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K. T. Petty

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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 4h
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h
From J6 insurrection to Schmitt's humiliation, there is a straight line. The latter covered up the former to confuse understanding of Trump's treason. A THREAD.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h
"Trump officials have behaved like influencers and crooked investors, churning out self-promoting photos, books, and other products like little fascist Kardashians." Here @aselrod.bsky.social gets at how the unending quest for the dopamine high of online notoriety heavily drives MAGA-GOP politics:
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 11h
The logo for Pete Hegseth's new Project Meridian shows a sword that extends from one pole to the other. In order to be a Meridian, that sword would have to follow a line from one pole to the other ON THE SURFACE, and be uselessly bent. If this sword is an effective weapon it must be: an Axis Power.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
An analysis of voting equipment in Puerto Rico grew into a US federal effort spanning multiple agencies to find proof voting machines were manipulated to flip votes in the 2020 election, Reuters found. The probe ultimately found found no evidence votes were manipulated reut.rs/4hHBkcA
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Mike Peterson @csotd.bsky.social · 4h
A Series of Unfortunate Events, as seen through the pens of Clay Bennett, David Rowe, Deflocked, Jeff Stahler, Mike Luckovich, Nick Anderson, Schott & Sharon Murdoch www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
dailycartoonist.com
CSotD: Come to the Talent Roundup
Sometimes there a story so ridiculous that people say “The jokes write themselves.” But Eric Schmitt (R-Mo)’s questioning of Jack Smith was so breath-takingly asinine that he left very little for the ...
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James G @orth.ca · 21h
Dunno why this made me think of this:
A tweet from Dick Lover 30000 "I am the biggest dick lover of them all."
A reply from Dick Lover 30001 "Not so fast"
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Śmoj @chudoklates.bsky.social · 8h
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8h
Looking at their account, they are having fun with this, not serious.
X-Twitter post by Sashi @sashikantsingh_

Claude >> ChatGPT

[Comic sans simple graphic showing SWE-bench (score) on the vertical axis showing 91.50  - 91.70 in 0.05 increments

Hand drawn blocks in turquoise (small) and orange (big] show:
OpenAi symbol 91.5 (other models)
Anthropic symbol 91.7 (our revolutionary model) ]

