iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Texas Chainsaw Writing Workshop @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

CNN has a solid, well-funded newsroom, regardless of the network’s editorial slant. a lot of good reporters will lose their jobs, and the public will lose all the stories they would’ve reported. and they are one of the last newsrooms to pay for costly but critical on the ground war correspondents.

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A legally blind, 65 yr-old woman: has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can't afford food under Trump. "The end is coming near. Under Joe Biden I received $80 SNAP per month & was able to put away $100 per month for food. Trump took that away from me." #sheshed

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

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Olivia Little @olivialittle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

TikTok Shop continues to be the wild west of unregulated pharmaceuticals. We found what appear to be black market GLP-1 injectables and tretinoin — both require prescriptions — being sold openly on TikTok Shop www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/peopl...

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People are once again selling black market pharmaceuticals on TikTok Shop

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over. I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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Pam Vogel @pamvogel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Yikes!!! More here from @cynicalzoomer.bsky.social: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/com...

Chart showing that between 1/30/26 and 2/17/26, MS NOW mentioned Epstein 3,321 times, CNN mentioned Epstein 2,304 times, Newsmax mentioned Epstein 1,464 times, and Fox News mentioned Epstein only 239 times in total.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 14/02/2026

This is so spot on

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40
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An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/01/2026

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

Two small children hold signs they made. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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Jaime Montana Cook is at
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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)

The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The single most clarifying piece of journalism about Russell Brand that I've encountered is this video from @abbierichards.bsky.social. She charts Russell Brand's political evolution through his video content, and shows just how profitable a right wing grift can be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4g...

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Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift

YouTube video by Media Matters

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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Great illustration from the Heritage Foundation about how the push to defund the Department of Education is at its heart an attack on organized labor. The word "union" gets mentioned 22 times in like an 800-word blog!

The Pork Barrel Politics of the Department of Education

There is also a key word search that shows the term "union" gets mentioned 22 times

Key Takeaways
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.

Looking at the department’s spending priorities confirms how the department was meant to address the material and political concerns of the unions.

As the pork-barrel politics of the Department of Education are laid bare, the survival of the department will depend on the political influence of the unions.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Fox News write-up of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting nominated to an ambassadorship does not mention her work for the network, possibly because her departure came after she was reported for sexual harassment with Fox paying a reported $4 million settlement.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

if i were a democrat politician i would spend all day every day pointing out that 9/11, the iraq war, the housing collapse, the great recession and covid mismanagement all happened under republican presidents

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Nancy Mace is a "huge attention getter, so this is part of her attention-getting fetish," says Rep. Maxwell Frost of Mace's bigoted attack on Rep.-elect Sarah McBride. "I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about … going to piss and shit." t.co/sBd6rX3NP3

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https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/mike-johnson-mace-mtg-mcbride-bathroom

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

kicking off a new era of transparency in the govt by hiding the report detailing the alleged sexual assault of a minor by the attorney general nominee

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Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It feels really good to be here. It's so important for journalists and researchers to have a platform like this one. @mmfa.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and I hope you'll give us a follow ⬇️ bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Pam Vogel @pamvogel.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

hire bobby: a hilarious, brilliant writer and lifelong friend who i love deeply

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Bad News: I’ve been laid off from mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues. There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

We have confirmed that the TikTok account of a Fox News staffer posted antisemitic comments: "It is hard to talk about the Holocaust and rising anti semitism without discussing Jewish presence in banking."

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Fox News staffer: “It is hard to talk about the Holocaust and rising anti semitism without discuss...

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Elon Musk claims to be a free speech absolutist. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, major newspapers usually (77% of the time) let that claim go unchallenged in their reporting on him and his companies.

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Top 5 US newspapers fail to push back on Elon Musk’s claims to champion free speech in 77% of thei...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/06/2023

The architect of Texas' "bounty-hunter" abortion law is now 1) advising school districts book bans then 2) representing those districts when they're sued over the bans. Never forget: The culture war, at heart, is a grift. tinyurl.com/2hkg2pn3

Mitchell, who did not reply to an Axios interview request, conceived of the 2021 Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks — and empowers private citizens to bring lawsuits against those who violate it.
The plaintiffs are represented pro bono by attorneys from Wittliff Cutter in Austin and a San Francisco firm.
Details: Mitchell's rate is $450 per hour, and the total fees paid to his firm include airline, hotel, meal and taxi expenses, per the documents obtained by Axios through a public information request.

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