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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5h
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ok, I just assigned myself the job of watching the SC Senate debate: www.c-span.org/program/camp...
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's great to have a sitting Senator who thinks the President can pick and choose what laws to follow. But that's Republicans in a nutshell.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Damn, Shane Gillis' monologue really was bad huh?
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Darline Graham on the devastating Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill: "Count me in. I'm all for it." #SCSen
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tbh when she ran the first time in SC-01 she was really bad. Like, I get my feelings hurt and be mad online about it because she was running against Mace. I've heard rumors the last week of the campaign she barely campaigned at all, went boating. She's been a hell of a lot better this time, still.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Are there any high quality SC-01 polls?
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's funny, because this is her legacy now. She will forever be tied to whatever harm this does.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Redwall? It's been a long, long time since I've read those, so I'm not sure.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Baloo is gunna get a talking to.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.
screenshot of a post that reads "Not to be all "you're getting sold" National Guard troops spend all day standing in out of the way corners of DC. Not great that they're standing in front of a ballot drop box, but c'mon, people, use some common sense. They're not stopping anyone from dropping something off." it is a quote-post of a post from the DC Council that says "this is clearly not acceptable" and features a photo of national guard members standing around a ballot box in Foggy Bottom
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is a concerning overlap between the studious education man demo and the getting sucked in by and AI is inevitable demo. Don't know if that's him but, I've noticed it.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When you think about things like that, and the fact that stuff like that happens on a pretty regular basis, the modern world can be pretty neat.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I honestly don't imagine that this is too far off. This state is this state.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I never really blocked ads before, but as more and more of them are AI slop, I've gotten real liberal with the block button.
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Jenny Doesn’t Know @jennydoesntknow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Prescription strength cheesecake
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW @wired.com: Elon Musk's America PAC is focusing its war chest on key Senate races this cycle -- overall spending 3 times as much on digital ads and mailers hitting Dems as defending GOP candidates amid cratering support for Trump's record www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the first things she says in this is that work for her, as a designer, has slowed down. She does talk about how AI is built on theft. However, at no point does she, nor the interviewer suggest that her work for her has slowed down due to AI, built on theft, being used for bad design work.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you’re a government employee or tech worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know nothing about this, but reading the name Octopus Energy just reminds me of this Standard Oil political cartoon I saw in a million history textbooks.
A political cartoon where a giant oil tank with standard oil written on it is also an octopus, reaching its tentacles to Congress, politicians and more.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That and the Obama era EPA regulations that accidentally helped turbo size more and more trucks and SUVs that needs to be redone.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As someone in SC I am not sure myself. Tbh I think looking at SC-01 and the Senate race, since those returns will come in fast, will give some idea how the rest of the night will go. SC-01 was gerrymandered more, to try to prevent a Cunningham repeat, but the race seems tighter.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Star Wars: Now There Are Two Of Them Meme
Alt: Star Wars: Now There Are Two Of Them Meme
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Based on what I have read, Digger is either a cunning bit of political satire, or just that last panel of that one Matt Bors comic.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a visibility thing. The ATVs are more rural, not on the roads, not in the suburbs as much.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We are now decades deep into the Republicans intentionally creating a media bubble that is self reinforcing to itself, and actively punishes anyone who protests its orthodoxy and self-invented mythology. So, yes.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank ya
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was excited. Then I saw the ads. I feel like if you could map out sentiment, you'd see many such cases.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What story is this? I have never read Dredd but have always been interested. I know the Democracy one is bandied about.
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once again, Newsome is giving every other Democrat who runs against him in the 28 primary hammers to metaphorically beat him with in any debate.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 01/10/2026
several Watergates-per-day for this administration wapo.st/4yqSpyn
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have thought about this a good bit. How many times have people in the White House generated AI slop and shoved it in his face to get him on board with their ideas?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Again, only <Republicans> get to talk about US citizens, let alone human beings, let alone other elected officials, like this. Which is why it's so exhausting to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & everyone else tell Democrats that they need to moderate & stop talking funny & reach out to Real Folkz.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is one of those things I have thought about for a long time. We need to talk about all forms of Greek life in colleges.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stick a salad fork in it.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a soulless existence these folks must have. "Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts!"
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The smug self assurance is just *chef's kiss* for how utterly stupid things are.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like seeing pictures of Smith at the game he was actually at.
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Simpsons: Steamed Hams Aurora Borealis
Alt: The Simpsons: Steamed Hams Aurora Borealis
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What are you doing to volunteer and make sure people vote? www.mobilize.us
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize
Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and...
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Nicholas Venture @nicholasventure.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plus, it seems like more and more of their staffers are increasingly radicalized far right gyopers/straight up neo-nazis. But, a lot of times journalists have to be chummy with staffers in order to get sources.
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