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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h
the actual realistic answer is rigorous NISPOM and DFARS clause 252.226-7003 enforcement the non-national security stuff is a political problem of dealing with a notional trillionaire generally, but the DoD stuff is pretty straightforward
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 9h
The message of this whole thing is that the continuing existence of Elon Musk is incompatible with human freedom, which we already knew.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 20h
Spent this past week in Mississippi. Of all the college mascots, Delta State University's Fighting Okra is the greatest mascot.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 14h
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 17h
i grew up in oklahoma, so i have some bias, obviously, but the national political amnesia about the oklahoma city bombing drives me batshit, and it’s (somewhat) bipartisan
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h
I’m not saying war is good. Just like… epistemically, it’s a relief when Donald says I DECLARE THE STRAITS OPEN AND THE RUSSIAN OIL UNEXPLODED and the straits remain closed and the oil exploded because it means reality still exists.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
so the final four are * a team that has never won the World Series in its 28 seasons * a team that has never won the World Series in its 57 seasons * a team that hasn’t won the World Series in 77 seasons * Dodgers
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Jeff McMahon @jeffmcmahon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Digger (’26, AGI): Preston Sturges in Sullivan’s Travels is all “People need to laugh.” and Inarritu is all “You dope. You utter moron.”
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this is happening at the same time that Stephen Miller and his wife are throwing decadent parties at the army base home. The optics are exactly what you think they are. I am sick to my stomach at what this country has become.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
THE SHAPE OF WATER @realgdt.bsky.social @actordougjones.bsky.social
The gill-man from The SHape of Water
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Voting in local elections including for school boards really matters. Kudos to progressives who run for election.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Probably shouldn't have destabilized the Middle East huh
nytimes.com
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes
The strike on Saturday was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February, and forced the airport to temporarily suspend operations.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10/10/2026
I cannot say definitively that we'll never develop artificial intelligence. I strongly doubt it, based on the limits of technology and our understanding of consciousness. But I can say absolutely that an LLM will never be conscious or feel pain. It's a glorified Magic Eight Ball. That's all.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you are not allowed to identify the secret policeman responsible for a crime, you must punish all secret policemen.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m in the horror movie I’m in the cautionary sci-fi tale I’m in the combination horror movie cautionary sci-fi tale
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Avasarala speech bubble
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 08/10/2026
A certain mega retailer's big sale ended yesterday? Great news. You can shop great deals and support your indie bookshop EVERY day with Libro audiobooks.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MTP post:

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The crazy thing about that THR editorial is they still ran it after he posted this
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Here's my hot take on the Cornell 7. The accuser is lying, can't get her story straight, and it's probably not legally or spiritually rape.
That's her accountability, however, what about the accountability of the men? What moron wants to do ketamine and have sex with a strange girl with other dudes? In what porn saturated universe did they reach the kind of dead dick where the only real excitement is to bypass the motivations of the girl to get to the arousal of being erect next to other men? More than the sex, they seemed more thrilled that each guy had his chance. When a man is more concerned with the pleasure of another man than the woman during sex, the woman is just a conduit to fucking each other.
The bisexual Cornell 7 may not have technically commited a crime, but they acted on dehumanizing impulses irrespective if she was willing or not. Standards? None. Moral character? None. Judgement? None. Before you accuse me of homophobia, obviously it's fine if they had just gone straight to butt play with each other, but they used a surrogate as an excuse and the surrogate flipped out. That's what you get. If these priveleged Gentlemen of Cornell lose their jobs or go to jail by mob frenzy, honestly, whatever. I have better people to worry about than frat bros who yearn to fuck each other but need a human sex doll to do it.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the biggest routine lies by the Trump admin is that if someone in detention gives up, they'll be immediately deported and can leave detention. That is just completely false.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
going from defending ukraine against russia’s unprovoked war of aggression to directly funding the russian war machine what an abject disgrace
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
it is deeply annoying to enjoy MMA as a combat sport while 95% of the fandom and the participants are the worst chuds imaginable
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/10/2026
the cuck american president: stop attacking russian oil the gigachad ukranian military: we will burn their refineries
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
sincerity is important here - when I see Gavin Newsom talk about how much Republicans suck, I don't think he actually believes it, I think he's playing a game will Ossoff do everything that needs to be done to impose consequences on these people? I don't know but I do believe he hates them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So many things wrong with this "deal," but also: it's not a "massive" amount. If we actually receive 1,800,000 tons of diesel from Russia, that's equivalent to: * 3.3 days of US consumption, or * 10 days of US *exports*. It's a drop in the bucket. We send more than that overseas every two weeks.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re speedrunning all the ways to be racist in America before they lose the midterms
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The PWHL Detroit team’s palette and design is so good. I hope it still looks this nice once they have a real name and logo
Announcement image of the PWHL Detroit team’s jerseys. Black with white, red, and gray stripes at the lower arms and legs (very classic, very retro). DETROIT in block letters diagonally across the chest in a more contemporary font.
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Alexa Lily @alexalily.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(rolling on the floor like a toddler having a tantrum) i need pwhl hockey back!! where are the girls!!
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Everything Hockey @ehclothing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The PWHL releases the jersey designs for its four new expansion teams. Which ones are we digging?
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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 08/10/2026
4 new teams. 4 new stories. 4 new jerseys. Be the first to know when jerseys are available by signing up for the official PWHL newsletter ✨ bit.ly/4j5Ftt9
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 08/10/2026
A school near Kyiv was hit today in a Russian strike. Another civilian facility caught in Russia’s deliberate terror on Ukraine. #Ukraine
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i would think the secretary of state might be a little more informed about possible corruption with the us ambassador to greece or at least a little curious
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