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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Awkward — “VP JD Vance has been exposed as the source of a story whose supposed leak was used by the White House in court to justify the termination of Politico's access to the press pool.” 😬
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JD Vance unmasked as leaker for story White House used to justify press ban: report
Vice President JD Vance has been exposed as the source of a story whose supposed leak was used by the White House in court to justify the termination of Politico's access to the press pool, Oliver Dar...
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So California AG Bonta and his colleagues from other states were engaging in antitrust theater. Their "settlement" with the soon-to-be media giant Paramount -- that is, Larry Ellison and his sock-puppet son (and three Arab-oil dictatorships) -- is a pathetic cave-in. www.msn.com/en-us/ne...
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The creators of NAZA - a documentary that lays out a system of mass civilian killing in Gaza - have become the target of threats, online harassment and hostile press coverage in Israel. Elettra Scrivo reports on that fallout and why it’s focused more on the messengers than the message.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote about how Israel is trying to make displacement in south Lebanon permanent www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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How Israel’s destruction of south Lebanon is making displacement permanent
With lost livelihoods, destroyed homes and little security, many displaced Lebanese are facing an entrenched reality.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The amount of freshwater on earth is seriously declining, reports the World Meteorological Organisation. Last year rivers carried 36% less water than usual and glaciers lost 400 gigatons of ice. Reserves of groundwater are also shrinking in most places. phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Report on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up
The global water cycle is becoming increasingly unbalanced. Extreme droughts and floods are the result. This is shown in this year's report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the state ...
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
by the numbers…
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The more pressing question is whether legacy news organizations will finally dedicate aggressive daily coverage to Trump’s obvious cognitive decline and the danger it’s causing to our country and the world.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-trump-c...
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Is Trump Collapsing?
A Saturday Prompt
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Greenland “deal” epitomizes Trump. A huge amount of drama, a huge amount of damage that won’t be fixed for years and maybe never. And in the end he gets literally nothing but the diplo equivalent of Danish FIFA peace prize. 🏆 Stood down by Greenland and Denmark. Both hilarious and pathetic. Sad!
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: Judge Brinkema won't take foot off gas in suit over Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund, says issues 'alive & kicking' due to remarks about using Judgment Fund to accomplish same goals. Judge gives feds 30 days to turn over docs on Trump v IRS settlement www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Legal fight over Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund ‘still alive and kicking,’ judge says
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are a network or cable news anchor who, in 2026, asked a Democratic guest about Hasan Piker but didn't ask a Republican guest about Lorenzo Sewell, then you have failed at your job. You have failed at journalism and balance. It's that simple.
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The media’s Hasan Piker obsession is letting Republican Mike Rogers off the hook | Mehdi Hasan
Mike Rogers isn’t merely campaigning alongside a controversial supporter. His campaign put an extremist on its faith leadership team
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans do not understand that the United States is currently a dual state, in which the 'immigration system' (& spending via OMB, etc.) is operating as a lawless totalitarian prerogative state, alongside more normal processes of the normative state in other areas of law & policy.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
About those non-voters… there's some news… www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...
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Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds
In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.
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A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦 @manhasnoname.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is pillaging Venezuela under the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 33 and by the Hague Regulations, Hague IV.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 17/09/2026
In the new book “End Times Fascism,” co-author Naomi Klein argues that a far-right coalition of tech billionaires, Christian extremists, and ethno-nationalists are hastening and profiting from global catastrophe. “They’re not just building their own arks, they're also causing the floods.”
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tgage @tgagemurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a guy so smart, that he'd invite a reporter to a top-secret Signal chat.
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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 17/09/2026
Mike Johnson sent Congress on vacation through November to prevent votes on the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s impeachment and AI regulation. We need to be back doing the people’s work.
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Fresh Future 2026 🇺🇸 @freshfuture2026.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“If I pay $200 per week in groceries, and I say ‘I’m not going to buy groceries anymore,’ I don’t lose $200 per week. It’s very simple. Right?”
