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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have been in court, showing a funder how the system "works," when a Child Advocate from @theyoungcenter.bsky.social realized a toddler was in court without an attorney. Seeing them jump into action and knowing that kiddo wouldn't be alone any more is why I do what I do. This is not a rarity. 👇

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have not tried posting a reel here before, but this one from @whitewhalepod.bsky.social is worth the effort. Bringing new life to history posts about radio...without becoming a camera-face. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-sound-...

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is as if your standards editor became an armed police helicopter.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In which I contemplate the wireless, and the people who are the true heir of a medium that changed the world in ways we are barely beginning to process. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/dialing-it...

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Dialing It In

People who produce narrative audio are humanity's wireless receivers. To do our work, we must deploy one of the oldest skills the technology demands: We listen.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In which I contemplate the wireless, and the people who are the true heir of a medium that changed the world in ways we are barely beginning to process. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/dialing-it...

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Dialing It In

People who produce narrative audio are humanity's wireless receivers. To do our work, we must deploy one of the oldest skills the technology demands: We listen.

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 24/09/2026

Using AI to do a crime does not absolve you of criminality. AI is just a computer program. It's already illegal to use computers to do crimes. Even other people's computers. Furthermore, AI is unnecessarily unsafe; using it to "accidentally" commit a crime should add charges of criminal negligence.

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The order of the president of the United States I think fairly read expresses the view that transgender citizens don't exist," Judge Young told a DOJ attorney. "Please tell me I'm wrong." DOJ lawyer: "I can't."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment

A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#2891):

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A reminder that Trump demolished the entire East Wing of the White House in just 3 days.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hmmm…deporting brown and black people to Africa and importing white people from Africa. Wonder what could possibly be going on here…

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You had to get tapes from the Oval Office to hear stuff as racist as what they just tweet out in hype videos now.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is absolutely hurting websites, even as AI tools scrape them to power its algorithms.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/09/2026

Continuing its voyage into uncharted waters, the latest preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.08°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Models expect the Nino 3.4 anomaly to continue rising into at least mid-November. Then there will be dragons.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.

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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New, from me: The Kennedy Center and NIH don't appear to have much in common, but both reveal what happens when nonpartisan institutions clash with a personalist regime. The inherent contradictions between competence and cronyism soon reveal themselves. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-art-an...

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The art and science we deserve?

Both the Kennedy Center and NIH are crumbling under the weight of Trump’s ego

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Episode 3 of this show I edited will bring you into a surreal murder trial, complete with 1980s martial-arts moral panic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H357...

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Episode 3 - The Ninja | Examined: The Backfire Effect

YouTube video by Pushkin Industries

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Large American and EU banks are complicit in helping Russia evade sanctions of their own governments.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Our sector still internalizes the idea that nonprofits are to blame for not having enough funds, not being stable, not being able to meet community needs, when whole systems seem designed to ensure they never actually succeed." www.nonprofitaf.com/lets-stop-bl...

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Let’s stop blaming individuals and organizations for systemic problems

Original title: We need to get off the gaslighting, victim-blaming hamster wheel of bullshit (GVBHWBS) A few weeks ago, I was listening to a panel of funders give advice for nonprofits on the best wa...

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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

"Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009.

theguardian.com

‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22/09/2026

32 is so bad. i dont think people will be able to look at objective conditions, as unpleasant as they are, and understand how it could be so bad. thirty-two is "i never even liked you anyway" material.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In sworn testimony, the Treasury Department says it hasn't seen the money from Venezuela, and doesn't know where it's gone. Time to figure out who's pocketing it. In an overall kleptocracy, this may well be the most brazen act of embezzlement so far. www.ft.com/content/0588...

ft.com

US state department under pressure to disclose Venezuelan oil takings

Trump administration holds back from revealing how much money it has collected and how much it has sent back to Caracas

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is catastrophic

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The German word during WWII for stealing works of art under the guise of "protecting cultural heritage" was "kunstschutz," and it's principles that Nazis claimed to uphold sound to close to the way Trump talks about the Kennedy Center and Smithsonian.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

what happens next? what always happens. Paramount moves forward, and pays down the massive deal debt with massive layoffs, price hikes, and corner cutting resulting in lower quality products. At which point guys like Newsom, and other folks who pushed for settlement, will be nowhere to be found.

"Golden State Governor Gavin Newsom, who has been advocating for a settlement publicly over the past month, was in “constant contact” with the parties as talks ebbed and flowed over the weekend. Very much aware of the harsh backlash to a settlement that erupted among Congressional Democrats, A-listers like Mark Ruffalo and others as deal talks accelerated, potential 2028 POTUS candidate Newsom is said to have cautioned both sides to find terms that addressed “core concerns” for Hollywood and the state.

“It’s jobs, job, jobs, that’s what this all about,” a source close to power players in Sacramento told Deadline.

Paramount shares are up 9% on the news. WBD gained 10% trading at about $30.50. The deal calls for Paramount to take out Warner stockholders for $31 a share."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026

If one of the "rewards" of affluence is that you get to opt out of the services everyone else uses -- roads & transit, aviation system, schools, healthcare, etc. -- then those services are inevitably starved of resources & decline. We have to force affluent people to be invested in them.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Episode 3 of this show I edited will bring you into a surreal murder trial, complete with 1980s martial-arts moral panic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H357...

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Episode 3 - The Ninja | Examined: The Backfire Effect

YouTube video by Pushkin Industries

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In terms of insane and unpapered US actions, this is not quite the same thing as bombing boats in the Caribbean in violation of Constitutional and international law, but this is still WILD ROGUE STATE shit.

"Trump may have found a new way to hobble the International Criminal Court. The administration is planning massive sanctions that will hit transactions with the court writ large, not just individual officials, WSJ’s Matthew Dalton and Alex Ward scooped. The effect might be to choke off the ICC from the global financial system, part of the administration’s continued assault as retribution for its arrest warrant against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/09/2026

'The Backfire Effect' is a pretty astonishing story that lays bare so many of the worst parts of the criminal legal system, and so there's basically no one better than @jduffyrice.bsky.social to tell it. Highly recommend you listen to this podcast.

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Examined: The Backfire Effect

About Examined: Overlooked cases that never got the real investigation they deserved. Each season features deeply reported stories about crime, punishment, and the people inside the criminal legal sys...

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026

I feel like one of the few genuine takeaways of the past decade is that there are apparently no circumstances that would actually warrant the invocation of the 25th amendment

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

nextgov.com

GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

good piece that captures something I often try to explain about the difference between Texas ca. 2005, when I first moved there, and now: it used to be normal and now it’s batshit

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I want to talk to you about an article @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social published yesterday that should be getting a LOT more attention than it currently is -- It's all about how the US Census Bureau is overrun with staffers from a notable MAGA think tank.

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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 16/09/2026

Sending our thoughts and condolences to the entire @nbcla.com and NBC Universal family today as they mourn the loss of their colleagues, journalist Eliana Moreno and helicopter pilot George Maciniw.

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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week’s episode is an interview with @jduffyrice.bsky.social about her new show, which covers the case of an innocent man who was convicted of murder on the theory that he’s in a ninja syndicate.

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The Innocence Case from Hell with Josie Duffy Rice

Podcast Episode · 5-4 · September 15 · 57m

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