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Stefan BC @stefanbc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton made sure kids in Shelby county Tennessee had books to read when I lived there (something their own local government didn’t give a shit about).

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Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Wyden and Kennedy introduced a bill to modernize PACER

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

PACER absolutely should be free. There’s no legitimate reason why members of the press and public should be charged for access to public records they themselves look up online.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let this radicalize you

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/05/2026

Lawfare got copies of the grand jury transcripts from the panel that indicted Trump and his co-conspirators in Georgia. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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Read Testimony Heard by the Trump Grand Jury in Fulton County

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/05/2026

Read Judge Daniels's decision dismissing Matt Taibbi's defamation suit here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

GEORGE B. DANIELS, United States District Judge:
Plaintiff Matt Taibbi ("Plaintiff") brings this action against Eoin Higgins and Bold Type
Books (collectively, the "Defendants"), alleging defamation per se. Before this Court is Defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim. (See Mot. Dismiss, ECF No. 25.) Because Plaintiff fails to allege an actionable defamatory statement, the motion is
GRANTED.

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Chris Law @christopherlaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I can't fucking believe this actually happened

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

To sum up, Bearstar Strategies, which has owned the seat of power in California for nearly two decades, thought Swalwell was an empty suit they could control but they couldn't control his pants, so they found another suit. (Who isn't exactly full either) nypost.com/2026/04/19/u...

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Gavin Newsom’s allies mulling dark horse governor candidate who’s suddenly seen huge spike in polls

Some Newsom allies have been taking a closer look at Xavier Becerra.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

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Coratee (Garfield Era) @thecoratee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My issue with this change is that it feels like it removes the connection to the broader labor movement. Of course since Newsom is desperate to stop his own farm workers from unionizing that doesn't surprise me. I'm sure he is eager to de-politicize the day however possible.

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Chris Law @christopherlaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The contradictions? Yep they are contradicting.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"Iran believes there can be no end to the conflict until it believes Trump has been shown the economic, political and military cost is so high that it is not worth repeating."

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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW: Kristi Noem's exit doesn’t undo the massive deals that DHS struck with a vast array of contractors - incl. one where DHS acknowledged "an appearance of favoritism" the latest @pogo.org/@motherjones.com collab by me & @dfriedman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How taxpayers are still getting screwed on Kristi Noem's Big Beautiful Jet

The infamous 737 is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

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Neil Gordon @neilegordon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Kristi Noem is (almost) out at DHS but her luxury jet remains in government hands, leased from a company linked to a Noem campaign donor who has other big DHS contracts despite a lack of experience. By @schwellenbach.bsky.social and @dfriedman.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigates...

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Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet”

The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/03/2026

Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 04/03/2026

as it happens, i wrote about the AI/crypto comparison! a little outdated now, but directionally correct www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-usel...

As someone known for my criticism of the previous deeply flawed technology to become the subject of the tech world's overinflated aspirations, I have had people express surprise when I've remarked that generative artificial intelligence toolsa can be useful. In fact, I was a little surprised myself.

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When I refer to "AI" in this piece, I'm mostly referring to the much narrower field of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs), which is what people generally mean these days when they say "AI".

But there is a yawning gap between "AI tools can be handy for some things" and the kinds of stories AI companies are telling (and the media is uncritically reprinting). And when it comes to the massively harmful ways in which large language models (LLMs) are being developed and trained, the feeble argument that "well, they can sometimes be handy..." doesn't offer much of a justification.

Some are surprised when they discover I don't think blockchains are useless, either. Like so many technologies, blockchains are designed to prioritize a few specific characteristics (coordination among parties who don't trust one another, censorship-resistance, etc.) at the expense of many others (speed, cost, etc.). And as they became trendy, people often used them for purposes where their characteristics weren't necessary — or were sometimes even unwanted — and so they got all of the flaws with none of the benefits. The thing with blockchains is that the things they are suited for are not things I personally find to be terribly desirable, such as the massive casinos that have emerged around gambling on token prices, or financial transactions that cannot be reversed.

When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not b…

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/02/2026

We have some genuinely anti-war Democrats but Democratic leadership has been pro-war for as long as I can remember. It's genuinely depressing and horrifying.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Today sucks. Fuck everything.

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Gojira was pretty much the highlight of the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony; I would not be opposed to seeing some of Milan's own Lacuna Coil tonight.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Trump mocks the idea of praying during a meal at the National Prayer Breakfast: “Mike Johnson is a very religious person... He’ll say to me sometimes at lunch, ‘Sir, may we pray?’ I say, ‘Excuse me?’ You know, we’re having lunch.”

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

inspiring as hell. We are going to win

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

sorry this is incredibly funny to me. he's just walking a wheelbarrow into the treasury now. great work everyone. that's a fuckin' wrap on the united states of america.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex
Pretti's stock has gone way down with the
just released video of him screaming and
spitting in the face of a very calm and under
control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking
in a new and very expensive government
vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the
taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a
display of abuse and anger, for all to see,
crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer
was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be
under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Rep. Ilhan Omar more robust security despite the fact that threats against her have increased www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Rank-and-file members of Congress are not typically assigned Capitol Police security details, but the speaker can approve additional protection in cases of elevated risk. During President Trump’s first term, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi provided Omar with 24-hour Capitol Police protection after she was repeatedly targeted at rallies. Omar has since said that Speaker Mike Johnson has not offered her similar protection, even as threats against her have increased.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

New ad in #IL09 from Kat Abughazaleh's campaign, shifting the tone from "abolish ICE" to "prosecute ICE" She says the ad will begin running today

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

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