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João Gomes

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There was no accountability for DOGE so he is going to keep doing it. Dems should promise to minimize contracts with clearly partisan government contractors and to impose more regulatory scrutiny on Musk. At this point, nothing to lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
everyone who thinks there's one neat trick should be sentenced to a full week of canvassing door to door in a middle income suburb
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No one has more contempt for Trump voters than Trump himself
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m intensely wary of and cognizant of places where an ability I have might atrophy, I worry about that a lot, but so far that’s why I’ve used it to complement deep knowledge of the data I’m manipulating and strategic views about what to do with it.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I straight up don’t believe that article about a study going around about how using AI for ten minutes makes you give up on anything hard. In my experience it has given me an ability to execute on things where I had systems analysis level vision without programmer level ability.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lula bans online betting in Brasil
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The entire Republican Party is rotten.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
you're telling me this Donald Trump guy is a belligerent imbecile who fucks literally everything he does up? the guy from the television?? well I'll be dipped
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Chris Mueller @chrismuellerpgh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pablo Torre's phenomenal work exposing the Clippers scandal sticks out so much because whatever passes for sports "journalism" these days, especially at the most visible levels, is just back-slapping bullshit or quid pro quo contract announcement stenography. It doesn't have to be this way.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one fascinating thing is the conservative movement's total replacement of virtue with vice
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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Readers added content: 9/11 was the day Donald Trump bragged on TV about how he now owned the highest building in Manhattan.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The supposed smartest ppl in the world werent capable of thinking ahead to "what happens when Trump no longer controls the government"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 25/08/2026
I know we’re all numb to it now but it fucks me up pretty bad to think that this is exclusively the political environment my kids are developing in
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
it really should be a bigger story that Karen Bass enthusiastically supports the cult of Scientology
The Honorable
Karen Bass
Speaker Emeritus
California State Assembly
SCIENTOLOG
ahd this new Church of Scientology. is an exciting moment
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Once again imagining the reaction from the media if a Dem President, especially one who never served in the armed forces, tried to rename a carrier after themselves while their approval rating was 30%
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I love bike share. What an amazing idea. You take a bike wherever and whenever you want. And leave it wherever you want. It’s not the fastest or most fitted bike to you. But it’s incredible flexibility. Bike to transit and not worry about theft. Go for a run and bike back. See rain, take a bike.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The parking is an issue that will be hotly contested, but the real problem is the aesthetics. These dumpsters —it is important to use this word, because that is what they will be in practice—will drastically alter the visual streetscape of the city.
The main problem is that these dumpsters will be on the street 24/7.
Currently, trash bags are typically on the street two mornings each week, with only a handful of weekend routes. Yes, these bags smell and attract rats, but there is no guarantee that the dumpsters will fully alleviate either problem. Instead, they will introduce worse problems.
The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more
"sanitized" each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history.
The West Harlem pilot was launched with 1,100 dumpsters in an area with no historic district designation, a set of protocols designed to protect the visual character of the streetscape. While they reduced reports of rats, they are limited as a case study. Once enacted, the Empire Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters.The initial images of the pilot show pristine dumpsters on a nondescript street with scaffolding. This is not an accurate depiction of New York, nor what the dumpsters will look like on a typical street, even though the plan is to power wash them regularly.
New York's streets are entropic. Nothing here can exist without promptly getting bashed in, graffiti-ed, or splattered with swill. Trash cans in busy areas all over the city overflow regularly, with adjacent heaps of garbage piling up beside them. These dumpsters, which will be only accessible to building staff using an access card that will definitely never break, undoubtedly will face the same fate. If the bins malfunction, they stand to welcome the very rats they are meant to stave off into a Whole Foods smorgasbord of fresh, artisanal garbage.
The dumpster pilot has launched in Brooklyn's Community District 2— home to the desirable Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and Boerum Hill neighborhoods—-and as expected, is overwhelming streets with the large bins. Next up will be Manhattan's Community District 2, which includes the Greenwich Village Historic District, one of the most beloved places in the city, and the topic of much debate about preservation.As it stands now, DSNY and DOT will determine locations of the bins, not owners or residents. Will wealthy residents on Billionaire's Row in Midtown pay to get preferential treatment or be exempted completely?
Will having the old school pile of bags overnight become a luxury amenity? And will the green spaces in NYCHA blocks become sprawling trash zones?
