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david golbitz @davidgolbitz.bsky.social · Feb 5
I am so tired of living in this grotesque parody of reality.
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pennywriter.bsky.social
A USPS plan consolidates mail processing from 200 local facilities to 20 regional ones. That increases the likelihood that postmarks will be delayed, posing risks for elections, tax deadlines, and legal filings.
www.brookings.edu/articles/whe...
When a postmark no longer tracks mailing | Brookings
Changes to U.S. Postal Service operations could lead to delayed postmarking, impacting elections, tax filings, and more.
www.brookings.edu
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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tomdreisbach.bsky.social
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"How Trump Incited an Insurrection: A Jan. 6 Timeline"

Five years later, as the president attempts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Zeteo has a detailed hour-by-hour guide to what Trump said and did that fateful and violent day.
How Trump Incited an Insurrection: A Jan. 6 Timeline
Five years later, as the president attempts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Zeteo has a detailed hour-by-hour guide to what Trump said and did that fateful and violent day.
zeteo.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
davidgolbitz.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-i-used-a...
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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andreawoo.bsky.social
“Our neighbour’s autocratic and avaricious leader is demonstrably eager to use his country’s massive military power to advance his interests. We must get ready.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada
After the capture of Venezuela’s president and Trump’s musing about Greenland, Canada must prepare for the worst-case scenario
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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ironspike.bsky.social
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.

Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
kashana.blacksky.app Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
drewmagary.bsky.social Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1d
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
As I and others have written for over a decade now and as the actions and statements of the President and Miller now prove, Trump is now indisputably and by far the greatest threat faced by the US and the world. He must be stopped.
January 6, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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nellscovell.bsky.social
One of my college roommates is now a doctor. Here's her take on Bobby Kennedy's revised vaccine schedule for babies and children.
January 6, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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January 6, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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nberlat.bsky.social
invading venezuela is not a distraction from the epstein files. he invaded another country, violated international law, murdered dozens of people. that is important in itself; people who care about that aren't being "distracted." 1
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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tvmojoe.bsky.social
This is the good stuff. variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Is an Inauspicious Sign of Where CBS News Is Headed
Tony Dokoupil tripped up over transitions and bulldozed a health expert over vaccines
variety.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries

TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?

M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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norbizness.bsky.social
You see, there's really no reason for other editorialists apart from Jamelle Bouie to publish. Two people to tell it like it is, just cut the rest a subsistence check and use their offices for storage excess office furniture.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Laws and norms don’t matter unless there’s someone willing to enforce them,” writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg. “America once acted like the world’s policeman. Now it’s a mafia.”
Opinion | Don’t Call It Regime Change. This Is Something Else Entirely.
To understand what’s unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
nyti.ms
January 6, 2026 at 1:04 AM
davidgolbitz.bsky.social
Three?? If Nebraska wants to keep up, Pillen better get on it.
January 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
When you uncheck Smart Features, all email sorting ends. Google changing Gmail’s BASIC sort functions just to force everyone to let Google train off your emails is insane levels of corporate self harm, rivaled only by Microslop

This however is the kick I need to get off gmail l, because screw this!
ellipsus.com Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 1d
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Here we go again 🙄 Google has granted itself access to your private messages & attachments on Gmail to train its AI models. Here's how to turn it off. 👇
Gmail Users Were Automatically Opted In to This Controversial Setting. Here's How To Turn It Off.
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
This should be a huge story. I guess it won't achieve that status until the wife/girlfriend/mother/child of a publisher or CEO becomes a victim.
raphae.li Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 1d
Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera:

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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kottke.org
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War. “Overwhelmingly, the US media and its purportedly straight reporters have adopted wholesale the White House’s pseudo-legalistic, limited framework of an ‘operation’ to ‘arrest’ Maduro.” [theintercept.com]
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War
By framing the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
theintercept.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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shannonandswift.bsky.social
Did you know that Sam Raimi has a new movie coming out this month in theaters? If you watched the Steelers / Ravens game tonight you saw our new TV trailer. Spread the word about SEND HELP, won't you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUAn...
Send Help (2026) - U.S. TV Spot ('office')
YouTube video by Movie fun
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January 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
My father and mother, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news. Words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous. One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job. People respected her job and what she did at her job. When I called her after the legislative session ended, I asked why she voted for the bill mentioned in the video shared by President Trump, and she wept. That bill and her vote had nothing to do with fraud. She voted for that bill because it was the only way to avoid a government shutdown. She had seen the impact of shutdowns: people lose their health care, their jobs, and in some cases, from a story she told me, have taken their own lives. She was in a very tough position on that vote. She had never really voted against her conscience like that. It was emotional and extremely difficult. Her struggle with that vote makes this conspiracy all the more painful for me. I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory. My sister Sophia Hortman (Sophie) asked me to share this on her behalf, she is off social media: "The video shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social is a painful, false twisting of my mother's final vote. The vote she made was incredibly difficult for my mother; it was not a vote made lightly or with malice in her heart. She made the decision to prevent a government shutdown because she believed our great state protects and helps Minnesotans. We must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents, and this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division. The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social." Please share our message and help us ask the President to take this down.
January 5, 2026 at 3:55 AM
davidgolbitz.bsky.social
This game had the most wildly improbable final five minutes I've ever seen.
January 5, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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claytoncubitt.bsky.social
Jack Cocchiarella O @JDCocchiarella Republicans love destabilizing countries and then crying about immigration 10:15 AM • 1/3/26 US-backed right-wing MILITARY COUPS in Latin America Cuba, 1952 • Guatemala, 1954 • El Salvador, 1980 * Honduras, 2009 • Nicaragua, 1980s • *. Panama, 1989 Haiti, 1959, 2004 • Peru, 1962, 1975 Dominican Republic, 1965 • Venezuela, 2002 • Bolivia, 1980s Paraguay, 1954 Brazil, 1964 Chile, 1973 • Argentina, 1976 Uruguay, 1973
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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atrupar.com
America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor
In a telephone interview this morning with The Atlantic, President Donald J. Trump issued a threat against Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, saying that, “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” adding that he would not stand for Rodríguez’s “defiant rejection” of military intervention by the United States. Additionally, during the interview, President Trump reaffirmed that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention, or even that it would remain isolated to Latin America, clearly stating, “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” while describing the island which is a part of Denmark, a close-ally and member of NATO, as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM