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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 15h
New: OpenAI ignored warnings from its own employees and independent security researchers who said they needed better safety measures at the company. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 11h
Some federal appeals court judges signaled they were open to restarting a contempt probe into whether senior officials deliberately defied a judicial order last year on deportation flights to El Salvador. www.washingtonsun.com/judges-restar…
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Some Judges Sound Open to Restarting Contempt Probe in El Salvador Deportation Case
An appeals court heard oral arguments Tuesday over Judge James Boasberg’s review of whether Trump administration officials defied his court order.
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Ann Murphy @murphtrials.bsky.social · 11h
Doing a great job…
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 11h
A federal appeals court refused to reverse a federal judge’s decision to punish President Trump and his lawyers for engaging in “bad faith” conduct and collusion in the president’s lawsuit, and subsequent out-of-court agreement, over an IRS contractor leaking his tax returns.
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Appeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Stay Sanctions in IRS Lawsuit
Three appellate judges sided with a lower court’s finding that the president colluded with the IRS and the Treasury Department.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h
This is a wild story. Please check it out to see how Russia has started meddling in the midterms to help Trump and is incorporating me into a disinformation operation to do so. HowRussiaWon.com
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
Great ad.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
FREE LIVE STREAM: Join me at 6:30ET for an urgent update on how Trump and his DOJ are now attacking free and fair elections and what we are doing to fight back. www.youtube.com/live/269vb3e...
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ALERT: Trump's DOJ Is Now Taunting Judges to Rule Against Them
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h
Talked to @stuartpstevens.bsky.social youtu.be/SSDsrx025yM?...
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Jack Smith DETROYS Trump's Act w/ Stuart Stevens
YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h
“I just wanted to do something good, and everyone is making it seem like I’m doing something wrong,” one temporary caregiver told @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, who reports on the babies left behind by Trump’s deportations and the individuals trying to care for them.
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 19h
Smith: Trump suggested witnesses be "put to death."
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 19h
In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 20h
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 19h
Russia has moved to a new level of warfare - a regime of constant drone pressure that it can sustain continuously. In 2025–2026, the Shahed evolved from a relatively simple one-way drone into an entire family of systems with different missions⤵️
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 19h
Data centers across the United States being built to power AI require far more electricity because of the powerful chips inside. That’s pushing construction into rural areas, where costs are lower but still near fiber internet lines. | Washington Post www.msn.com/en-us/techno...
Source: Satellite imagery via Google Earth* of AI data centers buildings in side by side photos.  | Washington Post

Note: this is not an AI generated image as per the publication.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19h
Missouri’s state legislature tried—and tried again—to undermine its voters by attempting to redraw voting maps while dodging the required process. Two lawyers break it down ⬇️
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SCOTUS Was Right to Keep Federal Courts Out of Missouri’s Congressional District Border War
By Richard W. Painter and E. Thomas Sullivan
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h
Despite repeated warnings about its ties to the Kremlin, Rubio gave a tech company a new contract—on the same day it filed a lawsuit against the former employee who publicly raised the issue.
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Rubio Hired Tech Firm Months After Its Alleged Russia Ties First Emerged
The deal came on the same day the company filed a $1.85 million lawsuit against the former employee who first raised concerns.
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Zoological Disaster Response, Rescue, and Recovery (ZDR3) @zdr3.bsky.social · 19h
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h
Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her crossdressing “bimbo” husband. www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-f…
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ICE Barbie Splits From Her Kinky ‘Bimbofication’ Husband
Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her crossdressing “bimbo” husband.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 18h
The GAO says it cannot find assurances that DOGE properly handled Americans’ data. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/doge…
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Congress’ Watchdog Arm Is Not Assured That DOGE Protected Americans’ Data
Several federal agencies did not answer the congressional auditor’s questions about data security.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h
“A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds.”
