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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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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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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/09/2026

This is horrifying. Please join me in calling for an immediate return to getting our false intelligence about WMDs from the CIA and other organic sources.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is an example of why being granular about “AI” is important. The cited study from 2021 uses machine learning. Problems of training data/bias are real, as is automation bias, but this isn’t “ChatGPT, does my patient have schizophrenia?” Knowing the difference and potential implications matters.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026

Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/08/2026

It was not that long ago Republicans flipped out and began an investigation into whether or not Obama illegally tampered with the "independence" of the FCC for basically saying "net neutrality is good." Now Trump commands the FCC "punish anyone saying anything I dislike"

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the President of the United States is demanding that his government punish negative political coverage of his administration by rescinding the licenses of offending news organizations; but he didn't say "birthing people," so he's not a threat to speech yet

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's just no way he can serve as Speaker of the House. He doesn't understand the assignment and would actively oppose it if he did.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One thing Ossoff is showing that you can hold pretty normie Dem positions but still campaign like you can read the room and understand the high stakes of this election. People are incredulous and angry at what’s happening, maybe common ground is a necessity later but nobody wants to hear that now.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think certain kinds of machine learning AI tools have utility and benefits but I don't post about that on Bluesky because so many other large language model AI tools are clearly bad for society. I also think anyone who tries to justify being an active Twitter user in 2026 has made a choice.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/08/2026

Our leaders and institutions failure to signal to the American people that January 6th was a hideous act of treason will be viewed as a truly historically-horrible strategic error.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

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@KalshiPolitics
TODAY: WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE ODDS:

🟦 Francesca Hong: 95%
🟦 David Crowley: 5%

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the students from abroad typically pay more in tuition and so subsidize working class US students. This policy is an attack on upward mobility

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How many stories have you read in the last month about how radical & extreme Francesca Hong & Abdul El-Sayed are, & how the Democrats are veering far left? How many stories have you read in the last month about how radical & extreme Tom Tiffany & Ken Paxton are, & how the GOP is veering far right?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah these guys gotta go. When they lose the House or the Senate their markets will be used for election denial. Gotta rip the wires out.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

why shouldn't he attend, CNN, go on now, explain the reason, we'd love to hear it

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“And that's why I, Mark Kelly, keep voting to confirm his far right authoritarian nominees to the federal bench" bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/07/2026

the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be

arstechnica.com

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/07/2026

this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I found the "OMG AI ISN'T SEARCH WE LOSE SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLE ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IF WE'RE NOT USING THE SPECIFIC GOOGLE DOT COM I MADE MY FANCY TECH CAREER ON DON'T LOOK TOO CLOSELY YOU'LL REALIZE IT WAS ADS THE WHOLE TIME" stuff really annoying on here the other day so here is a comparison

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

bangordailynews.com

ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE murdered another person.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That plan *doesn’t* go after tech companies. It’s covertly pro-tech: age verification makes users responsible for regulation w/out asking tech to change anything. This would make the internet more restrictive for everyone while giving tech companies lots more personal data.

Exclusive / Democrats' Project 2029' goes after tech companies with online safety plan

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jdj @jeremydavidjohnson.com · 01/07/2026

This Belgium-Senegal match is turning out to be a real banger ⚽

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

its almost like a political party, when it is on message and in unison, can sway public opinion

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'll tell you one thing, any Democratic 2028 presidential candidate who says they're going to "restore balance" and not fire every last Trump appointee on every commission on their first day in office doesn't deserve a single primary vote

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Expanding the Supreme Court is the moderate position.

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WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Can you imagine if a Democratic president started a war for no reason, lost it within a few months, and surrendered? The media would eat that president alive. Then it would spend the next 50 years demanding every Democratic presidential candidate prove ahead of time they aren't similarly loserish.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Zotero is a goddamn gift from the gods and I will use it until the day I keep over and I also do not give a shit if anyone else uses it

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's just one thing. But vowing to make federal funding contingent on voters electing his favored candidate is unprecedented, incredibly destructive, and astonishingly corrupt. But he keeps doing it, and there's really no way to stop him.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2026

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Tom Steyer’s most striking proposal is a plan to tax AI—with a token fee on corporate AI use, a fraction of a cent for every a fraction of a cent for every unit of data processed by Big Tech—and to create a Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund to benefit California workers and communities.

thenation.com

Tom Steyer Is Prepared to Take On the AI Billionaires

The California gubernatorial candidate understands exactly what’s at stake, as he explains in an exclusive interview.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/05/2026

Don Lemon just shared that the DOJ filed for a search warrant and demanded the list of his paid YouTube subscribers. For now, the judge denied the request. When I was telling you why I got off Substack and moved ONEST to EU servers, I wasn’t kidding. Pay attention. Pls.

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