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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026

@saletan.bsky.social makes the case against Trump and looks at evidence Jack Smith brought up in a deposition last year: “ If you think that Trump believed the election was stolen…DOJ officials told him that they didn't believe it was stolen…He knew he was telling them to lie.”

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Christopher Mitchell @sportshotchris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excellent book - just finished it. Cliff notes - kids should play more without adults. Video games and devices are generally good if they allow kids to play more without adults. A lot of adults are making things worse by obsessing and setting the wrong rules. petergray.substack.com/p/128-introd...

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#128. Introduction to My New Book, Restoring Childhood

Here are eight paragraphs from the book’s Introduction, presented to entice you to buy it. :-)

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/10/2026

Applies to Mpls too: “Half of [St.P’s] budget is spent on Cops & Cars (47%) & if you’re a person who wants to solve finances with cuts & you’re not talking about cutting either of those things then not only are you not taking the budget seriously, you’re not even taking your own premise seriously.”

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is national broadband data actually reliable, or are we just taking ISP claims on faith? @sportshotchris.bsky.social and @seangon.bsky.social unpack flawed FCC reports, cover major BEAD dropouts, Starlink tree canopy problems, and the questionable math of DOGE on this weeks Unbuffered podcast 🎙️

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Tree Canopies, Broken Data, and DOGE Math - Episode 26 of Unbuffered

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Christopher Mitchell @sportshotchris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw previews for Chad Powers I dunno, a year or two ago? I thought I might watch it in the background while editing photos... but good lord is it compelling. Perry Mattfield is amazing - just magnetic and stunning.

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Surveillance backlash is bipartisan On the latest Unbuffered podcast, reporter Daniel Boguslaw talks to host @sportshotchris.bsky.social about why the fight against Flock is just the tip of the iceberg in a bigger reckoning over surveillance 👀 Full episode at link below: youtu.be/6e-m8zeR7i0?...

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Weird how most of those newly revealed pentagon psyops accounts also downplayed the Epstein list. Probably just a coincidence

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A federal judge has ruled that Digital Equity Act grant programs can resume — a win for the NDIA-led lawsuit, though the court struck the Act's race-based language as unconstitutional Read ILSR's Community Broadband Networks Director @sportshotchris.bsky.social full statement here ⬇️

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Digital Equity Grant Program Reinstatement Is a Victory

"Digital equity work does not cost the federal government money," says broadband expert Christopher Mitchell.

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🎙️You're not gonna wanna miss the latest episode of Unbuffered 🎙️ Host @sportshotchris.bsky.social speaks w/indie reporter Daniel Boguslaw about Flock cameras They get into how private surveillance data is increasingly bought and repackaged AND the growing grassroots resistance to mass surveillance

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Flock Off! - Episode 23 of Unbuffered

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Everyone questioning whether Darline Graham is smart enough to be in the Senate is making me smile. You mean in comparison to the intellectual powerhouses already there? Like Tommy Tuberville? Marsha Blackburn? Ron Johnson? John Fetterman?

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On the latest episode of Unbuffered, Lee Brown and John Fredericks join @sportshotchris.bsky.social to discuss how Erwin Fiber weathered Hurricane Helene and what the community is building back stronger

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Built for the Storm - Episode 21 of Unbuffered

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/07/2026

journalism is just repeating the things various high-level executives say without context, correction, or cues that the speaker might not be a competent or reliable narrator

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Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power (Gift Article)

In an interview with The Times, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported “more openness.”

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...

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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

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Christopher Mitchell @sportshotchris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm struck once again by how spectacularly stupid the Wall Street Journal editors think people are. Yes, the problem in DC is that the President has splintered his time between his failed war and other objectives. That is it, that is the problem. Finger on the pulse. www.wsj.com/opinion/pres...

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Christopher Mitchell @sportshotchris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is the explanation I needed for why this part of the world has seemed so unhinged over SpaceX and now SpaceXAI www.profgmedia.com/p/the-analys... - plain corruption, supercharged by the Trump Administration changing the rules to encourage more corruption.

