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Rati Gupta

@ratigupta.bsky.social
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Actor (Big Bang Theory, Future Man) ~ Writer ~ Content Director @5calls.org

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 10h
Every Republican in Congress who knows that Trump's actions are illegal yet refuse to hold their party leader accountable is another version of the guys in the group chat who say nothing.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt lashing out after his stunt flopped is super familiar to every woman who has ever proved a man wrong.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe instead of Me Too, this round is Fuck Off
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And the men who got away with criminal rape by writing an essay probably used chatgpt to write it
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry but the Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet is the only film adaptation necessary. Ever.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah, the pro-merger bots have arrived
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't really need 30 more movies a year if they're all made to be MAGA and Saudi Arabia oligarch-friendly
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Paramount is still gonna leave Los Angeles.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It gets worse: Dem FCC member: “The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros.” An investment of this size “doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said & made.” apnews.com/article/para...
apnews.com
FCC grants Paramount's indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
deadline.com
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO issued a call for a pause on Ai research and within hours Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. I feel like something happened they aren't disclosing that spooked them. Musk in particular was saying the safety thing was a psyop to regulate the industry just 2 days ago.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Imagine not being able to pay your bills, find a job, eat the food you like, or hang out outside because of the insane weather... and all you care about is 'transgenders in girls sports' The cultish cognitive dissonance it takes to make that make sense.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel like I called this months ago. Dems are gonna take back the Senate, but then Fetterfucker is gonna switch parties to give it back to the GOP
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
The alarms are all flashing red.
Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
​The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
​The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
​The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
​The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
​The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
​The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
​The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Funny how my day, work, and life in general hasn't changed at all from AI being down 😌
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The first sentence of this piece says it all: "After Indiana’s near-total abortion ban, a new study shows emergency room doctors are less likely to treat pregnant women who are bleeding." www.jconline.com/story/news/l...
jconline.com
Indiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And CBS ran a whole bigoted piece about Abdul El-Sayed being problematic for 9/11 related events...
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He's SO GOOD at this
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Performative ethnic cleansing
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thinking today about how when I was a kid, "Dolly Parton has big tits" was the go-to, for years, for every comedian and game-show host who needed an easy laugh, and about how she took that from them, made it HER joke, and then powered past them all. In her way, she understood drag deeply and early.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So this whole promise David Ellison made that Paramount will make 30 theatrical films a year for the next 3 years... You know they're just gonna use all that fresh creative property to train an AI model.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
All the angels are dying while the devils remain 😫
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/08/2026
Hollywood mega mergers hurt everyone except the people at the top. If you read one thing about the potential Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, let it be this: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
“A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing,” contends the comedy writer whose credits include 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Office,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Brookly...
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Republicans could control all 3 branches of government for 100 years straight and they'd still blame Obama and Biden for every failure.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The criticism of Natalie Harp criticism is just the latest example of people infantilizing white women to excuse them of their voluntary complicity.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026
really striking how much centrist commentators basically refuse to engage with political history prior to 2008 in order to prop up tendentious and self-flattering narratives.
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Babadookakis @ryanwu2438.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Karen Bass reelection update: the mayor has come out as anti-taco stand. In Los Angeles.
“I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period,” Bass shot back, adding that she wanted them off the streets completely and in brick-and-mortar locations. Their presence near restaurants “discourages people from going in, just like you shouldn’t have encampments in front of restaurants or in front of schools. You just should not do that.”
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I heard that this was likely coming down the pipeline today but almost couldn't believe it. Like, how insane do you have to be to come out in support of this merger while running for re-election?
hollywoodreporter.com
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Throws Her Support Behind Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Settlement
The mayor previously stated that she opposed the $111 billion merger deal unless jobs were preserved in the transaction.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Read the whole fucked up stupid thing and then tell me if your ability to make 'cool POV-style videos' is worth allowing this shit to be broadly available
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is the natural evolution of Zuckerberg’s first project, harassing college girls by putting their faces next to each other and having the campus rate who was hotter.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is refusing to bake a cake for gay weddings only leftishly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I dunno... a Democratic Socialist candidate for Governor getting nearly half the Democratic primary vote share in WISCONSIN doesn't feel like the big Progressive L the headlines are making it out to be...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
wired.com
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
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