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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BEAST. MODE.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 29/09/2026
Republicans keep bringing Jack Smith back to tell the truth to them, for some reason. Masochists.
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...
seattletimes.com
Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected
The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By tradition, American presidents don’t make the 12-mile trip to the base to greet a foreign leader. Now Trump waits at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president. From @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Deferential President
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he’s waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surely, a sane person goes to the United Nations and with one breath calls himself a peacemaker and with the next threatens to "annihilate" a nation of over 90 million people. Donald Trump is a psychiatric emergency. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The response to Trump’s attacks on these outlets should be for every news outlet to boycott the Trump White House. They don’t need to stand there to do their reporting. See how Trump likes it when no legitimate news outlet shows up for his tantrums and lies.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-trump-c...
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Is Trump Collapsing?
A Saturday Prompt
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Why did the #Emmys censor his death from the ‘In Memoriam’?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cher’s outfit reveals on The Cher Show (1975) designed by BOB MACKIE — who passed away today at the age of 87.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Ed@Retired In CrazyTimes @ed-retired.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. floridaphoenix.com/2026/09/14/r...
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Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans. • Florida Phoenix
The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn littl...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rather ominous sign at Lowe's
A sandwich board in a big home improvement store is filled with all-caps text in multiple bright colors reading "ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE DATA CENTERS??????"
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My God.
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Lisa ✨⭕ ◡̈ @isleschick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I hope so! people.com/tsa-may-allo...
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TSA May Allow Passengers with PreCheck to Bring Water Through Security, Ending 20-Year-Old Policy
TSA PreCheck members may soon have the ability to walk through airport security checkpoints without having to dump their bottles of water in the trash. A former head of TSA tells ‘The New York Times’ ...
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where’s this clip? Why is this one not going viral? Yeah
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Crowd chants "Shame on you!" at Sen. Roger Marshall for his medical debt collection practice that experts called "extreme" and "unbelievably aggressive." Sen. Marshall, who is up for reelection this year, had 81 of his former patients arrested for struggling to pay their medical bills.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11/09/2026
these are all just lies. this isn’t going to happen. congress isn’t going to allocate it. republicans are not going to hold both the house and the senate. treating this as even a hypothetical possibility grants legitimacy to the illegitimate.
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
It's clinical narcissism. The only way he can engage on this subject is by making it about himself. It's the same with 9/11. He knows he's supposed to acknowledge it, somberly pay tribute or whatever, & literally the only way he can is by inserting himself into it.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think that's true. I think he is very aware of crypto scams
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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/09/2026
Steinem long argued that men becoming equal, nurturing parents is a cornerstone of achieving true gender equality.
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Fathers Should Raise Children ‘As Much As Women’: Gloria Steinem's Chat With Hillary Clinton
Steinem long argued that men becoming equal, nurturing parents is a cornerstone of achieving true gender equality.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At the 2026 March on Washington DC. Crowds are no longer allowed to surround the reflecting pool as it has for over 60 years.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
As summer comes to a close, Omaha parents and school board officials are demanding the removal of electric shock gloves currently issued to the district's school resource officers.
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Cops love ICE's new shock gloves. Parents want them out of schools.
Omaha requested 40 pairs of the gloves for just under $66,000 in 2025.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can't imagine the agony of having to sit across from this human coffee grinder and pretend he's sane.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/08/2026
ok guess we're vegetarian now apple.news/Abw0IsAdxShe...
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Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants — The Washington Post
A deregulation plan for meat-packing goes from Glenn Beck’s mouth to Trump’s social media.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/08/2026
I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/08/2026
Can an average guy build a killer drone in his garage? That’s the question reporter Matt Smith set out to answer over the course of 11 months, armed with zero engineering background and only a handful of AI chatbots to guide him.
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AI helped me build a killer drone
I asked AI chatbots to help me build an autonomous attack drone. They said yes.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I can’t overstate how much the NDA thing has pissed off regular people. I even hear it at public hearings places where the local pols haven’t signed NDAs. What we are seeing is people workshop a new language about political obligation & corruption. “NDAs“ are shorthand and placeholder
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
everyone's (rightly) reacting in horror and disgust to the "beautiful little bodies" comment but i had a similar reaction to that perfectly lit deep-pile shag rug on his head
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Data centers create 1 permanent job per $17 million invested. Other industries create between 7-18 jobs per million dollars invested. So, eat shit, Alice.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More corruption. More self-dealing. More politicization of the DOJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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The Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s Back
Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cyclospora is about more than Americans getting sick. It’s about the cost of grift and broken institutions. And it raises questions about why DOJ, which has jurisdiction, doesn’t seem to be doing anything. joycevance.substack.com/p/bad-food?r...
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Bad Food
It’s not hard to follow the money
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Wren Walker @wrenwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"..companies such as Costco, Apple, and Delta Air Lines continued to defend or maintain key diversity initiatives.. The results show that the corporations that remained firm on their stance on DEI did not take a hit to their bottom line." #DEI www.blackenterprise.com/pro-dei-comp...
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Pro-DEI Companies Are Doing Just Fine According To New Study
New research finds S&P 500 companies that maintained DEI policies performed as well as — and sometimes better than — peers that pulled back.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The option of not running for the United States Senate was also readily available
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
she's a sitting US senator engaged in an active campaign. welcome to the big leagues, sweetheart.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 20/08/2026
Trump team's thinking seems to have been "Ossoff is could be a top-tier opponent, so we should undermine him quickly, even though that means introducing most people to him, which makes him a more formidable opponent," which is a little like watching Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride.
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