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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 1h

Also it will cost the government more money without doing anything to benefit anyone. If only the government had a department focused on improving efficiency.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1h

On Brand: this is a government determined to assist criminals so why not make a passport sent by mail easier to steal

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1h

It's astonishing just how committed this SCOTUS is to burning its own institutional legitimacy to the ground.

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 1h

As the article notes, it's pretty wild that the U.S. tourism numbers are crashing like this in a year when they literally hosted the World Cup. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans were still blaming Jimmy Carter for stuff in the 1990s, after 12 straight years of Republican presidents.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h

If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...

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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him

We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h

Oh ho! So is it in fact your testimony today, sir, that you were NOT on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on February 3, 2024?! <exasperated scoff/sputter>

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And the allegation here was that Smith made a shady trip to Atlanta, where he... got first row seats to an NBA game, I assume so that people wouldn't see he was there.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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mikesardo.bsky.social @mikesardo.bsky.social · 4h

also, fascinated at where the senator thought he was going with this. you were at game in Atlanta before somebody said a thing, ergo...what exactly? i want to hear the rest of this nonsense. can some pod caster please tease it out of him?

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14h

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 2h

Ted Cruz just said on a podcast that he's a big fan of bribery, which I'm not entirely sure is a great message heading into the midterms.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2h

Always remember, it's not just Trump. This is Public Enemy No. 2: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

Linda Greenhouse
By Linda Greenhouse

Ms. Greenhouse, the recipient of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008.

Chief Justice John Roberts has accomplished so much of his agenda that it’s not easy, as he begins his 22nd Supreme Court term, to think of what unfinished business might remain.

Affirmative action is dead. Roe v. Wade is a fading memory. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in shreds, rendered incapable of serving its original mission of preventing states from undermining the political power of minority citizens. The executive branch agencies known collectively as the administrative state have lost their independence, with the president now able to fire nearly all agency heads for any reason or no reason at all. Federal judges are no longer to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own authority, instead being told to decide for themselves the validity of agency regulations. Historical claims that fly under the banner of “originalism” have frozen the government’s ability to regulate the ownership of lethal weapons.

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Eastern screech owl Mixed media of watercolor, pencils and gouache on 13x19" hotpress paper For #OwlAwarenessDay

Watercolor and pencil illustration of a red screech owl peering out of a tree cavity. The owl has orange and brown feathers with soft white on its face, chest and stomach. Its eyes are bright green. The cavity is surrounded by curving bark, with a color sphinx moth in the foreground, a cryptic colored crab spider and beetle hiding in the upper right.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

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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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

I will continue to deadname AI. Sorry, not sorry.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

This guy is estimated to be worth $25 billion, lmao

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 2h

$20 million is the total income tax payment for 1,053 American households. A thousand of us worked full time all year last year just to pay for Trump’s campaign ads.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 4h

Ieyasu-kun promotes Aichi Prefecture's historical spots. He wears golden armour, but he likes peace. He is slow and steady but occasionally gets excited when something good happens.

A mascot wearing golden armour stands on a red-carpeted stage in front of a screen.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, of course, except some of those clauses are embedded in broader laws that we might want to keep, so it's primarily an exercise in excising those clauses.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 17h

I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 3h

Agree with all of this except one quibble: Don’t “rewrite” emergency-powers laws. Repeal them. All of them. In full. This isn’t 1840. If there’s an emergency, Congress can be in session in hours to pass new legislation addressing it.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15h

I have one house.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 3h

My only worry here is that I don’t want Congress to enable Trump to escape personal blame for starting Trump’s War. Hegseth is a drunk and a crook, sure, but he didn’t start the war and he’s not the one losing it.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 3h

It is important to get the math right and understand the process. But the House should impeach anyway. Do what you can with what you have. Forcing Republicans to vote to acquit Trump is a good thing, and also removing Trump is a good thing even if Vance succeeds him.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

This is an underrated point, I think. It’s been asymmetrically distributed across the federal workforce but places like the FBI, they’ve fired people simply for doing the jobs assigned to them, when they happen to be redressing Republican wrongdoing. One of the most corrosive things of all this.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 14h

Cubs at Padres is one of the best uniformed games in MLB.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 17h

He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 17h

DoD: oh no, what about mah industrial base?? Also, DoD: oh you can definitely double down on your 6th gen fighters with one company

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 17h

How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 21h

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17h

when you ask the America.gov robot about vaccines and autism:

Do vaccines cause autism?

Federal pages do not all say the same thing. Use the links and talk with a licensed clinician
about your child's care.

What CDC currently posts

. On its Autism and Vaccines 7 page (updated July 22, 2026), CDC says the statement
"vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim under the Data Quality
Act, that studies have not ruled out a possible role for some infant vaccines, and that
HHS has launched further assessment of autism causes, including possible
vaccine-related mechanisms.
. Other CDC pages still say studies have not found an association, including Autism
FAQ 7, vaccines for children 7, and thimerosal 7.
. Older CDC summaries of CDC-sponsored studies stated vaccines do not cause autism
spectrum disorder: 2015 summary 7.

Other official sources

. FDA: scientific evidence does not show a link between thimerosal in vaccines and
autism. Thimerosal and Vaccines | FDA 7

. NIH/NIEHS: no link found between autism and vaccines, including those that contained
thimerosal. Autism | NIEHS 7
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How to read this

CDC's 2026 autism-and-vaccines page changed the agency's long-standing wording. Other
CDC, FDA, and NIH pages still describe no association in the studies they cite. I cannot verify
which conclusion will be used in future HHS updates.

For vaccine recommendations and individual medical decisions, use CDC vaccines for
children 7 and your health care provider.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been saying “the Iran war” but I think it should be called “Trump’s war.” Gonna try to start calling it that consistently.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 18h

This is what actual "tough on crime" messaging looks like instead of just "tough on minorities" messaging, if you needed an example

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 18h

We should definitely refer to him as Senator Hawkeye from now on. Share random James Fenimore Cooper, MASH, and Clint Barton/Kate Bishop pics & memes. Maybe a Hayden Fry pic to be especially obscure, or just throw crushed empties of Busch Lite at him.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 20h

Optimizing one’s time on Capitol Hill for internet content rather than for lawmaking has been a net negative for the country

“Freedom of speech” / guy in a town hall meme

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A. Sharpie @asharpie.bsky.social · 23h

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23h

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Rob Nease 🇨🇦 @l-r0b.bsky.social · 20h

Mission: Impossible.

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Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social · 21h

LAST CALL! If you want one or both of the TYRANT® collected edition hardcovers, NOW is the time. The ordering window closes on October 1st, folks. Link at the top of the comments, below. It's been a year & project spiced with near-miracles, like when Murphy Anderson III returned this original art.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 21h

Funny he should say that because fuck him that’s a lie. (This makes like the sixth fake check he’s promised to write America…?)

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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 21h

I know I’ve reached the point in middle age where everyone younger than me looks like a child to me, but neither of these men look like they’re old enough to have graduated law school, much less be “chief counsel” for anything.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 21h

And if you freeze frame the sign, the texts don’t name a place or a team. Just a seat number. Could be anywhere! Even if Smith had been in Atlanta, the texts don’t prove he was.

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