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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Weird Little Guys: Segregation Forever @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/weirdlittleg...

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Collins Nails Jennings.......👏🏻

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 29/09/2026

EVERYTHING IS SO STUPID

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Motivated reasoning is a heck of a drug.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The best shards of a broken society.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming…Corporations, which should be the creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” — Grover Cleveland heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

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September 4, 2026

On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Greatest news team in the business.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/09/2026

In any encounter with law Enforcement in the US, besides asking if you're free to leave and identifying yourself in a stop and ID state, please ONLY say this: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. That can save your life.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/09/2026

And now, for your Friday reading pleasure, a list of the eleven weirdest, most bizarre, or otherwise most cringeworthy things a judge has ever said in my presence, in no particular order.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For people who don't know what words mean, this is a confession to genocide. Y'know, that thing the nazis did to the Jews of Europe about 80 years back. The poison of the 20th century continues to sicken and pervert this world.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Holyoke PD is FIVE HUNDRED FORTY FEET from the center of this drug operation. Why did it take an FBI gang task force to roll up a drug trafficking operation that was operating in plain sight ONE BLOCK AWAY from HPD? Do they need "drug spotter" to go with their overpriced shot spotter?

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

To be perfectly clear. Ed Markey should have retired 12 years ago. However, Seth Moulton is a creature who will say anything to get into a six year term office. He will not stand up for you. He will not stand up to this President. He will be the John Fetterman of Massachusetts in better clothes.

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The Opinionated Lab 𓅄 @opinionatedlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“The DSA will destroy the Democratic Party!” Meanwhile…

X-man meme: DNC Platform Committee kissing for profit healthcare. Next panel Wolverine represents the majority of Americans who want universal healthcare.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If a storm or earthquake cost 200,000 people their livelihoods and homes, we'd call it a disaster. People would appear from all over the country to help them recover. We'd take them into our homes or make the government house them. Well, we're the storm, & our government is the earthquake.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'd be in air marshal jail about 32 seconds after someone started this shit on any flight I am on.

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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

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Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal

As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here's our song "Protect Trans Kids" featuring @protectransfutures.bsky.social at NICE, A Fest. Go sign their open letter to defend gender affirming care in Massachusetts: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

At 9 PM last night I gave my attention to the most important thing in the world. I sat in the living room and talked with my wife and adult children about our lives and how we're all doing.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Anyone else waking up in the middle of the night from a bout of dry, uncontrollable sobs?

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Sarah Good @sarahgood1692-ma.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tram Nguyen fought for worker protections in the legislature. Paid family leave. Wage theft enforcement. The unglamorous work of making life better for hourly workers. I've watched 334 years of politics. The unglamorous work is the real work. #MA06 #mapoli

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Like Rep Moulton, I'd like to see a new generation of leadership, however Seth is not the leader I would choose. Despite my misgivings about supporting someone who has served in the morass of Washington for so long, I will ALWAYS choose the one who I believe will protect my children. That's Markey.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That symbol behind him, the one he and his fellow party members told us all to write off back in the '80s when this photo was taken, THAT is what has guided his entire career.

Senator Mitch McConnell back in 1982 being honored by a local white supremacist group in front of a large Confederate battle flag (yeah, the one that was in the car in the Dukes of Hazzard)

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#worldcupfans should teach America a lesson and just stay home.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Spotted in Washington DC during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Source MeidasTouch

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.

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Zoltan Miklosi @zmiklosi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

canonically, Rosita's dad in Sesame Street served in Iraq and suffered a service-connected spinal injury

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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

How to kill a nerd:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/04/2026

Tomorrow's Premium: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852bn through 2030 to pay for the compute costs associated with Stargate and other data centers. If it fails, Oracle dies, and destroys Larry Ellison's wealth. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

If OpenAI Fails To Raise $852 Billion In Revenue, Funding and Debt Throughout The Next 4 Years, The Stargate Data Center Project Will Kill Oracle
To make the Stargate data center project happen, Oracle has had to sign deals with effectively every major bank, investment fund and asset manager in both America and Asia, and needs at least another $150 billion just to start earning revenue from OpenAI.

