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danalexander21.bsky.social
17/ The WSJ later answers the big questions--who bought the stake and for how much. Opening line: "Lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for" $500M.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM
blueskyfanatic.bsky.social
Awwww, he’s onto us!! Watch out, he might bring back burning at the stake!
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November 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
danalexander21.bsky.social
15/ As it's happening, everything is murky, in part because -- as Forbes reports first -- Trump strikes a secretive deal to sell a stake in one of his crypto ventures.

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
Trump Company Cuts Stake In Crypto Venture
While the MAGA faithful continues throwing money at Trump’s crypto projects, the first family appears to be walking off with some of its profits.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM
edsbs.bsky.social
I need someone in congress to take up the mantle of Congressperson Who Will Give Handjobs In Public During Beetlejuice Musicals

our republic is at stake
November 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
tylerfromtheinternet.com
Jeffries, understanding what's actually at stake for his career personally, finally considers beginning to do the Bare Minimum
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Jeffries: "Stephen Miller is a stone cold racist. His track record speaks for itself. And I've got zero interest in working with that kind of individual."
November 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
self.agency
i wouldn't stake civilization on it tho
November 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
propublica.org
NEW: Gates owns a dominant stake in America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make the company live up to his own climate principles.

Inspectors have repeatedly found excess methane escaping from its landfills.
Bill Gates Wants to Stop Global Warming. He’s Earned Billions From Climate-Polluting Landfills.
Bill Gates owns a dominant stake in Republic Services, America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make the company live up to his own climate principles, ProPublica has found.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
designationsix.bsky.social
Time to put the stake in the heart of the Republican party like it's a fucking vampire.
November 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
What was at stake - and what is at stake now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofOn...
Anne Applebaum on the Future of American Democracy
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
followers4algernon.bsky.social
“I’d put a stake in her heart to make sure she stays dead”
November 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
katydidnz.bsky.social
Time to invest in cardboard and stakes for protest signs.
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November 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
propublica.org
3/ The landfill company Gates holds a dominant stake in, Republic Services, has repeatedly been found emitting methane at levels above federal limits.

It’s even lobbied against policies that could make the waste industry cleaner.
Bill Gates Wants to Stop Global Warming. He’s Earned Billions From Climate-Polluting Landfills.
Bill Gates owns a dominant stake in Republic Services, America’s second-largest landfill operator, but he’s failed to make the company live up to his own climate principles, ProPublica has found.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
brian-goldstone.bsky.social
As others have pointed out, the "unexpected activist" headline gets it backward. This is *exactly* who organizes resistance: people who have been displaced, dispossessed, and marginalized. People with the most at stake.
November 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
claritymae3.bsky.social
Please, @vanhollen.senate.gov Senator, please put yourself forward as Majority Leader. So much is at stake, it cannot be business as usual. Major change and accountability is required.
November 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
kelvind.com
News: "Burned At The Stake"

Reality: rotisserie chicken.
November 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
zacheverson.com
"Trump Media’s investors lost $2.2 billion while Trump holds $460 million stake"

Michelle Conlin, Tom Bergin for @reuters.com
Trump Media’s investors lost $2.2 billion while Trump holds $460 million stake
By the time Ske Jarzenske cast a third straight ballot for Donald Trump, he had something extra riding on the outcome: his brokerage account.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
chort-mischief.bsky.social
Kobold this, kobold that
Kobold WiFi, kobold ram
Kobold stake, kobold ham
Kobold coming from Japan
Now all the kobolds are goin' ham
November 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
annieabrams.bsky.social
too few people seem to understand what is at stake in terms of education in Texas, it’s this
osutein.bsky.social Austin Gilkeson @osutein.bsky.social · 2d
This would also be popular across the political spectrum. People don’t want their children in technocratic factories where they get barked at all day by uncertified functionaries and stare at Chromebooks. They want an actual educational environment.
November 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
kattsdogma.bsky.social
that was his first mis-stake heyooo
November 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
geeforce77.bsky.social
Qantas received $700/$900 million in jobkeeper support during Covid. The govt should have taken a stake at the time.
Qantas’s social licence has obligations.
Dreadful!
#auspol
November 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM
dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
A visual reminder of what people were voting for & what's at stake.

It's not about revenge. It's about justice.
vincempls.bsky.social Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 1d
David's not kidding, the coverage of "I VOTED" stickers at the Pretti/Good street memorial is amazing.
November 9, 2026 at 6:25 AM
rebelb1ue.bsky.social
Besides garlic, sunlight, and a wooden stake, does anyone know what the fuck repels Stephen Miller? 🧛‍♂️
November 9, 2026 at 7:31 AM
brunodias.dev
And to reiterate again, the actual issues at stake, the actual harms being done by these companies, and the actual significance of IGF to the industry are what's worth discussing here.
austinwalker.bsky.social austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 18h
Over the past month, IGF judges and jurists have had intense, difficulty, generous, and deeply engaged conversations about AI and the games industry.

This statement is the result of those conversations.
This year's IGF entries have been incredible. We've been lucky to play games that surprise, connect, and challenge us, and we're excited to vote for our favorites. Unfortunately, there has also been a significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools. This has set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools, and at this point there is no universal consensus on what (if anything) is to be done. The IGF has affirmed that we may cast our votes according to our own tastes and values. But we, a contingent of IGF jurors, feel that this trend and the games embracing it deserve stronger pushback than a vote in silence. While IGF leadership has approved the release of this statement, it's important to note that we do not speak for IGF as an organization, or for all IGF jury members. Many jurors had differing perspectives and significant reservations about this statement. Some jurists additionally voiced concern about their ability to safely sign without professional blowback, and we do not intend this letter to serve as a censure of those who were unable to sign. Above all: Our goal is to state solidarity with those who despair over the future of their art, their craft, and their industry—including those who have experimented with these tools in the past, but who now believe they are not in our best interest. We know that change does not come at the individual level, but as independent developers, we also know firsthand the value of pushing back on what an industry has deemed "inevitable." As jurists, we feel a responsibility to push past defeatism and aspire to a higher ideal. The future is not yet settled. You are not alone. We can stand together. We, the undersigned IGF jury members, believe the following: 1. That generative AI has these negative effects: Ecological harms at community and planetary levels Economic harms to working developers and artists Cognitive and psychological harms to its users Harm to the increasingly fragile information landscape Harms to labor and worker power in creative fields 2. That these harms do not depend on what is generated, be it music or writing, art or VO, marketing assets or code. 3. That AI-generated code is not an exception to these harms. Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game. This extends to the past work used to train these models without the creators' consent. 4. Finally, that the use of these tools is neither a foregone conclusion in our industry nor that their adoption has been wholly voluntary. We stand in solidarity not only with those developers who have the freedom to unilaterally reject them, but also with those who have been compelled by their employers to adopt their use, those working to establish or improve their workplace policies, and especially with those in positions of precarity who are so often those most pressured to abandon their values. For these reasons, this year we are declining to vote for any game that uses generative AI in any capacity. We urge the IGF to adopt a strong anti-AI policy for future years that disallows games containing any AI-generated work. A.M. Darke aurahack Aura Triolo Austin Walker Brendon Chung Brent Arnold Dan Floyd Everest Pipkin Gianna Ruggiero isaac io schankler Johnnemann Nordhagen Lena Raine Marielle Kho Megan Fox Noel Berry Osama Dorias Sam Barlow Tamara Duplantis Taylor Mccue
November 10, 2026 at 7:24 AM