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Ken Tidwell

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/01/2026
Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer. How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
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Damien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Eric Moran @deveric.net · 09/12/2025
I can't believe I have to say this, but if you have COVID don't go to public gatherings/events.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It would be so nice if we had a Congress whose members did something besides appear on talk shows.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/11/2025
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"Look, the Fed can do a lot of things, but what it can't do is lower the price of imports. It can't make it so there are more workers for California farmers to help pick the crops." These are self-inflicted supply shocks, and the Fed can't magically undo them. (The White House can.)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@ddayen.bsky.social on the "perverse and irrational" private credit deals financing the AI boom, w "huge mismatches between the life cycle of the assets being funded and the amount of time it will take to pay them off." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
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The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."

Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. 

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Restaurant advocates have warned that if every supplier insisted on being paid for ingredients, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2025
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/09/2025
A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction.
Tweet from Greg Abbott:

This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Texas Tech.

FAFOTweet from Greg Abbott: I just signed a law protecting free speech on college campuses.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Reality has a liberal bias, it seems.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale.
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Britain's running on empty after years of neoliberalism and austerity - more tax cuts and more cuts in public spending would turn the UK into a ghost town. #r4today
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So Texas is going to invade Illinois
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/09/2025
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues”
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/08/2025
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The more this happens, the less Americans will like and respect our military.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I always wondered what kind of idiots would get tricked by the near ubiquitous "FBI surveillance van" WiFi name, and I can't say I'm surprised
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
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Steve Nelson @beachdabber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In case you missed it, Trump's CFPB has quietly dropped 18 lawsuits against banks, mortgage firms, and subprime lenders accused of offering predatory loans to millions of vulnerable consumers. Trump is making his corporate backers even richer by letting them swindle you.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Let's review Trump's staffing: 1) His FBI DD has to take days home from work bc he's too emotional 2) His NASA Administrator is terrified of the NY Subway 3) His FEMA Administrator was AWOL for the first week after a flood killed over 20 girls at Christian summer camp
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.

The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Powerful and poignant from Ambassador Fried: “Vance’s argument would overthrow the meaning of the Gettysburg Address, the speech that restored America to its original principles from the Declaration of Independence after its bloodiest war.” nationalinterest.org/feature/jd-v...
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JD Vance’s Dangerous View of American Nationhood
The power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ethnically-rooted nation like others—but from its being different.
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