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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 6h
Mind you, if Ukraine keeps bombing Russian data centres and thus disrupts Russian digital campaigns aiming to boost MAGA in the run-up to the midterms, Trump will soon say that Ukraine is interfering in the US politics. Because how else to describe the disruption of Russian pro-Trump info ops?
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 19h
When they go low, we bury them.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
i want jon ossoff to ask mark zuckerberg why he makes a product marketed to perverts and i want him to demand an answer
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
There are moments of extreme exigency where violence, of even that soul-curdling nature, is necessary to forestall a greater evil. This is the opposite. An extravagant and unnecessary indulgence in bloodshed for its own sake against a paraplegic who has already been punished.
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Arkancrow @arkancrow.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
They didn't adjusted the number of days people work. They literally ALREADY adjusted the number of people doing the work. LITTERALY as he was saying that. Like.... AT THE SAME MOMENT 🤯
finance.yahoo.com
Amazon cuts fewer than 1,000 jobs across teams, Business Insider reports
Investing.com -- Amazon confirmed a new round of job cuts on Wednesday, primarily in its Stores division, adding to the company’s workforce reductions even as it ramps up spending on artificial intell...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
art lives
It was a short call, Carlberg said:
All the poet would say was she was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
French government suspends use of stun grenades at student protests after teen loses hand
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French government suspends use of stun grenades at student protests after teen loses hand
France's interior minister said stun grenades would be temporarily withdrawn from use at protests organized by high school students 'just long enough to understand what happened.'
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
They’re going to keep making it impossible to ignore how half measures to address state violence simply aren’t up to the task.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“No warrants are shown, as far as we can tell there’s no legal ground for them to come onto private property. It seems like they’re pushing through the construction process quickly and will deal with the law later,” said Rachel, a land defender who spoke with UR about the raids.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026
House race totals are getting significant too, including: $427,145.17 vs @paigecognetti.bsky.social $362,324.73 vs @joannamendoza.com $340,785.33 vs @rebeccabennettforcongress.com $318,328.00 vs @caitfornewyork.bsky.social
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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Community Protection Broadcast @cpb.works · 03/10/2026
Ron DeSantis coming to Oregon to fundraise on behalf of Christine Drazen, should tell anyone even considering voting for Drazen, or those considering sitting this out and not voting for Kotek, just how dangerous Christine Drazen would be for Oregon. I will crawl over glass to vote for Tina Kotek.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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athena-polias.bsky.social @athena-polias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Impeach Vought:
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Moreover, Congress designed NSF to have a presidentially-appointed and Senate confirmed director, and a National Science Board serving not at the pleasure of the pres, to check the power of the director. But SCOTUS and Trump killed that structure. NSF today isn’t what Congress designed
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Since someone asked—the way to fix this is by big structural reforms. Proportional representation in Congress, add seats, add states, quadruple Congressional investigatory and policy staff, reform/disempower the Article III branch, rewrite admin law etc. All of it requires re-empowering Congress.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
But let’s be real: this is killing SBE, it’s in violation of the law and constitution, and judges that aren’t part of the P2025 political project would say that. The underlying problem is the Supreme Court is corrupt and doing politics. If not for that Vought would never get away w killing SBE.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People have lost their lives. They’ve been arrested for miscarriages, bled out in parking lots and gone to jail. There was nothing courageous about overturning Roe. Sam Alito stripped us of our rights and wants us to feel bad he lost friends?
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1 in fucking 2. 1 in 3 women have experienced unwanted sexual contact. 1 in 4 sexual assault. Stop before you say “I would never be friends with someone who did that.”
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A cautionary tale about what happens when you give incels money and power.
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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this company is offering a commercial service using the likeness of a real person, whether they're doing it with AI, CGI, or someone in costume purporting to be Maya Angelou I don't think it matters.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
how are these companies not absolutely *drowning* in sexual harassment lawsuits
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more like this please. thanks. every member of congress has a nationwide tv network sitting in their phone. use it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 24/09/2026
Congress has never appropriated a dollar for the Office of Remigration — it runs entirely on executive authority inside DHS, which the power of the purse can shut down.
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Defund the Office of Remigration and Expose Its Abuses
You need to use Congress’s power of the purse to defund the Office of Remigration and drag its operations into the open. This agency — housed inside the…
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
Now we need to know if this ICE flight headed for Ghana has third-country nationals onboard. If so, it needs to bring them back. The emergency ruling is binding immediately, which includes planes in the air. Any lawyers or anyone else with standing think they might know someone onboard? File!
An FR24 map showing N50JE heading for Accra over the middle of the Atlantic.
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athena-polias.bsky.social @athena-polias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Making them effectively vanish”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The NAACP is suing to stop the orange felon from illegally sending armed agents to intimidate people of color at election polls. Thank you NAACP.
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Intrusive Thot @apricity.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I’m concerned that the election is weeks out and there is no strong vision/plan for an immediate agenda to rein in the fascist authoritarianism. It needs to be articulated so that the election functions as a clear mandate for accountability. Who is getting impeached first?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
I'm curious about why we're not hearing about the victims of these attacks (Hugging Face, for example) suing OpenAI or otherwise demanding restitution. 🤷
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sorry meant to post this link. But yeah, in general, I hate this "agents did some unexpected stuff" reporting. The agents don't just appear online! They're computer programs designed by humans who then put them on the open internet. The firms have agency www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
nytimes.com
Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says
A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Right wingers have shown up to protest at the sports bra bar in Portland Anti-fascists got there first and took up all the space in front of the bar. Chuds are across the street trying to yell things over and being ignored
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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
e.g. in another timeline donald trump should be getting out of prison just about now for financial and other crimes he was sentenced for in the 80s
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The US has launched a diplomatic push pressing its NATO allies to help dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC) and withdraw from its founding Rome Statute, Politico reported on Thursday. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260910-us-...
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Voter registration deadline 👉🏾October 5 Early voting for the general election begins 👉🏾October 14 Absentee ballot request deadline 👉🏾October 24 Final day of early voting 👉🏾October 29 General election 👉🏾November 3 Donate: votejustinj.com/donate [Thread 2/2]
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Contact Us — Justin J. Pearson for U.S. Congress
Please send any message directly to the candidate using this form, calling, or emailing. Your voice matters and we want to hear from you on the issues that you care about or if there are opportunities...
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AndyCeleste @innocent-abroad.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that. However these changes at Google will impact on global energy consumption regardless of what I do. Such problems can not be solved by individual choices in the absence of price signals. Destroying the planet is often free to the user until it is too late.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I shouldn’t be this emotional about a city deciding hey maybe kids shouldn’t starve all day Like how low is the bar. Anyway, thankful to the people who fought for this.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/09/2026
and, yes, you are all correct that official agencies using this as their primary source of communication are agencies you should call and yell at, especially if they're local
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