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@swalkthewalk.bsky.social
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In person I am good humored and a bit of a nerd. Here, I am kind of a crank, but still a nerd. We await silent Tristero’s empire.

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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need to be vigilant about Dems that suck as much as Republicans. popular.info/p/corporate-...
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Corporate mercenary is a bipartisan profession
The AI industry tapped former Obama aide Jay Carney to rebuild ties with Democrats. He spent years at Amazon undermining privacy protections and fighting AI regulation.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
History is shaped by persons of great courage, such as these two filmmakers. youtube.com/shorts/6nio8...
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Here’s what’s in the Gaza film causing uproar in Israel
YouTube video by CNN
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well stated. www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...
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From the ukraine community on Reddit: Short summary of what Russia is, and why ceasefire is not a solution.
Explore this post and more from the ukraine community
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For Substack subscribers, I've posted pages from a chapter called "The 9/11 Lobotomy" from my forthcoming book, THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-911-lo...
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The 9/11 Lobotomy
Twenty-five years later, four pages from my forthcoming book.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/n...
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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died (Gift Article)
The last words of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are sending people to countries that torture.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Burns.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BREAKING! Democratic Party leaders announce plan to give every family in the US a pony that flies and farts ice cream if Democrats take control of Congress in the coming election. Trump signs executive order targeting “communist ponies” for immediate deportation to Argentina.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Salt Lake Tribune is a 150+ year-old newspaper that went the nonprofit route several years ago. It now brings in $13MM in revenue vs $12MM in expenses. Enough to support a robust news operation. This is the way for metro news orgs. www.cjr.org/first_person...
That move has been a success. Last year, the Tribune brought in about thirteen million dollars in revenue, a million dollars more than it incurred in expenses.
Its revenue came from several streams: contributions from big foundations and individual donors, advertising in its online and twice-weekly print editions, and subscription fees, though the paywall would be removed shortly after Ileft Utah, in May. Similarweb's ranking system regularly puts the Tribune's traffic among the nation's top two or three nonprofit news organizations, alongside such stalwarts as ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. It's also ambitious, acquiring one newspaper in southeast Utah and starting another in the southwest corner of the state. Recently, management signed its first contract with the new newsroom union, guaranteeing a sixty-thousand-dollar salary floor, at least three weeks of vacation, and generous work-from-home provisions.
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Ed Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is it worth noting that the Miami Herald did some of the best, most uncompromising reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators at Mar-A-Lago courtesy of journalists like Julie K. Brown et al? I think so.
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𝔸𝕞𝕪 𝔹. 💚🌱 #voteforyourlife! #protectdemocracy 🗳️💙🌊 @beachandtreesplz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Texans! You have the chance in a few weeks to oust awful Abbott. He has done nothing but actively harm your state. Education, infrastructure all garbage under him. Racism is encouraged. Hating the poor. Get rid of that cancer. Vote for @ginafortexas.bsky.social ! check your voter registration! #TX
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
ICE flights. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, an average and terrible day. 75 total flights, at least 16 removal flights — Cambodia, Costa Rica*, Ecuador*, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Israel*, Jamaica*, Laos, Mexico (4), Nicaragua*, & Vietnam. *suspected third-country removal
An ADSBx map of the world showing dozens of ICE flights touching every continent but Australia and Antarctica. A closer view of North and Central America showing dozens of flights, mostly emanating out of Alexandria, Louisiana.A close-up of Alexandria, Louisiana, showing dozens of flight paths going out of the ICE Air hub there, like evil tentacles.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CBS News stenography on display. I am shocked it is this bad. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/p...
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President Trump says he doesn't think $5,000 dividend payments would need to be approved by Congress
CBS News Texas political reporter Jack Fink spoke with President Trump for an exclusive interview during the president's visit to North Texas.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Help needed: When I was in 7th grd. there was a (non) joke that went as follows: Joker:What did the floor say to the refrigerator? Jokee: I dunno. Joker:Dick Tracy! It was cruelty, aimed at seeing the insecure laugh (what’s so funny?), or shaming the non-laugher’s niaveté. Anybody know of similar?
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh Canada! Bravo!
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good piece. Pinochet’s inheritors are everywhere and too few people in the US acknowledge how widespread the problem is. lucid.substack.com/p/rule-of-th...
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Rule of the Lawless: Chile’s Coup, the Other 9/11
Anti-Communist domestic terror, transnational repression, and collaboration with Fascists
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in Patrickworl.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
youtu.be/idB_vSrGKNo?...
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Jon Stewart thanks Zohran Mamdani office for 9/11 records but blasts NYC over air quality report
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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Meesh@liskeard1.bsky.social @liskeard1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🇨🇦🍁 BREAKING: During his speech today, Donald Trump recounted helping save Titanic victims: “I saved more people than anybody, many people, the best people. I said, ‘Turn left, Captain. Very simple. Very easy.’ He didn’t listen. I know icebergs. Nobody knows icebergs better than me.”
