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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 3h

The arrogance. The bothsidesism, false equivalency horseshit. For the love of God, we all watched Trump foment a violent insurrection in our nation against our nation, against … us. Yet do go on about Obama and continue to gaslight as if on some courageous moral high ground.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 8h

Let’s play name that law firm… go!

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 06/10/2026

California could be our sharpest test when it comes to bad-faith attacks on election results. The good news: the Golden State is ready. @ianbassin.bsky.social and Ben Gips outline the work Protect Democracy and partners have supported to protect CA's elections. via @democracyproject.bsky.social

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Going to California

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 05/10/2026

We're proud to launch our latest ad for the #LoveNotICE campaign with our partner, @interfaithalliance.org featuring Bishop Mariann Budde urging faithful Americans to vote early no matter who's on the ballot. 🔄 Share Bishop Budde's powerful address and learn more at LoveNotICE.org

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 19h

Guys, the tiny group of billionaire dudes that controls a vast majority of media are literally invested in the facts and the full truth going untold. So moving forward, as far reaching the public with truth in pursuit of accountability and change …

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 20h

An excellent must-read film review of “Artificial,” the movie about Sam Altman and AI that (Altman biz-partner Bezos declined to release via MGM.) As you read, consider that Skydance also now controls all that it does and what this consolidation means for truth. deadline.com/2026/10/arti...

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'Artificial' Review: Andrew Garfield Plays Sam Altman In OpenAI Origin Tale

A review of 'Artificial', Luca Guadagnino's origin story of OpenAI with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman in the controversial movie that Amazon dropped.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He’s like an around-the-clock morphine drip of insanity into the body politic. Americans so numb to his lunacy that some applaud this president, laugh as he invites an attack and destruction of Americans. Not one goddamn Republican member of Congress, not a single cabinet member stands up to this.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This. … And for a while now the populist right has run the table by appealing to/harnessing/tapping those feelings, emotions—hearts first and *maaaaybe* minds.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My dad bet the Rams. Because like anyone who has watched the Eagles their whole life—he just knew.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.” This would be something like the 7th (!) suicide tied to Epstein Files. Including Epstein. www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gotta love it when NFL commentators *explain* that when you have a four-man rush you need four blockers to defend this, otherwise you are outnumbered. Thanks, Tom Brady. We can now put away our abacus.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Forgot how fantastic the word “flopsweat” is. And invoked here like a Jedi. 🙌

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And last but definitely not least, a line that I would submit could be the defacto title of this interview: “… and I call it nuclear dust.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are you considering pardoning members of your administration prior to the end of your term? “Yeah, sure I’d do that.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I fixed the White House, you know.” “I made it beautiful.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I do that better than anybody else.” “Only I can save it.” “And I'm also real rich where I can—and I have influence where I can put up money and I can also raise money.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I know I'm the best in the world.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett: “I put them in. They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“My decisions are correct ones.” “If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now. Neither would Israel. They'd be wiped off the face of the planet.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The whole thing amounts to a rubber band ball of lies and lunacy that one could spend an eternity untangling and parsing from any number of perspectives—politics, sociology, psychology—but behold(!) a few of the things things this guy actually said that sum it all up:

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is something uniquely revealing about/in this long “conversation” because over and above over he himself reveals who and what he is. The whole of it is context complete. The insanity, darkness, how consumed by self this man is are all nauseatingly clear if you read and consider every word.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This Time interview of Trump is likely going to be a moment, a document, that will endure and be cited forever as a definitive X-ray example of who this man is/was—of his mental instability and his pathological, toxic narcissism. time.com/article/2026...

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something tells me the owner of this vehicle is amped this morning. #GoBirds

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s some Super Intelligence right there.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 01/10/2026

Plan ahead! Anna Dorman covers how to make sure your voice is heard: 🗳️ Vote early 📍 Track your ballot 🗓️ Have a backup plan Get ballot tracking resources and more here 🔗 protdem.org/4xF6S8Y

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A reporting detail deftly presented here by @passantino.bsky.social. Sometimes it’s seeing a detail anyone can see, but having the unique ability/perspective to recognize it in its most meaningful context.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“You cannot do the job like you’re afraid to get fired,” De Luca [said]. “Because if you act like that, innovation dies. You’re just doing the job to protect yourself and you end up making the same movie over and over again, and the consumer moves on.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A former Premiere magazine colleague with a most informed perspective. “Abdy and De Luca represent a filmmaking approach that isn’t solely defined by sequels and CGI…while anyone can read a spreadsheet, people who make movies should be hired for their taste.” www.indiewire.com/features/com...

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Warner Bros. Chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy Took Big Risks and Made Great Movies. Their Exit Is a Bad Thing for Cinema

The Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy era is over at Warner Bros. Movie lovers are the big losers.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Trump is leaving America exposed to dangerous viruses: digital, biological and diplomatic. Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump.”

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Alas, though, when someone as morally warped as Trump — whose first secretary of state called him a “moron” — assumes this much unchecked power at the dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence, he can’t be ignored. Because right now…

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Over and over and over again — stupefyingly obvious truths are being written, because they need to be written, yet the audiences that most need to be reached are not reading them. “Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Way.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways (Gift Article)

On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The government is treating people who exercise their First Amendment rights and seek to hold it accountable as criminal suspects, and that's what we're asking the court to stop,” says JoAnna Suriani, an attorney at Protect Democracy who is representing ICE observers in the case.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am an Eagles fan but I am not this much of an Eagles fan. #GoBirds #yochucky

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

Airmen and guardians must choose from a new, sharply condensed list of religious affiliations this fall after the Pentagon reduced roughly 180 faith and belief codes to 31. www.stripes.com/branches/air...

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Airmen, guardians must update their religious affiliation under narrowed list

Airmen and Guardians must update religious affiliation records by Oct. 16 as the Pentagon streamlines nearly 180 faith codes into 31 standardized categories.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m guessing AI would have caught the 2 abouts. … I’m OK being an imperfect human.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

depriving yourself (and yes maybe even the world of iterative thought) the challenge and blessing of thinking anew. As a human. Neuroplasticity.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

… a human lived experience and emotions and a life of critical thinking (among a universe of other self evident uniquely human factors). Using AI to do a first draft is not writing, it is not thinking. And if you do use AI to “write” you immediately render yourself an editor, now editing AI. …

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