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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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John @theweaselking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Every day I wake up, I read the obituaries. If I'm not in them, I eat breakfast." (attributed at different times to Carl Reiner, George Burns, and Dick van Dyke.)

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But above all, it’s such a perfect distillation of who these jokers are. Facts don’t matter. Civility doesn’t matter unless it’s to their advantage. Nothing matters unless they’re allowed to keep pressing a boot on all of our faces. We’re going to keep telling the truth, and we’re going to win.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Friends. Today was a great day in terms of playing soccer, giving a kicking lesson, and doing a campaign event with Robert Garcia, but I have to tell you the cherry on top was seeing this Republican text ad whimpering about our campaign’s efforts to shine a light on my extremist opponent.

An attack ad from the Orange County Republicans against me featuring a whimpering plea to stop highlighting how my opponent has hung out with white nationalists and posted anti-Semitic content to YouTube, including a bonus AI picture of me!

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CHRIS KLUWE STOP THE SMEARS!
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END THE NEGATIVE ATTACKS
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STOP THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN
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LET ORANGE COUNTY VOTERS DECIDE
REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ORANGE COUNTY
This is Republican Party of Orange County Chairman
Will O'Neill with an important message.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I get the same vibe from AI proponents; They simply don't understand art, and think it's beneath them. They don't understand the appeal, they come from a techbro mindset and think art is a solved equation and anything that isn't photorealistic or extremely high detail is failing at the goal.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We had amazing ideas from the NFT bros like "what if you could OWN Mario in Mario Kart?" and other dogshit brainfarts because their only priority, their only consideration with doing anything is whether or not it's a worthwhile investment. Playing a game for the enjoyment? It simply didn't occur.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They can do it at scale, they can build it into the system that millions of people already have installed, they have capital and connections and market position that you don't. Trying to create something new with AI is just doing unpaid market research and R&D for tech firms.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I saw the idea that AI will empower anybody with a good idea to become an entrepreneur and use it to build new business ideas and models and I need you to understand that if you innovate anything profitable enough to notice, OpenAI is going to integrate what you do into ChatGPT and market it.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I mean, the “GC” feminists did all the ideological groundwork for the fascists, and they agree with and applaud fascist moves to eradicate trans people. “GC” is, for all intents and purposes, contemporary fascism’s women’s wing.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

like, no shit, when someone says “accept Jesus is G-d or we will torture and kill you”, those ‘conversions’ might not be heartfelt and enthusiastic. clearly this means that we can never be trusted in daily activities and business and court!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Normally people who try to push the “Jews are inherently untrustworthy oathbreakers” stuff omit the surrounding context, but the viral tweets in question explicitly cite the Spanish Inquisition & forced conversions to Christianity made under threat of death *as evidence that Jews are untrustworthy*

Tweet: “The jewish holiday Yom Kippur starts with a troubling prayer called Kol Nidre. It's a preemptive legal declaration that automatically cancels all personal oaths, promises, and vows. In simple terms, it allows jews to treat their words like garbage and cheat their spiritual obligations for the next 12 months.

Because of this exact loophole, Western and Islamic courts for centuries viewed the Kol Nidre with immense suspicion. They argued that if a community's most sacred holiday began with a formal legal decree wiping away their oaths for the next year, then a secular court could never trust a jew's testimony under oath in a legal trial or business contract.

European states even implemented the 'jewish Oath' (More Judaico). This was a separate court ritual that forced jewish merchants and witnesses to stand in front of a court and swear terrifying curses upon themselves before their testimony was legally accepted.”

Tweet: “T he Kol Nidre prayer was actively used by Marranos (crypto-jews) during the Spanish Inquisition who publicly pretended to convert to Christianity.”

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a genuine advantage to being outside the traditional DC Israel/Palestine foreign policy ecosystem because it means you don't automatically reject radical ideas like "ending the Occupation would involve ending the Occupation" and "a Palestinian state should have Palestinians in charge of it".

