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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 5h

ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 5h

Al Michaels is 80 years old. Dude has it so much more together than the nazi manbaby in the White House.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 5h

He and his degenerate followers are going to throw the biggest crybaby hissy-fit in world history.

Norway preparing for Trump to seek revenge if spurned for Nobel Peace Prize: report

President Donald Trump has repeatedly and publicly demanded to be given a Nobel Peace Prize — and the government of Norway is starting to prepare for the risk he could exact revenge on their country i...

www.rawstory.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 9h

Thoughts and prayers

'We're not entirely sure what's going on': Jordan Peterson taken down by moldy room, daughter raises possibility of 'spiritual attack'

It's a crying shame.

wegotthiscovered.com

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Steely Jeff @steely-jeff.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t everyone just falling for another trump admin lie here?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9h

“But in the Nazi scheme of things one concession from a yielding opponent must lead quickly to another.”

— The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, p. 553

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 9h

They’ve been pumping diarrhea into Trump’s brain cavity every 6 weeks or so and he’s at Walter Reed to figure out why it keeps leaking out his mouth

Trump returns to Walter Reed for health exam after months of mystery bruises

President Donald Trump is undergoing a medical exam on Friday after months of growing health concerns

www.themirror.com

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 30

She is such a deeply, fundamentally unserious person. Her entire career has & continues to depend on being treated seriously by the very "old" institutions - media, Jewish, educational, etc. - that she supposedly wants to disrupt. The poster child for our total lack of elite accountability in 🇺🇸.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

The total, multidimensional failure of elite accountability in 🇺🇸 politics & society, illustrated in one move:

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 10h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

Well that’s gonna mean hot civil war.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

Guaranteed to be exponentially more excruciating than Up With People

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 17h

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW

Yes, the rumors are true... Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show. Performers and event details coming soon.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h

Puerto Rico is part of America. This is just a show for racists.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 17h

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW

Yes, the rumors are true... Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show. Performers and event details coming soon.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I've thought about this before. Just letting the AI play both teams on Madden is a reasonable simulation of a real game, and with added power it could mimic one quite well. But yeah, do people want to watch that?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 11h

Analogy: Imagine a robot could play really good golf. Would you watch? Maybe as a curiosity. Would you want it competing against humans? Ofc not. Now imagine the robot played good golf sometimes but sometimes threw all its clubs off a cliff. That’s gen AI doing art. Misses the point & also sucks.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10h

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 21h

Classic Steam forums

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Death will not release you!𓅽 @7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social · 10h

As everyone in security said would happen.

404 Media @404media.co · 17h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

Thinking more and more that the Internet was a mistake.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

I don't know. But you could go straight to the source: @mark-bray.bsky.social

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

yep

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Maggie ❌👑 @magg1es.bsky.social · 11h

You guys. This may be game over. A GOP company just took over Dominion Voting Systems, one of the biggest election equipment providers. 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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14h

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12h

Ah, it's a new frontier in Republican lawfare: buying off noisome plaintiffs. :

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 14h

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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