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Retired artist wannabe. Trying hard to keep from having to retire my pony, too.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Onion Free Handouts Party in Seattle tonight! Free booze, food, newspapers, other stuff. Space is extremely limited, but you can sign up here:
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/10/2026
Rick Wilson on Trump inviting Iran to "take out" two American cities: "At the lowest boundary, it's political malpractice. At the highest boundary it's bordering on treason"
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AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info · 06/10/2026
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS OUR LAND. LAST CHANCE! Please take a moment to go and comment - help make your voice heard and protect our PUBLIC lands.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/10/2026
There's news of a plague outbreak in Russia. Here's what we know and here's who in the White House is staffed to handle any U.S. related work on it (hint: it's RFK Jr. and a gutted CDC...) Russia is trying to cover up the media reports on the outbreak, which now has 200 people in quarantine.
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stephthethird.bsky.social @stephthethird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
May their suffering last as long as the Grandmother blessed us with her presence. Their stupid wall could have gone around the Tree and First Nations territory. Fuck those evil bastards.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A list of 250-year-old things that Trump has destroyed in 2026 1. The Grandmother Tree 2. The United States of America
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most of the beltway shares the same ideology as university administrators/trustees: "my job is to justify the whims and abuses of the rich and powerful." That's why the five members of Cornell's "External Advisory Board" for their report included David Brooks and an AEI scumbag.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
This week we saw an astonishing amount of blasphemy come from MAGA world. If only they'd practice the Word they preach. You don’t get to spend tax dollars telling the country God handpicked the president and then run an immigration system that tears families apart. Full video link in comments.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone please tell Natalie to keep the incoherent ranting to 500 characters or less.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Only if we let him. Musk absolutely stole 2024 for Trump, but not in the way people think. He spent hundreds of millions. He manipulated the X algorithm. He literally bought votes in multiple states. He didn’t - and can’t - change any votes, and nobody is falling for his bullshit this time.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s absolutely considering ground troops, and actively laying the ground work to make it possible if he ultimately green lights it. His advisors are urging him to ‘finish the job’ after the midterms. They’re trying not to lose any more votes than they’re already going to.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 20ish mins, gogo!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 YearsWorkers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"With 32 days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. (It seems to have worked for them before, after all.)" - from @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The GOP’s Culture-War Hail Mary
Will it work?
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What could possibly go wrong handing the keys to the future of our national security to a ketamine-soaked billionaire, an ideological clown from the 1990s, and a third guy who will shortly be questioning his life choices. charliesykes.substack.com/p/day-one-im...
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Day One: Impeach Pete Hegseth
“No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos.” But Musk.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are you a data center looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child pedo looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you! (You can actually call 1-844-946-7536)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very excited about this! Please check it out.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their families to cast ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/10/2026
Rick is calling this the GOP’s worst week in years—and the polls back him up. Texas and Ohio are tightening. Republicans are stepping on rake after rake. Bad polls. Brutal hearings. MAGA is in trouble. Democrats: stay on message. Everyone else: VOTE EARLY: WATCH HERE bit.ly/4ARtZ30
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Pete Hegseth needs impeached. Obsessing about beards while losing a war
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did they say, “Schwab!!,” like that guy in the commercials?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Oh, mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile with Tom Tuberville again"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a must-read for one of the most important elections of our lifetime
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whenever someone poses, "The [insert ethnic group] Question," the answer is always "racism"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One pattern I see repeatedly in my research into complicity is the conflict of interest involved between the public and private sector in many contexts. I have to wonder if there is such an issue with regard to the Tompkins Cty prosecutor’s office and Cornell 1/
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not bigotry, it's just an intuitive preference for racial homogeneity. 🙄 Congratulations to @yale.edu for citing Rufo twice in the report justifying their decision to make the institution a trashy MAGA factory where stuff like this is the only legitimate form of scholarship or discussion.
“Successful assimilation is precisely that you wouldn’t notice it, we wouldn’t have anything to talk about,” he said. “The mere fact of us being able to notice that, no, this is not an assimilated group, this is just a bunch of Indians at the game, is itself sort of definitionally the case that they’re not yet assimilated.” 

Keeperman then explained that many white Americans, like French, simply have “this fundamental intuition” and a “preference” for “homogeneity” and “they wanna fight to preserve that” as the U.S. inches towards becoming a “majority-minority country.” 

“And Indians are like this conspicuous case,” he said, “where they see a difference and they go, ‘I just don’t like that.’ And it’s not because they don’t like Indians or anything like that. Now it may be expressed in, like, vulgar, lurid bigotry of whatever kind, but it also is just a case that they prefer homogeneity.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/10/2026
Exciting things are coming to The Rail Splitter, LP's brand new Substack. Check out all-new ad content, live streaming shows and podcasts from the LP team: lincolnproject.substack.com
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/10/2026
Trump's National Economic Council Director admits that the dismal jobs report "is definitely a cause for concern"
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/10/2026
⁨Arizona was hit hardest by SNAP cuts. A 52% reduction in recipients - that's 400,000 people, including hungry children, who have been kicked off assistance. Juan Ciscomani voted for this in the BBB and expects Arizonans to forgive him?⁩
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're wondering if the US Travel Association blames Trump and Republicans, the answer is "no." As of a month ago, they were still praising him and noting they were "ready to work with the president and his administration to build on today’s momentum." Ok! www.ustravel.org/press/travel...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration's scare tactics ahead of the midterms have hit a usual refrain: "migrant caravan." In reality, it's about 600 people (mostly families) who are 1,000 miles from the border. Just when gas prices keep climbing, Trump world is looking for a distraction. This is their attempt.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina mailboxes overflow with voter registration warnings after state cut a deal with Trump’s DOJ
“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to end debate in the Senate, 53-47. Every Democratic and independent senator voted against the measure. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One important policy lesson from this story is how Facebook committed blatant tax fraud in 2013 (Zuckerberg's stock options as R&D) and still hasn't been forced to pay it and thus learned that tax fraud is an acceptable business practice and so is doing it again.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow! Matches my war crime subpoena list almost perfectly.
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