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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/10/2026
A federal judge just ordered the Trump regime to STOP spending taxpayer money on the challenged TV ads—and cancel scheduled placements, including tonight’s. The administration must report back within 24 hours confirming compliance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
We’re making all Meidas+ news updates completely paywall-free through the midterm elections. Quality information shouldn’t be locked away right now. This may hurt our business, but some things are more important. Spread the word and join us: meidasplus.com
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Democracy Dies in Cowardice @savedemocracy25.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great source of independent news now free thru the mid-terms….
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
uh…what the fuck
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 28/09/2026
Ex-South Park writer launches ‘Cornell 7’ website against accused rapists: ‘Nobody to tell me I’ve gone too far’
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Ex-South Park writer launches ‘Cornell 7’ website against accused rapists
‘I have no limits. No boundaries. Nobody to tell me I’ve gone too far,’ satirical writer Toby Morton said with the announcement of TheCornell7.org website
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
Beyond the fact that it’s incredibly illegal and corrupt to use taxpayer dollars to run political ads on television, there’s another problem with re-running old ads like this: the messaging only reminds everyone what a fraud you are.
Black-and-white image of Donald Trump standing in a hallway from a recent ad he ran on TV with taxpayer funds. White subtitle text on a black bar at the bottom displays what Trump’s voiceover says in the ad: “we will expel the warmongers from our government.”
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 24/09/2026
Trump commercial ‘paid for by the US government’ running on Fox News raises eyebrows
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Trump commercial ‘paid for by the US government’ running on Fox News raises eyebrows
The intense 30-second ad aired on Fox News and comes amid the administration’s media ban
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So, it turns out that now CNN and CBS News are under the control of the Ellison family, they are considering asking Elon Musk to join them. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
President Trump has a habit of rolling out the red carpet for our adversaries, while punching our allies in the mouth. He made the decision that it is okay to sell our most sophisticated chips to China.
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Axios @axios.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters
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White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters
CNN is set to be the television pool for President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House on Thursday evening.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seriously?
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 23/09/2026
“This is pretty simple physics. This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a little catch and kill. as a treat.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 23/09/2026
President Donald Trump disclosed 1,156 securities transactions made on his behalf in July, totaling between roughly $79 million and $270 million, CNBC calculated. cnb.cx/4yPHQoi
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On September 20th in Austin, Texas, a DoorDash driver was shot in the back by ICE officers. His wife and attorney have been denied access to see him. This is Trump's vicious and violent America. Status Coup's Phillip Hawkins explains.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
People aren’t buying what Trump’s selling on his own social media platform these days. Brutal.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“.. a striking rebuke of the technology from a state that, more than any other, stands to benefit from the industry’s continued growth. More than three quarters of registered voters (77%) said advanced AI is likely a threat to humans ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Studiously impartial C-SPAN calls for the Trump administration to immediately restore White House access to the journalists of CNN, MSNOW and Politico.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
Emiliano Tahui Gómez
@emilianotahui
X.com

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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such
 
He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such. 

Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
dreaming big here but maybe they could even stop having dinners where he’s the guest of honor
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Ryan Fonseca @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exclusive reporting today from each of the news outlets that the president says are now banned from the White House. (Links below)
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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't really follow politics
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Raoul: The president is a combination of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. He needs a brain and a heart, and Congress is a Cowardly Lion that needs courage to stand up…
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
nytimes.com
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
these people work less than trump does
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The Detroit News @detroitnews.com · 16/09/2026
Fox 2 went forward Tuesday night with a televised U.S. Senate debate that only featured Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. Here's why.
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Mike Rogers refused to debate Abdul El-Sayed on Fox 2. Here's why
Fox 2 went forward Tuesday night with a televised U.S. Senate debate that only featured Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. Here's why.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell ‘got 92 days of paid’ leave but ‘a mother gets none’: Internet trashes senator’s absence
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Mitch McConnell ‘got 92 days of paid’ leave: Internet trashes senator’s absence
McConnell cited the lingering effects of childhood polio as a factor in his slow recovery
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
NEWS: Rep. Ashley Hinson’s financial disclosures show her reported assets have climbed substantially since she entered Congress, including a multimillion-dollar private stock holding tied to her husband’s former company.
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Ashley Hinson's Net Worth Has Increased 15x Since Coming to Congress, Including Earning $1M Last Year From a Stock She Claimed Not To Have
Hinson continues to make big money off of a stock while campaigning against stock ownership by members of Congress
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Norfolk Southern’s CFO “said fuel prices at the present time are like something out of ‘science fiction.’” $NSC
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CNN @cnn.com · 15/09/2026
Pennsylvania reports fourth measles-related death, marking the most fatalities the US has seen in decades amid a rapidly growing outbreak. cnn.it/4AglPAL
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
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