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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

contrariannews.org

I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’

An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.

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sally rhubarb @cupcakeanarchy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle Get in stupid, we’re being idiots.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump's stupid chart of "greatest" presidents is actually a ranking of presidents from Life Magazine in 1948, with his name added at the top and the Democrats he doesn't like at the bottom. Exactly the kind of thing a healthy, high-functioning person shares.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please take a moment and read Lara Korte’s last story that she filed for Stars and Stripes published 3 hours ago. Thank you Lara for your professional dedication and journalistic values. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Lara Korte O @lara_korte
X.com

Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes - not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.
3:29 PM • 8/21/26 • 155K Views

Lara Korte
@lara_korte • 1h
I consider it a great privilege to live alongside members of the military and share their stories. It's a shame for the institution and service members, who swore to defend the Constitution and deserve right to a free and independent press.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If I can quit Twitter, you can too

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Infodump/rabbit hole incoming : The case of Brandon Herrera, GOP House candidate for TX 23rd 1/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026

Epstein’s best friend says what?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026

if I say more I will give away my entire book, which you should pre-order if you want to learn more about the shocking history of this deeply problematic series of automation systems benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...

benbellabooks.com

Elon Take the Wheel - BenBella Books

Timely, thought-provoking, and rigorously sourced, Elon Take the Wheel invites readers to reconsider what automated driving promises, what it obscures, and what it means for the future of mobility.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

so, I went semi-offline for half a day and came back to find four stories any one of which could have been a weeks-long banner headline story in the before times.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This has a terrible headline. But it ultimately says that Dems post-MeToo do take action against those accused of sexual misconduct but Republicans mostly do not. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

nytimes.com

Does a Sex Assault Claim Kill a Political Career? It Depends.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

the best time to leave X was at pretty much any point before today. The next best time is right now.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Daily Wire editor in chief Brent Scher alleging that the Trump administration, for some reason working in concert with the Southern Poverty Law Center despite pursuing criminal charges against the org, planted a white nationalist group in DC this morning.

Brent Scher reacts to post showing Patriot Front demonstration in DC on July 4 in an X post: “Ignore these losers. It’s probably 75% SPLC employees and 25% Feds.”

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today at FOREVER WARS, we're publishing the sort of piece that I think makes us distinct. Like many of you, I watched the Belfast anti-Muslim anti-migrant pogroms in horror. I never heard about the Belfast that fought back. I learned that from my Belfastian friend Sarah Kay, who writes about it here

forever-wars.com

Confronting The Belfast Pogroms

Guest writer Sarah Kay reports on the community resistance to the anti-immigrant assaults in her beloved city—a solidarity overlooked by the media

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A federal judge who has reviewed a slew of subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov Walz and a series of other prominent Democrats has concluded that this was all part of an act of peevish retaliation over their criticism of Trump's ICE crackdown in Minnesota and has quashed the subpoenas.

apnews.com

Federal judge halts Trump administration effort to subpoena Walz in immigration enforcement probe

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”

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Jitin @jitin.xyz · 21/05/2025

Also, If you use Firefox, you can use this extention to automatically redirect all x.com links to xcancel.com

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X Cancelled (Nitter) – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download X Cancelled (Nitter) for Firefox. Use Nitter instead of Twitter.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

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Anderson Hooper @andersonhooper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Eric Trump messaging a UFC dude to ask in writing "Hey, let me know if the UFC is a massive criminal conspiracy bc if so, I would like to get rich from a criminal conspiracy with you" is going immediately in the Failson Hall of Fame

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/06/2026

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer. “A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.” [theverge.com]

theverge.com

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.

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Christian Lipski @christianlipski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Metropolis (1926) from the top rope.

Intro slide for Metropolis (1926)

The year is 2026, a Dickensian "best of times, worst of times," where total oppression and manipulation of the masses is wielded by the unquestionable power of the few.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Read this whole piece.

Mamuka spent 119 days in detention, about four months, but under normal circumstances, he should have been released. He was arrested on February 5 in Alabama, where he was detained for five days, then moved to Winn where he spent another 114 days before dying in custody. Unless something changed between the middle of March and early June, he did not have a final removal order so ICE couldn't move him-instead, Mamuka had a case pending before an immigration judge this entire time, and may have still been waiting on a final hearing when he passed. He was classified as the lowest risk level in detention, he had no mandatory detention flag, he was not a known terrorist or a suspected gang member (problematic as those categories are, and he never had a prior detainer, so it's unlikely that he ever had a run-in with police.

All of these factors, combined with the nature of his arrest, support a straightforward conclusion that he should not have been in detention in the first place. Using the national ICE detention average daily rate of $150, the US taxpayer spent $17,850 detaining this single person without any evidence that it served the interests of public safety or national security.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

it's kind of hard to escape the conclusion that the entire spacex IPO is just a way for Elon Musk to financial engineer a huge, distributed theft from index fund holders?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX. Previously, dumped US Treasuries over Trump's threat to Greenland. It says Spacex is “grossly overvalued”, and has “catastrophic governance structure” as Elon Musk strives to be a trillionaire. Any chance of City of London growing a backbone? archive.ph/dsVfR

bloomberg.com

Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX, Citing Governance Issues

A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

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Melanie McFarland @mctelevision.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is my favorite thing that Stephen Colbert has done in a while. I loved The Late Show, don't get me wrong, but this is Colbert unfettered by corporate rules and pressure. The comedy is so pure. Also a huge shoutout to community access TV. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

youtu.be

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/05/2026

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

axios.com

SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

The company's IPO hinges on investor confidence in staggering future growth.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6

The above tables exclude operating lease agreements that have been signed as of December 31, 2025, but not yet commenced for the aggregate lease payments of $1,627 million and an average lease term of 7.2 years, including the operating lease arrangement with Stateline. Refer to Note 9, Investments in unconsolidated affiliates for additional

Equity method investmentIn April 2025, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CTC Property LLC (“CTC”), entered into a joint venture Stateline Power, LLC (“Stateline”), with Solaris Power Solutions Stateline, LLC (“Stateline Power Solutions”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. (“Solaris”). Stateline was formed to provide off-grid power to CTC’s data center campus pursuant to a long-term equipment rental arrangement. In connection with the formation of Stateline, Solaris contributed non-cash assets valued at $86 million, consisting primarily of progress payments on power generation equipment now owned by Stateline and pre-funded expenses, in exchange for a 50.1% equity interest in Stateline. CTC contributed $86 million in cash in exchange for the remaining 49.9% equity interest. Interests in Stateline held by CTC were subsequently assigned to MZX Tech LLC (“MZX”), another wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

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Ernest Belding @misterernest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

10000 Maniacs under appropriate psychiatric care

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Mr. Musk not only secured loans from SpaceX to himself, but also relied on the firm to shore up at least three troubled businesses in his orbit, The Times found."

nytimes.com

How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.

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