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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 3h

This was a recounting of an evening where they shared a bedroom and a bed; the argument was in person, not by letter. WHEN MEN WERE MEN

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.

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Politico @politico.com · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Sanders is cracking open his war chest. The Vermont senator is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars toward key campaigns and has raised $2.8 million for his preferred candidates this cycle.

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Sanders ramps up his midterm play with cash boost for candidates

Sanders is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars toward key campaigns and has raised $2.8 million for his preferred candidates this cycle.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 2h

Burnham's crude emotional manipulation in linking the death of his father to John Swinney's claim he will be the last UK PM inadvertently revealed the poverty of Westminster's arguments against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...

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Burnham’s crude emotional manipulation reveals the poverty of Westminster’s case

The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…

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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 4h

Our electric bills are skyrocketing and communities are being polluted for this garbage.

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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 3h

DHS wasted taxpayer money buying 11 warehouses for about $1.07 billion to expand concentration camps. Now ICE plans to sell seven at a loss after piling up more than $20 million in unrecoverable costs — including zoning assessments, title insurance, utilities, security, and other services.

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jeanie31199.bsky.social @jeanie31199.bsky.social · 3h

A Republican requirement… like Vance… IF he couldn’t find something bad to say, he would CREATE something. These ppl display THE OPPOSITE of what most of us were taught… “If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.

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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on board with this. Along with very lengthy prison terms for treason.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡

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The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For “not being a dictator”, he sure does a lot of things a dictator would do.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17h

i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa

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William K. Cody @williamcody.bsky.social · 18h

This angle the right-wingers are taking that it is somehow a violation of cis women's rights for trans women to even be in the same room/class/category/competition/etc. as them has got to stop. The end goal is to make existing as trans illegal and punishable. This is obvious. It's got to stop.

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Walden Wilde! 🦝 @waldenwilde.com · 22h

For three years I’ve been questioning how genAI that absorbs and regurgitates mass data without comprehending it is supposed to solve unsolved problems And with the multiple cases of AI “solving” science problems by stealing not-yet-published work by scientists, I guess that answers the question

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h

the thing I’m realizing is that Anthropic capex is bonkers and also between Gemini Pro and the Chinese open models, we’re on the cusp of a price war. so they’re spending enormous quantities of money they don’t *have* while the thing they’re selling is getting cheaper.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 19h

Donald Trump: "We're going to be signing a document renaming artificial intelligence to Super Intelligence. We will also be renaming measles to Happy Rash, the White House to Mar-a-Lago North, the Constitution to Trump Toilet Paper, and child rape to Republican Hug."

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT.

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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 18h

The anti-transgender rights activists built their entire campaign on the fact that a transgender woman could not defeat even a single CIS woman in swimming. (She did toe tie worst) So obviously transgender women...evil? Do people have brains?

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 29/09/2026

On the advice of Secretary Rubio, I just tried to sail my vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, and was completely blown to shit by Iranian forces. Now my cargo is on fire and my blood and guts have been blasted all over the cabin. Can confirm it is not open. 0/10 proceed with extreme caution

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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"According to marine analytics firm Kpler, just six vessels crossed the strait on Wednesday, 11 on Tuesday and five on Monday. It put the 10-day average at 13 vessels per day." Normal traffic is 130 to 160 ships per day.

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only Trump could do something like this, accidentally, to reward companies and billionaires and push the people of the US.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

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Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project

The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

dude you can’t address the entire nation just to announce a steel mill in iowa we can smell the flop sweat from here

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

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