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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 14m

But at least the NIH is fully funded. Oh, wait. Forget I said that. Resume your queue.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 19m

It gets better: BBB suspended an effort to enroll more low-income older Americans in programs that assist them with rising health care costs.

The Biden-era plan to increase enrollment in state-run Medicaid programs that help seniors who qualify get a hand paying for out-of-pocket Medicare costs.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21m

It gets better: BBB suspended an effort to enroll more low-income older Americans in programs that assist them with rising health care costs.

The Biden-era plan to increase enrollment in state-run Medicaid programs that help seniors who qualify get a hand paying for out-of-pocket Medicare costs.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 37m

War breaks out anytime someone puts kechup on a hot dog! The humanity!

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 39m

Ann Frank comes to mind. The person who took in this freighten family is a saint.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 41m

I stand with Zorhan!

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1h

I've been waiting for someone to make this point.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 44m

Run! Save yourselves. The frog has antifa written all over it! Only one conclusion - it is the anti-christ.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2h

I recall that during his hearings that he said that supreme court justices should call "balls & strikes".

They now have AI robots that can do just that in major league baseball.

RIF SCOTUS-6

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 4h

Propaganda from a pathalogical liar.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 19h

youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

@kairyssdal.bsky.social

Have you picked up on this?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

First Brands: why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried

Investors fear that the collapse of the car parts company – and the size of its debt – could portend wider problems

www.theguardian.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago"

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

Fascism features exclusionary nationalism, a belief in national decline or victimhood, a cult of personality around a leader, and the scapegoating of "enemies" or minority groups. Fascist regimes often rely on propaganda, violence, and state control of the economy and media to achieve their goals

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

We all do.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been so f'ing scared in all my life.

“At some point, you have this supergenius within the lab that totally doesn’t share your values, and it’s just, like, way too powerful for you to still control.”

#AI #GenAI #jailbreak #science #shared

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful. Subscribed.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Why? Because Qrazy Marg has kicked off the 2028 Presidental Elections.

Thank for the Qrazy Marg - love it!

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

The hallmark of a fascist regime: propaganda

#NoKings #disbandICE #defundICE #resist #Portland

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

TACO anyone?

Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 1d

Another trump pump and dump scheme!
finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slide as Trump threatens 'massive increase' on China tariffs

Markets have had an uncertain week, pulled in different directions by AI demand hopes and US government shutdown worries.

finance.yahoo.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the orange führer is pitching a fit.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

As one NYT article put it: Circular Investment

#econsky #AI

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @www.thefinancenewsletter.com · 2d

Every day, AI looks more like the 2008 housing bubble. Wrappers on wrappers.

The wrappers are wrapping wrappers. With companies valued at insane amounts with zero profit.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

As does paying off your credit card balance in full each month.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Wait a few months for variable mortgages to catch fire.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

As one NYT article put it: Circular Investment. What could go wrong?

#AI #AI-colada

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Power of the RIBBIT!

#NoKings #disbandICE #defundICE #fightfascism

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