Reposted by Bill CorcoranOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2hThis 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 1103663870
Reposted by Bill CorcoranErik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 4hExcellent, sensible, and welcome thoughts from @rephuffman.bsky.social, ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, on the Senate permitting deal. 01710
Reposted by Bill CorcoranChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1hHere is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying. 9297101
Reposted by Bill CorcoranChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6hPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 41978951783
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJoe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2hNo Going Back, the Trump PAC, just reported to the FEC another huge ad buy in this R+15 district in Kentucky. They’ve now spent over $1M on ads to hold onto a seat that Republicans won by 27 points (!) just two years ago. #ky06 23911
Reposted by Bill CorcoranKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 7hOne thing to bear in mind about a federal permitting bill is that its mistakes would be essentially permanent - Dems could only reverse mistakes with a filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority in the Senate. Repubs, on the other hand, could use captured courts to shave off bits their donors dislike. 23515
Reposted by Bill CorcoranBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2hThis is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...lawdork.comThe big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee executionSCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. 222271
Reposted by Bill CorcoranBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13hI wrote about the Supreme Court's nonstop lawless cruelty ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan... 515248
Reposted by Bill CorcoranKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 9hNot a lawyer, but "SEC. 209. ENEPA TECHNOLOGIES" (pages 74-94) appears to require creation of AI tools for a) company use to generate environmental docs and b) agency use to review environmental docs. AI-generated forms reviewed by AI tools in understaffed/underfunded agencies! What could go wrong. 14110
Reposted by Bill CorcoranMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h"About 5.2 million Americans like Covelli have lost SNAP benefits since the OBBBA was enacted..."cbsnews.comMillions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said. 116981
Reposted by Bill CorcoranBolts @boltsmag.org · 9hIn Maryland, the Frederick County sheriff’s office says it has sent about 2,000 people into ICE custody for deportation since it entered into an agreement with the federal agency 18 years ago.boltsmag.org “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - BoltsFrederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore. 14220
Reposted by Bill CorcoranDerek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 10hMaybe don’t listen to chiropractors who suggest raw milk 🤷🏻 1214
Reposted by Bill CorcoranKentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 9hState commission limits outside groups from weighing in on Kentucky Power audit From @weku.bsky.social, our partner in the Appalachian News Exchange kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/30/s...kentuckylantern.comState commission limits outside groups from weighing in on Kentucky Power audit • Kentucky LanternThe state Public Service Commission said Tuesday it will not allow a group of stakeholders to intervene in an audit of Kentucky Power's operations and management. 0511
Reposted by Bill CorcoranMongabay @mongabay.com · 10h12 critically endangered Nubian giraffes were relocated from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to make way for oil extraction. As economic priorities increasingly undermine protected areas, how safe is critical biodiversity inside national parks? Watch more 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation... 03119
Reposted by Bill Corcorandarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23hthink how cool jensen huang could have been if he looked up and said "mr. president sir what the fuck is the unites states?" 62907
Reposted by Bill CorcoranHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”hntrbrk.comDox for Me, O MuseMuse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users. 615573
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America. 412637389
Reposted by Bill CorcoranDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms 9896253
Reposted by Bill CorcoranLorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. 323371807
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJ. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ok, I wasn't sure if I live in an AI bubble but went totally electronics free in class. Turns out, the students haaattteee AI and the reasons are all the ones we know- they don't like being robbed of thought, they think the AI companies are evil, and they are worried about the environmental impact. 416427
Reposted by Bill CorcoranDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.washingtonmonthly.comWhy Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections? 1524063
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026xAI's Colossus 2 data center in greater Memphis is currently the largest in the world, but Meta's Hyperion complex in Louisiana will soon overtake it - until it is overtaken in this insane race by 4 other larger proposed complexes. 21811
Reposted by Bill CorcoranChelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigationpolitico.comInside the anti-climate campaign against researchersA POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. 110570
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Critical reporting by @theguardian.com: The SS goes stealth. Their quiet crimes are all around us. Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere 214078
Reposted by Bill CorcoranKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... 015462
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/20261. These companies steal research. I don’t think there’s any other way to n out this. OpenAI and Anthropic use scientists’ own work against them to steal credit and short cut work with none of the hard conceptual development. 15721
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Terry Tempest Williams: Citizens & scientists with the @biologicaldiversity.org will request protection for the (eared grebes) under the ESA this winter. The grebe is one of Utah’s local heroes, revered and grieved as it nears the quicksand of extinction www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder?What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness? 096
Reposted by Bill CorcoranWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...inquirer.comWe need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will BunchThe media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy. 901818703
Reposted by Bill CorcoranAnza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fiery sunset minutes earlier above Borrego (Photo: Sicco Rood). 224136
Reposted by Bill CorcoranProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o... 10838301748
Reposted by Bill CorcoranRobert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Historian Jack Rakove on the unitary executive theory now dominating the High Court and Trump’s presidency: 44114
Reposted by Bill CorcoranAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352122786
Reposted by Bill CorcoranBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year. 32974408
Reposted by Bill CorcoranSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government: 38815400
Reposted by Bill CorcoranDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.time.com 1033363
Reposted by Bill CorcoranCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comPentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran warWith the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows. 36706361
Reposted by Bill CorcoranThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a good response to Tammy Duckworth's infuriating commentsyoutube.comWhat should Democrats do if they win?YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 76112
Reposted by Bill Corcoranthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211058362
Reposted by Bill CorcoranZoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DOJ alerted a judge that the State Dept. notified Congress about expanding access to passport records for "voter eligibility" uses, but didn't share full details. Bloomberg obtained the doc, which IDs users as fed/state/local gov't agencies as well as non-profits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comUS Seeks to Expand Access to Passport Records for Voter ChecksThe US State Department is moving to give state and local officials, as well as potentially some nonprofit organizations, access to passport records to verify voters’ citizenship. 56140
Reposted by Bill CorcoranArlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reported on this a few times earlier in the summer. Las Playas Intaglio, previously believed to be about 1,000 years old, to at least 6,500 years ago. It was partially destroyed in April by federal contractors working on the Trump’s second border wall in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. 12011
Reposted by Bill CorcoranSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"History will decide whether he will prove the worst Interior secretary of all time. But it’s already clear that he is by far the most disappointing one." Short, sweet, perfect Doug Burgum takedown by @landdesk.bsky.social: www.hcn.org/articles/how...hcn.orgHow the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country NewsDoug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise. 21811
Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is like asking a coal executive about climate change. What do you expect him to say? “Fine intellectual dexterity” is pretentious bullshit. What does he mean other than people will be even more dependent on his product? 042
Reposted by Bill CorcoranJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery 14604124
Reposted by Bill CorcoranSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Nearly 235,000 Virginians are being notified that their felony convictions should have never kept them from voting and they can now register in time for the 2026 general election, according to the Department of Elections (ELECT).”🚨 413472
Reposted by Bill CorcoranIan James @ianjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This California river has gotten too warm for its salmon. Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration. www.latimes.com/environment/...latimes.comThis major California river has gotten too warm for its salmonThe Sacramento River has gotten too warm for salmon eggs. Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration for taking too much water out of Shasta Lake. 02614
Reposted by Bill CorcoranSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.” 13934350
Reposted by Bill CorcoranDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This straight up personalist propaganda, paid for by American taxpayers. Trump has more than $400 million in just one PAC. He can pay for this himself instead of stealing from us. 23629184