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Tad Suiter

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Comics, History, and Media Studies. Confused as to why so many people refuse to just be nice to one another.

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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 2h
I'm officially "hurt yourself sneezing" old.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 9h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
More directly, “Should I forward any of the child sexual abuse material that I am forced to encounter in the course of carrying out the duties of my role to HR or legal or both, and may I CC my own legal counsel when I contact the appropriate authorities?” Raise the temperature. Make them say it.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
You can be brief: “Hey boss, you know Musk forces his account on everyone on Twitter, and he retweets a guy who he pays to be on there who makes child porn, and who has been suspended for it before, but who Musk wanted back. Can you verify that I’m supposed to be there for when he does it again?”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
* Mention that X has been banned in multiple countries over this * Ask whether your emotional or legal risks from exposure to this kind of material will be covered * Confirm that they know Musk restores the accounts of, retweets & PAYS those suspended for CSAM violations www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...
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Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 22h
This is a great piece, well sourced and well written. That said, it's beyond sad that there isn't a version of this written by a man and citing only men, because everything said is demonstrably true, and everyone should just be accepting it as true.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Does the president have the unilateral authority to tear down large parts of the White House?

No. Federal law does not give the President unlimited power to demolish or rebuild large parts of the White House on his own. I cannot give legal advice.
Main legal limit
• Congress has plenary authority over federal property and the District of Columbia.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't think Trump has actually used the new AI-powered "America.gov" portal...
Screencap from America.gov: 
Q: Who won the 2020 election?
A: Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 US presidential election. 
Official Electoral College results (National Archives)
*Biden: 306 electoral votes
*Donald J Trump: 232 electoral votes
*Majority needed: 270 of 538

Link: 2020 Electoral College Results | National Archives

The Federal Election commission's offical compilation of state results lists the same electoral totals. Link: Official 2020 Presidential General Election Results (FEC PDF)
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey—Are you an undergrad looking for ways to improve your grade? One thing that makes the professor grading your work more predisposed to grade your work in a good mood is GETTING THEIR FREAKING NAME RIGHT. This sounds stupid, but trust me, a lot of your classmates aren't doing this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright
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David Knowles @writerknowles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Via Wikipedia: The Nazi regime used the concept of "fake news" by weaponizing the German term Lügenpresse ("lying press") to dismiss independent journalism, foreign reporting, and critical facts as deceitful enemy propaganda.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No major TV network will be showing Trump cutting the ribbon on his new White House helipad today. C-SPAN also just said it's out.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gosh, if only there were some kind of professional organization for White House journalists that existed to advocate for the First Amendment and defend the freedom of the press. They could organize together as a united front against Trump's censorship. That would be something.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this won’t happen, but the entire WH press corps should walk out. Trump craves attention and is obsessed with his coverage. Not covering his Oval Office Lie Sessions would hurt him more than just about anything.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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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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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31194322/ In 17th century London, dental infections were the 5th or 6th leading cause of death. A toothache was somewhere between rolling a d6 and flipping a coin, on whether you'd die.
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Oral Facial Infection of Dental Origin: A Guide for the Medical Practitioner - PubMed
Dental infections originate in the tooth or its supporting structures and can spread to the surrounding tissues. When facial structures are compromised, the infection originates from necrotic pulp, periodontal pockets, or pericoronitis. Dental infections have always been common and were one of the l …
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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Straight out of the dictator’s playbook…
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, if you are a non-poli-sci footnote follower like me, this article has some really interesting further reading suggestions!
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Keep Putin's dilemma today in mind as we approach our own elections: “If you cheat too much you reveal weakness, and if you don’t cheat enough you risk a result that could threaten your hold on power.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Why Autocrats Care What People Think
Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hope this post will not seem self-serving, but wanted to share one student’s perspective on the importance of courses on race, ethnicity and gender studies. as.virginia.edu/news/we-aske...
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We Asked Young Alumni, 'What Class Rocked Your World?...
Here’s what four recent UVA graduates shared about the courses that impacted them the most.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I feel like, given the ratings, CBS News would have been in better hands if they had put Barry White in charge instead of Bari Weiss.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Let us break the law or we’ll shoot this dog” essentially
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Politico @politico.com · 13/09/2026
Despite nominee's 'detestable language,' Johnson backs Texas House candidate
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Despite nominee's 'detestable language,' Johnson backs Texas House candidate
"That was his persona online,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said of Brandon Herrera.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In case you love in Ohio and womdered what it meant when Vivek said "I was not born a billionaire," it means "I have fucked over a lot of people." Just in case that matters.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
La'an and Kirk and Spock should just be a throuple. They could be so happy! And then La'an could dies, heroically. Right before we transition into TOS. Which makes the K/S of it all even more amazing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reactionary centrist pundits: Democratic leaders need to drop the identity politics and focus on economic issues! Democratic leader: [does that] Reactionary centrist pundits:
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This was always their goal. And until people admit it no conversation will fix it www.springfieldnewssun.com/tncms/asset/...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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R. Eric VanNewkirk @sotsogm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I understand that a huge number of voting-age Americans are politically illiterate and don't follow current events, but you'd think more of them would at least notice that all the Republicans these days look like Frank Miller Batman villains.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thing is, we never stop being born.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Finally getting around to watching Gary, the hour long special where the Punisher and the Thing deliver a package to Gary, Indiana.
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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don't mean to imply anything by this, but Jack Kennedy got shot in the head and died to get HIS name on the Kennedy Center, Mr. Trump.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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