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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 6m
Black Caucus Groups Take $1.6 Million From Big Tech as Caucus Weighs Data Center Stance readsludge.com/2026/10/02/b...
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Black Caucus Groups Take $1.6 Million From Big Tech as Caucus Weighs Data Center Stance
Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, M...
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 14m
Even before her state botched another execution, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.” Green is running a smart, courageous campaign that brings realism and moral clarity to Tennessee politics.
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The Moral Clarity of Tennessee Gubernatorial Candidate Jerri Green
Even before her state botched another execution, gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans that “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.”
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 12m
Josh Marshall: Given how much pent-up desire there was in the world of Big Tech to throw money at things that were manifestly silly, it's hardly surprising that they were willing to spend unimaginable sums once something turned up that actually seemed real.
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Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 14m
Have no fear. Trump is using the one chatbot that has been shown to be fascist. Musk's Grok.
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 17m
Just saw a piece that claims about 39% of those earning $300,000/yr are living paycheck to paycheck. Seriously? Perhaps there are some things they can save money on. Forgo the expensive neighborhood, car, private schools. Even NYC should allow a comfortable lifestyle on $350,000 for family of 4.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26m
Amid allegations of insider trading, bets on military operations, and deceptive marketing practices, some states are seeking to sue or ban prediction markets. But the federal government is suing states that seek to enforce their gambling laws against them.
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Kalshi Is Lobbying States to Fight Off Regulations for Prediction Markets
Prediction market companies say they offer regulated financial swaps. Many states argue they are gambling operations.
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 35m
The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee. www.levernews.com/bulwark-neoc...
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It’s Not A Bulwark. It’s A Plot.
The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 43m
The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcare
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Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing Healthcare
Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them.
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 48m
NEWS: Trump Floats Insurrection Act Before Midterms, DOJ Moves to Clear Nixon, Asked Grok Before Seizing Maduro, Florida is in Play aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
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NEWS: Trump Floats Insurrection Act Before Midterms, DOJ Moves to Clear Nixon, Asked Grok Before Seizing Maduro, Florida is in Play
Good evening.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h
“I ❤️ billionaires,” Rufo told me when I reached out for this story.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2h
We’re honestly still taken aback by Elon advising the Pentagon on the future of wars. Didn’t we all see how badly he failed with DOGE?
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2h
📌BREAKING: The GOP is canceling ad buys in the North Carolina Senate race, because they no longer see a path for their candidate in the state. It's not because elections are rigged, it's because they know they and their historically unpopular president are about to get their asses kicked in Nov.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2h
Very proud my post on Pete Hegseth made press. And yes Hegseth is 100% like an ISIS recruiter in his use of religion to recruit and incite people to violence: www.aol.com/articles/sir...
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SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah compares Pete Hegseth to an “ISIS recruiter” who uses “religion” to “further his own supremacist agenda” - AOL
Earlier this week, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered his “State of the Force Address” to military officers and enlisted service members at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virgi...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
My campaign has held more than 600(*!) events in 110 cities across Michigan. From Escanaba to Eaton Rapids, I see the same thing. Too many places left behind, a rigged economy, and corrupt politicians. New ad:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
Just so incredibly corrupt
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 8h
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h
Jalal Shehadeh, a Miami-based attorney and Palestinian rights advocate, was held for several hours for a secondary inspection and had his phone seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after he refused to allow federal agents to search it.
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2h
“There were at least two direct hits on a school packed with children … and a couple of hours after those initial hits, as first responders came, as parents came, the U.S. launches more strikes.”
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“The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids
Drop Site News released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli ...
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 2h
Remeber: state-sponsored abduction in a foreign jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The best-known use of extraordinary rendition is in a United States-led program during the war on terror,[1] www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya
Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 3h
Check out our newly updated collection of 101 fossil fuel industry documents that Big Oil wants to stop juries of Americans from seeing 👇
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Climate Fraud 101 | Center for Climate Integrity
Big Oil’s Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 3h
Ahead of Monday's arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, CCI President Richard Wiles explains why Big Oil companies are "absolutely terrified" of climate deception lawsuits and desperate to stop them from going to trial. "The evidence of Big Oil’s climate lies is overwhelming."
