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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, that kind of Christianity

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

Two absolute lunatics

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social

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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.

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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran

In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...

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Missouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On the one hand, conservatives deny climate change exists and oppose policies to address it. On the other hand, liberals haven’t convinced conservatives that climate change exists and haven’t offered pain-free solutions. Hence, it’s complicated.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

Another great example. The media was so desperate for a scandal that they wrote up a guy asking for a diplomatic passport — and not getting it.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

There's also, slightly more bleakly, the UK Cass Report. An audit of medical records showed trans kids waiting years for appointments and having an average of 7 assessments before receiving any care. Anti-trans activists said it was proof kids were being rushed into transition.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

My favorite example of this is the lab leak, where LEAKED SECRET SLACK MESSAGES show scientists going "wow, this could really be a lab leak," then investigating, finding no evidence and moving on. To this day conspiracy theorists claim the chats prove the leak is real.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there literally is no system that is abuse proof, so at a certain point you’re just against the abstract concept of authority or power in general. I think about this when it comes to ALPRs for traffic enforcement. Like if you want to have laws at all, you have to give someone power.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/09/2026

These people (McArdle, Weiss, Stephens, Brooks, etc) are handed the plumest positions despite having incoherent ideas, being unwilling to engage with critics, and having almost no knowledge of liberal views. Despite being quota beneficiaries, they also love to hate fair diversity recruiting.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/09/2026

The allegedly liberal media is filled w mediocre conservatives like Megan McArdle who think that being criticized for stupid columns is the same thing as being condemned for shouting racial slurs at toddlers. They also claim to be the arbiters of normalcy, despite constantly being abnormal.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Utah wanted websites to verify the actual, physical location of visitors and force them to identify VPN users. The controversial addition to the state's age-verification law was suppose to go into effect next week, but a District Court judge struck it down at least temporarily.

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Federal judge strikes down Utah's controversial VPN age verification rules

A major win for digital privacy as courts rule that state-level age verification laws cannot mandate the tracking of encrypted web traffic

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Jim Carroll @jtccarroll.flux.community · 28/09/2026

My latest @flux.community: An increasingly fascistic Republican Party, not ideas that lie within the continuum of pro-democracy policies, is the true threat to America: why the Third Way declaration of war on the DSA is so very bonkers. 1/x plus.flux.community/p/third-way-...

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Third Way “war” on democratic socialism betrays a basic misreading of U.S. politics

An increasingly fascistic Republican Party, not ideas that lie within the continuum of pro-democracy policies, is the true threat to America

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

Trump’s evangelical allies thought overturning Roe would cement their influence. But some of their leaders are discovering just how little sway they still have. @cheetah.bsky.social went inside a major evangelical summit to see why cracks are starting to show. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hSCSS6?utm_...

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026

The root of Trump's most durable support is that he is stupid, and deep down, his most fanatical supporters know that he is. Like recognizes like. They don't like scientists, minorities, journalists, and professors being high-falutin' -- and neither does Trump.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/09/2026

I personally witnessed or delivered several moments like this back when I was a Republican. Alleged experts like Stephen Moore constantly falling on their faces was the reason I started having doubts. (Seeing the vicious Christian nationalism up-close was the final straw.)

A photograph of former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026

Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

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LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
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Congressional District: MD-03
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8h

I suppose this is what a nation that is "hot" looks like?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 16h

(I think it's remarkable only in that it took this long; some of us were arguing this was a worthwhile tack some time ago, though perhaps it took us getting to the level of "neighbors getting kidnapped off the street by feds" for normal people to realize it was happening)

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026

PLEASE OPEN THE BOX LABELED CAMPAIGN AD DEFAMATION TORT I BEG YOU, OPEN IT

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026

finally ran it down & counted, this aired at LEAST 20 times on local breaks on my ESPN this past saturday She is a Republican running for State Senate, a chamber Republicans have controlled for more than 30 years. Literally everything she complains about in this ad is her own party's doing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026

a lot of things could be fixed in this country with a few defamation suits (Schmitt being so stupid he repeated it while no longer protected by the speech & debate clause)

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/09/2026

that durbin thinks this is an error even after 30 years is wild

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 18h

this is amazing & @lynnhurtak.com is going to be playing with this all day long

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember the federal government prosecuting Aaron Swartz for downloading articles from JSTOR. Now the heads of prolific hacking and plagiarizing cartels are dining with dictators at the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“USDOT said the regulation will reduce manufacturers' average cost per vehicle to comply by $1,289 but increase fuel costs by more than $1,600 over the life of the vehicles.” 🤌🤌🤌 www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards in boost for gas-powered vehicles

The U.S. Transportation Department on Monday finalized sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards, President Donald Trump's latest effort to encourage ‌sales of gasoline-powered vehicles and reverse...

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

The Trump administration's policies have resulted in the average driver spending $65 more per month on gas than they did a year ago www.urban.org/urban-wire/r... The administration's changes to fuel efficiency policies will make this problem even worse, not more affordable.

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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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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 29/09/2026

The Texas Cattle Feeders Association getting ratio'd on X the everything app over their "arresting all our workers isn't helping on beef prices" tweet, lol and lmao

Texas Cattle Feeders Association @txcattlefeeders

A joint statement from Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association regarding the ongoing ICE operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas:

“The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association are closely monitoring reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity affecting agricultural communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas.

Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating. Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business. These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving. Additionally, these types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers.

Reported impacts to our organizations throughout the past few days have been:
- Thousands of fed cattle slated for shipping to processors now delayed, resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue and additional costs.
- Workforce disruptions at numerous supply chain chokepoints such as feedyards, dairies, processors, feed and grain companies, transportation hubs, and community services.

These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain. They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operatio…

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tfw you think you’re an end and you find out you’re a means

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it’s always the ones you most suspect

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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19h

these project of AI is so intrinsically based on destroying solidarity that its proponents don’t even understand that music is a communal experience

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I need to make a variant of this where AI debates with AI over the future of human arts and letters.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, boss, picked up a bunch of rakes, just like you wanted! Got a great deal at Sideshow Bob's Rake Showroom!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Benny Johnson is dumber than a box of rocks; Hannity is a bit savvier but also not the brightest. The bigger point is that these guys, and many others, have shown who they are, that they're completely unconstrained by the truth or reality, and it's up to media outlets to reflect as much in coverage

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nobody knows why you voted for them! There’s no feedback form where you clarify your specific preferences and politicians say “ahhh, got it, thanks!”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't have à la carte politics! You don't vote for an issue, you vote for politicians who have agendas!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Completely agree, and I'd also love to hear what he thinks he did vote for. The ICE sweeps? The Iran war? Putting Trump's name and likeness on everything possible?

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