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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 3h
New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 20h
Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From @theliliannaelle on IG👇🏼 “The Hunting Ground (free on Tubi now) 11 years ago this came out btw. Specifically about the cover ups at universities when it comes to these unfortunate situations.” This is EXACTLY why the changes in Title IX are so dangerous for victims! #BelieveTheWomen #Pinks
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 02/10/2026
🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Discussion of rape/sexual violence & strong language. ☑️ Bear ☐ Man This spoken word poem stopped me in my tracks The bear was never really the point. The point is why so many women understood the answer immediately Listen to her words. They matter. —Claire Donohoe🐻💜 #SheShed
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Among other things, the State Election Board wants DOJ to open a variety of election-related investigations. It also asks DOJ to “prohibit” the use of QR code tabulation in upcoming election.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Roger Marshall threatened legal action to suppress an inconvenient truth. Read our response:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers. 

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
24 million dollars. That's how much three billionaires have given to Congressman Tom Tiffany because they know he's willing to sell our precious state to the highest bidder.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 01/10/2026
Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day; a recent study modelling water use in African data centers found that ChatGPT-4 used up to 60 liters of water — or a standard washing machine cycle — to produce a 10-page paper. Read more: www.semafor.com/article/09/3...
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Africa’s data centers prompt water consumption fears
A petition by civil society groups to South African authorities highlighted concerns over a lack of awareness around data center water consumption.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After nearly two years of claims on Fox News that Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the “worst of the worst,” the administration acknowledged that it's attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the U.S. without authorization.
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
The state has reported its fifth measles-related death. trib.al/hDNsA4d
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Pennsylvania Nears 1,000 Measles Cases as RFK Jr. Remains Silent
The state has reported its fifth measles-related death.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Elon Musk is sitting right by Trump
Musk sitting by Trump
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Tennessee execution system is in fact constitutionally impermissible torture, and it was given a seal of approval from the Opus Dei court.
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration now has immigration courts across the country, including in Portland, OR and Tacoma, WA, holding expedited “mega master” hearings with hundreds of cases heard in a single day.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the same time, the AGs sued 30 individual abortion providers in Louisiana's federal district court, including Massachusetts abortion medication provider Angel Foster.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
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Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 30/09/2026
The problem is obvious: our profit-driven private health insurance system is not fit for purpose. It's time to get on board with the solution, universal public health insurance. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Universal Public Health Insurance Is the Answer
Employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2027, premiums are expected to see their largest single-year increase in two decades, jumping 11% and closing in on a nearly four-fold ...
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 29/09/2026
Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy
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Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Congress passes a law to fund health care research, housing, and more. The President signs it into law. Now Trump wants to illegally refuse to spend it, STEALING from the American taxpayer. A top nonpartisan government watchdog agrees: this is ILLEGAL.
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Congressional Watchdog Says Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescissions’ Violate the Law
The GAO has the power to sue the Trump administration over the Impoundment Control Act.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Right-wing media had dismissed stories about conditions onboard the USS Lincoln as a “misrepresentation in the media,” “an information op,” and “Persian propaganda.”
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The Navy disclosed 8 suicide attempts after right-wing media dismissed reporting about conditions on the USS Lincoln as "Persian propaganda"
As reporting emerged in August that the servicemembers on the USS Abraham Lincoln faced poor conditions and declining mental health — evidenced by at least one servicemember overboard incident — right...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Russia thinks that books are more dangerous for them than military equipment. They deliberately damage, erase, extinguish everything which is connected with Ukrainian culture."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine’s civilian centres. Hospitals, offices, data centres, railways, warehouses and publishers hit. 90% of retail food-logistics capacity has been destroyed; millions of books and hundreds of locomotives lost or damaged.
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Russia declares total war on Ukraine's economy, from data centres to school textbooks
Warehouses, locomotives, internet providers, publishers and now the national science academy have become targets. Ukraine's economy ministry puts the cost at up to $10 billion this year, and growth fo...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 A Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 9/28/26
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026
Toxic haze from Indonesia’s wildfires continues to spread across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, as a blockbuster El Niño and land-clearing practices create tinderbox conditions. Read more: bloom.bg/3ViNL79 📷️: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horrific video out of Kyiv shows scientists and researchers jumping out of windows after a russian strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 29/09/2026
Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP
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Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Step 1: "Tether’s stablecoin has become a primary means of payment for the Iranian regime and a tool for funding terrorist proxy organizations such as Hezbollah..." Step 2: Now google Howard Lutnick and Tether www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime
Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Today, my mother and my sister-in-law were killed. A child survived, and my brother survived. My mother's body is still there. They just covered it up." Tetiana Zhovtobriukh came to Zaporizhzhia with her family from the Russian-occupied Berdiansk district.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
President Trump has asked Xi Jinping, the leader of China, whether he would like to buy American weapons, David Perdue, the American ambassador to China, said in a television interview on Sunday.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Ground beef already hit a record $6.92 a pound in August. Industry groups are warning these disruptions will push beef prices even higher. This immigration “crackdown” is hitting workers, ranchers, the food supply chain and our wallet.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 25/09/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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Justice Jackson says Supreme Court intervenes too quickly on Trump's side
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nigel Farage is convinced that he can follow the lead of Donald Trump in silencing independent press and creating his own state-controlled media. www.independent.co.uk/voices/donal...
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Farage is desperate to follow Trump’s lead on controlling the news
Trump’s attempt to ban the media from the White House appears to have backfired, writes Alan Rusbridger. But the bigger fight for freedom of the press – when so much of our information is controlled b...
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The China State Dinner was held in the East Room. The billionaire's dined on gourmet food and lavish accommodations, while many pay little to no taxes. Meanwhile, taxpayers are forced to pay for a new ballroom when they can't afford rent, gas or food? #VoteBlue #SheShed
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We got real serious problems with these morons dismantling our economy. Even discussing a remote possibility of handing out $5,000 checks is insane, never mind spending many billions so Hegseth can have more missiles to shoot at people to feel like a real boy.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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