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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1m

You don't think AI is a giant bubble waiting to take what's left of the economy down with it?

Recent MIT study finds 95% of organizations studied get zero return on their AI investment.
www.axios.com/2025/08/21/a...

95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study

Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.

www.axios.com

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 8m

Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power are expressing deep concerns about the administration’s illegal power grabs. They warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 11m

Trump is Darth Vader saying ‘I have altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further’—again and again and again.”

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 14m

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government
It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and for the survival of our nation it can’t happen soon enough
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

open.substack.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

we need to abolish this shit

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 17m

Just so you know, when the next pandemic, or biologic attack comes, this single administration move just signed the death certificate for millions of Americans.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 19m

After our long collective nightmare is over, a whole bunch of lawless administration officials and the thugs they're enabling are going to find out they're not beyond the reach of the law after all. It's the same as the aftermath of every other tyrannical regime.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 24m

After the Gaza ceasefire was announced, Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in Gaza City as their inhuman 'final touches'
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 16h

And we wonder why Americans are so easily manipulated. When the media constantly misrepresents the actual dangers that we should be addressing instead of the fake crises that drive clicks and ratings.

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 19h

Trump’s Plan for a Secret Police Force Loyal to Him Alone Isn’t Playing Well in Court
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Trump’s Plan for a Secret Police Force Loyal to Him Alone Isn’t Playing Well in Court

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 19h

People who would never have considered an electric car are purchasing lease return EVs. And once they drive them and don’t encounter the endless repairs of a typical used car…

Word of mouth will spread, and everybody will want a used electric vehicle.
ritholtz.com/2025/10/used...

Used EVs: Modern Cutting Edge Bargains - The Big Picture

You may not want to buy a new electric car, but when it comes to buying a used automobile… America’s isolation is leaving it in a backwater. Especially when it comes to electric cars. If there were no...

ritholtz.com

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 22h

A few years ago, it looked as if the U.S. and China might battle over global hegemony and preeminence. That was before Trump unilaterally surrendered.
open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...

Can anything knock China off its mountain?

A great nation at its peak can still make big mistakes.

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 23h

Republicans in Congress know there's no organized antifa. They know nobody is paying the peaceful protestors who are just trying to protect their cities from violent masked thugs who steal children from their beds and shoot priests with pepper balls.

Why are they lying to you?

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone heard ANY thing about any follow-up on this?

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think bragging about (supposedly) passing a dementia test someone keeps making him take every other week is quite the flex Trump thinks it is.

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Although there should be a prize for best global party thrown in your absence. That one is in the bag.

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

By the way -- All of the breathless panicky stories that the administration and Fox News are telling you to convince you Trump's violence is not only justified, but necessary? They all know it's pure bullshit. They secretly can't believe they're even getting away with any of it.
Pathological losers

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

*neil young voice* Keep on twerkin’ for the free world!

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

"The Trump administration knows that they’ve crossed the line to the point where if their gambit for ultimate power fails, they will be facing consequences. They know that this whole evil project is held together by a demented old man with declining mental faculties and steadily closing arteries."

Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

"The whole thing reeks of pathetic, try-hard desperation. It’s loser shit, and everyone can see it. What do you mean, this chicken man is an “army of antifa?” What do you mean, the dancing unicorn people are ISIS? What are you TALKING ABOUT?"

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Hearts and Minds @nocoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Love how Kristi Noem bragged about bravely facing down an “ARMY” of antifa that just turned out to be seven reporters and this guy. 🤣

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