@AntiTrumpCanada
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.
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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did the two big, strong firefighters say, “Sir, you’re so brave,” with tears in their eyes? Is there a reason you have never named either firefighter, and neither has come forward to corroborate this story?
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today in Patrickworld.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 08/09/2026
this is A. outrageous and despicable behavior by the worst people alive and B. appears to be merely incidental news in a giant breakthrough in mathematics cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the "closest
humans to the problem". I declined both offers. I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, "Why would you ruin your career?" I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't
have to be nice." Some time later Levent received a text proposing that he and Sebastien speak one on one, saying, "I don't know if Tristan is being fully rational right now." Levent declined and said conversations should be with me. Sebastien sent
a follow-up email that night requesting to speak with me on Monday, September
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today in Patrickworld.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today in Patrickworld
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/U_PPx...
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Clayton pressed on whether he'd tell Trump hard truths
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It astonishes me that some Democrats in Congress still see the challenge delivered by this moment in history is to pass legislation w/ people who support tearing down our constitutional democracy.
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dear Democrats You vote with Republicans?, I hate you like I hate Republicans With the Republicans, I knew exactly what they’re doing and what they’re saying with some Democrats you pretend to be against Republicans and then you turn around and vote with them Fuck you 
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A moment of clarity. youtu.be/1ZYiBwciN5k?...
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Ilan Pappé RIPS Into Israel’s History at Oxford Union Debate
YouTube video by The Financial Express
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Real Estate Broker In Richmond VA @realestatewhisper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh, geez, that's an ugly lake on the right...how fitting!
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Netanyahu bootlicker surprises nobody. www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-e...
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'It's trash': CBS staffers leak Bari Weiss move for 'sensationalized' attack
CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss wanted an even more "sensationalized" headline on the story tying Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to Sept. 11, staffers told Zeteo on Thursday.Three CB...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a good and important book.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The nothing needs to make sense era. From Google.
Google saying that the 121st day in a standard year is May 1 but that the 121st day of the year on leap year is May 2 because February has an extra day. Actually, that would make April 30 the 121st day.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Listen, y’all. We are all going to have to get organized for voting in November. Vote in person if you can. Mail ballots early if you need to vote by mail. Check with groups like @voteriders.bsky.social for strategies and updated info about voter ID rules.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good points about lousy food for some citizens as a result of current grocery system. time.com/article/2026...
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The Economics of Public Grocery Stores
Public grocery stores “hold out the promise of a healthier population and a more productive labor force,” writes Joseph E. Stiglitz.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you are in London in October, or near enough to visit, i have good news! I am bloody THRILLED to announce ROGUE TROOPER will be part of the London Film Festival! whatson.bfi.org.uk/LFF/Online/d...
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Rogue Trooper | BFI London Film Festival 2026
Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The affordability crisis is quite literally destroying kids' dreams.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If Palestinians targeted a synagogue in Israel it would be one of the lead stories on every UK news channel. But the IDF attacking a mosque in the occupied West Bank? Won't get a mention.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The American tolerance for cruelty is unbelievable.The party in power in the US promotes cruelty as social policy
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 02/09/2026
Finding out that fast food restaurants are putting in anti-homeless chairs as a way to keep people from sitting in their dining areas too long. Brother if I saw that shit I wouldn’t even finish my order I would leave and never come back. That’s bullshit
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achingbob.bsky.social @achingbob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Several U.S. military bases in Jordan, including a Marine Corps base and an air base, have been struck by Iranian missiles tonight. There are casualties as evidenced by a steady stream of medevac helicopters leaving the area. How many more need to die so this filth and his family can avoid prison?
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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very exciting news from one of the most creative biologists working today ...
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cult android supports cult android. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Tom Cruise Blesses Paramount’s Deal to Buy Warner Bros., in the Name of Movie “Abundance”
The actor was interviewed Tuesday on Pat McAfee’s show to talk about his 'Days of Thunder' sequel.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When I read news like this I am terribly ashamed. I also wonder why Congressional Democrats aren’t everywhere denouncing our descent into 1938 Germany. They are not to blame, but not being able to pass laws does not mean there can be no resistance. I also hope Homan gets cancer; he deserves it.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Russian was invited because Trump will do anything to be liked by dictators. Spain was not invited because the Spanish government hurt Dear Leader’s fee fees. newrepublic.com/post/214936/...
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Russia Joins G20 Summit After Trump Invite—Sparking Massive Backlash
Our European allies were shocked after Russia’s finance minister attended the summit being held in North Carolina.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
These pigs need to be incarcerated.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today in Patrickworld.
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Shannon @swalkthewalk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looks like Uday and Qusay are sidling up to the trough for another unethical pigout. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Donald Trump Jr. And Eric Trump Invest in AI Data Centers After President Trump Announces Billions In Industry Investments
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s venture aligns with their father’s AI policy push, positioning them to potentially profit from government-backed industry growth.
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