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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 4h

So much fuckery going on mixed with distractions and Donny delusions. Chaos is easy.

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 17h

They chewed off the trees the same way they chewed off the east wing.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

But the bigger thing is that retailers and the companies providing the agents (Meta, OpenAI, Instinct) are going to strike deals and create protocols. This means preferential treatment, negotiating limits to prices and discounts) these contracts will rarely be visible to consumers.

Van Loo said that the bigger AI companies will eventually find ways to strike deals with platforms via these protocols, negotiating access, commissions, and partnerships in ways that benefit the companies, not necessarily the consumers. This could result in a sort of preferential treatment like the deals already in place between Meta and Walmart, Sephora, and other retailers, which will effectively cause Muse to prioritize their products. Taking another approach, Amazon has blocked Muse and encourages visitors to browse with its own agent, “Alexa for Shopping,” meaning the company is basically negotiating on both sides of the deal. Meanwhile, this week, JPMorgan announced that it would not allow Instinct, Muse, or other agents into customer accounts. Ultimately, this might all lead to “the same old heavily obstructed, inefficient world we have now,” Van Loo said. “But it will look far more efficient, because it will save some people time and feel much more convenient.” Very powerful companies will design new structures for markets and the internet, determining what can be sold, by whom, and for how much—as they always have.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

While seemingly just symbolic politics, it also is an attempt by the BSW leadership to justify a future (formal or informal) coalition with the AfD.

dw.com

Germany's far-right AfD forges a pro-Russia alliance with the BSW

In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD and BSW are joining forces to push for negotiations with Moscow. What is driving this rapprochement?

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"...a bunch of vultures are buzzing around the vacuum of a policy process trying to make bank, trying to take out rivals in public and private." Of note: "Zampolli knows the secret that Melania and Donald are hiding about Epstein..."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A name to remember and never trust.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When there's record corporate profits and zero real wage growth, that's the GOP and their biggest donors pitching a perfect game.

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

For decades Republicans and conservative think tanks pushed for catastrophic/high deductible plans arguing insurance shouldn't pay for routine care & high deductibles would discourage use of "unnecessary" care. Now it's turned on its head: if you're healthy & don't get care it must always be fraud.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14/10/2026

Missouri Amendment 3 would permanently ban both transgender youth healthcare and abortion—but there’s little focus on the former. @assignedmedia.org followed canvassers persuading people to vote no with a playbook developed during the marriage equality fight. Honored to publish on @autonomynews.co

autonomynews.co

The Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives—and These LGBTQ+ Canvassers

Amendment 3 would ban both transgender youth healthcare and abortion, but there’s little focus on the former.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/10/2026

Scoop: "More than half of the top holders listed as competing for seats at President Trump's next meme coin dinner have used cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers" @gabekaminsky.bsky.social, Madeline May,Steve Reilly for @cbsnews.com

cbsnews.com

Top bidders to attend Trump meme coin dinner appear to be based in foreign countries

At least 52 $TRUMP holders moved funds through crypto exchanges that bar U.S. customers.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This framing is wild because somehow, the people who pushed the lie get passive-voiced away into a generalized “mistrust”, the Democrats get named as the ones who need to learn their lesson from this, and then we move on to a broader framing for the Republicans who are described as simply “worried”.

The furor over Mr. Talarico's absence was extraordinary on several levels. It showed how mistrust of politicians and the mainstream news media, combined with online algorithms that incentivize outrageous theories, has created a Wild West of misinformation. It offered a lesson for Democrats: In such an era, it is politically risky for a candidate, even one too ill to campaign, to disappear for nine days.
And it showed how worried Texas Republicans are about Mr. Paxton's prospects as Mr. Talarico continues to poll ahead of him, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in G.O.P. advertising. No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas in more than three decades.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The distance between illegal government raids against opposition party members and planting evidence against them is about a centimeter

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“A handful of executives and officials are making high-stakes decisions” about AI “in backroom meetings and without any form of political accountability,” writes Mackenzie Austin, tech counsel in the AI for Democracy Action Lab at Protect Democracy. The window to change that “is closing quickly.”

techpolicy.press

AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room

Companies have an opportunity to make good on their stated commitment to democratic AI governance, Mackenzie Austin.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The thing about Trump promising a Melania immigration press conference that never happened is the press has had ten years to dig into her enormously sketchy past but that's pretty obviously a road no corporate media wants to go down too far.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In a story on political violence (where they depict the targets as equally democratic and republican), the @nytimes.com gives a sympathetic ear to a member of Congress who was part of January 6.

Representative Derrick Van Orden, a Republican from Wisconsin seeking re-election next month, attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in support of President Trump’s false claim that he had won the 2020 election. Mr. Van Orden was outside the U.S. Capitol that day when a mob attacked it, though he has denied entering the building. He was elected to Congress in 2022

That’s when the threats began.

“I was a Navy SEAL for over 22 years,” Mr. Van Orden said in an interview with The Times. “I hunted terrorists around the world a lot and was very successful at that. Never had a single threat to my family. Ever.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So many things wrong with this "deal," but also: it's not a "massive" amount. If we actually receive 1,800,000 tons of diesel from Russia, that's equivalent to: * 3.3 days of US consumption, or * 10 days of US *exports*. It's a drop in the bucket. We send more than that overseas every two weeks.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Beyond this thread, it should be noted that the Supreme Court did vacate the Ninth Circuit's order here — www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?... — and Arizona proceeded to carry out one of the most horrifyingly botched executions in the modern era of executions. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimd...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Note the timing: Immediately after the election this “hearing” by a politically appointed committee will be held. Trump will then attempt to fire Governor Cook and have her “replacement” confirmed by the lame duck Sentae. This is an illegal ruse to outrun the courts when they reject the replacement.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

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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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

variety.com

David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It says something about the current media environment that trumpCo distractions don't need to generate *anything* positive.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 09/10/2026

Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇

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Eric Carbone @ericcarbone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't forget, the judge called it spot on when he sentenced her: "I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You’re as defiant a defendant as this court has ever seen." baptistnews.com/article/judg...

baptistnews.com

Judge calls Tina Peters ‘charlatan,' sentences her to nine years for election crimes

She was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of seven crimes, including four felonies, in an August trial.

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People are going to be shocked when the extent of deliberate destruction is assessed.

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just as with Donny's cultists the worst thing that can happen to them is to hear what he says about them in private.

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Collins deserves the boot for many reasons.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NYT AG Sulzberger nepo baby's "The Daily is a way for these conservative talking points to be laundered out to a mainstream elite center left audience and is part of the larger conservative influence machine." bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're going to sport this scab for a long time.

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I got a rock 👻 🎃 @leighann-c.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's true. Public access was the original video podcast.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump Mobile customers had their personal data leaked by the ransomware gang BYOD. The dump includes names, emails, phone numbers, home addresses, etc. The gang says the company responded to news of the breach with, “We have no team to handle this.” san.com/cc/trump-mob...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.

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