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Jeremy Schulman

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Senior News Editor, Mother Jones/CIR

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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why is this DNC-run social media account falsely attributing Amy Klobuchar's powerful quote to Fox News?
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hank Johnson has been waiting for this day for 16 and a half years...
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretty rough month for Missouri Republicans
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the obvious questions when a candidate talks like this is whether they aren't just full of shit. In Sand's case, this really is just what he talks like. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There was a part of me that wondered, as I watched every aspect of his life story become a parable for common ground, if Sand wasn’t laying it on a little thick. Iowa Republicans certainly think so. But flip over any rock and you find the same bugs. He used his college thesis to argue that public financing of elections could transcend ideological divides. At 22, he wrote a letter to The Gazette in Cedar Rapids making the case for “honest, straightforward discussion” to overcome polarization. And for one month in 2007, while building houses in post-­Katrina New Orleans, Sand kept a blog.

It was in many ways a twentysomething’s chronicle of a twentysomething’s pursuits. But a familiar tone poked through. He was eager to answer questions, “even especially the antagonistic ones!” Sand pored over news reports and policy papers and concluded that the cure to the storm-wracked city’s ills lay in electing “problem-solvers instead of politicians.”
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iowa may be the quintessential state for this midterm—a place that powered Obama's hope and Trump's carnage, and where a decade of one-party rule has done little to fix, and quite a fair bit to exacerbate, a worsening series of crises www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When I tagged along for 10 campaign stops over three days just ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday, the subjects Sand was asked about most often were toxic water, cancer, data centers, and a succession of healthcare horrors. Iowa is No. 2 for cancer-rate growth and 48th in economic growth. It has been teetering on the edge of a recession for more than a year, battered by a trade war with the world and a not-a-war with Iran. Its public schools, once memorialized on the state quarter, are sliding down national rankings, as teachers battle book bans and legislators drain the budget to pay private school tuition for kids who already attend one. Farmer bankruptcies are rising. The population in much of the state is shrinking. Iowa is dead last in OB-GYNs per capita, and one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws is keeping it that way. For these reasons and many more, 49 governors had a higher approval rating last year than Iowa’s retiring Republican, Kim Reynolds. The state was once synonymous with participatory democracy. Now its politics is stagnant and beginning to stink—an algae bloom where a reflecting pool once stood.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
went to Iowa to see what all the fuss is about www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Rob Sand says he Isn't trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good lord. How unconstitutional would something have to be to become too unconstitutional for *Andrew Bailey*?
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the lawyers out there, does anyone plausibly have standing to sue over this? Is there any remedy courts might actually attempt?
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Literally happening right now www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fake Zuck speech in the trailer is totally right. Do you want one person to decide what ads can run on social media platforms? It's 2026 - look around! What if the Trump-aligned tech oligarchs just said they were taking down all Democratic ads because of "fact-checks"?
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excellent negotiating, sir. The autopen never could have accomplished this.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Those Maine numbers really undercut the "you have to nominate a man because men won't vote for women" argument
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The shooter also uploaded bloody images of violence and self-harm, and pushed ChatGPT for fictional narratives of mass killings. ChatGPT complied, in vivid detail. A shooter who livestreamed an attack that went viral, and another who stalked and terrorized victims www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Since then, Tumbler Ridge victims and their families have filed more than three dozen lawsuits against OpenAI in federal court in California, alleging company leaders knew that ChatGPT was dangerous and that Van Rootselaar “was planning a mass attack.” Plaintiffs claim ChatGPT “deepened the Shooter’s violent fixation and pushed them toward the attack.” OpenAI denies the allegations. The mass shooting remains under investigation by multiple Canadian authorities, and until now, no further information about Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT use has been made public.

