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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request. Lithuania/Canada were also pressured to withdraw…days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website.” So the US used disinformation to undermine a disinformation conference telling the truth about US disinformation.
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
propublica.org
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy. Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference. Or both.
Hurricane Erin from spaceLa wildfiresFlooding in SpainFlooding in Calgary
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/07/2026
Fifa reverses suspension of star US striker after call from Trump ft.trib.al/ratGVPf
ft.trib.al
Fifa reverses suspension of star US striker after call from Trump
Decision to drop red card against Folarin Balogun clears him to play World Cup match against Belgium
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/06/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Denis Goris
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/04/2026
The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Worthing Climate Action Network @worthingcan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The criminalisation of direct action climate protests in the UK is counterproductive. New findings suggest arrests, fines and lengthy prison sentences given to nonviolent climate protesters who have blocked roads or damaged buildings may actually radicalise them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds
Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct action
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/04/2026
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." - Elie Wiesel
nobelprize.org
Nobel Peace Prize 1986
The Nobel Peace Prize 1986 was awarded to Elie Wiesel "for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is it, right here, right now. The whole game. All his voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other election cheating has led to this. If Trump takes over elections, it’s game over for democracy in the United States. If the people aren’t willing to shut down the country over this, it’s over.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/02/2026
In my newsletter: A free-to-read link to this story and the full kindergarten deportation call drewharwell.com/stories/a-fa...
drewharwell.com
A fake deportation tip line exposes the "banality of evil"
He made a parody hotline for reporting "immigration violations." Then a kindergarten teacher called.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
ysaatio.fi
Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Do you get it now?
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Monster Slayer Quinn @gypsy--1639.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ICE is detaining children and sending them to Hell camps. Shindlers list comes to mind. ICE will not allow any inspection of the concentration camps. This is child abduction and child abuse! Anyone with children should imagine the terror ! The boy kept asking if he could just go home!!
Photos of ICE detaining children.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I’m aware that some are unfollowing me because I’m posting “political” things (that’s a bizarre word for the evil and insanity that’s happening). To each their own. I find it surreal that other urbanists are just posting normal city-building content like everything’s normal. It sure as hell isn’t.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 28/01/2026
Bord Bia chairman Larry Murrin is expected to be asked to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture to discuss his company Dawn Farms' use of Brazilian beef in some of its products.
rte.ie
Murrin to be asked to appear before Oireachtas Committee
Bord Bia chairman Larry Murrin is expected to be asked to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture to discuss his company Dawn Farms' use of Brazilian beef in some of its products.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 25/01/2026
Police mistakes happen, and they're big news. But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century. And it's happening. And it's not being reported as what it is.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower.” “With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.” Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social
wired.com
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
… Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background
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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When they lie this obviously & shamelessly about their murder victim, a neighbour who was helping his neighbours and was attacked for it, when there’s video EVERYWHERE showing the ridiculousness of their lie, then you know for sure that they’re lying about literally EVERYTHING they say. Everything.
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Joshua Channing @jcmcmlxxxvii.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/01/2026
Not to market my premium newsletter too much, but I *JUST* wrote about how fucked Oracle is www.wheresyoured.at/premium-time...
Oracle Is A Giant Time Bomb With A Huge Penis Drawn On It
I cannot express how stupid Oracle is.

It signed a $300 billion deal with OpenAI back in September of last year that requires 4.5GW of capacity that Oracle does not have, and has taken on $248 billion in lease obligations on top of it. Oracle does not have the cash to support these operations. It had negative $13 billion in cash flow last quarter, raised $18 billion in bonds, that $38 billion debt package for Stargate Shackelford and Wisconsin has yet to close, and Blue Owl — the loosest legs in data center funding — pulled out of Stargate Michigan in December, with nobody else stepping up to the plate as of writing this sentence.

Here’s the thing: for any of this to work, OpenAI has to become profitable within the space of two years, and do so at a scale where it is able to afford $30 billion or more a quarter in compute costs. To give you some context, Microsoft Azure makes around $75 billion annually, and AWS $115 billion. OpenAI, in its best-case scenario, made around $13 billion this year, and Oracle will be charging it at least $25 billion in the next year if any of this compute is actually made available.

