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Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

A friend just wrote me about what is happening right now with AI decompiling games and applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and it has really shaken me because the implications for the free market are staggering Basically closed source software is over forever and it happened overnight

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Open-Source Guru Raymond: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

Open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond explains closed-source software is effectively over thanks to AI-powered reverse engineering.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?

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Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget

Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The people who can't even keep lettuce and eggs safe are 'actively monitoring' the plague outbreak in Russia.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's time to end the uncontrolled and unaccountable US military presence in Britain.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.

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Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills

Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.

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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please sign up on your States website to "Track My Ballot." Do NOT use the USPS Postal Service - use your nearest Drop Box. Then Track your Ballot. You will see the date it was mailed to you, then the date it was received by your local Election Office and finally the date it was accepted. We Win.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/10/2026

Many Hispanic voters heard secure the border and deport violent criminals. What they got was cruelty to: workers, parents, grandparents, children, longtime residents and people with no criminal conviction. This is buyer’s remorse on an epic scale. #LetsGetVoteReady

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to the 200+ articles on this

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

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

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Strikes start today at Nottingham. “These are not cash-strapped universities.” Dr Jo Grady on R4 this morning. 700 jobs. 48 courses. All to drive a surplus. Show your support. ✊

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's wild how more people identify as DemSocs than MAGA, yet we have the system that's in place now because capitalists would rather have fascism than make even the slightest concessions in the form of social democracy.

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Andrew Bowie @andrewbowie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote this book over 30 years ago and it has just been translated into Chinese, which suggests I may have got something right.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For clarity: the part of the Constitution they were ruled to violate was the Fifteenth Amendment, which reads "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

According to several people involved, the Trump administration initially floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail.

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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham must take public services into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP (not just public control) Including water monopolies, energy monopolies and care💧⚡️👨‍⚕️ Force companies to deliver on their duties LET THEM GO BUST when they don't END PRIVATISATION 👇 weownit.org.uk/research-and...

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How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Electoral reform: “I hear you, I agree with you, and today I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform.” Biggest opportunity to reform FPP in perhaps a century has now arrived. But long way to go…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To see measles spread so wildly—so much so that congenital measles has now returned—has long been a dream of RFK Jr, arguably the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist & eugenicist Now that he runs the US federal health system, RFK is able to make his longstanding dreams come true 😢

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI could well be the largest generator of internet pollution ever created. It could make the internet useless.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Just Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Pentagon cover-up of US military casualties in Trump’s catastrophic Iran War continues. 37 troops have been quietly added to the public tally of wounded personnel bringing the total to 861.

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Jlou @wehearvoices.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SCOTUS decision decimating Section 2 of the VRA—which required that racial minorities have an equal opportunity to meaningfully participate in elections is a pre-1965 America, White supremacy was the law of the land and Congress had no Black members from the South. WTF? #Pinks #DV1 #Voices4Victory

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE is removing detainees with final deportation orders from its online tracking system. This makes it nearly impossible for their lawyers and families to contact them, which could prevent them from using all their constitutionally protected legal options. Trump’s cruelty is endless.

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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being

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