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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 7d

We're really--REALLY--not ready for what AI is going to do us. Or, maybe more specifically, what we're going to use AI to do to ourselves.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Column: Investments in AI are likely to lead to major financial disruption. But AI also has the potential to reshape the world for the better.

Two things can be true at once.

Column | AI will trigger financial calamity. It’ll also remake world.

Two things can be true at the same time. Bets on AI are going to cause financial calamity. And AI is going to change the world.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7d

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 7d

Three men allegedly swapped factory labels on Chinese forklifts before selling them to the Navy, Army, and Air Force as American-made. trib.al/0kIAShb

Forklifts sold to military as 'made in USA' were actually from China, feds say

Three men allegedly swapped factory labels on Chinese forklifts before selling them to the Navy, Army, and Air Force as American-made.

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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 7d

A broken clock is right twice a day. Greenstreet is a broken clock, but credit where it's due. He's mostly right. AAWSAP was official but not DoD. The UAPTF was also official and was a Pentagon program. Jay was responsible for all of them, not someone doing his best Jay impression.

#ufosky

Tweet from Steven Greenstreet explaining how Lue Elizondo's claims are fraudulent

Tweet from Steven Greenstreet explaining that Lue Elizondo never ran a UAP investigation program. Any of those efforts were run by Jay Stratton.

John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 17d

Just like I had already heard from sources I trust, this was a balloon. Burlison did us a disservice by showing this video and giving it any credibility.

#ufosky #uap

youtu.be/64zlyzojpPM?...

I Honestly Felt Bad Debunking This

YouTube video by Hank Green

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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 20d

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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

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DaiDragon @daidragon.bsky.social · 20d

If you haven't watched @mattlaslo.bsky.social (@askapoluaps.bsky.social) unleash on Rep Luna you're missing out #UFOsky.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2P-...

Matt Laslo: What You Need To Know

YouTube video by Observer of Anomalous Objects

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No age gate South Africa @noverifactionsa.bsky.social · 21d

Resources to those who don't Know much about 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 and want to be informed:

I recommend articles/videos written by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-d...
video goes into discussion about these laws, interview was around this article :
law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

Age Verification Will Kill Free Speech Online

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 20d

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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

www.nbcnews.com

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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 21d

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Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social · 22d

Ghislaine Maxwell swears she “never saw anything sexual” with Epstein—yet admits topless girls rubbed his feet. Dr. Leslie Dobson breaks down the Maxwell tapes: evasions, rehearsed lines, and who she’s really protecting.

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John Neiberger @therealneiby.bsky.social · 21d

The Colorado Sun is fantastic.

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 21d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21d

Charlie Kirk said of Jasmine Crockett, “What she represents is very serious, which is the continued attempt to eliminate the white population in this country.” You call that incitement. But it's free speech, and so are the things people said about Kirk.

Charlie Kirk’s Rules of Free Speech

Republicans want to prosecute the left for incendiary words that could lead to violence. They should read Kirk’s own incendiary words first.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 21d

Straight-up Kremlin propaganda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Russia's war on Ukraine: "This war started because of bad energy policy. The Biden administration was slow-walking natural gas exports to the rest of the world."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21d

Thread 🧵

Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22d

Finding myself in a reflective mood today, I decided to reread Humberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism.” Meditating on the definition & essential properties of fascism, Eco identified 14 key features, only one of which is needed “to allow fascism to coagulate around it."

It is, perhaps, relevant. 🧵

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 21d

Europe stands with Estonia in the face of Russia’s latest violation of our airspace.

We will respond to every provocation with determination while investing in a stronger Eastern flank.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 22d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 22d

Whether you are on the Left, Right, or Center, Free Speech Isn't a Punchline.

Ask yourself:

Do you want to live in a country where you are afraid to say what you believe?

Where your children or grandchildren never know how to speak their truths, because those with power fear their voice?

Free Speech Isn’t a Punchline

And it Does Matter Which Side of the Political Divide You Are On

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22d

H.R. McMaster to Jeffrey Goldberg: Donald Trump “is a bit different now.” bit.ly/46a5DUE

“He has a deeper sense of aggrievement, some of which is justified ... and I think he has been convinced, really, by some of the people around him, that his own staff was kind of the deep state.” #TAF25