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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h
the actual realistic answer is rigorous NISPOM and DFARS clause 252.226-7003 enforcement the non-national security stuff is a political problem of dealing with a notional trillionaire generally, but the DoD stuff is pretty straightforward
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Feels like someone is out to get her. And I love that for her. The best is yet to come.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“A US diplomat, David Milstein, sparked outrage after being accused of having “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised” reporting to paint the Israeli government “in a favorable light,” including by “stonewalling” lawmakers’ probes into Israeli killings of Americans, the NYT reported.“
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Fury as American diplomat accused of 'covering up' US deaths for foreign nation: 'Traitor'
A U.S. diplomat sparked outrage after being accused of having “repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised” reporting to paint the Israeli government “in a favorable light,” including by “stonewall...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff seems to have disemboweelled Mike Collins on live TV. Don’t tell PETA.   talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...
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Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/10/2026
Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.
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2026 Usage Policy update
We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.
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Jacob 🇺🇦🇵🇸🪳 @fuckaasbitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rahul Gandhi crowdsurfing(?) at protests in delhi
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Jacob 🇺🇦🇵🇸🪳 @fuckaasbitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Priyanka Gandhi, one finger raised, yelling something at riot police in delhi
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1/6 This article indirectly describes one of the more important consequences of our current, distorted form of globalization, even if it isn't commented upon enough. Automation helps Japanese and Korean shipbuilders compete with Chinese shipbuilders only if wages... www.ft.com/content/ea32...
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Japanese and Korean shipbuilders deploy robots to take on China
US allies invest in ‘smart shipyards’ as Beijing’s dominance of industry alarms Washington
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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bobhall44.bsky.social @bobhall44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you had to be around Trump, you’d need rest times too.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is required reading --- stunning even for him. He's way worse than even in January, when he gave that creepy interview to the NY Times. The stress is accellerating his decline.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
popping this up on top of your feed because it's a seriously fucking great read and call-to-action
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you have to run past rightful condemnation of war crimes or even ethnic cleansing to instead claim the willful attempt to murder a whole people, and you do so in a conflict in which the number of deaths -- including combatants -- is exceeded by births, then yeah, you've gone there.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s not just anonymous sources (tho we are in the business of citing people who know what they’re talking about); one of Trump’s top pollsters is on the record throwing cold water on the GOP-wide 2026 anti- Hasan piker electoral strategy which is still going strong at the NRSC, etc. He then…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This somehow didn't turn up when I searched the site but I'm glad to see it's here. They're late to this but credit where it's due.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These sound like non-trivial problems.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My thoughts after seeing NAZA, ICYMI:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Colleges & universities, like Cornell, that receive federal funding are required to publish an Annual Security Report (ASR) of reported rapes, fondling, dating violence, domestic violence, & stalking on campus, in university housing, & on nearby public property. www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act
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The Clery Act
The Clery Act
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 26/09/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Downballot is doing something fairly (entirely?) new in election analysis. Lots of people have tracked primary TURNOUT, which has some relation to election outcome. But they argue that tracking CHANGE in primary turnout is a far more reliable predictor of election outcome. Which could mean blowout.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Good god
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👉 Brendan Carr (Trump's FCC) was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ for 9 years. They abused & trafficked teenage girls and young women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In honor of Don Jr's new Russian benefactor, @lolgop.bsky.social and I are bringing back our Ball of Threads. emptywheel.net/2026/09/21/i...
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"If It's What You Say I Love It," Especially If You Bring Ball of Thread Back - emptywheel
In honor of Don Jr's new Russian benefactor, LOLGOP and I are re-releasing our Ball of Threads series.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And a partridge in a pear tree🎶
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bobhall44.bsky.social @bobhall44.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do it, Doofus.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For @thenation.com, @cathylutz.bsky.social and I wrote about how school ”security“ in the US is becoming militarized.
thenation.com
Electric Shocks for Kids and the Push to Militarize Schools
Electric-shock gloves used on students in Nebraska are the latest sign of how policing, surveillance, and military technology have entered American schools.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mike Luckovich
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15/09/2026
Key moment for crypto industry--with vote outcome tied to fight over what to do about Trump profit taking on crypto.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Captain Bonesaw, meet face-eating leopard
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/09/2026
Wrote about the AI apocalypse and its competition with China and the climate apocalypse and its competition with China. I recommend sticking around for the kicker. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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What climate politics reveals about the AI apocalypse debate: Philip Bump
Philip Bump argues that the politics around AI risk, China and corporate power carry familiar echoes from the climate change fight.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nobody thought to ask why he went into a Butler hospital and the ONLY medical report came from Jackson who was in TX at the time of the shooting? Ossoff will call it out. We need a new batch of fearless warriors
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're just going to accept that Trump's people murdered a fireman at his rally for sympathy votes🙄
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New substack: You can marginalize Marxism, but you cannot marginalize the facts. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/marx-on-ai
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Marx on AI
Technical change is an issue of what capitalism does to workers.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The Iran War will not only provide a way to get to the corruption...It will also provide a way to demonstrate that white supremacists fuck everything up." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/09/13/t...
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The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One - emptywheel
Even before Democrats will turn to oversight if they win back the House, they're likely to have to deal with the catastrophe created by Trump's Iran War debacle.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One emptywheel.net/2026/09/13/t...
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The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One - emptywheel
Even before Democrats will turn to oversight if they win back the House, they're likely to have to deal with the catastrophe created by Trump's Iran War debacle.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A pretty detailed summation of how the war is progressing from the Ukrainian perspective.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Weekend update out. Zelensky has been on a tweet storm lately, and it has been illuminating. There have been threats of escalation, pleas for anti-air support, some confidence stated about the land war and (sadly) a little hope in Trump expressed. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
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Weekend Update #202: Zelensky Tweets The War
The War Is Getting More Brutal Now; Ukraine Showing Greater Adaptability In The Land War; Is Zelensky Fooling Himself About The USA?
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Martin Smith @martinpompeyfan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fantastic summary of the war from a Ukrainian pov
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