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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/09/2026
it's genuinely deranged how democrats let him run again after this like it was nbd
the capitol on Jan 6 wreathed in smoke and overrun with insurrectionists waving Trump banners
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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aurelia and aureliette will see the stars @boneyardofnames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I don't think people really understand that there's people in his inner circle who showed him an AI generated image of a child receiving a vaccine from a comically large syringe and he believes it 100% that that is a real image.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Honest to God, don't think I've been inspired by a YouTube video like this in my life. What a weird savant.
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America’s largest grocery store should be out of business
YouTube video by Morning Brew
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 27/07/2026
she was arrested twice for shoplifting clothes for her children after her divorce and long ago paid her fines and served her time
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Socially liberal, fecally conservative
Annabunny@BUNNIMODER

the pedophile class has mandated you shit yourself to death because they saved $15 a year cutting research, also, please ignore the 350 billion for operation epic chungus

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NBC 7 San Diego
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A San Diego infectious disease doctor says it's probably best to stay away from fresh produce for the next week or so, even if you wash it. A fecal parasite illness, known as cyclosporiasis, has now reached California. NBC 7's Shandel
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The most radicalizing thing about this era is listening to the most powerful people in the world speak about any subject whatsoever. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ec...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
For nearly an hour during the hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian grilled DOJ attorneys over their handling of the subpoenas and accompanying docs. DOJ admitted that it made statements that were “not correct” in its filings to the magistrate judge, but claimed the errors were “inadvertent.”
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“The new party line is to associate Communists with every crime, every offense. Create a sense of Communist threat to justify a right-wing crackdown. Old playbook used with coups and Fascist takeovers." www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-b...
huffpost.com
Authoritarianism Expert Lays Bare Trump’s New Propaganda Trick
It’s “not subtle,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The fuckers called Eisenhower a commie and the interstate highway system a commie plot to make America commie, just so you know how long this commie bullshit has been going on.
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Pruit Igoe @pruitigoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm more of a Burkean Conservative than anything, which makes me left of center in today's political climes but this is appealing and honestly what the Democratic party should be aspiring to. Texas GOP doing recruitiment for the left.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do not fall for this, @durbin.senate.gov.
NEWS:  Todd Blanche told 
@SenatorDurbin
 "I made a mistake" on the Trump/IRS settlement and the anti-weaponization fund, per Durbin who just exited the meeting.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This whole mitch McConnell thing is like Epstein in that idk if there’s a conspiracy around his death but if there’s not it feels like they’re presenting information in as suspicious a way as possible
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026
There are arguments that the kind of resistance that defeated glassholes is no longer possible, or that “normal” looking glasses change the equation, but branding surveillance glasses as the domain of losers, weirdos, and perverts can still be effective.
gizmodo.com
Smart Glasses Backlash Is Reaching New Celebrity Heights
Where do you sit on the Kylie Jenner/Lorde spectrum?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fascism. On the daily.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE shot and killed a man in Houston with no criminal record who was not even their target. They pushed him off the road. And now he is gone forever. ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. We need to abolish ICE now and stop Trump’s murderous thugs.
The New York Times: Man Killed by Federal Agent in Houston Was Not the Target of ICE Search
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Correct. Look at how they treat Mamdani even now
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.
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John Hatch @johnhatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/06/2026
JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/06/2026
JD Vance told the truth. Watergate would barely crack the news cycle today compared to the daily and overwhelming corruption of the Trump administration. The history books will judge us brutally
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump is blaming “vandals” for allegedly cutting the lining and pouring “corrosive chemicals” into the water, all to avoid taking responsibility for paying an outrageous sum to a no-bid contractor who screwed up. The various police are security theater to support this false narrative. It’s all lies.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD www.status.news/p/daniel-dal...
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The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Dale
CNN’s resident fact-checker has been absent from the network’s airwaves for more than three months, Status has found, raising questions about the sudden disappearance of one of its most familiar on-ai...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/06/2026
i'm pretty convinced that every brain dead and liar rightwinger is talking about the LA mayor race being rigged so they have "justification" to rig or cancel the 2026 or 2028 elections
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
a post of mine from november 13, 2024:

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN YET. Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims. He called her "crooked" and "stupid," and abruptly WALKED OUT Thank you, Kristen for challenging his BULLSH*T!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2026
Acting AG Todd Blanche says he's working to install "roadblocks" to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump and his associates in the future
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is some incredible exculpatory tense on display here. You wouldn't guess from this article that Chud the Builder was the guy doing the shooting
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john whitehouse @existentialfish.com · 02/06/2026
Citing anti-ICE protests, Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec agree that Bill Pulte was chosen as DNI to “start digging in on the domestic side of terrorism”
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/05/2026
Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.
A close up of captain kirk getting his eyes scanned. It is cut off above the eyebrows and below his mouth.The same image in a thumbnail for Star Trek, the wrath of Khan. But AI has painted the rest of the image so that Kirk is a balding man in a business suit.
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Kail @vivotranquil0.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just when you thought you'd seen it all
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Business is no longer about creating a product or service that generates profit because its quality is superior to competitors. Today, business is about extracting wealth from consumers as efficiently as possible through tricks and traps. Product or service quality is irrelevant.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/05/2026
the media’s desire to boost Trump is in increasing conflict with the media’s desire to slap gas prices on big infographics
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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