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@cofax.bsky.social
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Runner, climber, environmentalist, preservationist, bureaucrat, writer, baker, fan. BOFQ.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h
Here's a case study in how third-country deportations work. Trump has sent over $400M (!) to some of the most repressive countries in the world to put your former neighbors into the custody of torturers. www.justsecurity.org/157413/us-de...
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 8h
I really enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm, i wonder if i can get book club to reread it. It's been at least 20 years, and we do do rereads occasionally...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 9h
WTAF. Let me guess: they can refuse to accept kids with gay parents, but not kids with no vaccines? How does that even work?
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12h
Conspiracy theories rot the brain. They should have triple checked this before accusing anyone of anything
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Every Woman knows a Woman Who's Been Raped, But no Man Ever Knows a Rapist.
What happens when a man confesses to rape and thinks he's telling you a sex story?
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
who breaks into someone's house accompanied by a dog? And then abandons the dog?!
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
It's yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, btw, 41/42 are ops trying to kill the billionaire tax.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 28/09/2026
I may not end up doing anything with this, so here's a spreadsheet breaking down the network/gender/race representation of the NY Times 100 Best 21st Century TV Shows (feel free to ask about any of my classifications here): docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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NYT Best 21st Century Shows Demographic Breakdown
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 28/09/2026
it’s so rude that bread costs like 10 cents and 45 seconds of effort to make but you need to know you’re gonna want it at least 3 hours beforehand
a perfect little round load of bread I just pulled outta the oven. it’s cooling on a wire rack
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The plan: Build a 200-room, 300-bathroom data center, 70% subsidized by federal and local governments. Make it accessible to the train. Build a supermarket for the 800 people doing 24/7 on-site maintenance. Call it the future of technology. Make OpenAI pay for the rest. Then let people move in.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever
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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, if they won't do it, I say we make the trailer go viral. youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this week's Ted Lasso has some real-ass throwback needle drops
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Beyond the obvious criminal charges, the fraternity should be disbanded, the house demolished and the earth salted. I was at Cornell for 3 semesters; the power the Greek system has there is beyond unsettling. They need to think about what Amherst did, way back in 1984.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
holy cow a Fred Astaire biopic! a whole new generation is gonna be introduced to his reedy tenor and astonishing grace vimeo.com/710199620?fl...
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A Love That Won't Sit Still - Astaire/Rogers Films
This is "A Love That Won't Sit Still - Astaire/Rogers Films" by Icepixie Vids on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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luffian.bsky.social @luffian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Robert Kennedy's Failson
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So is this the best shows of the century as rated by the NYT's entertainment critics? Damn, lads, if so, you really ain't worth reading.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've been on fourteen interview panels in the last month. I do care AT ALL about whether the interviewee is drinking coffee. I do care if they're using FUCKING ChatGPT to answer our questions.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh, man, I just went back in time 35 years. I don't miss shoveling, but there are days when I miss that place a lot.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is too much to comment on here, so I will just note: if they are already using heavy equipment, that's not likely to be archaeological investigation. They're excavating for foundations. Federal Council Terminates Review of Arch’s Effects on Historic Sites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Federal Council Terminates Review of Arch’s Effects on Historic Sites
Trump’s allies end a legally required step, one of the final hurdles for the project to advance.
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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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24/09/2026
“outsider non-family member gets access to elderly person and gradually comes to control their entire information environment” is a very common occurrence
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that meme about the weirdest fact about yourself? Mine might be that this guy read and plugged Carpetbaggers, back before i had any idea how FUCKING WEIRD he was... www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...
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AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Brockell has receipts: DHS appears to be violating court orders, meanwhile pouring money into the pockets of Trump allies for the use of their private planes. Left hand washing the right...
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"You cannot engage with Gavin Newsom in good faith, because what faith can you have in a shell of a person who so baldly pursues wealth, power, the next shiniest thing?" www.coyotemedia.org/what-is-the-...
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What Is the Point of Gavin Newsom?
You can’t build a movement around a person whose only commitment is staying uncommitted.
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If this is the test for endometrial hyperplasia, my God, i would have experienced so much less pain. I had regular biopsies for at least 3 years, i think
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it’s not going to happen!
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10. Turns out we do not have to experience the constant drumbeat of this man's lies. Turns out members of the press can do their jobs professionally and dispassionately, reporting on the president while also essentially putting him on mute.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
By 2026 standards, G Gordon Liddy looks like Danny Ocean
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3:35 or 3:34 @3-35or3-34.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Revolt of the Bosses was deftly hidden behind Working Class Grievance (racism).
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don't they WANT people on insurance not to use it? Isn't that why everyone hates their insurance company so much? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Did you know Gorman silk spiders are a protected species? We will need at least three years and 2m credits to do the biological surveys and analyze the long-term impacts on interstellar economics from the demolition of the ecosystem."
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🧵MISSISSIPPI & MISSOURI No early voting *but* both have in-person absentee voting 📢 STARTING TODAY ‼️ MS Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal... MO Form to request absentee ballot + rules & how-to's (scroll down) www.vote.org/absentee-bal...
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Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates
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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes this. I'm so angry all the time
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