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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 1d

Their malevolence is in a constant race with their incompetence

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Fridays firings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 1d

This means GPT6 etc, isn’t going anywhere and they know it. So just like Elon, they’re making a play to be an everything company.

Exactly how much longer do we have to suffer this grift?

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 3d

They have the money for a $20 billion bailout for Argentina to prop up investments made by Trump’s billionaire buddies, but no money for health care for working Americans. America First, right? 😏

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 4d

Generative AI is, at best, a reasonably good assistant. But the hype surrounding it stands to cause very real harm.

futurism.com/future-socie...

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

futurism.com

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 4d

Exceptional essay from @brianbeutler.bsky.social:

"If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like 'never again.'"

"Despotism doesn’t impose itself on everyone all at once. It creeps inward from the margins of society."

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly,a war-ravaged city.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 5d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for saying it. The loss of objective truth and belief in the need for evidence is insidious and infectious. We can’t allow ourselves to succumb to it.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 5d

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 5d

“Bucking tradition?”

NPR, you do realize that he’s going to try to destroy you, no matter how carefully you try to soft pedal what he’s doing, right? Right?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

The misogyny just drips off of him, doesn’t it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson on AOC: "She hasn't read the legislation and I'm not sure she would understand it even if she did."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

We have now arrived at the opening crawl to The Phantom Menace.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

We will stop calling them fascists when they stop doing fascistic things.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been using the term narrative, but agreed. Beyond each individual, outrage, beyond all of them collectively, is the stress of seeing all these things and knowing that otherwise same people will insist that you are lying about it, no matter what evidence you present.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 7d

“Next” but you get the idea

Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 8d

Bingo. The most that anyone should be saying when asked about GOP claims on healthcare in the shutdown is, “It’s bullshit and you should be ashamed of yourself for repeating it.” Then hammer on the impact of the cuts. And then repeat, and refuse follow ups.

The media are not your friends.

Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

In politics, the party that generates the narrative wins. The party that chases behind with corrections loses.

Dems need to be united and they need to control the narrative with boldness, truth, & standing up to the bullies. Never let them off the hook.

In other words, the alpha messaging wins.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 8d

Ext time you run into some low-information voter who gives you some lame line about how we have to do something about immigration, show them this. Ask them if this is what they mean.

The next time you see a video like this? Save that one too. Show #2 when they say it’s just one incident.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 8d

"Authoritarianism makes us feel less safe in our neighborhoods, it makes our bills harder to pay, our health care harder to access, and stifles our ability to thrive and support our families and communities. It’s exhausting and it’s not normal."

Read @dminovi.bsky.social compelling blog:

Science and Democracy under Siege: a Day in My Life

Even for those of us living in relative safety, the administration's policies are hurting us and our communities on a daily basis.

blog.ucs.org

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 10d

A lot of people wondering what the general staff was thinking after that ridiculous meeting the other day. My guess? They are angry not just with Trump and Hegseth, but with the electorate who put them in this position.

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