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Mary Forrest

@maryforrest.bsky.social
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Church of Deep Space Nine. Dog person. Cocktail person. I hate almost everything, but in a cute way.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“As Trump funds influencers to manipulate the Brazilian election, he is getting help in his quest from Elon Musk, who is blocking accounts that post critiques of the Bolsonaro-Trump alliance. This week, the National Conference of Bishops of Brasil lost access to its X account.“
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 5h
*face and hands frozen in chef’s kiss pose*
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 9h
The Penasquitosization of Encinitas. San Diego friends, these numbers are not normal!
Screen grab of weather app forecast for  
Encinitas, CA, a coastal community in San Diego where it’s normally never this hot, showing highs in the 80s and 90s in the coming week.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 11h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 11h
After decades of letting social media, chyron typists, headline editors, and media personalities digest information for them and provide unfactchecked analyses, it’s not surprising that so many people are eager to cede their own reasoning to a chatbot.
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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in the words of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
techcrunch.com
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump's AG Todd Blanche just filed a misconduct complaint against two Minnesota federal judges for telling the NYT that the 3,000-agent immigration surge there threatens democracy. Their crime? Documenting 96 violated court orders. Punishing judges for truth is how democracy dies.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This thread sounds like satire, but shockingly it’s all real.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2026
I really don't think these "AI" fucknuts have taken into account the modern ability to hold a grudge. I haven't touched anything Metallica-related since before Napster, and good money says I'll outlive Lars. Your "AI" is nothing before me.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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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.
theintercept.com
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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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
turns out people overwhelmingly do not agree with the Supreme Court's claim that unlimited corporate money in elections is a-okay, and are similarly skeptical of the idea that the Constitution actually requires us to live like this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org
How States Are Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision
As it turns out, normal people do not like political corruption as much as the conservative legal movement does.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If we’re being strict about naming conventions, Talia al Ghul should be called Ra’s al Ghul’s Talia. After all, “al Ghul” isn’t actually the surname of a guy named Ra’s. I mean, if you’re going to use a possessive comma in a name, for heaven’s sake GO FOR IT.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 21/09/2026
JESUS CHRIST
Anxiety hideous shark-eyed noseless vinyl figures of deceased celebrities
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The end-stage capitalism theme in The Dark Knight Rises may have been given to us too soon.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dem poll numbers have been very encouraging, and yet the fundraising texts exclusively claim they have bad news or that things are more dire than ever. I get the psychological theory, but just once it’d be nice to he invited to back a winning horse instead of always being begged for a lifeline.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
thinairrealmoney.com
‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reading this has reminded me of something very particular and important about Star Trek, which is this: Star Trek is bloody great www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
inverse.com
The 60 Most Important Star Trek Stories Of All Time
From classic episodes and movies to underrated gems, comics, novels, fan fiction, parodies, and beyond. These are our picks for the crucial adventures that made Star Trek, well, Star Trek.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
19thnews.org
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 16/09/2026
A legacy that lives on. The Clemente family threw out the ceremonial first pitch tonight.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative
sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 14/09/2026
I mean listen, you shouldn't have been going to Steak 'n Shake in the first place, but also holy shit.
Steak 'n Shake, which was already trash, somehow becoming more trash by endorsing Jon Husted for Senate because he's "fighting to make Ohio healthy, safe and affordable again". Not mentioned are their 1,300 calorie cheese fries
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There’s nothing in the rules that says Kash Patel can’t be replaced by a golden retriever.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also this scene was brutal
Firefighters shook each other’s hands before splitting up to save folks on 9/11
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Profiting off the incarceration of other human beings is immoral. Without exception.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
propublica.org
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
actionnews5.com
Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ari Melber airing Peter Navarro and letting him say unchallenged that the lab leak theory is accepted wisdom (it’s not), Maria Bartiromo was fired for protesting a directive (she wasn’t), and tariffs haven’t caused inflation (they have), is a disservice to his audience, which should no longer be me.
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Mary Forrest @maryforrest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can we please have fall now?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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