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Jennet Jourdemayne
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#EarlyMusic helps me cope with 21st century life.

Someday when Covid is just a dirty memory I will sing in a performance of Thomas Tallis’s 40-part motet “Spem in Alium” and I shall achieve nirvana.
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Funny, I don't remember any politician asking me if I wanted to leave the question of the life or death of this country (and all of us living in it) in the hands of AI. Do you?
Yet, that is what our current POTUS has done, reportedly.
How can anyone sleep at night?
He must be removed ASAP.
September 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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What insanity is this? Whoever signed off on this should be jailed for breach of contract requiring that person to act in accordance with guaranteeing benefis to the people of the US.

wapo.st/4yWadkR
U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
wapo.st
September 26, 2026 at 5:08 PM
@thedragono.bsky.social Just stumbled across this account. This is so enigmatic. Not to mention poignant. I hope wherever you are now, you’re reading something you enjoy.
September 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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I hope to God you're right because witnessing the absolutely horrific sadism of ICE and the Trump admin on a daily basis has been and continues to be excruciating.
September 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war.

On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains:
newrepublic.com/article/2158...
MAGA Radio Host Humiliates Trump by Leaking Truly Brutal GOP Poll Data
As an Iowa-based pro-Trump personality drops a midterm bombshell, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party discusses whether Democrats are about to regain major ground in rural America.
newrepublic.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Some people on here have some very problematic heroes.
September 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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Bonus: UN Sec. General Antonio Guterres during Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly
September 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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I must emphasize that I, an extremely online and politically active person, had barely heard of this man before this year. The outrage about him is entirely manufactured by a right wing that needs enemies to foam at the mouth about
If I'm reading this news report correctly, today Hasan Piker was denounced in a speech before the UN General Assembly
September 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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It escapes no one that Benjamin Netanyahu and his media barrages are fully coordinated with Bari Weiss and her media operations. Weiss effectively has established herself as the minister for propaganda of Likudnik Israel. bsky.app/profile/just...
Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
September 25, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Zohran Mamdani is our mayor.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
September 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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Disgraceful that Bibi the Butcher is given a platform to spew ugly lies. Get the fuck out of New York, you genocidal criminal.
Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
September 25, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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This is how you fuel antisemitism.
Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
September 25, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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Stop asking the Ukrainian president stupid, loaded, victim-blaming questions. There is nothing Ukraine can do for peace besides defeating Russia. Russia rejects peace and compromise and it offers only full occupation or complete domination.
September 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Never thought I’d see 82 y/o Wallace Shawn identifying Israel’s moral bankruptcy. Gives me hope that maybe someone in my family might stand up for me after I’ve been ostracized for speaking the truth.
The Israelis are worse than the Nazis, at least the Nazis has the decency to try and hide what they are doing. The Israelis boast about it. It's demonically evil.'

- Jewish actor Wallace Shawn doesn't mince words.

(Video: Israel Exposed)
September 25, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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Chinese media allowed at WH.

American media banned in defiance of a court order.
September 24, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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“He took the assignment, he wrote, because he knew ‘very little’ about the agency and the challenge was appealing.”
God save us from WaPo puff pieces, from the Tylers of the world, and from folks who have the confidence of their own ignorance.
September 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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reaaaallllyyyy wild
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.

This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
www.propublica.org
September 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said.

One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
September 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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10/ Of all the politicians Navatek courted, Collins was its most important patron.

At times, Kao and his associates cut checks to Collins’ campaign within 24 hours of the annual defense spending bill, which funds military contracts, clearing a key Senate hurdle.
September 22, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
September 22, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.

The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.

Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
September 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Inne fæġer Verona, hwǣr wē leċġen ūser stede.
September 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Who is going translate it into Old English for him?
Secret Life of Pets Rabbit: What?
Alt: Secret Life of Pets Rabbit: What?
static.klipy.com
September 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM