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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is the man who decides how automated moderation treats trans people across this whole platform. On his own feed, with full control and 1,271 chances, this is what he built. Either he called it identity-blind and never checked, or he checked and shipped it anyway.
 Grid where each small square is one of 1,678 accounts that replied to or quoted him, filled if blocked, grouped by the harshest post they sent. In every group the trans-identified row is more filled than the row for everyone else: 38% vs 16% for very mild, 47% vs 34% for mild, 71% vs 46% for moderate, 77% vs 59% for harsh.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h
"They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context of this administration’s barbarism."
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The truth about Trump’s plan to bring back execution by firing squad
A veteran death penalty lawyer says it is part of the administration’s “brutality trip.”
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 4h
The USDA was going to tackle bird flu, but RFK Jr. doesn't believe in vaccines, even for the poultry industry www.jezebel.com/rfk-stops-us...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 15h
https://jamiolsworld.com/bio.html
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 3h
I also know a guy still running his original iPhone.
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 3h
My mom’s 6+ kept rebooting & she was going to buy a new one until I replaced her battery.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 4h
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3h
COVID-19: Research updates, October 13 • A new study links COVID-19 to significantly higher dementia risk in older adults with type 2 diabetes. • SARS-CoV-2-specific monoclonal antibody AER002 failed a Long COVID trial. • FDA cleared a new Phase 2 trial of botanical drug FRP-003 for Long COVID.
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Research updates, October 13 - The Sick Times
A new study found COVID-19 was linked to a significant increase in dementia in older people with type 2 diabetes. The retrospective study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience included a cohort...
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 7h
Just to be clear: the intelligence not being shared with Ukraine is not about targets in Russia. It’s about letting Russia target Ukrainian civilians indiscriminately, and not helping Ukraine warn its people so they can survive attacks. Trump is on the wrong side. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Ukraine Says It Received No Intelligence About Strikes 2 Nights in a Row (Gift Article)
Asked about apparent U.S. threats to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which can warn of Russian aerial attacks, President Trump said information continued to flow.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The federal judge considering potential sanctions in the “Broadview Six” case made discovery requests to the US attorney’s office Friday, demanding any written communications with anyone outside the office regarding “investigatory or charging decisions”... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/09/b...
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‘Broadview Six’ judge requests US attorney’s office communications, including Boutros email
The federal judge considering potential sanctions in the controversial “Broadview Six” made her first formal discovery requests to the U.S. attorney’s office on Friday.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 13h
Meta is reportedly calling its massive data centers "experimental" to claim a research tax credit. Try telling the IRS your kitchen renovation was a science project. Or your new car was a lab experiment. That's a rigged tax code.
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ElizabethC 💙🐸 @econklin44.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A GOP political group trying to boost Sen. Susan Collins' reelection campaign mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 on ads targeting voters in Portland, OR instead of ME, according to NBC News. #ProudBlue www.nbcboston.com/news/local/g...
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GOP buyer's blunder sends Susan Collins ad money to wrong Portland
A Republican political group trying to boost the Maine senator’s reelection campaign mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 on ads targeting voters in the wrong state.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 18h
A Texas man whose leg was broken in multiple places after being struck by an ICE vehicle has never met the person the federal agents were allegedly pursuing. "Miguel Parra-Hernandez, 48, suffered serious injuries including a shattered ankle and hip when he was run over in Houston, Texas . . ."
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Texas man run over by ICE has never met the person agents were allegedly chasing
Miguel Parra-Hernandez suffers from serious hip and leg injuries in Houston and remains in ICE custody, according to his representatives
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 19h
I like presidents that don’t laugh when a woman is being beaten up by a man at one of their rally’s
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/10/2026
Matthew Shepard died on October 12th in 1998, 28 years ago. His ashes were interred at Washington National Cathedral 20 years later, in 2018, because before Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson offered the Cathedral's crypt, his family had no place for him that would be safe from desecration.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 14h
Anyone writing a thing about pageant culture, Trump’s ownership of Miss Universe, and the rotation of easy to replace pageant-looking sychofants constantly positioned as the face and spokespeople for the admin? Please take this idea if you can do the feminist and not creep analysis around it.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵
Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
“Of course, we need to educate boys about consent, but we need to reframe the conversation. Why [do some men] even desire sex with an unconscious woman?”
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The uncomfortable truth about consent education
College workshops have largely failed to reduce sexual assault. They also miss the psychological motivations behind rape.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 4h
The long-term consequences of COVID infections can’t be ignored forever. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
Screenshot of a post on X by verified user tern (@1goodtern), published 14 October 2026 at 6:59 AM.
The post reads:
“One day people will have to admit to what covid infections do.
They'll just have to. The trends are too stark.
It will be impossible to avoid the truth any more without completely entering into a world of total unscience and delusion.”
•	The post has 5,290 views.
•	White background with black text and the user's profile picture and verification badge at the top.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12/10/2026
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military, is condemning the proposed livestream of the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan.
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Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"It’s not naive... to believe in our national sense of honor; and to expect our leaders to behave with dignity, integrity, civility, and humility." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 6h
While this will undoubtedly be cool, I think Kash Patel has just done such damage to the FBI brand that I don't want the new X-Files agents to be FBI agents.
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 4h
This from the band that went mainstream w/ their song about the futility of war. I’ll never understand artists who decide to become the establishment. It’s like money completely obliterates any memory of being the rebels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8b...
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Metallica: One (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Metallica
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...
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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case
A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 4h
Saying that it’s bad tech doing things is the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument only in reverse.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h
Banning fraternities does not automatically eliminate the human capacity for violence. It just takes away a setting in which certain kinds of violence against certain kinds of students are demonstrably made much more likely.
