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retailhutch

@retailhutch.bsky.social
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Erstwhile musician. Fascinated by chromatic harmonization in all its forms. Love to say "erstwhile". Oh, and stable democracies.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great ad.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/09/2026
California is showing economic growth and decreasing carbon emissions can go hand-in-hand! The 4th largest economy in the world running 9 out of 10 days on 100% clean energy — two thirds of our energy is clean energy!
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Susie Time @susietime777.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
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The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
It was never the city's most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You know, ordinarily I’d say centrally planned economies are a bad idea. But what if — and hear me out, here — what if we switched to a centrally planned system, except there was only only one planner, and he was a corrupt, senile, 80-year-old man who had driven multiple businesses into the ground?
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Bad Bet on Beef
A new plan to lower prices is causing a rift in his own party.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/08/2026
Donald Trump’s son-in-law used his position to hop in bed with autocrats—and sell out America.
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How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 24/08/2026
In our spring survey, 35% of Canadians said the United States is a reliable partner to their country, down from 83% in 2022, the last time we asked this question.
Chart showing decreasing shares see the U.S. as a reliable partner.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Disturbing @adambonica.bsky.social analysis of the Democratic scam PAC ecosystem and how the tactics they employ are also used by mainstream party orgs and elected officials to take advantage of vulnerable seniors data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I submit this is the most important story of the day. In 2017, a sailor told the President that the old steam carrier catapults were better than the new electric ones, probably in the same way your elderly neighbor says carburetors were better than these new fangled fuel injectors.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
…It means we have reached War on the Sparrows status. przekroj.org/en/world-peo...
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Mao and the Sparrows - Artykuły i Analizy – Przekrój
In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered the killing of all sparrows. The mindless war on birds unleashed terrible plagues, exacerbated the Great Famine, created a fatal chapter in China’s history, and underscored...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
all the shitposting in the world won't change the fact that Trump lost his war of choice in Iran resoundingly and drastically diminished the US military in the process
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One America, where the man on the left is so ignorant he had to pay someone else to take the SAT for him. Another America, where the man on the right is a Rhodes Scholar.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is going to be one of the worst foreign policy failures in all of American history.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/07/2026
Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
"This is more than just a niche issue for astronomers. This is an issue that's going to affect the quality of life for everybody on Earth." www.space.com/space-exploration/sat…
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Private companies could ruin the night sky for the entire world, and international law can't stop them
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly approve space projects that will change the night sky around the world. The international community can do very little against it.
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 16/07/2026
Thanks to our friends at @motherjones.com for republishing this story!
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
Trump repeatedly refers to Zelenskyy as "President Putin"
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/07/2026
Nothing to see here, folks. Keep believing fossil fuel.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Senate said no. The House said no. The votes are not there. And Trump still won’t sign the housing bill. He would rather strip Americans of their right to vote than lower your rent. We see you. We won’t stop shouting out about the evil. #TrumpsHousingCrisis
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today's Second Amendment decision has little to do with law and less to do with history (which Alito ignores or denies as needed to reach his conclusion). It's all about power—the supermajority shoving its preferred gun policy down our throats with brute force. Odious. slate.com/news-and-pol...
These unanswerable questions, like Wolford itself, show what a doomed endeavor Bruen has been from the start as an attempt to do law. Far from restraining judges, the decision gives them maximum latitude to cherry-pick history in service of their preferred outcome—which, for Republican appointees, is usually a ruling against gun safety. This approach to the Second Amendment is wildly inconsistent with state sovereignty and self-rule, allowing unelected judges to topple democratically enacted gun restrictions based on dilettantish historical divination. There is no law to be found in Wolford. It reads not like the work of a court, but of a super-legislature imposing its ideological hostility to firearm regulations on a citizenry that never consented.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When it comes to Trump, he practices politics so differently than the establishment class assumes (he's doing friend-enemy politics & they think we're all doing pluralist politics) that clickbait outrage-y coverage of him usually does a better job conveying how you should understand it
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/06/2026
Trump’s comments on Iran at the G7 summit were “desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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Trump Does Not Understand What He’s Saying About the Middle East
The president’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that he doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
🚨 Happening at the Capitol now: More money for ICE, nothing to improve our lives.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 04/06/2026
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Teapot Dome scandal involved $400,000 in 1923 dollars. Huge scandal, taught in every HS history book, almost the synonym for "corruption." In 2026 dollars, Teapot Dome was a hair under $8 *M*illion. With an M. Not a B. M. The scope of corruption under Trump 2--plus its nakedness--is epochal.
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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Important Mother Jones piece by Jeffrey Winters (excerpt from his new book) explaining why, even well before recent budget cuts, oligarchs felt free to violate tax laws with impunity. For decades the risk of getting caught has been very close to zero. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Oligarchs are robbing America blind, and the IRS is powerless to stop them
The Wealth Defense Industry and its politicians have seen to that.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The United States is being gutted. It’s intentional.
donovanwashere.substack.com
Sabotage or Incompetence? A Whistleblower’s Warning Out of Iran
There’s a new story coming out of the war in Iran that isn’t getting much attention, and that’s where I’m going to shine the light in this article.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Another slap in the face for Trump: Xi walked with Putin and surprised him with a massive painting of the two, symbolizing the brotherhood between Communist China and Russia, while Trump got a handful of seeds for his concrete Rose Garden.
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
thatprivacyguy.com
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
SHAFT
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The white house capitulation dinner. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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The White House Capitulation Dinner
Get ready. Trump is about to stain another Washington tradition. He just might ruin it for good.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I wish more of our media coverage was focused on how utterly lost Trump is. He has no plan, no strategy, and his “leadership” is indistinguishable from your crazy uncle yelling at the TV.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 04/04/2026
“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.”
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
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Sam Ro @tker.co · 17/03/2026
Executives are saying the word “AI” more than they’re saying “earnings” on earnings calls sherwood.news/markets/corp...
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retailhutch @retailhutch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Excellent thread
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
we're...leaving known important targets so we can go back later?
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Merel Zoet @merelzoet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.
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retailhutch @retailhutch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Great Santini. Boo Radley. Not to be forgotten
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10/02/2026
Trump Defends Racist Obama Meme & MAGA Rages Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show youtu.be/vfpQbv7CmeE
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Trump Defends Racist Obama Meme & MAGA Rages Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.

“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Wait ‘til he hears about the guy who reposted it.
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Tracy Daniel @tracydaniel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Oh my god. She’s my senator and another constituent posted this response from her regarding the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Thank you for reaching out regarding the recent tragic shootings in Minneapolis. 1 am truly grateful that
you took the time to contact me.
On January 7,2026, during a confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Renee
Good was killed by an immigration officer in self-defense. On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti was killed.
Like the loss of any American life, both deaths are tragic. I support a fair and impartial investigation of these shootings and expect full transparency from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
My support for law enforcement remains unwavering. As we have seen repeatedly, violent retoric from the Left has heightened tensions and put both the public and law enforcement safety at risk. It must stop. Radical sanctuary cities give criminal illegal aliens a safe haven at the expense of the safety and security of American citizens and our communities. These reckless policies undermine the rule of law and make the jobs of our brave law enforcement officers even more dangerous.
Thank you again for contacting me. Please do not hesitate to reach out if I can be of assistance.
Sincerely,
Katie Boyd Britt
United States Senator
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