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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19h

"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot

An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h

A former Florida congressman and political mentor to Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for his role in a secret $50 million campaign to lobby officials in Washington on behalf of the Venezuelan government.

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Ex-congressman and Rubio ally gets 10 years for secret Venezuela lobbying

Former congressman David Rivera (R-Florida) maintained that, despite a $50 million lobbying contract from Venezuela’s government, he advocated for the removal of President Nicolás Maduro.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NOT unskilled labor

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JUST IN: Federal judge has blocked Trump's termination of court-appointed Seattle US attorney Roger Rogoff, for now, ordering AG Blanche to give him access to the office right away. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Judge Invalidates Trump’s Firing of Seattle US Attorney For Now

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s termination of the court-appointed US attorney in Seattle, ordering the Justice Department to restore his appointment in response to a ...

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🔱 @seattlemoonshine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't forget to render the billionaire when preparing bisque. That's all.

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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

💙🖤💙 Wed, Sep 30 There were orcas yesterday around Whidbey, but reports were few. Perhaps whoever they were stayed overnight. 📷 Cutie new calf who's been traveling w/T36A1 Tierna has won the hearts of us all. Here's another of them, opposite side from yesterday's share. By Bart Rulon 9/27. #psws

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Only desperately insecure men act like this.

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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/09/2026

End domestic violence and sexual assault! #Pinks 💖✨

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICYMI - Israel’s UN ambassador whines about… children’s drawings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An entire massive industry that has the potential to cause tremendous damage and destruction by their own admission completely unregulated because they have Trump and the Republican Party in their pocket. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

vicarious cringe for a Republican Senator, that's new for me also really humanizing for Jack Smith tbh who has a very natural reaction to whatever the fuck this is

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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026

Anthropic’s newly unveiled IPO prospectus warns that its technology poses an “existential risk to humanity,” after a summer of hacking incidents where rogue agents broke containment and hacked business and government systems.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Trump: "We have the best, uhh, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unironically the PNW mindset lol

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The White Lotus over the Leftovers this is my joker origin story

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026

IUDs are NOT abortion. A vote for Overton is a vote to install an anti-abortion extremist to be in charge of keeping our food and medicine safe. I'm voting NO.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chat GPT helped a kid plan a mass shooting. “Van Rootselaar carried out a suicidal mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School this past February, killing a total of eight people and injuring dozens of others.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the first of ten video meditations I recorded at night in Kharkiv, a frontline city in northeastern Ukraine. They concern matters that came to mind in the general setting of a long and terrible war. snyder.substack.com/p/cowardice

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On Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)

Kharkiv Meditations 1/10

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔥 “Do you support Republican efforts to silence the Black vote? What would you say to MLK?” 🐔@MarshaBlackburn runs from @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social like she has been running from debates with @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social & town halls (none since 2017🤔)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026

if anybody needs me I'll be over here getting hot and horny mental health advice from my meta AI Tamagotchi in a country too corrupt to regulate data brokers

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Cuban delegation walks out on Trump 🇨🇺

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This MUST be front page news. Collins & OTHERS. Agents had evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe involving MANY lawmakers. Then Trump returned with a campaign of vengeance. Specialized public corruption investigators & anyone who had investigated him were fired. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The headliners for this MAGA Fest were Kid Rock, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and James Comer. I can’t believe they couldn’t sell enough tickets with that star-studded lineup.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🇬🇧 🗣️ @marinapurkiss.bsky.social: “His nice guy image has collapsed — It’s not that Ed Sheeran didn’t speak up on 🇵🇸, it’s that he allowed the silencing of someone who did… If you don’t have a position on this now you’re going to lose respect. He has F.U. money to take a stand.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His dad definitely paid someone to take his SATs.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Raoul: The president is a combination of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. He needs a brain and a heart, and Congress is a Cowardly Lion that needs courage to stand up…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CHILDREN OF GAZA TO MACKLEMORE: “We know they tried to silence you. Thank you for supporting us and standing with Palestine.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Paramore’s Haley Williams adds acts that dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with @macklemore to her pre-show playlist 🎵 www.instagram.com/p/DdYmKSTDRC...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It worked with police so they figure it’s an effective tactic.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/09/2026

Full interview on YouTube: youtu.be/ouv6MeVG810 Listen on the MeidasTouch Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

KAEPERNICK: “They are openly colluding… if this shows if you take an action they don’t agree with, they will come for you.” @Kaepernick7 says what @Patriots owner Robert Kraft + other stadium owners just did to @macklemore shows they did it to him too.🎯 (From @meidastouch.com )

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After I quit Twitter, BlueSky was effectively my methadone.

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