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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social · 19h
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20h
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h
it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes
"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social · 20h
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Talarico isn't in the pocket of tech bros, crypto bros, or data center bros. Talarico doesn't have elite donors telling him what to say or how to vote. He'll help us Texans have clean air and water and shut down these data centers. Vote Talarico. 🔥❤️💙🔥❤️💙🔥❤️💙
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and everyone is making fun of muse ha ha ha ha ha go roll in a pile of money to feel better, crime boy.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
watching GOP electeds who have never run a competitive general campaign in their life run in a real race is like watching a bunch of flightless birds loosed in NYC
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 28/09/2026
According to the Washington Post, the White House ballroom architect resigned after Trump pushed designs that would violate safety codes. Shalom Baranes Associates is the new firm on the project. We FOIAed the firm’s contract. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Image of a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Todd Blanche now says "one-sided news" is a national security threat worth barring the press over. That's not a legal standard. It's a viewpoint test. I didn’t go to law school…and didn’t need to, to know that the First Amendment exists to STOP government from judging which coverage is balanced.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Something is happening in Texas. 👀
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LXXXVI XLVII NOW! @lxxxvi-xlvii-now.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I absolutely cannot fathom that there are actually stupid motherfuckers who are going to vote to continue this madness.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 27/09/2026
i do think it’s funny that no one has the balls to simply follow the law and impeach men in power who flagrantly violate the law
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Ray Ryan @rjrjr.com · 27/09/2026
"Chan’s record on housing is abysmal. She has said outright she doesn’t think San Francisco needs any new market-rate housing, even as rents soar — and at the same time suggested she believes communities deserve veto power over affordable housing developments."
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Doesn't mean we can't advertise the shit out of this documentary on our personal accounts. Make sure you buy tickets for "Musk" early & often for the October 9th weekend! Bring friends, go out for coffee after the show. Let's make this the most lucrative documentary in the history of the USA.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(Reuters) — Hackers claim they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff. www.reuters.com/world/shinyhu...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff
FBI personnel data recently stolen by the ShinyHunters hackers includes sensitive psychiatric and medical ​evaluation records, according to the hackers and documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
holy shit lmao
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could we finish bumblefucking our way through the war in Iran before we start one with Cuba? Thanks
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Kennedy Center has long displayed artwork donated by foreign governments in tribute to JFK.. According to internal documents reviewed by The NY Times, Richard Grenell, Trump’s first handpicked director of the institution, pursued a plan to replace those works with art selected by Trump patrons.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
"A brand new CNN poll shows President Trump at an all time low in his approval rating... look at his net approval rating now with pure independents - it's negative 71 points! I mean, these are the deep depths of the ocean. You never see numbers like these. An 86 point shift away from the president!"
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About damn time
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Forbes @forbes.com · 23/09/2026
A hacker group known as ShinyHunters claimed it compromised employee records.
forbes.com
FBI ‘Aggressively’ Investigating Alleged Hack Compromising All Employee’s Personal Data
A hacker group known as ShinyHunters claimed it compromised employee records.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Paxton won’t agree to debate Talarico, and we all know why. He doesn’t want to answer these questions: “Why did you give an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator? Why were you impeached… by your own party? Why do you own 15 homes on a government salary?” James Talarico
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chants of shame shame shame, as slate a of new executive officers is introduced, including a number of longtime Bichotte Hermelyn allies.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 23/09/2026
Our right to privacy should be as sacred as our right to private property. Flock cameras are tracking Texans and feeding information into a massive surveillance network with far too little transparency or accountability.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
A judge heard arguments but did not rule from the bench in a case on President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from White House grounds.
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Judge hears arguments without immediate ruling in lawsuit over White House ban on 3 news outlets
A judge has heard arguments but did not rule from the bench in a case on President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from White House grounds.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MacFarlane: The president doesn't have surrogates in congress defending this media ban. If they are, they're awfully quiet about it. And that tells the tale…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Kelly just concluded there's no "national security" argument in this case (CNN/MSNOW/Politico)
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