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17/09/2026
I lose well over $1000 a year to my local grocery store. I buy so much food from it without it ever buying anything from me. It's stealing from me!
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Look outside. Do you see snow? No?  Well, you will soon. You might also see $30/hr more in your pocket if you become an emergency snow shoveler.  Registration begins Saturday, September 19th. Sign up by November 30th for access to paid orientation and expedited payment processing.
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Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY
Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Again: When Republicans like @marshablackburn say they've put money in your pocket - they're talking to their rich donors, not you
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TatiSky @skytati.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two things that struck me in this convo as a Canadian: 1. We are in a fight of our survival. 2. We have no critical minerals. Guess who has plenty of those? Canada. 😟
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Himes to Bessent: "I can think of no administration in the last 50 years that is quite as communist as the Trump administration. Constant interventions in the operations of the free market."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has directed its officers to misrepresent themselves as voters on state election agency websites while checking dozens of people’s registration and voting records, the whistleblower said. 🤬🤬🤬
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/09/2026
the recent breakthrough of the A.I. doomsday narrative wasn't a psy-op, nor was it *just* marketing; these guys believe their rhetoric, albeit for reasons that have little grounding in reality. allow me, a longtime observer of the scene, to walk you through what's goin on: slate.com/technology/2...
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The A.I. Doomsayers Are at It Again. There’s a Good Reason You Shouldn’t Fall For It.
Industry insiders have been offering absolutely terrible odds for humanity’s future—on bizarre pretenses.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
support aaron. he is directly over the target and making all the right people mad.
Trump team unloads on liberal journalist over Natalie Harp posts: ‘Sick, deluded freak’
The White House account fired back after Rupar highlighted the aide accompanying Trump on his trip to IrelandFar-left attack backfires spectacularly as radical online personality whines after attacking female Trump aide
The White House fired back after Aaron Rupar posted a clip attacking one of Trump's press wranglers
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Coxon could've mentioned the environmental catastrophe of AI data centers, or how ChatGPT has led people to killing themselves and others. Instead, he retold a dramatized and manipulative version of the Hugging Face attack that left the AI labs blameless. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
At no point did Coxon bring up how ChatGPT was used as a “suicide coach,” directly caused a murder-suicide, or aided and abetted in mass shootings in Florida and Canada, or the horrifying gas turbines poisoning black communities. His own discussion of the Hugging Face attack — much like all of his criticisms — focuses on the anthropomorphization of large language models as this unknowable, unstoppable force, with no real responsibility for anyone involved.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Last week, the media fell hook, line, and sinker for an unbelievable grift when former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said he was quitting the industry over fears it was moving moving too fast, though he never really defined what that meant. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
Late last week, everything exploded when former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon, in an exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal, warned that he was “quitting the AI industry” (he wasn’t) over “...fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control.” 

