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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h
"We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," Worked for: Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil Javier Milei in Argentina Nasry Asfura in Honduras Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia
Cerimedo told Infobae on 10 May 2023 that his team had created close to 50,000 fake accounts "just for Argentina". "We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," he said. He said his team had also "intervened with accounts that made comments" during Mauricio Macri's 2019 campaign. Infobae ran the interview under the headline: "We have some 50,000 artificially created accounts to generate content and influence the conversation on social media."
Eduardo Bolsonaro travelled to Buenos Aires in October 2022, between the two rounds of Brazil's presidential election, on a trip organised by Cerimedo's team, and recorded videos there for his father's campaign, Agência Pública reported. Eduardo's re-election campaign paid R$3,900 to Giovanni Larosa, a Cerimedo employee and La Derecha Diario correspondent, for propaganda work. On 4 November 2022, five days after Jair Bolsonaro lost, Cerimedo broadcast a livestream titled "Brazil Was Stolen" to more than 400,000 viewers. The hashtag #BrazilWasStolen went viral the same day, boosted by a cluster of newly created accounts, the Progressive International reported. Members of the plot to stop Lula taking office later cited Cerimedo's claims as evidence the election had been stolen.
Carlos Torres, the La Paz departmental prosecutor, said a search on 20 August 2026 of a property linked to Cerimedo found "a mini bot farm". Juan Santana, a Chilean opposition deputy, has asked Chile's electoral service whether Numen SpA, Cerimedo's Chilean company, appears in any campaign spending report, El Ciudadano reported. Gustavo Petro, Colombia's former president, has alleged that Cerimedo ran about two million fake profiles in Colombia's June 2026 presidential vote.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/10/2026
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
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Trump Urges Republicans to Vote by Mail
"President Trump, who has long staged a rhetorical and legal assault against voting by mail even as he used the method himself to cast his ballots, released a video on Saturday urging Republicans to…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate News
As preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
@saletan.bsky.social makes the case against Trump and looks at evidence Jack Smith brought up in a deposition last year: “  If you think that Trump believed the election was stolen…DOJ officials told him that they didn't believe it was stolen…He knew he was telling them to lie.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
nytimes.com
The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next week, SCOTUS will hear args in Boulder's climate lawsuit that says oil giants deceived the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels & should pay for local damages. A few things to know, ft my convo with @ishan-thakore.bsky.social @lesleyclark.bsky.social @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social
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Three things to know about the upcoming Supreme Court climate case
The broader implications if Exxon and Suncor get their SCOTUS reprieve from state climate lawsuits. Also, what to make of a justice’s 11th-hour recusal.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump operative Cerimedo jailed in Bolivia, accused of ordering a hit on pregnant ex, and facing money-laundering and drug-related investigations. US then targeted the prosecutor investigating him; Bolivia's pro Trump gov arrested prosecutor days later.
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Bolivia arrests prosecutor on Trump ally Cerimedo, accused of beating, ordering hit on pregnant ex
Fernando Cerimedo ran right-wing campaigns on Brad Parscale's software, posed with Trump Jr. and says he arranged Trump's Honduras endorsement. He is jailed in Bolivia, accused of ordering a hit on hi...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/10/2026
Glaciers in Switzerland — the home to the most in the Alps — lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. to.pbs.org/4hoUYLy
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Swiss glaciers lost more than 5% of ice volume in 2026. Heat waves and low winter snow accelerated the thaw
Global warming is wreaking havoc on Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fascists don't believe in peace. Peace doesn't help them. No authoritarian regime ever wants peace. Liberal democracies want peace. Peace helps them. Every liberal democracy wants peace.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's all related. Fascist regimes are full of criminals who destroy the rule of law and use power corruptly. bsky.app/profile/jenm...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FDR v. Stephen Miller
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Trump's $5000 vote-buying scheme illegal? Let's have a look at the text of the law prohibiting "expenditures to influence voting." Join us live on Substack at 8:30 pm ET. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Is Trump's $5000 vote-buying scheme illegal? Let's have a look at the text of the law prohibiting "expenditures to influence voting."
Starting Oct 3 at 8:30 PM EDT
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
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 inter...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every few months NYT runs headline article about Jared & Steve’s multi-$billion corruption undermining US foreign policy, then NYT spends months treating Jared & Steve running US foreign policy as completely normal…daily pro-Jared narrative infinitely more impactful than isolated pro-truth articles.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Over on Xitter, there's a really interesting new schism between those clinging to conspiracies about the pipe bomber and those who learned differently.
General Mike Flynn
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This situation surrounding Brian Cole MUST be addressed immediately. This is down right abuse of a person with special needs. 
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Dan Bongino celebrated this…

He’s no better than Christopher Wray.

The agent doing this was the head FBI agent in my case SA Nick Hannak.

Shameless and disgusting. x.com/sarahiscensore…
Dan Bongino

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Dear General,
You’re a fraud. It’s way past time to tell people who you really are, and why you do what you do. They need to hear it from you. Have some dignity and tell the truth. Stop disgracing the uniform.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
nytimes.com
Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Skylarker @peppermacaroni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can your campaign please stop sending me text messages? Every time I block and report as spam, your campaign sends me another text message from a different number. These robo-text messages are very annoying
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Turnabout is fair play... grab 'em by the paycheck.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 1988, California banned public financing of elections — one of the best methods to counter the power of Big Money. Voters can restore it this November by voting YES on Prop 4. Watch.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“.. The watchdog found no wrongdoing by Mr. Powell or his colleagues and it affirmed that no referrals were made to the U.S. Attorney General.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026
The oceans are warming at an alarming pace, bringing far-reaching consequences for which the world is unprepared, according to a report by more than 100 international scientists. cnn.it/4xTUz8G
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Via @birdyword.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2/ Meta found guilty of lying about Cambridge Analytica & hate speech, violence + misinformation policies. Now they face up to $219 billion in penalties. It took years (and a lot of begging to be believed, while leaning on those who came before me for strength), but the public has finally spoken.
techpolicy.press
Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Measles: What is likely going to happen in Florida (and much of the US) as MMR vaccination has dropped below the threshold needed to prevent outbreaks? Hundreds of deaths in the next 5 years projected throughout the US. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Farmers and agriculture experts agree that the farming sector is in a painful recession. Farms are dealing with record-high diesel prices, trade disputes have cut off access to vital markets, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have sent fertilizer costs soaring. cnn.it/4z38Z7l
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PANTHEON: “.. We now expect headline #CPI inflation to average 3.5% in both Q3 and Q4, up from previous forecasts of 3.0% and 2.7% ..”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Dr. Bandy Lee explains why she believes the MAGA movement can be understood through what psychiatry calls a “shared delusion or shared psychosis,” warning that emotionally driven delusions can spread rapidly through a population: “You do not even need physical exposure for the symptoms to spread.”
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: Federal Court blocks Trump Admin attempt to misuse homeland security funds to force states to bend to its efforts to interfere in local election processes. Big win for our clients, partners, and American voters. @protectdemocracy.org
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Skylarker @peppermacaroni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More terrorist attacks from terrorist Russia as they bomb a hospital in Kyiv and the Science Academy Every single day Russia carries out mass terrorist attacks across Ukraine
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
According to Corporate Media, the rapid success of Don Jr. & Eric's new defense contractors, while their father is president and starting absurd wars, is about 1/1000 as important as Hunter Biden selling a few pieces of art.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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