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Spencer MacDonald

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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/09/2026
OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A key passage from Dexter Filkins' description of Kushner-Witkoff "diplomacy" in the current issue of the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
He's alive in footage taken after this with a rescue blanket covering him
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why now though? Ontario hasn't gotten any bigger, the only thing that's changed is Premiers feeling the need to meet with Republicans
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The Witcher @thewitcher.com · 01/04/2026
Introducing, Project R.O.A.C.H. 🐴 ✨ A revolutionary gaming controller that puts you in the saddle, making your next adventure in the Continent more realistic and tactile than ever before! Ride off into the sunset on R.O.A.C.H. today: thewitcher.ly/ROACH
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As an aside, Melania Trump will be presiding over Monday’s security council meeting, no doubt to offer us her learned legal perspective on Iranian civilian casualties. She couldn’t actually do worse than Mike Waltz, who made no effort to justify Maduro’s abduction under international law last month
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
In answer to some queries: this is not a joke, Melania Trump actually is presiding over a UN Security Council meeting Monday, and apparently they scheduled that knowing they were going to launch an illegal war on Saturday morning
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Now I'm a broken man on Havana's pier, the last of Hegseth's privateers
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The last time a country lost a speed boat their leader got abducted 🤞
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
get a load of Nicole Malliotakis as Al Green's "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign is ripped down by House Republicans (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
she's making a "get out" gesture with her thumb
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sports are political. Following the USA’s hockey wins at the Olympics, the White House revisited an old tweet from Trudeau that asserted our sovereignty. They shared that post with an image of an eagle attacking a Canada goose. But they messed up Because in that story, the goose came out on top.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A prince gets a mugshot, a president gets a banner
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
One participated in counter intelligence in a foreign country and the other is accused of aiding a foreign country at home using Postmedia infrastructure. They aren't exactly comparable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NEW — RFK Jr.’s HHS sent out a survey asking employees to report instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration, and the Dept. of Labor announced its inaugural prayer service. These are just the latest instances of Trump’s extreme Christian creep within the federal government.
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RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden
Employees received a survey Monday asking them to rat on each other.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/12/2025
Hegseth: “I watched that first strike, as you can imagine, at the Department of War, we've got a lot of things to do, so I didn't stick around for the one hour and two hours…Admiral Bradley made the correct decision.” Q: “So you didn't see any survivors?” Hegseth: “I did not"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Unhinged. How much longer can fools fall for this psychos rhetoric
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Whoever is now funding the U.S. military with $130m, presumably chose not to help fund Ukraine’s defence all this time?
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Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
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VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
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Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/10/2025
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
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JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’ JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I love Hitler” – as youthful indiscretions. Vance, speaking on a new episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, the podcast run by colleagues of the late conservative activist, suggested that the participants in the leaked chats were much younger than they in fact are. Some of the participants are barely younger than the 41-year-old vice-president. Continue reading...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether Britain thinks we are at war with Russia if Moscow already considers itself at war with us, which it does. We either acknowledge the reality of it or bury our heads in the sand, in either scenario, the war for Europe has already begun.
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The cowboy hat just makes this look like revenge for Reconstruction. I bet they wish they were wearing grey
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this: We salute you.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 26/09/2025
⚡️Unidentified drones spotted in northern Germany near Danish border, NDR reports. Authorities reported multiple drone sightings overnight on Sept. 26 in northern Germany, which they suspect may be linked to espionage, according to German broadcaster NDR.
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Unidentified drones spotted in northern Germany near Danish border, NDR reports
Authorities reported multiple drone sightings overnight on Sept. 26 in northern Germany, which they suspect may be linked to espionage, according to German broadcaster NDR.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.
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Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents
The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...
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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 26/09/2025
🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.
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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/09/2025
Hundreds of Moldovan Orthodox priests received an offer that seemed too good to be true: a paid pilgrimage to visit the most significant religious sites in Moscow. The catch: they were told to set up social media channels to influence Moldova's elections reut.rs/4gLOAfk
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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 25/09/2025
Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2025
Trump's UN speech was his most embarrassing showing since the "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL" one
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2025
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/09/2025
I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🇲🇩 Moldova President Maia Sandu stated that if Russia controls Moldova, it will become a springboard for the invasion of Russian troops into the Odesa region. The victory of pro-Russian forces in the upcoming elections is extremely dangerous.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2025
of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If you're still talking about a starting point 26 years after Columbine you're part of the problem
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Spencer MacDonald @sponcemac.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Step one: Thoughts and prayers Step two: Repeat step one
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