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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Fed now says the AI data center boom is a major driver of inflation as tariff effects fade. Data centers drive up electricity prices, electronics costs by buying up memory & chips, and the costs of construction materials and labor. Is there anything that can’t be blamed on data centers?
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Defend Democracy @finalreckoning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026
All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still not a hoax.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Buy my book about how I was terrible at my job and should have stood up to Trump more” is going to be a regular sales pitch over the next few years.
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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 05/10/2026
New polling on U.S. presidents % of U.S. adult citizens who rate each a great president Lincoln 57% Washington 52% Kennedy 37% FDR 34% Theodore Roosevelt 32% Obama 31% Jefferson 29% Reagan 27% Trump 20% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How Americans rate the best-known presidents." The chart has the sub-headline: "How would you rate the following U.S. president, compared to other presidents? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: Respondents were asked about a random sample of 23 of the 45 presidents. This chart shows the 16 presidents with the smallest shares who say "not sure" about them."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
There is no Super Intelligence. There is no Department of War. There is no Lake America. There is no Gulf of America. There is no Fort Bragg. Any media outlet or platform that spreads these lies is an enemy of the people, determined to undermine democracy. Make note.
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DaggaRoosta @daggaroosta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What Chris Rock (and many others) have misidentified as a Problem with Wokeness - dogpiling - is IMHO actually a Problem with Social Media whose rise coincided with "Woke 1" but exists separate from any underlying ideology. But most people only notice it when it's directed at them and their friends
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 03/10/2026
Custer’s first stand
Custer’s first stand
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 01/10/2025
September 30 / October 1
William shatter as Captain KirkMichael Myers in Halloween
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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DaggaRoosta @daggaroosta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...yet will happily lower standards for idiots, hatemongers and pederasts (not dogfuckers or wifebeaters tho, that's the FBI)
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
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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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.
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Ryan, Perdido en TX @ryanlostintx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The internet is probably the best invention since the wheel while also being the worst thing for humanity since organized religion became a thing.
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Warrior Princess ⬇️
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Forbes @forbes.com · 23/09/2026
An umbrella review of more than 3 million participants finds the apparent risk shrinks toward zero as study quality rises.
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No Convincing Link Found Between Tylenol In Pregnancy And Autism, Major Review Says
An umbrella review of more than 3 million participants finds the apparent risk shrinks toward zero as study quality rises.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Written it many times before, but it bears repeating: Every player and team and league that does this is rooting for its fans to lose.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nunchuk tutorial: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
republicans eating veggie burgers might be history's most significant recession indicator
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So my grubby little urbanist secret is that I used to work at a car factory. And ever since this occurred to me, I have been unable to get over the fact that the safety standards to which we hold car production all but disappear the second those cars turn a wheel on public roads. And we accept that.
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