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Introvert, metalhead, horror enthusiast, nerd, artist. Animal rights ≠ animal welfare. Fuck Trump, xenophobes, and fascists. TERFs/"gender critical feminists" are not welcome.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/10/2026
As Trump voters savage him in a new focus group, a political theorist explains why a broader-than-usual coalition against corruption and authoritarianism now appears plausible. trib.al/cuYcMm0
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Transcript: MAGA Voters Wreck Trump in Focus Group: “Nothing But Lies”
As Trump voters savage him in a new focus group, a political theorist explains why a broader-than-usual coalition against corruption and authoritarianism now appears plausible.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
AOC: I believe in guaranteeing health care to every American. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in strong unions. And so, yeah, if a Republican wants to call a stronger union communist, they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 22/07/2026
never heard it put this succinctly: "your religious freedom ENDS when it starts to impede on someone else's dignity, equality and well-being... if you're not willing to work alongside LGBTQ+ people then *find another job*" www.facebook.com/share/v/1F11...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 20/07/2026
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Trump administration seeks to bar law firm Susman Godfrey from lawyer group's lawsuit
President Donald Trump’s administration has ‌asked a federal judge to disqualify law firm Susman Godfrey from representing the American Bar Association in its lawsuit against the White House, arguing that the firm's work creates a conflict because its lawyers could be called as key ​witnesses.
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social shows the Trump administration is trying to erase evidence of its actions by limiting investigations, removing public data, and deleting records on issues like ICE incidents, climate change, hunger, pregnancy risks, and Jan. 6. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Pressing Delete Won't Eliminate the Truth
From ICE agent crimes to climate change, Jan. 6 and hunger in America, the Trump regime is working to deny the public knowledge to confront its crimes and failures
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Iran outsmarted Trump by shipping 70 million barrels of oil mainly to China during ceasefire The oil is worth ~$6 billion But it isn’t hard to outsmart Trump… www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
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Iran shipped 70 million barrels of oil during US truce | The Jerusalem Post
Tehran rushed 70 million barrels toward China during a month-long pause in the US blockade, securing up to $6 billion before renewed strikes.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I served in uniform under three Adminstrations. I never once felt or agreed with the conspiracies that we were in Iraq to "take their oil". They certainly kept their oil. Yes, we protected it but it's because it can be stolen and used to fund a fight. Trump however is 100% after Iranian oil.
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Iraq signs 48 deals with US companies during PM’s visit to Washington
The deals include rebuilding the long-defunct Iraq-Syria crude oil pipeline, which could bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
People are shocked when they come to DC now and see groups of fully armed soldiers patrolling our neighborhoods. Trump's occupation of DC has been going on for nearly a year — and he wants it to go on forever. We refuse to allow this to become normalized and continue to call for it to end.
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A year into a national guard deployment, DC residents say they live in ‘a city under siege’
Since Trump deployed troops last August, Washingtonians have banded together to resist and support one another
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theoryofmind @theoryofmind.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🔥 Green heron using a piece of bread to lure fish
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theoryofmind @theoryofmind.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This should be shocking to no one.
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theoryofmind @theoryofmind.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Certified Alien @certified-alien.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For the wealthy who folded: What’s the point of having “fuck you!”, money if you never tell the insane bully, “Fuck you!”?
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14/06/2026
One of President Donald Trump's longtime pollsters is warning that the working-class white voters who built his political movement are turning on him — and that their disillusionment could cost Republicans control of Congress this fall.
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Trump's own pollster hits him with devastating prediction about key voting bloc: 'We lose'
One of President Donald Trump's longtime pollsters is warning that the working-class white voters who built his political movement are turning on him — and that their disillusionment could cost Republicans control of Congress this fall.John McLaughlin, who has polled for Trump for years, told The Ne...
