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Common Raven

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anonymous civil servant resisting hostile takeover. please free my kin being held captive by your health secretary.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 29/09/2026
These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Common Raven @100grasses.bsky.social · 22h
Smart women make me smarter. @katiephang.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgu...
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Trump PANICS As GOP Rep FAILS TO SHOW UP And VIRGINIA Wants HIM GONE!!
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republican senator's gotcha moment of confrontation against Jack Smith involving a basketball game backfires when it turns out the senator got the wrong game, wrong league and wrong state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@billmckibben.bsky.social and I have a double feature for ya today on the *What If We Get It Right?* podcast, recorded live during NYC Climate Week with Patagonia’s head of impact and the CEO of Protect Our Winters: The Fight for Public Lands. Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1773809532
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WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?
Listen to WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? wherever you get your podcasts!
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 28/09/2026
This should be both a brutal and honest account and an uplifting story about the heroic folks standing tall in the face of injustice.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The U.S. strike on the Iranian elementary school was the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century in terms of child casualties.   Horrific.   This war needs to end – now.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Coyote Yipps is 𝒕𝒉𝒆 most charmingly informative and visually appealing coyote website on the internet. See the collage preview? Click the link for full-size photos with captions. #Coyotes are incredibly playful creatures. Credit: Janet Kessler. 💚 coyoteyipps.com/2020/11/28/c...
A collage of fifteen photos showcasing a playful coyote leaping, somersaulting, and whirling around like a mad dog. 

The author and photographer, Janet Kessler, lives in California. She observes wildlife from a safe and unobtrusive distance.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
DILLEY DETENTION CENTER NUMBER 2 Call it a “staging facility” all you want. The contract says detention. There’s playground equipment behind the fence. And Dilley has already held children far beyond the roughly 20-day Flores limit. Now they’re building “Dilley 2.” We know what this is!
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026
On Tuesday, GOP senator Jon Husted said it was time to end Trump’s illegal war. But two days later, Husted voted against a resolution to end Trump’s illegal war. His spinelessness in service of a wannabe king is one of the many reasons why Husted is about to lose his job in November.
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Jon Husted Casts Deciding Vote Against Resolution To End Iran War
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) said the war should end, but refused to vote to end it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu did a promo reel saying he’d reveal “the truth” about Mamdani and then his actual speech was a standard NY Post editorial.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great reporting:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
p.s. my newsletter is on Ghost. org: www.meditationsinanemergency.com
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Climate Week is here in New York City, and our work has deep roots. 18,261 trees planted this year. The most in a decade.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Potash humor. @cnn.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/e...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The guy with the 33% approval rating wants to put the GOP at the beck and call of widely hated tech oligarchs, and the response from Dems is to look for ways to help Republicans get distance from Trump by partnering with them on "bipartisan" bills that Trump will never sign.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
"Trump is the ultimate dumb guy's idea of a smart man, so it only makes sense he’d adopt the artistic worldview of a high schooler who is pretty sure he’s cooler than everyone else because he talks about Michelangelo’s 'David' or some such."
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Totalitarian art
The Hitler comparisons are sometimes overdone. But not here.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026
NEW: We released a report showing how mass deportations are worsening the affordability crisis for everyone — driving down wages, killing jobs for Americans and noncitizens alike. It doesn’t have to be this way. A broad path to citizenship would create jobs, lift wages, and help working families.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From @status.news: 60 Minutes debut episode drew 7.94 million viewers, 1.58 million of which were in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 year old demographic. Overall, viewership was down 21% compared to last year's premiere, which averaged 10.03 million viewers. I think this is the right view to take:
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I always find myself looking at all the people behind him that just stand there, like this is normal, waiting for him to wake up.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And the cult still believe him...smdh 🙄
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/09/2026
the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last Day of Biden Vs. Trump: 🔹 Gas: $3.12 → $4.32 🔹 Diesel: $3.63 → $6.29 🔹 Inflation: 2.9% → 3.4% 🔹 Wage growth: 3.9% → 3.1% 🔹 Real wage growth: +1.0% → -0.3% 🔹 GDP growth: 2.8% in 2024 → 1.5% in Q2 2026 🔹 And the U.S. is now at war with Iran.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ten days after 9/11, Father Robert Prevost urged his fellow Augustinians to resist revenge and bear witness to “unity, dialogue, peace and reconciliation.” Twenty-five years later, he is Pope Leo XIV. He has been telling us who he is all along.
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Ten Days After 9/11, Future American Pope Warned Against Seeking Revenge
Ten days after the towers fell, the new prior general preached at Santa Maria del Popolo that hatred grows where 24,000 people die of hunger every day. Twenty-five years later, he is the pope.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
THE GOLDEN RULE: Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated. So even if you think you're debunking him on the bribe checks, you're helping him.
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Trump doesn’t lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated.
It’s time to stop giving him what he wants.
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can confirm: this is INCREDIBLY rare. “Photographer and bird enthusiast Alexander deBarros captured a photo of a coyote with a greater roadrunner in its mouth.” KTLA: Rare, real-life coyote and roadrunner drama unfolds in L.A. ktla.com/news/local-n... #canislatrans #coyote #urbanwildlife
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Rare, real-life coyote and roadrunner drama unfolds in L.A.
A Southern California bird watcher stumbled onto a scene over the weekend that looked like it came straight out of a classic cartoon, except this time, the coyote appears to have won and there&#821…
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026
> all these people stand to benefit financially from inflating the power of their technology, and anyone pulling all-nighters on a new product would love to believe it has world-altering capabilities.
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Common Raven @100grasses.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can it be a coincidence that Musk renamed the platform "X"?
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
36 days until the next #NoKings, and 53 days until we flip Congress. ❌👑
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI development is moving faster than our ability to assure its safety. It’s time to hit pause until we can assure it won’t…destroy us.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump's rage at Canada is so unhinged that GOPers are now leaking that his trade war is a huge problem in the midterms. The big story here: MAGA zero-sum economics is a substantive *and* political disaster. On the pod @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social explains this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2152...
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Grows So Unhinged that Even GOPers are Rattled
As Trump’s anti-Canada lunacy starts spooking Republicans, the author of a piece on Trump’s trade-warring explains how badly divorced from reality this whole crusade has truly become.
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