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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 1m

Note the date.

Admit It: You People Want To See How Far This Goes, Don’t You?

The latest polls are out, and just as I predicted, I’m leading the Republican presidential race by a wide margin. You might be wondering how that could be. After all, it’s hardly been a month since I ...

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 2m

I bet he’s outraged - at not being paid for it (he wasn’t paid by the Russians, right?)

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2h

Faversham residents willingly turn their town in 1980s Northern Ireland, using the flag to mark out their territory.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 8h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

The new NHTSA FSD probe today? Includes evaluation of how FSD performs at train crossings! Read @davidingram.bsky.social 's story about that here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI - The US auto safety regulator is investigating Tesla FSD for possible safety defects after reports the system led drivers to run red lights, and commit other traffic safety violations. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/t...

Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe after reports FSD ran red lights, caused collisions

For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised investors that Tesla would someday be able to turn their existing electric vehicles into robotaxis.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 9h

In the last series they called someone a traitor and banished them because they were reading a book!

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 9h

He's got a point #CelebrityTraitors

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Ben Taylor @vox-dei.bsky.social · 10h

This is pretty crucial to consider now. Imagine what happens if Farage, Badenoch or Jenrick decides to go down the same route as Trump on science.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ken Veksler @kenveksler.bsky.social · 10h

Objectively, yes.
But OTOH watch how literally nothing happens, nor any tangible mkt reaction etc

timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, when crossing the executive by executing the law means the executive launches revenge prosecutions, then it’s time to get your money out, charge massive risk premiums or both.

Because this is banana republic stuff, and that means the risks are too high not to cover against it.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 10h

This story certainly isn’t making me feel warm and fuzzy. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h

Whether it’s Donald Trump saying J.B. Pritzker should be in jail or Donald Trump being convicted of 36 felonies but not going to jail because the American people re-elected him as president, both sides have been linked to jail time.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 10h

Very much YMMV.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

The secret of good comedy is timing 🙃
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Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.com

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 11h

Incredibly, other cars have to have this crap individually disabled through touch screen menus. It can literally take 30 seconds of screen tapping at the start of every journey. Driving a car in 2025 is now worse than dismissing cookie popups on every web site.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 11h

EU regulations mandate these crappy systems. And they mandate that they are enabled at the start of every driving cycle: they cannot be disabled in settings. The more switched on car makers (like Renault, Citroen) are providing one-touch buttons to disable all the crap each time the car starts.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 11h

Camera recognition of speed limits from road signs simply doesn’t work. Lane keeping using cameras to recognise lane markings simply doesn’t work. There is simply no prospect of self-driving cars operating on the road network, no matter what Musk or his pet journalists are saying.

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