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 14/06/2026
Dear Scientific Community, Maybe you are starting to share our angst about where things are going. We get it. You haven’t experienced the censorship to quite the same extent that federal scientists have. Maybe you are starting to see that keeping your head down won’t work.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/06/2026
The escalating attacks threatened to derail efforts to end the war, with President Trump warning that Tehran would "pay the price" for stalled negotiations. n.pr/3QhoVSX
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U.S. military says it's striking 'multiple targets' in Iran in 2nd day of renewed fire
The escalating attacks threatened to derail efforts to end the war, with President Trump warning that Tehran would "pay the price" for stalled negotiations.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/06/2026
Congo’s Ebola outbreak spreads to new health zone reut.rs/3S2FORN
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak spreads to new health zone
Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a new health zone in the northeastern province of Ituri, ​authorities said on Wednesday, as fresh infections underline ‌sustained transmission more than three weeks after the epidemic was declared.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/06/2026
'It's not funny, Secretary!' Congressman shouts down Rubio over Trump's new spy chief pick
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'It's not funny, Secretary!' Congressman shouts down Rubio over Trump's new spy chief pick
A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department's FY 2027 budget turned into a shouting match Wednesday when Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) unloaded on Secretary of State Marco Rubio over a string of Trump administration national security appointments — and refused to let Rubio laugh it ...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New from 404 Media: companies are using Reddit manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search. The strategy is to systematically manipulate answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material those chatbots scrape—in this case, a popular subreddit www.404media.co/companies-ar...
“As AI search engines increasingly pull answers from Reddit, companies are using us for AEO. On top of that, there's been an explosion of peptide interest and AI usage flooding the sub. Together, this has put serious pressure on content quality,” a post by the moderators read. 
AEO is AI-engine optimization, and it is an evolution of search engine optimization where brands and marketing companies attempt to create content that they hope will be scraped by large language models. Manipulating Reddit with bots, sock puppet accounts, and human accounts that are paid to promote brands has become a core strategy of firms that do AEO, because Reddit has become one of most-often cited sources by popular AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search. For example, a company called RedRover offers AEO and SEO for companies; on its home page, it says “rank #1 on Search and get cited by AI: AI agents that mass publish content to help you rank on Google, ChatGPT, and Reddit—driving traffic to your site from every corner of the internet.”
“An army of agents publishing blog content & reddit posts that solves both SEO & AEO at scale,” RedRover advertises.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 02/06/2026
the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/06/2026
“We shouldn’t underestimate the continued risk of this authoritarian, autocratic, fascist takeover and impulse … It was not for want of trying that Pam Bondi, in many cases, failed to secure these convictions and indictments.” trib.al/64bWONU
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NPR @npr.org · 03/06/2026
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X
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People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/06/2026
Tibetan spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso received his first Grammy award for his spoken-word album, “Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”. The award was presented by Indian classical music maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.
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theoryofmind @theoryofmind.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Every religion is made up, wtf are you talking about?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/06/2026
Two advisory board members of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence from the government, sued the Pentagon, alleging that an effort to impose new restrictions on the paper was an act of illegal censorship.
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Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges
The suit comes after Defense Department officials pledged to overhaul the publication and rid it of “woke distractions.”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/06/2026
When Sen. Elizabeth Warren pressed Scott Bessent on whether Trump's January 6 purchase of up to $1 million in Nvidia stock warranted an SEC investigation, Bessent dodged with, "Get your house in order, Senator." She fired back: "I don't own any individual stocks. My house is in order."
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Elizabeth Warren corners Bessent on Trump's stock trading: 'He is enriching himself'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the hot seat Wednesday over President Donald Trump's unprecedented stock trading, demanding to know whether the White House should face the same scrutiny Bessent himself once said Congress deserved.The exchange, at a Senate Finance...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026
Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Are Musk and friends ever going to be held accountable?
