iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18/08/2026

<expert> The polio vaccine is safe and effective. In the United States, the polio vaccine has not contained any SV40 since the 1970s. RFK Jr is harmful to your health.

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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 15/08/2026

Japan split its MMR shot in the 1990s. Mumps coverage fell to a third of kids. I spoke with New York magazine's Nia Prater. Save and send: nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tru… Read & subscribe for free: celinegounder.com

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Thomas Hughes @thomashughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Really excellent piece

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I note in here that DOGE's fabricated claim of savings will give whichever house Dems win in November cause to subpoena Musk and ... DOGE's chief propagandist, Stephen Miller's breeding partner. 🍿

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Candace Owens built an elaborate conspiracy theory about who killed Charlie Kirk. Her crackerjack sources? A kombucha brewer, a far-right lawyer, and a Kremlin-loving model — all cashing in. I spent way too much time tracking them all in a new series for MS NOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnNw...

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Who Killed Charlie Kirk? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil war

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A must watch. Brandy never misses.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“.. The ending of the tours comes after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump’s gutting of the iconic cultural institution.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

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Graham Cluley @grahamcluley.com · 27/07/2026

Russian disinformation is being designed to be invisible to humans - but highly visible to AI. A sanctioned Russian propaganda operation deliberately crafted websites to *avoid* appearing prominently in search results, but maximised the chances of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude parroting out their text

demos.co.uk

GEO for Geopolitics: What happens when AI and information warfare collide

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

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Chris Green @cmgbhm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I don’t think even during Covid grocery shortages i would have guessed Costco has ad for emergency food supply bucket in 2026

Custom picture of variety pack of emergency food supply bucket

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 20/07/2026

Good morning. We love helmets.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/07/2026

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

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Chris Green @cmgbhm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Anthropic fable downgraded in a west wings tv question… because it found a kkk episode that I wasn’t looking for 🙄

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

1/ I appreciate Howell Raines giving me credit for naming "Alabamafication." A lot has happened since I coined that term in the spring of 2016, and I've come to think it's no longer sufficient. 🧵

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.com · 28/06/2026

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tommy Tuberville just proved he lived in Alabama three months before he cast his last ballot in Florida. Yeah, you read that right. www.al.com/news/2026/06...

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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Worry not. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

nytimes.com

How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Alabama officials are done pretending. 11 hours. That’s all it took from when SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act until Alabama officials began doing what should have been expected.

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Mr.Fennex @misterfennex.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is something a cartoon mouse villain would drink.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

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Chris Green @cmgbhm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Honestly not the first person that ended up at Waffle House quite not knowing how they got there

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Chris Green @cmgbhm.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Reading “There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate” opinion in NYtimes App had the same animated ad 8 times as I read.

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Chris Green @cmgbhm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

tboteproject.com this project tracking age verification with allaboutlawyer.com/mark-zuckerb... as a back drop and you don’t have to look hard to see the meta : heritage connection

tboteproject.com

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture

Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Amid uproar over electricity bills, the Alabama Senate has just filed -- and plans to have in committee tomorrow -- legislation that would expand the PSC, but not mandate formal rate hearings, and has this provision that effectively makes it a backdoor appointment bill.

No later than July 15, 2026, the Governor shall
appoint four commissioners to serve initial terms, two of whom
shall serve a two-year term and two of whom shall serve a
four-year term. When making appointments, the Governor shall
choose one individual from a list of three names submitted for
each position. The lists shall be jointly submitted by the
Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
The lists shall be provided to the Governor no later than June
1, 2026.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

BREAKING: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton to life in prison. Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Doug Battle but did not kill Battle; the man who did later had his death sentence commuted.

Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday announced that she has commuted the death sentence of Charles L. Burton to life in prison with no chance of parole. Mr. Burton was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murder of Doug Battle in Talladega, Alabama.

As required by law, the governor first reached out to a representative of Mr. Battle’s family. She also notified the attorney general. Governor Ivey’s letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm is attached.

Governor Ivey issued the following statement:

“I firmly believe that the death penalty is just punishment for society’s most heinous offenders, as shown by the 25 executions I have presided over as governor. In order to ensure the continued viability of the death penalty, however, I also believe that a government’s most consequential action must be administered fairly and proportionately.

“Doug Battle was brutally murdered by Derrick DeBruce while shopping in an auto parts store. But DeBruce was ultimately sentenced to life without parole. Charles Burton did not shoot the victim, did not direct the triggerman to shoot the victim and had already left the store by the time the shooting occurred. Yet Mr. Burton was set to be executed while DeBruce was allowed to live out his life in prison.

“I cannot proceed in good conscience with the execution of Mr. Burton under such disparate circumstances. I believe it would be unjust for one participant in this crime to be executed while the participant who pulled the trigger was not.

“To be clear, Mr. Burton will not be eligible for parole and will rightfully spend the remainder of his life behind bars for his role in the robbery that led to the murder of Doug Battle. He will now receive the same punishment as the triggerman.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Up is down. Black is white

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 04/03/2026

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The Alabama Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require schools to regularly perform the national anthem. A proposed amendment to make the sponsor sing the anthem every day the Senate is in session did not pass. buff.ly/fiMPxfp

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My column from Monday. Alabama plans to execute a wheelchair-bound, 75-year-old man who did not kill anyone. There is no reason to do so except a cruel and pig-headed insistence on process, one that a daughter of the victim opposes. It’s another example of the injustice of the death penalty.

alabamareflector.com

Alabama provides the greatest arguments against the death penalty | Alabama Reflector

The state wants to execute a 75-year-old man for being present at a murder he did not commit. It's not justice. It's bloodlust.

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Mdh @mdh2.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Answering my own question… blog.cr.yp.to/index.html

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cr.yp.to: blog

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

There’s a schedule for the Dow?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/02/2026

WOW. I mentioned AND used photos from these early February C-130 flights in my @rollingstone.com story last fall about the Coast Guard using search-and-rescue planes for ICE transfers. Had no idea the misuse of resources I suggested had already happened. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

rollingstone.com

ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants

Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Imagine spending an amount of money that could solve American homelessness for 3-4 years on detention centers for people who are generally busy working, renting, parenting, and paying taxes.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So...... this seems real bad. The FBI executed a sealed search warrant today on a key Atlanta area election office - and wouldn't say what that warrant was for. "A source told FOX the FBI was there to take custody of Fulton County election ballots from 2020." www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fbi-exe...

fox5atlanta.com

FBI executing sealed search warrant at Fulton County election facility

Federal agents carried out a law enforcement action Wednesday at a Fulton County election facility located in Fairburn.

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 23/01/2026

I said what I said.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

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