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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 25/09/2026
The funny thing is that the other emanuel brother, zeke, said people should die at 75 (which he has started to walk back of course) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Why I Hope to Die at 75
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
which do you think is more true: that the median voter mostly agrees with dems but hates trans people, or that the median voter thinks dems are spineless and stand for nothing
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to bring you this Organized Money episode with @adambonica.bsky.social about spam PACs. Democratic consultants (& its leadership) are using a business model normally associated with elder financial fraud to raise millions of dollars, most of which doesn't go to help candidates get elected.
organizedmoney.fm
How the Democratic Party Runs on Elder Fraud
Don’t respond to the text, don’t even read it, and make sure your parents don’t either.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and
The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Better idea: instead of bandaids, put your whole ass & balls behind Medicare For All & decouple health insurance from unions. Huge reason production has left US is that every other country provides health care for its workers, making movies & shows wildly cheaper.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This quote is from last February. Good work sir!
"Regulations, basically, should be default gone," Musk said. "Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in."
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]
JPEG version of a 1-page Factsheet: El Niño 2026-2027: A Potentially Historic Global Climate Event
By Daniel Swain, PhD | August 2026

There is a banner image depicting projected warming of the Pacific Ocean by early winter.

The content begins:
"What is El Niño?
El Niño is the warm phase of a natural cycle, known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), that occurs roughly every 2-7 years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño events, the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to well above typical levels. El Niño directly affects local climate in the countries closest to the unusually warm ocean waters, but can also indirectly influence the climate of distant regions thousands of miles away. During the strongest events, El Niño can profoundly affect climate even on global scales, causing temporary planetary warming and disrupting large-scale precipitation patterns..."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The thing about the country shrugging every 2/4 years and smashing the "Other guy" button at the polls because of ~affordability~ is eventually you get someone who takes the button away. Untenable situation
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in which the world's richest man appears to endorse a post calling for "shooting migrants" and "sinking boats with refugees"
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2026
The WNBA anti-trans protests are like seeing people with signs outside a Burger King saying they’re against Burger King workers having to serve food to Bigfoot. Like I don’t think you need to worry about that ma’am. I don’t think Bigfoot goes here
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 17/08/2026
New from NRDC and Atlas Public Policy: EV buyers are 50% less likely to default on their auto loans compared to people with similar credit & income who buy cars with average fuel efficiency. People buying gas guzzlers are 16% more likely to default. atlaspolicy.com/fact-sheet-a...
atlaspolicy.com
Fact Sheet: A Link Between Fuel Economy and Auto Loan Repayment Risk
New research finds that borrowers financing fuel-efficient vehicles, particularly EVs, are less likely to fall behind on loan payments. Drawing on an analysis of 379,000 auto loans, the study reveals ...
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"I haven't worked since 2024. I cannot afford health insurance because I have no work" "I hosted dinners for colleagues who lost 80% of their salary" "we've seen larger instances of depression, more suicide among our crew" @iatse.bsky.social members *8 weeks ago* on what past mergers did to them:
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just saw a thing where a director talked about taking out sex/nudity because audiences don’t want to see it. Here’s an idea: fuck the audience. I’m the chef & they’ll eat what I serve them and like it. *The audience* knows what they want? Why don’t you let a toddler drive a car next?
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Who? Me??
Screenshot of article which reads: 
Jennifer Landau-Carter, a retired diplomat who now lives in Paris, had always intended to sell the Greenwich Village townhouse that she inherited after finishing its yearslong, multimillion-dollar renovation. Once she received a pied-à-terre tax notice in the mail, the decision to sell her childhood home got even easier.

“You get this letter and you’re like, ‘Wait, what? Me?’ ” she said.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
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Victims of Capitalism Support Account @victimsof.capital · 28/07/2026
Remembering this article about how the main government programs that people engage with as government programs are just tax collections and paperwork. A welfare state needs to be aggressive about advertising the good work it does www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/o...
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Opinion | F.D.R. Got It. Most Democrats Don’t. (Published 2020)
Government needs to be seen, not hidden.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Lemondrop 👉 YOUMA? @lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???
Photo of a page from the July issue of In These Times, depicting a six-panel comic from Haus of Decline. 

Panel 1: A woman standing and smiling in front of a chart. “THE ADVENTURES OF BLOODLESS QUANT”
Panel 2: Another woman pleads to Bloodless Quant: “Bloodless Quant, please help! I can’t afford to feed my family!”
Panel 3: BQ replies, “That’s ludicrous. The stock market is at an all-time high”
Panel 4: The woman says “But groceries are—“ but BQ cheerfully interjects, “You shouldn’t make statements if you don’t have economic literacy!” 
Panel 5: BQ holds up a chart with a line rocketing upward, saying “Here’s a chart explaining why your fears are unfounded”
Panel 6: A boy asks the woman, “What are we having for dinner tonight?” The woman dejectedly stirs a pot with the chart in it. “Chart,” she replies.
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
Photo of a van with a text printed on its back: "We fix what ChatGPT said you should try!"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
theverge.com
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
the pundits will tell you starmer has no real accomplishments, but no one in british history has ever made a columnist write something this unhinged
screenshot of a column by caitlin moran. 

the headline reads: "Keir Starmer has turbocharged my arousal levels. I feel fruity"

the subhed reads: "My friend didn't say why she had to excuse herself from our group chat about the new cabinet - but we knew"
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left
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Squat Erry Day @implicitpower.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I may never know who the original artist is. but one day a cheeky historian or museum curator will be absolutely correct to use this image to capture our particular political moment.
Line art of the maps of the EU (top left, blue), China (top right, red), and the USA (bottom, gray). Superimposed on each of them is a drawn face. The USA is stabbing itself with two daggers, bleeding all over the place, its face screaming in berserker rage. Europe and China look on, concerned.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I'm so sorry in advance
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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
A glorious rendering showing a Melrose with bike lanes, shade trees, crosswalks and wide sidewalksAnother perspective showing bike lanes, crosswalks, shade trees and happy people strolling Melrose
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