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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”

thebanker.com

Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New today in the old tale of externalizing costs while privatizing profits: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico, “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit

an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

uhhhhh considering that the City of Seattle itself has the WAISN number linked for its ICE-report hotline this seems like it's a massive, massive safety concern for every immigrant in the Puget Sound? (source: WAISN union still fighting for recognition): www.instagram.com/waisnworkerc...

The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network has officially laid off all of its Hotline Organizers and Rapid Response Organizers. Any phone calls from someone trying to report ICE or find support have gone unanswered since 7 AM.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 24, 1969. President Richard Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan, forcing building trades unions to allow black members into their ranks. Nixon did this to divide the building trades from the Democratic Party and in no small part his cynical move worked!

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Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 23/09/2026

60% of white Americans are racist af in the polling booth. White Vote for President by Year '24|57%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵41% '20|58%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵41% '16|57%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴⚪🔵🔵🔵37% '12|59%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵39% '08|55%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵43% '04|58%🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔵🔵🔵41% 🔴Republican🔵Democrat ⚪3rd Party 1/4

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's interesting how stable this is across time, which somewhat undercuts Trump narratives, both popular and elite

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JP Antifa @jasonpaul.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If the Dem party was really just a fabrication of the ruling oligarchs to give people something to rally behind but were actually in on the long con, how would it look different?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

God, can you imagine living in a country like this? Captured opposition parties that don't challenge autocratic abuses and exist only to take money and direct public discourse toward acceptance all while pretending there's nothing they can do? That sounds awful. Thank god we don't have that.

NYT's article on fake political environment in Russia: That controlled exercise in political theater is occupying the waking hours of thousands of Russian bureaucrats. Campaign teams are agitating for “opposition” parties that all conveniently support the war. Regional officials are organizing the nuts and bolts of ballots and turnout. Milquetoast candidates populate the airwaves of state television.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also really not great when you realize that most of our political philosophies that actually drive our politics and are held by the most wealthy and powerful people are, with just a little bit of interrogation, white supremacist, aggressively patriarchal, eugenicist, antidemocratic, and genocidal.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Silver spoon in his mouth, and lying and cheating and screwing the public. This is what made Trump rich. It’s also what made Musk rich. It is not earned, it is stolen and based on sociopathy and corruption. They did not build, they cheated others.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

open.substack.com

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.

Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In upside-down world, Justice Alito blames "the plaintiff States and the courts" for causing the late timing of USPS' attempt to interfere in mail voting by suing to stop it. Unmentioned by Alito: USPS issued the rule in violation of an injunction. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Second, the plaintiff States and the courts bear a substantial share of the blame for the rule’s timing. In April, the plaintiff States sued to challenge the President’s internal directive to subordinates mandating a rulemaking. For months, this litigation cast a cloud over the Government’s ability to issue a final rule. The District Court entered several injunctions months later prohibiting the Government from undertaking that rulemaking. Not only was the Government subject to months of premature litigation and a series of injunctions that this Court later determined were likely issued without jurisdiction, the Government had to wait nearly another full month for this Court to issue its decision so holding. Indeed, this Court spent from late July to the end of August drafting nearly 40 pages of opinions, including two dissents, despite the Government’s public notice that it would not publish a final rule while subject to the injunctions, see 91 Fed. Reg. 44880, and its representation that it had a strong interest in issuing its rule in early- to mid-August to allow time to implement it. The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me: DON’T WALK AWAY WHILE YOU’RE USING THE BLENDER! 13yo: I wasn’t walking to away, I was dancing. Me: Why were you dancing? 13yo: I was happy! Me: … WHY ARE YOU USING THE BLENDER!!??? 13yo: I’m doing an experiment.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Oregon Trail reboot that the world needs right now. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of three dark tabby kittens, one lighter, tabby, and one white kitten sitting inside of a miniature covered wagon.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/08/2026

Every progressive gets chased around about their relationship to Hasan Piker. Has ONE reporter ever asked JD Vance about his embrace of the insane and anti-democratic ideas of Curtis Yarvin? Or about his relationship with democracy-hater Peter Thiel? The imbalance is stark.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They like Vance and want to help him. They don't like AES and they want him to lose the election. This perfectly explains the discrepancy in how each guy is covered.

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have been reliably informed that 1000 MAGA Psykers die every day to keep Truth Social functioning

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just want to say that these lunatics accused me of being a *secret CIA agent* while DataRepublican is literally working for the govt while pretending to be an ordinary influencers, & receiving leaked docs. The Trump admin is running ops, as they say, but for real. Every accusation is a confession.