His fears were centered around the creation of “recursive self-improvement,” a still-theoretical concept of AI that trains itself autonomously” and otherwise expressing few specific concerns beyond that “AI labs are unable to control AI,” always phrasing things in the terms of impossible-to-control entities rather than poorly-programmed cloud software running on the infrastructure of the largest companies in the world. Emily Forlini of Fortune put it best:

Hear me out: He claims the AI could kill us someday, but doesn’t point to any projects in the pipeline that could be shut down to avoid this. He says AI companies are moving too fast, but neglects to share screenshots, emails, or specific examples of when this behavior went sideways—when it became clear to leaders at AI companies that the technology was slipping beyond their control, for instance, and how the decision-makers disregarded the warning signs. He doesn’t suggest any new legislation, name problematic leaders that should step down, or post an in-depth look at how Anthropic researches new models and propose a new approach.This is because, in my opinion, Jacob does not really care about the actual harms of AI, whether we’re talking about Large Language Models or something he imagined while working with the non-profit or PR firm that set up a CBS interview where he claimed that AI that, if we’re talking about LLMs, have model weights of terabytes of memory, would make ten thousand copies of themselves.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a hidden-camera operation, pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said that for $300,000, they could help a felon get a pardon from the president. They said their services included working with influencers to advocate for his case. cbsn.ws/4dj706z
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
American singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie, who wrote “This Land is Your Land.” The words on his guitar are testament to why the Nazis stifled art—and why Donald Trump tries to silence comics. The arts are not just entertainment when they challenge those in power.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/09/2026
Why would we not want Europes help? Are we… protecting someone? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
Europeans investigating Epstein say DOJ has not agreed to requests for help
Some European law enforcement agencies chasing leads spurred by information in the so-called Epstein Files say the U.S. Justice Department has not responded to their requests.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those of you who are fans of @shaabiranks.bsky.social's Turbulence podcast, i just recorded for over 3 hours with him. First episode on imperialism, second episode on colonialism (and settler-colonialism). Comes out September 22nd and 24th. Like 24 sources cited. turbulencepod.substack.com
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Turbulence Podcast | Substack
A podcast about the end of the American empire, or the end of the world—whichever comes first. Click to read Turbulence Podcast, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
This morning, New York City came together in remembrance of 25 years since the horrific terror attacks of September 11. 25 years of grief and loss, heroism and heartbreak, rebuilding and renewal.
Scenes from the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony. City workers in uniform hold an American flag. Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul, and other officials stand together. Mourners, including a young girl in a pink t-shirt, lay flowers at Ground Zero. A woman with grey hair mourns at Ground Zero. A man in an orange t-shirt and green baseball cap embraces a woman in a green shirt and black sunglasses. A man holds a poster of a firefighter, Michael Edward Roberts, who made the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s no contest! Comparing the Dust Bowl to Modern Warming. This summer was 2.5°F hotter globally than the summer of 1936. BUT the Dust Bowl heat was fierce and life-changing for many in the US. It’s a fascinating tale. Here’s more background on it all.
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antonomase.bsky.social @antonomase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jerry Nadler! He also defended and explained the JCPOA. A great citizen, politician!
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you’ve not seen @nadler.house.gov interviewed on this, decades long, unrelenting fight to get this information to the public, you must. He’s the champion, this is the result. Thank you, Jerry Nadler and, an early, l'shanah tovah. 🧵
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trump wants to bury the Epstein files, so we're driving them to him.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/09/2026
A Post analysis of campaign finance disclosures found that 39 congressional candidates reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle. Two had used the subscription for advertising, even though the company’s policies prohibit it.
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ChatGPT bans campaigns from using AI to make ads. They’re doing it anyway.
A Washington Post review found 39 campaigns that disclosed payments to AI companies, but consultants say many more do it and don’t disclose it.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/09/2026
It's absolutely not true that we shot all our missiles but we are going to go bananas tracking down who revealed that we shot all our missiles.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee voted unanimously this week to subpoena Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison and CEO Mike Sicilia to testify about skyrocketing costs and years of delays to deliver a project for modernizing the VA's electronic records system. From Stars and Stripes' Linda F. Hersey:
stripes.com
VA committee votes to subpoena Oracle executives over cost overruns in health records update
Lawmakers expressed concerns about a modifications that extend Oracle’s contract and increase the project’s cost ceiling to $27 billion.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's only a scandal if a Muslim says it, see.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Organizers and activists who oppose the Trump administration's policies should absolutely be paying close attention to this story: theintercept.com/2026/08/28/t...
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Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.
Trump designated a collective that provides anonymous email services as a foreign “terrorist” group. It could curtail free speech in the U.S.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
Despite "not vetoing" UNSCR 2334, Obama left office having done effectively nothing to stop the expansion of Israeli settlements following his giving up on the demand for a construction freeze. Since then, all of the successive presidencies have all looked the other way on expansion.
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