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The Onion @theonion.com · 5h

Pros And Cons Of Using Personal AI Agents theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-using…

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 6h

I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 9h

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 7h

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

What a fantastic movie. Surprisingly moving, incredibly funny and well-written. It’s crazy this was nearly not released! A real delight

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?

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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.

In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9h

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 11h

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Kit Author @kitauthor.com · 8h

A wounded WW1 veteran with a wolf for a companion tangles with the local werewolves in this #historical fantasy story. Only 99c exclusive on my website kitauthor.com/product/find... 🪐💙📚 #AmReading #Booksky #fantasy #Werewolves #Magic #Ozarks

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

For the transit nerds out there!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Pour one out for a real one. His oral history at USHMM talks about the youth movements finding places for Jews to hide and bringing them food, and becoming masters at forging Nazi documentation so pristine that the national French Resistance used them too. collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

how the youth movements were the first to recognize the imminent peril and initiated rescue operations to save and arm the Jews; how during the mass arrests the youth movements provided food on a daily basis for those in hiding, identified host families or institutions for Jewish children, and produced forged documents; recalls the various techniques to produce forged documents and the evolving coded vocabulary: "les bifs" for the more artisanal identity cards and "les synthés" (les synthétiques) for the more perfect forgeries; how the youth movements' forgery laboratories were so proficient that the national French Resistance used their services and, in particular, the expertise of Maurice Loebenberg (Cachoud);

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ken Paxton has taken over 275 out-of-state trips since taking office. Texans have spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on his luxury vacations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

As we enter the final month before the midterms, don't get cocky. If anything, it's time to ramp up the work and pour it on. Check your registration. Vote early. Push your friends and family too. Look for local places to help out. Phone bank and write postcards. Volunteer for Election Day.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13h

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

fortune.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brilliant. (This treads on a serious issue that can unite all Texans behind @jamestalarico.bsky.social!)

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16h

This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.

“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.

A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 17h

Dutch MEP Reinier van Lanschot called on Europe to stop buying Russian gas, transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone over western Ukraine. “Ukraine is helping us, but we don’t say thank you enough,” he said. #Ukraine

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026

Political Profile: Abdul El-Sayed theonion.com/political-profile-abdu…

Where The ‘El’ In Name Comes From: Ancestors pandering for Latino vote

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

The people's game will always belong to the people. This summer, it belonged to the bodega owners, cab drivers, line cooks, and every New Yorker who welcomed visitors from around the world to experience the World Cup in our own backyard.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.

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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

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dawnwalters22.bsky.social @dawnwalters22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth theonion.com/womans-career-dies-in-…

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth
Mother’s Livelihood ‘Gone Before Its Time,’ Family Says

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

folks, a (rainy) Saturday is the perfect time to start exploring this guide! pick a section and learn about why utility commissions matter, or which counties may flip!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

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Nicholas [redacted] @borninawar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Holy shit, I hadn't thought of it like that before.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Diplomacy for private profit: More corruption in plain view. The Kushner/Witkoff talks with Russia nominally about ending the war in Ukraine are actually about a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives linked to Kushner and Witkoff. The deal, which is

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Dunn House model combines housing with health care for those who need it most. It works and we’re expanding it — with a third location in Toronto.

Screenshot of an article from CityNews. The headline reads: Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An ICE jailer's PAC wrote two checks on the same day. Three weeks later, both recipients voted for $45 billion in new ICE jails. One is Alaska's senator. One wants to be Iowa's. Both kept the money and lost our number. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."

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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security

The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today you all have a chance to meet the team Grimoire Ink Reviews and the books they will be judging for round one of SFINCS4! #booksky #authors #writing #SFINCS www.sfincscompetition.com/post/sfincs4...

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SFINCS4 Meet the Team: Grimoire Ink Reviews

Meet the SFINCS 4 Team Grimoire Ink Reviews and what they will be reading in round 1!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing to remember about Mike Pompeo is that he is an untruthful, fundamentally unserious person, with terrible ideas about foreign policy & everything else, who weakened & embarrassed the State Dept & was the worst Secretary of State in 🇺🇸 history. This is embarrassing & shameful from SIPA.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 03/10/2026

Okay so remember how Alex Pretti had confronted ICE agents a few days before they shot him

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The kids are alright. It's our job to do everything we can to build an economy where every kid can grow up and thrive.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

It was an honor to attend Friday prayers at Beit El Maqdis Islamic Center with Palestinian New Yorkers today. Like an olive tree, their roots run deep in our city, stretching back more than a century and growing through every generation that has made Bay Ridge home.

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