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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

How the Know-Nothings of yore saw Bovino’s ancestors:

“The Unrestricted Dumping Ground”
A bigoted 1903 cartoon against Italian immigrants from Judge magazine

Italian rats wearing hats labeled “SOCIALIST” and “ANARCHIST” and “MAFIA” leap from a box labeled “DIRECT FROM THE SLUMS OF EUROPE DAILY” and swarm past an angry Uncle Sam into America carrying knives in their teeth labeled “ASSASSINATION” and “MURDER” while from the cloud of smoke put out by Uncle Sam’s cigar, a ghostly William McKinley looks on (McKinley was assassinated by a Polish-American Anarchist with birthright citizenship in 1901)

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Rushed.” After convulsing for an hour.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If it’s what you say, I love it.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're getting what Stephen Miller wanted without the in-your-face stuff the media can't help but cover. And I honestly think that's hurting Trump too, with his base. One of the few things they were enjoying!

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Why Stephen Miller sees any defeat as an excuse to get even more racist

Or what he learned from internet gutter racists.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fucking Bernie he’s worse than useless.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

54? (Wikipedia says 54 repeatedly in its Robert Palmer page, too many times for it to be a typo. Good one. RIP.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

it's actually insane how terrible AI executives like Alex Karp here are marketing their products. he sounds like a complete lunatic on CNBC right now.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Polo. Simply incredible.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How does one person (Vought) get in position to do so much damage? And how can we keep it from happening again?

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“No prob you’re free to go now” EMS scrapes him off the pavement

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some of the most beautiful country anywhere, being destroyed on purpose by the US government.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Writing is hard. Writing is hard for everybody, and I mistrust writers who find it easy. And it's still hard for me after all these years, but that's probably a good sign that it is." Roger Angell, born on this day in 1920

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mamdani: what if we just did basic shit people think the government is supposed to do and then make a video about it? dem establishment: what dem consultants: stop it voters: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What if there was a "third space" for dealing with 2 am thinking. Somewhere between the increasingly unhelpful random 988 counselor and The Whole Entire Internet

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve been hesitant to go this far - because I think party division will only hurt us in November - but seriously, fuck Fetterman.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great thread from top to bottom, here’s the kernel.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great thoughts about what’s wrong with MAHA and how to replace it in your thinking and speech.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The AI companies claim their technology will enhance human creativity. But they are quietly undertaking a massive campaign to destroy human creativity. Let me tell you the story of the AI companies' effort to feed rare books into their AI models and then destroy them.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We used to be the Arsenal of Democracy.

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Lan Pitts: BEAT EVERY 1-UP out now! @lanpitts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just fyi, the last President to appoint his own personal lawyer to the office of US Attorney General was Nixon. John Mitchell would eventually be disbarred, in addition to spending two years in prison for exactly what Todd Blanche is doing now.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The whole Google drawer full of half assed knockoffs is worse than useless. Yet every org has an evangelist who is expert at making you feel like an idiot for not understanding how to make it work for you.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can choose to believe what you like about Jason Arday. But he ran those marathons And he deserves people knowing that. He was failed by the British press. 25/

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles, I'm gonna drink them up

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MRSPOURS @mrspours.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

2026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Shame on the geniuses who run our military for getting us into this fix.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll got paid. www.lawdork.com/p/despite-tr...

[Update, 12:20 p.m. July 14: Law Dork confirmed that funds totaling more than $5.62
million were transferred to E. Jean Carroll on
Tuesday.
"Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict," Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's lawyer, said in a statement.]

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The aesthetics of genai images are the aesthetics of the people who make them, and the people who make them are tasteless Nazi chuds. The incel loser stink of these groyper sex pest freaks is permanently attached to the aesthetic It's impossible to not think "what Nazi asshole did this" on viewing

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Generative AI is the tool and aesthetic of fascism, and that aesthetic only appeals to middle aged divorced sex predators, billionaires, guys who drive cybertrucks, and guys who don't tip. It's the aesthetic of losers, miserable assholes, and guys with a sexual allegations section in their wiki.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New York Times: “Is Racism Correct? Perhaps We’ve Gone Too Far With This Whole Giving Black People Jobs Thing”

Headline: Professor’s Death* leaves behind hard questions for Cambridge on race and hiring”

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's easy being a tortured genius; try being a tortured moron like me and then tell me your life's hard.

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Is the mockery and scorn in the room with you now?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

…and up pops another lie. Repeat until one of you rage quits. An anti-vaxxer did not use facts to arrive at their beliefs, so you can’t use facts to counter. Your efforts will fail. So even if a person is saying “just separate the MMR and I’ll vaccinate”, I contend that 99.9% of the time…

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What a tableau. Some days I can’t believe this is the reality I live in.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026

President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know: propub.li/4g078bJ

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happy Owl Awareness Day to all who celebrate (and everyone should).

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titusoates6 @titusoates6.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’ll never get over having to accommodate Children’s Health Defense stans at work in 2020-22. Feel like that permanently damaged me.

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