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Cornell can do a lot more than pause frat parties
The college is suspending Greek events after a sexual assault lawsuit. Other schools banned fraternities long ago.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h
MAGA voters wrecked Trump in a recent focus group, blasting his taxpayer-funded ad scam as "despicable" and calling him "power-hungry." On the pod, @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com is so good on how Trump's dictator rule helping create an anti-authoritarian coalition: newrepublic.com/article/2165...
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MAGA Voters Turn on Trump in Focus Group Bombshell: “Nothing but Lies”
As Trump voters wreck him in a new focus group, a political theorist explains why a broader-than-usual coalition against corruption and authoritarianism now appears plausible.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17h
Character.AI, which was valued at more than $1b in 2023, is bankrupt. CAI's founders once argued that they were building superintelligence. The startup went on to face wrongful death lawsuits, safety concerns, financial struggles, and user-hated platform changes: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Character.AI is a fascinating case study of the early AI era. It was the first company to face allegations of psychological harm and wrongful death to users, claims that other major players in the industry are now battling too. Yet in attempting, eventually, to make its freewheeling platform safer, it also made it unusable and deeply frustrating for much of its userbase — suggesting that the qualities that allegedly made its platform so dangerous to some young users were the same features that made it compelling.

At the same time, despite immense investments, it struggled to do something that, from a business perspective, is pretty important: make money. And unfortunately for the broader AI industry — and the American economy — that specific issue isn’t unique to Character.AI.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17h
The opposite should happen - Getty images should file for bankruptcy & be bought out by the government, which should discharge its debts in exchange for making a gajillion images public domain
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today on Indigenous People’s Day DHS head Mark Wayne Mullin who claims to be a member of the Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma celebrates by increasing ICE raids on native lands If Mullin actually is indigenous he would know Native Americans cannot be deported from their own lands #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026
its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here is Trump's "policy" about investigative steps before an election: 1. If you are a Republican, there is never a time when such steps are permitted. 2. If you are a Democrat, there is never a time when such steps are forbidden. If legacy media is suggesting anything else, they are lying.
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING: the junta fears ska bands.
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Elly @invalidhandlebunny.bsky.social · 9h
they should make the next vaccine against a global pandemic airborne, all the anti vaxers will walk around wearing masks
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 5h
They do, it just isn't coded as sexual assault by men in denial of homoeroticism, because the men don't identify as anything other than heterosexual, the assault and harassment is just coded as "jokes" or "pranks."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
This Cornell Chi Phi alum's story of being sexually assaulted as a pledge—and his ensuing mental health struggles—has really stuck with me. (Chi Phi is the fraternity where Jane Doe was gang raped.)
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GUEST ROOM | I Lived at Chi Phi in 2012. Now I Say Tear It Down and Build Something New
Jared Hoffman '15 shared his experience as a member of the Xi chapter of Chi Phi. He calls for the tearing down of the Greek system and of the Chi Phi house.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 7h
If you *do* have smart appliances, you should absolutely look into modifying your router settings to allow them to talk to each other but not back home and to not be reachable from outside your network. There are good guides online for things like VLANs, router settings, etc.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. (Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h
How do we raise boys who grow up to be men who will not rape women and who will stand up to perpetrators?
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The uncomfortable truth about consent education
College workshops have largely failed to reduce sexual assault. They also miss the psychological motivations behind rape.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 7h
Update: statement from the executive director of the Educational Theatre Association: (We need a petition to sign!) schooltheatre.org/statement-on...
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Statement on the Cancellation of Little Shop of Horrors at Grand Prairie High School - Educational Theatre Association
EdTA stands with the students of South Grand Prairie High Schoolaffected by the cancellation of their production of Little Shop of Horrors
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8h
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” On the recent trove of math proofs released by the evil robots
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‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8h
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 5h
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Testify Cute
Alt: Marisa Tomei aș “Mona Lisa Vito” from ‘My Cousin Vinny’ is wearing a long sleeved, short black sparkly dress. She is sitting in the witness box with an American flag behind her. She gently touches the podium in front of her and giggles.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah anyone with an energy-related disability can let you know, if we don’t let our disabilities stop us, we can completely ruin our ability to function at all, sometimes permanently.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10h
It's a good evening to review the Save the Academy coalition's action items and pick a few to do tomorrow during business hours (or send some emails tonight) 👀 save-the-academy.org
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 10h
It’s funny bc it’s true!
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Doris “Dorie” Miller was born on this day in 1919 in Waco, Texas. Because of his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he became the first African American recipient of the Navy Cross. His bravery spurred civil rights activists to push to desegregate the U.S. military. /1
Dorie Miller wearing his Navy Cross in May 1942. Miller’s extraordinary valor during the attack on Pearl Harbor forced a reluctant Navy to award him the Navy Cross. However, the myths and structural segregation that relegated Miller to the Messman Branch persisted after Dec. 7, 1941. Miller’s actions gave civil rights activists an undeniable symbol to fight for institutional equality. It took a coordinated campaign by activist networks to force the government’s hand. While the Navy tried to compartmentalize Miller’s award as an isolated exception — even keeping his rank restricted to the mess deck — the activist momentum could not be stopped. His visibility forced the Navy to begin opening up general service training to Black sailors and commissioning Black officers. Ultimately, the public discourse surrounding Miller’s valor laid the foundation for President Truman’s Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948. Photo credit: Naval History and Heritage Command.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12h
The Democrats would be justified in using antitrust laws to smash Twitter into pieces, and use criminal statutes to prosecute its owner for fraud, once they regain power.
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