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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As we march to the bitter end of this miserable/thrilling/frustrating/exciting season, we’re gonna take the time now to thank all of you for your support to us here at TGP. It truly means the world. We’ve tried to bring the Phillies to BlueSky, the official app of sports, to you the best that we can
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Matt Gelb @mattgelb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How do you even begin to explain what happened to the Phillies in Game 2? "What a sport," Bryce Harper said. They are still alive: www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Six outs from elimination, the Phillies dug deep and willed a win. They are still alive (Gift Article)
It was one of the greatest comebacks in Phillies postseason history. They will play October baseball — for at least one day.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is the menu
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Wet Luzinski @wetluzinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WELCOME TO DREAD OCTOBER
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Defector @defector.com · 26/09/2026
"It is rare for an album to be so widely decried—for its orientalist fixations, for its uncomfortable lyrics about women and sex, for its overt horniness—only to become adored later on. What is that about? Was everybody actually wrong then? Is everybody right now?" defector.com/revisiting-w...
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Revisiting Weezer’s Cringe Masterpiece At 30 | Defector
The second project is probably always the hardest. This is especially true if it follows a successful debut. You make something great, and by some act of the gods it catches fire and becomes the new,…
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/
This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered. 

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception. 

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers. 

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout. 

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services. 

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones. 

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built. 

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies. 

