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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two sexual predators in a week. It comes in threes...

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Could possibly make a book of my man threads.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The weekend war resumes. It has an extra day also.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/08/2026

I wrote the linked article and didn’t remember this!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2026

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House. (Published May)

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If they had sufficient proof of non-citizens fraudulently registering, to say nothing of voting, they would be bringing indictments. Not issuing press releases.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Gross: Trump is now directly linking grants of disaster aid to states right to local GOP candidates in the midterms, giving them a boost. He's crediting *them* for his decisions. This is supposed to be a neutral process! On the pod, @stevebenen.com lays it all out: newrepublic.com/article/2126...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In Trump’s first term, he used to repeatedly lie that the military had “run out of ammunition” undef Obama. It was such a weird lie, one that seemed impossible under any president. And yet!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/05/2026

The New Right has struggled to “retrofit a consistent ideology onto the electoral power of Donald Trump,” @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. “Masculinism” has been a gift—something that various factions can agree on.

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The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote

Or work. Or have opinions.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm still in favor of bulldozing it entirely, but I think just talking about repurposing it like this is healthy too.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/05/2026

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I know there's a lot going on, but it's odd to me there isn't more of an intense social focus on the wide epidemic of sexual abuse scandals in evangelical churches. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas

Daniel Savala, who preached for decades in an Assemblies of God-run college ministry, was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/05/2026

They're coming after vpns now. The "think it the children" moral panic is going to end online anonymity and subject us all to a surveillance state. www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn...

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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Right, it's important to remember that this is unfortunately a fairly common experience for most presidents, but normally presidents don't spend all their time crying about it in public.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Probably the most logical take.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift. Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows:

"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

abigail spanberger is out here canceling tax breaks for confederate groups and getting rid of confederate license plates and i for one think this is absolutely wonderful for the centrist wing of the democratic party www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u... www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

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Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/04/2026

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It was enjoyable for what it was.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

JD Vance: Do you know who I am?

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

No one knows assholes like him. Only the best assholes like Putin, Netanyahu, Orban, and Xi Jinping are welcomed to the Golden Asshouse*. *formerly known as the People's House or the White House.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs have made it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's signature was on the dollar." Then he burst out crying.

New York Times headline reads: "Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars

President Trump is set to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on America’s currency."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

For years, strategists have warned national leaders against the temptations of "victory disease," the belief that winning battles means they're winning the war. Leaders throughout history have made this mistake, and Trump seems to be making it now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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An Epidemic of ‘Victory Disease’

The president is pointing to the American military’s excellence as though that somehow constitutes a strategy in itself.

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A.J. McDuffee @nebraskanerd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Soon to be followed by Make Cuba Great Again. Anything but doing good for the American people.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

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