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Tessa Marks

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Red Pill Junkie @redpilljunkie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: Jaron Lanier, one of the sanest voices in Silicon Valley, offers a 4-step guideline to make #AI safer and prevent it from 'destroying the world'. www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/vide...
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(VIDEO) Jaron Lanier on How to Make AI Safer
Now that ‘AI Doomerism’ is making headlines all over the world, it is nice to see when cooler heads offer their opinion—and in this case, the head is cooler both on the inside and the outside. Jaron L...
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
After I wrote my Truthdig article, someone apprised me of an interview with the renowned computer scientist Jaron Lanier in Vox. What Lanier said is directly relevant to my central point. THESE PEOPLE REALLY DO BELIEVE OUR SPECIES WILL SOON DISAPPEAR AND SEE THIS AS DESIRABLE:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/09/2026
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie reads articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. About. Damn. Time.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In another win for voters, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C. – appointed by President Donald Trump – issued a preliminary injunction late Sunday in favor of Democrats who challenged the rule as an unconstitutional power grab. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Second judge halts Trump’s election power grab, barring states from voluntarily working on mail voting rule
States cannot voluntarily work toward meeting the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting requirements after a second judge said the requirements likely overstep the post office’s authority.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 13/09/2026
Saoirse is in an afterschool program, and today she excitedly told me all about the SMART test for evaluating the credibility of information (source, motivation, author, review, two-sources). I can think of a lot of adults who would benefit from this class designed for 4th and 5th graders.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/08/2026
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well, make my shit the chronic, because I always assumed it was the struggle to create something that gave it a chance of being good. Anything without struggle wasn't what it could be.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt
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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Contact your elected officials and tell them that NARA is important to your #genealogy #FamilyHistory and #History research. If you live near a NARA regional branch, start preparing now in case they pull this stunt again and try to close the branch near you. www.saveournationalarchives.org
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Save Our National Archives
Keep the National Archives regional facilities open
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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 12/08/2026
This is why preservation, digitizing, archiving, and librarians are so important. They cannot take away our knowledge without our consent, don't let them.
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are being targeted for closures, significantly impeding access to invaluable materials, including genealogists, educators, researchers, and the general public. Find out what you can can to prevent this. www.saveournationalarchives.org
saveournationalarchives.org
Save Our National Archives
Keep the National Archives regional facilities open
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/08/2026
“How in the world is ICE just going to be walking around with these gloves? It is inherently harmful. It has no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The public square did not disappear. It was privatized, fragmented, and rebuilt into algorithmic rooms where outrage spreads faster than truth and shared reality becomes harder to hold together. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-digita...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
📺 Melat Kiros, on Firing Line this was an interesting watch because Firing Line is a conservative show, started by the founder of National Review, and Kiros is a Democratic Socialist in particular, they discuss the DSA's take in Israel, nato, amd DSA foreign policy youtu.be/gs3rR0J4oHg
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Melat Kiros | Full Episode 7.31.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The two people who are breaking through the noise and cutting through to the essence of what is happening right now with deeply damaged Donald Trump are Jon Ossoff and Hunter Biden. Here is Hunter's very perceptive take on the messy scene at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/07/2026
"Vacation days are long, and you need to adjust your schedule gradually. Each week of training, set your alarm fifteen minutes earlier, and wait thirty extra minutes each day to eat. Make sure you add in at least twenty minutes of sitting around, wondering what’s going on."
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Family Vacation Training Plan
“This six-week plan will help you build towards your ten-day trip to London with nine family members in tow, using a variety of exercises designed to prepare...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 22/07/2026
The wide divergences recently between Netflix's official newsletter listing of what's leaving their service next month (which most outlets just cut and paste and run) and what is ACTUALLY leaving next month (which some of us do the work of tracking ourselves) is turning me into a conspiracy theorist
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Rob Dunson, Collateral Beautician @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
fucking depressing story about a website that rocked and will hopefully someday rock again
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If you want to know how to support my work, I have only one ask: Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. Thanks. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
‘Google has often said it was “sending out more traffic and the web is bigger than ever,” Mr. Patel said. “And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose businesses are getting destroyed.”’ - thank you @reckless.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NYT: The U.S. military is suppressing casualty information as part of Trump's Iran war: "The latest example during the Iran conflict of the tension between what the Pentagon says is the need for operational security and the government’s obligation to inform the public about the conduct of the war."
