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Former Academic. Ever-current Rationalist & Absurdist, committed to proper logic, reason and democracy. This era cannot end fast enough.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
Perhaps this is "super intelligence" after all. variety.com/2026/digital...
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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election
Donald Trump has routinely claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered website America.gov, which Trump unveiled on Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h
Under Trump, the U.S. isn’t a country in the traditional sense. It’s the military and financial management arm of the corporate club that's in charge – Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Zuckerberg, etc. That’s why Trump won't regulate AI. He knows corporations regulate the government, not the other way around.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.
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Knock Knock @yep36.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The US Supreme Court is illegitimate.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In addition to having 16 of the wealthiest billionaires in America pouring money into Republican PACs to buy the midterms, Democrats now have to deal with media companies accepting stolen taxpayer money to run illegal government ads for Republicans.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elon Musk spent $278 MILLION buying the 2024 election. That is FOUR TIMES what he paid in federal income taxes between 2013 and 2018. The richest 1% are set to pocket $1 TRILLION in tax breaks this decade. While Musk's SpaceX launches rockets, working families get stuck with the bill.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 26/09/2026
If you’re doing Meta’s comms, this can’t be what you hope for.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The frame is the thing and @nytimes.com constantly frames issues as if Trump actually cares. He has repeatedly said that worries about "affordability issues" is fake. The NY Times has spent 10 years whitewashing Trump's corruption.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they really think we are all idiots
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Elon Musk spent $250 MILLION to elect Trump. Now he's spending over $100 MILLION more for the 2026 midterms. One man. $350 MILLION. Buying our government. ...Even though he said he was "done with politics."
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sure does 😕🤷🏼
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The Lever @levernews.com · 22/09/2026
The Paramount deal would put CBS and CNN under one roof—the kind of concentrated media power Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s 1971 memo urged corporate America to build around institutions shaping public opinion. CBS executives later joined the Chamber effort to act on it.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In authoritarian states, “law” upholds lawlessness, and its first duty is to keep the leader safe from domestic or outside accountability processes. Judicial capture is the means, and the conversion of the law into what the leader and his enablers need it to be is the end.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm sure most of you realize that the sniper towers as Trump envisions them on his Triumphal Arch & Military Installation/Ammo Depot, are more likely to be used against The People — should we attempt to rise up against him. Anyone doubt that?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can’t afford gas, I can’t get a mortgage , and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now they’re demolishing the Kennedy Center.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
22 of our servicemembers have been killed in Trump's illegal war. Not 18 like we were told. The Pentagon hid four more heroes' deaths from us for months. Congress cannot let them get away with this. I wrote a bill we can pass to stop this egregious playbook immediately.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 17/09/2026
In America, we have no kings, no dictators, no despots, no nobles, no slaves, no serfs, no subjects. Just "We the People." We are not one race, one ethnicity, one religion or one party. But we have one Constitution and one Bill of Rights. Happy Constitution Day, everybody!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump threatening to tear down Kennedy center if he can’t have it, is why women walk thru the parking lot w their car keys in their hand
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Maryellen Waters @melaguas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At times I still can’t believe he’s president. What a disaster.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, I wonder why there aren't more headlines about this imaginary thing that does not happen?
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The guy who paid for Donald Trump Jr's wedding, Umar Kremlev, not only is a member of Putin's inner circle, he's also directly connected to the abduction and forcible relocation of Ukrainian children through his ties to a sanctioned Russian organization "Healthy Fatherland" run by his sister-in-law.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
The EPA would rather monitor water for abortion pills than pollution.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/09/2026
Sen. Booker on Kash Patel: “We don't have an FBI director. We have a lackey here…He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of…He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Vance: When you steal money from Medicaid, you're potentially stealing money from a kid who needs to go see a doctor but will find those services don't exist (Trump and Vance cut $1 trillion from Medicaid)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He defends Russia for helping Iran kill Americans. He defends China for helping Iran kill Americans. He pretends Iran hasn’t killed Americans. And his strategy for the clearly failing war he started is to lie about it. He says Canada is bad, an enemy, while North Korea is good. What can’t he do!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'll never forget when Trump called for "termination" of the Constitution in December 2022 and the New York Times put it on Page 13.
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Trump’s Call for ‘Termination’ of Constitution Draws Rebukes (Gift Article)
Republicans were still cautious — or silent entirely — about shunning the former president-turned-2024 candidate.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've said this in the past a few times, and it bears repeating: I'm convinced that most of the tech industry are sociopaths. There is no industry more committed to rationalizing mass destruction, and in our current environment, that's saying something.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/09/2026
Free newsletter: The AI bubble bears remarkable similarities to the great financial crisis - AI startups are the NINJA borrowers, and Anthropic and OpenAI's $1.3tn in compute commitments are the adjustable-rate mortgages set to explode starting in 2027. www.wheresyoured.at/concentration-risk/
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Or … treat them like political enemies because they are enemies, tax them into poverty, seize all corporate and private assets, and then consider getting mean …
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honest to god can we stop with the “Trump says…” ledes. I’m begging you
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you fear immigrants and immigration, you're being used by the far right to tear apart our democracy.
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