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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2026
Note: That is not, in fact, what socialism is. However, this may be one of the more revealing political moments of the past decade: a leading politician openly acknowledging efforts to redefine a political term based on contemporary political rhetoric, as opposed to its original/historic meaning.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The close the loop: The judge extended the TRO until Tuesday, when he expects to rule on the PI. (Just a logistical thing.) He seemed to reiterate that he's bound be precedent in the circuit.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/10/2026
Reporter: “Do you see any reason to suspect that what we're seeing now might be the accidental release of an intentionally modified strain of the plague?” Rubio: “I think it's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world…We're watching it very closely.”
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kagan cites tobacco and opioid cases and asks why this isn't like that? "I'm waiting to see the distinction." "This is the same kind of lawsuit against the same kind of actors for the same kind of harm." She gives the A the lawyer failed to give: it's "about air and water." She doesn't buy it.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody, anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife. But she's very good…She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "Everyone thinks that the prices are high because of me, but they're not"
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Asked if he’d ever promote a sports betting company, Wemby said, “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it, in my opinion to this. Everybody does whatever they wanna do, without me.” I’m in love with the last sentence.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026
like many of the worst aspects of academia, frats are a symbol of exclusion, hierarchy, and arbitrary domination. theyre unamerican, theyre dangerous, and they should be banned.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026
just ban frats. everyone knows that’s the answer and no one seriously denies what frats are actually for, just as no one seriously denies that playing football can lead to CTE.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 28/09/2026
AI hits same concentration level that resulted in the bursting of previous bubbles, including the Dot Com 🚨 🚨
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
you could say this verbatim about silicon valley. and honestly, if you are a democratic politician reading this, you should!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/09/2026
🚨Every member of Imran Khan’s immediate family has now been arrested, according to reporting by Drop Site contributor Areeba Fatima (X: @AreebaFatimaa)

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BREAKING: After Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and all of their children have also been arrested. Every member of Imran Khan’s immediate family in Pakistan has been arrested and are being taken to an unknown location according to party sources.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
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Barchart @barchart.com · 15/09/2026
JUST IN 🚨: U.S. 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps to 7.22%, the highest level since January 2025 📈 🏡
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“.. The cost of hiring an oil tanker on the industry’s benchmark trade (Middle East to the Far East) route has topped $1 million a day for the first time -- a year ago, it was less than $100,000 a day.” - @javierblas.bsky.social
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Mapped: The Fastest-Growing Job in Every U.S. State Through 2034" www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-f... The United States of Healthcare:
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marquezrick.bsky.social @marquezrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol... "Fetterman keeps a light daily schedule, often refusing to meet with constituents and fellow lawmakers, or canceling at the last minute, records and interviews show." 1 of 100 Senators. What a waste.
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Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CHICAGO (AP) - US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average as the Iran war disrupts the flow of fuel worldwide. @apnews.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Page One. @wsj.com $GLD
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
IRAN'S IRGC SAYS IT TARGETED A U.S. BASE IN JORDAN WITH BALLISTIC MISSILES AND 'KILLED A LARGE NUMBER OF U.S. FORCES' IN THE ATTACK, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT, WITH NO JORDANIAN CONFIRMATION OR IMMEDIATE U.S. REACTION
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Iran will respond to US attacks with a response 'several times larger and US bases and interests in the region will be targeted - Tasnim cites senior Iranian Military Source.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PIKER: "If Democratic pundits defended the working class as hard as they defend Israel, a Republican would never get elected again." @hasandpiker reacts to @vanjones68's latest embarrassing defense of Israel's genocide, attacking @abdulelsayed as "insane" for wanting to stop sending them weapons.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Narrator: Zero chance we are telling China that.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
counterpoint: do you know how many tall muscular black men have been asked if they play pro football or basketball and could easily say "why yes I do"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Doug Ford: "Jobs number went down in the US last month while Ontario gained 52,000 jobs, more than the entire US combined ... I feel terrible for the people in the US"
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Staying on economic data, two misses in US economic activity numbers today: July new home sales fell as elevated mortgage rates weighed on demand, an issue that has been gaining significant economic and political traction. ... 1 of 2
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.
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Yahoo Finance @yahoofinance.com · 20/08/2026
Used car prices have shifted dramatically since 2019. Inventory under $20K has plummeted to under a third of the market, while vehicles priced over $30K have more than doubled.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We are currently awaiting two Trump-related decisions from the Supreme Court via the shadow docket: -whether he can continue building his ballroom. -whether he can move forward with a plan to assert control over mail-in ballots in the midterms. Both could come at any time.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Too bad we can't have nice things.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🎵 “We want your pee… Let’s pee on computers together…” 🎵 Jason Kelce just solved the A.I. Data Center water wasting/cooling problem 🔥 😂 #NoMoreDataCenters
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the best part of all of this is that Ossoff just opened the door. He never said anything beyond "travel with Natalie." They're the ones who wandered in like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff calls Trump "the draft-dodging crook president"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Escalation trap.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Marandi: Trump’s signature means nothing. I think there’s a lot of skepticism, and there’s a lot of talk right now that Iran will just have to wait until Trump’s presidency is over. So, this conflict could hypothetically go on for well over two more years.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
".. deployed for more than 250 days and it has not made a port call in 200 days, setting a record for consecutive days at sea .." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Exclusive | U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain
USS George Washington is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 250 days.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/08/2026
"The internet represents hegemonic views. It does not represent [everybody] in the world." AI researcher Timnit Gebru untangles the deceptive nature of large language models like Chat-GPT, and explains how so-called "superintelligence" entrenches societal biases and inequality.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🇺🇸 TRADERS NO LONGER FULLY PRICE IN A FED RATE HIKE THIS YEAR Prediction markets now see a 70% chance the Fed holds rates steady in September, versus 29% odds of a 25bp hike. A 25bp cut is priced at just 2%. Markets are increasingly betting the Fed can remain on hold as inflation cools.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A capital-gains tax cut? Yeah, that tracks. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
my most Woke 1.0 take: people would do well to remember how institutions over the last few centuries were built under broad conditions of naked apartheid (which, morality aside, is at odds with the kind of meritocracy people imagine) and make guesses about how things worked in the past accordingly
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
KILMEADE: DHS plans to spend $20 million on electric shock gloves to aid federal agents. How would that work? HOMAN: It's another device to help someone be compliant when they're not. You can't have the first thing you go for be lethal force.
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