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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 9h

New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 23h

Why on Earth are so many Republican men in my news feed every week for doing terrible things to women?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 02/10/2026

I do not believe that the goal of, “the stakes, not the odds“ should result in an answer of “the horses“.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When NPR’s Nina Tottenberg assures listeners that Supreme Court Justices “don’t like being drawn into the [midterm] election.”

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Mark Wahlberg: What?

Alt: Mark Wahlberg: What?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 30/09/2026

What nation would that be?

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 30/09/2026

“THAT’S COMMUNI…..” oh… wait - republicans are doing it. That’s just good policy! (Right?)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

run this as an ad right now

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026

Love Daniel Dale & his work, but this piece is very frustrating. There's nothing in here about *why* Trump behaves the way he does, what it says about his psyche or his personality, how it ought to inform the way reporters or voters should deal with him. It's just, "gosh, he lies a lot!"

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 27/09/2026

Dear Lord, these are The Bad Guys.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 26/09/2026

Well the president of his university did write that big Atlantic piece saying she wanted AI everywhere at Dartmouth. QED

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Suvrat @cablenews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was a fascinating reporting assignment that took me to Texas and beyond my comfort zone. All our lives depend on this tiny rare earth magnet and I saw how it's made and learned more about that business. Full story in comments.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 26/09/2026

Future historians will marvel that during such a terrible time in America that lots of people still dedicated energy to nonsense like salad dressing controversies.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 25/09/2026

I have no idea what they are planning. I do support the public knowing what was given and by whom. I would easily believe public money being withdrawn from those schools and given to others. Just wait

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 25/09/2026

Disappointed to see George W Bush raising money and campaigning to help the Republicans keep the Senate. He can’t stand The Emperor. Yet he does not have the courage to do the right thing, and helps Nero instead. What a failed American he is.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great photo from NYT’s Doug Mills appears to show authoritarian Xi Jinpeng gesturing toward the WH wall where Joe Biden is depicted as an autopen. Xi’s expression, to me, says “even I couldn’t get away with this shit”

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 24/09/2026

What the hell does a councilor mean by “address the disparity?” Take money away from schools that raise private funds? Increase funding to schools without it? #bospoli

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's not possible. In 2025, the smartest person in history took complete control of federal government IT and his "DOGE" modernized and secured everything. Right? Surely that wasn't just a data heist by a billionaire white nationalist and a bunch of 20-year-old freaks from neo-Nazi chatrooms?

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Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records

The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

Never forget (Scott Olson/Getty)

2024 campaign yard signs that says "TRUMP LOW PRICES. KAMALA HIGH PRICES"

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 22/09/2026

Any governor would have done this. She was just late in doing so. So she can be faulted for that.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Empire of Grift

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This, my friends, is gaslighting. Congress is the top three or four of all time only on abdicating its responsibilities.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 19/09/2026

The desire to normalize The Emperor is so great among legacy media publications. The tone and flow of this story is at compete odds with He has said and done. Pathetic. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Behind Trump’s public confidence, his private view of midterms is sobering

In private, the president has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP’s poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 16/09/2026

So they know. Good. They will be desperate and make more mistakes.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 16/09/2026

As @jamellebouie.net has said, our congress has dissolved itself. How pathetic and dangerous.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/09/2026

It’s not a goddamn “branding dispute,” @apnews.com. Do your job.

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 15/09/2026

The Washington Post, The Kennedy Center, and other institutions have made the same mistake. They thought they could reach out to white nationalist America without losing their former audiences. They were wrong.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week on the @wired.com podcast, I talked to @emilymandel.bsky.social. She's out with a fantastic new novel, Exit Party. And just to be clear, any future collapse of the United States is not her fault. Read our interview below or listen anywhere you get your podcasts.

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If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, “Station Eleven,” turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. Her new novel, “Exit Party,” imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-c...

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 15/09/2026

📺 @60minutes.bsky.social is back — and so is "Beat the Press with Emily Rooney. We were watching. Plus: fired Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah wins reinstatement; Maria Bartiromo exits Fox News; and our panel's Rants & Raves. (1/2) scottvanvoorhis.substack.com/p/beat-the-p...

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hillary Is Spot On.......

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On the same day Ted Cruz gets roundly booed by Texas fans, Abdul El-Sayed has Michigan fans running over to shake his hand. Please tell us more about who's popular with Real Americans™

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026

this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 11/09/2026

So The Emperor asked the crowd to raise their hands and pledge allegiance to him personally. It won’t be hard for future historians to see what was happening. Can the media see it now?

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Ed Lyons @mysteriousrook.com · 11/09/2026

Yikes. Well we will keep calling you that.

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