The violent contents of Van Rootselaar’s two ChatGPT accounts, detailed here publicly for the first time, are far more extensive and disturbing than previously known. Van Rootselaar, who was 18 at the time of the attack, also used OpenAI’s chatbot to upload bloody images of extreme violence and photos of harm to herself. She pushed ChatGPT to create graphic fictional narratives of mass killings. One featured an 18-year-old perpetrator who livestreamed a mass shooting that went viral and, in ChatGPT’s telling, made her an online “legend.” (Infamy is often a key goal of mass shooters.) Another featured a perpetrator named “Jess” who shot police and stalked and terrorized her victims as she executed them.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In my expert opinion as an extremely low-level union official, I would say that the lesson here is: Don't be a terrible boss.
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Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs
Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile, at The Blaze...
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'Darwinism will be dismantled': Core drilling at the suspected site of Noah's ark has begun | Blaze Media
The investigating team says the finding could provide evidence against the theory of evolution.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking back on Operation Midway Blitz.
turtlediaries.net
A Year After Operation Midway Blitz
On Guantanamo Bay and Broadview
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, the state of Florida is now suing news outlets over alleged "bias"?
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘The New York Times’ Sued by Shareholders Over Biased Israel Coverage
A lawsuit against ‘The New York Times’ leans on a whistleblower account of a newsroom that ignored years of complaints about antisemitism and skewed reporting, writes Maya Sulkin.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow, Donald Trump really *is* struggling to convince his base that he's on the ballot! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"With the Kennedy Center, and DC generally, it’s hard to avoid the similarity to a creepy courtship. Imagine Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle, were he the president. If he can’t possess it, he threatens to kill it."
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The Kennedy Center is just Trump’s latest hostage
The administration keeps closing off public spaces the president claimed to be saving.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us who stopped using them to order McFlurries."
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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating essay from @pemalevy.bsky.social that I'm pretty sure I don't agree with, but she makes a strong case!
motherjones.com
How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us
A false mythology put the justices on top. The people could knock them down.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's good that she's speaking out, but... "be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy" is just some amazing Soviet shit
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day to our favorite covenant with death and agreement with Hell.
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Constitution Day: We The People & U.S. Constitution
ALT: Constitution Day: We The People & U.S. Constitution
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I would like to request a @musaalgharbi.bsky.social thread on this development
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I kind of think you do gotta hand it to them
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Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot scheme
The decision prevents massive disenfranchisement and chaos in November.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The replies to my colleagues’ video are sociopathic
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
We went to Charlie Kirk's one year memorial service at the site of his death. And it was full of contradictions—conspiracy theorists colliding with diehard supporters and protesters. We spoke to people from all camps, and you can hear their voices here:
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Personally, I'm opposed to Donald Trump sending $5,000 of taxpayer money to Hunter Biden.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I keep hearing about this San Francisco place. Sounds interesting!
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Respect to whichever photo editor decided to make the "Get Off My Lawn" vibe literal
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Opinion | Gen Z Is in Coast Mode
Work and happiness are related. Doing the minimum is no way to go through life.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is some Gateway Pundit-level stuff
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92
Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A truly great moment in spokespeople-ing
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's not great that the discourse on the right has resulted in Politico using writing "critics" of Israel when they mean "Tucker Carlson"
politico.com
Nikki Haley demands Vance ‘choose a side’ between Israel and its critics
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As much as I oppose this, if they want to press a coin with the guy's face that says "LIBERTY 1776-2026", at least it has the benefit of being sort of accurate
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Social media discourse about @thefireorg.bsky.social is, by far, the best content on the entire internet
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Meanwhile...some people are actually doing brave things in an effort to solve big problems...
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Mansour Abbas Recruits Yoav Segalovitz to Join Raam Party in Israeli Election
Mansour Abbas has recruited a Jewish lawmaker best known for reducing the crime rate in Arab cities. Could that be enough to get Mr. Abbas a seat in the next government?
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pretty interesting debate in here between Sarah Isgur/David French and Jake Auchincloss over court-packing—you don't often hear opponents and supporters of it engaging in good faith about the potential downstream consequences
thedispatch.com
How to Fix Congress | Interview: Rep. Jake Auchincloss
Plus, a courtroom forgery gone wrong.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's funny that this DNC slop (in the non-AI sense of the term) account has to literally misquote the cattle rancher to edit out the fact that the foreign beef is indeed "cheaper." He seems to suggest the saving won't be passed on to consumers for... reasons
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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: Police are spending hundreds of thousands of opioid settlement dollars on Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Might as well repaint it American Flag Blue while we're at it
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Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' as trade war with Canada escalates
President Donald Trump says he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as the trade war between the United States and Canada intensifies.
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't think the California governor race is anywhere near this close, but a concerning number of the people replying skeptically to this seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of rounding
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