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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4-0 Minnesota Vikings
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Y'all be safe, be smooth, and have a great night" Kamario Taylor
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the game between South Alabama and Kentucky shows up abbreviated as a War of 1812 rematch
graphic reading

USA vs. UK
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idea for a White House commission to control NIH grant approvals seems dead for now. Weekend stories created an uproar on the Hill. Bhattacharya and Vought are trying to sing kumbaya. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
explaining to cam skattebo that he won’t be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died
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sealab2026.bsky.social @sealab2026.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is absolutely an insane shift in public sentiment.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Peltola saying she wants to ban trans women from women's bathrooms is really ugly. Its effectively a ban on trans women in public life.
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 20/09/2026
OH MY O'HEARN. 😱 Between the legs for the out at first.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19/09/2026
the guy has been supporting war crimes for a very long time and somehow has avoided any criticism while his defenders say "he opposes it, he just can't say so bc of his family in Russia" as if that were a) true or b) that he didn't have more than enough money to get his third cousins settled here
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Chris “OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!” Dobbertean @bracketdobber.net · 19/09/2026
I missed this. You want a real sign people don’t like Trump and the Republicans are in trouble in November? *Al Michaels* is dunking on him now!
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: I apologize personally to Chris Simms for dumping on him for all these years. I am truly sorry.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...?
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They did it. The crazy motherfuckers.....really did it. Hell yeah.
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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't really follow politics
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the effort to make me believe that Pappas is in trouble takes another hit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is un-real.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dems (well, one Dem) forced a vote on impeaching Trump yesterday! It didn't spark a Johnson freak-out. Perhaps they should have done a Hegseth one; perhaps this is different because it's by a Republican.
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kaybaer.bsky.social @kaybaer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This alone is proof that”AI” needs to be more strongly regulated. These deep fake images are dangerous to our democracy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My brain refuses to believe that Kansas is in play but man it increasingly seems like Kansas is, in fact, in play.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s kind of crazy that this is going to be revelatory for a lot of people while idiots who post online have known this incredibly important information for years and years at this point
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Athens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when you go down on a woman but don’t really know what you’re doing
A score bug that says “CLT MISS”
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sealab2026.bsky.social @sealab2026.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is just like when Ezra Klein finds “anti” Trump conservative intellectuals to interview who have absolutely no influence on the Republican Party.
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sealab2026.bsky.social @sealab2026.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now this is some big ten football
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Safer? Fuck off, the murder rate when I was born was 8 per 100,000. When I was six (1991), it was *10* per 100,000. Last year it was four. Now that's not obviously a good number. We should do better than four. But it is a hell of a lot less than eight or ten.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So obviously this is just racism, when he says 'dirtier' he means 'less white.' But, like, also anyone paying any attention at all - America is richer and cleaner than it was in the 1980s when I was born. Like, come the fuck on. Y'all remember the smoking section at a McDonalds? Gross.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Poorer? When I was born ('85) the median household income in the USA was just $23,620 dollars, around $71k in 2025 dollars. The median household income last year was $83,730, so a real post-inflation increase of 17%. And that's not just rich people (that's why we use median, not average).
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those keeping score at home: The Ohio GOP Senator who long refused to denounce his MAGA son-in-law who allegedly abused the senator's daughter and granddaughter is a *different Republican* from the Ohio GOP Senator who has long employed a white supremacist who likes to cosplay as Nazis.
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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
* B1G-SEC Challenge Week! * Will Texas' defense hold up? * GOTW No. 2: Memphis-Boise * Can Kentucky challenge Keelon? * Mizzou's first Lawrence trip in 21 years (🥴🤢🤮) * ¡El Assico! Chaos Superfecta! Playlist! THE ROCK-EAST STROUDSBURG! WEEK 2 PREVIEW: www.espn.com/college-foot...
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Bill Connelly's Week 2 preview: Big Ten-SEC challenge, early conference tests
Bluebloods have a chance at the early-season's biggest win. Big 12 and SEC have early conference challenges, and the G6 has an elimination weekend.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 09/09/2026
World ending capabilities aside, I just hate how AI art has made everything look now. I hate looking at posters for local comedy shows, community fairs and campaign posters and they are all these stupid soulless dead eyed graphics. It's made the internet and coffee shop poster boards alike so ugly
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sealab2026.bsky.social @sealab2026.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is triggering. I really thought that time when he just spent 15 minutes listening to music at a rally would be a nail in his coffin. He was so clearly over the hill. Then he won the election.
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Jeff (Liberal Party - NJ) @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No fucking words, I never ever wanna hear any of these ghouls use Christianity to attack democratic candidates again when they’re doing this shit
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026
You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...
What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The messaging is so weird, that the federal government has enough money to just issue every American $5,000 today if the president wants to, BUT ALSO, no, he doesn't want to right now (only if the GOP wins).
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sealab2026.bsky.social @sealab2026.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Takes a true political genius to try and literally slap your name on the biggest misstep of your presidency.
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