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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11h

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That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?

Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h

knifed in the back by newsom

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

impeach tear down the ballroom imprison the crooks abolish ice restore funding

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just another thing that disqualifies him for the democratic nomination

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Under a corrupt or authoritarian leader, wealth concentration incentivises the crazy-rich, with widespread business interests, to make loss-making media acquisition. By currying political favor, they gain rents - whether with enthusiasm (Musk) or more reluctance (Bezos). Here's the economic model.

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Rob McKinnon @robsweaters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m rewatching His Dark Materials do yall think the Daemons had a scent about them? Did they need baths?

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isaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026

Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.

oilchange.org

Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International

In short:

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“‘Many senior engineers believe it’s inevitable we’re going to have a massive data breach as a result of Hatch.’ Muse is called ‘Hatch’ internally and in Meta’s codebase.” @404media.co

404media.co

Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch

The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not to go full gen x hose drinker on you, but we walked to school on our own & were allowed to go to the library by ourselves when i was 5 & my sister was 8. the norfolk public library in our neighborhood was the one on hampton blvd. we loved it! it’s sad kids aren’t free to roam anymore.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is such a good and important idea from @andycraig.bsky.social.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's because to them it's not actually hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They are about power: amassing it, using it to dominate and eradicate outgroups, using it for plunder etc...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/10/2026

It's a cult.

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Rob McKinnon @robsweaters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What would the rate of return have to be for the PE/VC groups? Would it be considered such a distressed “asset” that it doesn’t matter or more of a “Coyote Vs Acme” scenario where they made their money from the tax write off.

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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That opportunity has presented itself again. Do Americans have the will to do it now? All over again.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

This is the second ruling against the illegal recision of Solar For All money. In a country with rule of law in effect, that would be it -- the money would be restored. But we have to ask ourselves whether Trump will simply ignore the ruling & if so whether there will be any consequences.

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Federal judge restores $7B Solar for All program, says EPA illegally axed it

A Trump-appointed judge said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not convert the funding into “a lump-sum amount subject to EPA’s discretion.” Defendants acted contrary to Congress’ intent and with “no...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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ralf3.bsky.social @ralf3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The US Supreme Court is moving usa towards civil war by their actions to stop voting by registered voters Gerry mandering on a massive scale

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

time.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back in the 90s bill clinton empowered massive media consolidation that boosted figures like Rupert Murdoch. Today’s Democrats don’t seem to have learned anything and you have Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom and DC Dems giving Ellison a pass.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026

The theme of Trump’s second term is his using the power of the presidency as though it’s his own. That manifests in tantrums booting media outlets from the White House. More harmfully, it also manifests in blocking federal funding to states that didn’t vote for him. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Russell Vought wants to kill the NIH In case you didn't know this, Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis & has benefited from a combination drug treatment (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) that was developed by NIH-funded research By @juliametraux.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing worse than a fraud who pretends to be healthy and demands no recompense for it.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 22/09/2026

Also? Tech monopolies fund researchers who use LLMs for energy/climate stuff (whether or not LLMs are necessary or particularly helpful for the work) in part to bolster their mostly-vacuous claims that LLMs will solve climate change. PR that helps them build more data centers, avoid regulation, etc.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If we built car infrastructure with the same broken networks that we have for bike lanes.

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julio 🤙 @juliocan2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we’re in a human era that I been referring to as “everyone lying all the time era”.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm convinced these people are on the take because nobody is actually this stupid in the same way every day for 30 years and incapable of even registering feedback, check their bank accounts for where payments have come from

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Fearlicious @fearlicious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Literally.. Satan saying kill your selves… criminal tool

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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

then cancel their health insurance

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yes tell us more about terrible legacies senator

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s all identity politics, but since it’s largely white identity politics it’s fine and doesn’t count. It’s not something communist like police shouldn’t be able to get away with murder bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Going straight for the jugular on Vulcan Elements and Don Jr's 1789 Capital. Straight into my veins.

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