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T. Otal Filthman

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city trees @citytrees.bsky.social · 17h
Even on defense, Ossoff is never not attacking. And not just attacking—he's laying traps and rakes, then preemptively calling Collins a coward for not stepping on them. It's really next level. I don't care how hard anyone handicapped this for Ossoff—he still beat expectations imo.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think Ben Collins needs to address the fact he has an actively pro-October 7 Nazi-level racist working for him and whether he’s going to tolerate this on top of everything else.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I still feel like the president blithely referring to Americans as the enemy should be a bit of a story.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump, a rapist and best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, told reporters as he left the White House for a rally in Alabama that he felt badly for the Cornell Seven, the men accused of gang rape, and called the special prosecutor on the case corrupt.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I guess this is an apology, which is something, but is there any reflection on how you're turning into a Nazi or just "I was mad." Because a lot of us are mad and not becoming Nazis, so that part is just you.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Such an incredibly pathetic form of cosplay. Doing stolen valor from Islamist militias to scare your mom.
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
like idk. something has to give. they vent their hatred on us more or less constantly, bragging about abandoning us during plagues, sending fascist paramilitaries to kill our neighbors, surviving off of our tax revenues and calling us parasites. i try not to want revenge but. but.
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know, I have to say, I think it is very bad that the Onion's social media manager, functionally the company's public face in online spaces, is engaging in outright hate speech on main. bsky.app/profile/leth...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is obviously a national-scale story, is it being reported anywhere but the Phoenix New Times?
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"charging" Zohran Mamdani with the genocide in Gaza is such an amazing place for this movement to have ended up. and the fact that no one there actually believes it just makes it extra beautiful somehow.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
hmmm do we think maybe there's been some cheapening of the framework around genocide here if it can encompass the pro-Palestinian mayor of New York City.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The biggest problem with covering Trump is that he hates this country and has essentially been an enemy combatant for decades. But he has supporters and so we don’t say that because it seems rude. And then we twist around trying to make sense of the president saying many times in many ways
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
American evangelicalism isn’t so much a religion as a lifestyle brand for right-wing authoritarianism. But insofar as it still pretends to be taking guidance from the scriptures it projects its rancid politics into, Jesus is sort of inconvenient. Doesn’t sound much like Trump or Andrew Tate.
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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
in this post and the quotes you can very clearly see the tendency of people who want susan collins to win another term as punishment for platner winning the primary
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's so easy to let this horror become normal.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
does this mean we can stop the largely unmotivated freak out about this race?
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's unclear to me what problem the breaking of the two-party system is supposed to solve
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good case from @dickpolman.bsky.social that this man’s selfish short-sightedness set us on path to where we are today. Excruciating insights on the wreckage of a legacy. dickpolman.substack.com/p/ralph-nade...
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Ralph Nader is still a pariah. He deserves to be.
Tilting the ‘00 race to Bush was his original sin. We’re still suffering the consequences.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know it will be a close race because of what parts of Texas are like, but it’s nice to see Talerico run like he’s 20 ahead. More dems should
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
"Dual-class shares should be banned outright, or even better, heavily taxed in proportion to their control over the company." prospect.org/2026/09/30/h...
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Here’s a Way to Stop Silicon Valley Megalomania - The American Prospect
‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How can you argue that a a campaign he’s is an official act? Send him to jail for this!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
A HUGE shout-out to @mattafiedler.bsky.social. BOTTOM LINE: a: Nearly all *actual* ACA fraud is due to *broker* fraud, not enrollees b: 35% of enrollees not filing a claim in a given year is NOT remotely shocking c: Even if they *were* phantoms, kicking them off wouldn't save that much anyway.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump and Co. conducted a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States out of its presidential election — ie attempted an autogolpe, or "self-coup" — was in the public record. The facts and the law were never in question. Only if America would follow them.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026
he can’t do this, it’s completely illegal, it would cause inflation to spike even more, and even promising to do it is an impeachable offense, which is how this should be reported
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Love Daniel Dale & his work, but this piece is very frustrating. There's nothing in here about *why* Trump behaves the way he does, what it says about his psyche or his personality, how it ought to inform the way reporters or voters should deal with him. It's just, "gosh, he lies a lot!"
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.
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Harry Heymann  @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Investigate DOGE @investigatedoge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Elon Musk and his DOGE operatives ran roughshod over our government...& created real-world disasters that impacted 100s of thousands of lives. We need lawmakers who will commit to issuing subpoenas & launching immediate investigations into Musk’s actions...” www.aol.com/articles/adv...
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Advocacy Group Demands Congressional Pledges To Investigate Elon Musk’s DOGE - AOL
An advocacy coalition known as the Investigate DOGE campaign is urging congressional lawmakers and midterm candidates to commit to formal investigations into the Department of Government Efficiency, t...
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It just shouldn't be that hard for democrats to come out and say explicitly "everyone involved in this ad stole from the US people and will face criminal investigation for it." Yes Trump can pardon them because our system has a literal get out of jail free card, but the political impact is real.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It definitely says something about me: I’m over 40 and don’t frequent bars.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Somebody replied to this with, in essence, "This sounds like a you problem," but today, two separate vehicles blew through a red light when a whole crowd of people -- including my fucking 3-year-old -- was waiting to cross. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness, but this is not a pedestrian problem.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's insane that they keep referring to the people with the policies as the fraudsters; it makes no sense. If there is any fraud it is health care provider companies inventing fake people to receive the ACA subsidies. Big corporations with a few people doing crimes. If they exist send them to jail.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For the statement “the Democratic Party is more evil than it was in 1996” to be true you have to assume “evil” includes some combination of LGBTQ rights, expanding healthcare, criminal justice reform, abortion, and green energy/climate
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
i think we are going to learn that there are a number of people in and around this admin who committed no shit, capital T treason and there will be strong incentives for the DOJ to prosecute them
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.
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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.
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T. Otal Filthman @newcartographer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The list is obviously wrong but it's pretty interesting how I feel like I have a very clear picture of the people that put it together just from reading it.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ok my guesses in order of likelihood a) Holmes breastfeeds in front of the cameras b) incredibly odd late night interaction that feels like an invitation to a threesome for NF c) NF says fuck it, hangs dong.
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