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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

The funniest thing about this is every Special Forces operator of the last generation — the exact kind of “warfighter” Hegseth purports to idolize — has the world’s most massive beard. That’s entirely the look of today’s supersoldiers.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 15h

It’s hard to imagine how different our country and the world would be if Gore had won in 2000. The environmental aspects alone could fill a book, but also a different Supreme Court, and guess who was the person in Clinton’s White House who was loudly warning about Osama Bin Laden? 1/2

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not only did he explicitly campaign on tariffs, he's been pushing them for decades. This isn't just "I didn't expect leopards to eat MY face" It's "Who could have foreseen that the leopard wearing the I Will Eat Your Face t-shirt would eat my face?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7st...

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Tracing Trump's Aggressive Tariff Strategy Back to the 1980s | "Trump's Trade War" | FRONTLINE

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Literally every Meta product. When Dracula is the CEO the product will always be vampires.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have to say, I appreciate them giving Reacher a Season 6 rather than “ending” the show and “bringing it back” with a new title like Reacher: Still Reaching, a “new” show that happens to have the same cast and continuity with the old show but doesn’t have to pay for the contractual bumps.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

10 yo: Dad, can I waste one of the lemons? Me: Why do you need to waste a lemon? 10 yo: It’s for a magic trick. I already tried a pickle and it didn’t work!

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

10/7 was Israel's 9/11 in more ways than one. Both leaders ignored intel that could've prevented the attack and effectively avoided blame through war. The Right always promises safety and security but they're historically terrible at providing it. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Egypt’s Warning to Israel

Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

what percentage of supposed 'centrist' goofs who long ago accused folks of TROMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME will ever actually address their own misread? address that actually everyone who said it would be very bad was not 'deranged', but much more in tune than they were. i have yet to see it happen once

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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sci-fi writers of the past really blew it on how stupid this would all be. The realistic version of Skynet is it becomes self-aware but only understands human relationships through action movies it's absorbed so it sends Terminators thinking that's how we play.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the worst things about streaming with ads is no humans appear to be in charge of placing the ad breaks. Even shows which originally had ad breaks, where there was an obvious break in the narrative for it, don't have the ad breaks put in those places now

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This, and also very little discussion about how Silicon Valley venture capital almost demands that founders lie in order to raise the money to build the thing they say they have, and how many successful companies started the same way. The medical aspect makes Theranos worse but not different.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Damn if this doesn't encapsulate our entire society.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Speaking as someone who wrote a book on the government’s Doomsday plans, one challenge: “Martial law” isn’t actually something that exists in the US in the way it exists in other countries. There are ways to nationalize or deploy troops, but “declaring martial law” isn’t some magic button to press.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be VERY concerned by the latest reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that company made campaign “donations." youtu.be/f2fFlCPjKnk?...

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GOP Senator CAUGHT RED-HANDED In MASSIVE BRIBERY SCHEME Probe!?!

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10 yo: There's something I'm really grateful about. Me: What's that? 10 yo: I like both of you, so if you and Mom should get divorced for some reason I'll be happy to go to either place. Me: Can't you be grateful that you like both of us and we're happily married? 10yo: No.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These AGs got a deal in the same sense that Trump does, which is to say giving away everything to get what was offered at the start and declaring victory hoping no one notices.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is as if these internet backlashes only represent a loud but tiny subset of disaffected people and should be ignored entirely.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI promise: We will cure cancer! AI reality:

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a list of how to help workers in Hollywood, classes in AI training doesn’t make the top 1000. If anything, this is a gift to the AI industry, not Hollywood, and definitely not workers. Newsom sucks.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FDR: Judge me by the enemies I have made. Current establishment Dems: Judge us by the compromises we have made with our enemies. FDR got elected four times but what does he know?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"With regard to destroying mankind..." sounds like a line from Dr Strangelove. But because we live in a world beyond satire, we have lawmakers admitting to be powerless in the face of an existential crisis that hasn't even happened yet.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wait. I have an idea. Let’s get leaders who are actually capable of understanding and dealing with the urgent challenges we face as a society. You know, people who can actually do their jobs.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We will use the same thinking we have used up until now with social media which has continuously proved harmful by our own internal studies and we have just settled multi-billion dollar lawsuits over. What part of this are you not understanding?

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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been getting tons of emails lately from people I know that are clearly hacked. Eyes and ears out there, people.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“But instead of uncovering a ghost at the end, they unmask a business owner just trying to make a living. What is this woke nonsense? And are scooby snacks now implied to be drugs?” —Ben Shapiro review

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They like to throw in one good decision now and then to keep the veneer of legitimacy. Next they’ll do a palate cleanser where they rule that life begins at ovulation.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hal always letting that Lantern ring run down to like 2% without charging it is the true sign that he doesn't deserve it. I don't even let my iPhone go below 20% if I can help it.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the “every accusation is an admission” category, the fact that these guys see a basic chair and think of being cuckolded is pretty telling. A hotel providing a chair so you don’t have to always sit on a bed is not a cause for arousal in any other circles.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mike said this on the pod recently but it’s really been under indexed just how much Jack Posobiec is returning to form as a racist dirtbag after setting that to the side a bit for a few years to be able to lock up his spot in GOP organizing circles

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13/09/2026

DRUNK HISTORY is back, which means my dream of telling a story on DRUNK HISTORY is not dead yet!

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Perfect answer. I wish more Dems rejected the entire premise of these questions and reframed them this way. Absurd. Weird. Out of touch. Any answer that doesn’t put them on the defensive is at best a wasted opportunity and also makes you look weak.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The Air Force recently told me that because we haven't officially declared war, my kids and I aren't eligible for some benefits," she wrote. Trump plays this like he's having fun with a NYT word game and not screwing people out of their death benefits. www.military.com/widow-of-air...

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Widow of Air Force Airman Killed in Iran War Claims She Was Denied Survivor Benefits

U.S. Air Force Maj. John "Alex" Klinner died in an aircraft crash in Iraq in March, supporting the United States' military operation against Iran.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think this is a very beautiful idea. Shana tova, everyone.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No idea how it could be done but I’d love to see an analysis on money saved by waiting on data to decide on greenlighting a new season vs money lost by how harmful the delay is for viewership. Especially when the latter is definitely a huge issue.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m not saying there’s a conspiracy but the word “creators” becoming mostly applied to people who create commercially monetizable digital content feels like a choice by the establishment.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This somehow keeps getting left out by people who want PA voters (which I am not) to regret supporting him in the first place. His personality completely changed post-stroke. Seems an important variable to acknowledge? I don't know, I'm not a doctor.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cake Thief wants anti-cake-theft law lifted--even if it means more ill-gotten cake.

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