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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 3h
Colorado Republicans want to pass Proposition 134 because they want to let pedophiles inspect the genitals of school athletes. That's it. It has nothing to do with sports. It's all about giving underage genital inspection passes to pedophiles like Donald Trump.
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Cheek Swabs? Genital Checks? Anti-Trans Sports Ban Proponents Don't Know How It Would Be Enforced
A ballot measure which purports to simply ban trans athletes from participating in sports could have further-reaching consequences for students regardless of gender, but you wouldn’t hear that from th...
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404 Media @404media.co · 4h
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 5h
Come on, people: it's salt. Do you like food? Do you like life? Vote for Halite in the semis #mincup26 www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
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Vote in Semifinals 1 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Vote in Cuprite vs Halite Credit: Gianandrea Ghirri and John Kygier
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 9h
Did I say that the climate porn is getting out of hand?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 28/09/2026
“The Advance Colorado network exists to convince voters to vote against their own best interests, and in the best interests of its billionaire donors,”
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Commentary: This secretive group warps democracy in Colorado | Colorado Newsline
In Colorado, "citizen" too often means a secretive group of rich conservatives out to reshape state law in their image.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hot girls are praying for divine intervention and giving me 5$ to intercede on their behalf 🙏 @merelymatt.bsky.social has put together an insane crew for this including: -powerhouse @fkth.bsky.social -softest boy @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social -audio drama royal @gejwatts.bsky.social
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Writing + casting I Need A Miracle season 2
I want to pay a pantheon of writers to pen a second season of the micro-fiction podcast I Need A Miracle.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm supposed to believe AOC isn't invested in the DSA project lmao
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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murduck the werewolf 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Halite is small perfect cubes, That are used to flavour your food. You don't slip on the ice, And have chips that taste nice. So show it some kind gratitude! VOTE HALITE! #MinCup26
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Jena Griswold @jenagriswold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Allen has criticized Colorado’s lawsuits to protect our state from the Trump administration, supported a gestational abortion ban even in cases of rape & incest, opposes commonsense gun safety laws, and opposes laws to protect Coloradans from ICE. No wonder he didn't want to discuss his stances.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026
alt-text: headline reading "Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher" subhead: "The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care"
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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok what the hell is going on here. This is also Duckworth's argument with regards to helping Trump "save face." "Make Trump Look Good" cannot possibly be the Democrats' new messaging can it?
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 25/09/2026
Voting rights groups unsuccessfully sued Colorado Springs in 2022, arguing the timing of the city’s municipal elections led to a racial disparity in voter turnout. They’re trying again now that a new Colorado law creates a local enforcement mechanism. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
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Racial disparities ground challenge to Colorado Springs off-cycle elections | Colorado Newsline
Plaintiffs want a court order that declares Colorado Springs’ off-cycle elections amount to unlawful voter suppression.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles. “This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.”
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today. Come learn about the dark money trying to buy our Constitution (And about the couple of really good, really important measures)
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026
Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.
Screenshot reads as follows: 

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.
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Colorado Springs DSA 🌹 @cospringsdsa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📢 👀 Come canvass with us this Saturday, September 26th! We'll be talking to Colorado Springs voters about COSDSA endorsed candidate, David "Muka" Traenkle, statewide ballot measures, and other progressive candidates.
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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vote in pencil, vote for graphite.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com
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Families Not Politics @fnpcolorado.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is what standing up for Colorado families looks like. Thank you to everyone who came out in Denver. Our kids deserve freedom, privacy, and dignity. Vote NO on Propositions 134 and 135!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.
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Check if you're registered to vote at http://voterresource.org/saraht
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/09/2026
This ‘deal’ would be an insult to the hundreds of thousands of workers, journalists, and consumers who will be hurt if the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger goes forward. An agreement based only on unenforceable concessions is a win for David Ellison and a loss for everyone else.
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Paramount-California settlement talks accelerate, moving Warner Bros. merger closer to the finish line
A resolution would allow David Ellison's $111-billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery to finalize
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
either it is in principle possible to set up appropriate safeguards (in which case the "AI alignment" story is just as much about who gets to set them up and enforce them as it is about the content of the safeguards) or it is not (in which case we should be talking about transnational moratoria)
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Colorado Springs DSA 🌹 @cospringsdsa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👀 The Project Taurus city council vote is now postponed! Now what? Join us to be trained as a petitioner circulator and help get a Data Center Moratorium on the April 2027 ballot You can RSVP by visiting the linktree in our bio! 🔗
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 19/09/2026
any other Congress in US history would have worked 24 hours a day all thru the weekend to impeach a POTUS who said something like that. ONLY the Ryan, Pelosi, Johnson and Jeffries crew couldn't give two shits about our democracy
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 18/09/2026
It apparently wasn’t a crisis when college coaches and conferences were hoarding all the wealth athletes were creating—it only became a problem when athletes demanded their fair share. The AFL-CIO and its Sports Council urge the Senate to vote NO on the Protect College Sports Act.
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Amanda Gonzalez @amandaforcolorado.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bad news, one of the election deniers is on Colorado’s ballot. Good news, someone with deep expertise who will fiercely defend your right to vote is also on the ballot. (Me.) 🙂
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Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November
197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states. Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.
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Colorado Public Education Watch @copublicedwatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Lawsuit Alleges CO Springs School District Deputy Superintendent Stole Confidential Files
Colorado Springs School District 11 Ombudsperson, Natasha Bullard Kaonohi, filed a lawsuit last week against D11 Deputy Superintendent Brandan Comfort and Superintendent Michael Gaal, alleging that Co...
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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow. Colorado Springs Police tazed someone at the city council meeting on the proposed data center next to the Garden of the Gods and arrested a bunch more. And the Council skipped public comment from anyone who was talking to the police as a witness. Fingers on the scales.
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Colorado Springs DSA 🌹 @cospringsdsa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌹 New to DSA or interested in learning more about DSA? Join our New Member + Non-Member Orientation on 9/19 at 11am at the Chinook Center! 🔗 Please RSVP here (whether you're attending virtually or in-person!): actionnetwork.org/events/cos-d...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three vears. So whv is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saving Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian iberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me
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Dingo Jackson @thedingodaily.com · 13/09/2026
"France did not wait for the debate. It already moved all of its gold out of New York. Germany, one of the world's largest holders of gold reserves, is now actively discussing whether to do the same."
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Netherlands Just Pulled 86 Tons of Gold Out of America
The Netherlands yanked 86 tons of gold from the US, France already cleared out its reserves, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund is eyeing the exit. America is losing its default status.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ticket market has absolutely cratered for the Zverev-Khachanov semifinal, dropping 89% in just three days down to $35.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m sure the tech guys who made Covid-related learning loss a priority will be all over this
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New census story w/@laylaayanna.bsky.social: the Trump admin officially submitted its rule to reshape the 2030 census. It's more aggressive than the draft we obtained last month talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Admin Officially Moves to Reshape National Political Power With New Changes to 2030 Census
A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from...
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here’s what did and didn’t happen on September 11th, 2001.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know, there is a constitutional mechanism to remove a president who is unable to discharge the duties of his office.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026
Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.
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