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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
notcapnamerica & 11h
+ At what point are we going to address the mass religious psychosis ?
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+ I need you to specify if you mean Heated Rivalry or the christofascist takeover of the USA.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
1. Major corporations — including General Motors, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase, Delta, and Microsoft — are bankrolling a political ad from Senate candidate Andy Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.
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Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/09/2025
"Every serious foreign policy discussion today misses the fundamental reality—Trump's strategic corruption has become America's primary vulnerability. China doesn't need to steal our technology when they can simply buy Trump."
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
one of the things that was most jarring about being undercover in nazi chatrooms for my book was how often violent videos were posted in the channels. executions, murders, blood. purposeful desensitization to violence can be detached from ideology and just entail inurement to the sight of death
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Cartoon
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is what I look like when I'm angry.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 31/03/2025
What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is the government the right-wing in the US wants to copy.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The fact Trump created a special refugee/asylum status for (white) Afrikaners has been widely reported. This is the first reporting I've seen abt just how much we're doing/spending to essentially recruit Afrikaners to resettle in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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Laurie @canadiansheepdog.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#Canadian Captain Nichola Goddard of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery She was killed at age 26 while serving - in support of the #USA - the only time NATO's Article 5 was invoked. #WeHadYourBack America #NATO #uspoli #cdnpoli #Canada
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As @amoneyresists.bsky.social pointed out, Elon Musk is a mass murderer.
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Beyond Meat @beyondmeatofficial.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We make plant-based meat for the same reason you wanna date emotionally available men: good meat without all the suffering
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Price gouging after the fires is illegal, and that includes rent gouging, which we've already seen. Despicable.
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Yes, Price Gouging During LA Fires Is Illegal — and Here's How You Can Report It | KQED
Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a reminder that price gouging during disasters like this remains illegal in California.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10/01/2025
my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged. "Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?
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Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted The Dystopia of the LA Fires By Studying History
This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed, and 5 schools burned to ash.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/01/2025
every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further
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