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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2h
And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”. 

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 17h
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h
Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security: "[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."
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Angie Siegel @theeangsiegel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Y'all...this is vintage Jon Ossoff. cc: @qondintini.bsky.social
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Federal News Network @federalnewsnetwork.com · 13h
A proposal to remove questions from the census could leave the country flying data blind
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A proposal to remove questions from the census could leave the country flying data blind
"Many other public data sets and private data sets rely on the census as the denominator," said Meeta Anand.
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h
I’m sure the thousands of employees who are about to get canned are happy for him. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Ynon Kreiz Gets $31.5 Million Signing Bonus In Five-Year Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
An SEC filing discloses that Kreiz will receive annual compensation valued at around $30M in the deal.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 15h
Massive crash course in innovation as we gut American higher education.
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 17h
Trump wants to intimidate critics by trying to put this Congresswoman and new mother in prison for allegedly interfering with an arrest. She was visiting an immigration facility as part of her Congressional oversight duties.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
“.. Bastian is in Musk’s sights for choosing Amazon.com Inc.’s Leo, the new service intended to be a Starlink alternative. The SpaceX CEO has repeatedly criticized the move and on Tuesday said Bastian ‘will lose his job over this’.” @bloomberg.com $DAL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17h
Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.
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Chris Conti @chriscontiphoto.bsky.social · 18h
Hey legal and finance Bluesky: I just got a court notice of a class action trial verdict against Elon Musk for manipulating the stock price of Twitter in 2022. If you sold shares (or bought puts or sold calls) from May-Oct 2022, you can get some of Elon Musk's money. Here are the docs.
Court-ordered class action lawsuit trial verdict notice informing individuals of a jury verdict against Elon Musk entitling individuals who sold Twitter stock (and/or bought put options or sold call options) during the period of May-October 2022 that they are entitled to monetary compensation due to the trial verdict finding that Musk illegally manipulated the stock price of Twitter.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17h
NEW: A New Jersey GOP official allegedly targeted Democratic voters' eligibility over residency discrepancies while leaving Republicans untouched. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue unless election officials stop the effort — which risks disenfranchising those voters before the midterms.
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New Jersey GOP operative, pardoned by Trump, accused of scheming to purge Democratic voters ahead of midterms
At the center of the controversy is George Gilmore, who holds two influential positions in Ocean County. He chairs both the county Board of Elections and the Ocean County GOP.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
Here's what the press release for the arrest of what appears to be the accused stalker of Katie Miller says about terrorizing people. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...
“Today, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested John Proia for allegedly engaging in a sustained campaign of harassment to frighten this victim and her family, inflicting significant emotional distress,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Boston Division. “Terrorizing someone isn’t some sick game, it’s a crime, which is why the FBI and our partners take it so seriously as we work to protect and serve everyone in our communities.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Trump: "The one thing we have is oil is a little high, but oil is much lower than it was for Biden" (Energy prices are much higher now than they were when Biden left office)
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h
In July, I led several Senators in a request to the Secretary of the Air Force to disclose how much money is being stolen from taxpayers to pay for Trump’s luxury Qatari jet. Today I got a reply. 100 words. Telling Congress to screw off. Can’t wait for a Democratic Senate!
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 18h
Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...
According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19h
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 21h
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 18h
Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski could not be reached for comment on account of them... being dead for 22 and 44 years respectively.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 20h
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 21h
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
BREAKING: virtually everyone now thinks Trump's a bitch
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h
After incessantly promoting AI data centers, Trump finally admits “it doesn’t mean I want them right next to my house..."
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Trump Admits He's a NIMBY on Data Centers
The president's new interview with Time magazine is just the latest evidence his brain is completely broken.
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Eos @eos.org · 01/10/2026
“If, as the memo implies, [FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton] is expecting FEMA to start operating under this definition, then everything at FEMA would change,” says @samlmontano.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...
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A Redefinition of “Emergency Management” Could Upend FEMA’s Mission - Eos
Last week, FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton issued a memorandum outlining the agency’s scope and essentially redefining “emergency management.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20h
“Right now, the public backlash is so strong against Flock, and the public is not as well aware of the concerns with Axon and some of the other surveillance companies,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thorbenson.bsky.social for @prospect.org.
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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect
Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 20h
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 20h
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 20h
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Alex Christensen @alejoec.bsky.social · 19h
Impeach J.D. Vance.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 20h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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Kevin @kevinllong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is gonna be real good. Do yourselves a favor and follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org if you don’t already. Primo stuff.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a California living Brit, let me say it clearly… Steve Hilton was a Brexiteering shitbag and you would do well to stay away from the populist bullshit he sells.
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Marie Coronel @mariecoronelsd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Padres SWEEP 🧹the Cubs to Advance to NLDS with a 4-1 Win in San Diego. Xander Bogaerts 2-3 RBI & Run; Gavin Sheets Pinch Hit 2-Run Homer; Jackson Merrill 2-3, Run; Adrian Morejon 2 Scoreless; Mason Miller Save, 2 Ks. Next Up Milwaukee! #ForTheFaithful #FriaredUp #Postseason
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 26-year-old cutting back at the grocery store. A 32-year-old wondering if a home or family will ever be within reach. A 70-year-old searching for cheaper groceries. Different generations. Same squeeze. Working people deserve better than this.
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'Can't catch a break': Shoppers squeezed by surging inflation and higher interest rates
Consumers spoke with ABC News about weathering a monthslong surge of inflation.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICE posted an inspection of the Midwest Regional Reception Center detention camp today that found that the facility's policy is to conduct routine strip searches on immigrants. It's owned and operated by CoreCivic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this guy can barely talk, folks
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
This has the potential to rip apart comity between the states. If SCOTUS comes in and says that blue states can't regulate abortion in their own states and red states get a veto over it, it'll create a massive crisis for federalism. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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Red states challenge mail-order abortion shield laws for providers
Three attorneys general in anti-abortion states filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the abortion shield laws of three Democratic-led states that protect ph…
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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