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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 21h

We don’t refer to these people as vandals often, but large scale cultural vandalism is a core part of the Trump movement.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans gave GW Bush and Trump 2 terms each, both wildly unpopular by the end. In the same time they gave 2 terms to Clinton and Obama, both very popular at the end, and 1 term to Biden who was unpopular for things that Trump is much worse on. Maybe some lessons here?

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A better analogy is "if the Jolly Green Giant could get kids to eat their vegetables, perhaps Joe Camel can win over smoking skeptics."

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A report from the GAO found the Defense Department wasted millions on food never eaten and tents never lived in while assisting Homeland Security's rush last year to build migrant detention facilities in Texas and Guantanamo Bay. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:

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Military wasted millions on efforts to help with ICE detention facilities, GAO says

Billions were spent purchasing warehouses, rushing contracts and trying to establish detention operations in locations that didn’t meet regulations.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Oh, and also Gore never said he invented the Internet which people are still mocking him for a quarter century later. But the people who did invent it say he was really important in its development. www.reddit.com/r/videos/com...

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From the videos community on Reddit: Creator of the internet shits on guy who makes fun of Al Gore for "inventing the internet" (4:35)

Explore this post and more from the videos community

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So maybe no 9/11. No Iraq war. Etc, Etc, Etc. All elections matter but 2000 is the hinge point for the whole modern world. So if you ever think “I’m only one person, what difference can I make?” Nader is proof that one stubborn asshole can make all the difference.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

I still second guess my spelling of potato because of that idiot.

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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 · 28/09/2026

I think we're having somewhat different conversations here. You are speaking to whether or not it will harm them commercially. Doomsday will be massive, it's not in question. I'm talking about the personal experience of some people, particularly through the lens of my kid and that it is isn't ideal.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I assume it'll get its own proper intro in Doomsday, but for an end of a movie tease which you want to land with an "oh shit!" for a lot of people it lands with a "huh..."

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, and my kid got the gist of it, but it's particularly off-putting because it has this extremely different visual style and a seemingly-nefarious animated clock who is the boss and it's a lot to take in all at once in a way most brushed-passed exposition isn't...

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

D&W is the only R rated MCU movie, a lot of people, like my kid, didn’t see it.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also I don’t know how many people watched Loki but it seems pretty foundational now to everything after it, and if you didn’t see it all the TVA stuff must seem particularly insane.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I felt the same way. Wondering if when it goes to D+ if it’ll be this version or if they’ll keep the original, because if someone new watches them in order they’ll see a bunch of scenes at the end teasing a thing that doesn’t happen till like 10 movies later.

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

I don't mind him taking time to work on it. He's tried tricks for me in the past that he has to stop and go back to youtube to remember what to do next, which isn't ideal for the effect he's going for.

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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

For decades Republicans have polled higher as strong on Defense and the Economy despite allowing 9/11, starting multiple wars on false pretenses and repeatedly crashing the economy. Don't know what it will take for Americans to finally see that. Trump isn't an outlier, he's the final evolution.

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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

After its successful, tech bros brag about how they faked their app/service to make it look like it did what they said, while it was a mechanical turk situation. The industry rewards the best liars and sociopaths. If she wasn't a woman and it wasn't a medical device, Holmes would have been fine.

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

They also said it was Trump’s America when he lost the popular vote in 2016. But when Obama or Biden wins it’s “now they need to start listening to the other side of America.” Funny how it works.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep hearing that criticism but I like some humor with my comedy so even if it doesn't feel the game I'd be okay with that.

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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

"Who could have predicted that these pervert glasses would be used for perversions?!"

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