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Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Bike Gillian @bikegillian.bsky.social · 19m

Neighborhood listserv starts lighting up with anti e-bike rants I chime in about how it's mostly a design problem (no dedicated place to bike, so people biking are always in conflict with people walking or driving) I get tons of just-to-me replies thanking me for speaking up.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

see thread here for another example of why i keep pushing the idea that the dems in washington know better than us is just fallacious garbage. they have no idea what they are doing and we have to bully them from the outside.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 5h

If you missed the botched gotcha of Jack Smith by Sen. Schmitt this week, here’s a recap of that moment. Video: buff.ly/yhSmHuI

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 5h

🎉🎁🧁 HBTM! 🧁🎁🎉

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...and Missouri is the 'show me' state. Schmitt committing an unforced error by not asking to be shown. 😂

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So he's from the show me state and didn't verify his information? 😂🤔😂

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The visa is a “designation for certain immigrant children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected that provides humanitarian protection, his lawyer said.” The Trump regime is now further traumatizing him. #AbuseofPowerWatch

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a really effective way of showing how this redesign will have a minor impact on drivers while massively improving safety for anyone walking, biking, or rolling along the Lynnway

Removing one travel lane in each direction from the Lynnway would add roughly one minute to most peak-direction trips and just over two minutes southbound during the morning commute, according to an updated travel analysis by state transportation officials.

Chiarenza said the cost of traffic delay to drivers is calculated based on the assumption that there’s 1.5 people per car on average. He adds that the travel time cost and the fuel cost of being in traffic longer is about $1.7 million.

“If you look at 10 years of crash history, we’ve got four fatalities, over 10 serious injuries and hundreds of minor and suspected injuries and property damage only. On average per year, that’s $16 million worth of loss in USDOT’s calculations,” he said. “Using straight metrics from the source, we’re talking about trading up to $1.7 million of delay time to save $16 million in life and limb. I think that’s a pretty good deal.”

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAGA lunatic Eric Schmitt tried to create a conspiracy theory that accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of being somewhere he wasn’t and when it fell flat because his BS lie was exposed he called Mr. Smith a dirtbag. No you shitty trashy treasonous moronic asshole, you are the dirtbag.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unaccompanied migrant children “remain one of the most isolated and vulnerable groups of people in this country. The Trump administration has decided to exploit their position by threatening their access to legal representation and making it impossible for their attorneys to act in their interests.”

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's more believable that an elected can get away with "I haven't seen it" if you're catching them in a hallway interview as they are walking to their next meeting (or wherever). When it's Mike Johnson holding a presser (& he has a staff!), there's no excuse for the "ignorance" escape hatch.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a lot of viewers don't know is that many times guests on scheduled media hits are quickly briefed on gen topics to be covered. A producer text or call to *send Ricketts the ad* — & later say on-air that it was provided to him — would stop this mess. 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A very productive night for Ukraine’s Defense Forces! ▪️Two defense plants were struck in Russia’s Tula&Voronezh regions. ▪️The SSU hit four oil depots in Russia’s Krasnodar region-Edelweiss-95,Din-Yug-Oil,LUKOIL-Yugnefteprodukt,Angelinskaya. ▪️The Prymary unit of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence struck:

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Lee-in-Iowa 💙 @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please repost widely: To all young women in college: You do NOT have to put up with the university’s hiding and ignoring your assault. Police ignoring you too? GO TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY! (This worked for young women at schools where I taught [and advised them how to seek justice].)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.

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Shae von Londinium @intrepidbrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4 panels ordered and just waiting on the microinverter? Love it, FINGERS crossed. SB 868 is on Newsom's desk until Wednesday, and so is AB 1813: community solar, where folks in other states save 10%-40% on bills with no panels. The utilities hate both. yesonab1813.org

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Yes on 1813 — Community solar for California

AB 1813 passed the Legislature. Tell Governor Newsom to sign it by September 30. Community solar for the 45% of Californians who rent. No new tax.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 28/09/2026

Gas prices are soaring nationwide, and families feel it every time they fill up. So what does the Trump administration do? It guts the fuel economy standards that help Americans burn less gas in the first place. That means more money out of your pocket at the pump for years to come.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FFS. Is it bad I want to throw a pie in her face?

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bless his heart... yeah, like that.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy.

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CooperDuper @cooper888.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🫣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 -- breathes -- 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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TGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it is alarming how red lights are being ignored are reds the new 🛑 amazing how sensible cycling laws like Idaho Stop can’t be implemented because drivers are so accustomed to the California Roll better to ban bikes than demand drivers live up to the contract with the DMV and society

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's most remarkable about this news story from Los Angeles isn't the circumstances, sadly, but news coverage that is sympathetic to tactical urbanism and precise in its use of language. Something is shifting public perceptions of the problem of traffic violence, and how to solve it.

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Residents protest deadly intersection where 16-year-old boy was killed by hit-and-run driver

YouTube video by KTLA 5

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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my take on the iced coffee conversation, personally, is that i'd just prefer not being in an office with someone who'd care that someone brought an iced coffee to an interview.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If just 10% of Americans skipped meat on Mondays, it could avoid roughly 2–5 million metric tons of CO2e per year. That’s comparable to taking about 1 million passenger cars off the road. Small actions add up at scale. One day a week isn't hard, let's go for "Meatless Monday".

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026

I swear, the Supreme Court as a body is not on the side of democracy.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW and CNN journalists have just been denied access to covering Xi Jinping's arrival back at the White House for tonight's state dinner.

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