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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20m

I discussed the attempted gutting of non-MAGA-loyal generals—and the testosterone obsession—tonight on “A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=Knt8...

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A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can't Sleep -- September 30 Edition

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

in the state's criminal justice system. And the fact that Douglas is being retried in the face on unequivocal and conclusive evidence of his innocence shows just how tenacious that racism is in the Beehive State.

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Queen of Diamonds 💎💙🦋☕️🇺🇦 @lilmisskaren17.bsky.social · 2h

It should have been the end of him when he mocked the reporter who had a disability years ago. And yet here we are

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David Rose's WTF Reaction

ALT: David Rose's WTF Reaction

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 3h

Trump incited an insurrection Trump stole classified docs, stored them in his bathroom Trump asked GA officials to find him 11,000 votes Trump wanted to stop counting COVID infections & deaths Trump suggested we inject light & bleach into our bodies Many Americans thought: let’s try this again

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 3h

America doesn’t have a polarization problem America has a right-wing extremism problem

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

The Secretary of War who adamantly denies that anything he does qualifies as a war.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 5h

The Trump administration openly bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in an Islamophobic post on social media, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white populations.

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White House Openly Brags About Islamophobic Efforts to Cut Legal Immigration

The White House’s bigotry was celebrated by many on the right, who called for further cuts.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15h

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

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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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 6h

BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Anyway, wrote this whole thing up: time for some game theory. bsky.app/profile/donm...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looks like US-made textiles and clothing have gotten more expensive since Trump imposed tariffs in April 2025.

A graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the price of US-made textile products and apparel since July of 2022. The prices held mostly steady until May of 2025, at which point they've gone up about 7%.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Missouri senate delegation does J6.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sen Schmitt and Senator Britt, you both can go to hell! Grassley you're halfway there History will not be kind to you Oh yea Sen Graham you too. 🖕🏽

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These people are utter garbage.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)

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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026

THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026

Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026

More than 100 Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank rioted to prevent the return of a Palestinian family that was driven from its home in the village of Jalud.

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Israeli Settlers Violently Block Displaced Palestinian Family’s Return Home

The family had been forced out after their home was besieged for weeks by state-backed settlers.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In fact, here’s the truth about the HPV vaccine RFK Jr’s lies about the vaccine make me absolutely fucking furious www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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HPV jab: cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in vaccinated young women, research shows
BMJ 2026; 393 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2026-100047 (Published 19 June 2026)
Cite this as: BMJ 2026;393:e100047

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Warren on data centers: Republicans are with the big tech guys and those boys want to be able to come in and build whatever they want to build, and they don't want to pay for the consequences.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.

CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026

New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:

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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations

Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...

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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Letters from an American September 28, 2026 Full letter available here: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p… @hcrichardson.bsky.social

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception. After attacking the press on Saturday morning, at 9:18 he posted a video with foreboding music that sped up as the video played, showing a glowering Trump walking down a hall toward the camera while his voice intoned: “This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

The administration clearly set out to provoke a backlash when it played what appeared to be the same ad later in the day during NFL games, Fox News Sunday, Saturday Night Live, and several college football games with the addition of the words: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” While the White House maintained the ad was a “public service announcement,” Richard Painter, who served as a White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said using public funds for “government-sponsored propaganda” could be “an impeachable offense.”

On Friday the administration announced it is refusing to spend about a billion dollars Congress appropriated for programs that help the American people—a refusal the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says is illegal—and on Saturday, Trump used taxpayer money for his own vanity ads. That misuse of public money comes on top of the administration announcement last week that it was removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act health coverage rolls, claiming they were fraudulently enrolled in the program and that cutting them and dishonest brokers would save $2.2 billion.

On Saturday, Patrick Thomas and Lindsay Wise of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s tariffs that undermined the sales of agricultural products, his imports of foreign beef, and the rising costs of diesel, gas, and fertilizer have eroded his support in the agricultural areas that used to be the backbone of his support. On Sunday, Samuel Benson and Eric Bazail-Eimil of Politico reported that Republicans in battleground states—Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Texas, and even Florida—are on defense as their voters turn against the ICE agents conducting raids in the states.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was not just the Office of Technology Assessment: it was a whole structure that supported Congressional decision-making and Gingrich torched it (primarily because facts and expertise are apparently Democratic). It is time to double Congress’s budget and bulk up it staffing again.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Character matters. At least to some of us.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)

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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rape Van Winkle

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two years before the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, one of the bloodiest racial slaughters in American history occurred in Phillips County, Arkansas. This week marks the 107th anniversary of the tragedy, (cont.) 🧵 www.theroot.com/the-untold-s...

The Untold Story of The Elaine Massacre of 1919
This week marks the 107th anniversary of the Elaine Massacre of 1919, where white mobs hunted and killed Black sharecroppers who simply wanted fair cotton prices.

By

Angela Wilson

Published

September 28, 2026

HELENA, AK – SEPTEMBER 29: On the 100 year anniversary of the Elaine racial massacre, a memorial dedication is held for the public on September 29, 2019 in downtown Helena, Arkansas. In 1919, hundreds of African Americans were murdered after local cotton farmers tried to collectively sell their crops for a fairer price in New England. Many locals in Elaine want a memorial to be built in the town where the massacre happened, not in the local county seat where it was plotted. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis vi.a Getty Images)

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 28/09/2026

One of the biggest winners from President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" were the largest tech and AI corporations, who are already worth billions of dollars. It's why I joined @warren.senate.gov to demand a full accounting of how they've taken advantage of those tax loopholes and deductions.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...

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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies

This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vaccines don’t cause autism. But vaccines can help prevent it. This study found an increase in autism rates among babies born with rubella, who were infected by their moms during pregnancy. Vaccinating against rubella with the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) prevents infection.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026

If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.

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Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?

After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/09/2026

This story of lack of grit and realpolitik in fights about our future is from the climate world. It describes the past. Let’s make sure science research does not look back in 5 years having made the same mistake. Scientists should learn about political economy from clean power.

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