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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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jacklandsnide @jsquire.bsky.social · 56m
Top tier cafe though
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 3h
"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint." NBC's indefatigable @ryanjreilly.com reports buff.ly/bBe5Xnz
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 5h
Calling a shit ruler "poorly-advised" is the oldest propaganda trick in the coward's book. It, quite literally, is the reason that an English king from the early 11th century was called "Æthelred the Unready" which translated to "Æthelred the poorly advised." He actually just sucked!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 7h
Trump's plan to control threats from AI: an agreement that is... not legally binding, just "morally binding." Oh, and Tom Tiffany voted for a ten-year BAN on states regulating AI.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 10h
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 24/09/2026
Nevada Says Every Single Voter DHS Flagged as a Noncitizen Is Actually a U.S. Citizen
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Nevada Says Every Single Voter DHS Flagged as a Noncitizen Is Actually a U.S. Citizen
Nevada election officials say all 185 voters whom DHS identified as confirmed noncitizens are actually U.S. citizens, according to The New York Times. The post Nevada Says Every Single Voter DHS Flagged as a Noncitizen Is Actually a U.S. Citizen first appeared on Mediaite.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h
About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h
I think this is reasonably likely and also is basically an unimpeachable caucus belli for packing the Court.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21h
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21h
truly it's absurd how much time the oil companies' lawyer and DOJ spent being like 'this one municipality wants to regulate GLOBAL greenhouse gas emissions' when Boulder was repeatedly and explicitly like, we just want you to help pay for what you did to us tbh ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...
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Back in 2018, Boulder County filed a lawsuit in a Colorado state court against fossil fuel industry giants Suncor Energy and Exxon, alleging that the companies caused extensive—and expensive—alterations to Boulder’s climate. Boulder alleged that the companies knew that their unchecked production and promotion of fossil fuels would “result in dangerous changes in the climate,” but continued such activities anyway, and engaged in a decades-long campaign of “concealing” those dangers and “misrepresenting” them to the public.

As a result, the complaint says, instead of snow in the winter, Boulder gets more “high-intensity, short-duration rainfall events” that overwhelm its drainage systems and cause flooding. Instead of rain in the spring, Boulder gets more droughts that “have substantial implications for agriculture, wildfires and water availability.” And instead of warm days in the summer, Boulder gets more heat waves that lead to “premature deaths” and “adverse economic impacts,” particularly on outdoor labor sectors like agriculture and construction.

Boulder has already spent over $100 million repairing damage related to climate change, and expects to spend over $100 million more in order to adapt its infrastructure over the next 25 years, as it attempts to mitigate the effects of flooding, droughts, wildfires, and other harms. “Taxpayers cannot pay the full costs,” says the state’s complaint, “nor should they.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
Fox News gave Dennis Hastert, whom a federal judge called a “serial child molester,” a warm “In Memoriam” sendoff.
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Fox News Runs ‘In Memoriam’ for Serial Child Molester Dennis Hastert
The network gave the disgraced former Republican House speaker a solemn televised sendoff, describing his sexual abuse of teenage boys as “allegations” that merely “tainted” his reputation.
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 23h
This is criminal.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23h
It is crazy how quickly they’ve shifted from arguing about the purported cultural pathologies of black people to arguing that those exact same alleged pathologies are virtues in white peolle
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 22h
During the first Trump administration, I would think a shady, white nationalist-coded government office literally called the “Office of Remigration” would have been a huge deal on cable news. Pretty unnerving how little play it’s getting among liberals now.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 22h
OK, but if these are government ads, not campaign ads, now he's violating the anti-deficiency law.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 23h
Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Poor Zaz will only get a golden parachute of more than a half-billion dollars, after he spent the past few years cutting Warner Bros to the bone so it could get gobbled up by another company (and retire with a massive pay package). variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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David Zaslav Bids Farewell to Warner Bros. Employees in Video on Eve of Skydance Merger Close: ‘It’s Been a Great Honor to Be Alongside All of You’
David Zaslav, who will be departing as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery with Paramount's takeover to form Skydance, shared a farewell message to employees.
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Artificial Taco 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 23h
Interviewing Ted Bundy about his opinions on serial killing is an interesting tact @jaketapper.bsky.social
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At exactly 0 times in my entire adult life have Democrats in Congress done what's actually necessary to hold Republicans accountable. I'm hoping this streak will be broken starting in January. But it's easy to see why Republicans think they can just keep getting away with it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.
For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026
I choose to take it as a hopeful sign that the most viable career option for someone whose resume consists entirely of "lying on behalf of an autocrat" is limited to "working for the autocrat lies factory."
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
The unplucked goose
US, revenue from corporate-income taxes, $bn
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gradually and then all at once.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 04/10/2026
The villains are not even doing the secret part anymore
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i remain so alarmed by all the discourse about how people can use AI to get good deals / fight wage theft / counteract extractive insurance practices that doesn’t acknowledge that — if you accept this works — the companies on the other side … also can use it to do the opposite?
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Check is in the mail is a whole ass comedic trope this is incredible
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
a very weird thing about Trump that I have NEVER seen the media comment on is that he thinks "mutilization" is a word and uses it multiple times during every public appearance
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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's a winning campaign message: "Stop complaining about prices and eat less."
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