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Walt Wooton

@waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy
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Herder of cats. Teller of tales. Wrangler of truths. Former systems editor, (Spartanburg, SC) Herald-Journal; former operations manager of the The Independent […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ spartanburg.social/@waltwooton, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Walt Wooton @waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
No Kings Anywhere. Not in the United States. Not in Tesla. Not in Facebook. Not in OpenAI. Not anywhere. #Coops Everywhere.
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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 23/10/2026
A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? inference.coop
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The Inference Cooperative is democratic!
A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? https://inference.coop
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 24/10/2026
Jeffries has to AT LEAST start building to impeachment, especially if he wants to cow Trump into implementing and upholding Dems' legislative agenda. Otherwise Trump has absolutely no incentive to start, and even license to continue.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 24/10/2026
Way too tepid and ignores the exigent danger of Trump having power a single minute longer. Is the thinking maybe he won't veto the things Dems want if they're nice to him? He blows off law anyway! What Jeffries doesn't recognize is failing to enforce the Constitution is its own harm to America.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/10/2026
“It’s not only unlawful, but it’s not in the U.S. interest to have Russian technology controlling the commercialization of Arctic gas in the North Slope,” Mr. Riddle said in a brief interview."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/10/2026
It seems Elon is successfully squashing the @alexgibneyfilm documentary about him. We can confirm showtimes in the Nashville area have disappeared. www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
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Barbara Monaco @barbramon1.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Fuckers. ICE injured a developmentally delayed CA high school student before detaining him. Masked agents released him after injuring his wrists so severely that he required surgery. The young man is an American citizen. #fuckice #gestapo #dhs […]
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/10/2026
This is such a garbage way to report on anothet ludicrous, outrageous, illegal, actually criminal attempt by DOJ to disenfranchise voters and/or cast doubt on election results. Eight lazy paragraphs full of lies before the truth, attributed to “critics“. You know better, @shawnhubler.bsky.social.
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Justice Dept. Demands That California Counties Help Identify Noncitizen Voters (Gift Article)
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Everyone has kind of laughed it off but there’s actually now an official investigation by multiple organizations into why my US election ballot hasn’t been released from US customs in a month without any explanation.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
The Roberts Court, an arm of Trump and the Republican Party, just did its best to tip New Hampshire's Senate election to the Republicans. Flagrant abuse of power, which is the norm at this point for this corrupt court […]
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ceej @ceej.online · 22/10/2026
it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later
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Walt Wooton @waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
HOT TAKE: The much anticipated Mastodon quote post is nearly worthless. It has resulted in timelines filled with "post pending" rectangles and no way to turn them off. The side-effect is that posters have resumed posting images of posts they are commenting on.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/10/2026
The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/10/2026
“Russia’s engagement with Alberta separatism is covert, doctrinal, operational, and sustained.” “Several lines of evidence link Russian-aligned information infrastructure to Alberta separatist narratives.” “U.S. engagement is overt, escalating, and in some environments, converging with Russia.”
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JOHNSTON: Russia, U.S. interfere in Alberta referendum
United States, like authoritarian Russia, is now working to undermine, dominate, and even annex democratic neighbours.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/10/2026
“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
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ICE Says It Didn’t Hit a Biker With a Car. Video Raises Questions. (Gift Article)
Video footage shows the moment in Long Beach, Calif., when a vehicle swerves toward an oncoming cyclist. The mayor has called for an investigation into ICE agents’ treatment of the rider.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/10/2026
I suspect that Trump 2 will be a bit like Covid, in that a) no one will really want to think about it once it's over, in part because b) everyone will be vaguely ashamed of how they acted during it. Almost everyone was complicit so almost everyone will just want to forget it & "move on."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 20/10/2026
Robert People won his FL-15 primary by campaigning his way: listening, connecting, and taking time with voters. Now he's speaking openly about impeachment and accountability, even before audiences that may disagree. That's the moment we're highlighting. #TeamCourage
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
We are sensing a pattern
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 19/10/2026
"it's not useful right now when The GOP is in the way." sounds very much like "Don't fight for what's right and what the country desperately needs, unless some insane right wing politicians go along with it" #ImpeachConvictRemove
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Any please, please - privileged Americans, Australians, Europeans, British people, stop flaunting the visa system while brown people are being thrown in detention for doing less. Holy shit.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 17/10/2026
Everyone's very excited about early voting today. That's cool but how can #NoKings mean anything if we're voting for people who oppose impeachment? Do we really believe that "We're going to subpoena them!!! and shout at them on C-Span!!!" is enough?
