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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump will not be held accountable for his illegal commercials. But it is still important that we recognize the commercials as illegal. There. Are. FOUR. Lights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes
While the president is unlikely to face any consequences for his patently illegal, taxpayer-funded ads, it’s essential to remember he should.
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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Least of these @leastofthese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mostly just reply to things on here because in general I don’t love my writing but just for grins I have some thoughts
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Least of these @leastofthese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow this is so accurate and succinct. I’d be tempted to say that we should also mention it’s more expensive to have a team of people investigating and giving context when they report, than just people regurgitating what buffoonish CEOs or political celebrities say, but really this really covers it
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And that brings us to present day. The most reliable way for a campus sexual assault story to make it into a newspaper is for the survivor to file a lawsuit against their school. And the two main vehicles survivors used to do that have been closed for years.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Really puts the NYT story claiming ICE officials heroically pulled third-country nationals off deportation planes to comply with the court order in perspective. ICE deported people to Haiti, Cuba, Ecuador yesterday. And put Somalis who'd been held at Gitmo on a plane to East Africa. What heroism!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/09/2026
maybe it's time our oligarchs learned to live within their means
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thomas is a vitally insightful and original voice. And he’s doing really important work. Consider supporting him today!
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My birthday is Weds. I'll be celebrating it entirely alone cause I'm disabled. This is also the anniversary of some pretty significant trauma in my life, so I ain't doing too good. If you would be so kind as to share my article, and, if possible, tip to help me with medical debt, I'd be grateful.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump supporters and their apologists are endlessly confused to see relationships they previously enjoyed end, but what other result could entail? The shame of knowing that about you—what you support, what you excuse. The shame of continuing to know you after. Many are unwilling to endure it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To me, this feels like an extension of DOGE. Big claims about fraud, using data-matching to drop people from coverage. Without actual data, or investigation, it is impossible to refute the claims, but such transparency is unlikely to be forthcoming.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They don’t care if you die if their friends make a few more dollars. I don’t know how we can get more people to care
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 19/09/2026
A secret report shows Florida property insurance companies claimed losses while shuffling billions of dollars into sister companies. After our reporter obtained the report, the state Senate demanded the Sun Sentinel destroy all copies of it or face legal civil or criminal “implications.”
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How Florida fights to hide insurers’ finances
A secret report shows Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy the report or face legal action.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
My thoughts on the "AI slow down" are ~ the same as my thoughts on the "AI pause", back in 2023/2024 👇🏾: All they want is time to capture & shift the regulatory & paradigmatic frames away from their rapaciousness, & to skate on the money they owe for promises they absolutely will not be able to keep
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Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

@Wolven

…You know they just want time to play catch up and plan for regulatory capture in secret, right? https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1641136990753103872

3/30/2023, 1:05:36 PM Screenshot of an archived twitter post:
 Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

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…Y'all i am so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction.

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction.

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.Screenshot of a question and answer from Time Magazine:
Questioner:
How can we untangle all of this?

Damien P. Williams:
One problem I have with the “AI Pause” some have suggested is that it does not look back. So many people have said, “Okay, let’s not build anything stronger than GPT-4 right now because we don’t know what it will do and it seems like it might get out of hand very quickly.” But none of that is about disentangling the current problems in those systems. If a pause were to happen, it would need to be to reassess what prejudices and inequalities are already baked into the systems we’re using now. If we don’t or can’t stop and fix these problems, we may have to untangle them by junking the current systems and starting anew. Either way, the process must be both thorough, and fast. Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This

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Remember: the vast majority of these signers not only anti-care about "a.i." oversight & policy, they also only care about "existential risk" as a means to get you believing their hype & Never in any sense of "exacerbated capitalism left unchecked is driving us all to extinction"
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One useful thing this past decade has done is clarify fully for organizers whether someone is politically reachable or not. Folks who still sympathize with this regime have made a very conscious moral choice to embrace a politics of death. We are not obliged to spend time on them.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trans people are trying to survive and when they correctly point out that there are Dems who are on the wrong side doing harm, you call them a cult. From the bottom of my cis white midwestern Dem heart; go fuck yourself neighbor. There’s no tent of any kind that fits slander like this.

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ever since @eleanor.lockhart.contact pointed out to me that a lot of online trans discourse has the dynamics of a high-control group, I can't stop seeing it. "you can only trust your brothers and sisters in the group" is a tried-and-true social control mechanism
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They don't need to persuade you, they need you to recognize their right to exist. You either recognize people's rights to exist or you don't.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
We break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm, and what it means for public trust in the nation’s highest court. Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzyx...
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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. These “shadow docket” decisions have let the Trump…
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our Dem leadership needs to be ready to punish with the fury of a 1,000 white hot suns. You got the stomach to do what needs to be done @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social? And if not then step the fuck aside. We can't continue on like this
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Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gary Stevenson has been talking about this. As long as the billionaires and near billionaires can continue to acquire wealth via purchasing assets (businesses, housing, land, stocks, etc) they're going to continue. Trump enables due to less buying power of lower and middle class due to rising costs.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/09/2026
I'm thinking about the thousands of Yemeni children killed by the illegal cluster weapons we spent the 2010s giving to the Saudis, who WERE involved in 9/11.
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If Mandy Patinkin Was a HORRORSE @stonecutter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kansas Football’s hype video for the Mizzou game features John Brown.
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Kansas Football on Instagram: "It is that deep."
3,504 likes, 40 comments - kufootball on September 10, 2026: "It is that deep.".
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
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Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
fuck you, love yourself
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Original Cat Dude @jon639.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ugghh, eat american meat at your own peril... 👉 China rejected shipping containers from Uruguay after finding residue of an anti-parasitic drug in the meat, rejected beef from Argentina...it tested positive for banned antibiotic that causes serious blood disorders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Excess primary healthcare consultations in Norway in 2024 compared to pre-COVID-19-pandemic baseline trends - Archives of Public Health
Background The risk of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is estimated at 3–6% per infection in 2024. We hypothesized that widespread SARS-CoV-2 infections could lead to population-level consequen...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm about to go on with @joyannreid.bsky.social with @cristianfarias.com to talk about his excellent article about Nolan Wells. I linked it here in my newsletter. Also, my newsletter is out and I was very mean to the Dems who voted for House resoultions. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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A New Theory of John Roberts’s Jurisprudence
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent explains why he thinks Roberts rules the way he does. Plus: Elie mourns the end of summer—and the world.
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Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a memory of when corporations would do shitty things and try to put some kind of positive spin on it in their press releases, but Sony is actually just "we are taking away physical media, there will be no benefit to you, you own nothing, prices will not go down, we will rule in the ruins"
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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