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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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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you put two pieces of candy in front of Donald Trump and tell him he could have both now, or just one now and two later, he would somehow destroy the idea of candy.

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 11h

use of the word "infringe" in official congressional e-newsletters over time, by party

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 14h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14h

[not dunking] Ossoff talks appropriately about where Republicans are at, but still regularly works with them. Part of that is repping a purple state, but senators, in particular, can't seem to fathom why it's bad to collaborate with people who want to destroy the constitution.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13h

mfw someone explains the value of a local industry tax credit they cosponsored w/ Senator Himmler

Thad “The Iron Mallet” Stevens (I made that up)

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Greg Pollock @gregpollock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@kleinman.bsky.social 's work inspired me to dramatize the future Republicans want as an Oregon Trail -like journey across a country ravaged by rightwing legislative extremism. It sucks! games.gregpollock.net/state-of-the...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.

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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers

Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Progress NC Action @pnca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last call: NC's voter registration deadline is TODAY at 5pm. Text three people and ask if they're registered. Missed it? You can still register and vote at an early voting site Oct. 15–31. Find yours now at demnc.co/voteearly #nc #vote #deadline

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As we were saying ...

Tweet from Robert Jeffress:

I support the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the execution of mass-murderer Nidal Hassan.

Capital punishment is commanded by God in Genesis 9:6 to remind people of the sanctity of human life. The more people that can see that truth illustrated through a public execution, the better.

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone knows that pussy-hatted Wine Moms, resistance libs, and other closely related communists are the only white folks capable of doing a terrorism.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank goodness that under President Trump the socialists and Communists have been kept at bay.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's no pretense that we all want the same things but the other guy's ideas about how to get them are misguided. it's just "this guy fucking sucks for the following very simple and undeniable reasons."

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fantastic stuff. A genuine pleasure to read; a solid lesson in classical political philosophy dressed in the form of a book review — itself a delicious cake in disguise.

A bath-time rubber duckie which is really a chocolate layer cake.

Title card for Netflix’ “IS IT CAKE?”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey Wikipedia, tell me about Francis Bellamy, the minister who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that Linda McMahon wants school children to recite every morning.

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Bellamy was a Christian socialist, who
"championed 'the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus!"[6. In 1891, Bellamy was
"forced from his Boston pulpit for preaching against the evils of capitalism" [3] and eventually stopped attending church altogether after moving to Florida, reportedly because of the racism he witnessed there. '0! Francis's
career as a preacher ended because of his tendency to describe Jesus as a socialist. In the 21st century, Bellamy is considered an early American democratic socialist.""]

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

90min ago I left home. It’s 20min to the same Thurs protest I’ve attended for MONTHS. 5min away I realized I’d forgotten a thing. Turned back. Got it. Then, at 10min away: • “umm…wallet?” AND • “I’m wearing house slippers” (*not* proper street action shoes) Quit, stayed home… all b/c stupid.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Years of maga slop incoming bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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ACLU of North Carolina @aclunc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The deadline to register to vote in the midterm elections is this Friday, October 9, at 5 p.m. You can still register and vote at the same time during early voting, but try not to wait. Registering takes just a few minutes, and checking your registration is even faster: www.acluofnc.org/vote

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, this does resemble “Mountain Milo’s Dream Home”. Sure, there are differences. Milo’s fantasy mountain house • is nearer to Asheville than Asadabad • has quite a bit less storage for missiles & ammo • features MANY more “fire station poles” between the floors Otherwise? Remarkably similar.

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IT'S HERE: The 2026 Carolina Forward Voter Guide launches today. The Carolina Forward Voter Guide is here to help you navigate your ballot in any of North Carolina's 100 counties. Find out who's running in your community: carolinaforward.org/news/the-202...

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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The Hometown Holler @thehometownholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everybody loves a tax break. Until somebody asks why the fire truck ain't coming. Theo Nollert, Policy Director at Building NC's Next Chapter, joins The Holler fellas to unpack three proposed amendments to North Carolina’s Constitution, who stands to benefit, and what your hometown could lose.

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Three Amendments. Who’s Actually Getting the Deal?

