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Carol Capper

@cjcapper.bsky.social
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Poet, Yoga Therapist, Retired Occupational Therapist, Knitter, Lover of Democracy (and not necessarily in that order)

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Laura Lee @lauraleeactor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Much needed timeline cleanse!
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reb of Melbourne @guttertwits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JUST IN: We interrupt normal programming to bring you this rejuvenating timeline cleanse. You're welcome. 😇🙏 *Volume up.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10/10/2026
"The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official" @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social, @robert-faturechi.bsky.social for @propublica.org
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BREAKING: At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions to avoid participating in the firing squad execution of Nidal Mikal Hasan, a nonprofit leader told The Washington Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/sold...
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Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing Squad
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. More are expected to follow.
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached
The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Senator Tammy Duckworth: "Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is what they are doing. Read it because there's no excuse for you not knowing.
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mcfrisco.bsky.social @mcfrisco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Where are the goddam police?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, buy @benwikler.bsky.social's book, where he discusses this.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Japan declares cyber space emergency as attacks soar: “Masaaki Taira, head of the NCSH, declared that Japan was in ‘a state of emergency in cyber space.’ Japanese cyber security minister Toshiharu Furukawa said the situation was ‘extremely critical.’” (These attacks are likely AI enabled.)
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Japan declares cyber space emergency as attacks soar
Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the midst of everything going on around us all at once, take a moment for this, please. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Joseph Gordon-Levitt Has Some Things to Say About A.I. (Gift Article)
The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what’s at stake with A.I.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Have you had a prior authorization request delayed or denied by your health insurer? We want to hear from you. Your experiences help us better understand the real-life stakes.
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We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/10/2026
"Our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." And this is about one of his *good* ideas. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:
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Trump Accounts Were a GOOD Idea. He Just Made It an Icky One.
What started as a bipartisan savings concept now comes with stocks you can’t reject, a five-year lockup, and some very happy billionaires.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tell me again how it is good and proper for these companies to decide we can’t be mean to it’s word toaster but they can be mean to us humans.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The crimes continue! These prosecutors simply love lying to and withholding evidence from this judge, who told them they will face contempt charges if they keep doing this. I actually don’t believe she’s going to stand for this anymore. They’re clearly hiding something truly insidious.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Pay to Play to Play to Pay
How the system now works
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? Government pushing ahead with climate destroying policies while telling us all to be responsible... Hypocrites www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 08/10/2026
It looks like the FBI took down the video we filed a Hatch Act complaint about earlier this week. This rampant lawbreaking cannot continue, even if they backtrack when called out.
thehill.com
FBI post featuring El-Sayed runs afoul of Hatch Act, experts say
A new video from the FBI has spurred complaints the bureau has violated the Hatch Act by labeling Democrats — including current Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — as part of the “defund the…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/10/2026
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what  you can do:

1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.

2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC

3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“We’re in really new territory with consumer protection regulations,” said Paul Hudson, the president of FlyersRights.org, one of the largest U.S. advocacy groups for air travelers. “It’s shaping up to be a wholesale reversal of consumer protection for airline passengers.”
nytimes.com
How the Trump Administration Is Eroding Airline Passengers’ Rights
Under Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department has worked to roll back consumer protections. Passenger advocates say the changes favor airlines.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just received a $90 bribe from DJT. He's absolutely desperate.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/c...
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Dinosaur Masks, Easels, 1,000 Top Hats: Inside NYC’s Free Store for Teachers
A visit to the Queens warehouse for the Materials for the Arts program has become a ritual for many local educators.
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Monica V @classyearlgrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“That committee is now weighing whether the researchers essentially falsified data by not publishing findings from a clinical trial that would have undercut their claims that the DTP vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, was unsafe.” All these people are monsters.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Possible assignment for students: 1) Statistics: How many possible confounding variables can you identify that might be skewing this data? 2) Philosophy: What are some ethical problems with evaluating the success of higher education programs in terms of the salaries of their graduates after 4 years?
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A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t
College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare earnings of nearly every major at nearly every school in the country.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you intend to vote by mail in the upcoming election, please read!
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 08/10/2026
On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."
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Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They are burying restrictions or demands on what can or can’t be funded at the Smithsonian in footnotes to apportionments. And some of those footnotes are VERY precise…
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another sad but preventable loss
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
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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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing. Because Rubio is play-acting as an adult. A real adult would acknowledge after eighteen months that it’s insane for a single person to serve as secretary of state and national security advisor."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Large banks in South Korea were hit by a cyberattack last week. The hacker appears to have been a single individual—an amateur—who used an open-source Al penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code.
Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_
X.com
Last week some of South Korea's biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. Thanks to a report from CrowdStrike tonight, we now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person. He used a combined stack of an open-source Al penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code.
The Claude Code sessions reveal a two-server architecture: The Hong Kong-based IP address serves as the primary attacker-controlled infrastructure, and the IP address 38. 244.50 [• ]120 hosts the ARTEX instance likely responsible for the described Korean attacks. The ARTEX instance used DeepSeek v4.1-flash as the primary LLM backend, and the threat actor supplemented this LLM with GLM-5.3 (Zhipu Al) and Grok 4.6 for additional Claude Code sessions. The threat actor likely accessed DeepSeek via the likely LLM API proxy/reseller xcai[• ]pro.
3:14 AM • 10/8/26 • 563K ViewsJukan #OCP 2026 • @ X.com
@jukan05
This hacker is truly legendary. A complete amateur.
1. He left directory listing enabled on his own server, so researchers could figure out who he was with barely any effort.
2. They found files like CLAUDE.md and went through his Claude Code sessions.
3. There were questions like, "Where can I sell this data?"
4. He'd also asked, "Can you write my résumé?" That pretty much handed them all his personal information.
5. Apparently, he's a student at South China University of Technology living in Guangdong. His name, phone number, and where he lives have all been identified.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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.
rollingstone.com
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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“My own congressman wouldn’t even talk to me in my time of deepest need that he was directly impacting and continuing to make worse, and now he’s using a photo taken at my warehouse and took me out of it?” Benike said about Finstad’s manipulated pic. “Can you make someone feel any less significant?”
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026
Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauM
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NEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic Party
Zeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Allegedly, Elon Musk's "Grok" chatbot convinced Trump to launch the [disastrous] war on Iran. Now, he's said to believe ramping up that war might sway the November elections - more chatbot advice? Is Grok a DNC double agent?
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bridgton resident Alessia Gaspar-Da Silva’s husband was abducted and detained by ICE for seven months. His health deteriorated in custody and the family lost almost $50,000 related to his time in detention. “Behind every policy is a person,” she said. “And behind every person is a family.”
mainebeacon.com
Mainers march to confront Collins votes on health care cuts, ICE funding - Maine Beacon
“Today is not about wanting another statement,” Alessia Gaspar-Da Silva, of Bridgton, told reporters today in Portland. “It is about demanding to not just be seen, but heard.” Gaspar-Da Silva’s husban...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⚠️ Aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee covered up Israeli killings of nine Americans
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos. Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.
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Carol Capper @cjcapper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"traded the safety of immigrant families and kids" and lost their souls in the process...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The elites want crumbs for you while they get to vacation overseas with their alleged mistresses.
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