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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 13h
is it me or are these october surprises getting lamer
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Republicans Promoted a False Rumor That James Talarico Was in Ohio
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely bef...
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 13h
these drag queens have to be stopped, oh wait
theguardian.com
Teens at Sydney private religious school made to share beds with teachers, inquiry hears
Former student says nothing untoward happened to her during stays but tells NSW parliamentary inquiry culture of Redeemer Baptist School left much to ‘untangle’ as an adult
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Dan Weiner @danw329.bsky.social · 22h
Bombshell from NYT’s @teddyschleifer.bsky.social: upcoming filings show that Elon Musk, whose companies hold billions in federal contracts, has already dropped a record $366M on the midterms, much of it to help the Senate GOP. Hard to think of a historical parallel. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 22h
Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire
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Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire
Much of Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon has been leveled, according to a Times analysis. The majority has been destroyed by Israel since the April truce.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
skeets are short. you CAN proofread them. i have faith in you, yes!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
nytimes.com
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
impossible horror daily because we can’t get money out of politics
theguardian.com
Nine people, including children, dead after mass shooting in Pennsylvania
Authorities say suspect among dead in house after standoff with police in Erie and there is no ongoing threat
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
blunderfuck
theguardian.com
Houthi attack on Riyadh airport forces swift rethink of Trump’s new strategy
US president’s plan to park the wars in Iran and Yemen, while blaming Ukraine for diesel prices, looks unsustainable
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
so can we dispense with the million posts a day screaming ‘can you believe she said x, y, z’?
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New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Unconfirmed social media in recent days have shown “what appear to be uniformed agents in bulletproof vests at construction sites in Madera; swarming parking lots at Dollar General stores in Chowchilla; and cars with missing drivers and smashed windows parked alongside the region’s vast farmlands.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The last 100 years of US politics
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
have they tried ivermectin
theguardian.com
Physicians’ group calls for ban on raw milk – as it’s becoming increasingly popular in the US
As raw milk industry experiences record growth, experts say it might contain pathogens that can sicken people
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This happens all the times in software engineering. I’ve been there. Oops, I got too clever and my code got too complicated and now it’s doing stuff I don’t want and I don’t know why. Never once have I wondered “who’s fault is this?” or “is my code alive?”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity Christian nationalism in Britain is being driven largely by people who rarely attend church and are more concerned with defending the country’s Christian heritage, according to research. The report, by the thinktank Theos, identified five different groups within the UK in a survey that looked at their attitudes to Christianity and Britishness. Continue reading...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Illustration by Badiucao
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
_The white christian president is himself an adjudicated rapist. The evidence is clear and undeniable that his best friend was modern history’s most notorious child rapist, who ran a child-rape human trafficking ring for hundreds or thousands of our society’s social and professional luminaries._
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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‘When you look at the numbers, we win’: the prophetic Texas pastor poised to take Jasmine Crockett’s House seat
Rev Dr Frederick Douglass Haynes III is reclaiming a faith-based politics to counter Trump-allied white evangelicals
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
tell me you’re a republican without telling me you’re a republican
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Man accused of child rape set to become police chief in small Louisiana town
Republican Christopher Paul is running unopposed for seat despite allegations he raped two girls 20 years ago
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Luke Diaz @lukediaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
By being on all sides, Hakeem Jeffries now has the issue surrounded.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/10/2026
From @marytuma.bsky.social: “By delaying their most recent report and refusing to release data from 2022 and 2023, [the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee] are not only preventing lifesaving information from being made public, but they are also refusing to honor the lives lost.”
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A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms
Advocates and lawmakers warn the state health agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027.
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investigatewest.bsky.social @investigatewest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Because of Idaho's women's prison overcrowding, some women can’t access the programming required of them to make parole - and end up incarcerated longer, even when a state commission has decided they're otherwise fit for parole. @wbryen.bsky.social reports - www.investigatewest.org/prison-overc...
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Idaho’s women’s prison overcrowding is fueling parole delays
State agencies don’t know how many inmates face more prison time because they couldn’t access programs prescribed by parole commissioners
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ice cuts your social security $2154 per year but at least you get the joy of being a sadistic bigot
theguardian.com
Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ah this will finally get him the peace prize
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US imposes new sanctions on international criminal court
Trump administration says US ‘doesn’t need’ ICC after accusing court of unfairly targeting Americans for war crime charges
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's quite evident the UK is lawless now. Marauding gangs of bigots have free rein to cause as much fear and destruction as they can. Without fear of reprisal, it seems. Here's our proof from Glasgow, Scotland. Plus Gosport and Salford, England in the last few days.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can someone give me a logical explanation why the U.S. is funding Russia’s bioweapons facilities?
dailymail.com
Russian plague lab reportedly received research funding from RFK's HHS
The death of a worker from the lab last week caused concern worldwide and is said to have killed at least one other person since and has many curious about the Siberian lab.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/06/2024
Me since 2012: Everything abt "AI" as currently construed is inextricably woven w/ carcerality, capitalism, white supremacy (w/ racism, ableism, sexism, & LGBTQ+ hate being foundational thereto), hegemony, & kyriarchy, & we must name, examine, & deconstruct those before we can build something better
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely brutal ICE abduction in Harrison, NJ, October 7. Good God, America. How is anyone OK with this? If you think this cruelty and chaos, funded by Republicans, is wrong, then vote. For fucks sake VOTE. Posted by @stopicenet.bsky.social but original footage was shot by @ms._sb1017.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
thebanner.com
Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ICE-ing the midterms
In August 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appointed Heather Honey, an election conspiracy theorist, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not an accident. Hegseth is a disgrace to every American who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the Nazis and fascism.
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cathexis.bsky.social @cathexis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The falsehoods billionaires are mailing to Ohio voters
A pro-Ramaswamy super PAC was caught pushing misinformation.
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