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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
every mayor should be like this
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13h
Think about the most stupid leftist or revolutionary you've ever met, like really stupid, wants to legalise all crime, encourages crime, doesn't question Russia, their entire personality is policing other leftists; that's probably the state trying to manipulate you or demoralise you.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13h
The Onion is currently running approximately six months ahead of reality
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
Published: April 27, 2026
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Right? God forbid they do anything for anyone else with their $$. They just hang out with one another looking weirder and weirder to own the libs.
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My son “discovered” this when he was 8 or 9. His mistake was not parlaying it into a sweet op-ed piece opportunity.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
* Goldman’s Special Bonus for Top Brass Set to Exceed $500 Million @bloomberg.com $GS
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New: The Trump admin is rolling out a nationwide tour to combat hate and antisemitism — meanwhile, a rabbi arrested for protesting Israel now says that ICE agents told him they "don't care" about his religious needs, like the ability to pray away from a prison toilet during the Jewish holy days.
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ICE Jailed a Rabbi For Protesting Israel. Now He Can’t Observe His Faith
Officers told an anti-Zionist Orthodox Jew they ‘don't care’ about his need to pray away from a prison toilet. Plus: Trump gets angry over two advisers leaving the country for a major payday.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE is already setting record arrests, fueled by a growing push towards arresting people with no criminal records and people who are technically out of status but are checking in with the government and waiting for a bureaucrat to decide their applications. Now they want to ramp up arrests by 50%.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
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Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s flaunting their “fuck you” money at the peasants.
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Right now, if we wanted to, ProPublica and @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social could enroll an unlimited number of students. Here’s how a group of reporters was somehow able to establish our own school:
propublica.org
Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TN Farmers are barely getting by because Trump & folks like Brent Taylor are turning a blind eye to their struggles and those of everyday Americans. I sat down with farmers in Bolivar Tn to learn about their challenges and hear their ideas for bipartisan solutions I can bring to Congress.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“A list of Benefits Israeli 🇮🇱 residents get that Americans 🇺🇸 don’t… while we send them billions.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In 2020, a pharma CEO’s relatives donated to Susan Collins. That company got a $4.5M contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Collins was on the Appropriations subcommittee. …The company went on to pay $47M to settle claims it defrauded US health programs. @andrewperez.bsky.social:
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First Draft: Forget Hasan Piker, Donald Trump Is America’s Worst Campaign Surrogate
The president went to Nebraska – and showed yet again why Democrats including Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed are desperate for him to visit! In Maine, Susan Collins faced more embarrassing reporting.
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best of the worst maybe
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That Hemingway quote about hunting men is alarmingly common in police culture. I've seen it on police union merch and on t-shirts and other swag at SWAT competitions and policing conferences.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
One of the biggest signs here is just how quickly ostensible opponents of Trump’s domestic occupations by the National Guard reached for “send them to Anacostia/Shreveport/St. Louis/Memphis etc” as the rhetorical response and the relative silence about them since they have.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 04/10/2026
This week in Palestine: - Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank - Israelis stormed Al-Aqsa mosque compound - Israel killed journalist Muhammad Abdel Aziz al-Najjar Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup: zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-palestine-…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill Read full article: unicornriot.ninja/2026/canadia...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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blueraybluejay.bsky.social @blueraybluejay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are lead by some of the most pathetically insecure, toxic men ever to walk this earth. It’s just so unbelievable to me.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do wish it was more of a big deal that Congress, as per its Constitutional powers, appropriated money for federal programs and the Trump administration refused to spend it until it lapsed www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI’s unlawful incidents are piling up. I’m not talking about the models; I’m talking about what its executives are accused of doing to obtain the data to create the models. AI is following its master down a road of deceit. And we don't have the will to hold those responsible accountable.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what a read… the immediate and future harm is unfathomable www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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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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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back at the bad place during the first Trump administration, the biggest flurry of threatening replies and DMs (many of them antisemitic) I ever received was when this Kurt S jackalope quote tweeted me and sicced his army of flying MAGA monkeys on me.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Ohioans are stupid enough to believe stripping teachers of their bargaining rights, slashing property tax funding, and supporting billions in education cuts equals having their backs in his bid for Governor. Make it make sense. #momsky#sheshed
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On BBC2 on Tuesday I watched an RNLI lifeguard rescue two teenage boys caught in a dangerous rip current at Watergate Bay in Cornwall. If the RNLI volunteers weren’t there they would have most likely drowned. You can donate here. #RNLI
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026
Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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