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Human-powered news feed defending your civil liberties and climate from oligarchs & fascists. Rants as necessary here already for quite a while.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 26m
there’s no reason for the death penalty to exist
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24m
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 8m
He's been a predator protecting himself with MAGA since the first term. And it's now paying him billions in tax dollars.
Palmer Luckey secretly funded racist pro-Trump hate meme machine - 2016Palmer Luckey Says His Career Led to $22B US Army ...
Business Insider
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Feb 11, 2025 — Palmer Luckey says his entire career has led to this moment — scoring a $22 billion US Army contract for high-tech goggles. By Matthew Loh.
US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B
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Mar 14, 2026 — Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, The U.S. Army said late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense tech startup ...
Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts ...
The Guardian
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Aug 6, 2026 — Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts.
US Army announces up to $20 billion contract with Palmer ...
The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com › ... › Tech News
Mar 16, 2026 — The 10-year agreement begins with a five-year "base period," with an option for the Army to extend it for another five. The deal could be worth ...
Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey talks $22 billion ...
YouTube · CNBC Television
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Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk taking over a $22 billion government contract.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19m
i think about this sometimes www.vice.com/en/article/p...
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Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 41m
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 52m
Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3h
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 29m
In case the tattoos didn't already make it clear. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 35m
very weird -- Newt Gingrich was on Hannity tonight, but Hannity didn't even mention the fact that Hegseth bizarrely included him today (along with Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey) as a co-leader of "Project Meridian" (whatever that is)
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Alicia Ramirez (she/her) @aliciak2010.bsky.social · 7h
Sometimes something happens that's so undeniably good that you've got to celebrate, and Newsom signing AB 2222 is one of those things. Shout out to @mattdpearce.com and @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for their efforts on getting this in front of the right people and also across the finish line.
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Hamilton: We Won! Lafayette's Victory Celebration
Alt: Hamilton: We Won! Lafayette's Victory Celebration
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h
The Los Angeles Times is running a full webpage advertisement promoting tourism to Israel. The ad is backed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The ad also includes a map of Israel that erases Palestine.
LA Times page promoting tourism to Israel
"Israel:

You'll Find It Here

Israel is a country shaped by ancient traditions and diverse cultures, where every region offers a distinctly different atmosphere. You can spend the morning walking ancient pilgrimage sites, the afternoon floating in serene waters or relaxing on the coast, and the evening eating your way through vibrant market stalls before heading out for a night that ends when the sun rises.



From sacred sites to desert adventures, these guides offer different ways to explore the country. There’s no single right way to experience it, so follow what interests you, mix and match along the way, and leave some room to wander."

