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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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hooked on persephonics 👁 @amphote.bsky.social · 5h

Ordinarily, for many good reasons, a piece of paper like this gets looked at by dozens of meticulous people before it gets near a Sharpie. I'm starting to think something might've happened to those folks...

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 18h

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18h

it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."

It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 18h

The law and order party, folks

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 28/09/2026

"Whereas his first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge. "

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Notable that these moves involve usurpations of Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Could be good reasons that this sort of presidential unilateralism is illegal. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

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The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher

The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Facts Not unprecedented though.. The French monarchy was trash forever, but it was high bread prices that finally got 'em.

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...welcome to Day 1 at Skunk Works: this is our pride and joy, the SR-71, which is fast enough for our pilots to escape both toxic operating thetans and Class V demons up to and including Ba'al himself. go on, laugh; a lot of smarter people disagree!

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes good I’m 10000% confident that, in our over-criminalized world, title 18 contains ample grounds to proceed against the operatic wrongdoing under this administration. The instinct to doubt that is peculiar.

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Nathanael 🧦 Roy @sporkredfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two things happening here I think. One, cars being generally taller and lacking regulations on shining light directly eye level to some cars. Two, auto light adjustment to conditions that don't seem to care enough about other drivers. I *hate* driving at night in a way i didn't like a decade ago

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

either we tell a persuasive story about the society we live in or the fascists will

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We had this fight as to Nixon, the result of which was a whole law being passed to say "no this is DEFINITELY illegal"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

having ADHD is kind of like Chris Nolan's Memento, except all your tattoos say stuff like: "THE GARBAGE GOES TO THE CURB ON WEDNESDAY" "THE DENTIST IS GOING TO BE SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU" "THERE'S GRAPES IN THE FRIDGE EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN'T SEE THEM"

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/09/2026

OPINION: "The road the federal government has mapped with H.R. 1 is already leading to higher uninsured rates, deeper food insecurity, and cascading economic impacts for rural communities," Cate Elander and Rebecca Baker write. buff.ly/vPii2Nz

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Opinion | The One Big Beautiful Bill Is Coming Due

Cate Elander and Rebecca Baker write about the ongoing effects of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s all the national security justification needed to tear the thing down and start over.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026

Today we've launched our subscriber drive! We've updated our pricing and are offering two deals. Smuggled into this announcement is another annoucement: we will be do annual issues of The Reconstruction Papers. Even with 21 essays, there was too much left out. We intend to get to much more.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

InGen would have not only escaped accountability but have gotten Trump administration backing due to Hammond making a case that "if we don't build the dinosaurs, the dinosaurs will eat humanity" and "you don't want the ChiComs winning the dino race"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hammond is a true believer and runs an organization full of technical experts, none of which are allowed to challenge the core premise of Putting Dinosaurs In A Theme Park.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will say: impeaching civil servants should be taken lightly as under current Supreme Court precedent, CJR Robert has limited the options associated with Congressional removal based on at best, cockamamie constitutional pablum.

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Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gut-wrenching essay about a man that ICE disappeared in North Austin the day before they shot Wilber

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A fun little week-long project for the new House Majority committees in 2027 should be ferretting out exactly who is behind this ad in the administration and making their lives very uncomfortable in the "your days are full of lawyers now" sense. Oops! You used taxpayer money for political ads!

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the moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

another way to reduce this kind of corruption is for governments to run more services in house

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congressional parties that impeach the president are **batting a thousand** on presidential elections following impeachment. Johnson ▶️grant Clinton▶️bush Trump▶️Biden

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hooked on persephonics 👁 @amphote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Water of Life? Tatooine Moisture Farming as a Driver of Bantha Critical Habitat Decline

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a brief (🤭) rant on that nyt article.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It turns out we could have implemented a ~$450 per ton carbon tax all this time without a populist backlash. It’s just that it would have had to come under the policy guidance of a right wing administration being consulted by the Heritage foundation.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 22/09/2026

Bounded authority, observable decisions, revocation, rollback, containment, separation of duties, liability, human escalation, explicit handling of unknowns. Basically all the boring machinery civilization eventually invented precisely because we gave up on people reliably being aligned.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 22/09/2026

Don’t make the machine good. Make the system governable when the machine is wrong.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just think someone caught engaging in something so flagrantly illegal and untrustworthy should not be given legitimacy granted by appearing on the ballot. Not without a fight. It strikes me as morally incoherent and politically weak to shrug and say “let the voters be the judge”

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do I think she would actually resign? No, but I think it matters that people demand that price for this sort of thing and not acquiesce to some sanctimonious bullshit that would legitimize her if she won

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

While I get the thinking behind not demanding Collins resign now, I also think it’s absurd nobody is calling for it given how clear and brazen that act of corruption was

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

AOC would be a vast improvement on either NYC senator but we really desperately need the next president not to come from the Newsom side of the caucus

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got the email from TPC about this today. It's a win, and I'm glad of it, but how many people are going to die from heat related causes before the end of 2029? The system is fucking barbaric.

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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New York Times quickly backs up @propublica.org’s reporting on the Navatek scandal. This is putting Susan Collins in Graham Platner territory, scandal-wise. But I think we’d be making a mistake to think of this as just about her. Via @robertscotthorton.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robe...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026

“In the wake of this whirlwind of graft and plundering, anyone who wishes to set things right must have an organized ledger of all the things that have been made wrong.” www.liberalcurrents.com/on-the-pract...

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On the Practical Case for a Book of Grudges

While headlines chronicle the unending misdeeds of this sordid decade, a comprehensive list is needed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

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To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims.
However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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