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A Florida lawyer is seeking to avoid sanctions after a state appeals court said her filings in a case bore hallmarks of generative artificial intelligence output that the panel of judges called “AI slop.” @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4e0yC0v

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 22h

Ahead of the Supreme Court's new term, 34% of Americans approve of the court in a new @gallup.com survey – among the lowest percentages on record. news.gallup.com/poll/715022/...

Line chart showing that 34% of Americans currently approve of the way the Supreme Court is handling its job. That's among the lowest readings in Gallup surveys since 2000.

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Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whoa: Third Circuit affirms “grant of summary judgment in favor of Thompson Reuters for copyright infringement and rejecting the fair use defense of ROSS Intelligence in its use of Westlaw headnotes in memos used to train its AI model.” chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training

Opinion under seal for now.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"OpenAI said on Monday that it would not release its newest AI model because of security concerns raised by its researchers.... [T]he new model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra, showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions."

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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026

BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...

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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit

Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Genuine question. Company X manufactures a lawnmower that, every 3rd unit, spontaneously rolls itself out of the factory to destroy people's documents and kill their cats - for reasons Company X doesn't understand and can't control. Is there a mass tort suit somewhere I've missed, and if not, why?

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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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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good piece from @dgraham.bsky.social on how the failure to appoint people to key positions undermines Trump's ability to get things done. The mass gutting of civil service positions compounds the problem. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Absences Haunting the Trump Administration

The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oracle has a ballooning $27 billion contract with one federal agency to do health records. Do you have any idea how much internal tech capacity the government could build if it hired capable tech people and opened up the procurement process to non-oligarch vendors? fedscoop.com/bipartisan-b...

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Inside the bipartisan backlash to the $27 billion VA-Oracle EHRM contract blindsiding Congress

Billions of dollars, dozens of hearings, three administrations and no answers. On the VA’s fourth attempt to modernize electronic health records, Congress says “enough.”

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Washington Post confirms @propublica.org's reporting that the FBI shuttered a pay-to-play investigation into Susan Collins after Trump took over last year. #MEpolitics

WaPo: Three people familiar with the matter confirmed to The Washington Post that the FBI last year closed an early-stage inquiry into allegations that a defense contractor made concealed political contributions benefiting Collins in exchange for help securing federal contracts. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the previously undisclosed investigation.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some states do not have weekend reporting. For example, I won't have a NJ update since that requires someone to manually fulfill an open records request. So, I don't expect to provide updates for all states

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @npr.org story: Democratic Sen. @warren.senate.gov is demanding that Trump officials explain why the Census Bureau’s parent agency removed a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported last month www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

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Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.

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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#earlyvote evening update 9/22: at least 120,381 people have voted in the 2026 general election Welcome Colorado and Oklahoma to this update 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a stunning article, featuring interviews with sitting federal judges, including stalwart conservatives, warning that the Trump Admin's actions in Minnesota “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns

In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#earlyvote update 9/20: at least 53,331 people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd missed this. After an assistant US attorney in Minnesota secured a grand jury indictment of an ICE agent for making false statements to fed investigators regarding the shooting of a Venezuelan man in the leg in January, Bloomberg reports the DOJ attorney who had been leading the case was fired.

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Bloomberg Law - Product Log In

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

DOD got an intel report a Chinese ship in the Middle E. was transporting "components of a nuclear weapons program." The US military was preparing to board the ship...planes were in the air...It was only just before the planned op that ofcls...found the report had been generated w/the help of AI.

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person

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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEWS: Classified U.S. intelligence assessments have determined that the Kremlin has again authorized a digital influence campaign to peddle content across social media in hopes of seeding or amplifying domestic divisions around the election season, U.S. officials said www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds (Gift Article)

The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#earlyvote morning update 9/18: at least 7,462 people have voted in the 2026 general election election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026

A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured. n.pr/4xW1mPX

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State of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report finds

A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/09/2026

Conservative attorney John Eastman has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate his California law license after he was disbarred in the state earlier this year over his efforts to overturn Republican President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden reut.rs/3VdB1OW

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John Eastman asks US Supreme Court to undo disbarment over Trump election efforts

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.

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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts

A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1. In any normal court, the outcome would be obvious & 9-0. The Trump rule can't be implemented in the universe we inhabit & still have free/fair elections. 2. It's Trump, so the danger isn't just law, it's legal theater. Next act up: the tyrannical courts rigged the election. Don't buy a ticket.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The law school's alleged sin? Hosting an attorney who defends Gitmo detainees. The academic climate now is somehow worse than it was in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#earlyvote update 9/12: at least 1,622 people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl

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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026

Trump officials have proposed giving taxpayer dollars to groups aligned with conservative movements in Europe as well as advocates for white South Africans, according to interviews and documents reviewed by ProPublica. (Published July)

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Afrikaner and Right-Wing European Groups Would Gain From Trump’s New Human Rights Funding

Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Welcome, Mr. DiGenova, to the legal profession.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you didn't see this coming, you don't have eyes. Credit of sorts to Anthropic at least for publicly reporting key examples (e.g. a foreign military research institute using Claude to help make a horrible mosquito-borne virus more harmful).

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bullet dodged for now. More rounds to come...

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok, a day that needs starting with a timeline cleanse.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#earlyvote update 9/10: at least 832 people have voted in the 2026 general election election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...

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