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@thepilot9.bsky.social
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Spirit questing on this space rock. Lover of dogs, good food, interesting conversations, and honest souls. Follow me for insightful and pointless takes. Delete your X account. Sell your Tesla.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Politico @politico.com · 13/10/2026
Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry politi.co/47QS4cC
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Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry politi.co/47QS4cC
Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry politi.co/47QS4cC
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
ah, the return of merit
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Pilot 9 @thepilot9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
His brain is broken.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/09/2026
Well well well, I wonder how we got here, Mr. Karl Rove: www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “I’m a capitalist. We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Something's happening in America's suburbs.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026
Cleanup is underway near the Hackensack River in New Jersey where about 5,000 gallons of fuel spilled from a data center, state officials said. The spill renewed fears of the environmental dangers linked to the expanding use of A.I. systems.
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Data Center’s Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup
The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Talarico on Republican name-calling: “These nicknames don’t lower the cost of groceries, gas, healthcare, or childcare. I think Texans are really fed up with this professional wrestling of politics.”
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
Rep. Michael Rulli serves up a word salad when he's asked on Fox Business about reports he engaged in stock trading that violated the law
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Socialism? Communism? Wut?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very good opportunity to link Musk, who people universally LOATHE, to the almost comically corrupt Paxton. Bundle these shitheads together as the enemies of working people and don’t let up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2026
Darlene Graham just bumbled through one of the worst responses to a question during a political debate you'll ever see
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
we need to hit these people hard. every day. every day the left isn't piling on the right is a missed opportunity. we should be pressing democrats to open up every morning w rhetorical guns blazing or else its a failure. every. day.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
😳 Trump sleeps his way through psychotic vaccine misinformation event 😳 When Trump wasn't blabbering, he was napping on camera, his eyes closed and face drooping. At a couple moments it even looked like he was about to fall out of his chair. Here's a supercut:
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😳 Trump sleeps his way through psychotic vaccine misinformation event 😳
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
holy shit Trump is OUT
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Op(umpk)en Doorley @tchotch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
You know, just normal good brain person talkings
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
not sure how anyone can stay on an app thats fighting in court for the right to generate non consensual nudes of people, including children
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Biden depleted our stockpiles. It’s a lie that our stockpiles are depleted. The people leaking this should be in jail. This is some insane mental gymnastics even for Mike Waltz
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here’s a rush transcript of Trump’s abysmal WHCD speech last night. Best part is when he tells a mildly funny joke and it falls flat and he tries to explain it and complains about the rest of his crappy speech. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...
Joking aside, I do think we need term limits in Congress. I think term limits are very important because I see what's happening.
I see what's happening. The other day, a senator I knew got a text, a great guy,
from his wife. And she said, when you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.
And he said, I can't do both.
You know what the, you know. In other words, can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?
Well, I thought that was actually pretty good.
That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole frickin' stupid speech that they wrote. That was the only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter. I think, you know, in other words, you can't go up the stairs and make love to a woman.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Questions like this are far more useful than using your committee time for a speech
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2026
In case you missed it: Last year, federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Andrew Tate and his brother in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate. (Published Nov. 2025)
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
AOC: A genocide in Gaza committed with American bombs and financed by our American dollars, while our kids here at home have to ration their inhalers because politicians tell us that healthcare is too expensive.
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Pilot 9 @thepilot9.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday. n.pr/44xGCBl
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Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies
Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Inflation was at 2.9% in December 2024, the month before he took office.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
THANK YOU SIRI, KEEP GOING
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Cates Holderness @cates.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
fuck you
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Significant parts of the New Deal were poached by Dems from Wisconsin Progressives, Milwaukee Sewer Socialists, MN Farmer-Laborites, but do go off, David.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/07/2026
Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.
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Stu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is the correct take, the timeline went off track not in November 2016 but November-December 2000. It was a curse brought on by the dark magic of butterfly ballots and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful choice.
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 07/07/2026
In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW
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