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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This press conference was fucking wild. Dude just bragging about his own corruption and describing it plainly
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Surreal to see both sides of this presser all in tuxes
Trump, Blanche and Patel in tuxesWhite House press corps in tuxes (men) and fancy dresses (women)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/04/2026
Republicans spent the last 5 years attacking any sort of attempts to limit disinformation and misinformation and now all of social media is awash in conspiracy theories that tonight's shooting was staged.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Continuing his campaign for SCOTUS, Judge James Ho claims that other countries have "weaponized" mass migration against the U.S., citing a Breitbart conspiracy theorist for the proposition that Mexico is pushing migrants into the U.S. to reclaim old territory. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Similarly, “Mexico’s interest in mass migration results from its hopes
of reclaiming or reconquering . . . the territories it lost to us in the nineteenth
century.” Peter Schweizer, The Invisible Coup: How
American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as
a Weapon 199 (2026). The former President of the Mexican Senate, for
example, recently declared that “Los Angeles is migrant land,” and parts of
America are “occupied territories,” so Mexico should “once again demand
the recovery of these territories.” Id. at 12, 56. Other Mexican senior
officials have similarly stated that “our mission is to organize militancy
abroad.” Id. at 44 (quoting a former member of the Mexican Chamber of
Deputies). And Russia is actively encouraging Mexico in this regard. See,
e.g., Weaponized Mass Migration, 119th Cong. 4 (statement of Matt Boyse)
(“[I]n 2023, former FSB Director and Security Council Secretary Nikolai
Patrushev travelled to Cuba and Latin America and spoke approvingly of our
southern neighbors regaining control of territory in the Southwestern United
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Dramatic video from Getty Images from behind the dais. They actually got Vance out before Trump. www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vi…
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape. Across the 7 states with new maps: —11 districts have shifted toward Democrats; —9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I feel like it's poorly understood that Trumpism is *explicitly* about Trump and his allies getting to play by their own set of rules literally wherever possible
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)
heatmap.news
Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade
The opinion covered a host of actions the administration has taken to slow or halt renewables development.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others? Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Kuwait declares force majeure on oil shipments amid Hormuz blockade, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4vFA2ET
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Kuwait declares force majeure on oil shipments amid Hormuz blockade, Bloomberg News reports
Kuwait has declared force majeure on ​shipments of crude oil ‌and refined products after a blockade of the ​Strait of Hormuz ​prevented some vessels from entering ⁠the Persian Gulf, ​hindering its abi...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/04/2026
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost. And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
theguardian.com
Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles
Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The manifesto is incoherent about public service until you realize that Karp is presenting you with two types of public servants: civil servants fired under Trump, and the tech elites who venture into government. The former deserve your scorn. The latter merit your understanding and praise.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism. But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.
Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability. Civil servants are sworn to uphold the constitution, report wrongdoing to officials, follow the rules. They are in most respects more accountable than our politicians to ethical and legal requirements, and more difficult to buy off. This makes government slower and more irritating for sure, and puts those officials at odds with the Musks, Andreessens, and Karps of the world, whose vision and interests benefits from reduced oversight and accountability.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/04/2026
Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing. And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
bugs that are antibiotic or antifungal resistant are my greatest nightmare. (that and anti science forces destroying healthcare, medicine & education.)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball. You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already. Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
This bit right here. This is John Roberts basically admitting, explicitly, that he is dreaming up a legal doctrine out of nothing because he does not like or approve of Obama's policy:
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
we need to be talking more about the aspect of the chaos gorilla regime where they are financially incentivized to take actions that are unexpected and counterproductive to exploit long odds on the insider gambling apps
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👻 Spooky Cat War 👻 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is a massive environmental disaster and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention or resources as it should, it shouldn’t take the best scientist in the space to point out how dangerous this is to tens of thousands of people, if not more.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/04/2026
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026
As well as being a technically and creatively superb writer, director, and producer of The Pitt, Noah Wyle has spent years supporting nurses and other healthcare workers' unions in their battle for better conditions. He co-created The Pitt as a love letter to Covid first responders, and it shows.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is excellent by Boyle. What CBO and others have pointed out is that millions of eligible claimants will lose vital health care coverage because of administrative burdens. By design! That is the purpose of the bill. It does not target fraud. It just weaponizes burdens against the public.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"hazard a guess" here is Bessent's hedge as he launches into an outright lie
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026
BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss? VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden-- BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16/04/2026
Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context. wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...
