Julio
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Cleveland sports. Ohio State sports. MF DOOM and Aesop Rock fan. CNC machinist
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As always, @boltsmag.org has the go-to, authoritative guide to the year's important elections. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
boltsmag.org
October 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
As always, @boltsmag.org has the go-to, authoritative guide to the year's important elections. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."
October 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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[job interview]
interviewer: so god killed all your kids?
job: that's right
interviewer: so god killed all your kids?
job: that's right
September 22, 2026 at 3:35 AM
[job interview]
interviewer: so god killed all your kids?
job: that's right
interviewer: so god killed all your kids?
job: that's right
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NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
futurism.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
September 30, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Every single person needs to read this book ASAP.
September 30, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Every single person needs to read this book ASAP.
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I'm reminded of the case in 2018 where cops in California coerced a man into confessing that he'd killed his dad.
The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide.
The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.
The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide.
The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
www.sbsun.com
September 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I'm reminded of the case in 2018 where cops in California coerced a man into confessing that he'd killed his dad.
The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide.
The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.
The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide.
The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.
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Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.
I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ
almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do
September 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over.
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Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡
Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong.
Here's the whole sequence:
Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong.
Here's the whole sequence:
September 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.
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speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter
some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
September 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter
some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
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Absolutely. If any Dem Member of Congress concocted a conspiracy theory based upon the assumption that going to a Hawkeyes basketball game necessarily meant going to Atlanta, it would be a week of TV spots and three months of op-ed columns about Dems' cultural disconnect.
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
September 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Absolutely. If any Dem Member of Congress concocted a conspiracy theory based upon the assumption that going to a Hawkeyes basketball game necessarily meant going to Atlanta, it would be a week of TV spots and three months of op-ed columns about Dems' cultural disconnect.
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One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients. trib.al/WfBh0ib
MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
trib.al
September 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
September 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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New: The Trump administration has spent more than $1M in public funds so far to boost the president on the airwaves.
Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by The Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2026 at 7:36 PM
New: The Trump administration has spent more than $1M in public funds so far to boost the president on the airwaves.
Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll.
Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
September 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll.
Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens.
All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
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In books: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify religious extremists, the tech elites, and ethno-fascists as “end time fascists.” What they have in common is that they believe they will be the “chosen ones” in the apocalypse that they are accelerating.
Can We Survive Naomi Klein's Depiction of 'End Times Fascism'?
Klein and co-author Astra Taylor’s new book is too bleak and unfocused for our shameless and sharp-edged political moment.
www.texasobserver.org
September 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In books: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify religious extremists, the tech elites, and ethno-fascists as “end time fascists.” What they have in common is that they believe they will be the “chosen ones” in the apocalypse that they are accelerating.
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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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"Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors 'to keep out...anything which in any manner is misleading to the public, tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the defense of Germany, its culture and economy'"
-Shirer, p. 404
-Shirer, p. 404
I do wonder if reporting on Trump just showed the parallels or echoes of Hitler would help folks really understand what's happening. So a graf or two in this news story, for example, of how Hitler banned the free press...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House
In an insult-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was instituting the ban because of reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.”
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
"Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors 'to keep out...anything which in any manner is misleading to the public, tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the defense of Germany, its culture and economy'"
-Shirer, p. 404
-Shirer, p. 404
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*rummaging for bread under an overpass* at least my hypothetical 7-year-old will never stare down a knuckleball thrown by a trans girl
Another Iowa Dem releases an ad in response to anti-trans ads against her.
"We need to protect kids, and we need common sense rules to keep sports fair for boys and for girls. Parents know what's best for our kids. Washington needs to stay out of it."
From Lindsay James, IA-02.
"We need to protect kids, and we need common sense rules to keep sports fair for boys and for girls. Parents know what's best for our kids. Washington needs to stay out of it."
From Lindsay James, IA-02.
September 18, 2026 at 4:38 PM
*rummaging for bread under an overpass* at least my hypothetical 7-year-old will never stare down a knuckleball thrown by a trans girl
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The US Congress has proposed both a strong Democratic version of this law (the PRO Act) and a weak bipartisan version (Faster Labor Contracts Act) and neither has passed because Republicans hate worker power and all claims to the contrary are frauds.
September 18, 2026 at 11:56 AM
The US Congress has proposed both a strong Democratic version of this law (the PRO Act) and a weak bipartisan version (Faster Labor Contracts Act) and neither has passed because Republicans hate worker power and all claims to the contrary are frauds.
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Unsolicited, unpaid-for suggestion from a guy who hates politics podcasts: I just really, really love Election Profitmakers.
It’s hosted by @jonkimball.bsky.social and Get Your War On’s David Rees. It used to be about prediction markets before that became a disease. Now it’s just very funny.
It’s hosted by @jonkimball.bsky.social and Get Your War On’s David Rees. It used to be about prediction markets before that became a disease. Now it’s just very funny.
Episode 383: Could The $5,000 Trump Dividend Help Americans' Pain At The Pump? Our Experts Weigh In.
Election Profit Makers · Episode
open.spotify.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Unsolicited, unpaid-for suggestion from a guy who hates politics podcasts: I just really, really love Election Profitmakers.
It’s hosted by @jonkimball.bsky.social and Get Your War On’s David Rees. It used to be about prediction markets before that became a disease. Now it’s just very funny.
It’s hosted by @jonkimball.bsky.social and Get Your War On’s David Rees. It used to be about prediction markets before that became a disease. Now it’s just very funny.
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🚨NEWS:
So this is totally crazy.
A Republican candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check … Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" to get the money goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off a personal loan he made to the campaign!
So this is totally crazy.
A Republican candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check … Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" to get the money goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off a personal loan he made to the campaign!
Republican Nominee in Texas Using Trump’s $5,000 Promise to Deceive Voters - The American Prospect
Eric Flores is an Army veteran and lawyer running to unseat Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in Texas District 34.
prospect.org
September 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
🚨NEWS:
So this is totally crazy.
A Republican candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check … Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" to get the money goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off a personal loan he made to the campaign!
So this is totally crazy.
A Republican candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check … Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" to get the money goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off a personal loan he made to the campaign!
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This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate.
The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure
Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate.
The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.