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Klobuchar: "You got this guy who clearly thinks he's got this gotcha moment. And I am sitting there listening because I was the next one up, and starting to think to myself, it's not really major sleuth here, 'I just don't think Jack Smith would lie under oath that he hadn't been at the game.'"

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 14h

Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Truth is he knows if he gives up this job, he wouldn't see Natalie every day. So he hangs on for dear life.

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can't quibble with the polls. They are what they are. But I'm a believer in the horseshoe. And in a runoff of final two, there's more people going to the commie than to Le Pen. I could be wrong but I feel that in my bones.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If AOC announced today she's running, she would get more profiles. People act like outlets love Rahm. He announced. Profile writers need work. That's what happening. I'm sure ppl are even happier to profile Ossoff if he announced and allow profiles based on that

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

that's the thing about getting into ivy league. i couldn't cut it, but it looks like the admission office let in rapists. maybe i'm OK.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

Talarico: “Ken Paxton has been dodging debates all year, and it’s why today I’m challenging Ken Paxton to a debate on Fox News … I’ll go into the lion’s den because I know what I believe.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

BLUNT ROCHESTER: Trump says vaccines the size of soda bottles are poured into a child's body. Is that true? OVERTON: ... BR: What would you say? OVERTON: The products licensed by the FDA are safe and effective BR: And they're not the size of a soda bottle either

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

7.37% mortgage rates

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Subtle. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.

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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

Trump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's face

Trump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my only thought is this will help the AI guys. when doves wanna say, "oh well China doesn't want AI to destroy humanity". I think China wants absolute power to dominate.

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Would be poetic if Ukrainian drones is what kills Putins power and shady money.

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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICE is erasing immigrants with final deportation orders from a searchable online database, leaving families and attorneys in the dark as they try to find out where someone has been taken. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When it hurts your wallet, you *can* get political!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.‘s wedding in the Bahamas? Where he received, apparently, a cash gift from a Russian oligarch connected to the Kremlin? This man, Kremlev, was apparently in China with Putin two days before he flew to the Bahamas for Don Jr.’s wedding…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

making sure we have at least 50 senators on January 20th 2029 who are willing to expand the Supreme Court is basically the whole ballgame for democracy

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

who can be bothered to watch axios? is this because al-Qaeda is not around anymore? 😂 so many organizations conduct more terrorism than a non-existent one.

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leftofcenterus.bsky.social @leftofcenterus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

honestly one of the dumbest people in government after Trump

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026

Nailed it as always, sir

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion column by Peter Navarro, published March 12, 2026, headlined “Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices,” with the subheadline: “The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas—and everything else.”

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