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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hot Take: I think leaving Magneto as a Holocaust victim who is a very slowly aging mutant akin to Apocalypse is leagues better than changing his race, religion, and ethnicity or taking him off the table.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

again: this is precisely how Republicans need to be characterized, as this is who they are

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I keep waiting for more coverage of this. Affirmative action for men is out of control. The silence from the “merit first” types on this really undercuts their integrity

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neck romancey @bruxa.online · 07/10/2026

If “trump held a gun to our head” is true then they can say so under oath

“We don’t want to turn into a banana republic where you lose an election and it’s all about retribution,” said Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), a senior member of the Financial Services Committee. “A lot of the companies did things because Trump had a gun on their head. We’re going to have to be a little bit wise about when companies simply did something they had to do to survive this unprecedented level of corruption, compared to companies that actually got on board and profited more by being a partner in his corruption.”

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is so damning. Bill Foster doesn’t seem to understand what a banana republic is or what the whole point of bribes are.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BRAD KARP: Congressman, I am just a widdle guy. Paul Weiss, we are just widdle babies, we don’t know nuffing. BRAD FOSTER: (nodding sagely) Yes, yes.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Changpeng Zhao and Bill Foster

Scene from Parks and Rec where MonaLisa Saperstein tells her father “I have never done anything wrong, ever, in my life.” And he replies “I know this, and I love you.”

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the basic contours of every major religious schism

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/10/2026

All these doofuses know is to whine and complain when someone dares to talk about them in the way that they deserve, they’re the most pathetic men on the planet

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For decades, weird conservatives sublimated their rage about Watergate by wearing a suit to ninth grade and talking a lot about individual liberties or whatever but social restraint is now Woke cuckoldry, so it all comes out. Daddy wasn’t a bad man who did a bad thing! You’ll see! You’ll all see!!

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

brb asking the computer to make a picture of jamie dimon saying i can have infinity dollars

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching “Ghost In The Shell.” Given how much the tech elite want to make cyberpunk a reality, it’s amazing how little internal lives they have. This is such an introspective genre, deeply concerned with the question of what makes us human. But nvm, cool guns and computers, pew pew

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polarization is the immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, & intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, & democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this faction greater control.“

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our system makes it back-breakingly difficult to ever enact a law, and all but impossible when the electeds are near-equally divided into diametrically opposed camps. People understandably conflate "nothing ever happens" with "no one wants anything to happen," but the issue is often more systemic.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nothing is more important than listening to the people, and by “the people” I mean about seven bloggers

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Democrats should do popular things and not do unpopular things”

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Might fuck around and do unto others as I would have them do unto me

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just think of everything we could have built or invested in instead of AI. Housing. Green energy. Public transit. Health infrastructure. The arts. When this bubble pops, we’ll still have none of that. But a lot of big rooms with computers in em

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is July 1992. It has always been July 1992. It will always be July 1992.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 25/09/2026

Move fast and say things

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This isn't a question. If you truly believe it is such a threat the morally correct thing to do is to Stop.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first 4-6 months of Trump 2 was such a "seeing people for who they really are" moment

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just lectured about the WPA this morning and it is absolutely a model we need to bring back, for this purpose and others too.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*technically employment law, not labor law, since delivery drivers are famously not unionized due to these companies misclassifying them. But yes, amazing stuff, I am just a pedant.

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Basically however she wants to advance her career would be great, but she‘s gotta do something this next cycle, it’s now or never

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

I think there’s a reasonable case to be made here but “who is president in 2029 and what priorities do they set” is going to matter an awful lot and I feel like AOC is on the short list of people who understand what needs to be done

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The social movements of the 2010s, for all their shortcomings, showed that the internet really could politicize and organize people at massive scale, including toward progressive causes. The men who got robber-baron rich providing the tools those movements used said “No. Not like that. Not anymore”

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Every regulation is written in blood.”

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

huh ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"Kalshi adds new Dem firepower
By DANIEL BARNES 07/17/2026 06:00 PM EDT
With help from Daniel Lippman

Kalshi has hired a formidable team of Democratic lobbyists with FTP, adding to the prediction market’s Washington roster as it works to keep a sports contract ban out of a digital asset market structure bill and prepares for potential Democratic control of the House in 2027.

— FTP partners Libby Greer, Cindy Brown, Michael Williams, Kelley Williams and Trevor Hanger started representing Kalshi on July 1, according to a disclosure report filed yesterday. The team, which includes two former House chiefs of staff, will lobby on “issues related to legislation governing regulation of prediction markets.”

— Kalshi has been steadily building a bipartisan presence in Washington. In the first half of 2026, the company hired Biden administration alum John Bivona as head of federal government relations, Obama alum Stephanie Cutter of Precision Strategies as a policy adviser and Senate Republican Cloakroom veteran Tony Hanagan as head of congressional affairs. Kalshi has been a frequent customer on K Street as well, hiring six new lobbyists from Squire Patton Boggs and Resolution Public Affairs just this year."

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/09/2026

Just in: Trump reported making another 1,158 stock trades in July 2026. It appears he violated the Stock Act, again, by failing to report all of his trades within 45 days. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...

Screenshot of the front page of his OGE 278

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Max Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last I heard the CBO still institutionally assumes that private investment is *always* more efficient and more job-creating than public investment, no? It’s built into the scoring mechanisms?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s a funny new version of th crowding-out argument. In the old days, we were told fiscal tightening was needed to solve the problem of weak private investment. Now, we are told tightening is needed because private investment is so strong. Austerity: always the answer! www.ft.com/content/d96c...

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