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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“Joe Biden did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken.” He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system. Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof
7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10-
10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment
11 of this Act.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Aaaand there it is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Phrases NOT found in that NYT piece: — “emoluments clause” — “unconstitutional” — “impeachable offense” But rest assured that they *did* find time to bothsides this issue by mentioning Hunter Biden’s sleazy but legal trading on his family name. Yeah, those are equivalent. Good work, boys.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11/05/2025

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 10/05/2025

We can learn an important lesson from the era of Joseph McCarthy. The danger of fear, the power of courage. And how to defeat a demagogue. youtu.be/OEaj2xlKaeU?...

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An Lesson from History

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's a mystery.

Giant cat on the edge of a military ship looking down at an aircraft falling into the sea

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I want a law passed in Congress that FORBIDS ANY law enforcement, ICE, DHS, or CBP from hiding their faces.

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Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

He keeps picking television personalities to run things because they’re all he knows. He doesn’t read. Not books, not articles, not academic journals, not even his briefings. All he does is play golf and watch TV.

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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Birdbrain of Alcatraz

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A US judge to govt lawyers defending the NIH's grant terminations: "I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition. This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Two of Musk’s most strident goons manually, one-by-one, killed lifesaving programs even those Rubio wants credit for trying to save, on Musk’s orders.

Washington Post piece describing Farritor and Kliger murdering Africans.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 07/05/2025

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Can't get enough of this. The "Secretary of Education"? Go back home and fake wrestle.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?!? Senator Mark Warner calls for probe into report that WH is pressuring countries to use Musk’s Starlink company in exchange for tariff relief. Watch: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/05/2025

It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.

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GOP Plans To Cut Medicaid Would Kick Millions Off Health Insurance, New Analysis Says

An authoritative analysis by Congressional Budget Office is House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest headache.

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/04/2025

So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Breaking: Federal District Court judge in Abrego Garcia case rejects government’s assertion of novel “I don’t wanna” justification for not responding to plaintiffs’s interrogatories.

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Elli Anderson 🌊💙🇺🇸 @ellilanderson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to rehire all staff at Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. The goal? To restore news that is accurate, objective, and reliable. Imagine needing a court order just to tell the truth… but here we are!

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Federal judge orders Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America and Radio Free Asia staff

Last month, the Trump administration placed Voice of America contractors and employees on leave.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This may be the most truly, unspeakably evil thing they have done. And that's saying quite a lot

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🙏 Zelensky: Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day. This is one of the meanings enshrined in the story of Christ. Of His earthly suffering and death – and of His resurrection, and the truth that sooner or later, yet inevitably, evil will retreat, and life will triumph.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You are here.

Tweet showing a protest-style sign on a city street that reads, “We are officially living out the part of history that makes school kids ask, WHY DIDN’T ANYONE DO ANYTHING TO STOP THEM?”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We must make our stand here.

A tweet by Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren
) reads: "If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States."

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/04/2025

Today in weird statistical coincidences

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic

One person close to OpenAI said that distillation was a common practice in the industry and highlighted that the company offers developers a way to do this using its own platform, but said: “The issue is when you are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes.”
DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.
The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.
OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Pete Hegseth can't remember the name of his own kid during the Senate confirmation hearing. Bro is utterly unfit.

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sissinghurstwitch.bsky.social @sissinghurstwitch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My grandmother was very interested in seeing Brokeback Mountain. When I asked her about it she shook her head sadly and said, “They got the hats all wrong.”

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

You had one job

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

NAACP is offering free or discounted rides on election day, so you can get out there and vote! The offer only seems to work through Lyft app asalh.org/naacp-is-off...

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NAACP Is Offering Free Rides on Election Day | ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month

Need a ride to the polls? NAACP has got you covered. Use Lyft code: NAACPVOTE24

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

stop stop I can’t vote for her any harder

tweet from that cowardly chode elon musk:

“A lot of people still don't believe me when I say that the Dems will do everything in their power to destroy me if they win on Nov 5th”

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Hope you’re okay @vladaknowlton.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

When political cartoons are a perfect reflection of reality based on the fictional book you wrote…

Margaret Atwood shares Mike Luckovich’s political cartoon showing women shedding their handmaid costumes after they vote.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/11/2024

Aussies don't hold punches

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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

It’s not too late. If you live in: California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire Rhode Island Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Wyoming YOU can register AND vote on #ElectionDay

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/11/2024

Demons xkcd.com/3006

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/10/2024

Dems should have been doing this for months, but at least it's happening at all

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