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Aspiring class traitor.

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 3h
remarkable thing to admit
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 4h
I truly think in retrospect, Trump traveling and giving daily speeches for 32 days is going to turn out to be somehow more disastrous than we can comprehend rn
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h
The Trump administration began sending $500 Affordable Care Act refund checks to nearly 1 million Americans in 30 states, two administration officials said. The rebates are accompanied by a letter from President Trump touting his record, officials said.
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Trump sends out $500 ACA refunds and a letter promoting his record
The rebate checks are headed to nearly 1 million people President Donald Trump says were overcharged under the Affordable Care Act.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 9h
@politico.com headline: "…Dems say" @politico.com article: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)… also told reporters that the ad spend was not under the jurisdiction of her committee but 'was taken out of funding that was supposed to be for Customs and Border Protection.'"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h
Just adds another level to the story of Trump's illegal ads that he stole the money from what is purportedly his top policy priority (immigration enforcement) to run his tax payer funded campaign ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say
Congressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 8h
Anti trans hatred is the same as any other anti-gay, religious, or racial hatred we have ever known. This includes the efforts to dress it up, hide it, and make it about protecting women or children. That's exactly what bigots did to Black and gay people.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h
For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h
From the Magna Carta to the Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics).
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 14h
It's more fun, and profitable for AI companies, to pretend this software is not just a powerful set of tools, but also a machine god, and apocalypse fantasies are more satisfying than trying to figure out how to muddle through social and technological change, but you are obliged to not be a rube.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h
Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15h
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 15h
Really proud of my friend Jesse Farrar who asked me to share this when i woke up www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He is literally saying that, whether or not she was assaulted, it is her fault in his eyes. This is the quiet part way loud.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026
The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
relatedly: no amnesty bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We are in a moment where the government is working to purge people who believe in trans rights, racial equity, and human rights for Palestinians from the public square. Meanwhile, the people thriving in this environment pretend they're the ones in danger.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the year is 2065. across a barren wasteland, a gang of marauders are riding war buggies. hooting and hollering, they chase down the last remaining people on earth who have not heard “choosin’ texas” by ella langley
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
there’s major media coverage of this happening to a new woman every year or so and they’re always so surprised. it won’t be different for you, babe. it never is.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 27/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
he is literally immune from any kind of legal limit, at least when it comes to anything related to his personal actions, thanks to the Supreme Court he installed his administration is constrained on occasion but he personally is not our system of government will not survive if we don’t change this
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026
This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Linda McMahon was in her living room late one night, shortly after Trump won his second election, when her phone rang. Trump wanted to know if the woman who had led the Small Business Administration in his first term — and had been CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment before that — wanted to be his secretary of Education.

“Mr. President,” McMahon recalled telling him, “you know that I have not been in the world of education.”

“Well, you did graduate from college, didn’t you?” he responded, according to McMahon’s recollection.

Trump wasn’t looking for someone with education credentials. What he wanted instead was another business leader that would deliver a “return on investment” in the Department of Education. He also said her goal would be to put herself “out of a job” with the eventual downsizing of the department, she recalled.

“That’s not necessarily how I would expect to be courted,” she chuckled before accepting his request. McMahon would be the only one of two members from Trump’s first Cabinet — along with budget director Russ Vought — to be invited back for the second.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
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Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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