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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
JUST POSTED: In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to the Witkoff family and Kushner www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/10/2026
Texan politicians are using a variety of means, including AI bots, to control what can be taught, researched, and even discussed at its universities, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
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All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/10/2026
If you have been wondering why so many centrist dudes have been sneering and spitting at environmentalists on X for the past few weeks: ensuring that stuff like this doesn't face regulatory hurdles is a big part of why
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fuck this psycho
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/10/2026
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I voted first day of early voting in Illinois!
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can't even wrap my mind around how terrible this is! Wtf Brazil!?
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel ill
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To hack the states elections?
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agree
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want him to be president.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DOJ giving more attention right now to the NYT story about a former Scalia clerk and GWB appointee discussing his court overseeing the horrors the Trump administration has inflicted on Minnesota and the threats the judges faced for doing so is certainly a choice. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the 19 months since Trump took over the Kennedy Center, the institution has borrowed everything its bank would lend it, dipped into money donors had given on the condition it never be spent and written off pledges from supporters who stopped paying. wapo.st/4dg5MJj
wapo.st
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What's going on in the MN Senate race??
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A more general point: The owners of these models fiddle with them constantly to give the answers they want. This is why we need to distinguish among "AI" models and know who is manipulating them.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Hannah-Jones is right that most of the children in America who receive sub-par educations are black. And she clearly feels somewhat guilty about reversing herself for her daughter’s sake. But there's much more than racism going on with poor schools:
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Has the Wrong Answers on Schools
. . . but she’s asking the right questions.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 26/09/2026
AI agents playing out the George Carlin bit on businessmen: "Everybody knows by now, all businessmen are completely full of shit... the proof of it is, they don't even trust each other..."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN
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The Big Lie aka La Gran Mentira
This analysis exposes Donald Trump and his allies’ disinformation campaign around immigrants and voting.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This just keeps getting bigger.
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nevada officials say that DHS never provided them with a list of 15,903 individuals. Instead, they got a smaller batch of roughly 6,000, identified only by a voter case number. “DHS still has not provided any additional verifiable information for the individuals it suggests are noncitizens."
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the 6,218 individuals had “the highest number of matching attributes” to a potential noncitizen in their records, and that the smaller tranche of voters “was at the request of Nevada. They wanted to start with a subset less than the 15,903 registrants DHS originally identified.”

Nevada officials disputed that claim, and records reviewed by the Times did not show Nevada making that request.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A DoorDash driver did not pose a threat when we was shot in the back by ICE goons. They then refused to render aid and so a local police officer had to intervene and find the bullet hole. The bullet is still in his back after a day & they didn't give him medication for the pain. Sadistic monsters.
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You'll never be president
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wish for this!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 18/09/2026
NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...
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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination - The Stranger
This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This cannot be legal!!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That bitch voted for this
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It all has to come down. I will not vote for dems that act like any of this is ok and say we need to move on.
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So upsetting
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2151... The Final Battle for America’s Democracy Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how. By Michael Luttig
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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kn1129.bsky.social @kn1129.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Democrats need to stop working with Republicans. Nothing more infuriating than saying Republicans are out to destroy the country and then watching them work together. Fuck that.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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