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About 30 states have adopted programs that allow families to spend public money on private school tuition. But our investigation found that many states have little interest in overseeing private schools. Join us Oct. 6 for a virtual discussion. RSVP: events.propublica.org/wild-west-sc...

Virtual Event: The Wild West of School Vouchers. Tuesday, Oct. 6. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Illustration: A giant orange pencil points up and to the right. In the background is a pattern made up of gray school chairs.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 2h

@politico.com headline: "…Dems say" @politico.com article: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)… also told reporters that the ad spend was not under the jurisdiction of her committee but 'was taken out of funding that was supposed to be for Customs and Border Protection.'"

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

Just adds another level to the story of Trump's illegal ads that he stole the money from what is purportedly his top policy priority (immigration enforcement) to run his tax payer funded campaign ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say

Congressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 2h

🚨Trump & Republicans' shameful cuts to food assistance are taking effect TODAY. That means states now have less resources to feed families facing food insecurity. In MA, over 188,000 SNAP beneficiaries have already been impacted. I'll keep fighting to expand SNAP & end hunger once and for all.

An NPR article titled: SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program

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Amy @anymaygarden.bsky.social · 14h

This regime and others will always try to turn up the dial on erasure and denialism, because ultimately they are worthless cowards who hide behind their lies, masks (never for Covid), and bruised little self-important egos. Frustrated and ineffective, they resort to theft. youtu.be/bLanMjqWTm8

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National Archives threatened

YouTube video by Indian Country Today

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 2h

The banality of evil (Arendt)

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 2h

Relatives of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent early this year during by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, have filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday, including one against the officer who shot her and several top Trump administration officials. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)

Relatives of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent early this year during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, have filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday, including...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

October 1, 2026 split screen. On the left, what happened to Becca Good after Trump and others slandered Renee (from the family's lawsuit against Stephen). On the right, some calls Katie Miller's parents got. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/m...

196. Defendants’ public campaign against her and Renee, as pled below,
compounded the injury. Because senior federal officials, including the President and
Defendant Noem, publicly branded Renee a terrorist and a criminal within hours of her
death (as discussed below), Becca lost her privacy along with her partner and has been
made to relive the killing as a subject of national argument. She has received continuous

Proia also allegedly sent the following text messages to phones numbers associated with the victim’s parents:

a. “Good morning [first name of victim’s mother]. Does it disturb you that such evil as [Federal Official] is married to the creature that slithered from your Cunt?”

b. [Photo of Victim 1]

c. “My god, how can you be proud of this filth?”

d. “Hey [first name of victim’s father], how goes it? Hope your daughter marrying a Jewish Nazi/white supremacist is working out for you and [first name of victim’s mother]. Did you raise her to be trash or did that just happen naturally?”

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

Our local hardware store spent the winter advertising de-icing products on its light-up sign, and I assure you this was not a coincidence in any way. My local pizza place put up an anti-ICE, pro-Renee Good banner roughly the size of a tennis court after Border Patrol LITERALLY TEAR-GASSED THEM.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

The depth of hatred for ICE in this city cannot really be easily captured with words, and that fully includes local business owners, many of whom saw huge portions of their employees forced into hiding.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

I was canvassing local businesses for a revitalization project not 2 hours ago, and the owners were still livid about ICE and telling me how much revenue they lost donating to mutual aid rent funds for immigrants in hiding. Every single business in Minneapolis has a sign like this, still:

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 5h

And yet Congress is still just letting him do anything he goddamn wants—the ridiculous arch, the Kennedy Center fiasco, the opening of protected wilderness to extractive industries, the blatant, unprecedented corruption.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5h

“You have these meetings, you hear them out, you nod and say, ‘We’ll look into it,’ ” the prosecutor explained. “And then at some point you have another meeting and gently tell them why they’re fucking insane and wrong.”

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice are facing a quandary: Should they stay or should they go?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Corinne Marasco @corinneam.bsky.social · 5h

Because I don't know any woman who would say that while sober....

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

We live in a center left country with a democracy problem

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 9h

Endless Fox News segments trying to make Piker the face of the Democratic Party, all for naught.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

Cox gets into the act too - and fails the same test. The fact that this appeal to unity and friendship was followed by 4 years of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives should maybe give you pause about the power of such appeals.

