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@thepilot9.bsky.social
Spirit questing on this space rock. Lover of dogs, good food, interesting conversations, and honest souls. Follow me for insightful and pointless takes. Delete your X account. Sell your Tesla.
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all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them
“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”
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“I think America is big enough for all of us. [JD Vance’s] view of America is small. It's small like him.” A lot of money quotes in this @gregsargent.bsky.social interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, but this is the best one in my view.
Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...
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Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Mamdani and City Council strike deal to ban NYC horse carriage industry politi.co/47QS4cC
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ah, the return of merit
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Well well well, I wonder how we got here, Mr. Karl Rove: www.sacurrent.com/news/politic...
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“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “I’m a capitalist. We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism.”
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In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.
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Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
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Cleanup is underway near the Hackensack River in New Jersey where about 5,000 gallons of fuel spilled from a data center, state officials said. The spill renewed fears of the environmental dangers linked to the expanding use of A.I. systems.
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🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Very good opportunity to link Musk, who people universally LOATHE, to the almost comically corrupt Paxton. Bundle these shitheads together as the enemies of working people and don’t let up.
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk is expected to spend up to $200 million in the midterms. It could be a big boost for GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who’s struggled to raise cash. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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😳 Trump sleeps his way through psychotic vaccine misinformation event 😳 When Trump wasn't blabbering, he was napping on camera, his eyes closed and face drooping. At a couple moments it even looked like he was about to fall out of his chair. Here's a supercut:
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Biden depleted our stockpiles. It’s a lie that our stockpiles are depleted. The people leaking this should be in jail. This is some insane mental gymnastics even for Mike Waltz
WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
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Here’s a rush transcript of Trump’s abysmal WHCD speech last night. Best part is when he tells a mildly funny joke and it falls flat and he tries to explain it and complains about the rest of his crappy speech. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...
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Questions like this are far more useful than using your committee time for a speech
Sen. Ossoff: You are requesting $68B for the department, correct? Hegseth: $67 billion. Ossoff: And yesterday, US forces struck Iran. Hegseth: Yes. Ossoff: Nearly 5 months ago, you said Iran's military was "destroyed" and "made combat ineffective." Was that accurate?
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In case you missed it: Last year, federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Andrew Tate and his brother in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate. (Published Nov. 2025)
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