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Alex Carrigan

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Founder of Tesla Motors, Inc.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At 8:30 this morning, ICE and FHP detained a man running a food truck at a Mobil gas station in Ft Myers on Palm Beach Blvd. The food truck was left open and unattended.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.
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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In May 2017 Portland was hit with two scandals: 1) A taco truck closed, blaming their lack of business on an article that accused them of cultural appropriation. 2) A man on a train stabs three passengers, killing two of them, when they tried to stop him hurling racial abuse at a Muslim woman.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
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Alex Carrigan @volkerball.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Big day for centrists who had to clarify that their relationship with Larry Summers was purely professional.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The idea that black people or gay people or women or immigrants or trans people could have comported themselves differently to mitigate bigotry against them is an incredibly stupid idea that is also shockingly common.
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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 09/06/2026
I *really* hope this works
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Sean Solo @spqesq.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It makes sense that the Guardian has a bigger audience than the Washington Post because the Guardian is a newspaper whereas the Washington Post is a tech fascist billionaire's sock puppet.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/04/2026
💢 REPORT | Opening Strikes in US-Israeli Bombing Campaign Targeted Heart of Iran’s Pistachio Trade Iran was once the world’s leading pistachio producer. Today, USDA data show the U.S., led by CA, accounts for roughly 65% of global output, while Iran’s share has fallen to about 18%. In the first...
💢 REPORT | Opening Strikes in U.S.-Israeli Bombing Campaign Targeted Heart of Iran’s Pistachio Trade

Iran was once the world’s leading pistachio producer. Today, USDA data show the U.S., led by California, accounts for roughly 65% of global output, while Iran’s share has fallen to about 18%. 

In the first week of the war, reports and geolocated satellite imagery indicated strikes in and around Rafsanjan, the heart of Iran’s pistachio sector, including apparent damage to pistachio warehouse facilities near the airport. 

The Resnick family, owners of The Wonderful Company and dominant players in California’s pistachio industry, have used political influence to secure vast water rights in drought-stricken regions, at the expense of local communities.

The 2025 documentary Pistachio Wars examines their longstanding backing of pro-Israel lobbying groups, arguing that hawkish policies toward Iran align with their commercial interests, as weakening a key global competitor benefits their bottom line.

🎥 Pistachio Wars (2025) trailer.Mehdi H.
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The pistachio warehouses of Iranian Pistachio Company near Rafsanjan Airport were targeted by American/Israeli fighter jets in the first week of Farvardin. Geolocation:
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Alex Carrigan @volkerball.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I will post on this site by myself before I create a new Twitter account.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 14/03/2026
i think one of the reforms we need to do for woke is make all computer guys take humanities classes again and also if they complain about them they have to take more humanities classes
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Our prisons are filled with people incarcerated for petty crimes which are the direct result of social inequality, while those responsible for this inequality jet set from one continent to the next, and from their latest war crime to the next UN buffet lunch” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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Evilution: Why the Psychopaths Always Win
The fact that the most dangerous psychopaths end up in the highest positions of power is a huge indictment on society.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
war overseas, war in american cities, the largest tax increase on the middle class in history…no reason for any of this just stupid people doing stupid things and making your life worse
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.
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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..
ALT: some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The billionaires, who are paying Schumer and Jeffries and the Dem Establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/n...
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Mamdani’s Vanquished Foes Are Plotting a Comeback, if Not Revenge
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Your regular reminder that fewer than a minyan of Republicans - none of whom anyone will otherwise remember 30 years from now - could achieve immortality as the greatest heroes in 🇺🇸 political history simply by caucusing with Democrats & immediately giving them control of both chambers of Congress.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I think the fun thing about the latest John Oliver episode is that he’s mainstreaming what has been common discourse here for months, in that if you’re a government official/reporter/someone who considers themselves a non-Nazi then what the FUCK are you still doing on X?
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
*slapping the top of America* This thing could be like four new provinces
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 10/02/2026
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress won't reject the possibility of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. That is deeply concerning. Ms. Maxwell is a monster who herself abused children. She does not deserve a pardon.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
BREAKING: Ro Khanna just unveiled the names of 6 powerful men who were redacted in the Epstein Files! Why did the Trump DOJ cover for them? And where is Elon Musk? Here they are: Salvatore Nuara Zurab Mikeladze Leonic Leonov Nicola Caputo Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem Leslie Wexner
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/02/2026
see that's not particularly difficult messaging
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Democratic presidential candidate should do Zohran-style videos and be like: -We're going to jail those bad guys 😉 -Let's get rid of all of this corruption 🙂👉👉 -Accountability is key 😊🙏
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It is pointless for Dems to demand law that is redundant to what we already have. What they need to do is make sure we have law enabling consequences for those who don't follow the law we already have.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/02/2026
Far-right Americans want you to believe that having nice things is impossible, and that serving billionaires is the only thing you can do. This is a lie. The rest of the world has solved many problems Republicans pretend are impossible.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
You start to notice after awhile that the same people who pretend to oppose fascism while laying down for it are the same people who are either in the Epstein files or take money from and protect the people in the files.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I am haunted by individual typos from informal emails sent a decade ago, and meanwhile it turns out every rich person on the planet hasn't met a capital letter and doesn't know how to put a period at the end of their "it wss fun doing crims 2gether" emails.
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Pritzker called for "mass protests" early last year, and politically, he's fine. Yes, Stephen Miller characterized this call as "nullificationist", "secessionist", and said the call could be "construed as inciting violence." He tried to do lasting damage to Pritzker's brand, and it didn't work.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2026
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/02/2026
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
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