nostromo-ripley.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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“.. The US lost an average of 4k private-sector jobs per month over the last 3 months (ADP data), the first 3-month decline since the 2020 recession.”

- Bilello
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Donald Trump has a fondness for bluffing, putting profits ahead of values and a might-makes-right worldview. Sadly, history abounds in examples of doomed peace agreements based on such principles
The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war
Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history
econ.st
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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BREAKING: The suspect who is alleged to have shot two National Guardsmen was from Afghanistan and WAS GRANTED ASYLUM BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN APRIL, 2025!

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Washington DC shooting leaves two National Guardsmen shot | CNN
Two members of the West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, DC, today, according to the state’s governor. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The Biden administration had an open investigation into Epstein’s coconspirators. This past January, Trump killed it, fired the prosecutors, and stole the files.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Trump has decimated Republican support in one year. EVERY county in both Virginia and New Jersey has moved blue, some by double digits! LFG!
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Trump: "I said, 'put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress."
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Article:
Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Donald Trump claims to have ended six wars in six months and has been angling for a Nobel peace prize. Americans are less convinced of his diplomatic prowess, as our polling shows econ.st/4mUl20Y
Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
econ.st
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM