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Tucker Drake

@tparkpodcast.com
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I'm yet another annoying podcaster, and I just happen to live in a beer can. tparkpodcast.com is the home of the show and you can support it on www.patreon.com/tntucker if you choose.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: Eric Schmitt’s general counsel, Ethan Harper, was expected to join the White House Staff Secretary’s office next week. But after yesterday’s Jack Smith fiasco, that’s in doubt. Harper was the man behind Schmitt, literally holding up the infamous board. FAFO. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Schmitt aide’s move to White House in doubt following Jack Smith hearing
Ethan Harper, Sen. Eric Schmitt’s general counsel, was expected to start at the White House next week.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 37m
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Some really neat looking objects today. Anthropeum.com · Oct 1 2026 🟥🟩🟨🟩🟩🟦🟩🟩🟥🟦 67,758 · top 40% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11h
We need AI regulation yesterday. The incentive driving the doom scenario is simply greed. I don't take PAC money from OpenAI, or any AI corporation, or any corporation for that matter.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3h
RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory
MTurk is closing
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praying mantis @gentlem.bsky.social · 12h
bsky.app/profile/gent... The study began in 2023 and included 3000 men. It was a survey that guaranteed absolutely anonymity & assured the respondents there was no way they could be identified. 95.1% self-reported having used some means of coercive sexual control, RECENTLY.
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fallsvillager @fallsvillager.bsky.social · 1h
Worst suspicions confirmed. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
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Inside Google’s AI Push Into Schools: ‘It Slowed My Thinking Down’
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1h
I would be very careful with this factoid because it is very dependent on generous defined benefit schemes which future generations of pensioners, beginning with late GenX to early millennials, will not have
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1h
I don't have anything polite to say
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 14h
Charlie Kirk was literally in the process of reciting one of his most foul lies—that trans people commit disproportionately more mass shootings—the moment his life ended. Then, UCLA illegally fired me for posting the truth about ✨this✨ unmoisturized lagoon creature. www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-fo...
Photo of a goofy looking Chuck Kirk
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 9h
More Supreme Court “shadow docket” decisions which needlessly endanger immigrants by severely restricting their Constitutional rights Imagine letting ICE deport an El Salvadoran woman-not to Central America, but to Africa, where she has no contacts, no way to communicate and nobody to help her
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 11h
The Quisling at @MSNOWNews who bowed to ownership's demand that the network run the Trump Leni Riefenstahl-like taxpayer-funded ad is Greg Kordick, the former line producer of Countdown who never quite understoo why we were so liberal or why I commented (per @oliverdarcy.bsky.social)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7h
a righteous act
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Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m #TeamQuartz in #MinCup26 but today’s #sciArtSeptember prompt carbon lines up with graphite, so I am sharing my #linocut of Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; 1930 – 2017). She was a professor of physics & electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science. In this linocut I’ve
My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.
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Kenny Smith @kennysmith.org · 21h
Every journalism professor, ever, implored their students to follow the money. Every editor, ever, has offered the same commandment. It has never let down a single scribe.
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Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social · 21h
I happen to be teaching Forster's The Machine Stops right now and every AI headline this week is just a little too on the nose
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Hey TN media— will anyone ask @MarshaBlackburn why she ducked 🦆 Jack Smith after whining about him for YEARS? A TVA photo op instead of doing her job on Judiciary committee🤔? Did she not want to remind us she tried to pocket MILLIONS from taxpayers over him doing HIS job? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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IronMillMan @ironmillman.bsky.social · 21h
I am tired of #Trump and #Republicans giving #TechCompanies, #DataCenters and #Billionaires tax breaks while the average #American is paying more for food, fuel and basic services. Vote Trump and Republicans out! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Sherman's Ghost @popoffvalve.bsky.social · 21h
The doxxer claimed to be a Chi Phi alumnus. Death to the Greek system.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 21h
Fortune Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property. Keep.him, he's bad news. finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property
Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 23h
“People just want to watch Mexican baseball,” said one attendee, who noted it's "different from American baseball" — and more of a "party."
