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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20h
This is how AI will kill us all
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/10/2026
How much does it cost to get information about a cop who punched someone in the face? About $2.5M, plus 44,816 hours of staff time, according to the Eugene, OR, Police Department. If that sounds absurd, it’s because it is. Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social explain:
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target. www.wired.com/story/a-flaw...
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A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On humility, harm, "docket-management authority," and giving even the most minimal respect to lower courts. Tonight, at Law Dork how the SCOTUS majority failed tonight. www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
KBJ keeps tryna tell us about the deeply perverse way the Court is exercising its equitable powers on the shadow docket the GOP justices wielding equitable jurisdiction are (surprise surprise) actively hostile to the concept of equity, & produce injustice instead ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: Florida killed Curtis Beasley this evening. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty noted this is the DeSantis administration's "44th execution." Beasley is "the 13th veteran, the 14th senior citizen, and the 27th person ... to die despite a non-unanimous jury vote for death."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artificial intelligence is a stupid term. For one thing, it’s neither artificial nor intelligent.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@anntelnaes.bsky.social (archives 3/16/25)
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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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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to ‘go to war’ in the occupied West Bank and ‘do there what we did in Gaza.’
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'Do there what we did in Gaza': Smotrich calls for full-scale war in occupied West Bank
Finance minister says Israel should dismantle the Palestinian Authority and expand Israeli territorial control of occupied territory
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 26/09/2026
President Trump announced he has moved to significantly reduce gas mileage targets as part of his larger push to eliminate federal support for electric vehicles. According to the government’s own analysis, the move could lead to drivers paying hundreds more for gas each year.
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Trump Says He Has Reversed Biden-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards
The government’s own analysis of the proposed rule said the move could worsen the country’s ability to weather shocks to oil prices.
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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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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Maryland Matters @marylandmatters.org · 26/09/2026
Government auditors said the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities. marylandmatters.org/2026/09/25/r...
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Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration push for immigration detention - Maryland Matters
Government auditors said the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opp...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026
"more spending on AI tokens means less money left for salaries and so—even without any clear sign that AI uptake is paying off—employers are forced to weigh AI against their own workers." www.theideasletter.org/essay/syndic...
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Syndicalist Valley
The tech-worker movement that emerged in the 2010s has been transformed by layoffs, higher interest rates, and the enormous investment flowing into AI, which have eroded the bargaining power of…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
Protecting children online matters—but age verification is not how you do it. Read our analysis of the new EU Kids Act, which is a threat to the open internet and our privacy eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.
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Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban
Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren and 12 other Democrats have introduced legislation to ban private equity from owning medical practices as increasingly widespread corporate ownership continues driving up health care costs each year.
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Warren Introduces Bill to Ban Private Equity From Owning Medical Practices
More than 80 percent of doctors are employed by corporate entities — a massive increase from 62 percent seven years ago.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
"'We have confirmation due to communication between Kate and Wilber that he’s in Pearsall for interrogation and still has the bullet lodged in his body. He’s received no pain medication and had to sleep on the floor.'"
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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damngina7.bsky.social @damngina7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Complicated by court records” = complicated by reality
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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damngina7.bsky.social @damngina7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kavanaugh stops apparently also include beatings. ICE continues to make a mockery of due process.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today on #VibeCheckPod, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains what’s really going on with these so-called AI whistleblowers. Also, I let the chopper spray on Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Jasmine Crockett and Chris Brown. Also, I read a lovely poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen.
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The AI Apocalypse Is a Distraction
Vibe Check · Episode
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/09/2026
Thomas Massie forced a Hegseth impeachment vote. House Republicans responded by leaving town until after the election. @cheetah.bsky.social explains:
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