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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 5h
‘The grid wasn’t designed to accommodate the large loads of data centers. Connecting one to the system can require hundreds of millions worth of new infrastructure. Traditionally, the cost of upgrades has been recovered from all users, adding to everyone’s bills.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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How Data Centers Are Pushing Up US Power Costs
Data centers have become a defining political issue in the run-up to the US midterm elections. The giant, windowless warehouses have drawn fierce backlash across the country as people worry about how ...
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Paul Knott @paulknott11.bsky.social · 3h
Trump's dirty Russian diesel is paid for with the blood of innocent Ukrainian men, women & children. I hope every American thinks about that when they fill up their trucks and tractors. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Ukraine hit by deadly Russian strikes as ‘thanks’ for Trump diesel deal, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president says money from fuel sales will intensify war as European leaders reiterate support for Kyiv
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3h
I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT. Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce. This will hamper academic research. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺 @carriesweet.bsky.social · 6h
Trump is demanding that Putin's victim surrender
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you, America! Money from diesel will help me kill even more Ukrainian children.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h
After a teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage, his mother embarked on a quest for answers—and helped uncover a haunting pattern in other cases across the globe, @sarahzhang.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/0t9M6Wrc
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
El País reporter Luis de Vega: "Residents of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, are still in shock over the destruction caused by a Russian missile strike on the building behind us." Thank you to all the journalists who continue to tell the world about Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. 📹: El País
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump: "The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway. We will not forget, Norway." (note how tepid the crowd response is to this whining)
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Americans are struggling to put food on the table and this is what the president of the United States is focusing on.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey Wikipedia, tell me about Francis Bellamy, the minister who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that Linda McMahon wants school children to recite every morning.
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AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A SOCIALIST COUNTRY
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22Bellamy was a Christian socialist, who
"championed 'the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus!"[6. In 1891, Bellamy was
"forced from his Boston pulpit for preaching against the evils of capitalism" [3] and eventually stopped attending church altogether after moving to Florida, reportedly because of the racism he witnessed there. '0! Francis's
career as a preacher ended because of his tendency to describe Jesus as a socialist. In the 21st century, Bellamy is considered an early American democratic socialist.""]
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Impeach his ass 👇
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump asked for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIe...
youtube.com
Daisy L.A.
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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KDR&Bear @kdrandbear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m 72 and I’m here to tell you that the Progressive Democrats are what the Democrats were before the corporate money started flowing into their campaigns! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republican candidate for Congress on Texas Brandon Herrera on women voting: “I’m not saying the 19th amendment was a mistake, I’m just saying the country went to shit after.”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Russia has launched another massive overnight attack targeting Ukrainian cities Russian guided aerial bombs (KABs) struck a residential area and damaged an extracurricular education center in Zaporizhzhia. One person was killed,8 others were injured,including a child&a police officer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed on Mike Rogers's Florida mansion: "He just recently took it off the market, which of course to me implies that he's planning to move back in November once we hand him his rear end"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "When Mike Rogers was in Congress, he literally told somebody from the stand, 'If you don't know your privacy is being violated, is it really being violated?' It's like the peeping tom vote you're going after."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
OSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections"
We are having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. I want to make it clear to everybody that, while Iran is in very bad condition, both Economically and Militarily, and while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, with Oil flowing in Record Numbers of Barrels through the Hormuz Strait (22 Million Barrels, last night alone, with not one barrel coming from, or going to, Iran!), we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd. IRAN WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/10/2026
Meanwhile, drone technology is giving weaker powers an asymmetrical advantage. America doesn’t need a $1.5 trillion military, it needs one it’s willing to break, and can afford to replace.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/10/2026
Interest payments on the debt — the fastest growing part of the federal budget — exceed defense spending. As former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said in 2010, the debt is the “most significant threat to national security.”
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An interesting perspective considering Amazon has laid off 30,000 corporate employees in the past year as part of an AI efficiency push instead of giving workers 3-day workweeks because AI can do some of their work.
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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The race to secure the internet is on. There could be less than 12 months to do it: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?
If only AI can save us from AI, the world is in trouble.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Last month was the hottest September ever recorded in the contiguous U.S.—a sobering record for an already historically hot year.
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This September was the hottest ever on record for the U.S.
It’s been a blistering year. A record-hot September doesn’t bode well for the rest of it
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again, it is almost impossible to overstate the stupidity & bad faith involved in using "salary four years after graduation" as a metric of the worth of majors or degrees, let alone - as US News & World Report did in epic bad faith this year - as a criteria for ranking universities & colleges.
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
GOP candidate Brandon Herrera declined to answer if he has used cocaine, then said: “No fatties. Yeah, we actually, funny enough, don’t have a rule about drug use, but we have a rule about no fatties.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
Moving jobs overseas or hiring foreign workers is capitalism. Policing children's bodies is fascism. State-run sports programs that prohibit minority participation is fascism.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration broke federal law by withholding more than $78 million Congress had approved for healthcare research, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The watchdog found that HHS violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Martin: "We have a glorious headache right now. We are able to expand the map to areas we haven't competed in in generations. In fact, we haven't won a Senate seat in Kansas as a Democrat in 94 years. And we're seeing it not just in places like Kansas, but in Nebraska. In Mississippi ... even in FL"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Ron Johnson, still relitigating covid all these years later, pimps ivermectin, but then immediately acknowledges "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical researcher"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why is the Project 2025 guy “going to make history” in a few weeks? A real media system would endeavor to find out.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
News section piece on "take out Los Angeles" etc. Discuss. (Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...)
News story:
Mr. Trump has a rambling style of off-the-cuff speaking, especially while holding forth at rallies, and this is far from the first time something like this has happened.

In 2024, much of the political and media worlds were consumed with a dayslong debate about the intent behind remarks he made describing a violent hypothetical involving Liz Cheney. Mr. Trump has been defensive of his disjointed way of public speaking, christening it “the weave,” and claiming that he has “friends” who are “English professors” who have told him it is “the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.”

Other times, he has ignited public uproar with the words he has purposefully chosen to discuss violence. Last year, for example, he was condemned even by Republicans for what he said about the Hollywood director Rob Reiner after he and his wife had been stabbed to death.

The president also has a history of using callous language to describe hypothetical mass annihilation. In April, he threatened to wipe out Iran in a post online. “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he wrote, “never to be brought back again.”
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