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OK, three, two, one: Let's jam! Central TX; Hardcore Democrat; Fandom: #AdamLambert

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 12h
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Michelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · 12h
150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.
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How Texas Turned Voter Registration Into A Political Weapon
150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 12h
Sick of wrist based ads and notifications, I swapped out my Apple Watch for a simple Casio a couple weeks ago. About twice a day I catch myself utterly amazed that it doesn’t need charging. This stuff warped our perspective of reality. Slowly but surely.
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Mark Yeager 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @myeager42.bsky.social · 14h
The immediate, *personal* connection to performers cannot be replicated by AI, ever. It’s about being human. That carries over into any recording I experience. If I can’t feel connection to human performers, writers, directors, composers, I want nothing to do with it. And the same goes for books!
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Mark Yeager 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @myeager42.bsky.social · 14h
I’ve been to well over 300 live perfs: music all genres; plays/musicals; stand up; circus, etc. All levels kids to pros, which enriched my life immensely. Dozens were magical: JCSuperstar at Holly. Bowl; Hedwig… on Bway; FireAid at the Forum; Dead & Co at the Forum; As You Like It at La Jolla PH…
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 14h
I keep hearing from sources about these but had no idea it was THIS many. of course these are also the orgs that squawk about the importance of "academic freedom" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026
If anyone I know lives in Austin, please sneak into this "powering data centres with fossil fuels" forum and get some choice quotes for me please www.bicmagazine.com/resources/sp...
Promotional sponsor board for the NatGas To Power Forum, Nov 11–13, 2026 in Austin, TX, naming WhiteWater as premier sponsor and showing a grid of energy and finance company logos (e.g., BP, ConocoPhillips, J.P. Morgan, Kinder Morgan, NRG).Headline "Powering AI with gas: 450+ decision-makers meet in Austin" above an article about the NatGas to Power Forum exploring use of natural gas to generate electricity for AI data centers, accompanied by sponsor logos and event date/details.
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oriharakaoru @oriharakaoru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is my favourite adam covering george michael song www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Twe...
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Adam Lambert & Cynthia Erivo - Knew You Were Waiting for Me
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Bamboo Grove @bamboogrove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Best and Worst of the 2026 MTV VMAs Madonna brought backup, Bruno Mars bored us all, and Adam Lambert came to the rescue By Hattie Lindert and Walden Green September 27, 2026 #VMAs pitchfork.com/story/the-be...
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The Best and Worst of the 2026 MTV VMAs
Madonna brought backup, Bruno Mars bored us all, and Adam Lambert came to the rescue
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Socialite Life @socialitelife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fans slammed the VMAs for zero queer artists in its George Michael tribute. Then Adam Lambert walked out in fringe. soc.life/zV7zgL
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Surprise! Adam Lambert Closes VMAs George Michael Tribute as Fans Say He Was the Only One Who Did George Justice – Socialite Life
Adam Lambert surprised the VMAs, closing the George Michael tribute with Raye, Sombr and Teddy Swims. Fans loved it.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
The owners of Camp Mystic have proposed selling off the riverfront property in bankruptcy after the deaths of 27 campers and counselors in a 2025 flood. Via @AP: www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/t...
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Camp Mystic proposes selling the property in bankruptcy
The proposal would auction off the 749-acre property on the Guadalupe River where 27 campers and counselors died during the July 4, 2025 flood.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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WAND News @wandnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Officials in Tennessee are investigating a K-9’s death from heatstroke after his K-9 handler allegedly left him in an outdoor kennel without water for 36 hours.https://www.wandtv.com/2026/09/28/k-9-left-outside-without-water-36-hours-before-he-died-heatstroke-officials-say/
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wakefield was a fraud who engaged in deliberate data falsification. Investigations revealed that he had altered patient medical histories, fabricated data, and reported false onset times. He lost his license to practice medicine in the UK in 2010. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...
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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gosh, I’m sorry* my complete apathy about The Shiny New Thing™️ raises the blood pressure of The Columnist Whose Income Depends on Promoting the Shiny New Thing. *I’m not nearly as sorry as I imply here.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“All U.S. ticket sales will be donated to The Dollywood Foundation to support its flagship program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library” 📚 variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ Returns to Theaters With Ticket Sales Donated to Dollywood Foundation After Star’s Death
Dolly Parton's '9 to 5' movie will be back in theaters for charity after her death, with proceeds going to the Dollywood Foundation.
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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NukularBiskits: 86 + 47 = 133 @nukularbiskits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mississippians (actually EVERY US CITIZEN) should be periodically checking their voter registration. US Senate election is going to be very close here in MS & I would NOT put it past SoS Michael Watson to fuck w/ voter rolls to keep @scolom.bsky.social from winning.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we don't really have language to describe a non sentient machine capable of doing tasks once reserved only for humans." Dishwasher. Washing machine. Dryer. Remote control. Electronic door lock. Roomba. I could go on, but I've got rugby to watch.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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rebel.resist @sam--2025.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone MUST vote!
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Too on the nose: Trump diverted more than $1M that had been allocated to fix the leaky roof to a $4M+ project to paint the columns gold. Then cited the leaky roof as a “safety issue” to justify the spite closure.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” OMG 😱 We do NOT need more data centres for this garbage. Regulate AI. NOW #bcpoli #CdnPoli @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @emilylowan.bsky.social @ubcm.bsky.social
What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Guatemalan man dies in crash during attempted ICE traffic stop
Police in Michigan are investigating what led to the crash that killed Mario David Coronado Juárez, who was not the person ICE officers were originally looking to arrest, DHS says.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/09/2026
How many days is ICE going to lock up this man with a bullet in his body? trib.al/7dqIMNu
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Man Shot by ICE Has Been Detained With Bullet in His Back for Days
How many days is ICE going to lock up this man with a bullet in his body?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
This piece touches on an extremely important and terrible trend: AI-false-balance among polite centre-left politicians. Every critique HAS to begin with something like "AI is here to stay. With the right rules, it can be a force for good. But........." www.techpolicy.press/the-life-and...
Information integrity is one of seven critical issues in the Preliminary Report of the UN’s Independent Scientific Panel on AI released in July at the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence. It warns that AI can erode shared reality and civic participation through “epistemic erosion,” the gradual wearing away of society’s ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. Opening the Dialogue, the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, tied that erosion directly to the viral and exponential nature of advanced data driven technologies: “A machine-enabled lie can now persuade as effectively as the truth, and authentic evidence can be dismissed as fake.”“A society that cannot agree on what is real cannot defend itself,” Guterres said.

