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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This common view reflects belief in a type of Jewish and German exceptionalism: That no people in history have ever been or will be more persecuted than Jews, and no people have ever been or can be more evil than leaders of Nazi Germany. The view is both ahistorical and extraordinarily dangerous.
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE arrests surge across LA as feds target ‘sanctuary cities’ ahead of midterm elections. Immigration agents are reportedly targeting all immigrants across CA, according to ICE agents who told the Washington Examiner their mandate is to 'go after anybody.' lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-i...
lapublicpress.org
ICE arrests surge across LA as feds target 'sanctuary cities' ahead of midterm elections
Federal immigration agents are reportedly targeting all immigrants across California, according to ICE agents who told the Washington Examiner their mandate is to “go after anybody.”
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not all heroes wear capes.
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pickl3la.bsky.social @pickl3la.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Feeling secure about the November election because Trump is unpopular in the polls is like feeling your jewels are safe because the jewel thief can’t afford to buy them.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red state
votebeat.org
Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026
This is why I say fascism is make believe at gunpoint
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026
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Polymarket #@Polymarket •12h
BREAKING: U.S. military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship over an Al-generated intelligence report that falsely claimed it was carrying nuclear weapons components. — CNN
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 17/09/2026
The thing people need to take seriously is that science fiction threats are also real threats when the people who hold power over you believe in them (though the nature of the actual threat is different)
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at US military bases across eight Middle Eastern countries this year, a new Pentagon watchdog report has revealed. www.businessinsider.com/iranian-stri...
businessinsider.com
Iranian strikes damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings at US bases across 8 countries, Pentagon watchdog says
The tally includes facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The fixation on whether we'll singularity before alignment and the robots will kill us is missing the trees for the forest. AI companies have already disseminated socially destabilizing technology, and we (Americans) handed the power to regulate them to Donald Trump. Happy Friday!
offmessage.net
Killer Robots Aren't The Threat. We Are.
Tech execs made a devil’s bargain with a dim, amoral, vain man, and handed him the Superintelligent, Amoral, Sycophantic Robot Conundrum. We need to solve that problem before we get to “alignment.”
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/09/2026
can anybody write a story about the fascists doing ethnic cleansing that isn't like "we COUNTED how many immigrants were criminals and IT WASN'T AS MANY AS THEY SAID" "Also the horrific state violence COST A LOT OF MONEY" oh thanks i guess that's how we know it was bad
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/09/2025
I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I recently spent several months caring for a loved one with terminal colorectal cancer. In his last two months of life, he had a gastric tube Usually I avoid calling for violence on the Internet for obvious reasons, but both the judge and the agent should be publicly executed
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Burned alive in a Tesla victim .. 175 (Reminder: the $1800 Ford Pinto went out of production for 27 fire victims in 3.2 million cars. As "Most fire hazardous car in automotive history" half a century ago) Tesla now has 175, in 10 million produced .. h/t @teslaqasia.bsky.social
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/08/2026
you're already telling it to not make anything up, why not go the extra mile and ask it not to use any electricity or water
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yesterday far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for nightly killings in Gaza of 30–40 people who he says are "not worthy of life.” Now Palestinians in the West Bank are being marked with numbers. Sound familiar?
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 17/08/2026
Never let yourself become inured to the fact that this is how the people running this country talk
“You mean Pee-Wee Herman? Pee-Wee Herman lookalike?” Trump replied, pulling out his recent nickname for Ossoff. “I would much rather do other things.”

“Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics,” Steven Cheung, the ever-cantankerous White House communications director, posted on X. “Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country. It’s because he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.”

“Jon Ossoff is a cringeworthy, feminine theatre kid cosplaying as Barack Obama. Nobody gives a shit what this lightweight loser says,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said on X, launching a homophobic insult at Ossoff.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
theguardian.com
US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
reason.com
Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They are plotting to steal ballots so they can steal the election. Their plan after they steal the election is to take the rest of our rights away and enslave us.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
White-collar prosecutions actually are at an all-time low, so
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13/07/2026
The defining aspect of Lindsey Graham’s political career was a murderous hatred of Muslims & Arabs so pure and unchastened that he loudly and repeatedly celebrated their deaths in public, because he did not view them as human. And if you think it’s impolitic to acknowledge this, then neither do you.
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pickl3la.bsky.social @pickl3la.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The best way to tell if it’s a foul is to play the video in reverse. If he is helping him up, it’s a foul
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's a fair bet prosecutions of both violent & nonviolent dissidents as always the former is a fascist variation of "heightening the contradictions." As pressure builds & the punishment for nonviolence is same as that for violence, more will turn to violence--which fascism seeks.
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pickl3la.bsky.social @pickl3la.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
No. isaiprofitable.com
isaiprofitable.com
Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/07/2026
"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 30/06/2026
Excellent thread. Please read
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.
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pickl3la.bsky.social @pickl3la.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I hope he is okay
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 30/03/2025
money attracts money like mass attracts mass. billionaires aren't brilliant. even when they surround themselves with brilliance they're just at the center of the accretion disk where reality is distorted and nothing escapes
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 09/06/2026
you can also hear people yelling "get him out of here" before the boos take over
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
More of this discourse. Ask yourself: am I a collaborator?
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