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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

While you had to pay up, Meta skirted almost $4 billion in taxes last year. How? By abusing a tax credit tied to its data centers. It's time to make corporations pay their fair share.

nytimes.com

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

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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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shocked not shocked. Also, if you downloaded this app, I mean…

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Go to the polls with Wilber and the millions like him in mind. Vote against anyone who supports this state-sponsored, racialized terror. Vote to send an unequivocal message that you’re not OK with this.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dept of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) program to shrink the federal work force, by paying people not to work, increased administrative leave costs by 435%, costing taxpayers $9.5 billion “This was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse" - Senator Patty @murray.senate.gov

nytimes.com

Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort (Gift Article)

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 07/09/2026

Googled Dan Sullivan He has spent his career arguing for fewer safety regulations in child care centers He owned a child care center, and a kid died by being left in a hot van there But anyway the kids will be kept safe from the horrific danger of books

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Your ever-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress fully support what Hegseth and the president are doing to the American military. It’s disgraceful and disqualifying

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The alt-text (“Look Out! Here comes the spider-man!”) is fun, but won’t help the visually impaired, so: Spiderman takes on right-wing agitator Jake Lang, who wears military cosplay and carries a cross to protest multi-ethnic democracy. Lang’s expression suggests he is getting the worst of it.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger. Jefferson Starfleet

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A sentence I keep thinking about: “It is planet-immolating, stultifying, fascist tech. The extruding plagiarism machine is disgusting and we should break it.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/08/2026

My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting ‘verbal defiance or belligerence’ or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.” What could possibly go wrong? apnews.com/article/ice-...

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding answers from DHS after local police discovered an ICE agent sitting outside of her latest town hall in a car with mismatched license plates, a violation of Minnesota law. www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...

huffpost.com

Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched Plates

This “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Read this 👇

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Felt this AI clickbait needed alt-text, so here it is.

Morgan Freeman, with oversized head, wears a military uniform and drinks a bottle of barbecue sauce in a JC Penney Portraits studio. Caption reads: “Japan’s Oldest Doctors Say Cognitive Decline Isn’t Age: Just Stop Eating These 3 Foods.”

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

[Alt-text for photo: 4 national guard soldiers in full camo walking down quaint brick sidewalk.]

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Clara Elena García, Author 🇵🇾 @claraelenadice.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some context on my last post since it took off. The tourist was a white Canadian man who lost his passport enroute. When he went to report it missing upon arrival, he was detained, questioned, STRIP SEARCHED, and taken to a detention center, all while his embassy scrambled to get him a replacement..

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

nytimes.com

Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

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Clara Elena García, Author 🇵🇾 @claraelenadice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One unexpected consequence of that viral post is that I have been getting contacted by other international travelers currently going through the same thing at the airport right now 😭 It’s not safe here, y’all. Please avoid coming to the US right now!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jon (former top economics corresponpdent at the WSJ) even included this very useful graphic!

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GDP GROWTH RATE DEFICIT AS A SHARE OF GDP INCREASED OUTPUT OF OIL (Millions of barrels daily) NOTES ON DELIVERED DATA: GDP is the average of the first six quarters of President Trump's second term. Deficit share is based on Congressional Budget Office Estimates. Oil output is based on EIA figures - - 13.714 million barrels daily in May, vs. 13.140 million barrels daily in January 2025.

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Carlos @dapherdoos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

ICE walks across the street to pepper spray a woman in the face for recording them. One day though. One day soon.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

sciencefictionweekly.com

Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Raise your hand if you are a lit mag editor or reader who is very worried about the AI stuff the new Submittable CEO plans to try to force on us? That email introducing him yesterday is haunting me. We don't need or want AI anywhere near our submissions process.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And he was right to run. They might well have ignored his visa and locked him up.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“The immigration judge released her from detention, in part, because she had entered the country legally.”

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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 21/07/2026

12/ Canada's response is already visible. Exports to non-US markets rose 17% year-over-year, even as exports to the US fell. Ottawa now targets doubling non-US exports by 2035. That's what the leverage is buying — a trading partner rebuilding its economy around not needing you.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Not mistakes, murders. Got it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is the playbook to destroy families across culture and community, around the globe. Go after their children. Residential schools. Enslaved families. The Yemenite “children affair.” Indigenous Mayan families in Guatemala. Literally Pharaoh shit.

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When we have a disastrous wildfire season, Canada generally sends help. When it happens to them, we send threats. Can we please stop trying to be alpha and try to be humans?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fucking worthless assholes

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T. S. McAdams @tsmcadams.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“If we don’t police gender, we risk trans women endangering cis women by [checks notes] seeking counseling if they are raped.” How can anyone say such a thing and imagine they’ve made some kind of point?

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Senator Chris Coons @coons.senate.gov · 15/07/2026

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

npr.org

What to know about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness hitting the U.S.

A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and fatigue has been detected in 34 states. Here's how what to do if you suspect you have it and how to avoid infection.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ive talked about this a little but it's been kind of crazy-making to watch testosterone and hormone therapy blow up and become a big body-hacking craze at the exact same time that it's being rolled back for trans people

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The tariffs were just another CON to manipulate the stock market and profit billions from insider trading and crypto corruption — $2.2 BILLION to be exact, and we paid the bill. Trump’s tariffs cost the average US household $1,500 per year.

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