And yet he did not reference the threat of AI to amplify inequality, unless governed effectively. Instead, Guterres casts AI as “the great equaliser of the 21st century ” achievable by developing countries on the technology fast-track through safe systems that honor human rights, with real transparency about labor and planetary impacts. Getting this right, he said, is “at the heart of our common future.”

Yet the Panel’s Report, subtitled as an “evidence-based assessment of the opportunities, risks and impacts of AI” provides no evidence that AI will be a ‘great equaliser’. On the contrary, despite its curious ‘balancing’ of every claim with a counter claim, the heavily referenced report actually demonstrates far more evidence of the negative consequences of AI, while doing very little to support claims that AI will help in the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Regardless, this did not stop the ‘great equaliser’ mantra from being repeated by numerous member states and heads of multilateral bodies who subsequently addressed the forum.

In fact the report highlights the lack of — and unevenness of — evidence, including on some of the big ticket items: productivity gains, labor market effects, value-chain impacts, and …
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Queerty @queerty.com · 24/09/2026
George Michael tribute planned at this weekend’s VMAs but not everyone’s happy about it - buff.ly/I04Le5Q
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Texas It's on AP news, too❗ 📰AP (9/23/26) apnews.com/article/texa...
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State error in Texas creates huge backlog in voter registration applications as midterm voting nears
County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
On Sunday, ICE agents outside Chicago tackled a U.S. citizen and left him injured on the ground after they realized he wasn’t their target. This despicable display has become all too common under Trump’s mass deportation campaign—no one is safe from this Administration’s cruelty.
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Video shows injured man on the ground after ICE mistakenly targets him
According to police, the man reported injuries to his head, neck and teeth; DHS did not respond to questions about the man’s injuries or why ICE officers did not render aid to him.
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Bamboo Grove @bamboogrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If you are in possession of any of the recalled meats, it is advised to return them or discard them." Advised? So not required?
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 23/09/2026
ICE agents swarmed the South Coast, arresting more than two dozen people in New Bedford alone in what lawyers and advocates are calling an even more indiscriminate approach than in the height of last year's operations.
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The South Coast is facing another surge in ICE activity. Lawyers say this time seems different. - The Boston Globe
The arrests, lawyers and advocates for immigrants say, appear more indiscriminate than operations last year.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 CRITICAL UPDATE Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez deportation has be blocked by a judge. He has lost movement on his left side after being shot near the spine by an ICE agent in Austin, TX. 🚨 He was transferred 100+ miles to an ICE detention facility. 🚨The bullet remains lodged near his spine.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Are we to believe an administration that has pardoned MULTIPLE wealthy executives convicted of Medicare fraud is acting in good faith to reduce fraud? They are not. JD Vance and Trump will use ANY excuse to take health care away from working people.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 22/09/2026
New: The Texas Rangers appear to be pursuing criminal charges against Camp Mystic, saying in a search affidavit they believe camp leadership committed manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide during last year’s July 4 floods, according to The New York Times.
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Texas Rangers pursuing Camp Mystic criminal investigation
In an affidavit, the Rangers said they believe camp leaders committed multiple crimes including manslaughter in connection with the deaths of 27 campers and counselors in the July 2025 flood.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE has a bigger budget than the Marine Corps & still conned Congress out of $20M more for bodycams. Swore every agent would wear one by August. It’s September and ICE shot an Austinite in the back. They say there was no camera. They’re liars with masks and a blank check from Trump.
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
❤️ Hi, I’m Panda! I was surrendered by my owner. I’m a very fearful boy, retreating to the back of my kennel, trembling w/a tucked tail. I’m sweet, sensitive and very shy, I’m going to need time, patience & love to heal! 🆘 I need someone 2b my hero! NE Coast 🆓2foster Queens 264724 🙏Pls Share me
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the time—before a video could be streamed—I got the transcript for this and published it.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE. trib.al/Yb8i23b
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ICE Just Made Thousands of Detainees Vanish From Its System
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE.
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Octopus farming is extremely unethical and stupid. These creatures among the smartest species in the entire planet, with complex emotional lives. To subject these being to a lifetime of confinement and suffering in barren tanks before a slow and agonising death needs to stop. Please sign this 👇🏼
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Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming Now
Octopuses are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They solve puzzles, use tools and even recognise individual people. But octopus farming would subject these intelligent animals to a lifeti
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