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@alpha1beta.com

Coder. Droid Rights Activist. Zombie hunter (Permit #152317) Grandmaster of #$!a%^& profanity. Progressive Liberal. Proud New Jerseyean. Opinionated AF. Facts are facts, opinions are opinion. Orcs suck. Nazis are bad. Elon is a nazi.

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Grand jury rejects effort by the Justice Department to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump aide who was targeted after she gave damning testimony to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

nytimes.comGrand Jury Declines to Bring Charges Against Cassidy HutchinsonThe rejection of the indictment was the latest extraordinary setback in President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.

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Not a fan of America becoming a haven for fascist criminals, personally

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost Brazil’s presidential election, left the country for the U.S. after the Brazilian police asked for his passport because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case. nyti.ms/4A0AfnN

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, How to Make Idiocracy Non-Fiction In One Generation

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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ICYMI

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social

NEW: US lawmakers say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding a secret court opinion about the surveillance of Americans, even as it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

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Thank you @duckduckgo.com! We are truly proud to be recognized as a crucial part of the digital privacy ecosystem. Good to be in this work together.

DuckDuckGo@duckduckgo.com

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End their bloodline

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

BREAKING Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's victory on Sunday. "It is impossible to acknowledge the result," he said from Brasilia, adding that "I am going to request the annulment of these elections"

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Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

checking in on the president of the united states

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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BREAKING: BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

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lmao even DataRepublican is like “uh folks we need history e-day turnout or we are capital-F Fucked”

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Guys, is it good news when the biggest GOP shill on Twitter is not showing their predictions because of the impending blue wave?

Guy looks a rapist, talks like a rapist, hangs around with rapists...yeah he's probably a rapist. And according to at least one judge, is a rapist.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"I could set that up" -- Trump says he could "violate" Gov. Pritzker and send in the troops to Chicago

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They’re taking this “Joe Rogan of the left” thing literally and seriously.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

Supposed to? According to who? Not experts. Not teachers. Not students. Maybe snake oil salesmen or megalomaniacs. God damn this is the dumbest fucking timeline.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Alpha School, a fast-growing private school network, promises to use A.I. to teach kids twice as much in half the time. While its students’ test scores are high, some parents and educators are questioning its high-tech, low-book model. nyti.ms/4BoCEtK

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⚡️Kremlin-seized German company Metro AG transfers 1 billion rubles to Russian military without approval. Metro AG responded, saying it did not approve the donations. On Sept. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree placing the Russian subsidiary of Metro AG under the Kremlin's control.

kyivindependent.comKremlin-seized German company Metro AG transfers 1 billion rubles to Russian military without approvalMetro AG responded, saying it did not approve the donations. On Sept. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree placing the Russian subsidiary of Metro AG under the Kremlin's control.

Nothing says both we're not taxing businesses enough and they are ripping off their users than a small cartel being able to spend millions on each race.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Crypto industry alone is now up to an insane $55 million spent trying to defeat Sherrod Brown. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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I do not like Chainguard. You cannot get me to say a single positive thing about them as a company. Leaking a critical vulnerability in violation of an embargo is outrageous behavior even for them and they absolutely know better.

Everyone who cares about the future of the U.S. should 1) Use Federated Social media 2) Avoid .us and .com 3) Avoid hosting in the U.S. (Or at least have backups in the EU)

Goldmaster@goldmaster.site

Use @pixelfed.org no ads and runs on #ActivityPub so there is very little risk of takedown and can use 3rd party apps. Plus can bridge to bluesky with @ap.brid.gy

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Trump used to lie that under Obama and/or Biden, "the military ran out of bullets" but now he's done this

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

Oh to be a bomb under that table...

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Per WSJ, Putin has proposed a meeting with Trump and Xi next month (supposedly when DJT visits China) “to decide Ukraine's fate”.

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Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is now closely shadowing ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite supporting Ukraine, after maneuvering into nearly the same orbit. Such proximity could allow Russia to monitor or interfere with transmissions and potentially position itself for an anti-satellite operation

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Trump-friendly oligarchs are buying up major media with the regime's help. They control CNN, CBS, Fox, TikTok, Meta, X and major local TV chains. Yet Mike Johnson is still claiming liberal bias. The real media conspiracy is the corporate consensus to normalize Johnson and other right-wing radicals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson offers a conspiracy theory to explain away his party's dire polling: "I believe there's a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that's openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"

The Western World must stand together and say loud and clear: ANY cyber attack on even one civilian will be met with nuclear force. All of Russia and all of Iran for one of ours. We cannot let this stand

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

Major French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. u.afp.com/SCx8

All conservatives on planet earth are brainwashed or puppets. No human being is actually a conservative (By today's definition)

Online activity for the CONservative Party of Canada is down 60% after Ukraine destroys largest Russian data centre. Probably nothing.

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Everyone knows when Ken Paxton takes one of his taxpayer-funded trips out of state, it's just because he has to check on one of his fifteen homes.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.

MAGA wasn't organic. Brexit wasn't organic. AFD is and never was organic. If you are a conservative in the post-Bush (43) era, you are a Russian puppet.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

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"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

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“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"

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Officials arrested a Minnesota teen who they say was planning a mass shooting at the Mall of America inspired by the Islamic State. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, tried to buy weapons from an undercover agent he thought was with the extremist group, officials said.

washingtonpost.comFBI says it stopped teen’s plan for ISIS-inspired attack at Mall of AmericaThe 18-year-old allegedly tried to buy an assault rifle, intending to harm shoppers at the Minnesota mall, according to court records.

I'm not an economist but I warned folks this would happen

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

New York Fed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9% to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods. Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." All exactly as most macroeconomists forecast.