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Kat ‘Beans’

@katbuns.bsky.social
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Jack of all trades, master of some. Artist, writer, JustTryingToThrive-er. Disabled American, Patient Advocate. Canine-r, late Ringo's human💔 #Resist #Beans 🫘

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
No more questions, your honor!
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22h
This has made my day 😎💙😎
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 4h
It doesn't take a crystal ball to tell: Ellison's choosing Casey, I can tell www.vulture.com/article/cind...
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Paramount Streaming Chief Cindy Holland Steps Down
Her departure paves the way for HBO boss Casey Bloys to run streaming at the combined Paramount-Warner.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h
More precisely, Kash Patel was paid $25,000—and Rudy Giuliani $100,000—by a pro-Russia propagandist who led a project financially supported by Putin's office. To get the full story, see my new book, "How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Go to HowRussiaWon.com.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 4h
Excellent
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
Newsom signs California ban on electric shock gloves for law enforcement
CBS NEWS CALIFORNIA
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 4h
Come to see Eric Schmitt try to chuckle his way through his obvious humiliation. Stay to watch Amy Klobuchar dunk on Eric Schmitt for a *2nd* time today.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h
As Republicans face competitive midterm races, Iowa farmers sound the alarm over soaring costs. Trump says the polls showing tight races are “fake.”
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Trump says the polls are “fake.” Iowa farmers say they’re “bleeding money.”
As Republicans face competitive midterm races, Iowa farmers sound the alarm over soaring costs.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h
John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj
Mother Jones magazine cover linking the Roberts Supreme Court to a revival of Jim Crow: a black judicial robe hangs next to a white KKK hooded robe with a hand reaching toward it; headline "The Southern Strategy" and subhead "Jim Crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5h
Usually House Speakers don't campaign for the opposing party
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 5h
A federal judge has refused to grant class action status to consumer and wholesale purchaser lawsuits alleging Energizer and retail ​giant Walmart conspired to keep disposable battery prices artificially high @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4hvpAJZ
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US judge rejects class action over Energizer, Walmart battery prices
A federal judge has refused to grant class action status to consumer and wholesale purchaser lawsuits alleging Energizer and retail ​giant Walmart conspired to keep disposable battery prices artificia...
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Kat ‘Beans’ @katbuns.bsky.social · 5h
Hey @jessicatarlov.bsky.social Maybe you can bring up this gaff on The 5?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
BTIG: “.. Are Bulls Starting to Lose the Standoff? So far neither side had been proven right, or wrong, and we remain in a standoff of weak breadth vs. strong SPX. Yet even within the SPX, over the last 5 weeks the index is dead-flat while the median stock is -4.5%.”
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House Budget Committee Democrats @housebudgetdems.bsky.social · 11h
"No president has the authority to ignore Congress and unilaterally cancel funding that was signed into law." Ranking Member @congressmanboyle.bsky.social's statement on the nonpartisan GAO's decision that Trump's pocket rescission is illegal:
Boyle Statement After Nonpartisan GAO Confirms Trump's Pocket Rescission Is
Illegal
GAO's decision is clear: President Trump's pocket rescission is illegal and subverts Congress's constitutional power of the purse. No president has the authority to ignore Congress and unilaterally cancel funding that was signed into law.
Congress must pass my Congressional Power of the Purse Act to strengthen the law and protect Congress's constitutional authority.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
OpenAI cancels its advanced model launch, then heads to lunch with Trump
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OpenAI cancels its advanced model launch, then heads to lunch with Trump
The startup has apologized for several security incidents and canceled the public launch of its latest advanced model. That's not enough.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h
There’s always a lot going on in California’s statewide elections, so this year I thought I’d walk through all the major races at PUBLIC COMMENT publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...
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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 1
How I'm voting in this year's statewide races
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11h
NEWS: Trump just launched an AI website for your Medicare, passports and student loans. It's powered by Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot that called itself "MechaHitler," and built by the same administration whose DOGE team leaked Americans' Social Security data. What the hell are we doing?
