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Michael Hill

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Student of the 1961 blitz and the True Believer phenomenon, GNOME early adopter, husband, grandfather. accordingtokirby.wordpress.com

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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We could’ve had a woman who prosecuted rapists as a president. Instead, we got a rapist as a president. 
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Palantir is an enormous, unaccountable corporation collecting our data to use for denials from health insurance, deportations, drone strikes in Palestine, & more. Join the nationwide campaign @purgepalantir.bsky.social to defend our privacy and stop Palantir by visiting purgepalantir.com.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms This isn’t a listicle. It’s an exhaustive, sourced report on the most under-attack election cycle in American history. Whatever the result in November—and we should all vote for the one we want—Trump *has* criminally rigged the system.
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PROOF EXCLUSIVE: A Dozen Ways Trump Is Rigging the Midterms
Everyone should vote. Democrats may do well. But neither of those facts alters the reality of what the 2026 midterms are: a rigged event under assault by a fascist, his regime, and his foreign allies.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cancelling votes, refusing to conduct oversight—if you’re not willing to do your job, you shouldn’t have the job.   For 19 months, we’ve watched the GOP refuse to hold this Administration accountable. That’s why voting this November matters more than ever!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will write this more in days ahead. But it is really important to know that (on Xitter) Stephen Miller is trying to stave off being blamed for the catastrophe that is now predicted to happen to the GOP. Frantically. [ahem] I'd like to prevent this from happening.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/09/2026
If we want a government that is by the people, for the people, and a real representation of the people, we’ve got to show up. Go Vote. #NolanWells
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the hotel wisely unstocked the minibars before the horde of disgruntled airplane passengers descended upon them
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...
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States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the mega merger.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"The FBI in 2025 under President Trump shut down an inquiry into allegations that a political adviser to Senator Susan Collins had participated in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions from a defense contractor seeking lucrative federal contracts"
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 😂😂😂
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An FBI investigation into Susan Collins' pay-to-play racket was shut down on Trump's orders. Probe: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) and a top donor, records and emails show. Confession: The donor, an ex-
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everybody read this right now
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The absolute silence - and stated approval by many Republicans - about these murders from our elected leaders in Congress is abhorrent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"One thing I see on this train is that Ukrainians choose to keep going. I don’t want to romanticize; the suffering and the grief are under the eyes, and in the public memorials, and everywhere. Every attack by the enemy hurts, as does every betrayal by an ally." snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Train Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/o438KKkoE40?...
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Carney returns to Parliament with a HUGE bill blunting the right to strike and ‘bulldozing nature’
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Members of Parliament are back in Ottawa today for a fresh session of clip farming in the House of Commons. The first order of business? An omnibus bill that labour leaders warn will weaken Canadian workers’ right to strike, and that environmental groups say will bulldoze nature:
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) on X
A normal federal government would have stopped the Paramount merger. It's illegal on its face. It shouldn't have been left to AGs. But this settlement puts us on the path to state run media and mass scale price gouging. It's corporate bullying prevailing over the law.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turned on Giants game. An ad for the sports gambling app that sponsors the broadcast, in which one of the ESPN talking heads is practically begging me to place a bet, comes on. This is insidious and must be outlawed…but I am not holding my breath.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens has posted on X that Anduril was “incubated” at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund (where Stephens is a partner). Stephens was previously employed at Palantir, which was co-founded by Thiel & Joe Lonsdale. 1/
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I always say to choose good quests, those that really make the future better. With General Matter, my friend and colleague @scottnolan and his team have chosen an epic quest: enriching uranium to revive nuclear fuel production in America.
Like Anduril, General Matter was incubated at Founders Fund. Anduril was born after I spent a year looking for the next defense prime and came up empty. Similarly, General Matter was born after Scott spent a year looking for a true US nuclear fuel company and found that there simply wasn't one.
For decades, America has been dependent on Russia and Europe to be our fuel dealers. More recently, we've even looked to China. Fuel is the gaping hole in our nuclear supply chain.
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Trae Stephens (born November 1983) is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. He is a partner at Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund and a former Palantir Technologies employee.
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Privacy Badger @privacybadger.org · 21/09/2026
Worried about OpenAI following you around the web? Privacy Badger blocks OpenAI trackers on websites you visit. www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-...
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ord...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Blanchet points out Carney cancelled the digital services tax on tech giants to placate Trump and it didn't work -- so will he now reimpose this tax? Carney says we don't need taxes that impact affordability for Canadians (??) Thank god the Bloc is here (lol help) to ask some actual questions!!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gavin Newsom just tanked his Presidential aspirations. Good.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Settlement: What the Guilds, AGs and Activists Are Saying
Support, shaming and other feedback to Monday's settlement in the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery settlement.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Y’all, this is the union difference. Young working-class men in unions are more likely to own a home, get married, and have kids. A union isn’t just about what happens at work. It’s about having the power to build the life you want.
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How Unions Help Young Working-Class Men Buy Homes and Start Families
New CAP analysis of demographic data shows that union men under age 35 are more likely to get married, have kids, and own their own homes—especially young men without college degrees.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive, degenerative brain disease caused by cumulative, repetitive hits to the head over time. CTE is profoundly common in American football. Exposing minors to CTE is abusive and unethical.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For everyone who keeps saying Avi Lewis needs a seat in the House: because of the size of the party right now, the NDP got ONE question in this whole QP and it was the very last one, like thirty minutes into the session. And Carney didn't even answer it, despite taking the questions off the top.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is only acceptable behavior if you believe immigrants are not human, and actual Americans who get shot by mistake are just necessary collateral damage.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
South Korea shows how it's done after an insurrection attempt. Investigate and prosecute those on top. Not just the useful idiots. If you think Jan 6 was just Trump "inciting" a mob, or the Proud Boys acting on their own initiative, you are mistaken. We still need this kind of accountability.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The NDP requested an emergency debate in Parliament over the plan to open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment. The speaker said no. Cool.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
media consolidation is always extremely harmful to labor, consumers, creatives, and markets. It's not a debate. when the thousands of layoffs drop next year, all the dems who clamored for a weak settlement will be nowhere to be found
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Feckless Dems Fold, Back Off Effort To Kill Paramount Merger
Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. government to sue OpenAI after Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC News
B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma made the announcement at a news conference on Monday.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 21/09/2026
Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
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Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in public places in Canada.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ~ Langston Hughes #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Republicans: We will give you no cake, no crumbs, nothing. You will starve. Democratic Establishment: Republicans will give you nothing. We are better. We will give you a shit sandwich. Smile, and be grateful with a shit eating grin. The people: Can we just get healthcare and affordable groceries?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Shot in the back. No criminal record.
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