KittyWampus

KittyWampus

@kitty-wampus.bsky.social

"Currently clean on OPSEC" Low stakes art for mental health. Rebuilding social cohesion is imperative.

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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social

To bring a smile to your face, here’s a c. 4,500 year-old clay vase in the shape of a little hedgehog holding a bowl! 🦔 ❤️ From Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology

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The Lever
@levernews.com

You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️

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Jesse Eisinger
@jeisinger.bsky.social

Hell of a story: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u... Tea leaf reading: They all have compromat on each other and are going to start leaking. (My Signal is open Ric & Alina.)

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Jason Smith
@newqueuelure.bsky.social

i think the best way to understand this is my theory of market warlordism i've been developing where you buy stock to show loyalty to the billionaire warlord you've allied with there's a heavy signalling component—the more absurd or shameful the investment becomes the more accurate the signal

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

Tesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flight

yhoo.itTesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flightTesla finally unveiled the long-awaited Roadster on Thursday night.

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James Hell Brooks
@kleinman.bsky.social

We also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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AuntieU
@umaija.bsky.social

Replying to @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Putin is also working with Musk to rig elections worldwide. bsky.app/profile/umai...

AuntieU@umaija.bsky.social

A whistleblower exposes Elon's ties to Russia. His Russian investors helped Musk buy X, use Starlink & social media for the Russians' advantage, to interfere with elections in the US and now Europe. These are malign operations by Felon Musk who is a traitor. thiswillhold.substack.com/p/x-whistleb...

thiswillhold.substack.comX Whistleblower: Elon Musk Allowed Russian Interference In 2024 ElectionFormer X employee makes alarming allegations about Elon Musk and the 2024 election. And, of course—Russia, Russia, Russia.

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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social

I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for RepublicansThe world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

nytimes.comJustice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool CoverageMajor TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.

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Jesse Eisinger
@jeisinger.bsky.social

The technique of having plain clothes goons race up to a car with guns drawn seems designed to maximize shootings.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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Sonja Drimmer
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

The proposition of sentience or intelligence is part of the AI Industry’s agnotology gambit. Just as Big Tobacco funded red herring research to flood public discourse with doubt, so this industry poses inane talking points as existential questions and even funds research into them.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

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Gaylan G.
@gaylan.bsky.social

Iran Is Taking Cues From The War Whisperer! #Discover #USNews #IranWar #InternationalPolitics #Trump

Gaylan G.@gaylan.bsky.social

IRAN ILLUSTRATES OBEDIENCE... I Wonder How Many More Blue State Cities Trump Plans To Mention. "They hit us Bad." Newly Obtained Footage, Witness Accounts Detail Iran Attack — And U.S. Retreat — At Major Post In Kuwait - CBS News...

share.google"They hit us bad." Newly obtained footage, witness accounts detail Iran attack — and U.S. retreat — at major post in KuwaitCBS News obtained new video from a person on the ground showing an Iranian attack on a U.S. base at the beginning of the war.

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James Cameron
@jjjcameron.bsky.social

Drone-enabled counterforce strikes against strategic bombers is now something that US, Russia, China have to take seriously. Bombers are vulnerable, esp without hard shelters, and their relatively limited numbers mean that a successful strike against even one base can have a big impact.

nytimes.comFrom Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (Gift Article)A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

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Pam Spaulding
@pamspaulding.bsky.social

“The financial costs have continued to climb by billions each month, even as the administration refuses to acknowledge the munitions crisis we face or admit the costs to rebuild bases heavily damaged by Iran." — Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

nytimes.comFrom Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (Gift Article)A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.blacksky.app

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

Mediaite@mediaite.com

Chris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’

dlvr.itChris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’Chris Rock dished the big "problem with wokeness" is it turned its true believers into coldhearted prudes who are unwilling to forgive people for mistakes The post Chris Rock Compares ‘Woke 1’ to the Old Testament and Salem Witch Trials: ‘No Forgiveness’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social

Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

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Jim Lokay
@jimlokay.com

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Jo Wolff
@jowolff.bsky.social

Hearing from a friend in Israel that Netanyahu did this speech to boost his chances in the upcoming election but national media is full of pictures of him speaking to an empty hall after almost everyone walked out.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

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.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
@froomkin.bsky.social

Yes, it’s propaganda, and good for WaPo putting the word in the headline, which almost nobody else did. They should remove the damn quote marks though. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comTrump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."