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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

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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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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026

Mark Carney mocks Trump's accordion hands

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KFF @kff.org · 18/09/2026

About 4 in 10 insured adults with certain complex conditions say their insurer denied or delayed coverage for a service, treatment, or medication their doctor prescribed. See more survey findings: on.kff.org/4xYYfqJ

The KFF bar chart shows the breakdown of adults 18-64 whose insurance company either denied coverage or delayed their treatment in the past two years.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Florida Man misses Michigan Senate debate

Abdul El Sayed debates an empty podium as Mike Rogers i guess skipped this debate?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

my coworker lance made this for me and it sparks joy

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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart.

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Erica M @buffgrl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was already getting agitated about seeing more posts like I saw last year from people born pre 9/11. Mocking it, poking jokes. They don’t get it. I still don’t go on Twitter much but was looking something up this morning and found this. And was so grateful the person took the time to write it.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So Mike Rogers can be just like daddy🌴

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/08/2026

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...

Verge headline: Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Illustration of a Flock camera flanked at the sides by instruments of destruction and/or vandalism

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history.”

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

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AI is making everything worse

The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/08/2026

Do you know how to spot covert automated license plate readers (ALPRs)? Here's what to look out for if you're on the U.S.-Mexico border. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“.. We never were provided any opportunity to consent to being used like this,” one journalist said. “We aren’t Air Force or Secret Service — we didn’t sign up for this job to put ourselves on the line to protect the president.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CO GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx got caught taking illegally large campaign contributions, so he told supporters to funnel unlimited money to him through a new online merch site. He wouldn't tell us who ran or it where the money is going... so we bought some merch to find out...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And don’t bet on Chipotle and Qdoba being the only ones who got the salmonella-laced jalapenos. Aug.5: “FDA is working with Coast Citrus Distributors to determine the full distribution of these products. This advisory will be updated as additional information becomes available.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The FDA has a map of the salmonella jalapeno cases. Minnesota and Colorado have the most identified (110), though that might just be a product of those local health departments being more diligent as the Trump regime has decimated federal public health infrastructure.

Map showing the U.S. with cases of salmonella in jalapenos. Minnesota and Colorado have 110 each, Illinois has 30, other states appear to be largely in the single digits.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/07/2026

Mike Collins had a chance to condemn his son-in-law’s antisemitic videos. Instead, he dodged. Jon Ossoff: “We saw this morning a sad spectacle of a crumbling man.”

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 31/07/2026

All the best technologies require special pleading to get users.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

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Gen X was right after all.

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Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art · 28/07/2026

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

Lt the black cat wearing a champagne colored ribbon ruff and a suspicious expression.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026

Bernie Sanders: "People are sick and tired of the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment ... the American people are tired of a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign finance system. They want real change. They don't want Rahm Emanuel and the establishment maintaining the status quo."

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AllThingsDre @allthingsdre.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This whole Taylor farms thing and all the food being infected with parasites. It's actually a very good example of why these conglomerants and monopolies shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to operate under one name and own 30 brands that do the exact same thing

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wind & solar generated 54.6% of Colorado's electricity in March 2026, up from 46% in 3/2025. That's also up from 2% in 3/2006 & 23% in 3/2016! 53-point gain in 20 years! W&S slashed fossil fuels from 95% in 3/2006 and 72% in 3/2016 to 40.7% in 3/2026! 54-point reduction in 20 years! #energysky

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You only get one life. Do as much good for others as you can while you still have the chance.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

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