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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history

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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?

Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 3h

Now Rufo is basically calling for a 21st-century version of the Asian Exclusion Act because he no longer wants to play along with the mainstream idea that a meritocracy will "naturally" lead to white men rising to the top and put Black people at the bottom.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 3h

What is so outrageous here is that in a way, Rufo is exposing that the white supremacist hierarchy is not natural and must be violently enforced. THAT is the scandal.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

As long as he’s aiming his invective at concepts associated with Black people he’s perfectly fine, once he strayed from anti-Black racism the mainstream press began to notice his bigotry.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5h

real picture of @scarnecchia.net and I when it’s 6:30 AM and I want to go out and do something invigorating

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot stress enough how fucking illegal this is. “Donald Trump is a criminal who keeps committing crimes, and now he wants to bribe voters to keep Republicans in office so he can—you guessed it—commit more crimes.” If you can’t message around that, no one can help you.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

"what if instead of drowning each other in horrible personalist networks, discriminating on the basis of arbitrary features like race and sex, we instead treated each other like honorable and important ends in ourselves"

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10h

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 7h

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8h

But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 6h

Susan Collins, Mainers still have questions for you. We’ll keep asking, even though you refuse to answer.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 6h

I love how I make keto cheeseburgers. Frozen patties. Cast iron. While pan heats (medium) sprinkle McCormick Montreal Steak on patties. On plate, smudge together tablespoon of Kewpie mayo & tablespoon of kochujang all over the plate surface. Fry burgers, spice side up, until juices show through 1/

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

the thing about the polls is that no matter how right or wrong they are the trend like in 90 percent of them is catastrophic for the GOP. even in races they've poured tens of millions of dark money into, it's not working. it might be making things worse.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12/03/2026

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 7h

these people. they don't even understand how to quit. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 7h

Dan Sullivan's votes for tariffs didn't help Alaska, but they sure helped his brother's chemical company, where he owns up to $5 million in stock. This is the exact kind of corruption that Alaskans are sick and tired of.

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Sullivan backs policies that enrich his family’s business

Sullivan owns up to $5 million in RPM International stock.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 7h

Brutal (and accurate) community note with key context on Trump’s attempted voter bribery for the midterm elections

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 9h

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're not even parrots, they're just giant comorbid tricks on top of tricks on top of tricks, which can be very impressive until you figure out how the tricks work and interact with each other

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bottom line for them keeps coming down to 'how could a parrot do THIS?' which not only ignores the nature of statistics and Big Data but the mass-scale human chicanery that augments it

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

None of the models are independent entities, but literally industrial strength efforts to convince people (including the ones building it) that they are independent entities. Absolutely everything about them is an effort towards that goal

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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 9h

Families in Kentucky and across America are still waiting on their DOGE checks and Tariff refund checks. Does @barrforsenate support socialism? Because that’s what this is.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 17h

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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Tirrikindir @tirrikindir.bsky.social · 15h

Catholic here, loving Leo so far. Also want to throw in this: Source: Daniel Mitsui, artist who does a mix of secular and Catholic sacred art, who is also a consistent AI hater to no one's surprise. www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/no_...

Text in the image: "according to legend, Albertus Magnus had spent thirty years devising an oracular head, a mechanical device that could answer questions posed to it. Thomas Aquinas smashed it to pieces. Different versions of the story say that this was out of annoyance, or of fright; I prefer to think that St. Thomas had prophetic insight into the evils such device could and would cause. While I generally avoid putting my religious drawings on everyday merchandise, I thought that this small scene was timely and appropriate and humorous enough to make an exception." There is a drawing of two men inside a medieval monasterty. One of them is St. Thomas Aquinas, and he is poised to swing a large club at a bust on a pedestal, which presumably is Albert the Great's 'oracular head'. The other is Albert, and he is running toward Thomas with a look of shock on his face, hands out to stop him. There is also text that says "KILL YOUR CHATBOT" and a header that says "artwork by Daniel Mitsui, www.danielmitsui.com"

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 11h

Almost or maybe exactly zero Dem ads (except ours) say Trump corruption or MAGA corruption or Republican corruption. They are all running against “DC corruption”and saying they’ll stand up to both parties. Absolutely idiotic strategy.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 11h

It's important to not just call out the problem but to understand why it happens: DC messaging consultants do not believe in persuasion. They believe in carefully calibrating their messaging like a safecracker to what their target voter already believes. In this case, "both parties are corrupt."

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Engadget @engadget.com · 8h

The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games.

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Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process - Engadget

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

Former Wash Post reporter: Also, I'd add that the Washington Sun has had a mighty impressive debut. Lots of meaningful reporting.

With no disrespect to my many many friends who continue to do excellent journalism at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has made abundantly clear that he cannot be trusted to own the flagship paper of the nation’s capital. Follow @washingtonsun
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The Washington Sun now coming to a DC metro stop near you 🌞🌞🌞

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 9h

In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9h

claiming we need to understand the latest ai performance of some task *is a rhetorical technique* it defines ai as something to be understood by the performance of measured tasks. but doesn't acknowledge that it's doing that

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 9h

An Alaska lawmaker argued at a hearing in July that allowing unlimited campaign spending “not only grants undue influence to the ultrawealthy, but it also exposes our elected officials to the risk and perception of quid pro quo corruption.”

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After Years of Runaway Spending, Alaskans Vote to Reinstate Cap on Campaign Donations - Bolts

The success of Measure 1 brings back campaign contribution limits after a court ruling ended them. But the reform can

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

the birthright citizenship question is, to me, the clearest evidence that originalism as practiced is just living constitutionalism for right-wing jurists. the originalist answer is the conventional one is the textual one, but that was basically unacceptable to much of the right.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 14h

So wait why can’t a President forgive student loan debt?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11h

Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the contrary.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12h

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 11h

“…..or a rapper” was 🧑‍🍳 💋 iykyk

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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