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Steve Yelvington

@yelvington.com
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Former enemy of the people, now mostly just an annoyance. Digital news pioneer. Cancer survivor. Newspaper journalism survivor. Would-be traveler. Held senior positions at startribune.com, Cox, Morris. Self-hosting Mastodon @steve@s.yelvington.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h
This is about Ilhan Omar. But it's also about control, intimidation, & authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Chanting USA while a man beats a woman in the face at a Trump rally is the absolute description of the shithole our country has become… Sad. 😎✨
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/10/2026
Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self
One of a troop of three soldiers patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box, October 14, 2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I will never get over that an American president is screwing a democracy that was attacked by Russia and is bowing down to Putin. And I will never get over the fact that congressional Republican cowards are letting him do it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2026
The GOP’s biggest donor sounds fine with humans dying off—after we get “super intelligence to the stars.”
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Elon Musk hopes his new factory will help AI supplant life on Earth
The GOP’s biggest donor sounds fine with humans dying off—after we get “super intelligence to the stars.”
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Forget Benedict Arnold. Trump is America’s worst traitor of all time, and Putin’s greatest asset. .. (cartoon David Horsey)
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 13/10/2026
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 12/10/2026
Legitimate police do not dress up as masked wingnut Armageddon preppers. No one should be expected to "comply" with terrorist thugs.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Christopher Hale: Here is the dream team behind the fake story that Talarico secretly went to an Ohio mental health center. Nick Sortor has an open warrant for his arrest back home in Kentucky for violating probation. He was convicted of driving while intoxicated, harassing a police officer,
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 12/10/2026
It must be very frustrating to magats that Ukraine destroyed the Russian bot army just as they were trying to circulate their big lie attack on Talarico.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is offering to unfreeze Russian assets for energy ceasefire. Not end of war.... Cause Good Trouble #GTS #Blues #Proudblue www.kyivpost.com/post/86720
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US Offers Russia Asset and Trade Incentives for Energy Ceasefire
Washington proposes unfreezing assets, a Lukoil deal, and potash relief, to entice Moscow into an energy or naval ceasefire.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 10/10/2026
Trump says it's time for Ukraine to get a new president? America first, I say!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy refuses to roll over, so Trump reaches for the oldest play in the strongman’s handbook: regime change. From imperial courts to modern autocrats, rulers who cannot bend a foreign leader to their will have often sought to remove him instead.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026
‘The current generation of synthetic agents simply cannot be trusted. Until they can be fixed, they should be removed from the market, just like a car with defective brakes.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/we-must-re... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
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We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
Every minute we wait risks disaster
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...
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Jonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
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D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes
Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every penny less at the gas pumps before November is worth 10,000 dead Ukrainians. Vote as if Trump is on the ballot. He fucking is.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Unilaterally Ends American Sanctions on Russian Energy Products and Announces That America Will Now Help Finance the Genocide Against Europeans in Ukraine; Russia and America Now Co-Rogue States, with America Funding Two Genocides and Russia One
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 09/10/2026
Next Trump will auction off positions on the firing squad.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you @froomkin.bsky.social Any editorial board that cannot manage a similar call for impeachment-may as well dissolve. They are losing credibility to speak on any issue if they cannot clearly advocate for the Constitution under siege. The @sentinelcolorado.com did bsky.app/profile/medi...
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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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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become ambassador to Greece when she asked a donor for $100K to pay AmEx, in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to AmEx.” Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CBS Insider Warns Promises to Protect CNN’s Independence Are ‘All Lies’ open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...
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CBS Insider Warns Promises to Protect CNN’s Independence Are ‘All Lies’
GOP spends millions to reelect congressman accused of domestic violence, Democratic senators investigate Trump’s $30,000 diamond ring, DOJ hired convicted election hacker
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CITATION Name: Pete Hegseth Offense: operating a war without permission from Congress Fine: $43 billion, billed to you Tell your rep to impeach him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 06/10/2026
The CEOs of artificial intelligence companies are more dangerous than the so-called rogue LLMs.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/10/2026
I used an LLM (IBM's Granite 30B model, running locally) to write summaries of 15,000 newspaper articles. It took a few days. I just audited the results and, wow, they're just absolute dog shit, utterly unusable. It randomly shuffled around basic facts within most articles. A total waste of time.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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BarrySummers™🌊🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 🇵🇸🌊 @newsforachange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants | Houston Public Media
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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