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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 7h
By raking in $2.2 billion last year, President Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours. And he made the median American's annual income about every 10 minutes.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Our country is being auctioned off to the highest bidder -- and the Trumps are keeping the profit.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
Groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled millions into the fight for control of Congress. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled millions into the fight for control of Congress.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Um. The William Penn foundation offered bridge funding to keep the academy of natural sciences open for a year, and the people in charge said “no one is helping things by offering Band-Aids”. Jesus Christ. share.inquirer.com/KXxZTj
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William Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum open
A Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Get hexed, lovely people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would still like my apology from everyone who thought I was overreacting in 2016
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you want a full rundown of the Academy of Natural sciences situation, this video does a really good job of covering it. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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NerdMichele is reading ASTARION BY T KINGFISHER !!! @nerdmichele.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*makes grabby hand motions*
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know "narcissist" has somehow come to mean "my ex-boyfriend", but now that one's been President for what seems like eternity, can we just take account of the damage that a real one can do? The man has a sense of self and literally nothing else. It would be fascinating if it didn't also kill people
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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NerdMichele is reading ASTARION BY T KINGFISHER !!! @nerdmichele.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*points to EVERYTHING*
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026
I was looking at the website of a dedicated romance bookstore in Devon and saw they had a section called "Books written with AI that are actually worth reading", and when I tell you I was inhaling deeply as I clicked. Should have known better. Props to Moonlit Chapters in Barnstaple, good work.
post reading: Look, if your using Gen AI to generate content in any form, then you need to rethink whether this community is for you.

I've seen an influx of authors, readers and bookish businesses using Gen AI in some form on their socials (and websites)  and somehow i am flabbergasted every time.

We should all know by now that Gen AI steals from creatives. So using it while claiming to love authors is a choice. Using it as a bookish business when you are making money off of your love of books, is a choice.

And its the wrong bloody choice. And you should see yourself out.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watching a sitting US Senator in obvious mental decline have his vote redirected in realtime by an unelected, unknown person really cannot slip by unaddressed. Is there any elected Democrat who could be bothered to bring this up? Look into it? Ask someone at least one question about it?
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The United States of America does not have two more years to give under Republicans.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the right claimed that normalizing the LGBTQ population would lead to the normalization of pedophilia, I had no idea they meant they were going to normalize pedophilia in response to gay and trans people existing freely.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If the money Trump claims to pay is tied to an election result, it isn’t a “cash payment” or “dividend” or “rebate” or “stimulus.” It is a bribe. Plain and simple. Calling it anything else accepts a false premise and helps Trump and Republicans cover up how corrupt it truly is.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.
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NerdMichele is reading ASTARION BY T KINGFISHER !!! @nerdmichele.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I learned my first curse word on the banks of the Salamonie while fishing with my dad. (I spent most of my time playing with the crawdads and collecting rocks/fossils while he fished, of course.) She flows to the Wabash and then on to the great Mississippi River.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026
I believe in calling out Democrats when they say deeply stupid shit and *through clenched teeth* voting for them.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
This is a really good long piece on the human brain wiring that predisposes us to believe in psychics and also in sentient AI. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! “The upper class keeps all the money and pays no taxes. The middle class pays all the taxes and does all the work. The poor are just there to scare the shit out of the middle class.” - George Carlin
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...
Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader 
 

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together 
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."
Other platforms will soon follow, a senior administration official told POLITICO on Tuesday. “We got Lake America changed on Google Maps, and many other maps are changing in a couple days. And Wikipedia is going to change as well,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is a terrible leader. For me, that has nothing to do with his funding. He’s shown little to no courage or leadership qualities since given the position, and I’m not a fan of anyone who would rather work with the right than with progressives.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Now is not the time” comments are flying in like bullets during a school shooting. But moderates took the time to sign legislation to distance themselves from their own Democratic Party members in an attempt to ostracize democratic socialists. Don’t “now is not the time” me.
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The future corporations want. I'd rather throw my cell phone into the Great Lakes.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 05/09/2026
My post from earlier today about the craziness around Anthropic claim notices, updated with both of the notices writers are receiving, and a list of literary agents who are trying to claim a share of payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...
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Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like these: The one on the right invites authors to review and confirm their claims: jus...
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LR Detherage @lr-detherage.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All Americans want is the same kind of healthcare Mitch McConnell gets through the federal government How come he gets to have a slice of the socialist pie and the rest of us don’t? The government isn’t a private company If we don’t get socialized medicine, none of our representatives should
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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NerdMichele is reading ASTARION BY T KINGFISHER !!! @nerdmichele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm blaming the plains focus on my grandpa growing up in Missouri. I wonder if the full quiz would be more accurate? #Hoosier Source: mydialect.us
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement was never a threat to men. Secure men have always understood that. They stood beside women, fought for equality, and some proudly called themselves feminists too. If women having equal power feels like oppression to you, feminism isn’t the problem.
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It is ✨perfection✨.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data centers are noisy, they take out drinking water and emit tons of EMFs all in the same package. And possibly take out jobs.
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John @gemiston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Michael de Adder’s political satire is always spot on! 
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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