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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026.

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The Morning Call @mcall.com · 1h

Judge overturns Trump’s decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle mrf.lu/20Xtt

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Judge overturns Trump’s decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brutal graphic on the amount of money everyone at Trump's AI roundtable contributed to Trump's Super PAC and vanity projects. It comes to $227 million. www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...

CEO's donations paid off: Here's who had a seat at Trump's luncheon.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:

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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway

Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

pretty compelling train of reasoning tbh

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.

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jcricket.bsky.social @jcricket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know about you, but I'm with ScaryLawyer on this one. Some of the press just don't seem to be able to grasp that they have been active participants in Trump's public manipulations. Shame on them for doing it, and shame on them for not owning up to it.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I give Bluesky at most two years before it becomes enshittified.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’re about to have friends over for coffee. We bought chocolate covered cherries as part of the munchies for us. I mean them.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’re looking for a fun night out, go see “Eureka dDay“ at the Seattle Rep Theater. Very funny & awesome play.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deleted my VidIQ account. What a terrible product

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026

The research implies that a local newspaper creates $114 per resident per year ($84 in 2018$) in local government efficiency. A case for subsidies for local news, perhaps in the form of consumer free-subscription vouchers like @deanbaker13.bsky.social advocates

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Basically, he pointed out, “if running a fleet of Cybercabs were actually profitable, Tesla wouldn’t sell you a single one.” It’s like claiming you’ve found an infinite money glitch — and then instead of quietly profiting off it, selling a get-rich-quick book on how to do it yourself.”

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Jamie S. Bowen - Harris Democrat they/he/she @jamiesbowen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't want a bunch of people going after this lady, that's not why I'm writing this. What I want is for people to think differently about both rape & women's safety. Dr. Frog here is a good example of a woman harming other women & causing damage to others because she doesn't understand that

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know what the punishment should be.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 27/09/2026

Join us today to help shape streets, support local businesses, & pilot new innovations in Capitol Hill! Where: Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room, 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102 When: Anytime between 1-4pm FREE food! Registration optional RSVP: seattle.gov/transportation/low-pollution-neighborhoods

A stylized image promoting "Low Pollution Neighborhood Capitol Hill," featuring a drawing of a café with a table and plant. There is the silhouette of a person walking with an umbrella. Text states "Open House on September 27." Blue and yellow tones are used throughout.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR

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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s a song I once liked but I can now remember only a sliver of a fragment of it. Not enough to start a search. Agony

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Liz E. G. @totoinkansas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should you really get a new Covid shot in 2026? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Please get your booster for Covid! By not having Covid I was able to overcome great odds. My body had enough strength to fight & beat stage 4 bladder cancer! Do it today!

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Should you really get a new Covid shot in 2026?

Most of my patients are either getting updated Covid shots routinely, or summarily waving them off. Sometimes they stop me mid-sentence as I recommend them, their eyebrows furrowed, with a look of…

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminder: SNAP has an outstanding ROI. Every dollar spent toward SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. SNAP cuts didn’t get the attention that Medicaid cuts understandably did, but they were massive and will prove deeply harmful to millions of Americans’ food security — and to local economies.

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八瀬🌻🎸 @slumflower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do I follow people from Texas, New Mexico and Colorado? We have a 19 year old Black girl who is a rape victim and needs assistance with a safe escape, finding a way to get an abortion and just needing a safe place to stay. I’m begging y’all. DM please.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/ We're currently in a Covid wave, and naturally, I'm seeing a lot of questions about when this wave will reach its peak. Now, I can't tell the future, but when we look at the data, in some areas it's actually already peaked. In other words, the answer depends a lot on where you live.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pretty certain I’m a sociopath

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Before I die, I want to understand Excel’s border controls. Every time I want to change the border width or line type, it takes me 18 tries before I get the damn things correct

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Awaiting the next breathless, “the judge admonished the government,” headline

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Molly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

As petrol and diesel prices surge in the wake of the continued attacks on Russian refineries and escalating tensions in the Middle East, it is now nine times cheaper to drive an EV than a diesel car in the UK, This means EV drivers save ~£80 when "filling up" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/09/2026

"I crank through ten indicators where we might expect to see that payoff. But there is no employment or wage-growth boom for native-born workers in this data. I can’t find it." newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/can-we-fin...

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Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?

Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026

My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.

Reuters photo (I checked that it's real) showing Trump glaring belligerently at the camera, with Melania behind him looking like she'd like to rip the photographers throat out, and Xi watching them both with a mild bemused expression.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026

If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@dicknixon.bsky.social I’ll make a reminder to pay a visit, Sir.

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Pat O'Leary @patoleary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How can you tell?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple has spent billions of dollars on Siri. What the hell is so hard about recognizing, “hey Siri stop navigating“?

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John DeRosa @theverdict.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here’s the difference three years makes for a stained cedar fence. This is Wood Defender semi-transparent cedar stain. And being able to “write the check“ to re-stain a couple of hundred feet of fence is very nice.

A residential wooden fence. The left side of the picture is freshly stained. The right side is the same stain, but three years old.

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