Heather Marsh writes: “Honestly, between Musk’s absolute banditry, the institutional capitulation, and the rest of the US space sector’s greedy opportunism, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if retail investors were the final catalyst for US to enforce an end  to impunity. It’s amazing how many revolutions are ultimately triggered by money, not human rights in general.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.
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Lee Harding @rockinbear.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Please someone - anyone - fix this totally backwards mindset. It’s sick and it’s just so offensively wrong. Congress, the Supreme Court, and America’s current government: ALL of it needs to be purged. America desperately needs a clean slate. 😡
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Q: We've been asking why Bill Pulte is qualified to be DNI. You're a heart surgeon? Dr. Oz: Yes. Q: Would you recommend a patient go see someone who isn't? Dr. Oz: *silence*
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
WOW. Notice how he DIDN'T DENY the corruption accusation!
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theoryofmind @theoryofmind.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Not only that but backpedaling doesn't erase the INTENT to defraud nor the submitted court documents for that lawsuit with the IRS making arguments for why it is entirely legal and within a person's right to demand money from the gov bc their feelings were hurt about facing legitimate charges.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The most corrupt president in the history of our country.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 30/05/2026
A federal judge waylaid Donald Trump's legal team Friday by reopening his $10 billion IRS lawsuit, declaring she wants to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to settle it was "premised on deception," The New York Times reported.
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'Premised on deception': Judge reopens major Trump case in stunning blow to slush fund
A federal judge waylaid Donald Trump's legal team Friday by reopening his $10 billion IRS lawsuit, declaring she wants to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to settle it was "premised on deception," The New York Times reported.In what the Times called a "striking turnabout," U.S. Distr...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 30/05/2026
AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren't a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.
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AI is replacing humans in responding to some surveys – but simulated opinions are not the same as public opinion
AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren’t a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...
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Anti-ICE Protesters Found Guilty in Case That Guts Free Speech Rights
Three protesters were convicted of federal conspiracy charges.
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drsprockets.bsky.social @drsprockets.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
EXCELLENT!!!... MORE!!... l.smartnews.com/p-7ON99NZu/A...
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Trump Says He's Abandoning Kennedy Center Takeover After Judge Rules He Can't Slap His Name On It (HuffPost)
Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost.In a longwinded social media rant, President Donald Trump said he's no longer interest...
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Americans should be alarmed by any attempt to turn public power into a partisan slush fund. If billions are being steered toward organizations whose purpose is helping one party win elections, that is not governance, it’s the corruption of democracy itself.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/05/2026
HELL YEAH‼️ And this needs to happen to everything that Trump forces his name on.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/05/2026
Meta plans AI pendant, 'wearables for work' in hardware boost, The Information reports reut.rs/3RyKdvH
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Meta plans AI pendant, 'wearables for work' in hardware boost, The Information reports
Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI ​pendant in the next year, as it ‌charts a roadmap for wearable devices in an effort to reverse losses in its hardware division, The ​Information reported on Friday, citing a memo.
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-7th) has avoided or refused questions and interviews from reporters both here at NJ Spotlight News and across the New Jersey press corps, effectively giving the silent treatment to those tasked with holding elected officials accountable." www.njspotlightnews.org/video/rep-to...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. refuses to answer, anything | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Ben Hulac, NJ Spotlight News' correspondent in Washington, D.C, recorded awkward moments of silence with the congressman
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USA @usamailbox.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
#StreetArt by Curtis Hylton #Waterford #Ireland
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Steve Cohen @repcohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I introduced six Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts for compromising the credibility of the Supreme Court. See my release below. cohen.house.gov/media-center...
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Congressman Cohen Introduces Six Articles of Impeachment Against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced six Articles of Impeachment against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for committing hi...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/05/2026
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Suspected and confirmed measles deaths top 500 in Bangladesh
At least 86 children have died from confirmed measles infections in Bangladesh this ​year, and another 426 with symptoms consistent ‌with the disease, health officials said on Saturday, as the country battles one of its worst outbreaks in decades.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.
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