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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/10/2026
(staring directly at the camera, unblinking) like i said. bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 30/09/2026
latest DoD manpower data breach just dropped federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...
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More than 3 million people affected by military data breach - Federal News Network
It revealed the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, job specialties and other records of nearly 2.8 million living and 294,000 deceased individuals.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 24/09/2026
“That’s the danger, where it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump hates democracy. He hates free speech & a free press. He hates free & fair elections. He hates an independent judiciary & its duty to justice & the law. Yet he adores murderous dictators, particularly Putin. Who exactly is the enemy of the people? American voters have one more chance.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/09/2026
Today has been a real banger of a news day. Here’s another fun one - the EPA will begin testing drinking water for abortion medications and contraceptives. Sounds like the opening chapter of a Margaret Atwood novel. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-e...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Over a week before October 7, 2023, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and spoke with him for 45 minutes. MBZ warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Netanyahu didn’t brief security chiefs.
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Bob Morris @bobmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Slimy astroturf website pretending to oppose Paramount merger changes your message so it supports the merger, instead of sending what you typed in opposition to it.
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I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’
An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They're deliberately allowing an iconic and historic DC landmark to fall into disrepair so they can justify tearing it down
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is exactly how the right creates popular support for taking away women’s rights. They position anyone with empathy for Clancy as the reason why women shouldn’t vote, serve on juries, have autonomy, or even exist in public. And they use this as propaganda to make those positions seem reasonable.
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Democracy Vibe · by NoMAGA @democracyvibe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Respectable” often means acceptable to the people insulated from the costs. That is why local water use, grid strain and public subsidies get treated as distractions rather than part of the AI debate.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Scott, please take your flag pin off when reading Russian talking points.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He literally bankrolled your entire political career
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A big problem we face is that most Republicans view anyone with a differing political view as a threat to America, an enemy, whereas most Democrats are under the delusion that such Republicans are just political opponents...and not the threat to America they really are.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Met Gala 2027 theme: DOLLY PARTON: QUEEN OF AMERICA You're welcome, Anna.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ken Paxton has now accepted $50,000 from the CEO of The Kent Companies, a major corporation “building data centers nationwide.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026
One of the things that AI allows is for people to take images of very real children and to sexualize them, a thing that has happened in public with some of these AIs. This is very real harm and fuck anyone who says it's not.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fractal incompetence
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So this judge has just stated the quiet part out loud: American women should expect to be raped if they leave their homes; rape isn't a crime against us, he's saying, but a foreseeable hazard of having a job. Who thinks this judge would have ruled the same way had a man been raped at work?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Tonight’s Presidential Hour of Hate is brought to you by the good people of General Motors. Whether you hate transgender kids or are just a garden variety white supremacist, GM is there for you!”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wish I was rich so I could buy a newspaper and run a big headline reading, “Holy shit! Trump is out of his damn mind.”
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Alexander Dudley @alexanderdudley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
As we transition away from paper libraries and blueprints to digital files on software platforms that have shorter support lifetimes, our vulnerability to losing keystone knowledge increases exponentially. We have built our civilization on a house of cards.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One thing that happened after Obamacare passed is that it made it much easier for star workers to leave for startups and the ruling class HATES this (they want entrepeneurship and the pathway to the upper class restricted exclusively to their class and their kids)
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Jean-Luc Picard @voiceofpericles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Not content with selling off the NHS data platform, and all of our medical history with it, to Palantir, Wes Streeting embarks on his next mission. Selling our defence industry to them. @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Are we weaponising smarm? "Don't attack us, or we'll set this irritating git on you."
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026
This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Living in "democratic" America has always been frustrating; it's always been apparent that the people's desires are never a primary concern. But there's rarely been more of a disconnect than there is now with governments' embrace of AI, generally, and especially data centers.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Whoa, it's some actual "law" being applied to Trump and his administration. Didn't think that was a thing anymore.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gift link. It’s as bad as we can imagine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
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ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Biddeford, Maine, State Officials Say (Gift Article)
The shooting occurred in Biddeford, south of Portland. It was the second death in a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent firing into a vehicle.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nobody is obliged to give us “universal immediate complete access to use their bases”, especially if they think we might use them to forcibly seize their territory, based on recent threats.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
I just saw someone say that hindsight is 20/20 on Graham Platner, and let me just say that if you did not see this coming, your vision for such things needs to be checked.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
conversely in the uk, we've seen the appeasement brigade gain full control & fall flat on their faces we need to really drive that point home www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/
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Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 02/07/2026
There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs
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Donors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250, House Democrats allege
The lawmakers’ report alleges that Trump allies worked to divert funds away from America250, a bipartisan effort to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. Freedom 250 denies the allegations.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A sign of our times. Union busting, corporate greed, callous indifference to good people who work hard, all rolled into one. And as a result, Americans will be even less informed about science, at a time when science & scientists are under attack by a hostile government and nihilistic billionaires.
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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dem moderates are acting like enforcing the Constitution, and helping to hold the executive and judiciary in line is somehow a radical position. If that’s radical, sign me up. 12/e
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