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R.C. Katz

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Cat lady, traffic reporter and old buttrocker

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Semafor @semafor.com · 9h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h
Chuck Schumer's daughter accepted a lobbying position at Open Al.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 5h
This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 8h
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 11h
I legitimately thought this was a joke post
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
We need to focus on the fact that Senators Kennedy and Grassley participated in this charade and soiled themselves badly in the process. They need to apologize to the witness, and to the American public for their serious misconduct. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h
The Piss Drinkers
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 13h
Who benefits when the public must create the pressure that institutions should already feel?
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'To Catch a Predator' at Cornell
A Cornell student’s lawsuit has sparked feminist outrage and raised questions about why survivors so need public pressure to make institutions act.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 13h
"If Warren G. Harding had kept his hands off Teapot Dome, gas would be under two dollars a gallon."
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h
"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israeli authorities are examining a possible hijacking. Contact with the aircraft has reportedly been lost. According to Channel 12
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign An ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The DA should resign. Despite his attempts to hide it, this actually comes through even in his bullshit summary when you read it critically.
According to a transcript of the alleged victim's interview with campus
police, obtained by CBS New York's Mahsa Saeid from a source, Jane
Doe distinguished the initial sexual activity from what she says
happened later in the night.

She described drinking and using drugs the night of the alleged rape,
and said she had gaps in her memory, according to the transcript.

When asked whether she was OK with the initial encounter, she said,
"Yeah, as much as I can be because, again, I was super drunk when I
got there ... But I was pretty OK with all of this."

When describing what happened later in the night, the transcript says
Jane Doe said, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Data centers are gonna be very popular”🤔 Trump again makes it clear his loyalty is to the tech oligarchs (who enrich him and his family), not to regular Americans
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 30/09/2026
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 30/09/2026
You put your money in a savings account & get paid on average 0.37% interest, according to FDIC data. The bank can then put your cash at the Fed & get paid 4% interest. Bank lobbyists have blocked the bill to let you cut out the middle man & put your cash at the Fed. This is called "capitalism."
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The Financial System Can’t Afford To Treat You Fairly
One of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that giving you a better deal could destabilize American banking.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez. trib.al/Mwnx0Kq
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Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Right wing media finding out their big Jack Smith story fell apart.
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Bill O'Reilly's On-Air Outburst
ALT: Bill O'Reilly's On-Air Outburst
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R.C. Katz @katzrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this dumb bitch is still yapping? 360s huh
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
More than a dozen organizations came together at OpenAI DevDay to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event venue at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, Service Employees International Union, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council.
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R.C. Katz @katzrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you know what they're doing
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
This is my favorite thing today. In second place is Senator Schmitt hoisting himself with his own petard during the Jack Smith hearing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"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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R.C. Katz @katzrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LMAO Schmitt's IQ is his shoe size
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Benny Johnson took Russian money to spread his right-wing lies. He claims he was duped. So is he spreading right-wing lies for free now?
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Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say
The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"gas prices have risen more in red states"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You just know Schmitt had prebooked this show along with probably Ingraham and Hannity to launch his media tour after his big gotcha moment on Jack Smith that was going to propel him to be Vance's running mate. Instead, it's the Clown Show Power Hour. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Republicans don’t care about the people who beat Capitol police and threatened officials on January 6. They only care about their toll records. Even though none of them were charged. Why a bunch of assholes.
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R.C. Katz @katzrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LMFAO
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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UPDATED: the government has released the OpenAI email sent to Services Australia on Sept. 10 OpenAI fessed its agent managed to get internal files without a private account or password. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Ted Cruz: “You signed subpoenas like you signed Denny’s menus.” What the fuck does that even mean?
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A private jet flew Romanian politicians, judges, state-company executives and businessmen to Mykonos to meet unnamed US investors. 3 months later, their identities hidden. The flight has triggered a Romanian Senate inquiry and separate Judicial Inspection checks.
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A private jet flew a Romanian judge, a senator and state company chiefs to Mykonos to meet unnamed US investors
Romania’s Chamber of Commerce flew politicians, judges, state-company executives and businessmen to Mykonos to meet potential US investors interested in energy, railways and agriculture. Nearly three ...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i get that this is in some sense a bribe or whatever but also lol these idiots have no idea what theyre doing
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Candidate for Kansas Senate Roger Marshall (R):
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the *700* patients I sued who are wrong.
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHY I AM YELLING: MY HUMAN MADE PIZZA BUT IT IS JUST COOLING ON THE COUNTER NOBODY IS FEEDING IT TO ME
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Explaincars Drama: When “Lazer Attack” is third on the list of reasons for extending crew rest - it has likely been a day.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon
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