Konstantin Toropin
@KToropin
G...
The Pentagon confirms -
"Ms. Pounds serves at the Department of War as a Special Government
Employee."
AF. AF Post •
@AFpost • Aug 21
Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, a Department of War employee, alleges that Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers is attempting to "entrap" Pounds by providing her with information to "leak" under the guise of offering her a
"scoop."

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now that everyone’s ready for potash discourse, wheat and corn are the key US crops that depend least on it. But man, I hope you don’t like things like tomatoes, potatoes, or root vegetables.

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Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, says he walks around worrying that someone who's hopped up on hormones and Trans surgeries is going to try and kill him.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A question that some people in media asked me as a thought experiment was: would u have traded Obama losing to Romney in 2012 in exchange for trump never being president and part of my answer is: it’s the same political party

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

Baby Boom! Lawyered launches September 8. New name. New format. Same Angry Black Lady reading 97 pages of Clarence Thomas's bullshit so you can keep your will to live.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There’s no “4D chess.” It’s not “strategy” beyond placating popular discontent and staving off an insurgent Left on behalf of wealth and oligarchical class donors. It is what it looks like and just whipping up these delusional fairytale narratives only ensures this will get worse.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Eventually you will figure out that the DOJ and Mueller/Garland cheerleaders were working for the interests of Trump the entire time. Paid propagandists promoting passivity. And I’ll be reupping this tweet just like I’ve done my old ones on Jeffries. Just kidding! BlueSky will go under by then.

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staryfinch.bsky.social @staryfinch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

& you still see people using words like "weak", "feckless" to describe Garland, Biden and Dems, when the correct terms are "frauds/traitors." My friends knew the Dems are just playing an act years ago. Why can't more ppl catch on? The media environment, paid shills, bot accounts really set the tone

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 23/08/2026

Potential areas of common interest, like their fear of the left. Hey, it worked great for von Papen.

abcnews.com

Jeffries, Kushner met privately, discussed potential areas of common ground: Sources

Jared Kushner continues to serve as an outside adviser to the president.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

13yo: Why does J. Jonah Jameson hate Spider-man? Me: [explains] 13yo: Oh, so for the same reason the New York Post hate Mayor Mamdani. Me: Goddamn, I’m doing this right!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They attack this man for being the current highest ranking black official in America and his response is to lick their boots.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You will remember that, back in 2019, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social had the opportunity to interview David Brooks. What an opportunity to perhaps touch on the fact that Brooks has been spectacularly wrong about everything for the past +30 years and yet was still gainfully employed as a pundit! Nope

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Klein could have aspired to be the next Daniel Schorr. But he just wants to be the next David Brooks.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Contemptible, indefensible both-sidesing by @ezraklein.bsky.social: “Twitter was, and X is, as happy to be a slingshot for the great replacement theory or anti-Semitism or Islamophobia as for calls to defund the police or abolish ICE.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o... seriously wtf

nytimes.com

Opinion | Twitter Broke the Left. X Will Break the Right.

Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As you walk down the street, my voice can be heard out of each passing Flock camera. “Tan shoes don’t go with dark worsted suits,” says the next Flock camera. “To understand this,” says the third camera, “we must go back to the early 1900s, when men’s dress was divided between city and country.”

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If David French lived by this mantra, he would not have worked for Trump lawyer Sekulow‘s legal outfit, worked at FIRE protecting conservative speech, or worked at Nationalist Review criticizing the ”Radical Left.” He would have broken out of the conservative Christian bubble.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean genuinely the main emotion that I’m filled with after this weekend, seeing the president, walking through his throngs of fans, attending the worst circus I’ve ever witnessed, is like: man I’m not letting this guy kill me. I simply refuse to lose to him

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s one thing to be an American surviving the century of humiliation on the periphery, but actually seeing him in the flesh in the core of the empire during its boondoggle circus really drove home that we should all be fucking ashamed lol

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No comment

an orange cat is proudly refusing to comment on the yogurt spoon. without forensic analysis there is no way to tell if there are tiny yogurt splatters on his face

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Left to right: Richard Hanania, Curtis Yarvin, Nathan Cofnas All of these men were backed by Peter Thiel for years as they churned out white supremacist and fascist content in relative obscurity prior to gaining mainstream visibility.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The fact that Jeffries is meeting with Kushner to find “common ground” with this fascist administration while simultaneously publicly attacking the Democratic left shows clearly who he is and why he is backed by corporatist and pro-Israel donors. Jeffries is the definition of controlled opposition.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Jeffries said exactly what he wanted to say. He is not a political novice and well knows how to pivot better than this. He CHOSE to espouse right-wing framing and to attack part of the Democratic coalition.

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