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Holy shit I've never in my life heard of a publication treating an interview one reporter did as fair game for *every single journalist who works at that publication* that's BANANAS and I would not ever speak with USA Today as long as that's the case.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4h

Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Rocket @rocketknight.bsky.social · 14h

I think this is best understood as pathological hypervigilance against being tricked or taken advantage of, rather than a coherent economic theory (See also: Fears of being cuckolded, criminals "getting off easy" or "living in luxury in prison", "welfare cheats", and so on ad infinitum)

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 17h

@marthawells.com for sure 🤣

"ugh maybe should just change my pronouns"
even other nonbinary people won't use my preferred ones so what's the point"
"No.
it/its
pronouns are cool and you should keep them."
"MARTHA WELLS??????"

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14h

The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah I don’t think taking their chairs away is going to make TSA agents more “amiable.”

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

$20 million represents the total income tax payments of 1,053 households. A thousand American families worked full time for a whole year just to pay for Trump’s campaign ads.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life.”

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The banality of evil (Arendt)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Gavin in ‘28: I’m just a chill, fun loving left wing presidential candidate who’s into pervert glasses and going downtown to throw out homeless people’s shit myself

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

3. There are billions of dollars being spent on advertising to influence voters in the 2026 midterms. Popular Information has a comprehensive system to monitor how this money is being spent. Subscribe for more original accountability journalism. popular.info/subscribe

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2. The ad, of course, is a brazen lie. Two hours after I reached out to Texas PAC about the ad, which was running on Meta platforms, it was taken offline.

Shortly after Popular Information reached out for comment, the ad was taken offline.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly? That would be so handy. Save me from making appointments, co-pays, trips to clinic. And I have one kid who hates shots. If I could get my family’s vaccines through a cob of corn or a pizza, that would be a big plus.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given his wife's political advocacy for Barack Obama, it's outrageous that Jack Smith was ever entrusted with the legal fate of Donald Trump. by Ginni Thomas

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/10/2026

Curious where all those "popularism" folks are on these things?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In nearly every country, women worry about walking alone via @not-ship.com www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

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jmonkeh.bsky.social @jmonkeh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Where's the GoFundMe...

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Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone please drop a link to her legal defense gofundme.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

My favorite news today is that Riley Gaines lost in court, and there’s no fifth place in court.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 30/09/2026

turns out the reason nobody brings a crane to the weightlifting competition is not, in fact, the non-existence of cranes

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was proven, without doubt and to massive global fanfare, that even the best chess player who ever lived could not beat a machine. Totemic, worldwide news! And then everyone immediately realised it was about as meaningful as realising no one could beat a wall at tennis, shrugged, and moved on.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well one thing I think about a lot is that there’s some research that says exposure to the outgroup reduces bigotries over time. The one thing that’s resistant is misogyny. There’s no one on earth who’s never met a woman.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2026

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability

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