age of 36. And Hollywood failed her terribly.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do the math, folks. This would be more than $5 trillion PER YEAR And instead of this money giving us Medicare for all, reducing grocery prices or making housing affordable, we get insane health insurance premiums, more expensive food, and evictions Plus measles and ICE shooting people 78 days
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James West @jamespwest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DOGE promised savings. Instead: a hobbled IRS, a dismantled USAID, and a shuttered consumer watchdog that at one time returned $26b to Americans. One estimate: IRS layoffs will cost $600b in lost revenues over 10 years. @michaelmechanic.bsky.social does the math: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Look, my heart wants to say Sleater-Kinney with 5 no-skip albums in a row, but All Hands on the Bad One is my least favorite peak S-K album. Dig Me Out The Hot Rock All Hands on the Bad One One Beat The Woods #sleaterkinney
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now THOSE goals are pure excellence. Even if one is called back. Spain ascendant. As it should be.
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Soccer is a cruel game. A penalty all the same, but it feels unearned. #FRAESP #WorldCup2026
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"To be that cynical and hypocritical took gall. But it also took an awareness of something McConnell understood when many others didn’t: There is no political cost for procedural radicalism." My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/mitch-mcco...
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Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
ARGENTINA!!!! Feeling for Egypt right now, and there' still 5+ minutes to play so anything might happen. But WOW! The World Cup delivers again.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 06/07/2026
as i've said before, Americans talking about the rules of football is like when the velociraptors in Jurassic Park learn to open doors
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 06/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2026
"It's just unbelievable to see people out here!" -- Trump's fair continues to be an embarrassment, with live shot after live shot showing fewer attendees on the National Mall than a random roadside carnival Here's a supercut from today:
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
AND NOW MOROCCO! 🇲🇦 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Jayson Merryfield @jaymerryfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
PARAGUAY!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
when AI companies go bankrupt
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy with “AI” on his chest is falling backwards off a cliff. A Purple Guy is running to “save him”

Panels 2-4: Close up of Purple Guy’s hands gradually going from outstretched fingers to a closed fist

Panel 5: Red Guy falls backwards off the cliff while Purple Guy does nothing but show him his middle finger.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What a wild lie from Musk as well, given that USAID funding was completely halted virtually everywhere, and this was extremely publicly reported.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 22/06/2026
New inflation data out today and wow what can you say about these Alberta car insurance rates other than ... wow. 😳
Car insurance prices in Alberta have far outpaced every other province

Alberta is now at an index value of more than 400. No other province is above 250.

An index value of 100 is equal to the average price for insurance in Canada over all 12 months of 2002.

Source: Statistics Canada Table 18-10-0004-01
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21/06/2026
"When it comes to waging war, Trump is – as he is with all things – a mercurial moron who swings wildly between extremes." @swin24.bsky.social on the chaos, contradictions, and miscalculations that defined Trump's war on Iran. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...
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