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Stefanie

@sixpencesymphony.bsky.social
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nature lover living in the mountains of NC. message me if you'd like to be friends 💙😊

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry
The deal marks a major breakthrough in a long-running effort to outlaw the industry. It is also likely to inflame Mamdani’s relationship with a powerful local union.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 18h
It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h
The immutable, unnamed American law of The Dumbest Thing That Can Happen Will Happen dictates that the Democrats will win the House handily, as projected, and take the Senate 51-49, making John Fetterman the most powerful flesh husk in America for the next 24 months.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 7h
So his entire understanding of the job is “I do whatever I want and nobody can stop me.” 😳
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h
Trump bragging aloud about violating both the Constitution and laws passed by Congress underscores his lawlessness, recklessness, and stupidity.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 6h
This sadist sure does fantasize a lot about killing people. Too bad we don’t have a constitutional mechanism to deal with an unfit WH occupant.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 7h
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 8h
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 7h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
“Let him talk!” Watch how @abdulelsayed.bsky.social handles this heckler and then think about how Trump mocked that woman’s weight as his supporters punched her in the face👇🏽 “You can pray how you pray, I’ll pray how I pray — The book that matters is the 🇺🇸 constitution.” 🔥
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 6h
Bro, if your doctor is doing a cognitive test every time you get a physical, there’s a reason for that, and it’s not because you keep acing them.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6h
The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5h
My God this is beyond horrific. It just gets worse and worse. At U Chicago a man raped an inebriated woman in a bathroom while his friends cheered the rapist on from outside while blocking her friends from going into the bathroom to stop the rapist. letsaddressillinois.substack.com/p/a-group-of...
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A Group of Men Cheered While a Man Raped a Woman at a UChicago Fraternity House
Will our system hold them accountable?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
I guess us “little persons” are supposed to be grateful the oil companies are making bank from our misery
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h
I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
Trump again comes out as pro-inflation
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Today Elon Musk has more blood on his hands. These photographs should be in every American living room tonight
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h
“The bad guys were exposed, we won the election—that’s incentive enough for them to change their ways.” No it’s not. www.offmessage.net/p/exposure-i...
offmessage.net
Exposure Is Not Accountability
When bad actors are shameless, exposure accomplishes little. They need to face tangible consequences.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h
Exposure is a first step towards accountability, but real accountability needs punishment, yes. Put it this way: Should a grand effort to overthrow US democracy that involved a lot of lawbreaking go down as a cautionary tale—a Do Not—or as a thing to try again because the consequences are minimal?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Trump makes clear that he has turned on Ukraine and Zelenskyy and want to help Russia destroy them. The technical term for this conduct in wartime is perfidy, an act of betrayal involving deceit.
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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 8h
exactly what I was gonna say, she’s a United States citizen, there’s no “immigration status” to investigate- why does @nbcnews.com adopt the fascist framing?
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Katrine Koenig @katrinekoenig.bsky.social · 9h
her immigration status is "citizen"
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 8h
She doesn’t have an ‘immigration status.’ She’s a citizen. Appalling though predictable framing.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h
back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong
The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
If Trump and Musk succeed in putting a knife into the ribs of Ukraine, it will be a permanent stain on the U.S. and a reminder that no country should ever trust us again.
nytimes.com
Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates (Gift Article)
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
P.S. Thiel wrote this in 2009 — right after Obama won🤔
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h
I was searching for something else and stumbled across this 2021 headline from Politico and did a spit-take
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
Ilhan Omar raid is a reboot of Trump’s birtherism BS www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Ilhan Omar raid is a reboot of Trump’s birtherism BS
Reports say that DHS previously didn’t act on these thinly sourced claims.
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pamnapo.bsky.social @pamnapo.bsky.social · 8h
He’s allowed to vote. Remember to vote so you can cancel out one of these morons.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No matter how bad things get under their disastrous policies and wars, they will be blaming an old retired guy in Delaware for their failures as long as they are in power. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
Love the guy with the nail gun 🔫
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h
It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you anything. It’s harder to do the right thing in cases like this, where it will cost Sally Rooney quite a lot. A really uncommon display of principle. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/10/2026
MAGA wants to deport anyone who overstayed a student visa. Their favorite billionaire reportedly did exactly that.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why the fuck are we here?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h
"Stupidification" *is* a word and it's what he's been doing for a long time to anyone who listens to him
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Exclusive Senior Adviser to The First Lady Marc Beckman says Melania "has a direct line to leadership in Russia"
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 9h
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10h
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Feels like we don’t talk enough about how Peter Thiel, who puppeteers JD Vance and funds Trump, has written that he “no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible” We are literally being run by people who oppose our very system of government. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15h
This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Character.AI, which was valued at more than $1b in 2023, is bankrupt. CAI's founders once argued that they were building superintelligence. The startup went on to face wrongful death lawsuits, safety concerns, financial struggles, and user-hated platform changes: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Character.AI is a fascinating case study of the early AI era. It was the first company to face allegations of psychological harm and wrongful death to users, claims that other major players in the industry are now battling too. Yet in attempting, eventually, to make its freewheeling platform safer, it also made it unusable and deeply frustrating for much of its userbase — suggesting that the qualities that allegedly made its platform so dangerous to some young users were the same features that made it compelling.

At the same time, despite immense investments, it struggled to do something that, from a business perspective, is pretty important: make money. And unfortunately for the broader AI industry — and the American economy — that specific issue isn’t unique to Character.AI.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h
Trump again posts to social media that he's going to take Greenland's oil and other natural resources. Trump wants to get oil from "our beautiful Greenland." He can shove it says MP and former mineral resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen. This is not just about money, she says, but our sovereignty.
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Trump vil hente olie i »vores smukke Grønland.« Det kan han godt glemme
Donald Trump skaber igen røre med drømme om at hente olie op fra »vores smukke Grønland«. Men udmeldingen preller af på folketingsmedlem og tidligere råstofminister Naaja Nathanielsen. Hun slår fast, ...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 9h
According to an independent report, the blue coating used for the Reflecting Pool failed in at least 85 places because of renovation errors, including premature basin refilling before the liner had fully dried. Sidebar: Trump driving on it didn't help. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Trump’s Reflecting Pool liner failed in a whopping 85 places, inspection finds
‘Failure analysis’ finds the president’s ‘American flag blue’ sealant was compromised by poor construction and a rushed job
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15h
It should be a disqualification for a member of Congress to hold the belief that *his* First Amendment rights are violated when his constituents jeer at him.
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Stefanie @sixpencesymphony.bsky.social · 9h
I only made it through one episode so far but I really enjoyed the character development
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h
Republicans explode the deficit; Democrats bring it back under control; repeat. That's the 21st century.
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US Public Debt Hits $40 Trillion, Raising ‘Doom Loop’ Risk
Total US public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, and has now surged by a third in less than five years, as US lawmakers continue to shrug off calls to contend with historically wide fis...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h
“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...
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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect
Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Netflix is laying off 1,000 workers — its largest layoff ever. In 2025, Netflix had a net income of $11 billion (up 26%). Its CEO was paid $53M (255x more than the median employee). And it just raised prices for the second time in just over a year. Corporate greed in a nutshell.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h
Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.
bloomberg.com
One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower
The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers
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