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*Gripping the arms of the chair* I’m not using rightwing frames in my description box.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well done Cuba….🇨🇺
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quotation bubble above the quoted post, with the OpenAI butthole logo and the word ChatGPT
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...
After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.” 
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics. 
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On the Almost World War. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What a day! Ended up in my hometown newspaper in some WILD company…
San Francisco Chronicle Insight page 2011 with Steve Jobs, Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, with an image of Occupy Wall Street in the middle
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is how I looked, and felt, during those sublime, turbulent days
25-year-old me looking all idealistic and visionary, surrounded by absolute chaos
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026
There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And let's reground ourselves in the overall political economy. The US can muster a grand investment stimulus in data centers, or building a genuinely green economy. The Green New Deal is the only real alternative to the AI development machine. Eyes on the prize, people!
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And btw, once you anchor yourself in reality, you can let go of the negative polarization frenzy of AI-centric debates. Instead of "owning" AI overlords by pretending their technology is a scam, focus on concrete fights to take away their power, while taking that power seriously.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And we can notice the oldest story ever at the core of AI ideology: it's a mystification machine. It is misdirecting attention from an objectively given material emergency, which AI itself is worsening, to a completely vague and abstract debate about a fictional future.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".
Toby Ord tweet: 72 lawmakers in the UK have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, calling for an immediate ban on the development of superintelligence and the championing of an international treaty to do the same worldwide.

Quote tweeting 

Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley
@alexsobel's tweet: 
With 71 colleagues I am calling on the Govt to work with us on my bill to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI and champion an international agreement

We can then lead on preventing the extinction risk posed by superintelligence
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW podcast series explaining the fundamentals of personal climate strategies, by answering some of the questions I get asked most often. If my workshop is the graduate seminar, this is office hours. It's not paywalled; feel free to share it. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/do-i-even-...
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The keys to a personal climate strategy
Part one of my free series on the fundamentals of personal ruggedization.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you missed it live, and are interested in this year's extreme El Niño event and its potential to bring major California impacts, I'd strongly encourage you to check out the recording! I even created some custom graphics just for this session... youtube.com/live/2v4k0nb...
youtube.com
September 2026 update: Extremely strong El Niño event remains on track for autumn-winter
YouTube video by Weather West
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s under appreciated just how drunk these people are, always
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm thrilled to share our new chapter on green social housing, looking at Vienna *and* Uruguay. It was super fun to put state- and movement-led housing projects in dialogue. It's in the brilliant @joobilly.bsky.social's new book, Building Postcarbon Futures.
Chapter title: Decommodify, then Decarbonize: Lessons in Housing from Austria and Uruguay
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yolo Minneapolis
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Democrats who are talking about Hasan Piker more than Donald Trump are just proving us lefties' case that these folks care *far* more about disciplining us than defeating fascism.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Bhim Adhikari 🇳🇵 @bhimabish.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Update: This morning, 724 individuals—including 101 foreign nationals—were rescued by helicopter, and 200 people were rescued by ground teams from the flood-affected areas. 🙏 #News Source: Nepal Army
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Warning - extreme climate catastrophe and loss of life
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You have a right to document, photograph and video record any law enforcement officer in public spaces including their vehicles, badge numbers and license plate numbers. This includes local police, federal agents. The Stopice Plate Tracker - stopice.net/platetracker
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
locked and LOADED mans got that DAWG in em i mean gattDAMN
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/08/2026
the ball-knowing trans women will continue until league morale improves
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My pick for AOC’s running mate
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026
I love Minneapolis
Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That’s right
A historical marker near Camden Yards in Baltimore. It reads “GREAT RAILROAD
STRIKE OF 1877
THE FIRST NATIONAL STRIKE BEGAN JULY 16, 1877. WITH BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD WORKERS IN MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. AND BALTIMURE MARYLAND. IT SPREAD ACROSS THE NATION, HALTING RAIL TRAFFIC AND CLOSING FACTORIES IN REACTION TO WIDESPREAD WORKER DISCONTENT OVER WAGE
CUTS AND CONDITIONS DURING A NATUNAL
DEPRESSION. BROKEN BY FEDERAL TROOPS IN EARLY AUGUST. THE STRIKE ENERGIZED THE LABOR MUVEMENT AND WAS PRECURSOR TO LABOR UNREST IN THE 18805 AND 18905.
MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST
MARYLAND STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION”
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Close the Camps. Free the Families. Bring Them Home.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Californians, email your Assemblymember and tell them to support SB 1259 from @apen4ej.bsky.social. It's a common sense law requiring that refineries plan for what happens after they close. actionnetwork.org/letters/refi...
actionnetwork.org
Take Action: Don’t let big oil pollute and run!
Refineries are closing — in California and across the country. But there’s no proactive plan for managing their clean up or for revitalizing the land. Unlike other polluting industries, refineries ar...
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Holding my breath waiting for Dan Goldman and them excoriate these turncoats the way they do Uncommitted. jewishinsider.com/2026/08/mich...
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Michigan Jewish Dems circulate letter endorsing Republican Mike Rogers for Senate
The signatories say they ‘fear the far-left and anti-Jewish elements in the Democratic party would become dominant’ if Abdul El-Sayed is elected
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Call them weird creeps. Because they are weird creeps!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026
oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing
nbcnews.com
Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight
The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Matt R @matthew43.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Proud of my kid who identified his restaurant coloring page as AI slop and refused to engage.
Coloring page for kids that shows animals gathered around a camp fire. But the fox and the bunny have three feet. The three feet are circles on each and no other coloring has occurred because the animals are creepy.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is an absolutely terrible answer & this man absolutely should not be the next Speaker of the House
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am truly honored and humbled to be Minnesota’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Thank you, Minnesota – for everything.
I love you, Minnesota! Miigwech, thank you for everything!
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