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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Deshaun Watson reached confidential settlements with at least 26 women who credibly accused him of sexual violence. That’s more women than years I’ve been alive. Praising him like this for ‘overcoming challenges’ is genuinely insane, pro-rape culture behavior.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The GOP plan for this fall is to swamp races with dark money and turn the racism dial up to 100
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry not sorry but if you have any Gadsden flag shit inked onto your person, in/on your house, in/on your vehicle, or in/on your wardrobe and STILL simp for Grady Judd or any elected local official that allows ALPRs to thrive, you need to seek treatment for being truly fucking stupid. Period.
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is a friendly reminder that Sheriff Grady Judd and the Polk County BoCC will sell you up the river to a mass surveillance network that tracks your every move if it means they don’t have to do anything difficult publicly or privately AND they maintain access to track others. VOTE THEM OUT FFS
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tonight the Polk County, FL Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the FY 2026-27 budget despite the community asking they stand opposed to a budget containing continued funding for Flock ALPRs (because Sheriff Grady Judd loves mass surveillance & won’t give them up voluntarily)
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s normalization that keeps me up at night. Big thanks to @propublica.org for their always-excellent work. I wish it wasn’t necessary.
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I recommend everyone in Florida checkout out: www.flockouttaflorida.now especially “the truth” section showing state law enforcement agencies admitting that flock is designed for tracking your patterns of life. #deflockflorida #plzstopstalkingppl
flockouttaflorida.now
Flock Outta Florida
Stop Mass Surveillance and Protect the Privacy of ALL Floridians
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Local media has been dying all over America, which means there’s essentially no way to hold local governments accountable— they can do whatever they want,” he told the white nationalists meeting. “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.” www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
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As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Know the difference, people.
"PATRIOTISM IS THE OPTIMISTIC BELIEF THAT YOUR COUNTRY COULD BE THE BEST.
NATIONALISM IS THE IGNORANT BELIEF THAT IT ALREADY IS."

-STEVE HOFSTETTER
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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AI companies have relied on convincing us that their technological destruction is inevitable, but no one wants their data centers. Stopping data centers is the best strategy to turn the tide against the billionaires we have in front of us.
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Data center uproar scrambles the midterm election
Grassroots pressure is breaking the bipartisan consensus that enabled America's AI buildout.
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Skip Bleecker @skipbleecker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At the CDC, Trump has gutted programs on Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, smoking, overdoses, maternal mortality, rape prevention... apnews.com/article/cdc-...
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The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/08/2026
As the carcass of Spirit Airlines is picked over, tech companies descend, bidding millions for corporate data, including consumers sensitive data, to train AI models. We spoke with @fastcompany.com about it. www.fastcompany.com/91593881/why...
fastcompany.com
Why Spirit Airlines' internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies
Google, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually work.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I really do not understand the purpose of this. No one is asking for this.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The US gross national debt just crossed $40 trillion. Sure, let’s build a helicopter pad, a ballroom, paint statues gold, and keep going. 🙄
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19/08/2026
In addition to the the ICE Air flights, we don't have any reason to believe Delta Air Lines has stopped flying Minnesota's kids away for ICE.
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Randy Fine is a ghoul that must be excised from Florida for us to heal, period.
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Randy Fine (R-FL) caught looking through someone else's mailbox whilw campaign canvassing
Explore this post and more from the law community
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ordered my copy. Prepared to be full of rage.
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am so tired of waking up to horrors. And yet, Imma keep trucking.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Democrat users confront the abundant value-misaligned content by replying to it, which the algorithm in turn preferentially learns from and continues to feed them."
404media.co
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Flock routinely rewards themselves for being the most transparent company in the industry. Last week they banned ticket-holding journalists from their Flock Forward event. Then, they quite literally had an employee contact a hotel on my behalf and cancel my room reservation.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Geneva Consensus Declaration is part of an international campaign to roll back women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Today, the U.S. announced it will serve as the GCD’s Secretariat, putting Washington at the center of efforts to undermine abortion rights and LGBTQ+ equality. Get our fact sheet here:
globalextremism.org
Geneva Consensus Declaration Fact Sheet
The Geneva Consensus Declaration is part of a growing international campaign to roll back women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Promoting abortion restrictions and a “traditional family,” the GCD aligns with Chr...
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Families building their wealth on the pain of immigrants & refugees should become as reviled as the Sackler clan. Here’s a glimpse at the McConnells & Temples. In a couple of years, these are the folks who will be trying to paper over how they grew their fortunes.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"DepSecDef Steve Feinberg instructed the Pentagon’s acquisition boss & comptroller to spend up to $244 million on Palantir’s services until the end of March 2027. The memo also tells the armed forces to find ways to fund the data analytics giant’s work as needed from April 2027 to December 2028."
