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M. Sims

@peltast1.bsky.social
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The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat... Politics / USA / Canada / Tech / Civil Liberties. Veteran. Not on anyone's team except for good governance. You can have billionaires or democracy but you cannot have both.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 4h
WashPost: Taxpayer funded Trump political ads seen by many as illegal draw on government cash that was in part devoted to "memorials for officers killed in the line of duty."
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h
They made seven arrests—and earned $14 million. See how local police are cashing in on Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Exclusive | Police Score Big With Little Work in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Department of Homeland Security pays local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 23h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's super duper awesome how Carney has given Liberals cover to jettison everything they once believed about the environment and climate change because all the environmentally destructive acts and evisceration of protections are accompanied by expressions of dedication to environmental protection.
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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
$20 million represents the total income tax payments of 1,053 households. A thousand American families worked full time for a whole year just to pay for Trump’s campaign ads.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eh, none of this is true. Biden was the most Zionist president ever. Never came close to doing anything that might have slowed down Israel. But I guess it's expedient now to pretend that he might have. I'm nearly going to go on a diet next week.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
None of these LLM data centers are now or will ever pay any taxes.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
A woman who filed a lawsuit saying she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house told campus police that she could "say with 100% confidence I was raped."
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Transcript shows woman told Cornell police 2 years ago she was 100% confident she was raped
A woman who filed a lawsuit saying she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a Cornell University fraternity house told campus police that she could “say with 100% confidence I was raped.”
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
China taking action to keep its people sane: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game?
Beijing has cracked down on AI chatbots that can replicate human relationships. Experts are asking if this is the right thing to do.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"to ease administrative burden"
To maintain members’ privacy about where they stay, and ease the program’s administrative burden, House officials decided not to require receipts.

That means the reimbursements operate on an honor system, though members cannot expense more than the daily rate that the federal government allows employees to spend on lodging, meals and incidentals while traveling in the Washington area.

For 2025, that rate fluctuated between $183 and $276 per day for lodging, depending on the month, and was $92 per day for meals and incidentals.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026
“On March 11, 1990, Patricio Aylwin was inaugurated as Chile’s first democratically elected president in seventeen years. One of his first acts in office was to establish a committee to investigate human rights abuses committed during the dictatorship, gather a list of victims, and compensate them”
liberalcurrents.com
How Chile Recovered Its Democracy
A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
seeing their names next to trump’s like they run sovereign states is a real cyberpunk moment
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absurd incompetence. There's no reason to turn a computer system off for two weeks in order to make changes, and this would never be accepted in any context affecting the rich or powerful.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is going to be pretty funny, as all of the corporate CEOs now have to make a choice - do they want to sound like an idiot loyal to Trump, or normal and disloyal? They can avoid talking about Lake Ontario but not AI/SI!
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lying. It didn't used to be this way. Today, nearly every single person with any power - every official, every politician, every CEO, every talking head - is just lying about everything all day long. About everything! It wasn't like this! People used to lie, but circumspectly! They didn't
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the villains are never punished, there's no reason to ever obey any 'rules'.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
two startups trying to IPO out any day now are literally responsible for a multi-billion-dollar assault on basically everything worthwhile about society, it's maddening
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bernie, no! Stick to minimum wage and unions!
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of course these guys should fuck off and die but I just want you to notice how the right-wing pays their people and the left absolutely does not. Half of the right's fighting strength is just people following the money.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
real improvement in their lives, if the billionaires aren't taxed, if the institutions aren't rebuilt.... if ANY of these are neglected, then the edifice collapses.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's a path to fixing the US political system but it requires a bunch of critical actions and if any of them are neglected the whole thing fails. If Congress doesn't retake power of the purse, if Congress doesn't retake power from SCOTUS, if villains aren't punished, if the public doesn't see
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The chances of North Korea ever invading Canada are zero. The chances of the US doing it are quite high. If a national security advisor doesn't grasp that, they're not a very good advisor.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every day OpenAI and Anthropic put out another press release about how their software is so powerful it could destroy the universe (buy into our IPO), and every day a couple of accounts on Bluesky post about how all these stories prove it's NOT a press strategy.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
> print "I feel pain" > I feel pain Oh my God, the computer feels pain!
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The USA has no functional regulatory system for any regulated product (food, drugs, water, air, securities, workplaces, automobiles, literally anything). There is a certain amount of inertia in existing production systems meaning that quality isn't currently zero but it's headed there fast.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
forbiddenstories.org
The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do not know how to convey to people that ~1/3rd of elected Democrats, including all of leadership, like Trump and want him to win, and you will not be able to get ANYTHING done until you've removed those people from office.
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hell of an act, what do you call it? “The only democracy in the Middle East”
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M. Sims @peltast1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Note the chyron - Dem elected will be playing ball with these freaks in a few hours, smiling and laughing it up. The adversarial press is the other team.
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