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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media obtained body cam footage of the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports:
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Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional
"I saw her go by, and I just started running her info on Flock."
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h
The rape case is drawing attention to a previous failure by Cornell's president, Michael Kotlikoff. Last year, he caved in a $60 million settlement to Trump, undermining DEI and free speech on campus. His capitulation has the stench of complicity. www.salon.com/2026/10/09/w...
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What Cornell says about universities’ MAGA complicity
White House attacks on DEI gave colleges cover to abandon women and minority students
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
Putting government counsel on both sides “makes me feel like it’s all a farce,” says one immigration attorney.
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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CharmaineScammell 🌱🇬🇧 @charmainescammell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please sign share🙏 Petition calling for a ban on octopus farming and to prevent the expansion of carnivorous aquaculture. Farming octopuses is both cruel and harmful for the environment. They belong in the open ocean. bit.ly/OctopusFarming- #KeepThemWild action.ciwf.org.uk/page/201665/...
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Stop octopus farming and the expansion of carnivorous aquaculture
I've just signed a petition calling for a ban on octopus farming and to prevent the expansion of carnivorous aquaculture. Farming octopus is both cruel and harmful for the environment. They belong in ...
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Kevin @kpower90.bsky.social · 19h
My man looks like warmed over and over used Silly Putty
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms. trib.al/Jbg3XAS
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22h
This should be made into an ad and run non-stop on every channel until the election is over.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20h
SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses — a move the company says “will pave the way” for its Starlink Mobile service to become a “major” US carrier.
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SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’
SpaceX is getting serious about Starlink Mobile.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21h
Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” (Published Nov. 2025 w/ @startribune.com)
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 20h
There is no faster way to lose the future than to turn away the people who will help build it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m tired of mediocre white men being in charge.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/10/2026
A flood of misinformation has eroded trust in the public health triumph that is pasteurized milk—and among the advocates working to reverse this health victory is none other than Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr: arstechnica.visitlink.me/vPM8xd
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Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22h
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/10/2026
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ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h
A federal immigration agent shot a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, the latest of nearly two dozen such shootings in the past two years.
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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car
Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.
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reginaldedward3 @reginaldedward3.bsky.social · 21h
The goal isn't to convict, it's to harass
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another perfect day here in hell www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE shared voter data with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, new documents show
The documents said the company was preparing to enter the data into a highly controversial surveillance tool it developed for ICE.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yet another dead killer whale — J31’s baby. J pod is part of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales that live in on the west coast. Increasingly busy, noisy, hot waters where it’s hard to hunt dwindling salmon. Choose orcas, not oil. www.kuow.org/climate/2026...
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Another grieving orca mom carries dead calf on her nose off Washington state
Whale researchers spotted the 30-year-old female orca carrying a tiny carcass through the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Saturday.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
Thousands march ahead of Brazil election runoff: 'Never Again Bolsonaro'
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Thousands march ahead of Brazil election runoff: 'Never Again Bolsonaro'
Students spilled into downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, calling for votes for incumbent leftist president Lula.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years and only start to reproduce at the age of 150 with $45 per heart bounty The plan has been dropped but there is momentum growing to kill the sharks Absolute evil - spread the word nypost.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Greenland fishermen want to cull 1,000 sharks that can live over 400 years with $45 per heart bounty
Greenland sharks becomes sexually mature at the old age of 150 and are believed to gestate thier young for over a decade — meaning populations can take an extremely long time to recover.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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terrible towelie @terribletowelie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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Drone strikes, likely Russian, sink ships in NATO countries’ economic zones
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
The ATF’s new proposed rule would allow gun dealers to conduct many firearms sales entirely remotely. Eligible buyers could verify their identities online and have a gun shipped directly to their home—no in-person interaction required.
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A new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.
It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US gove...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
After four of their children died, the parents told officers they hadn’t taken them to the doctor because of their religion, which considers the use of modern medicine a sinful lapse of faith in God. Under Idaho law, authorities couldn’t step in.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Colombia has introduced legislation to prohibit the intensive farming of octopuses and other cephalopods, becoming the latest country in Latin America to act against the emerging industry. 🐙🦑🚫 veganfta.com/articles/2026/10/03/co…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Use the 25th Amendment Now
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Coal is only cheap if someone else pays the bill... theconversation.com/our-research...
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Our research measures the real cost of coal mines to people and planet
A new model offers a template for just and transparent accounting of loss and damage.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a post on X, politician Melanie D'Arrigo reacted to President Trump's announcement of a major push to expand the federal death penalty during a political rally in Mobile, Alabama. Arrigo pointed to his mass pardons and lack of transparency regarding the Epstein Files.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 05/10/2026
AI is junk food for the mind; easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind; easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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