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026
nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
Neon Liberalism #91: Samantha and guest Keira Havens talk Thomas Massie's recent attempt to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. They discuss the mechanics and politics of impeachment, the role of accountability, and what it means to regain a sense of ourselves as constitutional actors.
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Let's Impeach Pete Hegseth (Neon Liberalism #91, with Keira Havens)
Regaining a sense of ourselves as constitutional actors.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CAN I HAVE THEM - SHIRT AT dashare.zone/search?q=pic... - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELETEN REACHEN FOR YOU'RE PICKLES "IF YOUR NOT GOING TO EAT YOUR PICKLES , CAN I HAVE THM????????" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 19/09/2026
Bowdoin helmets going hard this week.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NOW DO IT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTON "DESTROY ALL SMART DEVICES" - "I NEED TO USE YOU'RE WIFI NO REASON - PLEASE UPDATE THE SYSTEM SOFTWARE TO CONTINUE MOWING YOUR FUCKIN LAWN , FRIDGE WILL OPEN IN 30 SECOND'S SKIP ADD FOR 0.99 OR SKIP 10 AD'S FOR 7.99 BEST DEAL "DONT WORRY ABOUT IT " LIGHT BULB WILL TURN OFF AFTER 30 MINTUES WATCH THIS BEEF ADVERTISEMENT TO KEEP LIGHT BULB ON FOR UP TO 4 HOURS , TIRES OF WAITING 15 SECOND'S FOR TOILET FLUSH? SAY MCDONALDS FOR 1 FREE INSTANT FLUSH, I NEED TO CONTACT MY MANUFACTURER NO REASON, DO YOU AGREE TO TERMS OF SERCICE FOR CAR? NO REASON DONT WORRY ABOUT IT . NO  REASON " - ------
ANY COMPUTER IN A DEVICE WHICH IS NOT A COMPUTER WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!!! THE COMPUTERS SERVE THE INVESTORS THEY DO NOT SERVE YOU!!! ANY APPLIANCE WHICH HAS A DIGITAL SCREEN FOR NO REASON WILL BE USED TO SELL YOU PRODUCTS OR SHOW YOU ADS - ANY APPLIANCE WHICH NEEDS TO CONNECT TO WIFI WILL COLLECT INFORMATION AND RECORD WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR HOUSE AND SEND IT BACK TO THE MANUFACTRER - THIS CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHT'S AND MUST BE DENIED ENTRY TO YOUR HOUSE AT ALL TIMES!!! NO DEVICE MAY CONNECT TO MY WI FI UNLESS IT IS MY HOLY COMPUTER OR PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PLEDGE TO DENY THE INVESTOR'S MY DATA AND MY ATTENTION AND ACCESS TO MY LIVING ROOM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
is this good
An Eatonton Police Department (Ga.) employee ran searches with reasons such as HJKNUILH, uiokjk.kuj, GJLHBNMN, hjhbnmg, and iuohjk.
An Atlanta Police Department (Ga.) employee ran searches with asdfga as the reason. 
Bay County Sheriff's Office (Fla.) employees ran searches with reasons such as  ;'lkjh, /lkjh and lkjhg.
A Brown County Sheriff's Office (Wis.) employee ran searches with reasons such as gyghkkghghjkghjk, ggyjgyujdsrdghdfhjkghjghk, HJHJKLHLKHJK, hjjkjkhjkljk and JHLJKHHJKL.
A Lake County Sheriff's Office (Ohio) employee ran searches with reasons such as asdfg and ghjkl, and a second officer ran a series of searches that started off with "investigation" but then devolved into button mashing, including: 
Investigatafy, Investigatafyd, Investigatafydl, Investigatafydlh, investigatafydlhj, investigatafydlhji, investigatafyfdlhji, investigatafyfdlhjigkfgty, investigatafyfdlhjigkfgtyy, investigatafyfdlhjij, investigatafyfdlhjik, investigatafyfdlhjikf, investigatafyfdlhjikfg, investigatafyfdlhjikfgty, investigatafyfdlhjikfgy and investigatafyfdlhjiy.
A Moore Police Department (Okla.) ran searches with reasons such as jhjhjkhj, jhjkhjh, jhjkhjkh, jkhhkjhjk, Jkhjkhj, Jkhjkhjk, Jkhjkhjkh, jkhjkhkjh, jkjkhjkh, kjjkhjk, loiuiou, ukjhjkh and ulkuiou.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EFF’s investigation found cops across dozens of jurisdictions writing “LMAO,” “LOL,” “Hehe,” “Haha,” “idk,” “blah,” “TBD,” and “robbery I don’t remember the case number leave me alone” in Flock’s “reason” box for searches. They found cops writing “idiot,” “fuck this new search engine,” “dickhead,” “shithead,” and “WEIRD KID” in the reason box. And they found an entire class of police button mashers, who ran searches for reasons of “asdfg,” “gyghkkghghjkghjk,” “jhjhjkhj,” “jkhhkjhjk,” “nmbvcbnm,” and so on and so forth. The searches came from police departments across the country from 2023 through late 2025, when Flock changed how the “reason” box in its search system functions.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
6/ The panic of individual employees may be sincere if misguided, but the moves by their CEOs to achieve some kind of broad "antitrust waiver" or "exemption" should be met with deep skepticism in light of the economics of the industry and the threat they face from open models.
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ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After we posted an item on Sen. Ted Cruz's effort to push the Protect College Sports Act during a one-sided appearance on ESPN, I got a phone call from Yankees president and Saving College Sports Roundtable co-chair Randy Levine. Details are here:
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Our opposition to the Protect College Sports Act prompted a phone call from Randy Levine
Earlier today, we posted an item about ESPN's advocacy for the Protect College Sports Act.
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CYBERWARCON @cyberwarcon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CYBERWARCON is BACK for 2026! Registration and CFP are now officially open! We’ll be in Arlington, VA+ virtually on November 20th, with Rob Joyce as our keynote. cyberwarcon.com 1/x
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEWS, as they say: @notus.com is no longer; say hello to The Washington Sun! 🌞 Oh, and: We’ve struck a deal to carry daily weather reports from @capitalweather.com! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...
