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@tenaciousgoat.bsky.social
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I do public school system governance 🎓, technical due diligence 🧑🏻‍💻, and goat farming 🐐. Not always in that order. Not an official account of any office or organization. Opinions are my own.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 15h
In honor of Energy Dominance month, we’re now buying oil from Russia and funding both sides of one war overseas, because our over-dependence on oil is making us lose another war overseas.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 20h
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 13h
Meanwhile, @christopherjm.ft.com reports that Ukraine vows to continue retaliating and striking russian refineries. The US under Trump is equal parts weak and evil.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14h
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h
I like it and I'd like more of it
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h
I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h
Buckle Up: The Final 3 Weeks of the Campaign Are Gonna Be Some Kind of UGLY talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Buckle Up: The Final 3 Weeks of the Campaign Are Gonna Be Some Kind of UGLY
One Dark Damn Day We’ve endured some very dark days in Trump...
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 20h
The same people who didn’t want LGBTQ merchandise at Target because kids could see it are now supporting a public live streaming of an execution by firing squad.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 17h
If video games desensitize children to violence and murder, just think what watching public executions will do.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
The new revolution in democracy has arrived. Play The Onion Voting Simulator 3D Now available here: theonion.com/voting-simul...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 08/10/2026
Starting January 2027, Washington will pay its workers $17.73 an hour – the highest state minimum wage in the country. I was proud to serve on the committee that helped tie the minimum wage to inflation here in Seattle. This is how you put workers first!
kuow.org
WA’s nation-high minimum wage rising to nearly $18 an hour in 2027
Washington’s minimum wage workers will get a 3.5% pay bump in 2027.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Microsoft gave $1 million to the inauguration fund and Satya Nadella sat two seats away from Vance at the WH AI luncheon nine days ago. This is what bending the knee gets you.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 08/10/2026
truly amazing how stupid the average rightwinger is and how stupid someone like JD vance has to pretend to be to appeal to their base. there's just absolutely no way someone like JD vance doesn't know what socialism is lol
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026
🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One good thing about being on medical leave is that it lets me feature some of my favorite writers and activists. Today we have a guest post from, @lolgop.bsky.social, written for CARD, about one of my favorite topics: bitter divorced billionaires and their far more sane exes. Enjoy!
altrightdelete.news
How the Women Who Survived Elon Musk Expose Him Best
The women of “Musk” offer a clarity we’d better act on.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 08/10/2026
When's the last time a Trump rally was interrupted by protesters this many times? And for it to happen in red Texas right before an election, no less. I wonder if fed up Americans will take this as a challenge to similarly interrupt the rest of his rallies over the next month.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A truly scathing and essential accounting of the genocide. Flawless. Read this.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
nyti.ms
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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SnoCo DSA @snocodsa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We mourn October 7, 2023 But also three years of genocide since, And nearly 80 years of occupation, apartheid, and inherited pain. We mourn not as rivals in sorrow, but as witnesses to how imperialism, occupation, and apartheid wound us all. #freepalestine
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026
Yet another reminder that the world's richest man and GOP's largest funder still controls federal computer systems
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Joe @tenaciousgoat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They're not really after immigrants. They're using immigrants as an excuse to create a Police State aimed at you.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More on the president's brilliant plan here:
campaign-trails.ghost.io
Operation: Albatross
As the midterm elections draw near, it seems ever likelier that we're finally going to witness a reckoning for Republicans. For nearly two years now, Republican members of the House and Senate have t...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 06/10/2026
Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence's stark words on AI: "They're saying if this goes well, it's gonna put 20 million people out of work... But if it goes poorly, we might kill everybody by accident."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me” is such a powerful anti-posting mental device. Discourse I could jump in on? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. Other posters beefing? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. An internet personality exposed? Guess what
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@banalplay

this car has rules to prevent it from becoming a gremlin

@StonkKing4

$TSLA Cybertruck owners ..

1) do NOT wash your car in sunlight and

2) do NOT tell Tesla SCs that you drove it through a car wash (like this guy) even if you turned on Car Wash Mode. They will void your warranty.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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