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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That didn't take long, but the sanewashing target was OpenAI, not Trump

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2026
The New York Times
"OpenAI's Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue"
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OpenAI's AI Tried to Hack a Federal Civil Rights Office. It Failed, and No One Knew for Months.
The Times calls it "meddled." Transluce's own research team found OpenAI's agents attempted to hack the Education Department's civil rights office, pulled Census Bureau data using credentials found online, and leaked SEC data on a public forum, all without OpenAI's knowledge until an internal review months later. Altman himself admits the company "has not been as fast as we would have liked" telling anyone.
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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A sanewashing update. Is it just us, or have news outlets started writing better headlines?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2026
A NOTE TO READERS
It's been quiet here for a few weeks - no new cards since early September.
possible reason
The Sanewashing Might Be Down, Not the Vigilance
the Iran war's economic A review of recent coverage fallout, the White House's defiance of a court order on press access - found headlines naming agency and consequence directly, not softening them. Whether that holds on quieter, human-interest-shaped stories (where the old euphemisms used to hide) is still an open question. Send us candidates. If the pattern is real, we want to know that too.
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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I call it the "single drop of blood" theory of vote suppression

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2026
Associated Press
"Postal Service work to comply with Trump's executive order is rushed and sloppy, a whistleblower contends"
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New USPS Rule Voids Entire Ballot Batches Over One Scan Error — By Design, Not By Accident
The whistleblower disclosure describes a “zero percent” error-tolerance rule: one scanning mismatch in a batch of tens of thousands of ballots voids the whole batch. A carefully built, fully-tested version of this rule would still disenfranchise every voter in that batch. Framing the story as rushed haste locates the harm in execution — not in what the rule does when it works exactly as intended.
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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

$CONTEXT RESTORED AUGUST 6, 2026 The New York Times "C.I.A. Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump Pressures Havana" ——— Original headline ——— ——— Recontextualized ——— C.I.A. Revives Bay of Pigs-Style Task Force to Engineer Cuban Regime Change The task force's mandate — recruiting spies, running cyber and influence operations, and fracturing the political elite to install friendlier leaders — is explicitly modeled on the 1960 unit that launched the Bay of Pigs invasion, a fact the article states outright but the headline omits. Trump advisers reportedly hope Cuba's government could be gone by the November midterms, following the template just used in Venezuela, where Maduro was captured and the U.S. seized the country's oil. 'Pressures Havana' describes a covert regime-change campaign as routine diplomacy. @contextrestored.bsky.social$

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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

$Context Restored May 26, 2026 NPR As published How the Trump administration uses the Bible to justify military invasions and immigration raids Context restored DHS scored door-battering raids with "Blessed are the peacemakers." Hegseth told troops the Iran war was a path to eternal life. Scholars call it sanctifying power — not Christianity. For the first time, a majority of Americans now say the Bible should influence U.S. law. Yale and Columbia theologians warn this isn't faith — it's "ideological Christianity" that refracts scripture through the interests of those wielding it. @contextrestored.bsky.social$

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Context Restored @contextrestored.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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May 1, 2026
The New York Times
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Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage
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Republicans killed Obamacare subsidies and 5 million people are losing coverage — while the Trump administration calls the mass disenrollment a "success"
Premiums tripled for some. A California nurse practitioner now pays as much for insurance as her mortgage. RFK Jr. called the losses a "crackdown on fraud." The government has stopped publishing enrollment data.
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