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Tony Colletti

@tonyc007.bsky.social
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Retired attorney. More and more, my initial reaction to news stories is “WTF is wrong with people?!”

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 21h
Holy SH*T! NY Times reporting tonight that Trump has stolen $20 million dollars of our taxes to pay for ads to help Republicans win the midterms. Let me repeat that: Trump stole $20 million dollars of YOUR taxes to help Republicans. Trump MUST BE prosecuted. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 6h
There are a few times over the year when I wish I had the type of account that makes things go viral and affects people. This is one of those times: MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED AND VOTE EARLY. Early is key.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · 29/09/2026
This week, the Senate is set to vote on the “Stop Insider Trading Act." The only problem? This bill doesn’t actually stop insider trading.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Women are NOT safe around men.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · 16/09/2026
This administration pretends not to know if they can send armed federal agents to the polls. With the Protect Our Polls Act, it should be crystal clear: our military exists to defend the Constitution and the American people, not to police our elections.
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🌈Bitty in Pink💫✨️🌟✨️ @bitty-n-pink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please do veterinary care next. People are drowning.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Wiley Miller @wileymiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"State of the Force" address? Attention @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Democrats should assume they need to flip five seats now. He'll never be reelected, by either party, but we're stuck with him until 2029. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Fetterman Praises Trump in Video Broadcast at Republican Convention
The appearance of a Democrat lauding the policies of an administration that his party is claiming has made life harder for Americans was a stunning turn and a boon for President Trump.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
The alarms are all flashing red.
Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
​The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
​The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
​The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
​The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
​The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
​The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
​The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
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Coop @linjurz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you Heather Cox Richardson for repeating the truth about the Biden economy. I am so tired of their bashing and lies. He did an outstanding job in restoring economic growth.
"If you are watching members of this administration, they are constantly blaming the Biden administration for their own problems. And just a reminder, the Biden economy was so strong that the economist, which is NOT a hotbed of leftist ideology, let me tell you, said it was the envy of the world. That Biden had knocked it out of the park, that he had done the equivalent of a catching an egg on a plate, bringing the United States out of the Pandemic to the strongest country in the world. So, this idea that somehow Biden screwed up is  just absolutely ridiculous, and certainly, almost two years into a second administration to continue to say, 'Oh it's Biden’s fault' is just ridiculous."
Heather Cox Richardson
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every Dem considering running for President in 2028 needs to come out now and promise every Trump vanity project is going to be torn down and contractors working on them will not be paid. At minimum, get the contractor firms to slow walk the construction so they are never in arrears on being paid.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I heard they're changing the company name to 88Password
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thomas Massie called Leon Black and David Copperfield co-conspirators of Epstein’s. It feels like Massie is just creating a distraction and perpetuating damage control. Read a full list or shut up.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
APPLEBAUM: Instead of integrating drones, Hegseth is canceling drone battalion and talking about push-ups and facial hair. It’s really insane. I mean, if someone were paying him to undermine United States, or if he were a secret enemy, this is how he would behave. It's suicidal.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NBC: You were attacked by criminal, religious extremist terrorists—not “settlers”—and *still* you carry the water of Israeli propaganda to whitewash what these vile terrorists do.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Opposition to deficit spending is a fundamental plank of the GOP platform... that applies only when Democrats are in the White House.
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In Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action
The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Governor Abbott claims to be 'tough on crime.' How is he 'tough on crime' by manipulating an extradition process that is not supposed to be discretionary to protect a man who shot into a house with children inside?"
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There are some people whose deaths leave the world a sadder place. There are others whose deaths will make the world better.
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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
truth from Jenny Zigrino
A stacked set of two screenshots from a standup routine by Jenny Zigrino that say “I know the grim reaper is a white man because if anyone else was this bad at their job, they’d be fired”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It would be fun if Democrats commissioned an architect to come up with a proposal to modify the ballroom to scale it down and turn it back into useful office space. Release renderings and cost analysis. Just act like they will ignore the red tape and just do in 2029, like Trump did to build it.
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump caused this
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 21/08/2026
This is Christian nationalist fan fiction masquerading as history. Congress did not fund, print or endorse a Bible “specifically for use IN SCHOOLS.” And the Constitution the Founders actually gave us contains no God, no Jesus, no Christianity.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
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Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Senate Republicans have taken a major step towards advancing the pro-crypto CLARITY Act. Reminder: crypto is a giant Ponzi scheme. Its only practical uses are for tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, speculation, and crime. No Democrat should vote for this corrupt abomination.
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Senate advances landmark crypto bill before heading on August recess
The move suggests Senate Republican leaders believe they may yet be able to get the 60 votes needed to pass, despite con
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
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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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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I want companies that have profited from contracts with ICE to go out of business. I want companies that have gone all in on AI to go out of business. I want companies that cause nationwide diarrhea outbreaks to go out of business. I want companies that give money to fascists to go out of business.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This would have been a month-long scandal on Fox News if Obama or Biden had done this. They are burying the death count because they want people to forget that war actually has a cost. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
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Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll
Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hi America
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/07/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
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A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 21/07/2026
As journalists we can’t just let athletes like Sophie Cunningham or Britta Curl drop transphobic talking points into our stories without pushing back. “Protecting girls from what? From who? Where is the evidence that this is occurring?” Make them say the quiet part out loud. Challenge them w/ facts
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sports Illustrated caught the boos for Trump.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Beshear needs to do what Mitch would do in his shoes. The law they made to stop Beshear from appointing a replacement violates the state constitution. Make the friggin' appointment!!! Make them prove he's alive or take you to court (which will prove he's not alive).
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Gov. Beshear suggests he received information suggesting McConnell ‘passed’ in new interview
The governor said he received the information from diffrent agencies but did not say which during the July 15 interview.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
AOC on Trump: The man cannot stand the truth, so he has to manufacture a fiction where he is popular—a fairy tale. But we have to remember that it is just that: fiction, fairy tales, a myth, a story, a lie.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2026
The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.
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