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Nice to see key Senate Dems introducing a bill to punish Trump for violating the prohibition on using government funds for propaganda. The bill would cut OMB's budget by $20M for each violation found by GAO. Soon to ride on an approps bill near you? www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 8h

To be more direct about it: OMB's budget-level cuts to science are not really about science. It can be very difficult for people (especially scientists) who are harmed by these cuts to grasp that science is really just collateral damage.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 14h

One of the issues highlighted here on this piece is how Marco Rubio diverted 1 million usd to a campaign to smear and dismantle the trust in the Brazilian supreme court and interfere in our elections, with more resources from untraceable channels expected to follow suit. clear US aggression here.

theguardian.com

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They continue to escalate, just with different window-dressing. And the key context here is that they are brutal, thuggish, inhumane, and racist —threatening to anyone brown or Black. Read this instead: www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-losing… 2/2

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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’

Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

None of the cheerleaders of the Permitting Reform bill are talking about the fact that it establishes a 150-day statute of limitations for lawsuits under *any* federal law challenging authorizations for coal, oil, and gas extraction. Forever. 150 days is no time at all.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is so boring but it is incredibly frustrating to see the supreme court be so malevolently silly about third-country removal. there is no balancing of equities that could possibly favor the government, which already HAS THE DETAINEE IN JAIL. are they ordering too much room service?

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

christ this infuriates me. ACA bridged the gap between my divorce (with loss of spousal benefits) and medicare eligibility. without it, I would not have had access to health care for eight years.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UK's prime minister is proposing a public option for grid transmission investments, to compete with private players and speed up grid connections: www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

GB Grid: Andy Burnham says public body will invest in electricity grid

The prime minister said he wants to reduce energy costs in his first conference speech as Labour leader.

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

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear @erc.europa.eu , we DO already have common standards & frameworks. 'AI' likes to pose itself as 'special' but we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already have established codes of conduct for research integrity. We just need to apply them. See below + more resources in thread🧵

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic
the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth
— the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “informa-
tion”. At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from
human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently
wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem.
Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Marcela Suarez, et al. (2025, n.p.)
Knowledge production is supposed to be safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research
integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018). Such codes forbid, for instance, fabrication of data,
falsification of results, plagiarism, and, generally, distortion of the scientific record. Many argue that
new rules are required to regulate academic AI use, but pre-existing guidelines fit the bill (cf. Tafani

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

doomsdayscenario.co

The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, to recap: a mom became homeless, went to DFCS for housing aid, had her children taken away instead, and was then *billed* for their foster care—leaving her $13k in debt and making it harder to secure the very housing she needed to get them back. Hard to imagine a crueler, more perverse system.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the compelling, moving, and no-brainer district court ruling the Supreme Court's six Trump acolytes just overturned. District court judges are routinely finding that Trump has violated the law. Then SCOTUS happens. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT MURPHY, J. This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled. The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown—in so-called “third countries”—and, “as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot . . . that’s fine.”1 It is not fine, nor is it legal. Congress made it “the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country” where that “person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”2 Congress decided that the Government “may not remove” someone to a country where her “life or freedom would be threatened” on account of

her “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”3 These are our laws, and it is with profound gratitude for the unbelievable luck of being born in the United States of America that this Court affirms these and our nation’s bedrock principle: that no “person” in this country may be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I have a @britishacademy.bsky.social paper on how the US is now somehow managing to combine gross overuse of dollar power (e.g. upcoming ICC sanctions) with genial complaisance about the use of crypto to circumvent ordinary controls

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The US dollar system as a source of international disorder

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not surprised but GOOD for her!!!

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lerris.bsky.social @lerris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once you give away a technological advantage it's gone. Some of Trump's nonsense is like he is trying to find a worse decision to top the Iran mess.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026

The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.

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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So with growing season at an end, and people in Oleshky saying they won’t survive the oncoming winter, Ukraine has launched a drone airlift operation to bring food to the city. It’s impressive by Ukraine but another in a long line of humanitarian catastrophes created by Russia.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now would be a good time for @pallone.house.gov to send Fox a letter promising an investigation into why they accepted this ad and how much they got paid to run it.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read @courtwatch.bsky.social review the stories that don't get told as corporate media (in this case, McClatchy) lays off all the legal journalists. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

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The Rabbit Hole: Covering What McClatchy Will Miss

With the private equity-owned newspaper chain laying off 90 reporters, we look at the court stories they’ll miss.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Carolyn Sissoko @csissoko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agree, but I would argue tht a complete overhaul of financial regulation, and a restructuring of the financial system is necessary to make the economy work for everybody. Declining real wages are a symptom.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's really ironic that precisely at the moment when Americans mad about affordability are propelling Democrats to take over the House and the Senate, Barack Obama is offering this advice. It's frankly completely out of touch, but also highlights why we are here to begin with.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Appropriations chaos has resulted since that moment. A compelling case can be made that the Bureau of Fiscal Services should be a Congressional Agency after the DOGE incursion.

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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1/3 Biagio Bossone: "The IMF reads this as two separate domestic distortions needing two separate domestic fixes: Chinese fiscal expansion and US fiscal tightening. But the two are not separate stories. www.omfif.org/2026/09/the-...

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The missing variable in the imbalances debate - OMFIF

IMF traces global imbalances back to domestic saving-investment gaps – weak Chinese investment and an over-spending US – rather trade policy

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎶 Can't be held responsible

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I totally agree with the point about the OBR by construction never taking the long-term into account - the future beyond max 5 years never "scores"

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

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

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