Leonce Gaiter
@leonceg.bsky.social
leoncegaiter.com - Author of “A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom,” a PW Booklife ‘Editor’s Pick,’ and the historical novel featured in Harvard Magazine, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang.”
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Tim Scott on Hannity's show lies that El-Sayed's parents "funded Osama bin Laden"
October 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Tim Scott on Hannity's show lies that El-Sayed's parents "funded Osama bin Laden"
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Rewrite every headline about an AI doing something illegal as the owners of the AI doing something illegal. Strict liability could end this madness.
October 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Rewrite every headline about an AI doing something illegal as the owners of the AI doing something illegal. Strict liability could end this madness.
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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way
New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2163...
New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2163...
How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way
New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2163...
New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2163...
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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
October 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
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The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.
October 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.
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New story: In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. www.propublica.org/article/nava...
How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI an...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2026 at 12:06 PM
New story: In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. www.propublica.org/article/nava...
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My latest for @theverge.com - Meta has once again built tech that lets one person’s desire for individual convenience endanger the privacy of everyone around them. And unlike with pervert glasses, there’s zero way to even know when your privacy is violated.
🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlD
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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
You may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t.
bit.ly
October 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
My latest for @theverge.com - Meta has once again built tech that lets one person’s desire for individual convenience endanger the privacy of everyone around them. And unlike with pervert glasses, there’s zero way to even know when your privacy is violated.
🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlD
🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlD
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Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
presswatchers.org
October 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
October 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens.
We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts.
The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported.
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts.
The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported.
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
projects.propublica.org
October 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens.
We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts.
The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported.
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts.
The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported.
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
October 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home.
Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
newrepublic.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
This is exactly what's wrong with the tech industry, which my work intersects. It seeks people willing to see their jobs as a collection of preset, repeatable, tasks. This mindset views talent, creativity, and natural ability as impediments, not virtues. Tech values dronedom.
I am talking about working with people to even conceive of their lives as a set of tasks — that isn’t exactly natural and isn’t something we train people to do and yet its a precondition for figuring out what an agent would even *do*.
September 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This is exactly what's wrong with the tech industry, which my work intersects. It seeks people willing to see their jobs as a collection of preset, repeatable, tasks. This mindset views talent, creativity, and natural ability as impediments, not virtues. Tech values dronedom.
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Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
March 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
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Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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September 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying Something On
Meta’s C.E.O. talks for the first time about his style evolution.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction.
A must read to understand the stakes of this election.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A must read to understand the stakes of this election.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction.
A must read to understand the stakes of this election.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A must read to understand the stakes of this election.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The media assignment is very straightforward and clear: Can you find, in the coming months, some of these 750,000 people and interview them?
According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.
According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.
It’s surreal to see federal officials take a victory lap today for cancelling hundreds of thousands of marketplace enrollments, while massive health coverage losses are underway.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The media assignment is very straightforward and clear: Can you find, in the coming months, some of these 750,000 people and interview them?
According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.
According to Vance, they're probably all "fake" because anyone who buys a health plan and then doesn't file claims is obviously not someone who really exists.
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"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
finance.yahoo.com
September 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
Again for those in the cheap seats. Gavin Newsom is an owned and operated subsidiary of the powerful. He puts a center-left wash on oligarchy. That's what he considers his job.
This man straight-up gotta be some kinda Kristen Sinema spoiler-type plant or something.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
September 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Again for those in the cheap seats. Gavin Newsom is an owned and operated subsidiary of the powerful. He puts a center-left wash on oligarchy. That's what he considers his job.
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perfect from @warren.senate.gov “Allowing one Trump-aligned, foreign-owned conglomerate to dominate American news and entertainment is a disastrous outcome. ...The new Paramount behemoth is a clear candidate for antitrust scrutiny in a future pro-competition Administration.”
September 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM
perfect from @warren.senate.gov “Allowing one Trump-aligned, foreign-owned conglomerate to dominate American news and entertainment is a disastrous outcome. ...The new Paramount behemoth is a clear candidate for antitrust scrutiny in a future pro-competition Administration.”
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"Don't give archconservative MAGA cranks control of historically large and important media conglomerates" seems like a very low bar, but leading Democrats somehow fail to hit even that. If Democratic leadership wants to understand why it's unpopular with its own base, look no further than this.
September 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"Don't give archconservative MAGA cranks control of historically large and important media conglomerates" seems like a very low bar, but leading Democrats somehow fail to hit even that. If Democratic leadership wants to understand why it's unpopular with its own base, look no further than this.
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BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released
The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
evanstonnow.com
September 21, 2026 at 12:37 AM
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released
The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something."
No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
September 19, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something."
No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi.
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
www.cbsnews.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi.
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...