YouTube video by The Hometown Holler

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once again, the Nobel prizes have been given to a bunch of nerds while all the recent advances that jocks have made in football go unrecognised 😞

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no simple, quiet ‘return to normalcy’ available to a post-Trump America. Quit fantasizing about it. It’s not a real thing. thehometownholler.substack.com/p/socialism-...

Even if that's truly what the American people want — and frankly, I do not believe that it is (anecdotes from Facebook friends notwithstanding) - there is no 'return to normalcy' available to us. To offer it is to demonstrate either a striking ignorance of what Trump 2.0 has vaporized, or a cynical and irresponsible willingness to propagate a comforting fiction for votes and lie to the electorate (just center-left-ishly).

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s all there in @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s advice — everything you need. But here’s a random-internet-nobody’s rumination on those points. (It’s me. I’m the random nobody. The ruminations come from the piece linked below.)

Do something. Some thing. It doesn't have to be putting your body, your life, your world between an agent of hate and his victim (though it can be, if that's where you're at and the arithmetic works).

Begin by doing x - where that x starts with any-thing besides nothing - anything besides going about one's business as if not a thing was out of place, as if everything was functioning to spec. That may be protesting. It may be volunteering, giving resources or time to a cause or concern which calls to you. (Your county Democratic Party, for example, would be thrilled to have some help. Same with Indivisible. And local food banks. And shelters. And...)

Do something with others. There's all sorts of reasons for doing things with other people (the list is nigh on inexhaustible. For starters, that
"forethought, organization and training" we were just talking about is a prime benefit of making your group-work game a little tighter.
There are experts out there, people who have a solid resume of doing something and doing it with others.
They have heaps of experience to impart.

Doing things with others changes your perspective on what is possible and can lift you (all) up, wake you (all) up, keep you (all) up and going, give you (all) strength. Such is the way with plurality, no matter if that plurality says youse, yinz, you guys or the always proper y'all.

Do it again. Yeah, sorry, but it's true: after lather and rinse almost always comes the dreaded repeat.

If your goal is very, very specific - like fixing a pothole, that pothole right there — you could, possibly, get in and out of social action without this
step. Unfortunately, very few will know such simple joy and innocence.

This is often the toughest part of the recipe. It chafes, grates, and otherwise goes against the character of American practicality and problem-solving to reckon that some problems resist — and will always resist - being fixed, once and for all, and becoming forgettable.

And we don't have to ask for permission — we can just do something. We get to make a difference, and bend the moral arc of the universe, with each action to make people's lives more prosperous and not just more profitable.

Every time we choose the common good over one individual's gain.

Every time we can ease some suffering, great or slight.

Every time we choose that which is nice over that which is nasty, that which is kind rather than easy, quiet or quick...

...and every time we choose to do so even though we may not unrig the system tomorrow or the next day or the next.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

Find ways of committing to be with other human beings in the real world. Churches, book clubs, hiking groups, stitch & bitches, etc. The commitment, the human beings, and the real world are each important. I admit I am not good at the commitment part.

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Among my BIG regrets is that it took me far too long to start listening to these moments — all the moments over all the years I wasted being too young and dumb to give my attention to these blessings/gifts. (hey ‘kids today’, you don’t have to care — just record that stuff w/ your phones anyway)

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The entire and complete reason why Every Investment Dollar is getting poured into this genAI shit is so that they no longer have to care what you think about it Your labor isn't needed, your spending isn't needed, your vote isn't needed, and neither is your life. They want you as vermin.

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hehe… a classic! For quick access, that meme lives with its friends in an album in my photos app titled “MVPs”.

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Salem’s Lot (1979 TV miniseries) The scene where the vampire kid appears at his pal’s 2nd story window & pleads to come inside. I had NO BIDNESS seein’ that. It was my #1 nightmare for years. (until replaced by a TV murder where a lady gets handcuffed to a drain in the deep end of the pool)

12 yo vampire kid floating outside his friend’s 2nd story window asking to be let in.

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @milobaynes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If it’s kindness to acknowledge your sweat as well as your skill, well, that’s just your own kindness comin’ back at ya. I see you, buddy. And for the tired? MOAR BEANS! ;)

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