M.B.
@mbastey.bsky.social
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“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service,” said @jahimes.bsky.social of the House Intel Committee. “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”
Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”
interc.pt
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service,” said @jahimes.bsky.social of the House Intel Committee. “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.
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Researchers are struggling to understand the widespread “AI psychosis” problem, making the chatbot boom one of the largest, highest-stakes, and most poorly designed social experiments ever, @matteowong.bsky.social writes.
The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Researchers are struggling to understand the widespread “AI psychosis” problem, making the chatbot boom one of the largest, highest-stakes, and most poorly designed social experiments ever, @matteowong.bsky.social writes.
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
These data centers are stealing our power and polluting our neighborhoods. Stop your city & state from letting them in!
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
wrd.cm
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
These data centers are stealing our power and polluting our neighborhoods. Stop your city & state from letting them in!
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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Owen M, thanks for coming to our Biddeford town hall. We found your wallet. Send us a DM.
Please share so Owen sees this.
Please share so Owen sees this.
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Owen M, thanks for coming to our Biddeford town hall. We found your wallet. Send us a DM.
Please share so Owen sees this.
Please share so Owen sees this.
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The House of Representatives has now unanimously (!) voted to claw back the vile and corrupt self-dealing provision that Susan Collins successfully snuck into the government funding bill, reportedly at Majority Leader Thune's request.
An indefensible, politically-damaging self-own. #MEpolitics
An indefensible, politically-damaging self-own. #MEpolitics
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The House of Representatives has now unanimously (!) voted to claw back the vile and corrupt self-dealing provision that Susan Collins successfully snuck into the government funding bill, reportedly at Majority Leader Thune's request.
An indefensible, politically-damaging self-own. #MEpolitics
An indefensible, politically-damaging self-own. #MEpolitics
We need to figure out how to collectively assist support of grocery, warehouse, and delivery & other "essential workers" because a General Strike may be our last best stand. We know from 2020, that they are the pressure points.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We need to figure out how to collectively assist support of grocery, warehouse, and delivery & other "essential workers" because a General Strike may be our last best stand. We know from 2020, that they are the pressure points.
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Susan Collins sent me and my friends to die in Iraq twenty years ago.
She learned nothing from it.
She learned nothing from it.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Susan Collins sent me and my friends to die in Iraq twenty years ago.
She learned nothing from it.
She learned nothing from it.
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“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).”
- Vital Knowledge
- Vital Knowledge
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).”
- Vital Knowledge
- Vital Knowledge
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Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.
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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.
How times change.
How times change.
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If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
Hey,
Don't forget to vote!
Don't forget to vote!
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hey,
Don't forget to vote!
Don't forget to vote!
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The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
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ICE has been targeting young kids for months, separating families and instilling fear.
Tell Congress to pass legislation ensuring no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration agents.
Tell Congress to pass legislation ensuring no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration agents.
ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children
ICE is traumatizing children as young as 14 – trying to strip them of their rights while they're without attorneys or family to help them. Take action against these horrific abuses now.
aclu.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE has been targeting young kids for months, separating families and instilling fear.
Tell Congress to pass legislation ensuring no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration agents.
Tell Congress to pass legislation ensuring no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration agents.
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CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme
Newly released video raises new questions about the arrest of a progressive Tennessee man for posting a Trump meme in a Facebook group
www.newschannel5.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Thomas McGuane is among the last great outdoorsmen-novelists. Tyler Austin Harper visited the author on his Montana ranch to see what we stand to lose:
The Last of the Literary Outdoorsmen
Thomas McGuane—fisherman, hunter, rancher, writer—says “good riddance” to his kind.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thomas McGuane is among the last great outdoorsmen-novelists. Tyler Austin Harper visited the author on his Montana ranch to see what we stand to lose:
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There appears to be another coordinated effort to spread misinformation in an effort to get Graham Platner's former political director to react. In nowhere in this interview did Graham call her a liar. More DSCC dirty tricks. www.msnbc.com/the-briefing...
October 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
There appears to be another coordinated effort to spread misinformation in an effort to get Graham Platner's former political director to react. In nowhere in this interview did Graham call her a liar. More DSCC dirty tricks. www.msnbc.com/the-briefing...
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Authoritarianism comes fast, Governor J. B. Pritzker told @markleibovich.bsky.social. “And if you’re not willing to stand up and push back while it’s happening in the early days,” Pritzker added, “it gets a lot harder later.”
J. B. Pritzker Wishes for Precedented Times
Twenty-seven minutes with the latest governor Donald Trump wants arrested
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Authoritarianism comes fast, Governor J. B. Pritzker told @markleibovich.bsky.social. “And if you’re not willing to stand up and push back while it’s happening in the early days,” Pritzker added, “it gets a lot harder later.”
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This incident is spreading through Chicago running circles. A 67 year old man, driving back from a long run with his friends, is pulled from the car and thrown to the ground by ICE (or BP?) agents because he did... something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...
67-year old American citizen left with broken ribs by ICE #breakingnews #iceraids #savedemocracy
YouTube video by Nick Valencia News
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This incident is spreading through Chicago running circles. A 67 year old man, driving back from a long run with his friends, is pulled from the car and thrown to the ground by ICE (or BP?) agents because he did... something.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...
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In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
wrd.cm
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.