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@shoq.bsky.social
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As amusing as it is telling. The only encouraging numbers for Trumpists in this morning’s polls were all via partisan (i.e, GOP) or “crowd” pollsters (i.e., online bullshit polls for hire.) Nothing screams “blowout” like vanity polling.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cult of Personality — A Sneak Preview A look back at the run-up to the 2020 election. How little is new? www.leftjabs.com
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the always ingenious minds of the South Parkers.
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Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus @dmansini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DO NOT USE vote safe dot org Its Musk info collection site
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
VOTERS: Please assume you’re being ratfucked for this election cycle. Track Your Ballot or Ballot Application now. Vote.org directs you to state agency page for all 50 states. Find the status of your mail-in ballot (or ask for one, stat).
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Track Your Ballot or Ballot Application - Vote.org
Ballot tracker tools for all 50 states. Find the status of your ballot.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No one alive has seen a president choose to walk into the teeth of American greed. A THREAD. PLUS: Ask me anything.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The US lays groundwork for possible military action in Cuba, according to ‘CBS News’. Okay, it’s CBS (Crackpots Broadcasting Slop), but still…
euronews.com
The US lays groundwork for possible military action in Cuba, according to 'CBS News'
The US Army is considering deploying medical, logistics and military police units, as the Pentagon keeps plans ready for possible action in Cuba, the US broadcast network CBS is reporting exclusively.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have honestly never seen a worse interface, ever. GPT designers make Microsoft designers seem like rocket scientists. This company can’t even create tooltips that provide clues to their constantly shifting features and functionality. It’s just appalling. stzl.ink/9jeuf2
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The number of UI/UX design failures in Chatgpt are just incomprehensible in number. No other product would ever survive being such a complete mess. For a company with billions in assets you’d think they’d have a few UI designers that knew what they were doing.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Arggh. I have spent the morning trying to understand ChatGPT’s absurd “Codex” product. I don’t think it’s possible to design a worse interface. Even GPT’s agents don’t understand how it works.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists at the University of Nottingham Develop a New Gel That Starts Repairing Damaged Tooth Enamel in Just 2 WEEKS This could replace fillings and change dental treatment worldwide, with use expected around late 2026–2027.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Opening this app every morning…
Trump grimacing.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This doesn’t surprise anyone, does it? We’ve allowed all this to happen and we keep allowing it all to happen. Republics are great…if you can keep them.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25/09/2026
Horror movie idea: An endless line of Trump sources calling and screaming at you "MARK HALPERIN"
My Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare imaginable has arrived... panicked texts and emails from GOP insiders are blowing up my phone. They're all saying the same thing: MARK HALPERIN
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 24/09/2026
AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger The argument that repeated statements of concern about AI from multiple experts -- some of whom have quit their jobs over it -- is just marketing hype or regulatory capture appears increasingly deluded
mathewingram.com
AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger
The argument that repeated statements of concern about AI from multiple experts -- some of whom have quit their jobs over it -- is just marketing hype or regulatory capture appears increasingly deluded
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Hollywood elites" tried their best to tell America, and America didn't listen and world turned to shit.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026
The U.S. murder rate reached a historic low in 2025, and evidence suggests it has continued to fall in 2026. What’s driving the decline? New research points to billions in federal aid that helped communities invest in violence prevention and behavioral health. bit.ly/4xMoks9
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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Suppose We Do Win Both House and Senate. Then What? Flipping Congress is necessary but not sufficient. www.leftjabs.com
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gah. Dr’s office just called, 7 WEEKS after a test. Positive for new bladder cancer cells. Thanks for the timely news, shitbags! Another round of that oh-so unpleasant immunotherapy just before X-mas. #CancerSucks
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, America
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
This is surprising and welcomed news
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they’ve notified Trump they’re suing over denied White House access
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they've notified Trump they're suing over denied White House access
CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they’ve notified President Donald Trump's administration they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Putin is Still the Best Explanation for Everything www.leftjabs.com/2026...