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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 5h
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 7h
“… innovation becomes a substitute for strategic choice. The promise of future technological advantage creates the expectation that military effectiveness can be secured without confronting the costs of preparing for war in the present.” Interesting paper
militarystrategymagazine.com
Hammers and Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End - Military Strategy Magazine
This article argues that contemporary Western military innovation has become a strategic dead end. Tracing the evolution of military innovation from the Revolution in Military Affairs through counteri...
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 7h
I guarantee someone in the Trump adminsitration is considering nationalising part of Paramount to help out the Ellisons and secure an interest in CBS and CNN.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7h
Paramount picked a bad time to fund a $110bn leveraged buyout ft.trib.al/pVGG5p1 | opinion
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Paramount picked a bad time to fund a $110bn leveraged buyout
David Ellison’s media company sold $52bn in debt and got an investment-grade credit rating — albeit the lowest available
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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 5h
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 7h
Spiegel reports that Chinese counter-drone systems seem to be in use with Russian troops. That would be a significant step-up in Chinese military support for Russia’s war. www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...
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(S+) Ukrainekrieg: Setzt Russland jetzt auf Flugabwehr aus China?
Die Ukraine greift Russland mittlerweile monatlich mit über 17.000 Drohnen an. Dort könnte die Luftverteidigung knapp werden. Fernsehbilder deuten nun auf chinesische Waffen bei den Kremltruppen hin.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 7h
It’s as bad as you would expect it to be. time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10h
Latest piece out. There was some confusion about why the UK, France and the Baltics were not invited by the US to its NATO meeting. Its actually brutally simple and part of a US strategy of divide and rule towards European security. And it might work. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
phillipspobrien.substack.com
Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6h
Yes it's the Mail etc etc, but this does seem to add to the picture of someone who tends to exaggerate their past, even for things it's very distasteful to lie about .
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Polanski said family 'fled the Nazis', but they were born in Britain
As the leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski's heart-rending speech mentioning his ancestors' escape from the Holocaust drew applause. But his family tree has raised questions.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h
Grab drivers in Vietnam staged a two-day app boycott last month over commission rates. Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le reports on what happened, and what it reveals about the changing politics of platform work in Southeast Asia.
techpolicy.press
Vietnam’s Gig Workers Are Finding New Ways to Push Back
Growing public solidarity and new regulations across Southeast Asia are putting pressure on Vietnam to address platform work, reports Lam Le.
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Slate @slate.com · 6h
Trump’s mental state just got put on full display. It’s not pretty. slate.trib.al/VCHJRGO
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Is Trump All There? A New Interview Gives Us Five Serious Reasons to Wonder.
We just got an unfettered view into the mind of the world’s most powerful person. It’s alarming, to say the least.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h
At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.
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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 5h
Out now in @science.org with a related Perspective Loss of the tumor suppressor p53 generates a signaling gradient that drives epithelial clonal expansion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Loss of the tumor suppressor p53 generates a signaling gradient that drives epithelial clonal expansion
Although tumor protein p53 (TP53) mutations are among the most common lesions in epithelial cancers, how p53 loss drives unrestrained clonal expansion remains unclear. Working with mouse epidermis, we...
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CNN @cnn.com · 7h
Former president Obama doesn’t think what he’s seen so far regarding AI policy is anywhere near enough — for addressing the scale of the issue, and for dealing with the politics.
cnn.it
Exclusive: Barack Obama’s hidden hand shaping Democrats’ AI debate | CNN Politics
The former president is pushing 2028 Democratic hopefuls to develop specific plans for how to tackle AI — but some of them are wary of antagonizing the industry.
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Meta-Adbusting in der Londoner U-Bahn
Jeffrey Epstein mit Ray Ban Meta-Smartglasses und Denkblase „Finally, a pair that suits me...“
Caption: „GLASSES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO CONSENT“
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
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Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller - emptywheel
When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that...
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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 20h
This is an incredible bit of research and writing. Couldn’t put it down, and gasped a number of times. Of particular interest to me because my direct ancestors were among the flood of immigrants into south central Kentucky at the time of this spree. Wonder what they knew.
Book with red cover and white lettering, reads “Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution,” by Katherine Grandjean
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
Badass logo, broseph. What did you decide for the project motto, Pete? Did you have them translate 'BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL' into Latin?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8h
October 1, 2026
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October 1, 2026
John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h
Not great that Francis from Stripes is in charge of the military.
Secretary of War Pete H... • Follow ... X
No fatties.
No trannies.
No beardos.
No weirdoes.
No wimps.
No radicals — JUST WARRIORS.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h
Led by the guy who in a ketamine fused conversation with his son thought that the cybertruck looked like "the future". Participating is the other guy who's fantasy of subterranean warfare looks more like the Underminer from The Incredibles. Finally, the sage gray beard Contract on America dude.
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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 23h
Is it though? 🤔
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 22h
Late to posting this. Always read @kschake.bsky.social.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19h
Utility of carriers aside, it remains astounding that the United States doesn't have a carrier in the Indo-Pacific theater right now, and it's not because anything changed in the Indo-Pacific.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 18h
Read Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar on Iran’s new approach to the United States, which aims to make maintaining a U.S. presence in the Middle East “so painful that Washington has no choice but to withdraw most of its troops.”
foreignaffairs.com
Why Iran Escalates
Tehran’s strategy to drive America out of the Middle East.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But yeah. That Michael Steele was the commander of the brigade Pete Hegseth was attached to in Iraq.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 18h
I really hate all the childishly superficial but widely believed platitudes that emerged from this movie.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 18h
This definitely feels like a mis-step. Russian-language news etc had already been curtailed earlier this year. Why give people whose main language of communication is Russian more reason to seek out 'news' from Russian state channels?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16h
A deep dive into the Baltic states' extensive preparations for a Russian invasion, from @isaacstanbecker who tracks "the emergence of a new order, in which Ukraine matters as much to the security of Europe as the United States" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Baltic States Prepare for War
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16h
Trump's failed attempts to install loyalists so far. Virginia: Lindsey Halligan New York: John Sarcone New Jersey: Alina Habba Nevada: Sigal Chattah California: Bill Essayli His failed attempt to fire a qualified, lawfully court-appointed prosecutor. Washington: Roger Rogoff
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16h
Let's not lose sight about the big picture here. Courts keep telling Trump that he's defying the constitution—trying to end-run Congress and the judiciary—to keep his top prosecutors in half a dozen states. All to have loyalists decide who to criminally charge with what in a DOJ under his thumb.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 17h
Determined to go down in history as doubling down on major foolishness.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
I still can't get over how this dude looks like he's trying to sell me ketamine in a gas station restroom
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19h
Trump's problem was that he didn't brag enough. That was it
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Chris Conti @chriscontiphoto.bsky.social · 19h
Hey legal and finance Bluesky: I just got a court notice of a class action trial verdict against Elon Musk for manipulating the stock price of Twitter in 2022. If you sold shares (or bought puts or sold calls) from May-Oct 2022, you can get some of Elon Musk's money. Here are the docs.
Court-ordered class action lawsuit trial verdict notice informing individuals of a jury verdict against Elon Musk entitling individuals who sold Twitter stock (and/or bought put options or sold call options) during the period of May-October 2022 that they are entitled to monetary compensation due to the trial verdict finding that Musk illegally manipulated the stock price of Twitter.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h
Here's what the press release for the arrest of what appears to be the accused stalker of Katie Miller says about terrorizing people. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
“Today, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested John Proia for allegedly engaging in a sustained campaign of harassment to frighten this victim and her family, inflicting significant emotional distress,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Boston Division. “Terrorizing someone isn’t some sick game, it’s a crime, which is why the FBI and our partners take it so seriously as we work to protect and serve everyone in our communities.”
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