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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11h

Congrats to the Seattle mariners for locating the end of this game

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 23h

men will literally end democracy rather than admit their god emperor is a pedophile

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23h

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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J. Nguyen @hoankiem.bsky.social · 17h

Dr. Peter Hotez: “The bottom line is, autism has a clear genetic basis. You can make the case that the overwhelming amount of the clinical presentation of autism is due to the actions of those genes.“

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 1d

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

What causes autism? Here's what the White House gets wrong.

More than a hundred autism genes have been identified, explains author Peter Hotez. And Tylenol isn't the biggest environmental factor.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

www.wheresyoured.at

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 15h

What’s questionable is if what’s in those files is *that bad* for Trump why the hell didn’t the Biden administration release them?

Makes you wonder who else is in those files powerful enough that Johnson has to fight tooth and nail to prevent seating a duly elected congress person.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 23h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 17h

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: He didn't get it. 🤣

Let us all go into the weekend joyous that that fucking monster is seething and sad.

🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn’t deserve it and I hope he doesn’t bully them into giving it to him because then the prize will become meaningless

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 17h

Another one for the history books

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 17h

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 17h

Exactly as I said this morning. They aren’t charging people they are intimidating them and making sure they cannot identify anyone.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 17h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 1d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, and I'd say it's deliberate. I remember reading somewhere he idolized Nicholson.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

TPUSA scheduled an “alternative” Super Bowl for MAGA snowflakes afraid of hearing Spanish lyrics.

It will invariably suck.

Good time to revisit this recent article about how the right is bad at culture.

Being small-minded is bad for creativity.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 21h

Black Americans:

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn’t deserve it and I hope he doesn’t bully them into giving it to him because then the prize will become meaningless

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 21d

🎈📌👶 futurism.com/ai-bubble-ec...

The AI Bubble Bursting Would Actually Be Incredible for the Economy, Economist Says

One economist says that if the AI bubble bursts, it might be just what the economy needs to get back on track.

futurism.com

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

White bigots are a sad, out-of-touch, pathetic group of people.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA announced it will host its own ‘All American Super Bowl Halftime Show’ to protest Bad Bunny’s headlining performance.

The organization provided genres for fans to choose for the show including ‘Anything in English,’ ‘Americana,’ and ‘Worship.’

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