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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
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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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump: Kim Jong Un is a friend of mine. He likes Trump. Doesn't like a lot of other people. I'm the only person in the entire world that he likes. And I like him.
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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idiot @tmlbmr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Americans, Trump is raising your prices because he thinks Canada is too mean.
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Robin @trumpsatwit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So the Canadian Delegation didn't lie, the Americans did. From trump down to Greer, they all lied about Canada screwing the deal. Am I surprised, not 1 bit, trump always lies! As PM Carney said, it's like trump writes the agreements in pencil. trump screwed you America! #Blues #FuckTrump 😡🇨🇦
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'Sounds like me': Trump confesses to CNN that he torpedoed trade talks with Canada
President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that he caused the intensifying trade war between the U.S. and Canada after he added conditions to the talks at the 11th hour. Trump spoke briefly with CNN's...
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w... "the United States maintained that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement" Then what's the point?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
President Trump has spent the morning on Truth Social trashing Canada and praising totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un. Congrats, America!
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/08/2026
North Korea is supplying Iran with the weapons it is using to kill Americans. Trump is an enemy of the United States. www.military.com/feature/2026...
military.com
North Korea’s Rogue Strategic Pipeline Arming Iran's War Effort: Exclusive Interview
Iran’s missiles hitting U.S. and partner forces may trace back to an overlooked source: North Korea. In a Military.com exclusive, expert Bruce Bechtol explains the alliance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”
Trump allies himself with totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful … While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’”
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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they know we don't want it. they do not care.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
The most corrupt president in history and it's not close: "Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, a new filing shows"
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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...
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Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal
Axon Enterprise has ramped up lobbying in Congress on federal law enforcement technology as ICE pursues a potential $220 million Taser deal.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
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animotek.bsky.social @animotek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
From Sam Stein:
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2026
to be clear, this fascist shit is happening because the king told a lie about vandalism and they're retroactively arresting people to try to make it seem like it's true
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ANY other President would have been removed, disgraced, and castigated.
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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
They are such a deeply stupid group of people, and somehow, this might be the stupidest thing they’ve thought yet. I am floored by the fact that they think this would actually work.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/06/2026
Trump on Truth Social: "Many people don’t know, or assume, that DUMB ends in 'b'"
POLL: Which do you prefer, Dumocrat or Dumbocrat? In one case, you simply exchange the “e” for “u,” so simple and precise (Many people don’t know, or assume, that DUMB ends in “b”). In the other case, you spell out DUMB, but it seems to lose some of the identity to Democrats when done this way. Which is better?

Thank you for your attention to this very important matter! President DJT
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What an absolute debacle. Embarrassing for everyone involved.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/06/2026
LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fans at MSG boo the sh*t out of Trump when he's shown during the national anthem. Bravo, New York.
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Jon C @jon-c.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This story is not getting the traction it deserves. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... Dead Internet Theory used to be shrugged off as a paranoid conspiracy, but now it is officially reality. It is a fact. Any content you see or interaction you have is most likely driven by bots, not humans.
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Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows
Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2026
EAMON JAVERS Do you think the negotiations are over now? PRESIDENT TRUMP I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.
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Trump tells CNBC: 'I don't care' if Iran negotiations are over
President Trump spoke with CNBC's Eamon Javers about the latest with the Iran war in an interview Monday.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
There's a corollary to this that even though almost all Americans are living in the lowest murder and violent crime rate of their entire lives, by a wide margin, they live in a constant state of fear, agitated by the people and factions who profit off it. Americans are kept in a terrified state.
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A cage of you. Everything you want to see and hear, and nothing new to trouble either sense ever again. We are building a very fine Hell indeed, aren't we? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Spotify Introduces AI-Generated Personal Podcasts
Per the new feature, Spotify will create a audio based on prompts such as "Share my daily city updates, and tell me about local concerts from artists I love."
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I can think of one way to disprove it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
just remembered trump's tax returns got leaked and he said in a debate that he'd close the loopholes because he knows how rich people game the system, then he cut taxes for the rich and is now exempting his family from tax audits. lol.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is outrageous. It’s just pure largesse for the president’s family, cronies, and street thugs. The corruption is mind-blowing.
According to ABC, the settlement would create a
"commission" with "total authority" to settle
"claims" brought by those who allege such weaponization. Per ABC, this not only includes the insurrectionists; it could even settle purported claims by "entities associated with President Trump himself." By all indications it would operate with little-to-no congressional oversight.In our interview, Raskin pointed out other glaringly corrupt aspects to this. He noted that Treasury's Judgment Fund is supposed to dole out its settlements and lawsuit judgments in accordance with actually existing court or administrative proceedings involving genuine victims of the government. As Raskin's staff notes, depending on the details, the relevant agencies and government officials must sign off on these payments, and they're disclosed to Congress and the public.But with the new fund, it's not clear the payments will look anything like this. It appears to transfer control over its payments to Trump alone, Raskin's staff says, and decouples them entirely from all those agency processes.

"The Judgment Fund exists to settle valid judgments against the United States government," Raskin told me. Trump and his allies, Raskin said, are "trying to take money from the Judgment Fund while eliminating any controls and oversight" and putting it under Trump's "direct unilateral control."

On top of that, Raskin added, this circumvents Congress in another way, since Congress never voted to create a fund structured this way.
Which potentially renders it unconstitutional, too.Ultimately, this story also helps explain the sordid political economy of MAGA fascism. As writer John Ganz has explained, Trump uses the government in various ways to support his coalition's "material basis." For instance, the massive scaling up of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ganz notes, functions as "an employment program for the
Trumpenproletarian mob," as a key component of the "class composition of actually existing fascism."

This new MAGA slush fund seems very much in this vein, particularly if it hands out payments to January 6 rioters. As Raskin put it to me, Trump and his lawyers "are figuring out a way to refund the January 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/05/2026
For months, President Trump portrayed the big new ballroom that he’s building on White House grounds as a gift to the nation, courtesy of donors. Now, Sen. Grassley has released a funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project.
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Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to secure Trump ballroom
The president said repeatedly that the White House ballroom would be privately funded but has raised security concerns, particularly in light of the correspondent's dinner shooting.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It is so impossibly, hilariously funny that we went straight from “men are tough and cooly rational, women can never understand” to “men can’t help but vote to make the world worse because it hurts their feelings to criticize them”
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/04/2026
AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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Bram Stolk @bramstolk.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
AI ruins so much. Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.”
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 17/04/2026
They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...
Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities.
The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Internal emails obtained by @wired.com reveal that one conservative legal group got direct access to FCC leadership to escalate complaints -- namely about Jimmy Kimmel -- sidestepping the standard FCC process:
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics
Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yes, Matt, it's a real surprise that liberals care more about AI as a soulless machine replacement for humanity and that liberals seem more concerned about the human soul than MAGA. Anyway, back to Trump's fight with Pope Leo!
The image shows a post from Matt Walsh that reads:  "A weird thing is that whenever I post criticism of Al, the majority of the people agreeing with me seem to be leftists. It's pretty much the only position I hold that seems to be more popular with the left than the right. It should be the opposite. My whole point about Al (especially Al in creative fields) is that it isn't human, it doesn't have a soul, and we cannot surrender our society to an unhuman soulless algorithm even if it makes our lives easier in some ways. It's very strange that an argument predicated on the existence of the soul resonates with the left while conservatives tend to scoff at it."
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So uh the present is demented, not new information, but kinda fucked how our political and media elites just accept that
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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