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If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, really. Good question.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

two doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric

A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.
Kelly Gleason, an attorney for Pike, said she heard this from another of Pike's attorneys, Randy Spivey. Gleason said Spivey was in the death chamber with Pike but stepped out to call Gleason.
"She's alive and snoring," Gleason said.
Another attorney, Amy Harwell, is driving an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court, Gleason said.
"She needs immediate medical care," Gleason said.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm aggravated by the outrage over the Cornell SA case. Women have been telling the world for decades that this is happening. Instead of being believed, we get harassed, threatened, and doxxed over it. Now (some) people have the gall to be shocked. WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026

destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buying fast food for my family, it’s over $50, which feels like a lot. Not unreasonable from the restaurant, but like going out to dinner, not grabbing something cheap. So I looked up fast food prices, and they’ve risen faster than inflation. Add that to the why people say stuff’s expensive list.

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Chart of the Day: Fast Food Inflation

Today’s Chart of the Day shows the inflation of fast-food prices over the last of 10 years vs. actual inflation of everything else.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

absolute impunity to do random self-destructive shit with taxpayer money.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 28/09/2026

This feels too on the nose. Has the script writing this season just become lazy?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile lots of recent stories about cops using Flock cameras to stalk women and plenty more about domestic violence and assault are a reminder that the criminal justice system is often far more part of the problem than the solution.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 26/09/2026

They shouldn't have wasted the name Skye Rizzy on some drug that does whatever it does. That was meant to be the name of a teen celebrity who's famous for reasons I understand as little as I understand that drug

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Damnit Janet @damnitjanet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone at work complained about me shouting the c word (cunt) yesterday and then a wasp stung me in the face and I yelled motherfucker, cos I can take a hint

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A good third of the problems in this admin stem from reporters asking grandpa Roomba something he has no idea about and him just freejazzing in the answer

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/09/2026

The president just runs his mouth like he always has as a person, but because he’s the fucking commander in chief everyone has to try to align with what he says. It’s actually kind of a marvel it hasn’t been even more disastrous than it already is.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/09/2026

The entirely of the second Trump administration is unserious people in leadership saying very serious things and then the machinery of the federal government creaking to align itself with what they’ve said

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

trader joe’s can literally package anything and people will buy it. pickle flavored pancake mix? it’s a fall favorite. pumpkin anchovies? sold out sorry. watermelon infused pork roast? great for your next bbq. elf cum hand lotion? perfect stocking stuffer

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eventually there will be no sausage left in the world if nobody wants to know how it's made.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I study the apocalypse and this is the surest sign I've seen

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another strange thing about Fox News right now. They haven’t done one of their classic diner visits for ages. The last one I can remember is from an RV giveaway this summer. No diners No voter panels. This is odd for an election year.

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Brian Wooley @brianwooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In case you need yet another example. You treat NPR as a legitimate news source at your own peril.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

sometimes i’ll just randomly find out. no fucking around to speak of.

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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no news is good news unless you're waiting for news then no news is bad news unless you're avoiding the news then no news is good news circle of life and so forth single file towards the exit folks make as much noise as you like the neighbours knew what they were getting into

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A big part of the Attorney General's job is to make sure the president of the United States isn't further implicated in the largest child rape ring of the century. And this gets less attention to the less than a dozen kids who'd like to play sprts at school.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

there is no principle they can claim to have that Trump cannot make them abandon

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Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com · 18/09/2026

“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now." The Big 5 have shown their cards. I think it's time to call their bluff. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...

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In the Library Ebook Market, Can Librarians Learn to Just Say No?

If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Le...

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DogLove3 @doglove3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t ever live for your job. They won’t think twice about discarding you. Once you’re gone, you are forgotten like you were never there.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most incompetent administration in history by far, populated by idiots from top to bottom putting all of our lives in danger.

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your reminder that Robert Kraft pays to rape sex trafficked victims but is still beloved by the NFL and the Epstein Class.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you have to include a greater and greater majority of the world's people into the group "radical," maybe you're the one who's off your rocker.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 18/09/2026

Still doing my best to know absolutely nothing about Hasan Piker, despite the relentless, stupid media obsession with him.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would like to footnote Jamelle Bouie who said earlier today none of these clowns have ever had to run in a competitive race and it shows

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you are on the left and willing to cede rights for some citizens, you're creating a gray area for who is a full and actual human, and you are bad at this, actually.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

was looking for an image for this article, saw this photo of Alito, and was like 'yeah that easily looks like he could be prattering on about the nefariousness of mail-in ballots or chemtrails or something, that'll do' ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 18/09/2026

Ma'am, You are an absolute lunatic.

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