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Miller favorably compared what Trump insiders privately call his “war on terror” against the US left to COINTELPRO, the FBI’s notorious campaign of surveillance and dirty tricks targeting Black civil rights and other civil society leaders

Privately, according to two people familiar with the matter, Miller has (favorably) compared the Trump administration’s actions on this to COINTELPRO, the notorious Cold War-era FBI surveillance programs that routinely violated fundamental constitutional protections. But it’s a little more than a year of his iteration of MAGA COINTELPRO, and Miller wants more – a lot more. The sources add he’s berated other senior government officials about why more left-wingers haven’t been arrested or criminally charged, and why it is taking so long to dismantle certain liberal nonprofits; Miller has told colleagues that it would be an “existential threat” to the Republican Party if the Trump era were to end without the obliteration of the political network connected to liberal billionaire George Soros.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 14h

Meta has censored more than 1,000 pro-Lula accounts during the Brazilian Presidential Election. Evidence shows that the social media giant clearly interfered in the election. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...

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Meta Censors Over 1,080 Pro-Lula Accounts During Brazilian Presidential Election

Evidence shows the social media giant clearly interfered in the Brazilian Presidential Election

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 14h

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13m

"Culture might seem a less consequential right than due process or free assembly. Its infringement makes less spectacular news than police action. In this way, the gross repeal of a right that took decades to build goes unreported." OTD 2025 hyperallergic.com/how-to-prote...

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How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is a great film, The Taste of Things is a great film, Paddington 2 is a great film, Speed Racer is a great film. there isn't just one formula. there can't be.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

A critic's job is to be discerning while at the same time being totally open to even the silliest shit.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

I think what I was trying to get at in my review of SPEED RACER is that if you want to experience the sublime through film, you always have to be ready and willing to fall in love.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

imagine getting an invite to your weird friend's pity party and realizing they've been seething with hatred and resentment for their entire life

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Am I wrong for throwing an "UnWedding"
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44m single and childless and I have an idea for something I want to do next year. I've only shared it with one person who immediately flew off the handle.
Context: At 44 l've been in at least 8 weddings, I've been to countless engagements parties, bridal showers, weddings, gender reveals, baby showers, kids birthdays and more. I've sponsored my people's kids in their jogathons, school fundraiser, etc.
Resolution: I want to throw a "Fun Uncle Shower,"
"Single Life Soirée" the "UnWedding" of the century. I want to create a registry and send invites to anyone who I have ever attended or funded the above events for. My take, if I took 3 days out of work, rented a tux, flew across the country, and bought you a breadmaker, I think you could throw $50 my way or buy me a Starbucks gift card. To be clear it's not just about the money. It's about single people being asked time and time again to hand over their time and money because two people are having intercourse regularly. Single people often pay all their own bills, and have less disposable income, but get guilted into traveling to see people with kids because "it's easier", they get ostracized from friend groups for not being a couple or parent, until their kid is selling wrapping paper. It's time to take a stand. 45, single, no kids? You get a cuarenta y cinceñera. AITA??

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

flayed figure writing HELP ME I NEED INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY on the asylum's tiled wall in blood

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 14h

'mike flanagan's hellraiser' is an idea that haunts me. i see it in mirrors, behind drawn shower curtains, at the bottom of the stairs. the ultimate jumpscare, the end of all hope

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

another normal state of the union from President Diseased Hog Penis

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 15h

They're so cartoonishly, gleefully, proudly evil that it's like being ruled by the Legion of Doom while everyone insists on using traditional titles and honorifics. President Luthor, Press Secretary Cheetah, Vice President Solomon Grundy, Chief Justice Black Manta, world's richest man Sinestro

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is angrier, more erratic, and more dangerous than ever — and those closest to him know it. How close are we to his own cabinet using the 25th Amendment against him? Here's how it might go down.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

as a huge miami vice fan — both original show and Mann's 2006 film — i am a very excited for this. i do hope that these stills aren't indicative of the color palette for the film though. give me pastels and neon please!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

and the basis for this is…an internet conspiracy?

