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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
Big deal for Anduril, funnily enough shortly after CEO Palmer Luckey joined Hegseth’s new weapons group.
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Anduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after CEO joins Pentagon weapons group
Defense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push
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Nature @nature.com · 12h
As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces, says Joy Buolamwini go.nature.com/3UaLDOr
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Why smart glasses are about to create a major privacy crisis
As AI wearables become discreet, cheap and mainstream, they risk normalizing non-consensual recording in everyday spaces.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h
🔴 SANCTIONS EVASION EXPOSED Sanctioned tankers carried over 176,000 tons of fuel from South Korea to Russian ports in July and August. united24media.com/world/south-...
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South Korea Shipped 176,000 Tons of Fuel to Russia as Sanctioned Tankers Hid Their Destinations
South Korea shipped over 176,000 tons of fuel to Russia in July-August, including sanctioned tankers hiding destinations, as Ukraine strikes hit refineries.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine choosing to be this vile and doing it day after day. Megyn Kelly is toxic waste.
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
back in the day you had a sex dream about jesus you just wrote your bestie at another nunnery or monastery about it
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m willing to forgive people who do stupid shit because I have done stupid shit and will no doubt do more stupid shit in the future. However, that does not mean I am owed an apology by the people impacted by the stupid shit I did.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meta’s Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life gizmodo.com/metas-muse-i...
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Meta's Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life
Meta’s AI agent creates profiles of people in users’ lives even if they don’t use Muse.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/a...
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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is Matt suggesting we should only have independently wealthy social workers and teaching aides? Matt is what happens when affluent background and elite education and privilege/connections meets the contradictions and cognitive dissonance of class and material reality. It blows smoke up its own ass.
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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How are Witkoff and Kushner's peace efforts going? “Peace is further away than it was a year ago,” said a source close to the Kremlin. “And the occasional trip by Witkoff and Kushner isn’t going to change that.” My latest. puck.news/what-does-th...
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Steve Witkoff’s Ninth Circle
As the war in Ukraine grows even more hellish, Witkoff has been locked in never-ending diplomatic purgatory with Putin’s apparatchiks—which is starting to drive the Russians crazy, too. “He is a very ...
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But corrupt business deals with Russia are a lot closer. That’s the real mission here. Peace talks theatre, of course, is a pretext and cover for Trump crony self-dealing and corruption that aligns the Trump government’s interests with Ukrainian capitulation and/or defeat and collapse.
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Skylar Jones @skylarettajones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@meidastouch.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social This is so powerful from James Talarico. This man doesn't need to have memes of himself dressed up like Jesus, he has him in his heart. youtube.com/shorts/WJ02N...
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James Talarico: “show me how you treat other people, and I will tell you what you believe.”
YouTube video by James Talarico
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
VF editorial director Mark Guiducci’s comment that holding powerful people accountable isn’t “the project of journalism” makes a lot more sense now!
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I guess their true mission (what gets them up in the morning) is to find the richest, most powerful business people in the world and blow smoke up their ass.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Within weeks,the USA is expected to receive its 1st shipment of Belarusian potash in 4yrs following the easing of U.S.sanctions The Belarusian Potash Company loaded 30,000tonnes of granular muriate of potash on to a Marshall Islands-owned ship at Russia’s Bronka port in St Petersburg on September 15
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty much
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/10/2026
wint @dril
Hello Sam this is your lawer speaking.
I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What the fucking fuck is this
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 04/10/2026
If you're still on X, this is what you endorse.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Arrest them?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So wait why can’t a President forgive student loan debt?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is planning to host a third gala for the top investors of his $TRUMP crypto coin. He and his family have raked in $2.2 billion from their crypto ventures, while their investors have lost almost the same amount. They’ll fleece anyone they can — even their own supporters.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need more of this
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump could nominate the worst person with a law degree in America and this Republican senate will confirm that person. That includes Susan Collins, who always confirms Trump’s justices. The only chance you have to keep that person off the court is to elect Democratic senators.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Does Trump have a Laura Loomer problem? I’m sure NYT or The Atlantic or NY Magazine will have an article about this any day now.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One month ago
Reuters headline: Trump ally Laura Loomer faces fresh criticism over racist comments
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"God himself could not sink this ship." —David Ellison
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LOL oops
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TikTokers are doing an “I am Spartacus!”deal with this. Buncha young women outing themselves as Jane Doe. At least some of the kids are alright.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I remember the day that I found out Jamal had been killed, it was the closest I had come to experiencing evil, that the human capacity for evil was real.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is something that NYT, The Atlantic, CNN and all “liberal media” journalists and editors need to read urgently and closely to help them to understand and reframe the “polarization problem” that they currently handle so clumsily and inadequately with such devastating consequences.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Polarization is Not the Problem" by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social is deservedly getting attention, and a line from it applies here: Telling "everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'... benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're a society plagued by bad faith and widespread indulgence of it. Say "free speech" while unsubtly meaning "I say whatever I want, you have to listen, and you can't say anything I don't like back." Voila, a Free Speech Crisis! Here, anti-civility groups say "civility." And the money flows in.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
on the one hand, no child deserves to be raised with Elon Musk as a father. But on the other hand, no child deserves to be raised by someone who thought Elon Musk would be a good father as their mother.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thinking about how being a billionaire is a form of cognitive impairment. All your furniture weighs two tons and all your Dear John letters read like this.
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lbloom.bsky.social @lbloom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This might be one of the saddest and most pathetic things I have ever read.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 02/10/2026
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns (Toby Sterling/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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