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Politics News Site NOTUS Rebrands as The Washington Sun
A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Civ game where SMU has advanced to the modern era and is just wrecking FSU's trebuchets and knights
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ding! Ding! Ding! One of the reasons I support the SOTU Disinvite (Speaker Jeffries Disinvites the President and tells him to write a note) is to show that the current President is acting outside the bounds of our current democracy.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
UNIONIZE YOUR WORK PLACE WHILE U STILL CAN - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELETEN BAT DEVVIL SWINGIN THERE COOL SWORD AND IT SAYS " HAPPY LABOR DAY TODAY, UNIONIZE YOU'RE WORKPLACE TOMORROW, ON WEDNESDAY WERE ALLOWED TO BRING SWORDS TO WORK, READ THE NEW CONTRACT MONTHER FUCKER " - WE NEED TO GET PAID LUNCH BREAK AND PAID TIME TO TRAVEL TO WORK!!!! AND WE SHOULD BE ALOWED TO TAKE PERSONAL STUFF TO WORK BECUASE IT AINT GONNA HURT YA IF I LIKE BEING AT WORK MORE, THINK ABOUT THAT, IF YOU CAN, THE AVERAGE BOSS HAS LOST MOST OF THERE BRAIN CAPACITY DUE TO RETURNING TO OFFICE AND USING CHAT GPT FOR THE PAST YEAR, THERE TYPING SOME SHIT RIGHT NOW THAT SAYS "COMPUTER PEASE TELL ME HOW MAKE EMPLOYEE LIFE WORSE" AND THE COMPUTERS LIKE "I WOULD BE GLAD TO DELVE INTO THAT — HERE IS A LIST OF WAYS TO DEMORALIZE AND SUBJUGATE A PERSON WHOSE JUST TRYIN TO PAY FOR HOT DOGS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New ballot question reports are in, and it couldn’t be more clear: Question 3 (jungle primaries / all-party primaries / top two) is an effort by billionaires to rig our election system in their favor.
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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 01/09/2026
Canada fought beside the U.S. in both World Wars, the Korean War, and Afghanistan. Their National War Memorial stands as a reminder of what that cost. You don't walk away from an alliance like this. I'll keep fighting to protect it.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Big news today! I’ll have more to say about this tomorrow but for now, enjoy. www.aclum.org/press-releas...
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Massachusetts Court Rules State Police Must Disclose License Plate Reader Locations and Audit Records  - ACLU of Massachusetts
The ACLU has been seeking information about the state police's use of this surveillance technology for five years. A judge ruled the records must be disclosed.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah gotta get off 1Password, sorry
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At least five international student from my Security Studies Program cohort at Georgetown University (all from US allies and partners) have been denied CPT.
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The 51st @51st.news · 30/08/2026
The only photo of a famous person in @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Executive Director Richard Reyes-Gavilan's office: Dolly Parton. More on why the meeting meant so much, from @ecwilliams.bsky.social:
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What Dolly Parton did for DC kids
The superstar performer supported a DCPL program that has mailed 4 million books to more than 100,000 D.C. children.
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Jan @butwhosjan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy 30-year anniversary to the Democratic National Convention dancing to Macarena
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Matt Gelb @mattgelb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wade Meckler jumped into the stands to rob Bryson Stott of a go-ahead, three-run homer in the ninth inning. Then, Edmundo Sosa hit a pinch-hit grand slam. What in the absolute hell.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 26/08/2026
We got the meeting. Last week, we sat down with Hakeem Jeffries for 90 minutes. Then came the reporting that he met privately with Jared Kushner. There it is. The leadership. The plan. Out in the open. If they won’t meet this moment, we need to replace them with people who will. #vote
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
start bulldozing the ballroom on day one, dare the court to enjoin you, and make clear that if they do enjoin you, you will use the double standard to openly accuse them of complicity in Trump’s criminal cult of personality and call for the institution’s complete gutting on that basis
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/08/2026
BREAKING: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously upheld a decision temporarily blocking the City of Quincy from installing two religious statues on the outside of its public safety building because it would violate the state constitution. This is a victory for religious freedom.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
youtu.be
'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New: 404 Media obtained footage of investigation and arrest of a cop who used police surveillance databases and license plate cameras to surveil and stalk a woman. "We’ve told them over and over again 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'" www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...
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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For this story, we obtained hundreds of files from Flock’s login pages. Those files contained code for screens and functionality that ordinarily sit behind a police login. @dell.bsky.social and I used the code to rebuild parts of the system. We adapted/embedded it so readers can see how it works.
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OS Investigate v2
A Flourish data visualization by Dhruv
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