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Lauren Milicov

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WIRED @wired.com · 1h
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 58m
It's helpful when they make their loyalty signal so obvious you can immediately spot the bootlickers.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/10/2026
“The problem with AI is that the same AI that knows biology so well that it could invent a new medicine or a new cancer drug can't be separated from the AI that knows how to make new pathogens,” says Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Jon Ossoff is the most gifted political rhetorician in Washington today. Nobody else even comes close.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING: We sued Trump for raiding $20M of your money, some meant to honor fallen officers, for his midterm ads He says "his" super PAC will cover the tab now. And the millions you already paid? @democracydefendersaction.org & Hecker Fink rep @wisdems.org & a D candidate👇
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1h
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2h
It’s simple to figure out at this point, he’s a Russian asset. Thank you for your attention to this treason.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10h
Investigate this Horror now☠️
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 7h
This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
Note the Trump position: Ukraine must stop bombing refineries and pipelines, even though they are legitimate military targets (suggested, as it turns out, by the US). But Russia is perfectly free to bomb apartment buildings, hospitals, churches and libraries, because that's what "real warriors" do.
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Jeff Cohen @jeffcdirectaction.bsky.social · 2h
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h
every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9h
“A familiar feature of fascism is the transformation of politics into spectacle. Fascism wants to reduce active citizens into voyeurs—especially voyeurs of cruelty and death. Such degradation of a democratic public is key to fascism’s project and to its success.” www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wa...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11h
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h
I like it and I'd like more of it
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h
Jon Ossoff to Mike Collins: “You’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.”
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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alliance at risk of becoming collateral as Washington ties defense to Seoul’s investment $350B package; The longstanding separation of security issues and trade discussions is breaking down with U.S. President Donald Trump's transactional approach. www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/allian...
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Alliance at risk of becoming collateral as Washington ties defense to Seoul’s investment $350B package
The longstanding separation of security issues and trade discussions is breaking down with U.S. President Donald Trump's transactional approach.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 09/10/2026
Horrified by reports of ICE ordering agents in California to “Go after anybody.” They’re not after just anybody. They will continue their assault on immigrants and U.S. citizens with no criminal history because they have gotten away with it before. ICE should be abolished.
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ICE launches California immigration crackdown. Newsom calls it ‘campaign of fear’
Dubbed internally as “Operation Safe California,” the Examiner reported, the 45-day enforcement began several days ago in the San Diego area.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23h
Feels to me like the U.S. government livestreaming the shooting death of a guy in a wheelchair is going to be in all the history books, and hopefully framed as the end of an era that was very bad, and not the start of an era that was much, much worse
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
The U.S. re-joins an exclusive club
Screenshot of a list citing human rights organizations such as Amnesty International identifying four countries that have recently or historically carried out public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. The text describes public hangings in Iran, executions under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, reported public executions in North Korea, and Saudi Arabia’s historical use of public beheadings.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guilfoyle specialized in abusing the staff around her. "'Guilfoyle was drinking at four in the morning, she called her security detail, Vasili, a grandfather, who was sleeping obviously, and did not respond. Next day, she demoted him.' Her alleged early morning request? To fetch more ice cubes."
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Kimberly Guilfoyle's Greek party life investigated by State Department
The State Department is officially investigating complaints into Kimberly Guilfoyle's allegedly 'tyrannical' leadership and lavish perks at the US Embassy in Athens, the Daily Mail can reveal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Get these mutts away from me You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Murder porn for the masses, brought to you by this militantly Christian administration.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do they not see the concrete rubble of Gaza and its missing citizens and feel shame? Do they not see the black irony of Israel committing the same war crimes, pogroms etc normally attributed to anti Jewish movements in history?
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING via Punchbowl The Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about President Donald Trump's actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another one. And many, many more. Trump Jr, Eric, General Michael Flynn and Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall are all Republika Srbska regulars and the US media still hasn't picked up on it. How do I know? Just talk to some journalists in Sarajevo, you can learn a lot. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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Photo shows top Trump aide's daughter with pro-Russia politician in Bosnia
Katie Wiles is a partner at the political lobbying firm Continental Strategy. A spokesperson for the firm acknowledged to CBS News that Wiles had taken the trip to Republika Srpska but on business for...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How a top aide in the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem censored reports of settler violence against Palestinians and quashed memos critical of Netanyahu bound for Washington. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“As much as $5 million in SpaceX two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding US commercial space transportation.”
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