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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

Just your periodic reminder that all of these people once looked like entirely normal human beings.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

“.. In Las Vegas last week, data center operators, investors and bankers gathered at the Wynn hotel to discuss the state of the industry. .. The topic of one discussion panel: ‘Are We Screwed?’” @wsj.com #Firmus www.wsj.com/finance/firm...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

Breaking news: Inflation rose to a 3.7 percent annual pace in September, extending a relentless climb this year pushed by surging energy prices and souring Americans on the economy as they head to the polls in three weeks.

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Prices increased sharply in September in last inflation report ahead of elections

Inflation increased in September to 3.7 percent, more than expected.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Core goes from +2.4% YoY to +2.6% YoY, headline up to +3.7% (both above estimates). Real average hourly earnings now negative YoY, -0.7% MoM

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

But there are fewer black people on the teevee and isn’t that what really matters? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Prices increased sharply in September in last inflation report ahead of elections

Inflation increased in September to a 3.7 percent annual pace, higher than expected.

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She done lost her damn mind.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

An unparalleled ability to stand on business, the best in the game today

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Liberals spend forever wondering if these people believe what they are saying and it doesn’t matter. Their audiences 10000% believe it and they vote accordingly.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/10/2026

In a new Truth Social post, Trump explains why he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize—writing entirely in the voice of a man being forcibly removed from a Cheesecake Factory. Really unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize laureate.

Screenshot of a long Truth Social post from Donald Trump dated 9 October 2026. The full thing is here https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117414533410378018. It's too long for alt text, but begins:

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This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:

Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas

Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Ve…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Next he’ll be agreeing to call it “Trump Intelligence.” The new robber barons know what they need to say to appease their master and keep the money flowing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

most cucked man alive

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'well this isn't for me but you all have fun' is a very healthy spirit toward many things

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(angry goose meme) "Efficient HOW?"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You know whose judgment I'm definitely going to respect? The woman who agreed to marry Ken Fucking Paxton

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

great inspiring message

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's the same problem that I tried to get at here.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So wait why can’t a President forgive student loan debt?

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.

New York Times homepage link reading:
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's not that he did a bad job, of course

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump's problem was that he didn't brag enough. That was it

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/09/2026

Poptimism has evolved to its final form, accusing people who don’t like pop music of being bad people, and as a snob I’m going to take that as a total vindication

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For my sins, I see way too much content and even I’ve only encountered the song in glancing and meta ways, like being scolded to acknowledge its popularity. It’s easier to top the charts w/o reaching everybody today bc we don’t have a monoculture, and that’s not the fault of individual consumers.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry I was too busy listening to French electropop and sad gays on Tidal.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not a glitch—they are openly defying the federal TRO as to all the reporters previously excluded

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you remember? 💕 #September21

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this is what the segments would look like on a left-wing fox news right now - should trump be impeached over gas prices? - a count of the number of times he said the strait was opened - hegseths obsession with erect penis and hairless bodies - another gas price segment - silly animals

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/09/2026

He literally calls it "the ban on the free press." What a goddamn maroon.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m sure farmers paying $7 per gallon for diesel during harvest time will be delighted to know their tax dollars will be used to pay the lawyers who will try and fail to defend this in court.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Humbled by losses, a chastened Trump strikes a new tone. New York Times, November 5

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NONE of these fucking people have been "duped."

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the musk family is, uh, something www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

In a voice-over, Gibney says there are 14 known children of Musk’s but likely many more. Musk has built a compound in Austin for the children and their mothers.

His thinking, according to tech journalist Kara Swisher: “I have superior genes, and I need to procreate.”

Musk’s parents also appear in the documentary. His father Errol, it should be noted, told the Sun in 2022 that “the only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.” He was defending having a second child with his stepdaughter. (You read that correctly.) Errol describes his son’s childhood as one rife with bullying and beatdowns.

His mother, Maye, meanwhile describes a chaotic household in which Errol would tell her three times a day how stupid and ugly she was, before occasionally beating her.

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