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Trifecta: Meta screwed with the accounts of the non-fascist Brazilian presidential candidate: www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta… The American tech oligarchs are completely beyond control at this point […]
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
It’s not just that GOP Senator Ron Johnson is aping Russian propaganda, which is quite bad on its own, but that he’s aping absurd Russian propaganda that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, all to justify blatantly illegal aggression and mass killing, against a democratic US partner no less.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The US is seeking to release up to 17 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help curb fuel prices driven up by the war on Iran, Reuters reports. NB: the US uses 20 million barrels a day The strategic reserve only has 283 million barrels left, the lowest level since 1982
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Algernon D'Ammassa @algernon.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
“OX did not try to enter the mass market or topple the intelligentsia. Rather, it was eager to create a parallel world of pleasure.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/larb-qu… #literature #poetry #magazines #journals #writing #art #zines
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Let’s Keep It for Ourselves | Los Angeles Review of Books
On ‘Unmuzzled OX’—a cult journal that seduced the best writers and artists in North America.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations Voting rights groups are suing Texas over an alarming backlog ahead of the election... newrepublic.com/post/216710/...
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Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations
Voting rights groups are suing Texas over an alarming backlog ahead of the election.
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Walt Wooton @waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney has pulled her books from the UK. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oc…
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Walt Wooton @waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Anthropic has discovered the Morris Worm. www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u…
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Claude maker Anthropic warns AI models can replicate themselves by 2026 end
Anthropic warned that smaller AI models could develop the ability to replicate themselves autonomously by the end of 2026.
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly wild - a supposed European alternative to big tech social media that lured in politicians and made waves but is incredibly poorly thought-out and is effectively doxxing its users. @_elena has been on it from the beginning […]
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Walt Wooton @waltwooton.spartanburg.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
TIRED: Making the numbers go up. WIRED: Making people's lives better.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 10/10/2026
You can't win the game if you don't show up to play. There's enough material for 1000+ impeachments. The only thing missing is the will to fight.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Remember the scene in "The Untouchables" where the judge orders two juries swapped because the first one can't be trusted not to be corrupt? That's what the next non-Republican president needs to do with the Secret Service: unexpectedly order his protective detail replaced by, I dunno, Fish & […]
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
What I'd like to see live-streamed is Trump and Hegseth's trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity. (Civilized countries don't even have a death penalty.)
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."
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The Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | Editorial
The list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada.” I think Elon Musk should hurry up and separate himself from planet Earth. In the meantime, everyone should separate themself from Tesla and Starlink, and governments should separate themselves from SpaceX.
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Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to his social media platform Tuesday to say that he thinks Quebec should become independent and separate from Canada. He also said that Alberta and Saskatchewan sho...
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
"The people who can see journalism most clearly are the people who have the least time and space to solve its problems." To build more innovative organizations, we need to give everyone the space to breathe, reflect, prototype, and design. werd.io/the-space-to-breathe
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The space to breathe
The people who can see journalism most clearly are the people who have the least time and space to solve its problems.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
“Two decades later, I still find myself looking back at this era, with this job that paid more in the form of freedom than it did money, and thinking I had it all figured out.” tedium.co/2026/10/05/link-newspaper…
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This Long-Gone Newspaper Was The Best Job I Ever Had
Link, a free daily newspaper published by the Virginian-Pilot, changed my life. It turned 20 this week. I’m still kinda bummed that it’s gone.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.
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dogzilla @dogzilla.masto.deluma.biz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I think it’s time for everyone to put some real thought on what’s going on here, and what the potential implications of this are. ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-du…
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 04/10/2026
Now's your chance to make history @crockett.house.gov Invoke Rule IX twice a day every day of the November session. You don't even have to write up the Articles of Impeachment. They're right there in the drawer for you: Thanedar's, Larsen's, and 26x Cohen's. Let's see some fireworks 🎉🧨🎆
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.
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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How could those ads NOT be illegal? Argh! presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-polit…
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The political equivalent of Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue | Press Watch
Trump using tax dollars for a campaign commercial should trigger every thinking American, even White House political reporters
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