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The Analysts Are Compromised

The real reason Wall Street loves SpaceX

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/07/2026

The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie

"Michael Mandel, the chief economist for the Progressive Policy Institute, told me that employment gains are likely to grow as new data centers attract businesses that use AI. Companies using the technology for advanced applications—such as for autonomous vehicles and medical research—may benefit from proximity to these centers, because information can travel faster from source to user. The margin is imperceptible to most people using Claude or ChatGPT, but for companies that depend on real-time AI-powered decision making at scale, tiny differences in latency matter. The kinds of businesses that will drive the AI economy are thus likely to set up in communities that invest in data centers."

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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Trump reigniting his illegal Iran War without any Constitutionally mandatory Congressional deliberation and authorization... or have you not heard about it yet?"

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Jesse Harris @elforesto.coolestfamilyever.com · 09/07/2026

Last night, Cedar City had an agenda item to renew their Flock contract. The public backlash was so strong they punted for two weeks on what would have otherwise been a routine renewal. Showing up works, and tell the doomers to zip it. #utpol

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Btw, it tells you something about populist mania that Platner said that the *ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.* No, it doesn't. The ballot itself belongs to the people of Maine, and anyone who qualifies can be on it. But the *Democratic line* belongs to the Democratic Party, as it should.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/07/2026

I am just fascinated by journalists that write about this story without mentioning the documentable, indisputable fact that EVERY SINGLE MERGER LIKE THIS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE FOR CONSUMERS AND LABOR

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Oregon to ask court to delay Paramount deal for 60 days while it reviews records

The Oregon attorney general will ask a court to pause Paramount's $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros for 60 days, saying on Tuesday ‌the company withheld records on its lobbying efforts.

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Christopher Mitchell @sportshotchris.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today I celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. Everywhere there are people, there is a debate about how to treat each other. America and Americans have made key contributions to that debate even if one of our current contributions is a cautionary tale.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/07/2026

if you're a CEO you must inherently be smart and good and coherent or there's simply no way you would have gotten the job, so it's a journalist's job to just let you ramble on incoherently without challenge or audience value

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In the latest Unbuffered pod, @sportshotchris.bsky.social @seangon.bsky.social and @karlbode.com say happy 250th birthday to the U.S., noting its anti-monopoly founding ideals They also dive into Sean and Karl's recent article for The Verge and unpack this week's Congressional hearings on BEAD

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The Plot to Hijack America’s Broadband - Episode 15 of Unbuffered

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What did DOGE's destruction of USAID do to disease response and preparedness? What countries and programs were most affected? How should we rebuild foreign aid from the ashes of USAID? We spoke with Nicholas Enrich, USAID whistleblower and author of Into the Woodchipper, to find out.

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As Musk Melts Down, Read Our Timely Interview With USAID Whistleblower Nicholas Enrich

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇺🇸 As we approach the 250th Anniversary of the USA, I'm posting this video so we NEVER forget what Trump's Patriots did on J6. Instead of honoring our Constitution's Peaceful Transfer of Power, seditious Donald unleashed a deadly MAGA MOB on our Capitol to overthrow our fair & just election results.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉The Tribal Broadband Bootcamps is celebrating its 5th anniversary! 🎉 On the latest Unbuffered, @seangon.bsky.social interviews Unbuffered host & bootcamp co-founder @sportshotchris.bsky.social along w/bootcamp co-founder @matthewrantanen.bsky.social on the growing Tribal connectivity movement

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Five Years of Tribal Broadband Bootcamps - Episode 14 of Unbuffered for Local Self-Reliance

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Free-speech absolutist™ Elon Musk is at it again. On Monday, the newly minted trillionaire threatened to sue Rep. Ro Khanna into silence after he accused Musk of “possibly” sentencing 4.5 million children to death by cutting funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Elon Musk threatens to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to death of 4.5M kids

Democrat Ro Khanna cited a 2025 study that estimated more than 14 million people could die without USAID resources by 2030

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026

Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.

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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

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