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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Trump and his Republican minions revive the language of the "Red Scare" and "threat of communism" in the elections, Trump is actively supporting the world's largest communist dictatorship, including by offering to sell them American weapons. Insanity is too mild a word.

theguardian.com

Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says

David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 25/09/2026

@duckworth.senate.gov I am your constituent, and I’m not reposting this lightly

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Harrison @zombatkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026

Kids are still going to need to learn reasoning: verbal comprehension and expression, and mathematical reasoning. And it’s not just for a few. *Everyone* assesses trust by communication. Self-governance requires it.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/09/2026

Cognitive surrender on oral and written communication makes people less able to advocate for their own interests, and thus weakens democratic self-governance.

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎶I never thought the leopards would eat my face🎶

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI needs to be regulated, but not based on bullshit. A lot of this is a distraction to evade regulations on the theft of intellectual property and investment fraud issues that make AI a serious threat to our economy. Don't get this twisted.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t know, but I feel like in normal times, being so devastatingly wrong about lifesaving technology would be completely discrediting. I mean, Robert Kennedy Jr. called the COVID vaccines “the deadliest” ever. Now, mRNA vaccines are solving cancer.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Big tough heroic cops celebrate their great victory over teenagers armed with bog rolls.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 14/09/2026

If you can’t champion civil rights for everyone, you aren’t fit for office.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 12/09/2026

Let’s start be prosecuting the humans who train their LLM agents to hack, then let them run for days unsupervised.

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OMG Infowars figured it out!!!

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The president is plainly illegimate according to the text of the 14th Amendment and his pardons are null and void. (Start saying it now, so a reformed SCOTUS can put it to paper in 2029.)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s not funny. It’s not clever. It’s covering up a very sick-minded man who is running this country into the ground.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 04/09/2026

Read the Packers one twice 😂

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why Your Team Sucks 2026 is in the books. Read up on all 32 NFL teams right here. defector.com/tag/wyts-2026

defector.com

wyts 2026 Archives | Defector

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 04/09/2026

I was excited at first thinking neighbors were blowing up data centers 😞

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/09/2026

It's embarrassing cyberwoo for press to write in this voice that assigns all agency to brainless programs and not the people and companies making them irresponsibly.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 02/09/2026

The pot calling the kettle a lying regime

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why do people in national media, such as Jen Psaki tonight on MSNOW, act like Rahm Emanuel would be a legit option for president? Here in Chicago, we recall his administration's cover-up of the police murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as well as many other reasons to say no fucking way to Rahm.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 01/09/2026

So much work to do to fix all the things they’ve broken. Many things and lives unrecoverable. Horrible losses. This is symbolic of their recklessness and thoughtlessness.

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mkbrooks @mkbrooks.com · 01/09/2026

Brutal ruination. What a sadistic, petty awful group of people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link

Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.

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