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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 5h

What this means in practice is that OpenAI bending reality around conservatice talking points in realtime.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 5h

Accusations = confessions etc…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Roderick Jaynes (fka Nathan Wind) @saltlakelawyer.bsky.social · 5h

Look who donated to the Equality Utah tonight. Such generosity.

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Canadian Neighbor 🐺 🇨🇦🍁 @bwelford.bsky.social · 5h

#MoronsAreGoverningAmerica - MAGA

Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge has extended a consent decree (the Castañon Nava consent decree) that limits ICE’s ability to arrest people without warrants or probable cause.

The decree remains in force until February 2, 2026.👇

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 7h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

This Is Fascism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Nice recap

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 6h

This is intentional. Oops, not today MMWR. Maybe next week or the week. Let’s just continually traumatize people so they leave, exhausted and demoralized.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h

This.💯

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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kevdudeula.bsky.social @kevdudeula.bsky.social · 5h

#FloridaCFO #BlaiseIngoglia #"YouLackValues" #postcard

77-year-old Largo, FL grandfather says police visited his home to try to intimidate him because he sent postcard to state CFO Blaise Ingoglia that read "You lack values":

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Police visit over 'You lack values' postcard sparks First Amendment debate

A Largo man sent a postcard to Florida's chief financial officer that said "YOU LACK VALUES." Then armed police showed up at this doorstep.

www.tallahassee.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

this thread goes back seven months

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7h

You're fired!

Oops, please come back!
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 7h

CDC lays off, then rapidly un-lays off, the people in charge of responding to measles www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 14h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Apr 25

newrepublic.com/article/1943...

Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All

What began as Trump’s mass deportation scheme has spiraled into a campaign of intimidation against citizens lawfully using their rights.

newrepublic.com

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Congressman Raul Ruiz, MD @repraulruizmd.bsky.social · 6h

The Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) food assistance program is running out of money.

Speaker Johnson and House Republicans need to stop cancelling Congress, get back to work, open the government, protect healthcare and food support for people and lower costs!

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

It’s going to get much worse.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Jack DeTate @jackdetate.bsky.social · 7h

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 7h

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 7h

and obviously what they did to me was setting the stage for spying on you with your own ring camera

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TheRiverWanders @theriverwanders.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, it's not like ICE has a big budget or anything. FTR I *never* give to the Salvation Army due to their scathing interations with LGBTQ folks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 7h

one of the giveaways was that the recent roundtable in the White House on the "antifa threat" included a guy whose latest book is called *Unhumans*, accusing liberals and leftists of being unhuman and encouraging ppl to drive them out of neighborhoods, forming far-right redoubts in their place.

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 9h

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent.

open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 7h

How do we prepare students for democracy when teachers must self-censor?

Inside Voices: When you can’t discuss censorship at a censorship conference

How do we prepare students for democracy when teachers must self-censor?

www.sltrib.com

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EvOutWest, tinfoil hatville @evoutwest.bsky.social · 7h

truth.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 7h

When tariffs met crypto at the orgy of idiocy. (3/n)

CNN @cnn.com · 8h

President Donald Trump’s threat to impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China sparked a massive cryptocurrency sell-off late Friday that exposed risky leverage in the space. https://cnn.it/46XaaKJ

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