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As U.S. immigration crackdown stokes fear, Mexican baseball at Bees stadium brings joy, ‘fiesta’ to Utah
“People just want to watch Mexican baseball,” said one attendee, who noted it's "different from American baseball" — and more of a "party."
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 23h
Japanese actor, Tsuda Kenjiro, wins case against #TikTok over non-consensual #AI voice-cloning. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 30/09/2026
Evangelical conservatives, a crucial voting bloc for Donald Trump, are expressing anger and frustration after key Republican lawmakers and officials abruptly canceled their appearances at a significant event that aimed to energize the base ahead of the midterm elections....
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Angry Voters Rebel After Trump Administration Leaves GOP Supporters Hanging
Evangelical conservatives, a crucial voting bloc for Donald Trump, are expressing anger and frustration after key Republican lawmakers and officials abruptly canceled their appearances at a significant event that aimed to energize the base ahead of the midterm elections. During the buildup to the Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit, held recently in Leesburg, Virginia, a slew of prominent Republican figures were slated to speak.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lets be honest anyone who calls themselves a Christian nationalist should be ineligible for federal office because their beliefs make it impossible to hold an oath to the Constitution which not only calls for freedom of religion but keeping religion & government separate
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What I see popping up already: the main physical condition is “dropped” from the plan without evidence it is resolved, leaving psychosocial condition support which the NDIS plans to slash
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stancil getting more respect on here than Cottom is mindblowing. One has spent exceptional time researching and understanding their field of study, and the other is just engagement farming on topics they have no experience or understanding of. Which is more likely to make a Forbes or Times list?
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CORNELL KEPT HER GODDAMN TUITION.
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Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My friend’s daughter has been diagnosed with Leigh Syndrome, a mitochondrial disease which currently has no cure. They are fundraising for a clinical trial but the goal is astronomical. Please share this around and give if you are able. give.curemito.org/fundraiser/7...
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One Shot to Live
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Donald Trump's government-funded ads promoting his administration violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda, a complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission alleged on Tuesday” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Broadcasters, Regulators Urged To Pull Trump’s “Propaganda” Ads
A complaint to federal regulators from Public Citizen says that Trump's government-funded ads "violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda."
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#AZ Trump's 300K metric ton beef import surge crashed Gila County cattle prices-ranchers rebuilding after drought now undercut by subsidized foreign beef timed for midterms. NCBA & USCA warn it sidelines US producers, threatens safety. Our ranchers deserve better than being campaign props. # Pinks
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I knew this was coming.. 16 American trucking companies file for bankruptcy as diesel costs soar. www.the-independent.com/us/money/tru...
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16 American trucking companies file for bankruptcy as diesel costs soar
Rising costs in areas such as insurance and maintenance are pushing some trucking companies to the brink
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Tucker Drake @tparkpodcast.com · 30/09/2026
Hahahahaha! www.wmtw.com/article/susa...
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Doors to Sen. Collins' Biddeford office vandalized with spray paint
A photo shows a vulgar insult was spray-painted on the front doors to Sen. Susan Collins' office in Biddeford.
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Tucker Drake @tparkpodcast.com · 30/09/2026
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Last Call | Tucker
How I said goodbye to my bestest buddy. If you want to help pay for his vet bills, my PayPal handle is tuckerfan@gmail.com And that's the la
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perfectly innocent bullet, flying along, and then some terrorist throws his body in the bullet's way, totally assaulting the bullet, stopping it from traveling further.
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Somil Trivedi @somilbtrivedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS just agreed that Trump is *irreparably harmed* by not being able to disappear folks without a hearing to places like South Sudan, even though they’re already locked up & argument is in a couple months. A friendly bonus scoop of cruelty, from the Justices to their favorite little boy.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I’m pissed off about gas & food prices.” “Are you regretting your vote for Trump?” “Yeah. A lot of people are.” “America’s not Great Again?” “No. They’ve run it into the ground.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...
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Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties
A plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026
HAMMERS
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know it's not my doctor's fault and she's amazing, but I fly into a fury every time I'm sent a note about what I need to be doing because I DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, LADY!
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.
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How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?
City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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