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The claim would be “you were 18, not 17, therefore never naturalized and we can now remove you.”

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And even reporting on this nonesense in an evenhanded manner is to participate in the lie.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And much like the claim that Lisa Cook and Leticia James committed mortgage fraud, it is an attempt to use the press and the judicial process to smear a reputation.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

She was 12. This is a claim that a 12 year old committed immigration fraud.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.

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Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23h

in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 22h

which is why, when Luckey dies;

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Lindsay Owens @lindsayowens.bsky.social · 22h

Great piece on Walmart’s pricing patents in @gizmodo.com from @paleofuture.bsky.social. “But who are you going to believe? The expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s former communications director? It’s a very hard choice.”

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Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing

Who you gonna believe?

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 22h

this shit is so fucking bleak what in the actual fuck

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"You can't say ANYthing anymore." No, edgelord. What you mean is you can't say anything without the potential of a negative reaction anymore. That's been the case for most people always. You not only wanted a reaction, you want to police that reaction. Say what you want. Prepare to be understood.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you tell bad jokes, you might get heckled or booed. Maybe because it's hacky and cringey, maybe because it is cruel-minded, mean, and ignorant. Lots of reasons to bomb. Embarrassing to whine about it. This gang of “edgy” comics are the softest little full-diaper crybabies in the whole world.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Shane Gillis was just telling JOKES." Yep, he was. That was what he finds funny, and now we understand him (and those who laugh) to be the sort of person who finds that sort of thing funny. What's being objected to isn't that he's being misunderstood; it's that he's being understood very well.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 23h

And bonus for those who wonder "how does this look from behind the curtain"... It looks like that 🤣 I have complete software suite around bsky, measuring everything including my own posts/threads etc performance. Redteam is tons of validator tasks set out to disagree with me

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Screenshot of Windows File Explorer in dark mode, showing the folder path This PC > work m2 (F:) > work > bsky-analysis > data > aaron.

The folder contains Bluesky analysis data, including two subfolders (redteam and thread) and 16 files in JSONL, JSON, Parquet, HTML, TXT, and LOG formats.

Visible files include aaron_post_counts.jsonl, addressed_posts.parquet, app.bsky.feed.post.jsonl, app.bsky.graph.block.jsonl, baseline_interactions.jsonl, blocked_interactions.jsonl, seed_noncontact_posts.jsonl, and autoblock-audit.html.

The files are displayed in Details view, with columns for Name, Date modified, Type, and Size. Most files were modified on 13 October 2026.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The boring part, as promised 😅 Every chart, the method, and the limits, including where the evidence is thin: for the live bot alone the gap points the same way but there are too few people to be sure. All from public block records. Nobody is named. claude.ai/artifact/Fiy...

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Autoblock Audit

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Disclosure: I'm on the list. Blocked three minutes after one quote post saying he'd outsourced his judgement to a bot. My only direct contact with him all year. Meanwhile 168 accounts that sent him properly harsh posts were left alone. "Behaviour, not identity" 🥲

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the man who decides how automated moderation treats trans people across this whole platform. On his own feed, with full control and 1,271 chances, this is what he built. Either he called it identity-blind and never checked, or he checked and shipped it anyway.

Grid where each small square is one of 1,678 accounts that replied to or quoted him, filled if blocked, grouped by the harshest post they sent. In every group the trans-identified row is more filled than the row for everyone else: 38% vs 16% for very mild, 47% vs 34% for mild, 71% vs 46% for moderate, 77% vs 59% for harsh.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Maybe trans people were just ruder to him." Fair. So I scored every reply and quote. Very mild posts: 16% of everyone else blocked, 38% of trans people. Harsh posts: 59% vs 77%. Same words, different outcome, at every level.

