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Funny Karate Bear (But Festive) @thedimpsler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good thing no one ever needs a taxi after a nice night at the bar or anything

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this is very funny

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026

lol he's about to be really mad pretty soon.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The president of the United States declaring that he’s banning the free press should probably be a big news story. Maybe even bigger than Biden misspeaking occasionally.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Imagine having enough cases of bestiality in your recruits that you have to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026

Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's remarkable that you have not just incredibly stupid people like this. But whole movements based on this stupidity. Having your currency as a global reserve currency means that the whole global economy is structured to your advantage and most hard constraints that everyone faces you don't.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/08/2026

JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency. (Loud cheers in Beijing and Moscow)

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/08/2026

the skeleton key to understanding contemporary consumer culture is that doing a good job costs money so corporations have abandoned the concept

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/08/2026

Turns out all those food safety regulations existed for a reason! Who knew?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“Entitled” lol just say white.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trump put a man in charge of finding election fraud. On camera this week, that man admitted he found none. Zero. Then staffers pulled him out of the room mid-answer. Watch it unravel 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-news-t...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 19/07/2026

wow at this incredible deal

Taylor Farms shredded iceberg lettuce for 50% off

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We mean the white working class, correct? Working class people of color have hated him since way back (but they do not count).

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated. Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review.
The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to
dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.
See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring
contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation
omitted).

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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 30/03/2024

When Musk destroyed verification, by letting anyone with 8 bucks to get a blue check. Good times.

Tweet from "SpaceX Official": Someone told Elon his dick would be bigger on Mars and that's honestly what all of this has been about.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

All the greatest hits.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"she asked for it"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative'

Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a "moral imperative" that ‌people have access to the health services they need.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

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Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

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Rachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

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