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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 4h

This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4h

Curtis Yarvin praising Hitler, Peter Thiel ranting nonstop about the Antichrist…and no one asks JD Vance about his deranged gurus? I’m old enough to remember when we had to talk about Obama’s pastor for a year or so. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-cur...

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JD Vance catches heat after his favorite pseudointellectual praises Hitler again

A right-wing influencer praised by Vice President JD Vance got called out for praising Adolf Hitler – and it's not the first time.The vice president has openly acknowledged neo-reactionary political t...

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 7h

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h

Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h

The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 6h

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social · 5h

*sigh* Anyway Excessive state sponsored violence via public executions led to citizens revolts against the state as the state became a threat to daily life during the age of revs so pop off kings I guess.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 5h

Their closing argument for the midterms is blood.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what I had to say turned out not to be a column

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Something Like People

A poem

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Coming on the heels of the reporting about lobbying the pope to say models could be conscious, it’s clear they are determined to impose their cultish worldview on everyone.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20h

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 9h

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”

In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.

Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect

A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminder that the Vice President of the United States has described Yarvin as an intellectual influence.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.

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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies

After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As scientists we are trained to look for simple explanations that fit the data in front of us and make testable predictions about what will happen in the future.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“At least 26 senators, more than a quarter of the chamber, hold data center-linked investments … Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose data center investments total between $2.1 million and $8.6 million, takes the number one spot.” 👀

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The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers

Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will admit I don't care for Blink 182 (just not my taste!) but it is truly something to hear a stadium full of people sing to this guy in appreciation of the music he created and the joy he brought to their lives. Impacting so many other humans positively like this has to feel amazing

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The University of Arizona has just suspended 6 fraternities after “allegations of misconduct” were made, including “physical assault, drugs and alcohol, hazing, and creating unsafe environments for students”. Seems like the mishandling of the rape allegations at Cornell may be rippling outward.

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University of Arizona suspends six fraternities, pauses activities for almost all others

The University of Arizona is taking action against several of its fraternities after more misconduct allegations were made.

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