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Josh Piper

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Living the dream of the '90s ~ Frontend Dev who writes entirely too much C# and SQL ~ My tweets are my own #GoJackets

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
In my weekly newsletter, I recreated that terrific testosterone chart from @goodauth.bsky.social and tested some other possible correlates to Trump support. link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 1h
"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you’ve never heard of, one that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Josh Piper @piperjosh.com · 27/09/2026
What is Chris Simms talking about right now? Get out of here with that nonsense.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What about the Hatch Act? Trump is exempt from the Act, but presumably other federal employees involved in creating the ad are not. But the problem again is enforcement. Trump fired the Office of Special Counsel which now has no confirmed leader and has stopped enforcing the Act for Trump officials.
Appropriations law is hardly the only tool Congress has created to police political activity by employees of the executive branch. The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, limits political activities by nearly all federal civilian executive-branch employees. Among many other things, it prohibits all covered employees from using their “official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election” and “engaging in political activity while on duty; on federal property”. To enforce the Hatch Act, the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) renders advisory opinions and can investigate and prosecute alleged violations.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
John Oliver is right: One huge company shouldn’t own your doctor, your insurer, and your pharmacy – AND get to squeeze every penny out of you at each step.
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The view from there: SNL UK's "Weekend Update" tackles Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour.
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Josh Piper @piperjosh.com · 18/09/2026
"Fake till you make it" is one thing when the stakes are low, but using untested tools in critical situations is ill advised to say the least.
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
41 years ago today, David Letterman delivered his very first Top Ten List. We revisited that night and the many lists that would follow with members of the show's staff last year:
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An Oral History of David Letterman's Top Ten List on Its 40th Anniversary - LateNighter
Forty years on, the creators of David Letterman’s Top Ten List trace its unlikely path from oddball desk bit to late-night legend.
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Josh Piper @piperjosh.com · 18/09/2026
This is excellent. Lots to think about here and not just about kids programming. I think there are good thoughts about communicating with others, in general.
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Faster! Louder! Brighter! How the attention economy overwhelmed children’s TV
Does your child’s favourite show give them a chance to reflect, or does it move too quickly for its lessons to sink in?
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Loneliness is all that oligarchs will give you for free. Loneliness without solitude: the ultimate totalitarian win." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you, Sir. #LonnieBunch "After Lonnie Bunch III announced his retirement from the Smithsonian Tuesday, The Root is taking a deep dive into the legacy he will leave behind." www.theroot.com/lonnie-g-bun...
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The Legacy of the Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch III
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder that Lewandowski was a Special Government Employee with a zero dollar contract. Because he saw govt as a graft opportunity for much bigger bucks
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Bay State Wiz @paulrb51.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More reporting from today’s NYT on the escape and coordination of rogue AI agents during testing at OpenAI earlier this summer. This is a deadly serious wake up call for more governmental oversight of AI. Call Congress and demand action. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Gift Article)
A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what Trump means when he says the world knows we‘re “a hot country”
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is so basic. It is not USPS' job to decide whether ballots are eligible or not. That's the job of the state election officials. USPS' job is simply to ensure that the ballots get from election officials to the voters and then from the voters back to election officials. That's it.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whistleblowing takes courage. We honor the federal workers taking personal risks to serve the public interest.
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
The Postal Service disputed allegations by the whistle-blower that the agency had violated several court orders that should have halted work on the plan.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
GATES: “.. In private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and how much better it’s getting, they’re very worried. .. [But] they’re now saying to each other: ‘Hey, man, don’t say that. It’s bad for us — the next trillion dollars we’re trying to raise.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026
One thing I will say: you can give Stevie Wonder his flowers right now. We can cherish him right now.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Josh Piper @piperjosh.com · 25/08/2026
Interesting read
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When the Bond Market Finds Better Places to Shop - Phillips & Company
In the early 1870s, America was laying railroad track at a remarkable pace. The railroads were transforming the country, but somebody had to pay for all that steel, land, and labor. Much of the money ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
I think the tech press bears an enormous amount of blame for this because they continue to cover Musk's announcements as "Maverick CEO Says Thing" rather than "Nazi Says Thing" and a lot of people take that level of normalcy as a signal that he's not really that bad
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Analysis | If Democrats are serious about turning Trump against Kim Jong Un, they must arrange for the US to enter a mutually beneficial trade agreement with North Korea.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No reason for you to believe me, but when this ship was mentioned in last week’s news about the President changing its design, I said to myself, “they’re going to change the name.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026
There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Didn’t age well. Bond market probably wishes it had. [Oct 2024] #DOGE news.bitcoin.com/elon-musks-d...
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Gonna be a big problem as soon as a Dem is in office.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
- Historical - • Projected → Without Bush and Trump tax cuts
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Make illegal now thank you
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"she [jae mordant] understands it now" - lethal shooter @mo333.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026
"This is how wrestlers pop out in WWE"
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fauxnewdalt @fauxnewdalt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it’s sad nobody boomshakalakas anymore
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Kris Evans @krisevans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
PDX rn
Sicko watching bldg demo
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of the most exciting things happening in Portland today is the city desperately trying not to exploding whale this building.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs. But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.
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Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I’m kind of old fashioned in that I think it’s bad for Presidents to pose for pictures with people convicted of seditious conspiracy who you pardoned, who then go to post about hanging people. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Economist covers from three months before Trump took office, and three months after.
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