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Shirley0401 @shirley0401.bsky.social · 16h
I don't do the "if you read one article this week" thing, mostly because I doubt anyone will see/take my advice, but what the hell.. If you read one article this week, I suggest you consider this one. A lot of it we already know, but for me at least the context and connections were very useful.
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 23h
The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
"The only requirement to open a private school in Arkansas is displaying a flag and flagpole..." Sure, right of course.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The deepest irony is that Spencer Pratt has not had a job in his adult life.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this)
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
16. Why bother to vet information when every allegation against the Democrats, no matter how unbelievable, is believed? He tracks the pattern going all the way back to Newt Gingrich in the 1980s. Bernstein suggested that the laziness is part of the deeper malignancy affecting the GOP.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2. Schmitt's story is part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of a coup against an investigation that, as Jack Smith said, "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation."
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No mention of Leonard Leo, who put Roberts on the court, lives down the road, is also getting protests at his mansion. Ive emailed reporter several times re Leo. Never got the courtesy of a response. Anti democracy ghouls shud never get to eat lobster in peace. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026
Dreamt I met an infant named Manager.
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
also and i'm aware this is not even in the top ten stupidest things going on but cryptocurrency should be prohibited in the united states because they're a form of unsecured debt and we banned bearer bonds in 1982
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some books are lesser. It's ok to be a snob.
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 30/09/2026
Did you know that sociologist Cristóbal Young studied 13 years of tax returns covering every million-dollar filer in America? And you know what he found out? That millionaires were less likely to move compared to those making $10,000. civicmedia.us/shows/patrio...
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Millionaires Won't Leave
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OGBobbyJoshson @jawalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If I were an elected Dem I’d constantly point out how perverted these would be genital inspectors are.
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Shirley0401 @shirley0401.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a sane world, this would be front page news everywhere. The Trump administration wants to condition LOANS on choice of major. This is Project 2025 in action, just the most obvious attempt to make our whole society greedier, meaner, uglier. All while calling themselves "christians" and "patriots."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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billb3.bsky.social @billb3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A Pentagon influencer” is one of the most troubling phrases I’ve ever read.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
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Jay Pochapin @jaypochapin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know about you but I'm concerned www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collin...
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Susan Collins Gets a Brutal Warning From Home-State Paper
The senator’s out-of-hand dismissal of corruption allegations may come back to bite her.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This ad should concern Susan Collins.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Dennis P. Crawford @dennispcrawford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The legacy media has failed the country for decades. They backed Bush's push for war in Iraq and sabotaged Hillary's 2016 campaign by obsessing on the phony email issue. The establishment media went overboard on Biden's age and have largely given Trump a free pass on his age and declining health.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If enough Republicans repeat a lie, no matter how outrageous, it becomes their narrative. The truth is totally irrelevant to their strategy. bsky.app/profile/furi...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/09/2026
“and the Israelites replied, saying, please forgive us O Lord, we did not know he would smash OUR amphorae of cooking oil”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is in response to several "what the hell are you on about?" replies to a post today. But these are just the latest examples of a widespread determination not to know.
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SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember that time Susan Collins said she would tirelessly and doggedly pursue an open and transparent investigation into ICE murdering one of her constituents? She doesn't.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I made a dunk reel of Katelyn because they're good dunks!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Still unfathomable to me given the horrendous destruction of DOGE and how unfathomably heinous he continues to be on his social media duchy, that he can shovel cash to Republicans, go to a state dinner, and the press still doesn't treat him as remotely problematic as Hasan Piker.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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nancybruski.bsky.social @nancybruski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Without even reading this article, I know it’s wholly inadequate 4 the “mistakes” the NY Times has been making 4 many years now. Focusing almost entirely on Hillary’s emails rather thn Trump’s corruption & lies, indulging in false equivalences constantly, normalizing Trump & his henchmen, pathetic.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the same way you can brick your phone, I'm increasingly of the opinion (as a liberal arts college professor) that we should be allowed to brick our campuses, to make internet access and cell towers completely inaccessible to our students for four years, just a reversion to 1982 technologically
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, that and "AI is an absolute disaster in the field of education, just a giant screaming comet descending from the heavens making all educational contexts less efficient and more time and labor intensive for a given amount of learning."
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Shirley0401 @shirley0401.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just stumbled across Ai Weiwei's "axiom of the debased" and went down a bit of a rabbit hole. He's not the first person to put a lot of the elements together but there's definitely some worthwhile stuff there along with the pithy name, so I conclude there are certainly worse rabbit holes to go down.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gosh, folks. I can’t figure out who to support here. The guy whose military snipers shoot children and who bombs innocent people in their homes or the guy who fixes potholes and feeds the hungry.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All of the world's top tech minds are making X, The Everything App, relevant!
Matthew Rife
@RifeTechnology
Worlds #1 expert on EMFs and its effects upon the human body. Rife Systems Founder and Owner. Scientist. Author. Workaholic.
Matthew Rife
@RifeTechnology
Hello Everyone, It’s Ashley, Matthew’s finance.  First of all Matthew is perfectly fine.  He hooked in self up to an eeg with 265 electrodes.  Im not sure the power source but he went into a seizure. We are in the ambulance now. He is unconscious, but not.  Nobody unhooked anything but they tied into the eeg and is sending some sort of messages across the screen.  If cook be gargled junk or it could be coherent.   We dont know what’s going to happen but his organs and brain all see to be fine.  Please pray for us and for God will be done here.  He is not done with with Matthew yet.  All I know is is called his friend Shawn Webb and said something about making carbon.  That may or may not have anything to do with this but we do need his prayers.  Thank you everyone.
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d.c. O'Brien - WHERE'S MY FDR? @wolfggurl50.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DOGE was a children of the corn system run by a ketamine (& who knows what else) addicted billionaire with mind-greed-power-narcissism billionaire disease. The intent was not forensic economics; it was to "break government", destroy the social safety net & empower the rich. Goal achieved.
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