There is literally nobody else to step in if OpenAI dies. Nobody. Nobody is spending this much on compute. Not a single company is coming close. Anthropic apparently spent $6.8 billion on compute in 2025 (I think it’s more personally), and even in its wild “never possible to afford” dreams of $30 billion to Azure and tens of billions to Google Cloud isn’t going to spend $300 billion in five fucking years.

Every quarter, Oracle’s debt expands. It paid $1.057 billion in interest in its last quarter, up from $933 million in the one before, and $892 million the quarter before that.

In the middle of 2024 (its Q1 FY2025) — just before NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs started shipping — Oracle had $23 billion in PP&E. As of its latest quarter, it had $67.875 billion, likely almost entirely made up of NVIDIA’s GB…This is not a situation where Oracle “works it out.” GPUs are destroying its gross margins just as its software business begins to contract, and its largest customer for this unprofitable business segment is OpenAI, the company that does not have any money and in fact loses it all.

The longer the AI bubble inflates, the more it seems like Oracle is in threat of actually defaulting on its loans and collapsing. While there are plenty of counterparties that might step in (and a President who’s very fond of Larry Ellison), Oracle’s current cash position and business setup is one that is ticking so loudly I feel like I’m being stalked by the fucking crocodile from Peter Pan. 

How does this fix itself, exactly? OpenAI, Anthropic, they’ve got all the venture capital and fluff in the world to substantiate their nasty little games. Oracle is a Big Boy company that’s meant to be able to stand on its own feet that’s committed to expanding its physical footprint in a way that can never be fixed.

And just like the hyperscalers, Oracle’s depreciation is swelling every time it brings online any number of GPUs for whatever Stargate monstrosity it’s committed to. Remember, Stargate Abilene is meant to have 450,000 B200 GPUs, and according to one of the two CEOs that Oracle has, only 96,000 have been “delivered,” which is not the same as turned on. Eventually these fucking things are going to start dragging down Oracle’s earnings, and there is literally no answer as to how to fix it.
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Kerfal @kerfal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hey Wired, do you want to maybe fucking mention that they're also now collecting information like your sexual orientation, whether or not your trans, and your citizenship and immigration status? Kinda burying the lede with "Oh no they're tracking your location" like every fucking app does.
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/01/2026
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
wired.com
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
💥Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary is BLOCKING a joint EU statement on Greenland. After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
9 days later and here is how it is going
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
In case you still think Elon Musk ever cared about climate change and the environment.
cnbc.com
Tesla is sued over air pollution from factory operations in Fremont, California
A California nonprofit has sued Tesla over what it calls the company's "ongoing failure to comply with the Clean Air Act" at its Fremont assembly plant.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
DELETED After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
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IGN @ign.com · 17/01/2026
Get another look at Relooted, the Africanfuturist heist game where you plan for high-risk missions. The targets? Real African artifacts, like the Cameroonian Bangwa Queen and the Ghanaian Asante Gold Mask. Relooted launches February 10.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hey uhhh Reuters kinda fucking insane that Trump just said, of the midterms, "we shouldn't even have an election." Why is this the last line of your story and not the lede??????? www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
Reuters excerpt at the end of the article:

"MANAGING MIDTERM EXPECTATIONS

The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year's midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the party in power lose seats in the second year of a presidency.
"It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."

Reporting by James Oliphant; Editing by Ross Colvin, Colleen Jenkins and Lisa Shumaker"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.” That’s an insult to 5-year olds. A dangerous and corrupt moron.
dailymail.co.uk
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They want us to stop using the words fascism and Nazism and racism because there is a reason those words exist and they are the reason
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/01/2026
All five political parties in Greenland's parliament have issued a rare joint statement rejecting US President Donald Trump's threats to take control of the Arctic island, according to Greenlandic national broadcaster KNR.
rte.ie
Greenland's parliament issues response to Trump threats
All five political parties in Greenland's parliament have issued a rare joint statement rejecting US President Donald Trump's threats to take control of the Arctic island, according to Greenlandic nat...
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The headlines out this morning that Elon's X has restricted the ability to create sexualized deepfakes appear to be false. "Grok readily complied with our requests to edit or generate a variety of images, including a full 'nudify'" www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
theverge.com
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ICE agent's name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
startribune.com
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.
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