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Valuable thread on parenting boys to respect others. This thread is also for non-parents. It’s for the entire village. All of us.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

✅ also got ChatGPT condolences from the attorney who fed my personal information to his rebot to generate a high-pressure ChatGPT email about using his services

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Alexander Cohen @capitolmuckrakr.bsky.social · 12h

In the interest of full disclosure, I have never been to an Atlanta Hawks game.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

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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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Just because we played footsie with these creeps for decades doesn't mean we wanted to marry them" ...but also: good for him. Due to the US's two-party polarized politics, fragmenting our authoritarian coalition requires high profile breaks like these from within the Republican Party.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 28/09/2026

"Schools now must go back to the Title IX code as held under the previous Trump administration in 2020. ... Opponents of the move say it will harm transgender athletes and weaken protections for sexual assault victims."

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Alexander Cohen @capitolmuckrakr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I updated how I comparison-shop. I look at brick and mortar, on the app, logged in, logged out. I try not to buy in-app. I run experiments. Call your friends and say: “What price are you seeing?” My husband and I sit in bed with our laptops open, figuring out which of us gets the better deal.”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This story was a big collaboration between graphics, data, photo, and immigration. A story with bylines across 4 desks, which I think shows the seriousness with which The Guardian takes covering this

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Matt Waite @mattwaite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you, like me, still think about the 2010 Winter Olympics interactive graphic from the NYTimes where they turned finishing times into sound? Good news: I burned some tokens and created soundeR, an R package that sonifies data in a very beginner friendly way: www.mattwaite.com/posts/2026-0...

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Announcing soundeR, an R package that turns data into music(?) – Matt Waite

Announcing the soundeR package, that turns data into sounds. It’s made for people with basic tidyverse skills and a rudimentary understanding of music. You can make sounds with very little, and there’...

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

By giving AI agency it can’t claim, we’ve turned it into a sentient being made of code, one that has hopes, desires, and the capability of deceit.

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There are no “rogue” AI agents

Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 28/09/2026

I tried this Signal registration w/ no phone number option 1) it was easy 2) it requires $2.99 payment to reduce scams, you can pay w/ a Google Gift Card (that you can buy in cash) if you took every other precaution (fresh phone/google account/delete logs, wifi only) that's close to a real burner

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026

"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."

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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crazy satellite for a nor'easter. Are there clear skies on LBI as the 'eye' makes landfall?

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's time to stop letting a small number of white American journalists who write airport books about scary diseases set the policy frame for pandemics. And it's unbelievably galling to do it - and this is always how it happens - in the middle of an ongoing Ebola virus epidemic.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In addition, one of the most important open questions in our field is whether these changes are reversible. I'm persuaded that land use changes going back to the 1940s may have changed viral dynamics in wildlife - but that might just be how things are now, even if we stop deforesting.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“going rogue” is like “hallucination”: a descriptor that is both technically inaccurate and obscures culpability

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Alexander Cohen @capitolmuckrakr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“We were told he would be unconscious in seconds. Yet his veins kept rising against the skin. Saliva, mucus and other fluids kept pooling. His eyes looked like they might explode. I took off my glasses. I sobbed. I had never felt further from God.”

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Cedar Attanasio @viacedar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seattle became the first place in the US to ban algorithmic pricing in grocery g stores #airegulation To do so, they had to reject a red herring: (Why not ban price hikes, but not discounts?) My latest for @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

pic of Trump returning to the White House last night 😳 (Finn Gomez/Getty)

zoom in on his face, hair blowing straight up, expression looking vacant

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 👉 As noted by @gillianbrockell.com in TAP, we can confirm this Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) departed Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, trafficking chained humans via Puerto Rico to multiple stops in Africa. First up: Ghana 🇬🇭 The Peruvian man in Gillian's article remains in Massachusetts.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this makes me so angry time to turn off automatic updates I guess

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Alexander Cohen @capitolmuckrakr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

😏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

An excerpt from the linked article:
“Our nonpartisan approach is evident by the consistent practice of welcoming everyone and continued invitations to bipartisan members of Congress and their staff for briefings, tours and our programming,” a spokeswoman, Roma Daravi, said in a statement on Friday.

The following sentence from the article is highlighted in the image:
(Hours later she lost her job in a round of layoffs, one of several this year.)

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nytimesguild.bsky.social @nytimesguild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday, this company told our members we have to "dig deeper" to cover the costs of our health care. Today, its executives rang the opening bell at the the NYSE.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If only everyone had stood behind The AP, we maybe could have effectively deterred this from ever happening. Now we’ll never know.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report...and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The report, according to one of the sources, was 'entirely false.' But it also 'almost started a war,' the source said."

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Brandon Roberts @bxroberts.org · 18/09/2026

The CLEAR LABELS Act originally mandated that facility IDs appear on drug labels -- making it easy to know if the drug in your cabinet was made by a problem facility. They have significantly watered down the bill by removing this critical requirement. 😭 www.propublica.org/article/clea...

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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote

The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

INBOX: Science retracted a news article this week after editors found that the author (likely an AI agent) impersonated the identity of an established science journalist, both with editors and sources in the story. Furthermore, two of the quotes provided were plagiarized: (h/t @wudan.bsky.social)

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Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information

Frequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One (or all) of the following is happening: - ICE is intentionally conducting insultingly bad FOIA searches to screw requesters out of records about the agency's use of force. - It is failing to create records, or improperly destroying the ones it generates. All scenarios are unlawful.

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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters

ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026

New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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Stephen @stephenthen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But there's more: this shifts taxation to consumption. I don't see enough people yelling about this. It's a national sales tax. And that's what the right has always wanted: a regressive, consumption-based taxation system.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026

As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Two months before Americans vote in midterm elections that, local and state officials across the country are rehearsing for a crisis that once seemed unthinkable: What if the U.S. president tries to use the power of the federal government to tilt the vote his way? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Election officials prepare for chaos as Trump seeks to tilt the midterms to Republicans

U.S. state and local officials are taking extraordinary steps to protect voting systems, staff and public confidence amid growing signs that the president is trying to use federal power and fraud clai...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

16 September 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Suzanne Mol, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 21 Aug 1942 in a group of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 817 murdered in gas chambers after the selection. --- Children at Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN

Vintage photograph of a smiling girl wearing a cap and a dress.

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