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/08/2026
We currently have a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires. This is an existential crisis for American democracy and freedom. My interview with the San Francisco Examiner: www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
sfexaminer.com
Thiel, tech elite chief villains in ‘Nerd Reich’
New Book details tech’s ties to anti-democratic ideas.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/why-increa...
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Why Increasingly Powerful AI Models Do NOT Imply that Superintelligence Is Imminent
(2,500 words)
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Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Palantir has received $3.2 billion in contract obligations since 2024 and roughly half of those dollars came through no compete contracts. www.nextgov.com/acquisition/...
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Palantir’s no-bid pipeline just got bigger
A new $244M Pentagon memo skips the Federal Acquisition Regulation's process for sole-source justifications and urges agencies to find ways to work with the company.
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ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We've said it before and will say it again: "Alligator Alcatraz" was a reprehensible human rights violation that should never have come at the expense of Florida taxpayer dollars.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A motion filed this morning in the "Minnesota 15" case details extensive surveillance of labor unions, leftist organizations and racial justice groups by the federal government during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the motion — reading through it now and will have a story up later today.
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Exhibit(s) 3 – #212, Att. #3 in United States v. Sant (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Discovery by Isaac Auman Sant. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit(s) 1, # 2 Exhibit(s) 2, # 3 Exhibit(s) 3, # 4 Exhibit(s) 4, # 5 Exhibit(s) 5, # 6 Exhibit(s) 6, # 7 Exhibit(s) 7, # 8 Exhibit(s) 8, ...
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is very chilling spyware folks. USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze & monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. Essentially, USA TODAY is partnering with Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers across 200 newspapers.
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government [Trump’s America] to enable them” 8/5/26
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If there's one takeaway from everything I learned from my research and interviews in the last year: It's extremely likely that a large-scale cybersecurity attack will be successfully carried out on US infrastructure in the next year. And it will have been completely preventable.
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Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 21/07/2026
When a government agency’s actions lead to three deaths in a single week, including one in St. Johns County, we absolutely cannot look away. Even one death is too many.
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Letters: ICE hits close to home | Winter Park Playhouse dazzles | 2020 election lies
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The truth is coming out. Just like we said yesterday, ICE is using the same story we’ve seen time and time again. As more facts emerge, that narrative continues to fall apart. Imagine that, ICE lied. Accountability starts with the truth.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.
The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman StoneIt's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
IVF.
I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Regardless of where you stand politically, a free press plays a critical role in holding those in power accountable! Links: cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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CPJ condemns Trump DOJ’s subpoena of NYT journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demands that the Trump administration withdraw subpoenas targeting several reporters from The New York Times after the news outlet reported this week on secu...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The newspaper’s top newsroom lawyer, David McCraw, said the sight of federal law enforcement agents serving subpoenas at journalists’ homes “should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects.”
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“‘Postliberalism’ as a term is really a rebranding of Catholic integralism.” By James Patterson, 12/4/25 h/t @thcarter123.bsky.social lawliberty.org/integralism-...
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Integralism by Another Name – James M. Patterson
Postliberals would much rather spar over definitions than over the ideas and their implications.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/07/2026
The Network State/Freedom City conversation is morphing into a focus on economic/national security zones. There’s a hearing in DC next week where the CEO of Prospera—the Network State project in Honduras—will speak on the issue.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Some have argued that Elon Musk is a mass murderer for having terminated USAID. I examine this claim and conclude that if Hitler—who never personally killed anyone in his life—is a mass murderer, then so is Musk. Indeed, Musk is a mass murderer of world-historical proportions.
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Is Elon Musk a Mass Murderer On Par with the Worst Dictators in History?
Yes, and this shouldn’t be controversial. He intentionally cut aid to the world’s poorest people. 1.6 million have already died and 14 million will die by 2030. (1,000 words)
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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 12/06/2026
Haven't seen use by Elon yet, but we surely will.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Today I was detained by Smyrna Police for being interviewed across the street from Flock Safety's drone and camera manufacturing facility. The giant warehouse and office is branded as "DPR Construction" online and even has DPR logos, I suppose because Flock employee privacy is super important.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Your tax dollars paid for this 3-pane comic strip.
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mle @mlemlemlemle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
this has been a wild week as wee organizer. all good things in terms of help and impact and making sustainable connections but ngl I’m mentally and emotionally spent. and there’s still always so much to do. I think I need to spend just time just snuggling with a really large dog or something idk
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