wordinblack.com
RFK Jr.: Black Kids on ADHD Drugs Should be 'Re-parented'
The new HHS secretary has several controversial views on race and public health, including forcing Black kids to work on organic farms.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It's funny how if *you* tried selling your own stuff to yourself to get rich, people would laugh their asses off at you for being so foolish. But when a billionaire does the exact same thing, somehow he actually does get richer.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And here's our Feb story, which draws on 10+ individual cases we identified in which ChatGPT or another bot reinforced a user's delusional fixations on another person, leading to domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There is so much to this story.
insurancejournal.com
Electric Bills in Coal Country West Virginia Now Top Mortgage Payments
RAINELLE, W.Va. (AP) — Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2026
the iea at the start of 2026: 2.5 million bpd supply growth projected. the iea today: 1.5 million bpd supply decline. seven weeks of war. the single largest oil supply shock in history.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Where have I seen this kind of argument before...
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Published March 26, 2003.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is a big problem. Lumping together deaths among peds/cyclists and car occupants obscures the extent to which the US fails to protect people outside of cars. Congress & safety advocates should push NHTSA to stop doing it.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why do so many Americans die while walking? To find out, I spoke with University of New Mexico’s Nick Ferenchak, who leads the only US research center focused specifically on pedestrians and cyclists. TL;DR: Fast urban roads are a huge factor, and car bloat amplifies risk.
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Searching for the ‘Smoking Gun’ in US Pedestrian Deaths
Why did American streets get so deadly for those on foot or bikes? A leading transportation safety researcher sees some surprising factors behind the crisis.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/04/2026
For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. to.pbs.org/482NOaK
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How the Trump family's business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office
For the Trump family, business is booming. Whereas the Trump Organization didn’t do a single deal overseas in Donald Trump's first term as president, it did eight in the past year.
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Rigel @rigelr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Synthesis: Dems need to come down on white-collar crime like the wrath of a vengeful God and publicize it at all times. "These are the swindlers and creeps ruining it for the rest of us and stealing your paycheck. We're taking out the trash."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/04/2026
you cannot long run a stable society when the immoral ultra-elite are constantly rubbing everyone else’s noses in their total impunity all the goddamn time
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Convincing women to go on the record by name when they’ve seen that it results in no change — and a lot of people won’t believe them — can take years. One of the named sources in a 2024 story of mine declined to participate in 2017. Eventually, her life and job enabled it. And he’s still in office.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 13/04/2026
On The Climate Brink, I write about different ways of counting heat-related mortality. I think this is important info for everyone who wants to talk about climate impacts. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
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How many people does heat actually kill?
It depends on how you count it
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The disconnect isn't that people are unaware Trump acts like Trump. It's the gap between seeing it as his tongue-in-cheek persona shtick vs. the full unhinged crazypants of his Truth feed, which mostly disappears without being directly shown to normies by either mainstream or right-wing media.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13/04/2026
NEW: Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to Trump’s post attacking Pope Leo. Says he is “disheartened” and argues that Leo is “not a rival” but rather “the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel." www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...
WASHINGTON - Archbishop Paul S.
Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a brief response to a social media post by President Trump on Sunday evening.
"I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls."
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It is legit funny but it doesn’t change the fact that if your mayor went on FB tonight, said that the Pope sucked, and then posted an AI painting of themselves as Jesus Christ performing miracles, they would be removed from office in less than 48 hours.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Every single Republican is a disgrace for standing by him. It's unforgivable. They are watching America die and they're afraid to do or say anything because they decided long ago that loyalty to Trump supersedes all other civic or patriotic or moral considerations.
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