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good morning. I’m starting an online support group for people that are #JFFU (just fucking fed up) with everything. But first I need estimates for what it costs to run a website with two billion users.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I always thought @NOTUS was a dreadful brand. But “The Washington Sun” is even worse. It sounds like a sleezy tabloid and not a refuge for laid-off journalists I want to read. WTF were they thinking?
washingtonsun.com
The Washington Sun • WashingtonSun.com
The Washington Sun covers politics and policy and the people who shape life in Washington — not just at the White House and in Congress, but at the Wilson Building, at Northwest Stadium and in the neighborhoods where we live.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Somewhere out there, George Orwell is smirking at us. Kimmel says interview with Democratic candidate not allowed to air on network show | CBC News
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Kimmel says interview with Democratic candidate not allowed to air on network show | CBC News
ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said an interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday will air on YouTube and not during the network broadcast, citing threats from the ‌Federal Communications Commission.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Prices this high will never come down. The oil companies like a gouge-facing economy like this one way too much. Thanks MAGA! The record price of diesel threatens to stoke inflation at a time when consumers are already price-sensitive.
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Record diesel prices stoke food inflation, transportation costs
The record price of diesel threatens to stoke inflation at a time when consumers are already price-sensitive.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m not sure anyone has noticed, but while there are still few pockets of legitimate journalism left, for the most part commercial journalism has turned into an echo chamber of social media noise, propaganda, and bullshit driven by so-called influencers and creators who care mostly about …
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This prose is too long and dense to make enough impact on our distracted. barely literate culture. Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back? Once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, the Right embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”
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Have Conservatives Taken Sexy Back?
The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I predict that it will be MAGA authoritarians who shut down all social media (because they can’t control it), and once they are deposed, it may never return. That might prove to be a good outcome in the final analysis.
publicnotice.co
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today was a big day in history. Today in History: September 7, Panama Canal Treaty signed by President Carter…[and so much more].
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Today in History: September 7, Panama Canal Treaty signed by President Carter
The Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the waterway to Panama at the end of 1999, was signed in Washington by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If Trump’s incompetent stooges solve the Ukrainian conflict this well, gas will soon be $15 a gallon. Nice work, MAGA! Iran says it plans to announce a new ‘exclusion zone’ near the Strait of Hormuz
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Iran says it plans to announce a new 'exclusion zone' near the Strait of Hormuz
A senior Iranian official says Tehran plans to announce an “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz, targeting vessels it believes are attempting to transit the waterway.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If X.com is still your social media of choice, just know you’re helping Elon Musk reshape the world in his image. And it’s a pretty fucking ugly look. Landslide victory for Germany’s far-right AfD in state election piles pressure on
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Landslide victory for Germany's far-right AfD in state election piles pressure on Chancellor Merz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure after the far-right Alternative Germany (AfD) party achieved a significant victory in a regional election.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two world wars and 11 million dead Germans wasn’t sufficient to convince enough Germans that right-wing nationalism brings disaster to Germany and the world. So it goes. Landslide victory for Germany’s far-right AfD in state election.
apnews.com
Landslide victory for Germany's far-right AfD in state election piles pressure on Chancellor Merz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure after the far-right Alternative Germany (AfD) party achieved a significant victory in a regional election.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation “Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
publicnotice.co
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day. Everything’s about to cost more! | Rex Huppke @Shoq’s sidebar: While we’re all focused on the price of everything going up, I can’t help but notice the price of some things that aren’t going up by much because their producers know the market won’t sustain that higher price. …
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Good morning Joan, I’ve given this careful thought and I just don’t think we’d be compatible housemates. I take political matters very seriously and while I have and could live with a Republican, I could not live with someone who didn’t vote because they couldn’t tell the difference between a …
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
MAGA can finally support the NAZIs they’ve always loved. Far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.5% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout.
theguardian.com
Far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority
Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.5% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Big day for me. I saw my first 3D printed part prototype. Needs lots of iteration and polish but I still can’t get over how inexpensively these things can be produced, relative to what I’m used to with injection molding and other fabrication methods. I gotta get me a printer.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Two things can be true at the same time. It’s now an indispensable tool for my expression and work, while also being woefully under-designed and under-programmed for some important tasks its makers claim it’s “good enough” for. It’s not. I’m sure it will get better but right now it’s hardly has …
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As seen on Nextdoor.com. ‘Nuff said.
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thanks to all who offered to assist with 3DP project. An old friend turned out to have a Bamboo printer. I was not aware she was a ninja. And I learned to make my own Scads and STLs, too! #crawling forward
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Help! I need a CAD/3D printer-literate person, stat. I have a fully dimensioned 2D drawing (2 small flat parts, pocket cuts, grooves, two bores) that need to become an STL. Quick job — will pay. Please DM me!
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
AGI tho!
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning. After 5 days of trying to get ChatGPT and Claude to do the simplest mechanical drawin of a part not much more complicated then a candy bar with some screw holes in it, I can honestly say that Wall Street doesn’t have a clue about how dishonest these companies are being about how …
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