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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 9h
The NYT seems to think objectivity requires tortured euphemisms for clear conduct.
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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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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 18h
It is a constitutional crisis because it’s a violation of the law and the constitution itself. It remains that no matter how many people vote for it.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We're a decade into this and still getting fed "raises new questions" about very obvious and blatant corruption, self-dealing, and authoritarian capture. This isn't journalism. It's an institutional denial superstructure.
Headline: U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies - President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump's envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s short on details, but my first thought is to worry more about the people doing the “experiments”. No, you can’t hurt an LLM. Sounds like people just made an expensive way to run a simple if/else statement with a provocative subject. Why?
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well that sucks. I always kind of liked Trejo.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcare
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Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing Healthcare
Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them.
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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
870 French households are disconnecting from the gas grid everyday. At the current rate the gas grid will be completely abandoned in 38 years. But the rate will increase. France is entering the gas grid doom loop.
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians - by Georgina Woods www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s horrifying that this ridiculous clown is in charge of the US military.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s just so stupid.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And did anyone down the chain from Hegseth to those who ultimately fired the weapons say “no” to these unlawful orders? Not that I know of.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Terrible morals are a KIND of morals.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So he got very publicly and convincingly called out for the lie, and is just pretending that didn’t happen and continuing to spout the same lie? Sigh. The worst part is consumers of right wing media will believe him.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“They do it too!” is a powerful self-justification for crappy people.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horrible. “The Education Department intends to use IRS data to determine students’ salaries four years after they graduate and compare them to those of people similar in age who just have high school diplomas. If they’re below that baseline, that degree will be ineligible for loans.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
ALT: Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tariffs are not “profits”. We are all paying for them. The US deficit is still yuuuuuuge. If the GOP doesn’t win Congress, the alleged giant pile of money just goes “poof” or what? So Repubs have income and Democrats don’t? Huh? We’re not getting $5k checks.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievable. Apparently at the same time Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress, he offered to sell arms to Xi Jinping, despite the fact that China is aiding Iran and Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, so there’s an upside!
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s a crypto-themed bar? lol… that sounds like hell.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only if you share with the interviewer.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Papa Smurf is more advisor than ruler, and they don’t have any government to speak of. There are no police or prisons. They don’t even have currency. They’re obviously libertarian socialists!
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Among other things they claimed, and I swear I’m not making this up, that modern translations had wrongly added “socialist” ideas and that the Bible promoted free market principles. I guess Jesus died for capitalism.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah yes, they were working on their own Bible translation because they considered existing English language versions too liberal. I don’t know if they ever finished that little project.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
JFC. I wish Cleese had kept his mouth shut and we could just remember him as a funny Monty Python guy.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House says it banned Politico for using anonymous sources. One of the examples it cited was their own background briefing in which the White House itself provided the anonymous official. @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Regarding impeachment, they did not anticipate that so many in Congress would completely abandon their duty to the country and prostrate themselves before an autocrat.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why did I read his entire quote? He’s just so stupid. It’s depressing every time I read or hear the crap he says because it’s so very, very stupid. This idiot is the President of the United States. Sigh…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump Tax is very real. We’re all paying for his pointless war.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On the one hand, yes. On the other, there will certainly be very close House districts where a little tampering could swing it and of course voter restrictions they’ve already enacted could. Also, control of the Senate will likely hinge on some close races.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Does he think AI s basically Brainiac?
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Brainiac DC: Powering Up
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m always saying this.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carville sure loves going on Fox News to complain about progressives. That only serves to reinforce the Fox narrative that Democrats are scary commie libs. He should stop pretending to care about getting Democrats elected.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m glad that I don’t know who this choad is.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They kept dinosaurs at the castle?
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
High probability one or more people would have their phones out recording it.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ehhh. I’m very skeptical for multiple reasons. I’ll need more evidence than Yang citing an unnamed “head of an AI lab” to buy it.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Families and attorneys were already struggling to find detainees for days or weeks at a time. ICE is now disappearing far more people.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In short, ICE agents beat a guy, then left him lying injured on the pavement and drove off when they figured out they had the wrong guy.
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, I’m not getting too excited about driving a plugin hybrid with these gas prices. The price of diesel means virtually everything is getting more expensive.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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