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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
We’re making all Meidas+ news updates completely paywall-free through the midterm elections. Quality information shouldn’t be locked away right now. This may hurt our business, but some things are more important. Spread the word and join us: meidasplus.com
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Read more about the dangerous conditions the whistleblower exposed in Florida:
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Ranking Members Robert Garcia, Bennie Thompson, and Maxwell Frost Demand Answers From ICE on Dangerous Conditions in Florida Immigration Facilities
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We‘ve known the problem for a while now…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s outrageous and a failure of both the institution and a societal norm that consistently makes light of sexual assault.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And we need federal action to ensure that those who commit sexual assault and the institutions that protect them face consequences.
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Bennett Hipp @bennetthipp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, but feels important to note here Angie Nixon isn’t an immigrant. She’s Black. And JD wants Black folks gone too.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
“It’s actually the people who are building [AI] that are the existential risks to humanity. If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?”
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI Company CEOs, AI Researcher Timnit Gebru Says
Instead of being held liable through existing laws, AI companies are making “a ploy for regulatory capture.”…
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guys… I think this is a really bad idea…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
86% of Americans want the release of the Epstein Files. 86%!!! How come more elected officials aren't talking about this ahead of midterms? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Khanna: Epstein files should be one of Democrats’ ‘highest priorities’ if congressional control changes
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Monday the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be one of the “highest priorities” for Democrats if they retake contr…
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sen. Ron Wyden says the FBI has an interview report from an Epstein-linked banker that was never included in the files released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He is demanding the FBI and DOJ turn over the missing report. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/wyden-says-j...
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Wyden says Justice Department illegally withheld FBI interview with Epstein-linked banker
Senator Ron Wyden says the FBI holds an unpublished report of its interview with an Epstein-linked banker and that a 2025 law required its release. The Justice Department had not responded publicly by...
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Saline Indivisible @saline-indivisible.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Won’t someone think of the white men!?!?
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@atrupar.com suggested reading this, so I did. But I gotta say, it’s pretty wild that Time even bothers publishing the incoherent ramblings of a demented racist rich old white man.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. When pressed on the limits of his power, Trump left himself ample room: He would not rule out declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms .. 'I’m not committing to anything,' he says."
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This… is concerning… 🤨
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 30/09/2026
Slotkin Warns Trump Could ‘Make Up a Threat’ Ahead of Midterms: ‘Playbook is Very Clear’
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Slotkin Warns Trump Could ‘Make Up a Threat’ Ahead of Midterms: ‘Playbook is Very Clear’
"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you've never heard of... an alarm bell should go off in your brain" The post Slotkin Warns Trump Could ‘Make Up a Threat’ Ahead of Midterms: ‘Playbook is Very Clear’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
“Trust us, bro” is not a safety plan. We’re racing toward superintelligent AI with the brakes ripped out. Trump is pushing industry self-policing while major tech leaders are warning that AI could pose severe risks to humanity. #GuardrailsForAI
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A text exchange reading
"oh my God did you see Brian's hat"
"Oh fuck. Ha ha ha"
"he looks so fucking stupid. I can't breathe."
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 30/09/2026
We cannot become numb to this. Reporting via CNN
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cis men, read through this thread and take an honest look at how you and the men around you interact with women and girls.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alright, gonna ask a question aloud into the void here and I already regret doing so but: For women especially, what’s the first age you recall being sexualized, by men? I’m a trans dude but I’ll answer (in brief, writing a longer thing on this): I was about 7 …
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Political Profile: Abdul El-Sayed theonion.com/political-profile-abdu…
Ethnicity: Scary-American
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This whole thread! 👇
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith looked the Senate in the eye today: "I will not be silenced." He says his evidence proved criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt, and he'd charge Trump again.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 29/09/2026
The 1st installment of Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lecture mirrored his previous lectures. But he launched aggressive attacks on Pope Leo, AI critics, & the Effective Altruist movement (that he funded). From 2025: What's up with Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession? newrepublic.com/article/2004...
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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rogers: I don’t have to sit here and be insulted like this… I'm just gonna take as many suits as I can grab, get in that random hot-dog car... Ran-dom! ...and drive back to Wiener Hall.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I could not more strongly agree with this take from @jamellebouie.net. youtu.be/NmYspr5wakI?...
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What should Democrats do if they win?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
It’s just a matter of time now, and mostly a matter of when the money runs out. There is no future for Anthropic or OpenAI at their current scale. Hyperscalers need $308bn of annual ai revenue - around the revenue of Microsoft - for 10% return on 2026 and 2027 capex. Could be more with cost of debt.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
To flip the Senate, Democrats need to pick up 4 seats. 5 if you count the Fetterman problem. This can’t be emphasized enough: Michigan is a must-protect seat. Lose it, and we’d need to flip another seat just to make up the loss.
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Naomi @naomiernest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr Oz, everyone
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