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Wendell Albright

@wendella.bsky.social

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Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · Jun 10

It's like Asimov's "Nightfall" except instead of the stars driving us insane, it's social media...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 13m

GOP want the enshittification of children's teeth

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 45m

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 17m

How? The states don't send taxes, individuals do - and the feds can come after the individuals.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 4h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2h

The Master Race, ladies and gentlemen.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

it also feeds the dumb stereotypes in fiction about women journalists seducing/being seduced by their sources

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 1h

Bessent adds, "There's only room for ONE unreliable partner for the world in this relationship"

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT SAYS IF CHINA WANTS TO BE AN UNRELIABLE PARTNER FOR THE WORLD, WE WILL NEED TO DECOUPLE

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of the classic joke about the economists who each paid each other $100 to eat a pile of dog shit. Was it for nothing? No, they just increased the GDP by $200.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 3h

With much of the government shut down, health care cuts looming, and ICE raids taking place in small towns, numerous protests of the Trump administration are scheduled for Saturday in Ohio. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/15/b...

Big protests planned across Ohio on Saturday • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio and the country are rocked by the government shutdown, threats to health care, ICE raids and more. Protests are scheduled for Saturday.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

(In my best January 6 voice): "Pardon?"

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

I suppose the motive is not convenient for the right-wing noise machine to comment on

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

Trump spokesman: "they should have just been white"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3h

PERFECT timing for an era in which Young Republicans bond over posts like "Rape is epic" and the entire government is shut down to protect pedophiles. What could go wrong with Altman's DIY pron-production machine?

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

Shades of SpaceX buying Cybertrucks...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Fox is now openly celebrating Trump's unconstitutional seizure of power from Congress. There is literally nothing the guy could do that they wouldn't cheerlead. The network is completely captured by MAGA.

chyron: "FOX HOLDS FEDERAL PURSE STRINGS"

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 20h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

if you needed another reminder that Republicans hate women.

Lisa McClain didn't chuckle and do her weird head-wobble for this answer...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 2h

Well JD gets upset when his ideological proteges are criticized

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

My memory is quite the opposite. “No kings” has actually worked out really well for the American economy for centuries.

It’s the arrival of a would-be king that has shut everything down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 5h

yeesh

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