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
That second sentence is doing QUITE a lot of work
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11h
📣📣 As promised, I've once again addressed the tired "35% never file a claim!" anti-ACA talking point which the Trump Regime has been pushing all year: acasignups.net/26/09/29/add...
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Addressing the 35% "Phantom Enrollee" Zombie Lie...again
"In other words, Republicans’ insistence that they have a superior alternative to Obamacare is a zombie lie — a claim that should be dead after having been proved false again and again, but it is stil...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11h
when a subject bores me I try and amuse myself www.ms.now/news/maha-su...
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 12h
NEW: The safeguards that Citizens United assumed would check corporate election spending have failed—and Hawaii is fighting back. We filed an amicus brief, alongside @campaignlegal.org, supporting Hawaii's new law, which seeks to address these failures.
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The problems Citizens United created support Hawaii’s innovative solution - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The safeguards that Citizens United assumed would check corporate election spending have failed, and Hawaii is fighting back.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 12h
Senators Cruz and Hawley led the charge to block certification of ballots in Congress.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12h
Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event. The protest reflects a bipartisan movement led by people opposing the power concentration in the AI industry, as well as the lack of government regulation. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social:
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Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay
Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
So funny. Facts do not matter to these people. They’re just gonna lie their way through it in their alternate universe
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h
Reminder: Donald Trump and his family have grifted more than $4 billion while Americans struggle to get by.
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 13h
EARLY VOTE REPORT: 35 DAYS I know it’s early… but I’m going to endeavor to keep running updates on early vote totals until Election Day. Here’s my first report. With approximately 355,000 mail in ballots rec’d… Dem ballots outnumber R’s by more than 2:1 Women lead men by 8 points. 64% over 65.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13h
HELP MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Blue26.org
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Blue26.org
Not a PAC. Just helping raise money for Democratic candidates to help save democracy.
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Kat ‘Beans’ @katbuns.bsky.social · 13h
Idiocracy.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 13h
Mike Johnson's midterm pitch: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15h
The unsolved mystery of the Hamas attacks that happen when most politically convenient for Netanyahu and his party.
The main text reads: "Why the Hamas terrorist group would keep repeatedly saving Netanyahu from his years long corruption trial is a total mystery." A partially visible link below the text leads to a haaretz.com article.
The post quotes an older tweet by the same account from October 21, 2023, which states: "Netanyahu empowered Hamas for over 14 years to weaken the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian civil society, and use to paint all Palestinians as 'terrorists'. Thomas Friedman wrote in 2021, Netanyahu and Hamas didn't need t...".
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 15h
Republicans are starting to turn against Trump's war with Iran. Not because Trump targeted children, had no plan, is hurting Americans, or refused to listen to the advice of experts, but because there is a chance they may lose their cushy jobs that provide them easy access to Billionaire's wallets.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · September 28 · 1h 12m
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced ​AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17h
Leading frontier AI labs have since called for a coordinated “slowdown” on AI development until the proper safeguards are implemented. www.wired.com/story/ai-lea...
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AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17h
The prospectus’ language echoes some dire warnings that recently came from industry insiders. This month, Jacob Coxon quit his position as AI researcher at Anthropic with a post on X denouncing an existential risk AI poses to humanity. www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This has to be reported to the FEC as an in-kind contribution to Josh Turek's campaign
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/09/2026
Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results who had recently been involved in the Justice Department's so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation targeting officials who investigated Donald Trump, has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter tell NBC.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
🚨NEW: Trump’s DOJ responded to the DNC’s lawsuit seeking records on potential ballot seizures — but produced none. The filing still leaves unanswered whether the administration has considered such plans for the midterms.
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Trump DOJ responds to DNC lawsuit, offers no records on ballot seizure plans
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 13-page answer did not deny whether the Trump administration has considered such plans, identify whether responsive records exist or offer a timeline for producing…
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new "Founder LLC" vehicle aimed at serving the common good, while insulating its leaders from market forces.
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote public good over market forces
Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new "Founder LLC" vehicle ​aimed at serving the common good, while insulating its leaders from market forces.
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