These dumpsters will take a toll on our psyches. It attacks the human aspects of our cities. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make a qualitative argument about the character of a place; the beauty of a street has been lost in a sea of data and flooded by optimizing arguments about unit counts or parking spots. Technocratic solutions often unintentionally make the city worse. To believe in the city is to believe that aesthetics and humanity still mean something.
Can the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) help? Established in the wake of losing the original Penn Station, LPC is meant to protect the visual character and soul of the city's streets. According to the NYC Street Design Manual, LPC will be able to stop them in historic districts unless they are deemed "artworks." Unfortunately as it stands now, the dumpsters are not artworks or even artful. Perhaps Mayor Mamdani could organize a design competition to rethink the dumpsters, just like he did with modular public restrooms?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Pete Hegseth experience is revitalized when you realize that he's Mac from It's Always Sunny
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The de facto position of the US government: *we should influence the elections of other countries *we should cast doubt on legitimate election outcomes when we don't like the outcome *we should use claims of foreign interference to cast doubt on legitimate US election outcomes
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.
+1 (703) 214-7375
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BREAKING: The House has officially PASSED the SAVE Act, a controversial bill that could...
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• Hey, it's Elaine Luria, Democratic candidate running to flip Virginia's second congression...
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Barack Obama just inspired a House majority
MIRACLE! (Trump is FREAKING OUT!!) Look...
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• ALERT: These four Democrats are our official nominees in these FOUR battleground Senat...
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• This is not a typo - Josh Shapiro
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• It's Jon Ossoff. I don't love asking for money, so I want to pull back the curtain and explain...
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• It's Jon Ossoff. I have some bad news: I'm worried about my campaign's fundraising rig...+1 (645) 234-1563
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Hi, it's Nicole Locklin, Democrat for U.S.
Congress in South Florida's 26th District, the...
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Calling all Virginians!
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I've never run for office - now I'm leading in the polls in Kansas. - Adam Hamilton...
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• Chair of the Democratic Party of Louisiana here with an update on our Governor's State...
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It's Eugene Vindman. I'II be honest, I never thought I would be here today, writing to you...
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Hi, it's Attorney General Eric Holder. It's hard to believe what we just witnessed....
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• It's Chuck Schumer. Please, I'm asking:
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
just a quick reminder that this is Phil Mickelson's *official* LIV tour photo
Phil Mickelson, eyes wide open in terror like he knows you just read one of the many gross stories about him
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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
Large limestone lavatory building built by Works Progress Administration workers in 1938. Located at Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026
One of the most frustrating parts of Donald Trump is his ability to take any moment, anywhere and make it about Donald Trump. I’m sick of thinking about this fucking guy.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
it really sucks that the most popular podcaster has the intellect of a golden retriever, generously
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It cannot be emphasized enough that when Markwayne Mullin says this he's basically telling Haitians to put themselves and their families at a high risk of death
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
do you ever think about how trump has been the defining political force in us politics for over a decade
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I like traffic filters on residential streets and I cannot lie.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"we do six Watergates before lunch every day"
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Mel Stefaniuk @melstefaniuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
it sucks ass that most american athletes are huge idiots in the "its adam and eve, not adam and steve!" way instead of being huge idiots like this:
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Note: The US has no safety regs that limit vehicle blind zones. Federal car rules only protect those inside a vehicle. Others are ignored.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
iran peace deal final final FINAL 2.5 revisions
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/06/2026
Wild that I am almost certainly much happier and more personally fulfilled than the wealthiest man in the history of the world.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
when you start talking about Nick Fuentes like this it's a pretty clear sign you've cooked your brain on the Vichy Twitter algo
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
At the outset of the Iran war, the Trump administration’s rhetoric leaned hard on Iran’s cruelty to its own citizens as a reason to intervene. That was always bullshit, but stuff like this makes it cruelly undeniable bullshit.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man
X owner Elon Musk shared a post from Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley- Lennon) announcing locations of protests, and another from the far-right Restore Britain
party that read: "Do not make peace with evil.
Destroy it."
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
IMO it is bad that blatant corruption and cronyism somehow has become entirely acceptable in the political party in charge of the entire government
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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a basketball player crashing into our old mayor to a person who's celebrating a new business that's opening
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
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