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A Google Maps map of the United States, labeled "Unites States".

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense

Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 26/09/2026

Thanks. What's the best place to currently check how much is going through, if any? I heard of some naval escorts, but not sure of the scale, sustainability, and costs of that.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 26/09/2026

"It's lost control of the Strait of Hormuz, where tanker traffic is now the highest in many months." Traffic still looks completely flat on datalab.wto.org/Strait-of-Ho..., what am I missing, are vessels just not using AIS anymore?

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 24/09/2026

He's engaging with you as a human being, why would he deceive you?

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump's approvals across the board keep falling

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I could sum up why I’m not a Republican in one quote…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Saying this *precisely* as everyone is warning gas prices are just about to skyrocket is deeply insane

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

the thing that stands out to me is less the Dem spread than the fact that the GOP seems stuck in the low 40s. if that holds, and if undecideds/double-haters break for Democratic candidates in the final stretch, you are looking at a total collapse for the congressional GOP

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

getair.space

airspace

The database you already have.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 15/09/2026

"most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity" I mean... I would agree with you if there hadn't been Germans electing Hitler in 1932/1933 (although the latter wasn't a free election anymore).

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

VICTORY: Trump's mail ballot interference rule is blocked in FULL A fed. judge ruled USPS never had the power to rewrite how America votes, weeks out from the midterms @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org brought this case for LULAC, ASA, SFI, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s amazing (extremely negative) how U.S. diplomacy is focused on getting the aggressor a win, trying to find some way to secure gains for Russia that the Russian military has failed — for over 4.5 years and counting! — to achieve on the battlefield. What an awful, consequential, damaging change.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 12/09/2026

Good analysis by @gilduran.com on @chrislhayes.bsky.social about how much of the SV tech elite evolved from outwardly supporting progressive/liberal democratic values to becoming staunch supporters of authoritarianism and increasingly neo-nazi viewpoints. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpU...

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‘They are REALLY, REALLY DUMB’ about some things: Gil Durán EXPOSES Silicon Valley oligarchs

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 10/09/2026

OLD: "Trust in god but tie your camel" NEW: "Trust that AGI is going to make money obsolete in a few years, but also make sure to work and save up for your retirement"

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 09/09/2026

And the "wake up" part isn't exactly new either.

A German Nazi standing in front of a Jewish store with the sign "Deutsche! Wehrt Euch!" next to him

The full text of the Nazi "Sturmlied", telling Germans to wake up to the supposed "threat" of the Jews, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmlied

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 08/09/2026

This is how Hitler talked about the Jews before he exterminated them - with the white Aryan German race of course being the "victim" that had no choice but to "defend" itself from being wiped out or getting its blood corrupted.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 06/09/2026

Die NSDAP hat in den letzten freien Wahlen der Weimarer Republik (1932) tatsächlich "nur" 33.1% gekriegt. Schlimm genug, aber das hat schon gereicht als Vorlage für die nächsten (nicht mehr freien) Wahlen und die Machtergreifung.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 06/09/2026

A historic night for European spaceflight. Huge congratulations to Daniel Metzler and the entire Isar aerospace team on reaching orbit with Spectrum 🚀 from continental Europe. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 30/08/2026

Man this Maguire guy. I remember when Sequoia was a highly respected VC firm that everyone wanted to be funded by, but since MAGA took a dump into a bunch of VCs' brains (Andreessen as well), I wouldn't want to be seen in the same room as them anymore.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The ability of billionaires to influence our politics has destroyed our democracy. So much for one person one vote. They are buying elections. We need a constitutional amendment to rid ourselves of the poison of Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms (Gift Article)

The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

seriously why isn’t “every republican president destroys the economy” the most ubiquitous phrase in american politics?!?!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 25/08/2026

Strange. This is what my Pixel 8 on Android 17 looks like. It lets me choose a voice, but says that screening is enabled by a tap (presumably while someone is calling me).

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 24/08/2026

Yeah. Elon Musk made that term popular, after getting it from Gad Saad, who wrote a book about it.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 24/08/2026

I hadn't heard of this Omarchy thing, but that made me look into that rabbit hole, which left me finding this post by him world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem..., and oh boy is he far down that hole... 🤮

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 24/08/2026

There's the system, and there's the people in charge of the system. The best system won't help you if the people are all corrupt or don't do enough to keep it alive. Reminds me of that Jack Smith quote, "The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Trump administration continues to use previously unimaginable rhetoric in relation to the neighbor and former closest ally of the US. It will take a generation to repair the relationship between the US and Canada, if repair is even possible—and the silence from Democratic leaders is noticeable.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 23/08/2026

Clicked on this for the economics, stayed for sentences like: "He’ll be walking all over that flatulant flubberfuck like a used Persian rug, the kind that’s seen too many spray tans and too much foot traffic, rolled up and left out the front for hard rubbish collection."

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 22/08/2026

Those flaws aside, I still think Germany has been a relatively good role model for processing its past horrors rather than just moving on and pretending that nothing happened.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 22/08/2026

Even denazification after WW2 was pretty superficial and was quickly given up by the Allies unfortunately, as nazis were just everywhere. A more proper historical reckoning started happening decades later, in the 1960s. But still, you had many former nazis still in important bureaucratic positions.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The precedent here, that the president can simply level federal buildings at will without judicial interference, will come in handy on January 21st, 2029.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ossoff should give a bunch more speeches, bc this shit is wack.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/08/2026

This is really big. Getting this going is the key to unlocking all sorts of useful things in the Atmosphere... This can take ATproto from "cool idea" to "hey this powers a better internet"

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 20/08/2026

Ich hab seit Jahren keine mehr gemacht, aber eher aus anderen Gründen. Ist halt sehr aufwendig, gute Videos zu produzieren. Aber da war YouTube selbst nie das Problem, sondern hat super funktioniert.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 20/08/2026

Sorry, ich wollte "ad reads", nicht "ads reads" schreiben. Das, was mittlerweile so ziemlich alle größeren YouTuber machen (und sie bewerben alle die gleiche Handvoll semi-scammy bis voll-scammy Produkte).

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 20/08/2026

As an approximate rule, I assume that most things that appear in YouTube creators' ads reads are a scam, and apparently that rule was right once again for Ground News. youtu.be/CqE-SrgvTh4

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Is Ground News a Psy-Op?

YouTube video by Literate Machine

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