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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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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 38m
Fuck yeah, Turnverein ruled “Hey you wanna lift heavy weights and discuss liberalism and human rights?” “Hell yeah brother” Turners formed some of the very first and oldest gyms in the US when they arrived after the Revolutions of 1848. That’s right, gym culture belongs to intellectual lefties
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 34m
NYT ME Carolyn Ryan scolds Mamdani for what I think was a very intentional and wise decision NOT to conflate antisemitism and criticism of Israel. I guess her repoters have their marching orders now. www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-yo...
I was struck that Mamdani just released his plan to combat anti-Semitism, and he sidestepped the question of Israel, seeing it as separate from anti-Semitism. For us, these issues intersect and overlap.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31m
Props to Hayley Williams because "SUCK ON MY FAT DICK" is the only response to these people
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Hayley Williams Has a Blunt Message for DHS After ‘F–k ICE’ Concert Remark: ‘And May I Suggest…’
Hayley Williams responds to the Department of Homeland Security after the Paramore singer shouted "F--K ICE" and "Free Palestine" at a recent concert.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30m
Turning your phone into an unlimited two deck chute blackjack table without physical chips and a direct credit line to *your bank account* should not have been allowed, no.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 33m
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Elizabeth Holmes about to ask "would I lie to you?"
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Elizabeth Holmes about to ask "would I lie to you?"
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 5h
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 4h
Another unsafe scam for more universal surveillance and mental manipulation for oligarch control.
Muse as Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1h
The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...
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Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives
A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 46m
From Warner Brothers to Ellison Paternal bsky.app/profile/rayp...
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 46m
From Warner Brothers to Ellison Paternal bsky.app/profile/rayp...
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 12h
New from me today on NatCon Jerusalem www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel
Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 58m
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McGurk with buddy NetanyahuBooker's $6m AIPAC hoard
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 58m
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McGurk with buddy NetanyahuBooker's $6m AIPAC hoard
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 4h
Now That's What I Call Cops Vol. XVII
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h
"Do you think the company has been politicized?" bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Larry Ellison in the Oval with Trump with his hair dyed to match
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h
"Do you think the company has been politicized?" bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Larry Ellison in the Oval with Trump with his hair dyed to match
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 7h
The Cornell rapists. Epstein. Trump. Kavanaugh. Brock Turner. R. Kelly. Cesar Chavez. Every one of them had cover. A campus that looked away. A court that went easy. We're done with the cover-up. We rise on 10/8 for the #StopSexualViolence Day of Action. Join us: womensmarch.com/stop #IamJaneDoe
FROM THE FRAT HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
STOP THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE 
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
OCT 8TH 
NYC: FOLEY SQUARE 
5:30PM
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
“The case shows how a car app designed to make drivers' lives more convenient can be turned into a tool of abuse. And too often, car manufacturers haven’t built in protections that would prevent their vehicles from enabling harassment.”
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How A Man Used A BMW App To Terrorize His Ex-Wife
A domestic abuse survivor’s ex-husband used his access to her BMW’s connected smartphone app to open car doors and windows, start the engine and track her location. She claims BMW didn’t help.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2h
Kicking off soon!
Chalkboard sign advertising Gil and Amy at Bird and Beckett
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h
It's a pouty act of revenge. OpenAI clearly tried to solve every Millennium Problem and every "top ___ unsolved math problems" list, made a lot of genuine progress but couldn't get the brass rings, so they dumped their whole pile on the math community, snarling "you're so smart, you figure it out."
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 5h
The Biden admin stopped using pentobarbital for executions, saying it could cause “unnecessary pain and suffering.” This year the Trump admin reversed course.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h
The Federal government is currently staffed like the graveyard shift at a 24 hour grocery store.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3h
This. This is important. They’re hoping fear will hold us back because they don’t have the numbers. But it will make us stronger. It will bring people out.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
I always refused to debate Dinesh D'Souza, but I would happily play the John Henry role against Elon Musk's Grok in a duel of the dozens
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h
They've been partnered recently. bsky.app/profile/dart...
Kash with Tates in Vegas last year
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They've been partnered recently. bsky.app/profile/dart...
Kash with Tates in Vegas last year
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h
“The lawsuit, filed on Friday, said McDonald’s violated U.S. antitrust law by conspiring with independent franchisees to fix prices using algorithms trained on nonpublic data.”
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McDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing
The lawsuit said McDonald’s violated US antitrust law by ​conspiring with independent franchisees to fix prices using algorithms ​trained on nonpublic data.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 4h
The Cornell community has floated abolishing the Cornell Police Department. We should take it seriously, especially if you think that survivors should have the option of going to the police instead of their schools. I feel strongly about this too, because something people don't understand is that universities at this point are essentially total institutions. For a lot of students, their schools are not just schools.
They're their landlords, their employers, their source of health care, their gym, their coffee shop, the arena where they attend concerts. It leaves survivors with almost no real options. If you can't trust your school and your school systematically discriminates against sexual-assault survivors, where is left for you to go?
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 3h
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3h
Abolish ICE.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 2h
Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
Pray with me, Natalie.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.”
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 2h
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h
We're training 100,000 Americans to defeat Trump's next coup attempt before, during, and after the midterms. Join us:
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**Hands Off Our Vote** is Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, every ballot is counted, and the results are honored. **By signing up you’ll become a part of the biggest election protection program in Indivisible’s history. And even if the elections are secure where you live, you can help protect at-risk voters in targeted areas during rapid-response moments and be a trusted messenger against the flood of disinformation.** We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026. Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, blocking vote-counting, even trying to ban states from encouraging people to vote – it’s going to be no-holds-barred from them this year as they try desperately to block the free and fair elections. But we’re going to be ready for whatever dirty tricks they try. **And we’re going to do it with community power and preparation, not panic.** You'll get updates on threats to our voting rights and learn how to counter them, and be ready to mobilize in defense of the vote, both in your area and nationally. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. **Sign up here to get started and join the Hands Off Our Vote movement.** **If you're in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, or Texas, sign up [here](https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/916480) as well.**
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
Jackson's little chuckle and "what are we doing here?" gesture at the end are both perfect
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h
Like it or not this what Maine Guys actually sound like. Might sound like shit to you, but this is a Meryl Streep-level performance for guys from Maine with this voice and personality.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2h
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Mean, Scary Girlfriend - SNL
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 9h
The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.
Deadline&
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 5h
I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 4h
Another unsafe scam for more universal surveillance and mental manipulation for oligarch control.
Muse as Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5h
CDC on Russian plague reports:
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 5h
Exactly, this can't be said enough but this year voting by mail can only be trusted if you do it as soon as possible because delay is part of their plan for disenfranchisement. Put your mail ballot in a drop box at your county courthouse in the final two weeks.
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