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🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 6h

another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6h

This didn't come out of nowhere. It was tested on us and normalized on Twitter and Telegram, and when it wasn't Important Elected People, everyone called it a joke

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6h

I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 4h

“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 20h

Thank goodness someone is paying attention to this…FINALLY

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In 1987 Pat Buchanan astutely remarked that "the greatest vacuum in American politics is to the right of Ronald Reagan." That is where the GOP now is. So let’s see where they’re headed…i.e. towards the abyss to the right of Trump. Take Jesse Kelley’s respect for Trump’s “restraint” as an example.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 21h

Hope this diva is having an amazing day....

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thinking about what Arapaho people have to teach us about the landscape of the Plains. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/arapaho-wi...

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Arapaho wisdom

October 10, 2026

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Data centers vs. everything else. Meanwhile, Connecticut and Massachusetts are stuck with massive housing shortages and some of the highest costs of living in the country.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Lionel Ritchie releases “Can’t Slow Down” 43 years ago today — with its single “All Night Long”. “.. I noticed that, anytime I would come on vacation, everybody [was doing] some form of calypso or .. reggae. All I had to do was find that beat that everybody dances to when they go on vacation."

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 6h

Before being was sworn into office in 2025, Trump said he could "understand [Putin's] feelings," and made clear he would devote his presidency to delivering Ukraine to his ally in Moscow. That's one promise Trump has made good on.

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Putin needs Trump's help more than ever

And Trump is signaling that he'll deliver.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Zelenskyy: "Freedom, independence, Ukraine -- we can't lose it. And the truth is on our side."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21h

All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 21h

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.

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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.

Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h

This is how you write a headline.

Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 7h

An op-ed by the guy who should be running the DNC, but somehow isn’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)

The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 5h

If @fetterman.senate.gov doesn’t want to d the work of representing the people of Pennsylvania, then he should resign & give another Pennsylvanian the opportunity to serve. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... Service is a privilege. @johnfetterman.com is wasting taxpayer dollars by not doing his job.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

“JD Vance works for a man who broke every one of the Ten Commandments and committed every one of the Seven Deadly Sins, so I don’t think he has room to call anyone else ‘un-Christian’”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed right now? Take a breath. It means the propaganda machine failed; you see right through the noise. We need your voice, your vote, and your fire now more than ever. Don’t back down. We need you in this fight.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

The countless people who glossed over disinformation and normalized MAHA in any way should recognize this the result of their actions. We no longer have to wonder how the Tuskegee experiments were allowed to happen. We are seeing it for ourselves.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The powerful forces trying to dominate our country want us to fall into cynicism. That way, they win everything — and they'll be able to take it all without the rest of us putting up a fight. If you are worried about the future, you are not alone. I am too. But please do not fall into cynicism.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon

A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21h

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 9h

"Trump is free now. His heart can sing the song he has always wanted to sing, and the American people can no longer deny that the USA is run by a Russian useful idiot or agent of influence. Personally I prefer agent of influence, because vast sums of money are also involved."

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Brett Marion @apresneptune.bsky.social · 7h

Phillips OBrien: Donald Trump is finally speaking his truth. He, and by extension the government of the United States of America, is Vladimir Putin’s friend and partner. Pure, unadulterated (and unfiltered) Russian messaging, being spoken with conviction by the President of the USA.

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Weekend Update #206: Trump Is Free To Be What He Has Always Been

Russian Strikes Against Civilians; Do Ukraine And Europe Understand What They Must Do?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 6h

Cuban Americans in power don’t yet realize that Cubans are the primary victims of third-country removal. Hell, a certain Cuban American former senator is rubber-stamping it! They might think their proximity to whiteness will protect them from this white supremacist government. It will not.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

Under-radar stakes: Supreme Court elections. Justices who’ve upheld restrictions on abortion are up next month in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Texas. Justices who have sided with abortion access are up in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming.

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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 10h

On a positive note, judging by how furious these fucks are and how they've brought out the real big guns to force Ukraine to stop, the strikes against Russia's oil industry are clearly having a very serious impact.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18h

Just read it. Bessent wrote Warren a letter

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
October 9, 2026
The Honorable Elizabeth Warren
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Warren:
Thave received your October 7 letter, which adds to the mounting body of evidence of your complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets. Rather than take my suggestion of studying introductory economics, you have continued your letter-writing crusade and participation in tabloid fodder about the Treasury Department.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to treat your concerns as sincere. As the federal funds rate climbed from near zero to its highest level in 22 years, with inflation hitting a 40-year high, you were a cheerleader for the Biden Administration's reckless spending. You blamed the economic consequences on the Federal Reserve, rather than your own irresponsible fiscal policies. Your view of the economy depends on who occupies the White House, but your woeful understanding of the issues is consistent.
The "interventions" you describe as "unprecedented" have been underway since May 2024. The buyback program has been well received by market participants in bolstering Treasury liquidity, which reduces market volatility, increases the convenience yield of Treasury securities and ensures the best value for the taxpayer. The continued enhancements optimize Treasury market liquidity in primary and secondary markets. The U.S. Treasury market's liquidity and performance versus global peers is evidence.
While you voted for a $5 trillion tax hike on everyday Americans, the Working Families Tax Cuts continue to deliver for families and workers across the country. The average refund this filing season was over $3,400, an increase of 11 percent over the previous year. More than 30 million workers claimed No Tax on Overtime, more than 7 million claimed No Tax on Tips, and more than 37 million seniors claimed their enhanced deduction. More than 34 million families claimed the permanently enhanced Child Tax Credit, and …

These results are made possible by the employees of the Department of the Treasury, who are working around the clock for the American people. Unsurprisingly, you have responded by criticizing their dedication and aptitude for the job in a recent interview.' Despite your malign characterization, the Domestic Finance team you alluded to in your interview is fully staffed relative to historical levels. It is ironic that you have voted against every presidential appointee for a position at Treasury, no matter how impressive the qualifications for the role. Given your newfound interest in Department personnel, I challenge you to reverse course and thoughtfully engage with future nominees and support their confirmation.
Finally, my offer of a Foreign Exchange for Dummies tutorial still stands and if you receive a passing grade on the Yale metric, not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to also include a Fixed Income for Dummies.
Sincerely,
Aver Bout
Happy Indigenous Peoples'
Say in advance to you and your family.

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 20h

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026

Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026

⚡️ President Zelenskyy held urgent talks with the leaders of the UK, France, Finland, and Norway to coordinate a European response regarding the White House granting a sanctions waiver allowing Russian diesel exports.

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