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Jerry Talton

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CTO @ Blacklake • Adjust Research Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing & Data Science @ UIUC. Formerly CTO @ Carta, ML @ Slack, Founder & CEO @ Apropose, Research Scientist @ Intel.

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Jerry Talton @jerrytalton.net · 21/09/2026
FINALLY. “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/20/m...
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Major TV networks stand with CNN, decline to replace its White House pool crew | CNN Business
The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
WELKER: Can you pledge the DOJ will always act independently of the WH? BLANCHE: No, I'm not going to pledge that WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it? BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Way more than enough evidence in these papers not only to get Comey’s charges 86’d before trial in federal district court, but also to get Blanche—and Trump—86’d at an impeachment trial in the Senate.
Carol Leonnig: Pat Fitzgerald cites some very bad facts re the prosecution of James Comey :  
Secret Service agents acknowledged #3 DOJ official ordered them to surveil Comey and they felt it was likely illegal. Agents also gave Trump updates on the case on AF1 at his instruction.
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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026
you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
So far, the Democratic Socialists of America's success has been confined in large part to deep-blue city districts. Meanwhile, in suburban areas and in statewide contests establishment Democrats generally are winning against progressive challengers. Chicago saw its own version of this dynamic in March in the hotly contested and crowded race to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional District. The bomb-throwing influencer Kat Abughazaleh, 27, won the portions of that district in Chicago's North Side lakefront neighborhoods, but suburban votes gave savvy
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss the win.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I will forever be proud of my role in advising @ejeancarroll.bsky.social that she could sue Donald Trump, and in setting her up with the brilliant litigator, @robbiekaplan.bsky.social, who won $88.3 million in jury verdicts on her behalf. a.co/d/07ndLAaJ
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Me in 2005: wow general counsel that sounds great and important Me 21 years later: I am forsaken by God
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”
John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Dear Corporate media: when covering Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana now drawing new congressional maps so their congressional districts are whites only please note these were all former slave states that were part of the Confederacy who waged war on the USA.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/04/2026
It’s important to remember that the goal of lawsuits like the one brought by Kash Patel against the Atlantic isn’t to win, it’s to cost the Atlantic as much money as possible only to drop the suit before discovery, and as red meat for the MAGA base by simply filing it.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
May your kinks never (nonconsensually) be made public. -- old Irish blessing
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Ranjitha Kumar @ranjithaskumar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Hits on so many levels #nokings ❌ 👑 @stratfest.bsky.social
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The time to do something is now, and we must act.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
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Jerry Talton @jerrytalton.net · 27/03/2026
Amazing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
NY Times reports Hegseth just struck 2 Black and 2 female officers from a promotion list — and says Hegseth’s Chief of Staff told the army secretary “Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events” More: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Coyne: "Your honor--" Court: "Sit down. Coyne: "--if--" Court: "Sit down." Coyne: "If I notice of appeal-- (think he means appear) Court: "Sit down." Coyne: "--is entered --" Court: "I'm directing the court security offices to remove Mr. Coyne."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed charges against prediction market company Kalshi. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction ⁠market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation." www.reuters.com/world/kalshi...
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Kalshi charged criminally in Arizona for operating illegal gambling business
Arizona's attorney general on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction markets platform ​of operating an illegal gambling business in the state and unlawfully ‌allowing p...
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“Bitch, what?”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/03/2026
In case you're wondering how slow justice moves: after the Trump administration investigated my podcast and removed me from my job at the VA in 2019, I filed a complaint. We still don't have a trial date set. We're waiting on a summary judgment ruling after a hearing last August.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). ... For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the stormy applause, rising to an ovation, continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.

However, who would dare to be the first to stop? … After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on – six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly – but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter…

Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!

The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I think people who say things like this, especially prominent people with power, should be shamed and shunned and reviled — cancelled, if you will. “Free speech culture” disapproves of that sentiment — says that it’s worse than what Ogles said. Judge it thus.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Sharpton: "The problem is not Trump. The problem is us. What happened to us?"
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.
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Jerry Talton @jerrytalton.net · 01/03/2026
“Well, no TRUE Scotsman…”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Score one for the Mayor. 👏👏
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 25/02/2026
I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“I would never call a President of the United States of any party a fucking piece of shit on a podcast, until today. He is a fucking piece of shit. This is where we are. I want to go back to an America where I can’t make the case that the president is a fucking piece of shit.”
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 08/02/2026
It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein. He said he had no interactions with Epstein after 2005, yet we now know they were in business together. Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.
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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not. 1) this is the 4th amendment 2) this is a historical norm at worst 3) this is already required 4) again, at worst an historic norm 5) 4A 6) 4A 7) fine 8) good if enforceable 9) useless 10) again, at worst a historical norm
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Troublemaker is my middle name.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 28/01/2026
“Sens. Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign Tuesday, making them the first Republicans in Congress to say she should step down.”
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Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of homeland security.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
colonel lockjaw lookin ass
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good riddance to this cos-playing fascist wanbabe. Now more accountability. “Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/01/2026
Republican candidate for Minnesota governor Chris Madel has ended his campaign in a surprise video announcement.
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Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Madel drops out, faults Trump immigration policy
Republican candidate for Minnesota governor Chris Madel has ended his campaign in a surprise video announcement.
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