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Mark Nay

@markrnay.bsky.social
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Architect, urbanist, generalist, environmentalist and grandfather.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TEXAS VALUES PAC: "If you don't like Texas, leave!" KEN PAXTON: "OK . . ."
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have never claimed to be a celebrity or an authority on anything other than Wesley Willis and show choir But I’ve seen too many otherwise smart STEM types swallow the AI bullshit whole. Congrats on being a type!
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Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When I first started, I was advised to do a 12 ounce bag. "People don't know the difference." I do and I found that attitude cynical. Specialty coffee does this as well, sometimes.
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Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're not being funny, but did you know that there are 16 ounces in a pound? Some food vendors are betting that you don't and they package 12 ounce bags, which "read" a pound. In the real world, most people like one pound bags. Be sure and check when you are comparing costs.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Here is the full statement of the Tompkins County DA on the Cornell 7 case. END/ CONTENT WARNING www.tompkinscountyny.gov/News-article...
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District Attorney statement re: Jane Doe v. Cornell University, et al
On Sep. 18, 2026, I learned of the civil complaint filed in New York County Court alleging a series of heinous and despicable acts committed by members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University ...
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
F*cking hilarious. Like listening to Hitler joking with Heydrich about Zyklon B not working.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 30/09/2026
With the newest report, Elon's Super PAC is over 6 figures in more than 20 races. You will be shocked to learn that everyone Elon is spending money to elect is a right wing lunatic who will pledge allegiance to Donald J. Trump.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hate it when news media suck up to newsmakers by trying to wish things into existence. Two examples: The media chorus that Rahm Emanuel is presidential material and Axios pushing Eric Schmitt as the next vice president. Start reporting real news. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: Red State Residents Protest GOP Senator’s Support of Data Centers open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...
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Breaking: Red State Residents Protest GOP Senator’s Support of Data Centers
Google co-founder spending $102 million to fight billionaire tax, Ohioans protest GOP senator’s support of data centers, Trump’s border wall destroying ancient art
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 30/09/2026
Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ concerts have sold out.
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Mark Nay @markrnay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Democrats win control of the House and Senate. 2. Investigations and prosecutions begin. 3. Impeachment and removal proceedings. 4. Take back the billions of taxpayer money corruptly taken by the Trump family and their accomplices. 5. Rinse and repeat.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Even America.gov agrees: Donald Trump drove up your gas prices.
In one Word, did Donald Trump's war in Iran drive up gas and diesel prices for Americans?

America.gov: yes
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Mark Nay @markrnay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No more shoulder-shrugging when a machine programmed by a person commits a crime. That means the person, not the machine, has committed a crime.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I see WAY too many professed progressives/liberals using AI trash here for memes, promos, random pics. What are we doing here, people?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The U.S. strike on the Iranian elementary school was the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century in terms of child casualties.   Horrific.   This war needs to end – now.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The questions posed to Dr Heidi Overton yesterday aren’t sources of great confusion. Is mail-order Mifepristone safe? Yes. Is an IUD a form of abortion? Clearly No. Does MMR need to be split into 3 for safety reasons? No. If you can’t answer those 3 questions clearly…
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Councilmember Brooke Pinto @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We cannot have armed National Guards in or around our schools and young people. Our schools must remain welcoming environments of learning and growth, and spaces where all DC students, parents, and school staff can feel safe and can thrive.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To get out of this worsening crisis it's really going to have to start with a pretty simple but surprisingly difficult thing: seeing through the performance and framing and just realize the tech oligarchs are really, really fucking stupid.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I get a real kick anymore just halfheartedly tracing the shape and trajectory of the tech assholes' eschatological delusions. Thiel with his secularized evangelical millenarism apocalyptism and all the bastardized sci-fi fantasies. It's incredible we gave historical wealth to people this stupid.
Tweet from Patrick F. Feeley with accompanying screenshot of Pete Thiel: Peter Thiel tells Mathias Döpfner the only real way to slow AI is a one-world government, and that cure may be worse than the disease (via @mdmeets).

“In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine, deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require like a one world government with real teeth, real force. And the sort of classical liberal part of me thinks that's almost frying pan into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease.

And then of course you can have fake global government where we have a lot of conferences, discuss it, a lot of somewhat empty statements that get put out. And then there's also, of course, a risk that it ends up being slowed down in the West and not in China.

The pope recently issued this AI encyclical, or I would characterize it as an anti-AI encyclical. And again, this is, maybe it was too harsh, but the rhetorical point I have on it is that the Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the pope. There's a chance people in the US will. And so in effect, the pope's encyclical was working for the Communist Party. I'm not saying he was an agent of the Communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP.”
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
kinda feels like the time to say something was before charging people with phony crimes for protesting and then waging an elaborate conspiracy to cover up prosecutorial misconduct but who asked me?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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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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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The system combines citizenship information with Americans’ Social Security data, and eligible voters (including naturalized citizens) have already been wrongly flagged as noncitizens. With the midterms just weeks away, the consequences of this are huge.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every eligible New Yorker has the right to vote without fear or intimidation. Today's decision does not change that.   My office will protect New Yorkers' rights, safeguard their personal information, and ensure every voter can make their voice heard.
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Government can use Social Security data to identify noncitizen voters, Supreme Court rules
President Donald Trump wants to let states use a federal database that includes voters’ personal information to check for noncitizens on voter rolls.
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Mark Nay @markrnay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Total collapse: 70% say his Iran war has hurt the US 75% say he has no plan for the war 76% say the war isn't worth the costs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For decades, I've had cable news producers tell me to "be angrier" on TV. But we all need to do less yelling — and more listening — if we actually want to solve our problems. Delighted to speak with Daily Cal about our new film THE WORK IN PROGRESS.
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Robert Reich sits Americans down for hard political conversations in ‘The Work in Progress’
During Robert Reich’s political career as U.S. Secretary of Labor, he recalls being told to “be angrier.” Decades later,
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
MI Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed unloaded on Trump over soaring gas prices and the war: “When you’re the president of the United States and people are struggling with gas, you don’t sit there and talk about your new helipad or your drapes in a ballroom.” “You actually go and do your damn job.”
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El-Sayed Torches Trump Over Gas Prices: 'Do Your Damn Job'
El-Sayed told Trump to stop worrying about his ballroom drapes and get to work, while Republicans jump ship on the Iran war
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Status @status.news · 23/09/2026
Axel Springer—the publisher behind POLITICO and Business Insider— is set to honor Trump ally Peter Thiel this week—and we have learned that staffers are pushing back, accusing the company of undermining its own commitment to press freedom. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/axel-sprin...
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Axel’s Thiel Tempest
The publisher is set to honor Trump ally Peter Thiel this week—and Status has learned that staffers at Politico and Business Insider are pushing back, accusing their parentco of undermining its own co...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FOX: We’re active with Iran—how do you get out? El-Sayed: You don’t get in in the first place. We had an agreement that had contained nuclear weapons. We did not need to do this, so the first time the dunce got elected he pulled back on the agreement.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As Health Director for Wayne County, we put vending machines with free Narcan and fentanyl test strips in 100 locations. We hoped to make even a small dent in offsetting the opioid epidemic that Mike Rogers made even worse by voting with the pharmaceutical industry his entire career in Congress.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When Trump can decide whether corrupt Senator Susan Collins gets indicted or not, he has the power to decide how she votes.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely
Reasons why I'm polite to waiters - Because I realize they're human beings, trying to make a living, not my servants.
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