Chart of the share of accounts blocked, by the harshest post they sent him, comparing accounts whose bio says trans with everyone else. Very mild: 38% vs 16%. Mild: 47% vs 34%. Moderate: 71% vs 46%. Harsh: 77% vs 59%. All levels: 58% vs 32%. Caption: across 1,678 accounts, a trans bio goes with 2.5 times the odds of being blocked after accounting for harshness, plausible range 1.6 to 3.7.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Who is on it? 12.3% of the blocked say they're trans in their bio. Among people who talked to him in the same weeks and were left alone: 6.7%. That's a floor, as most of us don't put it in a bio.

Bar chart of the share of accounts whose bio says they are trans, in words. Blocked accounts: 12.3% of 1,157. Not blocked, interacted since 15 September: 6.7% of 719. Not blocked, interacted since January: 4.8% of 1,114. Caption: that is 1.8 times the rate.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Entirely opt-in", he says. You get blocked for how you talk to him. 46% of the people on that list had never replied to him, quoted him or mentioned him this year. They didn't opt into anything. They were found.

Four stacked bars showing what each blocked account had done before the block. First load, 342 accounts: 283 had replied to, quoted or mentioned him. Second load, 319: 182 had, 60 only used his name, 72 had no contact. Third load, 426: only 71 had, 210 only used his name, 91 had no contact, 54 unreadable. Blocked one at a time, 184: 147 had.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And most of it wasn't the bot. 1,087 of those blocks landed in three bulk loads on the morning of 30 Sept, before he even announced it. He calls that "a seed set of recent abuse". That list was his. Somebody chose it, and it's where the gap is widest: 2.8×.

Line chart of the running total of accounts blocked on 30 September, 06:00 to 15:00 UTC. The line is flat, then jumps three times: plus 342 at 08:23, plus 319 at 08:54 and plus 426 at 12:07, reaching over 1,100. A dashed line marks the public announcement at 12:33, after all three jumps.

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 13/10/2026

"Moms for Liberty is deploying artificial intelligence to monitor school board agendas across more than 13,000 school districts nationwide, giving parents advance warning about controversial policies before local officials vote on them, Fox News Digital has learned."

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Moms for Liberty unleashes AI watchdog on 13,000 school districts to flag controversial policies before votes

Moms for Liberty is deploying artificial intelligence to monitor school board agendas across more than 13,000 school districts nationwide, giving parents advance warning about controversial policies b...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23h

The goal of humanizing trans kids to voters in Missouri is too radical, too dangerous for the main campaign. Their focus is on abortion rights and only abortion rights. They will not speak a word in defense of the families and doctors the Yes on 3 campaign is demonizing.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23h

That tension - of a No on 3 campaign that clearly does not want to defend trans youth or their healthcare at all contrasted with PROMO, who are canvassing against Amendment 3 as part of a multiyear effort to humanize trans Missourians to their neighbors was really poignant to me.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23h

The official No on 3 campaign seems determined not to give an interview to a trans news outlet or even just a written comment. I sent three requests for an interview or comment for this story. They were ignored by the campaign, just as requests had been ignored for two previous stories.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This story wound up focusing a fair bit on the differences between PROMO's approach to deep canvassing as part of the No on 3 campaign, an approach which centers and humanizes trans people, vs their coalition partners whose only talking point on trans youth healthcare is that it's already illegal.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/10/2026

PROMOs 10 year plan is to create a pro-trans majority in Republican dominated Missouri. Is that even possible? How are they doing it? Our EIC @evanurquhart went to St. Louis to find out. Here's his story: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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The Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives… and these LGBTQ+ Canvassers - Assigned Media

For three years they've been working to humanize trans people one door at a time.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23h

New: an AI company now lets cops identify specific houses, using data from Zillow and Airbnb, based on a single photo. It's part of Raven, previously called Geospy. Company previously demoed its tools to catch people vandalizing Flock cameras or protesters www.404media.co/ai-company-l...

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AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo

Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New — I wrote about Republicans beclowning themselves heading into the midterms with clearly bullshit narratives about James Talarico and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and how the favorable conditions for Dems have produced a noticeable shift to nipping deranged stories in the bud.

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Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight

Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas.

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