But perhaps Abraham Lincoln made the point more memorably than anyone" "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

Is there any chance, I wondered to myself, that this book foregoes saccharine and mistaken appeals to Abe Lincoln? Nope. In the foreword, Jonathan Haidt invokes the "better angels" line from the First Inaugural, failing - as almost every politician does - the "and what happened next?" challenge.

In the polarized America of today, we desperately need leaders who see this danger, understand its causes, and show us a way out. We need figures who rouse the "better angels of our nature," as Lincoln later put it. We need leaders like Governor Spencer Cox.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Amidst a failing war the US started, the SecDef chose to focus on measuring military members’ hormones, and injecting testosterone into personnel whose hormone levels he dislikes. He also fixates on PT while losing an air war. If you said this to someone a few years ago, they wouldn’t believe you.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 9h

Important; it’s an immigration judge, who unlike federal judges are under the direct supervision of the Administration, which has been pushing out judges they feel are unduly biased towards immigrants.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

None of this tells us what happened at Cornell. But I hope that my work can change the conversation about how we read the evidence, how we treat victims, and it should (hopefully) make us ask harder questions of the institutions that decide which victims are worth believing.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

In "Ruined" (111 Geo. L.J. 237), I trace how the law's language of "ruin" grew out of a history that treated rape as damage to a woman's chastity and value. That history still tells victims how they're supposed to feel and act.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

Victims who were intoxicated or who knew the accused are believed less. Prosecutors also weigh how a future jury will judge the victim. That means community bias gets absorbed into charging decisions, and courts almost never review a decision not to charge.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

There are very few incentives, really, to coming forward immediately after a rape has happened. A victim may need time to process. But also police and prosecutors buy into rape myths themselves are find "perfect victims." I go into that in Shamed (111 Va. L. Rev. 325).

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

Staying friendly with someone who holds social or professional power over you is a way of managing that risk. Reading it as evidence of consent gets the cart before the horse and doesn't acknowledge that risk whatsoever.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

Every one of those questions assumes there's a right way to be a victim. That assumption isn't just a cultural habit. It's built into how our legal system decides which sexual assault cases get heard at all.

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 14h

People following the Cornell case keep asking the same questions about Jane Doe. Why did she text one of the men afterward? Why didn't she call it rape right away? Why didn't she see herself as a victim from the start? My last three articles take these questions on. 🧵

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1. On Tuesday morning, Trump unveiled America dot gov, which he described as “the ultimate product.” Right now, it is basically a chatbot that draws data from official government websites. As a result it is brutally efficient at debunking Trump’s lies.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 9h

same org whose leader declared "war" on progressive Dems to NYT on Aug 6, right after El-Sayed won the primary. They have no constituency but DC media loves them cause they attack other Dems: “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” said Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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123 @nocowards.bsky.social · 9h

Oh my god look at Third Way's Lenae Erickson's (the source of this) bio on their website. Imagine writing this way in 2026 as an adult.

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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 10h

Hey @politico.com can you explain why @thirdway.bsky.social is the source for what the Democrats' SCOTUS platform will be, when they don't even have the word "Democrat" in their name and routinely diss the party? I'll wait.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 9h

The burden is on YOU to establish that you have been admitted, clearly and beyond any doubt. If you can't do that to the satisfaction of executive branch officials, you are detained until removal proceedings begin--again, before exec officials. They may begin that. Very. Day.

Avila v. Bondi, 8th Circuit 2026

In August 2025, DHS encountered Avila during a traffic stop, during which he admitted that he had entered the country illegally and lacked documents authorizing his admission. DHS then arrested Avila, and on the same day, it initiated removal proceedings against him by issuing a Notice to Appear, charging him with removability under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i), (a)(7)(A)(i)(I) for being an alien present in the United States without being admitted and lacking valid entry documentation. DHS detained Avila without bond while it brought removal proceedings against him.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 9h

The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ll be blunt: This administration does not care about LGBTQIA+ suicides. If anything, they’re fine with them. Fewer “undesirable” people. Media needs to be clear about this. There is no other explanation that fits with the rhetoric and actions.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Trump administration, and the fascist right more broadly, wants to eliminate transgender Americans from society—they want to make them invisible, unable to receive the medical care they need, forced to live a lie. That’s why some genocide scholars are calling it genocide.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bullying and harassment that this will enable is the point. This administration wants to make life unbearable for “undesirable” populations. It’s fascist scapegoating 101. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.

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