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Pentagon hid 3 Iranian strikes that wounded dozens of US troops & damaged helicopters only confirming it after the NYT dug it up. Not only from us but also from the families. What else are they hiding from the public about casualties? #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A_lbGSbwwRLa...
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Trump admin caught withholding several attacks on US forces that 'injured dozens': report — Raw Story
While the Trump administration publicly shared details on an Iranian attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan last Friday that killed at least two U.S. service members, it withheld information on thre...
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Jovinien Pontivyen @wisakedjak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
US military servicemembers killed by hostile combatants while Joe Biden was president: 16 US military servicemembers killed by hostile combatants while Donald Trump was president: 72 Republicans really should stop giving the most important jobs to TV show personalities.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/07/2026
Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win. But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
Table showing that Russia and Iran targeted and manipulated election processes, but that China took "preliminary or preparatory steps, with or without specific intent."

Intelligence dated August 19, 2020CIA memo: "However, we assess at this
time China probably judges the risk of being caught interfering in the US election outweighs any
potential gains."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Reminder--because you know how they are...
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Tessa Marks @tessakay.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gp...
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4-year-old heals "inner loneliness" by bringing his neighborhood together
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Update on the situation in Russia: they are still waiting in line at the gas station, fighting each other over half a litre of gasoline.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/07/2026
President Trump dismantled a bipartisan elections board ahead of a midterm that will determine which party controls Congress. The commission is responsible for maintaining the federal voter registration form and certifying electronic voting equipment.
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Trump fires members of bipartisan elections commission
President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Elections Assistance Commission and received the resignation of a Republican member.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Spending $700 million to bail out the coal industry is like throwing a lifeline to a ship that has already sunk.”
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In the United States, solar energy is outpacing coal for the first time ever
It now provides more than twice the share of electricity that it did five years ago.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 06/07/2026
Quit Amazon Quit X Quit Facebook
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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” -Mark Twain
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/07/2026
"The Fourth of July was more than an American holiday. It had become a demonstration that democratic nations stand together—that liberty, once secured, is worth defending even beyond one’s own borders." ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social:
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July Fourth Is Different in Uniform
What I learned about this country by serving it overseas.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
She made it to Hawaii
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 03/07/2026
Every July Fourth in uniform "taught me something different," writes @markhertling.bsky.social. "I learned that service requires sacrifice, but also rewards it," "that friendship between nations is built one shared gesture at a time," and that "even in war, soldiers are ultimately defending peace."
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July Fourth Is Different in Uniform
What I learned about this country by serving it overseas.
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wvcaver.bsky.social @wvcaver.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“Resorting to a military solution rather than fixing the underlying incapacity or dysfunction in civilian institutions diverts the military from focusing on its primary combat mission. And, as Washington knew, it is not the military’s job to save the republic from political impasses.”
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Top general fired by Trump administration criticizes use of military for political missions
The former top US general whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired last year offered a sharp criticism of the Trump administration in an op-ed published Friday, pointing to its political use of the m...
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Tessa Marks @tessakay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I doubt many people are going to read the 55-page report "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday" put together by Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee so here's how it ends
The deepest harm is not the sum of what has already been taken, but what the
country is being asked to accept. Left unanswered, the methods catalogued in these
pages do not expire with this anniversary; they become a manual, usable against any
institution, any commemoration, any store of public trust a future administration
finds inconvenient or lucrative. So, the question this record calls to answer is larger
than the conduct of any one official. It is whether a self-governing people, shown in
detail how the corruption of its own founding milestone was carried out, will shrug
and conclude that this is simply how things are done now. The semiquincentennial
was meant to remind Americans of what they hold in common. Let the record of
how it was abused remind them of what they must never consent to lose.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
'From Vanity to Insanity': Report Alleges Donald Trump's 'Shadow Corporation' Hijacked US 250th Birthday | IBTimes UK www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-politi...
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'From Vanity to Insanity': Report Alleges Donald Trump's 'Shadow Corporation' Hijacked US 250th Birthday
A Democratic congressional report accuses Donald Trump's 250th birthday operation of turning a national celebration into a vehicle for fundraising, ideology and access.
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