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The horrors persist, but so do I.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you want to understand the current debate about ASI extinction risk, please please read this. I explain how you've almost certainly been misled into thinking this is about saving humanity--it's NOT. The term "human extinction" doesn't mean what you think it does!
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The ASI Extinction Debate Is the Opposite of What You Think
The media needs to wake up, fast. (3,100 words.)
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
WATCH — @chefjoseandres : “The IDF knows there was no excuse. Enough with the odious smears, excuses, shifting blame… we want an independent investigation.” The Israeli commander who ordered the bombing of 7 @wckitchen workers says he is “not sorry”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
While 764,000 people lost money on the Trump meme coin, only 58 wallets got rich. Supporters need to see the corruption in how Trump robs his own while Republicans cheer it on. #TrumpRepublicanCorruption
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fun fact: Tesla's market cap is almost 60 times its cumulative earnings net of carbon tax credits. x.com/i/grok?conve... That's not one year's earnings, that's total earnings since before it was even a gleam in Elon's eyes.
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From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The terror spreading across the country this a.m. because in some more progressive corners of the US progressives won elections is telling. The reason the reaction is so over-large is because progressives unlike centrists and the right, are the only group who pose a real threat to established power.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
...the progressive agenda--health care for all, secure retirements, a clean environment, common sense gun reform, fairer taxation, free pre-K and affordable college, regulations that protect the health and safety of Americans--is supported by a super-majority of all of us, 60-70-80 percent.)
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
You don't say.
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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 13/06/2026
Team WCK's story begins with Chef José Andrés in Haiti in 2010. In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, he traveled to Port-au-Prince and realized that a hot meal could remind people that they hadn't been forgotten. #FoodIsLife #ChefsForTheWorld (1/4)
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.
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FBI raids Ohio voting-rights organization
“Just straight up intimidation tactics”: Sources tell MS NOW agents also fanned across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yeah, there we go. I'm a little obsessed with tracking ignored warnings from scientists as they are vindicated.
In March 2025, funding was cut by USDA for animal disease control and prevention, including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, New World Screwworm, and African Swine Fever from several agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). That funding supported more than 180 outbreak investigations and responses in 22 countries and helped build the capacities of over 160 laboratories in testing, biosafety, quality assurance, and workforce development. Specifically, funding was targeted to monitoring and responding to New World Screwworm, preventing the spread of the disease to the U.S.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Everything Google is telling you is B.S.” #NoNewDataCenters
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I'm old enough to remember January 9, 2026. You'll never guess what happened next. (Nothing. Nothing happened next.)
WHITE HOUSE
The White House
@WhiteHouse
HUGE: President Donald J. Trump announces a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10% effective January 20, 2026.
CAP ON CREDIT CARD INTEREST
Donald J. Trump
@real Donald Trump
Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be "ripped off" by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, 1, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mira, Math Witch 🏳️‍⚧️ @mirandarosalise.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations.
Passage from Wealth of Nations: “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Imagine that
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Todd @toddhecker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
2, 2, 2 hours to goooo. I wanna be sedated. youtu.be/bm51ihfi1p4?...
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Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Ramones
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
NPR: “The Trump administration ignored warnings from policy experts when they changed a major policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs — and the result is a wave of foreclosures against veterans.”https://www.rawstory.com/trump-veterans-2676654225/
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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O'BrienP 🇺🇸 ❤️ 💙 ☘️ @obrienp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote newrepublic.com/post/206564/... via @newrepublic.com
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MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote
Ohio Senator Jon Husted received $3,500 from Les Wexner.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
David Rothkopf, plain speaking and a plan:
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
In case you were wondering what Alex Acosta of Epstein infamy is up to now, he’s landed gigs at the State Leadership Initiative (alongside Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts) and at Newsmax. 1/
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
US ARMY COMBAT MEDIC (who is now planning to leave the country): “ICE ‘can’t find’ my husband” uk.style.yahoo.com/veteran-leav...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!
One of those latecomers was a 46-year-old documentary filmmaker named Chad Knutson. On the morning after Good was killed, he was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house. A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him.

“I grab my keys, I grab a coat, and drive over,” Knutson told me. “I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Per @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social this Hmong man Trump’s goons humiliated & dragged out in the cold (after trashing his apartment and putting a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head) was a naturalized 🇺🇸 CITIZEN with no criminal record. He was eventually released. More: www.instagram.com/p/DTrblZ2jmT...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/01/2026
Trump’s ICE is ramming down doors without warrants in violation of the 4th Amendment. Do Republicans really want to green light this behavior & allow ICE to do the same to their own constituents? Tomorrow, I’ll be in Minneapolis-Saint Paul demanding oversight and accountability.
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YokaiCafe @yokaicafe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's a villainaire free-for-all, plain and simple. newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Todd @toddhecker.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Watching with fascination as the man across the street snow blows his driveway at 1:00 am. None of the other neighbors have any lights on.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/12/2025
Billionaires wanting to take their toys and leave everyone else behind is pretty much the Network State cult in a nutshell. Problem is: all of their visions require our destruction. That’s why “so what“ doesn't work. This is an existential struggle: a handful of billionaires vs everyone else.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/12/2025
Sarah Cooper is back on Trump and she absolutely nailed it 🔥
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
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WearySky @wearysky.com · 28/12/2025
(this inspired me to look up the story I remembered about this, btw, only to realize it was a full fucking decade ago)
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