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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16h

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

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The War Against Accumulated Capital

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 8h

WaPo: "his unscripted, meandering speaking style" NO. If you want to make excuses for him re LA and SD, you say that he is often incoherent. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target

The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.

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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Birthday Joe Hill, folk poet, songwriter, union man. Born this day 1879 he would spend a life time fighting the oppressor. He was murdered by firing squad on Nov. 19, 1915. seditionist.uk/compendium/j...

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 19h

This is how you show political leadership. Not through stern words and disapproving speeches, but through active physical resistance.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NYT ME Carolyn Ryan scolds Mamdani for what I think was a very intentional and wise decision NOT to conflate antisemitism and criticism of Israel. I guess her repoters have their marching orders now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-yo...

I was struck that Mamdani just released his plan to combat anti-Semitism, and he sidestepped the question of Israel, seeing it as separate from anti-Semitism. For us, these issues intersect and overlap.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...

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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus

Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s going to be really hard for them to say Trump’s lost his mind because their feeling of superiority to us dirty hippies has depended for so long on insisting he’s some sort of savant and he’s always been a monster and we knew it and weren’t afraid to say so.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026

Tremendous turnout and energy at the Democratize Yale protest on Friday! Huge high five to hundreds of students, faculty, workers, and alums who are fighting for academic freedom and freedom of speech while telling President McInnis and the trustees NOT TO CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP!

Yale students smile and clap at a Democratize Yale demonstration - one holds a sign reading "TRUSTEES: LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🚨 LEAKED CHAT shows Republicans offering $200 per person to disrupt an Abdul El-Sayed event.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These two lawsuits brought by Renee Nicole Good’s family are exceptionally well-written and legally compelling. Well worth the read, I promise. I break down both complaints in this episode: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...

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Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're recording part 2 of the podcast early this week. Got questions? Leave them here by tomorrow - WEDNESDAY - 9am. #TestShow466

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Utterly insane. "Not acknowledge"?? "the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Jim Carey: LALALALAL I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Meme

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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 27/09/2026

haven't you heard #1 hit song of all time "it's not gay if you are both christian cowboys"

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael Falcon here giving a perfect example of my thesis that belief in accountability is a precondition of successful, sustainable representative democracy. Let's talk about this for a moment.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We shouldn't become desensitized to the the fact that the President of the United States has continually threatened to commit genocide. At this week's UN meeting, Trump said: "...do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly...?" #Pinks www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Trump warns in UN speech he could 'annihilate' Iran without peace deal

US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly speech on Tuesday to make the case for his war on Iran, arguing he has prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and warning that he coul...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If there is any fraud, it is being committed by the health insurance companies. They are the ones getting the subsidy checks, not the consumers. Even Trump understands that: www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

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Trump urges Senate Republicans to redirect funds from Obamacare-backed insurers, pay Americans directly

President Donald Trump has urged Senate Republicans to redirect funds from "money sucking" insurance companies linked to Obamacare back to Americans.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The New York Times ran an article headlined “Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.” Surely they would give readers some indication of the stupid, know-nothing nature of his comments, right? presswatchers.org/2026/09/what...

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What’s the opposite of ‘very stable genius’? | Press Watch

Part Two of my essay on how Trump is an idiot, and the mainstream press is covering up for him

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Time For a Grand Bargain on Iran? If Democrats promise not to release the Epstein files, would Trump agree to end the war?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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jaytingle @jaytingle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This Trump statement is unverifiable, and even more fraudulent than most of his lies. The New York Times should not make it a headline, unless they are co-signing it. And, if so, to what end?

Worthless headline in The New York Times: Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding
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jaytingle @jaytingle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Question for The New York Times: Was the anything extremely racist about that attack?

The New York Times Opinion header: Attack on University of Texas Students Tests Texas G.O.P.
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jaytingle @jaytingle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Republicans Are Now the ‘Elitist’ Party, The New York Times admits.

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jaytingle @jaytingle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The publisher of The New York Times marks 175 years to remind us they are the "paper of record." 175 years of "afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted."

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times, reflects on chronicling the nation's transformation and the paper's continued
commitment to the truth.

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Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...

An aerial view of the University of Arkansas campus during the fall.

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Stella Parton @sweetstella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m sounding the alarm again today as I’ve been doing everyday since 2016. We are living in a dire situation when a performer is pulled from a tour for simply calling out the genocide being committed in Gaza. Wake up people!

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also exceptional in its use of unnamed sources. There are legions of them, and I think only one Kushner critic has an actual name.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“The creatures of the forest taught me how to sing." -Yma Sumac #BOTD

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'White man famous for [internet thing]' should never be your primary source for information or political analysis.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

2016 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! 2017 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! 2018 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! 2019 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! 2020 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! … 2025 NYT: Trump free speech warrior! 2026 NYT: you are going to be shocked by what Maggie uncovered!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...

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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch

Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW: Trump’s phony $5,000 promise gets him the headlines he wanted. presswatchers.org/2026/09/trum... Every journalist there knew it was a desperate, meaningless gambit. But most didn’t even give their audience a hint. I give out grades.

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Trump’s phony $5,000 promise gets him the headlines he wanted | Press Watch

Every journalist there knew it was a desperate, meaningless gambit. But most didn’t even give their audience a hint. I give out grades.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Better headline for this NYT article: “If It Doesn’t Involve Putting His Name On It, Trump Is Just Phoning It In.” Subhead: “Miller, Vought, and Hegseth Are Making the Calls Instead” (and maybe they could do some reporting on this element of the story.)

As War Grinds On, Trump Relishes Renovation Projects President Trump has found reprieve from the war in Iran by basking in the momentum of the various projects he has spurred around downtown Washington.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

LiLBaz is right here, though I'll continue riding down the lane on my hobby horse saying that a major factor here is that defeating fascism requires **holding people accountable** and the biggest fear of the folks with the power to hold others to account is being accountable themselves.

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