Also includes a disclaimer from LATimes:
"This Paid Program is either (i) produced by the advertising department of the Los Angeles Times on behalf of the Advertiser or (ii) supplied by the Advertiser. The newsrooms or editorial departments of the Los Angeles Times are not involved. For those with questions, please email paidpost@latimes.com."
LATimes ad for Israel continued. Includes map of Israel that erases Palestine.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h
MUST WATCH 😂😂😂
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h
every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h
“Mayor Brandon Johnson's office confirmed it was contacted by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, to inform the city that the company’s technology accessed information from an online ‘public facing’ database.”
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AI technology probed city databases, Chicago officials confirm
At least one major AI company’s technology targeted the city of Chicago’s computer systems, officials say
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 1h
Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]
Map showing predicted temperature anomalies in early October from the ECMWF ensemble across the western U.S. Nearly the entire region is painted red and pink, indicating widespread very warm anomalies.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2h
Images are once again borked on Bluesky, and once again you see why alt text has more than one use.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h
It's as though the richest man in the world is again a nazi funding a racist party. Which then funds him public money.
musk cpac nazi salutehenrey ford getting grand cross award from nazis
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h
His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2h
In completely unrelated news, Luckey’s Anduril signed a contract with U.S. Army in March 2026 worth up to $20 billion and Musk’s Starlink & SpaceX signed in May 2026 signed $6.45B in Pentagon contracts to build satellites & a satellite communications network. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/m...
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Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says
Pete Hegseth, in remarks about the state of the military, announced a project led by two GOP-supporting tech executives to examine military capabilities.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 4h
Trump is expressing one of the core beliefs of white supremacy: that people of color don't feel pain to the same extent as white people. Hispanic falls off roof? nbd Notoriously gruesome example: gynecological surgery conducted on enslaved Black women, sans anesthesia. www.aaihs.org/black-subjec...
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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology - AAIHS
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h
Trump described a bulletproof glass tunnel connecting the East Room to the new ballroom, then invited Hispanic Heritage Month guests to tour the construction site. “Don’t fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall.”
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 3h
A lot of people are missing the tragic truth to Pike’s story. Sexually abused at TWO years old, then again at 11 and 17, the system failed to help or protect her. I’m not condoning murder, but when you normalize and trivialize a culture of sexual violence against women, it’s unsurprising.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 5h
"How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire?"
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Semafor @semafor.com · 5h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
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Musk as his childhood idol the villain Hugo Drax from Moonraker
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 3h
About 1,500 nurses, adminstators, and union organizers marched from the Marriott in SoMa to ICE headquarters on Sansome Street this afternoon, demanding their employers stop using Palantir's AI software immediately. "It's breaking confidentiality laws," one nurse said.
sf.gazetteer.co
Nurses union takes to Market Street to demand ‘Palantir out!’ of their hospitals
Outraged by AI meddling in staffing, bed placement, and patient data, health care workers say they’ve have had enough
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.
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California Nurses Association @calnurses.bsky.social · 4h
Thousands of nurses and taking over the streets of San Francisco and marching on ICE's detention center to protest Palantir tech in our communities and to demand our public resources go toward the benefit of working people.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
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Hegseth smashing watermelons with children at Capital
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
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Larry Ellison
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Christa Pike is the first woman in 200 years to be executed by the state of Tennessee.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Tennessee's execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay.
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US Supreme Court allows Christa Gail Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward
The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
"About 5.2 million Americans like Covelli have lost SNAP benefits since the OBBBA was enacted..."
cbsnews.com
Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 5h
Again, in the controlling words of oligarch Larry Ellison... bsky.app/profile/jose...
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure "citizens will be on their best behavior" as fascism is about intimidation for their minority control.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h
Nope nope nope
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 5h
Thaaaat's Fascism! bsky.app/profile/matt...
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 5h
54.54% to 41.41% for Harris, 184,458 to 140,026 votes. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6h
When you intended to do a racism but you accidentally did a sundowning instead
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 6h
Talarico is repeating Republicans. Which Vance demonstrates again is not a good thing to do as he demonstrates his job as vice presidential projector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance in drag at Harvard
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 6h
Ynon Kreiz, a Tel Aviv-born Israeli who spent many years in the I.D.F., served as chairman and CEO of Netherlands-based global television and digital production company Endemol, known for unscripted reality programming hits such as 'Big Brother'. bsky.app/profile/just...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h
Mattel chairman Ynon Kreiz has joined the newly merged company and will serve as co-CEO alongside David Ellison. ir.paramount.com/news-release...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Wow, Liberty *and* Hillsdale? It's practically a who's who of fuck that.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h
Macron says ‘welcome back’ to Burnham suggestion UK could rejoin EU
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Macron says ‘welcome back’ to Burnham suggestion UK could rejoin EU
French president, speaking alongside Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez, says EU bid would be good news for UK and Europeans * UK politics live – latest updates The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reacted warmly to Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the UK could rejoin the EU. “Welcome back,” the French leader said in English with a smile. Speaking at a news conference in Madrid on Wednesday, Macron continued (in French): “If the British want to come back and if the prime minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news, both for his country and for the Europeans.” Continue reading...
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 6h
Certainly everyone can see the benefit of fascist fealty. Where you are shamed as an embarrassing spectacle further humiliated by the fascists demonstrating it for intimidation. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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