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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 4h
i asked about you at the nazi bar and they said they love to just ask you questions
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 4h
Again, just monumental work from @willbunch.bsky.social on ICE and this administration's cruelty to immigrants. This is the kind of journalism that truly matters:
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h
This one’s a doozy. Link to the motion, which has more content than is usual; the brief in support is in the next post. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Motion for TRO – #76 in DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE v. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-00477) – CourtListener.com
Emergency MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order or, Alternatively, For a 14-Day Stay Under Section 705 of the Administrative Procedure Act by DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE, ALEX DICKSON, DAVE ROBERTS. (Atta...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Why all available indicators make clear that the actions against Ilhan Omar are (1) baseless, (2) politically motivated, and (3) designed to corruptly influence the 2026 midterm elections.
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 5h
Ah, I see. So Trump is deciding to move from racist, violent rhetoric to using federal law enforcement to act on his racist beliefs. This is, of course, completely illegal, wholly impeachable, and Republicans will do nothing to stop him. What would we call this if any other country was doing it?
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La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 7h
There’s a straight line from Obama’s birth certificate to the Omar raid.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 5h
BTW, the reason these guys get so offended when Trump etc is accurately called a racist/rapist/criminal is because they knew all of this and voted for him anyway. They know where the party they spent their lives defending is now and they’re afraid of how it reflects on them. That’s the whole thing.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
people are saying the Kentucky Wildcats keep winning because they're the only SEC football team actively posting to Bluesky
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 11/10/2026
Just bring back Kristi Noem already. At least her husband had big boobs. This Mullin guy just sucks. I hate looking at his inbred doofus face.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And this is why Silicon Valley advertises AI taking over social responsibilities (remembering anniversaries, buying gifts, making appointments, etc). AI culture is dudes who don’t know how to function in society and want chatbots to fill in for women as partners and secretaries
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These border livestreamers were pivotal to producing propaganda during the Biden admin, working with local law enforcement, and are closely tied to Tom Homan. They were operated as copaganda.
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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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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the people who never shut up about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (which is mostly just … accurately describing Trump’s behavior) have never recovered from their absolute mental emotional physical spiritual sexual existential and sociopolitical breakdown after one (1) Black person got to be president
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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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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The countless people who glossed over disinformation and normalized MAHA in any way should recognize this the result of their actions. We no longer have to wonder how the Tuskegee experiments were allowed to happen. We are seeing it for ourselves.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Accommodates up to 6,000 people for concerts, trade shows, rodeo events, and basketball.”
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
nytimes.com
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Witkoff and Kushner raised the possibility that intelligence sharing could be cut off if Kyiv did not heed Washington’s warning to halt the strikes” on Russian refineries. “It was a firm request from POTUS. “Hours later, Ukrainian forces struck the Yug Rusi oil terminal in Rostov-on-Don.”
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Trump suggests Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be replaced after Ukraine's leader criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11/10/2026
Plus, the inventor of the abortion drug she’s railing against was an anti-fascist Jewish scientist who joined the French resistance at age 15
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Étienne-Émile Baulieu, French scientist who invented abortion pill, dies aged 98
Doctor whose discovery helped create mifepristone was ‘guided by his commitment to progress made possible by science’
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"i'm at the CSAM machine. I'm at the silk road. I'm at the combination CSAM machine-silk road."
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Department of Beclowning
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Impressive how many lawyers have been willing to utterly debase themselves for him
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AndyD @yourlamentablefriends.com · 11/10/2026
Sooper dooper smort
A mock magazine cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue. 
The photo shows Elon Musk looking terribad in a pair of wet black shorts and nothing else. Sorry. Text:
Pitchforks: Tool or Weapon? P.42
Slavery: Can job creation ever be wrong? P.17
GROK: Is it God, or is it BETTER than God? The answer might surprise you!
Is your mistress radicalizing your kids?
Exclusive
Mars real estate
Better red than dead!
A better life AFTER Earth p.55
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
when you’re too dumb to know you’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The WSJ‘s coverage here has been outrageously great. Everything is about an inch from “In the text messages, Guilfoyle instructed the billionaire playboy to put the money in a burlap sack with a dollar sign on the side and wrote ‘In exchange for cash, I’ll do you favors in my official capacity ❤️.’”
wsj.com
Exclusive | At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays
A recording captured the U.S. ambassador saying that Greek businessmen were paying for her travels and pleading for an invitation to an event with Eric Trump.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump today suggested the “Ocean of Americas” as a new name for the Atlantic or Pacific. 
The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself.
washingtonpost.com
Trump suggests ‘Ocean of Americas’ as new name for Atlantic or Pacific
The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The word for this is racism
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2026
Pope Leo condemns death penalty as Trump mulls livestreamed execution reut.rs/4ybvFSg
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Pope Leo condemns death penalty as Trump mulls livestreamed execution
Pope Leo renewed his condemnation of the death penalty on Saturday, saying it violates the sanctity of human life ​and deprives people of the chance of redemption, days after ‌the Pentagon said it planned to livestream an execution.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's a disservice to claim Trump's response to Nobel Prize winner Pallay is solely motivated by narcissism. Pillay is responsible for the conclusion that actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. Plus, the US sanctioned ICC judges: a group to which she once belonged. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
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Nobel peace laureate Pillay calls US sanctions on ICC 'unacceptable'
The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, judge and former UN rights chief Navi Pillay, on Saturday called sanctions announced bythe US on the International Criminal Court (ICC) "unheard of, unacce...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man looks like Neo waking up in the goo pod
politico.com
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes this is stupid but it’s also a corrupt transfer of taxpayer money to a political ally www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/fbi...
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FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents
The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 09/10/2026
Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This week *Trump thx Putin for agreeing to send diesel to US *Chief of staff's daughter pictured with a European official of govt allied w/Putin; her lobbying firm $$$ *Top Trump political operatives reported to have visited/worked for same Putin allied govt/paid $$$ (Just like Manafort in Ukraine.)
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 10/10/2026
Not surprisignly this is a quote from an episode of @ouropinions.bsky.social We did not fuck around
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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