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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h
Bits of this are pretty good, though "Sometimes the constituent created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated, and due on the 15th."
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18h
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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dreamingbee @dreamingbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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mediajunkie @xianlandia.com · 25/09/2026
babadook babadook can you do the fandango?
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 23/09/2026
If there’s a horrible fire the secret service is hustling Trump out of there and locking the door behind them
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What Trump has realized is that to really defend Washington from terrorists and antifa and other bad guys you need to concentrate the drones and machine gunners in one highly visible building that can be attacked line of sight from any direction or just blown up.
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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran overcorrected and joined the Houthis
Reuters world news - the Houthis say they struck Riyadh. here's why it matters. and the thumbnail has a big picture of a Houthi strike and in the corner, a photo of Ed Sheeran with no mention
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Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
concerning stuff happening right now at USWDS: -removing open-source contributors, -losing institutional knowledge, -departing from principles, -security risks through an “agentic-first” approach, and -making changes without sufficient human accessibility and usability testing.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 04/09/2026
Local LLMs trained only with ethical data sources (the latter doesn’t exist yet) will be a game-changer for a lot of us. I want to choose between 100 small, targeted, non-theft-derived models for different activities, like picking Docker images.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder that Lewandowski was a Special Government Employee with a zero dollar contract. Because he saw govt as a graft opportunity for much bigger bucks
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Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He was never a decent person; he is a narcissist. He is now a narcissist with dementia and a growing terror of both death, and dying in prison. Every day the GOP allows him to stay in office, they are risking their OWN lives as well as ours. frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its...
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DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s interesting to watch a lot of people who said not a word as RFK Jr. went through his confirmation process suddenly understanding that he may be the most dangerous Cabinet member of all. More attention on this is good, don’t get me wrong. But we needed it before he got the job.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
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Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. “Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Continue reading...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My god, this is an outrageous, loathsome ICE policy. Can you recall another regime in history that used public marking and tracking to single out a minority group?? JD Vance—who helped lead the demonizing of Haitians in Ohio—has this young man’s death on his hands too www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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Colin @armoredbear12.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump's corruption is unprecedented in American history, and recovering that money will require equally unprecedented action. We should do everything humanly possible to get as much of it back as we can and return it to the American people. It's YOUR money, not his.
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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let this be the waffer-thin mint that at last explodes the orange Mr. Creosote ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?
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Swing Left @swingleft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Swing Left just expanded our 2026 map of the swing districts & states where we’re directing grassroots time & money to help Democrats win. 14 new races. 15 more within reach! Want to help Dems win where it counts most this Nov? Join Swing Left’s Weekend of Action on Aug 29-30: swingleft.org/woa
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026
they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish
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mediajunkie @xianlandia.com · 19/08/2026
Yea or Nay №9 — America & the World 11/15 · Committee Chair 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 🟩🟥🟥🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟩 playyeaornay.com
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Yea or Nay — The Daily Congressional Vote Game
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i still have this clipped in my scrapbook of "Good Shit"
It’s outrageous that the class of people who see themselves as uniquely intelligent, informed, and analytical are just now discovering this. What they seem never to have considered is that a robust regulatory state that enforces laws passed by a representative body is the compromise position. The alternative is that those responsible for such a flagrantly unfair society, whose brutality is as real for us as it is invisible to them, no longer get to move about freely and peacefully for fear of everyday people.
I want to be careful how I say this, because that’s not a society anyone actually wants to live in. Moreover, it's not an escape—it's just another level in the Mansion, another boss fight, when what we want to do is leave. Most of the fighting for resources already goes on between people who already have too little. People who control access to food and medicine and guns will always be able to kill poor people in greater numbers than poor people will be able to kill them. All the poor have going for them is overwhelming strength in numbers, and all that keeps them from exercising it is the belief that they still have something to lose.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is outrageous. It also gives @normeisen.bsky.social another tool to fight back against DOJ. Trump FINALLY figured out he's on this case but he apparently has no grown ups to explain how he's giving Norm more leverage.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 10/08/2026
Aggressive campaign finance regimes are necessary to ensure the stability and even the viability of nations.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
I think that we're all just ignoring the fact that a good portion of people have just straight up has their brains cooked to the point where it feels like society is barely functioning.
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mediajunkie @xianlandia.com · 06/08/2026
Bunch of these today
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"For Hesse, metaphors were not passive representations of things but constituted conceptual tools actively shaping scientific thought." This is precisely why I've cited Hesse in my (much less profound) writing on scientific metaphor. aeon.co/essays/why-a...
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Erin Butler @eleighbutler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yep. This is the clearest description of Karl Popper's rule I've found:
The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance _not_ as a moral standard but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.

In other words: the intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should not be tolerated.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"On Friday, while in detention, Zozaya spoke on the phone to reporters, saying that the couple had been 'pressured' with prolonged separation from their children—a 7-year-old and nearly-3-year-old twins—to sign voluntary departure papers." Abolish ICE. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/rele...
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Released Pastors Say Immigration Agents Mocked Them, Threatened Family Separation - Christianity Today
The Texas Assemblies of God leaders were detained on their way to a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 24/07/2026
Well, this seems unconstitutional, at best.
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When China stepped up its crackdown on human rights activists in 2019, lawyer Wu Shaoping thought he found a safe haven for his family The United States Instead, it's America's ICE that's imprisoned this asylum seeker after a traffic stop My column on this outrage www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...
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Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch
The U.S.’s reputation as a safe haven for the world’s dissidents takes another hit with Pennsylvania’s arrest of a Chinese human rights lawyer.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 23/07/2026
My esteemed colleague, and author of that article, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
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We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 22/07/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: As many as 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are at risk of losing their federally funded legal representation due to the Trump administration withholding appropriated funds, immigration attorneys warned Tuesday. ow.ly/yTrZ50ZqUz9
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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
So they can AUTOMATICALLY register people for the military But they CAN'T automatically register people to vote. Weird how that is.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 11/07/2026
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Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Only A Human @aurorajardin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Miller must be prosecuted for genocide in an international court. The least he deserves is prison. The creepy knuckle dragger revels in the murder of innocent people. The weak coward sends idiots what he’s too 🐓💩 to do himself. But his hands are stained with blood.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
As to the amnesty for Trumps, she said “acquiescing to any such demand is wholly incompatible with the duties of DOJ attorneys,” and may be an unconstitutional Emolument to the President, “a glaring omission.”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
“Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs [Trump et al] acted in bad faith,” and defined bad faith thus: “fraud has been practiced upon [the court], or that the very temple of justice has been defiled.” That’s the Trumps.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
Punchline: they did. “Plaintiffs [Trump et al] improperly employed this lawsuit to justify … access to taxpayer funds and exemption from audits and other investigations … accomplished by leveraging control over Defendants [Blanche et al].”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
Well, I told you to watch the Florida proceedings about whether a “fraud on the court” was committed in the slush fund case, and we now have the federal judge’s decision, and it’s a doozy. Here’s how she framed the question: 🧵
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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