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David Riecks

@riecks.bsky.social
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Photographer, writer, photo metadata consultant, project leader PhotoMetadata.org Owner: Controlledvocabulary.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump’s verified @realDonaldTrump account displaying a signed document titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” The document outlines voluntary AI safety and oversight commitments for companies developing frontier artificial intelligence models. On the right side are signatures and company labels for leaders including Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Near the center-right, Donald J. Trump’s large signature appears above the printed title identifying him as president. The title contains a noticeable typo: instead of “President of the United States,” it reads, “President of the Unites States,” misspelling “United” as “Unites.”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"how many times have I told you not to wear my shoes"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
besides his general conduct, the most embarrassing part of this is a guy from Missouri not knowing another midwestern team's name
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am convinced they are arguing for regulatory capture because most of their products if exposed would show that the worst breeches were just vibe coding and human malfeasance
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
But prosecutors need to communicate with the public more.” END/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The bond yield story just keeps getting starker.
Line chart titled "10-Year Treasury Note" showing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note from late 2025 through September 2026. Treasury yields surged dramatically to 5.29 percent on September 29, 2026, the highest level in the period shown. This represents a sharp 130 basis point increase from the October 2025 low of 3.96 percent and a particularly rapid 45 basis point climb over just the final month. After trading mostly between 4.00 and 4.75 percent for nearly a year, yields broke decisively above 5.00 percent in September 2026, signaling a fundamental shift in borrowing costs and market conditions.
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DianaTripper @tripperday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has tapped Airbnb executive to launch the made-for-failure rollout of a hair-brained scheme to manage all government services through one AI powered website. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Trump Administration Launches AI Tool Aimed at Streamlining Government Online Services
America.gov website will test the administration’s ambitions to improve the online experience for citizens.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 2028 election may create "an historic opportunity for Democrats to establish a 'New New Deal,'" writes @davidrlurie.com. The challenge: building "a broad and resilient" coalition to lead us out of our political and economic crises. Yes please. No infighting. 🙂 www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...
publicnotice.co
Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 29/09/2026
If Trump bulldozes the Kennedy Center, it's all Mike Lee's fault. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval
Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s really great that Eric Schmitt wasted everyone’s time because he can’t tell the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, meanwhile people in Missouri are struggling to pay for utilities, gas, groceries, housing, and child care.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cream colored French bulldog standing on its hind legs and supporting itself be leaning against the couch. They look comical, and Elon Musk also looks comical in a similar way
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Mark Zuckerberg's Jet @zuckjet.grndcntrl.net · 29/09/2026
Mark Zuckerberg's G650 Landed in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Reg: N68885 On Ground: True Alt: 0 Last Contact: 0:00:04.800250 Trigger: now on ground
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching Schmitt in the Senate today, I thought of this speech as well.
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JQ Jacobs @jqjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Depends.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile?
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the moment right before the rake hits your face
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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My absolute favorite part. Jack Smith smirking after they rapidly lowered their poster that made absolutely no sense. This is one of the best "look at this dumbass" expressions I've seen in a minute. So satisfying.
Jack Smith smirking at a Senate hearing after a line of questioning that made absolutely no sense.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The money Trump stole from taxpayers to make illegal ads came from CBP. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026
anyway, the world is catching up on is that the Senate is full of a bunch of weirdos who are not ball-knowers.
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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Behold, the world's smallest cow
A silly photo messing with perspective. A hilly grassy field with 4 cows, three quite far away, one a little closer. The person who took the photo is next to the fence, and the closest cow appears to be standing on top of a fence post.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The other delicious thing about this is the possibility that Vance thinks that he can be Trump--i.e., get people to perform for him on television as a substitute for vetting them for important jobs.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29/09/2026
Some old school Wikipedia here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sc...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
4. Second, they remind everyone Trump is the president, even though he won't be on the ballot in November. (His net approval on the economy among indie voters is 99 points underwater, according to CNN.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHd...
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'Stunning numbers': Enten evaluates Trump's new polling low
YouTube video by CNN
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2. What the president is doing is using tax dollars to air commercials created for his 2024 presidential campaign. With them, Donald Trump hopes to move voters against the Democrats in advance of the midterms. They are illegal. They use public money for partisan gain. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messaging
The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Yes, the White House is calling them "public-service announcements." They are not. A public-service announcement promotes policy, like anti-drunk driving laws.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
11. Trump is not surrounded by smart people with guts, but instead bootlicking pricks. With the price of diesel burning up the economy, the White House deputy chief of staff nevertheless thought it would be productive to post this video over the weekend. (It appears to be AI.)
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"beyond a reasonable doubt"
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“These self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society, a group of doggedly ignorant feminist/chauvinists playing out their personal psychodramas on the world stage whose antics, if unchecked, will inevitably lead to the fall of civilization,” he wrote.”
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watch the returns on November 3. The worse they are for Republicans, the less the “heir apparent” talk will make sense. Maybe that is why Vance seems so personally desperate .. It’s his own political career that is hanging by a thread. And, as of today, it looks ready to snap.
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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026
Photography is the intersection of knowing how to see, and knowing how to use a contraption to capture that. Both sides require constant practice and exercise to stay in shape. Not every photo will be a great photo but no photo taken with intentionality is ever wasted either.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is crazy. They are laughing at us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this really picks up at the 26 second mark
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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