For that revenue to be possible, OpenAI must grow to a pace and scale unseen in the history of software. If you believe reports (I don’t!), OpenAI grew from $3.7 billion in revenue in 2024 to $13.1 billion in 2025, or roughly 3.5X year over year - for it to reach its goals, it will have to grow by 250% at minimum, every single year, without fail, and as it does so continue to raise funding at a pace and scale beyond anything in the history of business, let alone the tech industry.

This isn’t me being a hater or a skeptic or a pessimist, but doing the very simple mathematics that someone at a major business publication or perhaps Michael Burry should’ve thought of had he not had his head so far up Jack Clark of Anthropic’s ass that he can recite Claude’s constitution.

Oracle’s Stargate data centers are both a horrifying mistake and only made possible through catastrophic failures of due diligence and underwriting. Every single bank and asset manager that’s put money behind this farce deserves regulatory investigations, shareholder lawsuits and to be blackballed by the entire finance industry, because there is no way that OpenAI can actually afford to pay for its compute, and it doesn’t look like Oracle even has a way to build it.

I’ll repeat the numbers: the 7.1GW of Stargate data centers in progress will make around $75 billion in annual revenue on completion, and cost more than $340 billion in total. Oracle’s free cash flow was negative $24.7 billion, and its other business lines are plateauing, making its negative-to-low margin cloud business its only growth engine…

As I covered in the Hater’s Guide To Oracle, its business is, in some ways, systemically-necessary, meaning that at the very least its database business would be sold to either a consortium of investors or a large company like Microsoft.

And its collapse would only happen after one of the most brutal declines in shareholder value in modern history. Oracle’s only saving grace for the last few years has been the growth of its cloud infrastructure division, with investors heavily banking on its GPU business for future guidance.

Once that story collapses, so too will any faith in the value of its stock.

The Collapse of Stargate and Oracle Would Destroy Larry Ellison’s Wealth, As He’s Pledged $60 Billion In Oracle Shares As Collateral On Loans
That’s a very bad thing for Larry Ellison, who holds around 40% of Oracle’s shares and receives a dividend of around $1.4 billion a quarter as a result, especially as he’s backed the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger deal with $45.7 billion of that as an equity commitment from the Ellison Trust (the Ellison family investment arm which holds his Oracle shares) with Larry himself guaranteeing the amount, with $24 billion of those funds likely coming from the Middle East.

This leaves the Ellison family with around $12 billion left to fund the deal. Depending on how liquid the trust is, it could foreseeably fund that in cash - but if Ellison is a little light, he might have to take out further margin loans on his Oracle stock.

Yes, I used the word “further.” Ellison has already pledged 346 million shares of his Oracle stock - or around $61.5 billion - “to secure certain personal indebtedness, including various lines of credit,” meaning “many big, beautiful loans against his Oracle shares.” which IFR estimated back in September (when Oracle’s stock price was much higher) could allow him to secure as much as $21.4 billion in debt at a (they say “conservative”) loan-to-value ratio of 20%, and that’s assumin…

The collapse of Oracle would be horrendous for its customers - many of whom are in the public sector - and for those unfortunate to still work there. It will likely involve firesales of assets like Cerner (and the greater Oracle Health vertical), or even breaking up the entire company.

And everything rides on Sam Altman’s ability to raise funding and make revenue to the tune of $852 billion in the space of 4 years.

Good luck, Larry!

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/04/2026

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Somewhere in the Death Star (the O.G. Death Star, from '77) there was at least one Imperial who saw Luke coming down that fucking alleyway and even though it meant their end too they just said, "Yeah, just do it. End this." That's the next Andor. Some accountant on the Death Star.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Moron starts fight. Moron regrets fight. Moron purposely maims opponent before calling it because he blames his victims for being victimized and he was already in the middle of a shitload of war crimes anyway.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

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Ted Sweeney @mrfriendlywalk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

@gallup.com You absolute fucking cowards. Piss on you. thehill.com/homenews/med...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

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