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thankful in Minneapolis (USA) "When we cultivate anything, regularly, again and again and again, that is what is going to be perfect." I'm trying to perfect positive things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3o2kltX7RI…

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."
oilprice.com
Fuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.com
The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
nytimes.com
The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another great reason to not shop at Amazon. I've noticed that 99% of the time I can find what Amazon sells on the manufacturer website for the same price or cheaper and at other retailers. You. Don't. Need. Amazon. Fuck. Bezos.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 02/10/2026
There are a chain of logical leaps that are unsupportable involved: 1. Because I saw it do a thing, that means it can reliably do that thing. (Setting aside that we don’t even agree on what the thing is.) 2. That it can reliably do that thing means it can do another thing that is like that thing.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kafka: F*** it, I'm out.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026
a culture where highbrow ppl are obsessed with tony soprano and lowerbrow ppl are obsessed with being walter white is in retrospect BEGGING for a strongman
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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some people would say "why are you putting yourself through this" and I would respond "once in a while, you need to remind yourself how dumb these people are so you don't lose sight of the voters you're trying to win"
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This sucks I'm on a plane to Vegas and the pilots just ran outta the cockpit in squirrel costumes and whatnot #FurryInvasion
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oracle may have given us the Bear Stearns moment of the AI bubble cepr.net/publications...
cepr.net
Is Oracle the Bear Stearns of the AI Bubble?
Oracle’s force majeure notice on a New Mexico data center raises questions about AI demand, data center spending and the AI bubble.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes feel like I don't really have imposter syndrome
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From a think tank analyst to Robert Reich's podcast to the Montana ballot & the Hawaii legislature: an idea to leverage state corporate charters to ban corporate money in politics. It's a novel idea that the Supreme Court may not want to touch. @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social has the story.
prospect.org
Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American Prospect
States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Democrats need to be clear that once the orange stain is out of the White House, and pardons his gang of criminals, they will share all the evidence of crimes that the FBI and Justice Department have with state prosecutors and people filing civil suits.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Duane @sailmn4now.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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ICE agent accused of lying about north Minneapolis shooting booked into Hennepin County Jail
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says it arrested Castro around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Second Avenue South and Third Street in Minneapolis.
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty statement on Christian Castro:
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
WATSON: That leaves four suspects: the marquess, a peer of the realm; a Parisian merchant; a fair-looking fishwife from the shores of Brighton; and a brown-skinned— SHERLOCK: Him. WATSON: Oh, splendid, Holmes! You must tell me how you came to the conclusion. Deductive reasoning? SHERLOCK: Sure. Yes!
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Duane @sailmn4now.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You’re a tool if you think these LLM systems with feedback loops are capable of actions with intent, “hid mistakes”. Come on man. These are programming decisions made by people. People with bad judgment and who lack an understanding, like you, of what their programs actually do. It’s garbage in…
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'dro🐰 @clowndro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have seen enough and now I would like to be less informed
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All areas in red are breaking the monthly record for strongest heat dome at 500 mb… some by a large margin in the Maroon (images via Tomer Burg) … it’s more than 1/3rd of the nation… 3/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026
To be the boss is to sit alone at your desk, haunted by the suspicion that you are not in the driver's seat, but rather, you are in the back seat playing with a Fisher Price steering wheel.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Douthat piece where he talks about the importance of AI closes with a sponsorship notice from a healthcare company using AI to deny claims.
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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Conversely you have never had more access to content depicting crime. You have never felt less safe while living in a year that is in competition for the safest in human history.
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Duane @sailmn4now.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think Yim Yames performance in "Run Lola Run" is incredible. I didn't know he could ride a bike.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
El-Sayed's elevator pitch is quite compelling
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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robertus @robertus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes is gonna crawl out of your computer monitor in seven days unless you show this to someone else
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
every one of you who wasn't alive for the 2000 election, this is exactly what it was like
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Cardinals, in response to home-plate umpire Doug Eddings telling rookie Hancel Rincon to fix his hat last night, all wore tipped caps in their dugout tonight. The Rockies did, as well, after Eddings claimed Hunter Goodman asked for Rincon to fix his hat, something Goodman strongly denied.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 04/09/2026
The Minnesota State Fair, running now through Monday, is the greatest place on earth. We sent the reliably excellent BUMP OPERA to capture photographic evidence of that fact✨
racketmn.com
Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket
At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 03/09/2026
I don’t seriously expect the White House to care, but I’m still struck by the bipartisan condemnations of Pete Hegseth: It’s just not normal for lawmakers from a president’s own political party to publicly call for the defense secretary’s ouster. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Senate Republican calls for Hegseth’s ouster, citing ‘inept management’ of military
It’s not normal for lawmakers from a president’s own political party to publicly call for the defense secretary’s ouster.
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 03/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Representative Rosa DeLauro, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, has learned that DoD officials are actively working to divert billions in funding from the NIH to supplement the DoD budget. More here ⬇️
democrats-appropriations.house.gov
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all.
robertreich.substack.com
Hegseth Must Go
If Trump won’t fire him, Congress must impeach him
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this could happen to you *points at everything everywhere*
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!
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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Didn’t think I’d live to see it: Virtually every SCTV episode is now on Netflix. (The one that’s missing is highly unusual, featuring none of the show’s cast at the time.) Some rights-based cuts/substitutions of music, but fewer than I’d have guessed. It’s 95% complete. Incredible.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” federal prosecutor Matthew Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”
propublica.org
Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Tiger Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Cher — 80 Sylvester Stallone — 80 Sally Field — 79 Steve Martin — 81 Goldie Hawn — 80 Henry Winkler — 80 Liza Minnelli — 80 Tommy Lee Jones — 79 Candice Bergen — 80 Michael Douglas — 81 Bette Midler — 80 Arnold Schwarzenegger — 79 David Letterman — 79 Steven Spielberg — 79 George Lucas — 82
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