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Antifa baby wrangler. AK grown; AK politics...groan. Слава Україні! 🌻

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 30/09/2026
Boosting in light of the discourse surrounding Cornell University.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 29/09/2026
Although additional details of the system were not revealed at trial, subsequent reporting by 404 Media revealed that Schott most likely was identified by a federal predictive policing unit working out of a so-called fusion center in Laredo that used artificial intelligence to identify him as a likely criminal.

“Homeland Security, DEA, everybody’s there,” Dep. Joel Babb, who pulled Schott over, said in a pre-trial deposition. “And they have a lot bigger toys than a license plate reader.”

fter receiving the WhatsApp message, Babb waited for Schott’s truck to appear, eventually pulling him over for crossing the yellow shoulder line. Schott’s dashboard camera showed him staying inside his lane and the deputy later admitted it was just a pretext to look inside the vehicle.

“The beautiful thing about the Texas traffic code is there’s thousands of things you can stop a vehicle for,” he later testified.After detaining Schott for more than an hour, and doing more than $7,000-worth of damage to his truck during their search, Bexar deputies’ interrogation and search turned up nothing. Yet Molina wrote on his report that they had seen specks of marijuana leaves. If so, nothing was ever collected or tested or mentioned on any body camera footage, Molina later conceded.The interdiction team was so unsuccessful that Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar had joked about it. While the deputies made hundreds of stops, “I would rib them about not being very effective at drug interdiction, not finding drugs very often,” he said in a deposition.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Yeah that part affects EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MESSAGED WITH, WHETHER THEY HAVE MUSE OR NOT. Seriously: do not use muse. Ever.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you put it this way, it sounds pretty bad!
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good piece on this new variety of American fascist preacher. To my mind, there’s not much that’s original about these guys. This is just old school Christian Identity doctrine ca. 1940-1990s rebranded—the stuff Wesley Swift or Richard Butler were preaching. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
religionnews.com
The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thomas is one of the sharpest writers out there, especially when it comes to the history and current politics of the global far right. I’ve learned a ton from him, and you will too if you sign up for his excellent newsletter.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This woman has turned not engaging with her franchise into a moral imperative.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Again, we can debate what we call the regime under which we now live. But it's not "democracy," there's no such thing as "free & fair elections" where this is allowed, & a constitutional order in which these things keep happening & they do not end a presidency is not really a "republic" of laws.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No
2024 NYT article: Can the GOP really become the party of workers?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders — @nafeez.bsky.social The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
bylinetimes.com
UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like everyone to read this, from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
frontiersin.org
Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/09/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
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Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)
YouTube video by Jason Kottke
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 25/09/2026
Election deniers are running for attorney general in states around the country—and major corporations like Microsoft, General Motors, Home Depot and others are backing them financially.
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Corporations are backing election deniers running for attorney general - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Major corporations have donated to multiple attorney general candidates with a record of election denialism.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
The outright refusal to question the motives of these obvious bad faith actors is another instance of people refusing to seriously consider white supremacy as an ideology that motivates action.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You should read this piece about Jim Crow theobros. It says a lot about the racial underpinnings that I talk about in my book White Evangelical Racism; The Politics of Morality in America. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
religionnews.com
The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“‘So what you’re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted?” asked C. Murphy Hebert, the chief deputy in the Nevada secretary of state’s office. “I probably wouldn’t use the sentence, ‘It hasn’t been vetted,’” replied Kimberley Vogt, an official w/Homeland Security.” DEEPLY UNSERIOUS PEOPLE
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
"Remigration" has become the European far right’s favored code word for the ethnic cleansing of nonwhites. Now it has come to America—with an official seal of approval at the highest level. New from Cathy Young:
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 24/09/2026
I love this so much
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/09/2026
Big story from @404media.co: "A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data 'on all FBI employees and applicants'" including "FBI agents' names, home addresses, phone number[s], and information on their spouse[s]." www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/09/2026
An inherited genetic mutation may increase lung cancer risk among people who have never smoked, with carriers of the rare EGFR T790M variant facing roughly 25 times the risk of lung cancer overall and 62 times the risk among never-smokers, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/4yDSuP2
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Germline EGFR T790M mutation and lung cancer risk
Most lung cancers are tobacco related, with genetic factors influencing smoking behavior identified through genome-wide association studies. However, inherited risk in familial and non-smoking-related...
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Politico @politico.com · 22/09/2026
Trump to divert $2.5B to shutter USAID, let other cash expire next week, Democrats warn
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Trump to divert $2.5B to shutter USAID, let other cash expire next week, Democrats warn
In the final days of the fiscal year, federal dollars remain unspent.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will add: there is no way - none whatsoever - that they do not know this.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you want a different voice on this, go to the source, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app was one of the first people lifting this issue.
youtu.be
Is AI Really Going to Kill Us? Timnit Gebru Explains | Vibe Check
YouTube video by Vibe Check
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One person signed up today. One. We need more help!!
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.
yahoo.com
Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say
The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Capt. Kandy Franklin ⚓️🍬 @captkandy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This shit is unsustainable as a mfer.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026
Just because your phone can do it all doesn’t mean it should. These analog alternatives will help you spend less time staring at a screen. nyti.ms/3VjuQsJ
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My iPhone Was Running My Life. These Analog Tools Helped Me Take It Back.
Just because your phone can do it all doesn’t mean it should. These analog alternatives help me spend less time staring at a screen.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
to late night folks in Missouri and Montana… and anyone else who wants to see how some folks are strategizing to find new legal approaches to defend democracy:
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 18/09/2026
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico stated that he has no intention of fulfilling his country’s obligations under Article 5 of the NATO Treaty, or of taking part in the defence of allies in the event of a Russian attack.
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