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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h
This should be getting WAY MORE PRESS “New Study Reveals Retaliation Against Higher Education Employees for Supporting Palestinian Rights” mesana.org/news/2026/10...
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Middle East Studies Association
MESA's Academic Freedom Initiative has released a major new report, Lessons in Repression: Silencing Campus Workers on Palestine Since October 7, 2023. The report shows how higher education institutio...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h
Putin’s trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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How Russia is attacking the midterms with a Mother Jones deepfake.
Putin's trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
NEW: For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled a gerrymandering attempt by the GOP, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned.
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Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/10/2026
The EPA met with oil and gas industry representatives at least three dozen times during Trump’s first year of his second term to discuss methane regulations.
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The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift
Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Honestly, Democrats should propose a bill that will pay $1 billion to every family to whom this happens. Republicans can hardly say no. When no one collects, it will prove the lie a lie.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/10/2026
My God this is beyond horrific. It just gets worse and worse. At U Chicago a man raped an inebriated woman in a bathroom while his friends cheered the rapist on from outside while blocking her friends from going into the bathroom to stop the rapist. letsaddressillinois.substack.com/p/a-group-of...
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A Group of Men Cheered While a Man Raped a Woman at a UChicago Fraternity House
Will our system hold them accountable?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/10/2026
Former US Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, saw his personal wealth soar after he was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2011, thanks in large part to his marriage to the CEO of a powerful military contracting firm.
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Mike Rogers’s Wealth Soared as His Wife’s Firm Won Billion-Dollar Contracts
Despite concerns about conflicts of interest, Rogers was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is criminal. Vote Republican to surrender to Russia. Vote Republican to betray a brave people fighting against annihilation. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/10/2026
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
"He's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids ... typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some unusual search histories" -- JD Vance, who is obsessed with demagoguing trans issues, baselessly suggests that Talarico is a pedo
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
More of this
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why didn’t my enemy interrupt me while I was making a mistake?
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/10/2026
After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.
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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.
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kmbailey59.bsky.social @kmbailey59.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I hope everyone recognizes how insane it is for one person to be able to spend $366M on one election. It would take the average US worker 5,200 _years_ to even earn that much.
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American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
David Ellison hired lobbyists and political operatives to help him kill the challenge against his Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. And it worked. Following a massive behind the scenes campaign, Newsom sided with Ellison over working Californians and pressured Bonta to drop it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/10/2026
Trump’s threats to destroy Iran have become so frequent that they often don’t make headlines. During his speech at the General Assembly, Trump mentioned Iran 17 times, “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?”
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Trump’s Genocidal Rhetoric on Iran Deserves Legal Consequences, Scholars Say
As Trump repeats annihilation threats against Iran, legal scholars implore other countries to step in.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Another bug in the human brain: you surround someone with something and they'll quickly decide that's what's normal (even if the voices are fake, even if you KNOW they're fake).
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Rpunkt @rpunkt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In every meeting nowadays there is a random guy from middle management proposing AI usage. Do they care about moral implications? No. Are they afraid to fall behind “the others”? Yes. Do they have any concrete use case in mind? Of course not. Do they accept the limits of AI? “What limitations?”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/10/2026
Hey remember this
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026
I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just don't care about any ~law enforcement~ story coming out of this administration because the idea of this man enforcing laws is preposterous on its face. We're talking about an arsonist doing fire code inspections. You're a sucker if you engage with any of it in good faith
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026
oh cool 🤬
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2026
To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.
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Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry
Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...
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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution
Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
The Defense Department first awarded the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal a $67 million deal shortly after George Kollitides started at the Pentagon. Then came a bigger, no-bid contract for the firm: $281 million working with Kollitides’ office.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Alternatively, Putin could stop trying to enslave the Ukrainian people. And Trump could engage in serious diplomacy to end his staggeringly stupid war on Iran. Just a thought.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/10/2026
Zelensky accused Trump of reaching agreements with Putin “behind Ukraine’s back” while Kyiv’s delegation is in Florida. He said the US is giving Russia “additional money to wage war” and called Ukraine’s team a “smokescreen” for a decision that is “unfair” and “not partner-like.” #Ukraine
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Coward.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Donald Trump is betraying Ukraine and the USA and violating his own Russian sanctions to buy oil from Russia because he’s terrified of losing the midterms because he’s in the Epstein Files over a million times.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/10/2026
According to the most recent financial disclosures from Trump, the president purchased bonds from SpaceX worth up to $5 million on August 18. Two days later, Trump issued a memorandum announcing the purported launching of “the golden age of space transportation.”
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Trump Bought Millions in SpaceX Bonds Days Before Easing Commercial Space Travel Regulations
Trump’s financial disclosures also show he bought millions in stock from Meta as the company ramps up its AI efforts.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey Wikipedia, tell me about Francis Bellamy, the minister who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that Linda McMahon wants school children to recite every morning.
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22Bellamy was a Christian socialist, who
"championed 'the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus!"[6. In 1891, Bellamy was
"forced from his Boston pulpit for preaching against the evils of capitalism" [3] and eventually stopped attending church altogether after moving to Florida, reportedly because of the racism he witnessed there. '0! Francis's
career as a preacher ended because of his tendency to describe Jesus as a socialist. In the 21st century, Bellamy is considered an early American democratic socialist.""]
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The US is joining these countries in public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hard agree. Not only that, the actual Department of War didn’t include the Navy. It was designed for a time when war was a temporary emergency, not for global military commitments and a large standing military establishment. It’s like calling the Air Force the Army Air Corps again. Archaic.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “ABOLISH ICE”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you‘ve studied history, you know what Trump and his fellow fascists are doing in Minnesota. They’re calling Somali Americans “garbage” and “enemy combatants“ because fascists need to create enemies and foment hate to excite their sick supporters.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
perfect tweet
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ve been studying violence and politics for a loooong time. My last book — “The Field of Blood” —was about the use of physical violence in Congress. So you can bet I’ll have a lot to say…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is how you admit you are strategically screwed, with bluster.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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