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Keith David has over 400 credits on IMDB and that's into "he'll be in whatever you offer him money for" territory and that means that any time you watch something that doesn't have Keith David in it it's because they didn't want to have Keith David in it and that is a mindset I just can't understand

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got my first online mob attack in '11. In '15, the CBC asked me if I could leave the country before a story broke because they feared for my safety. In '20, the police told me to leave the country for my safety. Nobody has ever been arrested, let alone charged, for the threats against me.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Normalizing threats against politicians is bad for democracy. *However* every time a story like this comes up, it seems like a good time to remind people that there are many of us who receive messages like this *by the hour* & those same police forces tell us they're powerless to do anything.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve become fascinated by the fact that Corey Feldman has gone completely insane. I’m watching a video of him explaining (to Jenny McCarthy) his enemies conspired with Uber and the taxi services in Houston to send two monster trucks to run him over, but God helped him do a Matrix jump to safety.

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🔞🏳️‍⚧️ Eleanoir Nevermore!! 🧪🩸 @cutestanomaly.ca · 22/09/2026

Hey I think it should be said with the next round of "Discord age verification" scares and panic coming around Do NOT drop everything and run to a website you heard about 30 min ago and had not looked into at all The amount of vibe coded slop preying upon people's worry is alarming

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Steve @strummer71.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A mental health break: take a minute and meet the kindest, smartest, bestest, pooch in my home, Maxie.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

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Me vs. Stationary Objects @whitneyherrig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“In 1933, the Jewish pop of Germany ~ 525,000… < 1% of the total German pop.” Source: Holocaust Encyclopedia “> 2.8 million adults and youth (13-17) ID as transgender in the US, or 1.0%“ Source: ACLU Williams Institute PS: We know kids under 13 ID as trans too, so indeed it’s more than 1%

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trans people are a slightly LARGER percent of the US population in 2026 than Jewish people were in Germany in 1933. Assholes who say trans folk aren’t worth defending because of population size are telling us exactly who they would have been in Nazi Germany.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am not saying this guy represents the entire Democratic Party. I am pointing out that what he is saying is what I see a lot of Dem voters saying. I then go on to say that Dems are not perfect on trans rights. Current election taking points bear this out.

Screenshot of a reply to my first post with the username & handle cut out:

“Rando on social media =
Democratic party.

Jfc, Paul.”

I’m not 100% on this but I think “jfc” means “Jentucky Fried Chicken”

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

which do you think is more true: that the median voter mostly agrees with dems but hates trans people, or that the median voter thinks dems are spineless and stand for nothing

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing I like about the X-Men is that if you join it doesn’t matter if you were an assassin or raised in a murder cult or worshipped as a god, at some point they will make you try to teach geometry to a bunch of fifteen year olds.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 20/09/2026

And on the other end they want you to use AI to crunch the data, a different AI to author the paper, and yet another AI to 'peer review' it. So by the end there's no scientific discovery, no dissemination of knowledge, just the world's stupidest game of hallucinogenic telephone.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

if you are a Dem who for whatever reason does not feel comfortable actively defending trans rights (which you should) you have two good response options: 1. ignore it! just keep running ads about the economy 2. “I am focused on your pocketbook, my opponent is focused on children’s genitals”

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

There is no market for a paper-reading chatbot embedded with every scholarly article, much less a paper-reading chatbot that needs a disclaimer about how it does not in fact always read the paper correctly

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

It’s going to be really funny when this is all over and all these companies are like oh, that hate campaign we ran against you for years? Yeah, we were just kidding

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The problem with social media democratization of information is on one hand you get a bunch of loony right wing disinfo but on the other you get a lot of people, for the first time, learning true things which don't line up with American interests and one of these is way worse for business

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Fun fact: the global wellness industry, composed mostly of unregulated snake oil, is at about $6.32 trillion dollars a year, 4x larger than the pharmaceutical industry. Similarly, Roblox is worth $44 billion to Valve's $10 billion. Roblox has more concurrent users than Steam.

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