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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 13m

nobody has ever lived more rent free in someone's head than Greta Thunberg, a 22 year old activist who has taken up residence in Peter Thiel's mind palace to such an extent that he thinks he needs all $400 billion of Elon Musk's notional wealth to constrain her

bsky.app/profile/drew...

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 52m

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg 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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 39m

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 3h

lol @people.com didn’t hold back

PEOPLE MAGAZINE HEADLINE: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado After Repeatedly Saying He Wants the Award →

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Richard "Pocky" Kim @pocky469.bsky.social · 1h

Hi folks!

I'm going to be streaming in a few minutes! (10:15ish PM JST/9:15 AM EDT/6:15 AM PDT)

I'm going to check out some of the new patch content and just generally wandering around. Also trying out my new mic, so help would be appreciated!

www.twitch.tv/originalpocky/

Hope to see you then!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

www.twitch.tv

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

One amazing trick the Trump administration has pulled off in political narratives (and in courts via unitary executive theory) is presenting any constraints on the executive to be anti-democratic. We are learning how critical those constraints actually are to protecting democracy.

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 3h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1h

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1h

The theme of the rally is No Kings, and it's hard to think of a more pro-American sentiment than that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 5h

Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en

Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway

The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

www.nobelpeacecenter.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4h

“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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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · 1d

it was said by someone like half a year ago that learning how to deliver passable if not good work under both immense pressure and short notice is actually an important part of the college experience and an incredibly useful skill and the person who said that was right

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

"The Supreme Court has made clear that it will allow Trump to violate every constitutional prohibition, removing any obstacle in his way, and crediting the most farcical legal argument."

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15h

"Its not our shutdown, look at how we're using it to do what we've always wanted"

Politico @politico.com · 21h

Trump said his administration will begin cutting programs backed by Democrats as the government shutdown stretches into its ninth day.

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

Trump promises cuts to programs favored by Democrats

“I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” the president said.

www.politico.com

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17h

OH WHAT THE FUCK.

Republican oligarchs bought a firm to lessen the defamation obligation of its defamers.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 20h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

On the home page, NYT frames it correctly: WaPo fails.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17h

You heard it straight from Kennedy himself: Gold Standard Science is actually just data fabrication.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17h

If you think Trump cares about peace
more than Trump cares about Trump;
wait for his reaction
when someone else wins the Nobel Prize.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 1d

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 1d

This is extremely uncontroversial and it’s time to consider guardrails and regulations on AI that can protect people without hamstringing an economic sector. It’s possible!

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