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Big Oil Fears the Evidence of Its Climate Lies | Common Dreams
Fossil fuel companies are desperate to escape trial in climate deception lawsuits. The Supreme Court should not shield them from accountability.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 21h
Fuckface fired a US attorney by email less than an hour after Seattle's federal judges appointed him, and a judge just ordered the man back. The law doesn't let a petty tyrant pick every prosecutor. Blanche and the DOJ are barred from touching him. Good. Choke on it.
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Trump loses in court again as judge wrecks his power to fire prosecutors
Rejecting a core tenet of the administration's executive power grab, a federal judge blocks the White House from purging independent prosecutors who bypass Senate confirmation.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3h
It’s a mark of the influence of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign that the American political landscape before he ran looks unrecognizable now. Most of the hundreds of socialists who now hold power across the country were directly inspired by it.
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A Decade After His First Presidential Run, Bernie Isn’t Alone
It’s a mark of the influence of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign that the American political landscape before he ran looks unrecognizable now. Most of the hundreds of socialists who now hold power across the country were directly inspired by it.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 3h
In 2024, Missouri voters approved a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Republican lawmakers are now trying to make Missouri the only state in the country whose constitution explicitly ~bans~ abortion.
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A State That Enshrined Abortion Into Its Constitution Is Now at Risk of Losing It
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet...
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 3h
Right before announcing retirement, an admin judge ruled Trump and Rubio can deport Salah Sarsour. But the fight's not over yet. A member of American Muslims for Palestine, Sarsour was arrested by ICE in March 2025, when Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil were also arrested for fascist spectacle.
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A Judge Ruled Trump Can Deport Salah Sarsour. But the Fight Is Not Over Yet.
Legal experts say far right groups conspired with the Trump administration in an effort to deport Palestine activists.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 6h
From J6 insurrection to Schmitt's humiliation, there is a straight line. The latter covered up the former to confuse understanding of Trump's treason. A THREAD.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4h
In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 3h
This is a travesty. We need to break this monopoly up ASAP. www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
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From ‘Harry Potter’ To ‘Game Of Thrones,’ Every IP David Ellison’s Skydance Now Owns
Paramount and WB will soon merge into Skydance, and the studio will now own Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, DC, Star Trek, Mission Impossible and more.
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 2h
Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 3h
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
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There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
Imagine the UK with a 20-year investment plan, with green homes and fast transport. We already have the tools to make it happen, says Green party politician Jamie Driscoll
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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
Abolish the death penalty.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3h
‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how Brazil became a testing ground for information… bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/digital-…
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‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how Brazil became a testing ground for information warfare
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3h
🔴 NEW ‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election By Caroline Orr Bueno Read below. ↓
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‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how Brazil became a testing ground for information warfare
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h
Trump is urging Europe to release diesel reserves and saying that US consumers and businesses shouldn’t have to bear the burden of global supply disruptions, which would probably be an easier ask if he hadn’t spent the previous years telling them they’re useless freeloaders.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by ethical rules."
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The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges
Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
This raises concerns about Kushner’s true motivations in his work conducting negotiations. As a lead negotiator on Gaza, executive board member of the “Board of Peace,” and Trump’s son-in-law, Kushner has enormous influence over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as the future of the enclave.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top negotiator for Trump on Gaza.
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Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military
Kushner’s private equity company is the biggest shareholder in a Tel Aviv firm that invests heavily in arms makers.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6h
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17h
It’s important to note, however, that while WE may have a responsibility to call it out and say “not in our name,” there are FAR MORE Christian zionists than Jews in the world.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17h
Human rights organizations, genocide scholars, and an independent UN inquiry have been crystal clear: What Israel has done in Gaza is genocide. We say “never again” but it has to mean “never again for anyone.”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17h
This guy is getting terrible advice. Whoever is advising his campaign needs to resign. This squishy nonsense isn’t impressing anyone and it’s going to cost him votes. Unsolicited advice: Just speak truth. Be real and unapologetic about it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
"Not disappointed even a little bit, and you knew I was going to say that" -- LOL even Hassett knows he's full of shit
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neanderthal53.bsky.social @neanderthal53.bsky.social · 4h
Trump's dementia is progressing rapidly. A toddler with nukes. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump adds eyebrow-raising new rationale for US war in Iran: ‘They were doing drugs’
‘They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs, but they were doing the nuclear,’ Trump told a rally in Texas
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