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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h

Talk about not reading the room...

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 2h

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6h

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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MWhite @pjmatt.bsky.social · 5h

Unbelievable.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 8h

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 7h

This is a story of rurality, more than a story of political parties. Rural areas have older populations & more outmigration among young adults due to shifts in economic opportunities. Fewer young adults means fewer births.

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Half of All Rural Counties Are Losing Population. What Is Contributing to Those Declines? | The Daily Yonder

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 8h

Pope news

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 9h

I mean.

“We used our names and news organization email addresses, following each state’s rules for starting private schools or microschools, a type of private school intended for just a few students. Experience running a school wasn’t needed. No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications, though West Virginia did ask for proof of a high school diploma. No one questioned what we plan to teach h or how we would measure whether students are learning

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.

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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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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 21h

Me, just now, at the drugstore getting a prescription: “$90? That seems pretty high.” Clerk: “Oh, maybe we have a coupon.” Pause…. “Yes, now it’s $30.” So, because I thought to ask, the price dropped by 2/3rds. This system’s just great!

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 22h

The effects of the world being handed incontrovertible proof that the United States really is a barbaric country will last a long time.

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wow, the latest software update came with an additional AI feature I can't wait to never use

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/10/2026

Can irony kill you?

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026

Wow

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 23h

I've been down on Delta lately, but now I feel a little better about it.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 23h

I am happy to have discovered this website, but fearful of the inevitable procrastination excuses I'll be telling myself. www.thestacksreader.com/about/

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About | The Stacks Reader

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Michelle Rathman Chief Dot Connector @mrbimpact.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As it happens, taxpayer dollars have been used to build prisons/concentration camps. We're going to need a whole lotta cells (one can hope) to lock up vile tech bros and all their government enablers. Further seize all their wealth and use it to reverse the danger they've unleashed on all of US.

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am incredibly honored to receive the endorsement of the National Security Leaders for America.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Q posed by @voiceofsandiego.org but important nationally, and one I address in The Mayor (pre-order now). A Trump supporting guy is running for city counci. The city's Democratic. BUT! "Voters are down on the current state of San Diego governance." Incompetent government is an open invitation.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ohio is raising its minimum wage. At the new rate, a worker making that wage will earn $23,712 per year for working 40 hour weeks, 52 weeks per year, no time off.

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The real threat from AI isn’t the technology. It’s the atrophying of government over decades: practiced helplessness, subservience to corporations, unwillingness to prosecute wealthy criminals, and a fear of making policy that has consequences. A crisis can force a shift. That needs to happen now.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hegseth, like all men who abuse women, is a wimpy, fearful little man.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Asked a good friend, an academy grad and lifelong officer what he thought: “I learned the most from my civilian professors. They were the best.”

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have this fantasy that a few super wealthy movie people band together and create an old-school studio complete with back lots and sound stages and in-house orchestras, and….

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As governor, I’ll support bipartisan legislation to ban them statewide.

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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our law enforcement officers deserve the resources they need to keep Ohioans safe, but public safety should never come at the expense of our rights. Flock cameras have proven too easy to misuse and pose serious risks to our privacy.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is so brilliant. Uncommon.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over a year ago I told anybody who would listen (which was hardly anybody) that @amyactonoh.bsky.social had a chance to win. It's going to be close, but, yes, she has a good shot.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When people ask "universities sit on a billion dollar endowment, why don't they spend it on scholarships?" The answer is: "because the people who gave the money conditioned it on spending it on building a campus in Miami."

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morning email greeting: "Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates" And my hatred of the immoral thieves forcing this shit down all our throats, and getting fabulously rich while doing it, boils over yet again.

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Andrew Tobias @andrewjtobias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pro-Issue 3 Mailers are hitting Ohio mailboxes this week. The disclaimer says they are funded by America PAC. Elon Musk founded America PAC in 2024 to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and it's spending in competitive U.S. Senate races this year, including Ohio.

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