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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1h

Respectfully, the weird stuff should be funded too

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Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 1h

Decided to delete the direct link to The Needle piece. On further evaluation, if *I'm* feeling so uncertain about it, then even sharing with caveats is probably not the best idea. I shouldn't lean in to my own confirmation bias, after all!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

Slotkin worked for the CIA and DoD, she keeps her cards very close to her chest. Something has been going on in Trumpland and she caught wind of it

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

Disrupting the certification process of the 737 MAX 10 and 777-9 five weeks before the midterm elections is an excellent way to build leverage

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

Court packing is only okay if Republicans do it to end direct democracy

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

C'mon fellow men... the bar is on the floor

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 3h

I still strongly believe that air conditioning is a human right. But we've got to figure out what to do with aging A/C units across the world — fast.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5h

One of the easiest ways for the MTA to reduce costs is to adopt standardized subway vehicles with one-person crews

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 9h

Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 6h

Dawg if you haven't read the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, here's the relevant section for you. What you suggest is not journalism. You're trying to retraumatize her and possibly get her killed www.spj.org/spj-code-of-...

Consider sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Reserve anonymity for sources who may face danger, retribution or other harm, and have information that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Explain why anonymity was granted.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 6h

That's why I would love to know how much Nick Saban got paid to promote the Protect College Sports Act

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

i think this is a fealty test trump daring republicans to show disloyalty

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 7h

The irony still hasn't lost on me that while Trump is aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine, the authoritarian head of state he most depends on outside of Israel and maybe Argentina to maintain power is a Salvadorean of Palestinian descent. Seriously what are the odds.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 8h

I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 8h

Imagine this happening in the United States (it won't, it will almost always end in a school shooting)

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 8h

I've added a new feature to Transit Explorer—the database of the world's fixed-guideway transit systems: The ability to compare cities, side by side, at the same scale. Here, for example, is Washington vs. Chicago, and Singapore vs. London! Play around: www.thetransportpolitic.com/transitexplo...

Transit systems in Washington and Chicago, at the same scale.

Transit systems in Singapore and London, at the same scale.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 9h

Britain's financial regulator has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about their climate risks after firms raised concerns about implementation costs and competitiveness.

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UK regulator abandons mandatory climate disclosures for listed companies

Britain's financial regulator has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about their climate risks after firms raised concerns about implementation ‌costs and competitiveness.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 9h

"this has been my hardest gig because they didn't turn down the house lights" really broke my heart for her. It's a devastating line off the cuff.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 10h

It brings me no joy to say that you can't educate people out of beliefs that they refuse to be educated out of...

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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 10h

Can you imagine being this kind of arrogant shithead just to go to your last available Ivy safety school?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15h

Actually, I think everyone knows why Pete Ricketts chose the rapist over the rape survivor

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

seriously: every western regime should deny any and all relief and sabotage this administration as hard as possible

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 18h

Hong Kong’s national security police have reportedly arrested an independent journalist behind an online news outlet on suspicion of publishing fake news. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/30/n... Photo: Screenshot via Facebook.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

Gas prices are basically the only economic measure that people track on a near-daily basis. And right now they are significantly worse than when Biden was facing the 2022 midterms — and particularly in several states with close Senate elections. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 21h

The NYTimes scans crowd footage and finds Jack Smith at the Hawkeye game. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

Photo of fuzzy photo of crowd in near-outside seats. A white man with a beard is circled. The text in the photo is:

College Park, Md.
Feb. 3, 2024
The New York Times analyzed footage from the game and identified Smith in the crowd.
Fox Sports

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18h

Fund 1,000,000 social housing units Build and operate BRT lines in every city E-bikes on separated bikeways for all Massive development on public land around every rail station

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h

Oh this is going to be interesting

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

Why is it so funny to me that they added that big picture of the Atlanta Hawks arena

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026

617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wild how we went from "Wikipedia isn't a reliable source" to "Google isn't a reliable source"

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026

Think tanks, advocacy groups, and lobbyists on the right have long been pre-drafting standardized bills for Republicans to introduce across multiple red states to achieve their political goal. This could be the start of model counter-legislation that can go into effect across blue states

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026

A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials — including the Kennedy Center — was blocked Monday night in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

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GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center

The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026

Malaysia now has the second-most powerful passport in the world, tied with Singapore and behind the UAE. It could've claimed sole possession of second place if not for a Malaysian policy declaring that its passport is "valid for all countries except Israel."

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Global Passport Power Rank 2026 | Passport Index 2026

Explore the interactive global ranking of the world's passports in real-time. Which passport is ranked 1st? Which is last? Find out on Passport Index!

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