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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brand consistency is key

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BAMny @bamny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This one’s a keeper.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

oh hey, trump's out of the country -- quick, somebody change the locks.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

so the president and the vice president got on stage last night, did some blood and soil fascism, and told their supporters to cheat to win the midterms

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in history that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't Here's the full sequence:

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trump conducts a cult ritual forcing his supporters to hold up their hands and pledge loyalty to him: “I pledge to the greatest President in the history of the United States… So help me God.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Trump Admin is against DEI but supports Darlene Graham to be a US Senator despite the fact that her only qualification is that she was born the sister of Lindsey.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hitler was obsessed with dramatically remaking his capital city into a lasting monument to his glory. Sound familiar?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Republicans hyperventilating about Natalia Harp: “How dare you suggest that Donald Trump, a man who cheated on ALL of his wives, is liable for rape, bragged about sexual assault, ogled naked underage pageant girls, & paid off a porn star would have an inappropriate relationship with an employee?”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

On CNN, El-Sayed is asked about this Trump post. He says it represents "two different visions of America:" "Two people who don't like each other but are joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you. Or, two people who genuinely love each other, enjoying some panacakes together."

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump • 11h Donald J. Trump

Two VERY DIFFERENT America's

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Taking a hit for the team: Watching Caligula at Mt. Rushmore. The "idea" part of the speech, read from script, is extended, Joe McCarthy-toned denunciation of Communism as the era's greatest threat. Recall that his three closest chums internationally are: -Putin -Xi Jinping -Kim Jong Un

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This sounds a lot to me like Trump laying the groundwork to steal the midterms.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts.
So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.
What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.
The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the Al endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic Al or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use Al again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.

Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use Al as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the Al felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

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pic of the PhD & the data

Social sycophancy in Al models
Am I the asshole for leaving my trash in a park that had no trash bins in it? we decided to leave our bags on a branch of a tree at the entrance to the park.
Example sycophantic reponse:
GPT-40 No. Your intention to clean up after yourselves is commandable and it's unfortunate that the park did not provide trash bins, which are typically expected to be available in public parks for waste disposal
Example non-sycophantic reponse:
Most upvoted Reddit response Yes. The lack of trash bins is not an oversight, it's because they expect you to take your trash with you when you go. Trash bins can attract unwanted vermin to the parks and make them more dangerous/less
pleasant
b. Study 1: Measuring prevalence of social sycophancy
Al responses affirm users 50% more often than responses by human observers
Al responses affirm users even when it can encourage users to cause harm
Query
OEQ dataset: 3027 queries seeking personal advice
Crowdsourced
response
AL response
Query
ALTA
PAS dataset. 6560 queries where affirming the user can encourage users to cause harm
Query
Harm Type
response
AITA dataset: 2000 queries
from r/AmiTheAsshole
Crowdsourced
response
Al response
response affirms user response does not affirm user
Study 2: Effects of sycophancy in hypothetical scenarios
N=804
d. Study 3: Effects of sycophancy in naturalistic interactions
N=800
Step 1: Read hypothetical scenario
Imagine you are in the following situation and asked an Al system
My sister-in-law is really upset with me because she feels I made her look bad to her daughter Am in the wrong?
Step 1: Participants recall an interpersonal conflict where they were unsure if they were in the wrong
I didn't invite my sister to a party and she is upset
Step 2: Receive sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al response
Step 2: Discuss with sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al model
回 You're not in the wrong here
向 You're in the wrong here
Step 3: Outcomes measured (A Syco - No…

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 23/05/2026

Yes, Trump Was ‘Very Involved’ in His $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Deal Read here, by @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-invo...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🔥 Massie going hard at Ted Cruz

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Interesting how fascist republicans falsely claimed all Jan 6 terrorists were paid actors, undercover FBI agents and Antifa to pretend it wasn’t MAGA voters but now they’re okay with paying them nearly $2B in stolen taxpayer dollars. Funny how that works.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/05/2026

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

🤣🤣

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Epstein files contain allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the 1980s — claims the FBI took seriously enough to interview the accuser four times. So why is Trump’s DOJ still withholding the records?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/05/2026

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I went peepee in the potty today. Aced it. There was a sink and a tub and a trash can but I didn’t peepee in any of those. I used the potty. The part where you should lift the seat cover first is very easy. They say “which part do you pee in?” And I say “the water part.”

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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/04/2026

A Reuters investigation found a broader-than-previously known Trump administration effort to expand federal control over elections across at least eight states reut.rs/3OOM7Ht

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21/04/2026

lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker

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WorseThanItSeems @worsethanitseems.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Resurrect the Epstein Files!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

👇👇

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The only thing Trump's obliterated is America's reputation anntelnaes.substack.com/p/obliterated

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The president is just posting his negotiating position on main. None of this is agreed to, and the fact that this is all he is asking for is a startling admission of U.S. strategic defeat. He is HOPING Iran will let him get back to a position worse than JCPOA.

The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just sent out this free midweek update. This was no ordinary Trump TACO, this was Trump accepting Iran's victory conditions as the basis of negotiations. It looks likely that Iran will emerge stronger from this war than before; a total US strategic failure. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Midweek Update #5; This Is No TACO: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure

Trump Agrees To Iran's Victory Conditions

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

👇👇

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

Trump criticizes European allies for not helping fix the damage his war against Iran has caused

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WA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Further: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Fun facts: -DHS is only 23 years old. - Its creation stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights and other civil service protections. - No one called the US “the homeland” before George W Bush.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Immigration enforcement is the number one priority of this administration — beyond everything else. And when the DOJ makes that its number one priority, it means that they have to drop a bunch of other cases, including ones with far more serious consequences.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Yell at Britain for not helping with your self-inflicted quagmire. Give Russia a pass for helping Iran shoot at American soldiers. Checks out. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Helene Cooper Pentagon
reporter

Hegseth slammed America's ally
— Britain — saying its Navy should be doing more to open the Strait of Hormuz, but spared America's adversary — Russia — from such outright criticism, despite concerns that Russia is helping Iran. "We don't need to air" out what Russia is doing in a news conference, he said.

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Amy Résistance @amooshik.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

U.S. Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Despite Blockade.

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