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Radical Pragmatist. No kings.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the US"
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Engineering at the tactical edge is a skill most engineers never learn in school. And in a Pacific fight, help from home is an ocean away. warontherocks.com/2026/10/macg...
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MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation
During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day. In the scenario, adversary covert
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whoever owns the imma put this motherfucker in prison lane is gonna win the next election
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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Slate @slate.com · 02/10/2026
Trump’s mental state just got put on full display. It’s not pretty. slate.trib.al/VCHJRGO
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Is Trump All There? A New Interview Gives Us Five Serious Reasons to Wonder.
We just got an unfettered view into the mind of the world’s most powerful person. It’s alarming, to say the least.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Ukrainian sizzle reel showing a turtle tank attack under heavy bomber drone support is important in the context of America's Pentagon chief rambling about "fatties, trannies, beardos and weirdos." While he's doing that, combat is *fundamentally changing* and it's not clear we're keeping up.
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CODE 9.2 | ТАНКИ + ДРОНИ | Тандем
YouTube video by CODE 9.2
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tell me Palmer Luckey is an enormous douchebag without telling me Palmer Luckey is an enormous douchebag.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The more they run into hurdles they fail to overcome, the more frustration mounts, the more attractive it becomes to the regime to focus on areas where their desire to dominate, plunder, and punish is more easily put into practice.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The least interesting people in history are forcing us i into a bleak monoculture
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A federal judge in Oregon ruled that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is a win for every Oregonian who's ever been hit with a hidden fee or a loan that wasn't what they were promised.
AG Rayfield wins court order keeping Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fundedAG Rayfield is celebrating a ruling by a federal judge in Oregon keeping the CFPB funded. The CFPB is the federal agency that looks out for people in their dealings with banks, lenders, credit card companies, and debt collectors - and it has returned more than $21 billion to consumers. The judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried to shut down the CFPB by refusing to ask for the money it needs to operate. AG Rayfield led the multi-state lawsuit.“Protecting the wallets of working families, seniors, and small businesses should be a bipartisan priority. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau does critical work to protect consumers from financial tricks and traps, putting billions back in the pockets of people who’ve been harmed. This ruling is a win for every Oregonian who's ever been hit with a hidden fee or a loan that wasn't what they were promised.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm absolutely losing it. Everything in here is made up (we hired an actor, rented a car, did not use AI, obviously), but he just invents a whole-ass world. Boner pills are a helluva drug.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LOL "trumped"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
Why not just cut to the chase and give the weapons directly to Iran? thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Trump floated US weapons sales to Xi, ambassador says
U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Sunday that President Trump proposed selling weapons to China during recent meetings with the country’s president Xi Jinping. “President Trump continues t…
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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty clear that the Trump admin is really relying on this new strategy to attack more communities while getting less public backlash than before
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People who fall for crap like this are the reason silica gel packets say "DO NOT EAT."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over the wedding party controversy: Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over wedding party controversy
Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump basically can't hold a substantive one-on-one meeting anymore. www.ft.com/content/cdff...
The US president appeared to shorten the meeting to make time to show Xi around the White House, including a tour of his Marine One helicopter and helipad. He also pointed out his new ballroom, which was not finished on time to host the dinner.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brewing constitutional crisis.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a lawless gangster government that murders people routinely and nobody knows who they are, what they were doing, or whether they actually committed any crime. The US military is now a Star Chamber with Hegseth as judge, jury and executioner.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The random civilian who illegally stole everyone's data & dismantled large chunks of the federal government, in an end run around Article I of the Constitution, should be jailed for life & not have large govt contracts, the ability to contribute to political campaigns, or stakes in large media orgs.
Rockwell FoS
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Crown prince Bone Saw paid big money for a helpful Trump family. He thinks he was betrayed. And he's absolutely right about that. www.ft.com/content/9945...
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‘MBS will not forget’: Donald Trump’s reluctance to fight Houthis rattles Saudi Arabia
US hesitation has amplified doubts in Riyadh about Washington’s reliability as its prime defence partner
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would add that we've also learned (almost) nothing about language from LLMs either.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Trump has proposed building a new fleet, with battleships at its core…But his plan would have been outdated a century ago. Unless senior Navy officials steer him off his course, the nation will spend billions to make the Navy more vulnerable and less deadly.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | Building ‘Trump Class’ Battleships Will Be a Big, Expensive Mistake
The United States needs a bigger Navy. But not one that looks like this.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What has always made America great is that we don't need stockpiles of snipers and drones hidden in all the tourist attractions.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let’s please elect adults and not stunted children who are afraid of their abusive father.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Cassandra, Prophet of Doom, by Stinking Lizaveta
8 track album
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the patriots are at home this week and unrelated but did you know you can write stuff on a beach ball and if its deflated you can put it right in your shirt and no one will know until you bring it out to inflate it?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's $4.1 million per DAY he's been making since the election. And remember, he isn't even allowed to have another job while he's president. This is pure corruption. Trump is the most successful white-collar criminal to ever live.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyway "this is good" versus "this is bad" is by far the most reductive--and useless--frame for this debate.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That said the stochastic parrot argument is hopelessly out of date and the anthropomorphic metaphor seems pretty much inevitable at this point. Effective resistance will acknowledge that.
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Walker @loki47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Funny "there's nothing to see here you dolts" is pretty much his canned response to every other issue.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music
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