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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"It was the classics as learned through memes by a groyped-up staffer;" open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

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The Greeks Without Tragedy

On Marco Rubio’s Athens Speech

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026

As always with Rs, the sense is not so much that they deny the physical phenomenon of climate change as the presence or absence of the phenomenon simply never enters their thinking. They interact with it *purely* as a partisan matter, something libs care about. No awareness of a world beyond.

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jimboch.bsky.social @jimboch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s crazy how Catholicism is apparently real

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel very happy for White Sox fans who have definitely earned some joy.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Waiting for the @volts.wtf take on the permitting bill

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This a perfect little clause summing up our very very strange times. "to learn how Anthropic — which could be valued at $2 trillion — might apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RIP Cubs 2026. PCA season was amazing and I’m grateful, pitching injuries too much to overcome, but also: it continues to burn that this organization with all its resources keeps getting lapped by Milwaukee. This year felt like a step back.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bracketing for a moment whether it *works* or whether Meta can be trusted, this does strike as obviously the most appealing and genuinely useful application of the technology for people in their actual lives.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

really worth watching the whole thing play out...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

re-upping this because we've reached another tentative equilibrium in which Saudis have been able to ramp up exports, and oil and gasoline both have come back down a bit off their highs. But with Trump formally rejecting Iranian deal, look for Iran to start using other methods to apply pressure

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t recommend it but if you want to get really depressed about democracy and public opinion, spend some time reading up on the election of 1868. Woof.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Genuine Q: have the Anthropic models just not been jailbreaking like the OpenAI ones have or have we just not found the evidence yet?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the worse Republicans do in the midterms, the better it looks for him. Just goes to show the party is utterly lost without him on the ballot! He’s literally the only Republican who has the juice. (Natalie, if you see this, please print and share.)

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I didn't realize that the Trump meeting was, at least in part, a huge gift from Mamdani to Gov. Hochul lolll

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 22/09/2026

Caleb 👑 Didn’t think I could love him any more, but here we are.

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@daemarrrr• 10h
The guy that had a kid arrested and expelled from school for throwing pennies at him is calling someone else soft LMFAOOOOOO

Barstool Sports * @barstoolsp.... 12h
Dave calls out Caleb Williams

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“If Jackson wins in November, he would be the only current senator with an associate degree.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate

How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

very excited and grateful for this! “Kill. Bury. Print.” premieres this Sunday Sept 27 on Peacock! trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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Rachel Maddow’s ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival

Rachel Maddow's ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This summer a series of unsigned, unattributed gold-plated reliefs appeared in...a newer Kennedy Center annex that is slated to remain open during the main building’s closure. The images depicted include Mr. Trump raising his fist after he survived a 2024 assassination attempt..."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man “wet lab” is an evocative phrase, ain’t it?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we had one, it was the heat pump subsidies the republicans killed

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We need a crash program to get New England off of oil heat. Stat.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Huge issue in the northeast as well.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some interesting archival footage from the Kennedy Center's 1971 dedication in this @chrislhayes.bsky.social segment. Wild to hear what Rose Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein and *the Nixon administration* said at the time... & compare to what a certain president says about it now youtu.be/jpQBDVTHnfg?...

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‘Not so different from desecrating a grave’: Hayes on Trump’s threats to demolish the Kennedy Center

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really feels like Iran turning the screws and pushing gas to, say, $5-6 a gallon puts us in pretty uncharted waters, politically. So far the global oil infrastructure has proven to be remarkably resilient so maybe that doesn't happen, but doesn't look great!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's very funny to watch the ALL IN dudes, who have succeeded in so thoroughly capturing the government, their co-host was AI Czar whine about regulatory capture, and about how the *other* AI people are all just talking their book.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is going to make me sound old and maybe a little nostalgic but it’s really striking how in the Trump era, no one even pretends to debate about policy anymore.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the stubborn dynamics in climate politics is conservatives being simply unwilling to believe that their ideological opponents were/are right about something very important. Lots of conservatives really did covince themselves it was all a conspiracy to impose more government control.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Exactly, but probably worth noting the runners *closest to it* are saying it’s there.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t think the dynamics here are that complicated. Imagine a foot race where the winner gets a trillion dollars, but as the leaders of the pack approach the end line they see it’s at the very edge of a sheer 1000’ cliff. They would probably try to coordinate some slowdown.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the 5th anniversary of 9/11 I wrote a cover story for The Nation taking on 9/11 Truthers. Here we are 20 years after that and a senior Republican Senator is peddling the same nonsense youtu.be/bFpHYSoi2CI?...

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‘Ghastly untrue’: Hayes torches GOP senator’s 9/11 conspiracy theories

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