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A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
www.wsj.com
October 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.
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New: Jewish students announce a boycott Columbia/Barnard Hillel, as it hosts an Israeli group "encouraging Jewish students to move to settlements on land Israel seized from Palestinians."
Says the group recently demolished homes, displacing Palestinian families & it intends to demolish dozens more.
Says the group recently demolished homes, displacing Palestinian families & it intends to demolish dozens more.
October 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
New: Jewish students announce a boycott Columbia/Barnard Hillel, as it hosts an Israeli group "encouraging Jewish students to move to settlements on land Israel seized from Palestinians."
Says the group recently demolished homes, displacing Palestinian families & it intends to demolish dozens more.
Says the group recently demolished homes, displacing Palestinian families & it intends to demolish dozens more.
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Hey, what was the follow-up on this?
I'll probably catch this on Hulu the next day so I can fast-forward through the boring parts. You just know they're going to drag it out like an American Idol finale.
October 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Hey, what was the follow-up on this?
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Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects.
Meanwhile, review time rose 49%.
Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
Meanwhile, review time rose 49%.
Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
October 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects.
Meanwhile, review time rose 49%.
Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
Meanwhile, review time rose 49%.
Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
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Trump Family has stolen well more than $10 billion in less than a 2 years, their theft is brazen, big (planes, real estate, crypto scams worth $billions), medium (defense deals, insider trading), small (kick backs, selling tchotchkes). Two things heavily under-reported: size & impact …
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
wapo.st
October 9, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Trump Family has stolen well more than $10 billion in less than a 2 years, their theft is brazen, big (planes, real estate, crypto scams worth $billions), medium (defense deals, insider trading), small (kick backs, selling tchotchkes). Two things heavily under-reported: size & impact …
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REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
October 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
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I’m starting to believe that Pete Hegseth is the violent sociopath his mom says he is.
October 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I’m starting to believe that Pete Hegseth is the violent sociopath his mom says he is.
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Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
October 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
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I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races?
We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did.
Guess which time they won by double digits?
We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did.
Guess which time they won by double digits?
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
www.wired.com
October 9, 2026 at 10:21 AM
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races?
We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did.
Guess which time they won by double digits?
We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did.
Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
October 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
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Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
theonion.com
October 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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The depravity in our courts is sickening and unconscionable.
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s anti-nudification law on October 2, 2026, siding with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.”
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s anti-nudification law on October 2, 2026, siding with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.”
October 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The depravity in our courts is sickening and unconscionable.
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s anti-nudification law on October 2, 2026, siding with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.”
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s anti-nudification law on October 2, 2026, siding with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.”
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people will get on beyoncé’s internet and say things with their whole chests you couldn’t waterboard out of a normal person
October 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM
people will get on beyoncé’s internet and say things with their whole chests you couldn’t waterboard out of a normal person
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To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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Oversight without consequences is mostly theatre. The real question is whether Democrats will restore the tools—antitrust enforcement, labor rights, public-interest regulation—that make corporate power answerable.
October 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Oversight without consequences is mostly theatre. The real question is whether Democrats will restore the tools—antitrust enforcement, labor rights, public-interest regulation—that make corporate power answerable.
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there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include:
$13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social
$6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
$5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
$1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social
$1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
$13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social
$6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
$5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
$1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social
$1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
October 7, 2026 at 4:05 AM
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!"
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
October 6, 2026 at 7:36 AM
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!"
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!"
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
October 6, 2026 at 8:36 PM
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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If the incoming dem house has one job, it's not legislating. With Trump veto, it's a fools errand.
The ONE JOB is to build the cases for all the federal laws broken by this lawless administration. In '29, new AG Jack Smith won't need 2-3 years and can go virtually straight to the Grand Juries.
The ONE JOB is to build the cases for all the federal laws broken by this lawless administration. In '29, new AG Jack Smith won't need 2-3 years and can go virtually straight to the Grand Juries.
So many laws and norms broken. Exhausting. We must hold them to account, even if it takes years.
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
October 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
If the incoming dem house has one job, it's not legislating. With Trump veto, it's a fools errand.
The ONE JOB is to build the cases for all the federal laws broken by this lawless administration. In '29, new AG Jack Smith won't need 2-3 years and can go virtually straight to the Grand Juries.
The ONE JOB is to build the cases for all the federal laws broken by this lawless administration. In '29, new AG Jack Smith won't need 2-3 years and can go virtually straight to the Grand Juries.
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Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
October 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
October 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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I think about this more often than I'd like to.
October 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I think about this more often than I'd like to.