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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 5m
If Judges need AI to keep up with litigants' use of AI, perhaps everything would be made more simple and honest if we just...banned AI from legal briefings altogether?
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 1h
I'll believe an (I) Senator from SD when I see it, but if South Dakota is in play impeachment becomes a lot more plausible and both Vought and Hegseth are in deep trouble.
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SouthSideExpat @southsideexpat.bsky.social · 1h
RIP BBBJ
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1h
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 1h
Also, if you can't take the time to pick and chose which judges to vote for, vote AGAINST retaining all of them. Incumbency is a very high hurdle in judicial elections.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 1h
A great way to feel old is to hear about a 2 volume scholarly history of a label you used to listen to in your twenties and then think about everything that's happened between when you were first informed of its existence and today.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 2h
Oof giving a lot of money to Juan Rangel
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 2h
I solemnly vow that if the Sox make it to the series I will have custom shirts printed that read “Close the Portal” in reference to the hellmouth that was opened when the cubs won the series in 2016.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 2h
Well, Marsha, if Tom Homan hadn’t strip searched people flying into Nashville from abroad, maybe you wouldn’t need a bill to juice tourism in Music City
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 4h
There goes the last stretch of free parking (on sundays only) that I know of in the loop.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 4h
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Pope Leo XIV's Surprised Expression
Alt: Pope Leo XIV's Surprised Expression
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 4h
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h
Every single person needs to read this book ASAP.
us.macmillan.com
End Times Fascism
A New York Times BestsellerA scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist surviva...
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 6h
in 2002 David Cronenberg directed a psychological thriller called Spider starring Ralph Fiennes and costume designed by his sister Denise wherein the fact that the protagonist did this with his shirts was indicative of profound trauma and mental illness.
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 8h
MAMDANI SCANDAL: Mayor Said To Think Several Songs From “We Shall All Be Healed” Are On “The Sunset Tree”
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23h
🎸 Ryley Walker loves the Internet Archive. 🎶 The singer-songwriter says the Live Music Archive is a “treasure trove that never really stops,” and welcomes tapers documenting his live shows so people can hear how his music changes from night to night. 📚 Learn more👇 blog.archive.org/2026/09/29/e...
Musician Ryley Walker sits on a green velvet couch against a purple wall, wearing an open light-blue striped shirt over a white tee, light-wash jeans, and white high-top sneakers, with one leg crossed. He looks toward the camera. A small audio mixer sits beside him, and an open road case lined with gray foam rests on a wooden table in the foreground.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
So plausible process: *Schmitt's staff get texts from security guy Wallach via FBI/DOJ *Look for something incriminating, find a text chain about a Hawks/Hawkeye game *Assume this was the Hawks in Atlanta *Dropped Fani Wallis into the story, with zero evidence So thin! www.ms.now/liveblog/jac...
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 23h
When University of Austin folds I want buy her AI Robosculpted bust at the fire sale so I can donate it to a theatre company's props department.
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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Johnny Depp has so much range what do you mean the same guy played Mortdecai AND young Ebenezer ???
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am sorry to everyone here and in my real life as I am about to become insufferable.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First playoff win for the sox since they were pumping in fake audience cheers to the broadcast feeds due to covid restrictions.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It says a lot about Houston and the Stros that the stands aren't packed on the first wildcard game of the series.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every year I'm like "This is a good batch of MacArthur fellows" and it never occurs to me that they would all be good batches considering the context.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Curb Your Enthusiasm Credits: Larry David, Robert B. Weide
Alt: Curb Your Enthusiasm Credits: Larry David, Robert B. Weide
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even if you are completely disengaged from partisan politics, even if you think "both sides are just as bad" and think the Smith hearing is just inside baseball, I think the Schmitt/Smith line of questioning is interesting, entertaining, relevant, and frightening.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About 2 weeks ago the House GOP remembered that they control all the committee twitter accounts and, heading into a likely historic midterm defeat, this is what they are doing. Every hour, more of this, just chucking dry spaghetti at the wall and openly wondering who made the mess on the floor.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a great example of why I don't bother with any punditry from Axios.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Benny Johnson took Russian money to spread his right-wing lies. He claims he was duped. So is he spreading right-wing lies for free now?
pbs.org
Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say
The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am a middle aged person. I don’t think I have ever been alive for a +15 D generic ballot. I don’t think anyone has a real bead on what’s about to happen in congress.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Mighty Thor (1983)
Comic-book splash page from The Mighty Thor showing Thor flying above Chicago with Mjolnir raised, his red cape sweeping dramatically behind him. The page announces “The Coming of the Crusader!”
Credit: The Mighty Thor #330 (1983). Art by Alan Zelenetz, Bob Hall, and Vince Colletta.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I struggled to finish reading this important and horrifying reporting www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Patel's deputy, Andrew Bailey, resigned today, reportedly over frustration with an entirely different FBI scandal. www.ms.now/news/fbis-co...
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FBI’s co-deputy director resigns after agents assigned to case on Stephen Miller’s wife demoted
Andrew Bailey was frustrated with the recent demotion of veteran FBI counterterrorism agents, according to sources.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's gonna be a real weird Tour de France next year when it's UAE vs Visma vs 144 riders for Lidl Trek
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026
👀 sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...
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What Even Is An OS Now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A big part of my job involves cohabitating an event space with between 500-30,000 people on any given work day. I often have to interact with a handful of them, and it has recently occurred to me than many, many people are quietly high as a kite. Drunk people are easy to spot, high people less so.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone posted a Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meme here so that means I have to watch the whole movie again after I clock out tonight sorry I don't make the rules.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is the only person allowed to stay on Zombietwitter imo.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My eldest just started kindergarten, immediately racked up 45 cents in cafeteria debt (I'm assuming by grabbing a box of milk on his first day, we pack his lunches bc he's a picky eater) and the cafeteria will only let me deposit a minimum of 20 dollars in the account. What a scam.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If she does this the left will split between a non-fraud (Pritzker) and fraud (Khanna) candidate
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026
the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh
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