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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not really going to post a lot about this because we already know that the squatter in the People's House is guilty as fuck. But, you can see Jack Smith's full opening statement here: youtu.be/B1esQRfJupM?...
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WATCH: Jack Smith's full opening statement in Senate Judiciary hearing on Trump investigations
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NYT Stylebook: "While the term 'fuck-up' is often the most accurate term, we prefer the use of 'misunderstanding' or 'misperception.'"
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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Billionaires should be taxed out of existence. #EatTheRich
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 29/09/2026
Can Democrats build a broad coalition like that FDR created in the 1930s, and remake the nation for the better? The exposure of the GOP's false promises, from Reagan to Trump - and the resulting growing public revulsion - offers a rare opportunity, as I discuss here.
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Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They are associated with Epstein. Robert Mueller didn't care that children were being raped. Have you noticed the die-hard DOJ defenders ignored Epstein for TEN YEARS while defending Mueller/Garland? And now they suddenly care and are contacting victims? They are doing damage control for the DOJ.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and the biden doj shrugged
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billionThe Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THE DEGREE OF TRUMP'S BALD-FACED CRIMINALITY IS COMPLETELY WITHOUT PRECEDENT #25thAmendment #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #DonaldTrump #Trump #TRUMP #FuckTrump #fuckmaga #antifa #FightOligarchy #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Our polling with YouGov shows that 99% of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. And Labour promising to rejoin the EU could stop a Reform UK government. Now is the time to talk about EU membership. www.ft.com/content/a1614884-7c8c-43…
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Critics of the British government were also right when we pointed out that it is actively involved in Trump's attacks on Iran despite openly lying to the public and claiming we are staying out of involvement with his dreadful mistake www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s more of an observable fact than a belief.
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Xavier Mareca @xaviculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Madonna opened the 2026 VMAs. Her first performance there in 23 years with Sabrina Carpenter on Bring Your Love, then brought out Charli XCX for Danceteria Afterhours, their first official collaboration. She led the night with 13 nominations. #VMAs     #Madonna
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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gregcatar.bsky.social @gregcatar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rachel Grant Jam Making
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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Public Enemy#666 @lilithnocturne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We gotta also start referring to them as "mass surveillance centers" and not "data centers." Let's all be real, here.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Reporterre 🌍 | Le média de l'écologie @reporterre.net · 27/09/2026
C'est aujourd'hui que la moitié du Sénat sera renouvelée par les grands électeurs, qui choisiront de prolonger (ou non) le mandat de plusieurs sénateurs, dont certains mènent une offensive anti-écologique. Portraits ➡️ l.reporterre.net/0uF
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If we are talking about Peter Thiel—the nuttier version of Roy Cohn, only out—don't speculate about the young model Thiel was cheating on his husband with, who made a rather Russian departure from life, off a high-rise balcony, after crashing Mr. & Mr. Thiel's party and causing a row between them.
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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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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Iran would like to open the Hormuz Strait, but the US controls the Hormuz Strait so it's a bad deal. Got it.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 26/09/2026
"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime traffic can resume within seven days," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.
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Trump reportedly rejects Iranian plan to reopen Strait of Hormuz
"If the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime traffic can resume within seven days," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/09/2026
Tehran submitted a proposal via Qatar to reopen the strait and resume nuclear talks within a week if Washington agreed.
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Trump rejects Iran's seven-day roadmap to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Tehran submitted a proposal via Qatar to reopen the strait and resume nuclear talks within a week if Washington agreed.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool to see the leadership of basically the entire social media ecosystem close ranks around a literal mass-murdering Nazi
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Corinne Pedulla @cori-hart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
need to create snap elections like other countries have, when the taxpayers lose faith in the elected, they get a chance to change it.... and it should be for senators too. Like when they switch parties, they were an imposter.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know we're all used to Trump embarassing us on the world stage. But we are truly a rogue nation. A rogue *superpower*, and need to be sanctioned and defeated by the international community.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PLEASE NOTE on the recent SCOTUS per curiam decision: existing law blocks most states from purging their voting rolls within 90 days of an election. This decision is not likely to impact the midterms, and also the use of the SAVE program (different from the SAVE act) is VOLUNTARY.
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 24/09/2026
86 all Of these fucking murderers
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A bird stayed right by its friend's side after it slammed into a window, refusing to leave until it recovered.
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No kings @bethwallace37.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Health Care industry will never freely give up $1 trillion a year for Medicare For All. The fight will be epic.
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palmdale4.bsky.social @palmdale4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Medicare for all would mean that the bargaining pool would be huge which would give us much more leverage to get significantly better prices for healthcare and prescriptions. Apply this logic to other problem areas (e.g., insurance, utilities, most public goods/services).
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great Grey Owl Life span 20 years (wild) mate for life At 4+ weeks chicks now climbs on branches being fed only by the male he will continue feeding and protecting the new owlets for up to 3 months. The female is always near by, she has done her part of incubating and staying in the nest of 4 weeks.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I heard rosellas outside. So I grabbed my camera and snuck out the back and waited. Amazingly, an adult and young one flew into my backyard. I wasn't very well hidden so it's a bit of a miracle they didn't skidaddle. The adult went down on the ground to feast on the freshly whipper-snippered grass 😀
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DOJ used the indictment of a former Utah postal worker accused of throwing away hundreds of mail ballots to attack court rulings blocking Trump’s anti-mail voting efforts and promote a broader slate of restrictive voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ seizes on Utah ballot dumping case to attack USPS court rulings, push Trump’s anti-voting agenda
It's unclear how exactly the proposed USPS rules would have prevented the conduct alleged in Utah. The ballots had already entered the Postal Service system when the employee allegedly set them aside ...
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CapeCodCritter @capecodcritter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WTF! These postal workers, if true, must be publicly held to account. All USPS workers must understand what happens to those who obstruct voting. www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
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Utah Postal Worker Charged With Tossing Mail Ballots
Most voters in Utah cast ballots by mail. Nationwide, nearly a third of voters use mail-in ballots.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
War criminal Netanyahu caused the UN Assembly to nearly clear out before he even began to speak. It is beautiful to watch!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In his last UN speech as French president, Macron defended the ICC hours after Trump attacked it, called for a double moratorium in Ukraine, condemned inaction on Gaza and set France up as Europe's alternative defence and tech anchor.
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Macron pledges support for ICC, calls on UN to choose a civilised international society, end impunity
In his last UN speech as French president, Macron defended the ICC hours after Trump attacked it, called for a double moratorium in Ukraine, condemned inaction on Gaza and set France up as Europe's al...
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🎸Paul🎹 @paul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This one got me
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What Mamdani feels like as Mayor in NYC
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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my_random_name @my-random-name.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It ain’t capitulation. The oligarchs/corporations that fund both parties WANT this Which is why the Democrats always “lose” enough votes for his rulings to work.
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