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18h
Deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the polls is illegal. And it’s deeply unpopular among voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want ICE at polls, survey shows
Nearly 40% of Americans surveyed also don't want national Guardsmen at polling places. Public dissent comes as three major lawsuits were filed to block federal interference at polling places this mont...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
Darline Nordone (Graham) is an idiot. Gaslighting cooze using her late brother’s name to gain sympathy. I have no sympathy. She’s lying about the law. JACK: “Your brother was a patriot and would have likely been a witness in our case.”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18h
A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 17h
GAO has a new report about how agencies gave DOGE staffers vast access to sensitive data and largely refused to verify to GAO that proper security controls were in place. The most remarkable part is the agencies' displays of pique & rancor toward GAO for asking questions. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 17h
LISTEN: Jalale Getachew Birru and Alan Boswell join @kayliwewe.bsky.social  to discuss the resumption of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the new alliance of armed groups against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's changing role.
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Why Ethiopia Is at War Once Again
Jalale Getachew Birru and Alan Boswell join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss renewed fighting in Tigray, a new alliance of armed groups against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's changing role.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 17h
From WSJ - The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports, the people said. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 17h
Source: www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Trump Launches AI-Driven All-Govt Website With Wild Promises of Eliminating Paperwork and Bureaucracy
Trump unveiled America.gov, an AI-driven government website he says will simplify federal services and give Americans billions of hours back.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 17h
NEWS: Trump just launched an AI website for your Medicare, passports and student loans. It's powered by Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot that called itself "MechaHitler," and built by the same administration whose DOGE team leaked Americans' Social Security data. What the hell are we doing?
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h
EXCLUSIVE | A MAGA-backed ministry leader vying to be Colorado’s next governor recounted how he threw his toddler across the room and declared that God gave him a “gift” for violence.
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‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
Pete Hegseth prepares for general purge of all women, Blacks and Hispanics from the general officer ranks of the military service branches. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta…
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18h
"The Trump administration is going to bat for the prediction market industry, now tangled in lawsuits in at least 20 states." Don Jr. holds investments in both Kalshi and Polymarket David Moore for @sludge.bsky.social
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Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 19h
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Tuesday allowed a pro-voting challenge to Louisiana’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law to move forward, including claims that the law discriminates against voters based on national origin. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge greenlights challenge to Louisiana anti-voting law, citing discrimination claims
The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 17h
A Republican senator thwarted a bipartisan effort to prevent the demolition of presidential memorials—including the Kennedy Center—without Congress’ approval.
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MAGA Senator Kills Bill to Stop Trump Destroying Kennedy Center
Utah Sen. Mike Lee cast the lone vote against the bill.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 17h
The community in Alexandria, Louisiana, is calling for the cancelation of the new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids at England Airpark. Get loud for the kids. bsky.app/profile/anat...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h
PM Tusk: "Every night, if not every day, we have to scramble our Air Force repeatedly, because Russian strikes near the Polish border, especially on border crossings and nearby infrastructur, have become quite constant." 📹:Obywatelska_KO
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16h
Pete Hegseth is slashing a fifth of Pentagon leadership positions as his paranoia worsens.
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Pete Hegseth's Secret Plot for Pentagon Purge Exposed
The defense secretary is eliminating leadership positions—except his own, of course.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16h
The former US prosecutor who indicted Donald Trump clashed with Republican senators, defending his investigations and saying career prosecutors on the cases were illegally fired.
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Ex-Trump Prosecutor Spars With GOP Senators, Defends Probe Staff
The former US prosecutor who secured indictments against Donald Trump clashed with Republican senators as he defended the integrity of his investigations and said career prosecutors who worked on the cases have been illegally fired.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16h
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 16h
The State Department's watchdog finds laws were broken when Kari Lake and Elon Musk silenced the Voice of America, ignoring reliable data and that their mistakes "severely diminished the nation’s ability" to counter disinformation and support democracy abroad. www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-a...
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA candidate Gaea Powell convicted on 9 counts of election fraud 9/28/26 www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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MAGA candidate in small Calif. town convicted on 9 counts of election fraud
It turns out this conservative candidate wasn't following election laws herself.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16h
VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h
A useful political rule: don't design the rules assuming your team will always be in charge.⁣ ⁣ Eventually, the big red button changes hands. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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My Libertarian Friends Were Right
Do economists have a political bias? What should we do about that?
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