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DeidShaw

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 9h
“I want Putin to get in front of the ICC." @franceskalbs.bsky.social explains to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social what she actually meant when she said there shouldn’t be any more weapons sent to Ukraine, noting the people “exploiting” the suffering of Ukrainians. Watch more: zeteo.com/p/albanese-t...
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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · 10h
Always choose the bear.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h
The Republicans are the soft on crimes (against women) party.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h
To understand why there could be a sea change in Iowa, you should read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social's great profile of Rob Sand and how a Mr. Rogers approach to civic engagement is taking off: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Rob Sand says he isn’t trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 14h
All it could take for the national popular vote compact to reach a majority of electoral votes is for Democrats to flip six legislative chambers across Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map.

Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential members have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined.

The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14h
The case at Cornell is the kind of higher ed issue in which the DOJ or DOE *should* open a Title IX investigation. In a normal world that’s whst would happen. Instead, we are in the upside down world where you won’t hear a peep from this administration
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h
⚠️ Employees at OpenAI had raised security alarms months before the Hugging Face incident and related AI cyberattacks. Their warnings were ignored.
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15h
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15h
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h
CDC reports two measles deaths US as cases hit 35-year high aje.news/c1rdrn
CDC reports two measles deaths US as cases hit 35-year high
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18h
#OtD 29 Sep 1975 (cn: sexual violence) Rosaria Lopez (19, L) and Donatella Colasanti (17, R) were raped and tortured by wealthy fascists in Italy. Lopez was murdered but Colasanti managed to escape. Two perpetrators were jailed but released early stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1102...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h
Indian firm building $15bn Trump-announced steel mill has deep Russia ties aje.news/z5fe87
Indian firm building $15bn Trump-announced steel mill has deep Russia ties
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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This conversation between @timothysnyder.bsky.social & @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu is crucial to understanding how the various groups currently in power in the US see the world & seek to extract all they can through destroying the idea/systems of country, sovereignty, and even honor. Must watch.
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Corruption and Regime Change with Anne Applebaum and Tim Snyder
YouTube video by Timothy Snyder
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
the Trump admin just made its 40th application to the Supreme Court for emergency relief, since January 2025 for comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden admins made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years 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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026
In recent weeks we've added dozens of new historical stories to our Map. So why not check it out, and see what stories we have for where you live, work, and vacation? It's free, interactive, searchable, and available at map.workingclasshistory.com/
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Why is so much untraceable dark money flooding elections? Because the Supreme Court demolished campaign finance laws. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
The bizarre culture that’s sprung up around Silicon Valley AI companies - which overlaps hugely with rationalist and effective altruist circles - appears to be seriously pressuring some women into attending sex parties for the sake of networking. This is, needless to say, horrifying.
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@ animalologist
Multiple things can be true at once
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The purpose of SlutCon is to help ease men who are scared of approaching women, and for women who simply enjoy flirting to be in an environment where that happens a lot, since there's generally a dearth of that
At the same time, many - probably most! - women do Not want to be flirted with or propositioned by men they don't know. When a small scene only has a handful of large, well-known events, each one has disproportionate impact on everybody's ideas of acceptable behavior among other members of their milieu.
Attending the same events = specific shared context. Means
you're somewhat on the same page.
I suspect that the men who publicly raised concerns about SlutCon's impact on the scene are being megaphones for private objections and distresses they've heard from women in the scene who would NOT be comfortable at an event like that, but who don't voice it publicly because they suspect they'd suffer socially for doing so. That going to SlutCon to be flirted with gives women social cachet, and squirming at the idea means you're [not cool, can't get with the program, are probably a wokescold or a prude etc etc other pejoratives] and therefore, that you'll be excluded or held at a distance
Now, if this scene were purely a social scene, that'd be perfectly fine. Don't go to parties that don't suit you!! The issue arises because it's NOT purely a social scene. This scene is inarguably tied up with Al safety, research, and the SF tech scene in general.
When consistently being invited to the right parties is professionally advantageous, and when SlutCon itself **is** going to be an excellent networking opportunity for people in those fields, it's not neutral that {sexual proclivities} are the filtering mechanism that determines who's in the room. It means that promiscuity & forwardness is explicitly professionally advantageous.
And, if the norms of SlutCon influence the norms of that milieu outside of the e…My suspicion is that men come out of the event more bold, more forward, and with the expectation that events attended by former flirt-girls are fair game for SlutCon-style forwardness. This creates a hostile environment for women who just want to socialize and work with these men, without being propositioned. And without pretending that they're cool with being sexualized for the sake of their inclusion in the scene.
I don't think we have solutions yet, but it's important that we can talk about it, at least.
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the purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity to women who like men and aren't scared of men
I'm not attending or involved in any way, but this is very aligned to my own mission and I'm rooting for their success
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
Call to face Senate inquiry follows security breach of Australia’s Medicare portal by rogue OpenAI bot in June.
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Australia summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to appear at AI inquiry
Call to face Senate inquiry follows security breach of Australia's Medicare portal by rogue OpenAI bot in June.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Masked gunmen threaten elementary school kids. Are they Feds? Or are they extremist posers? Unclear. Either way, horrifying hoodline.com/2026/09/colo...
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Turman Elementary Colorado Springs ICE Incident Alarms Parents
Masked men with guns confronted kids walking to a Colorado Springs elementary school. No agency has confirmed who they were.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stumbled on to a 1991 episode of Law and Order where they keep calling the suit that the person killing bodega workers was wearing as “like Donald Trump”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The president barred US reporters, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. This would be the same president who's running government-paid TV advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming communist..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.
The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.
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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was a fantastic conversation between @djrothkopf.bsky.social and NYU's Paul Barrett discussing the tech bros behind AI and their warped world & self views as well as realistic approaches to how to look at AI and how to regulate it. Highly recommend esp. for AI skeptics (like yours truly)!
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Getting a Grip When It Comes to AI Dread
YouTube video by The DSR Network
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 25/09/2026
Can a president ban reporters because he doesn’t like their coverage? On the latest Is This Really Legal⁩, I sit down with media law litigator Susan Seager to examine the White House's ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico and the constitutional questions it raises. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1dd...
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White House Press Ban, Explained
YouTube video by Is This Really Legal?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We don't have to live like this. Look at all the billionaires and technofascists dining with Trump and Xi tonight. They pay off both sides of the aisle. The only way out is to crush them, and we need fighters to do that. nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K
“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Lula says Trump wants to ‘colonise’ and capture Brazil’s resources by meddling in election
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Lula says Trump wants to ‘colonise’ and capture Brazil’s resources by meddling in election
A TV spot claims the US president is trying to sway October’s presidential vote in favour of Lula’s far-right opponents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential campaign has accused Donald Trump of wanting to “colonise” Brazil in order to capture its natural resources by meddling in next month’s presidential election. The accusation came in a televised campaign advert that was broadcast on Thursday by Lula’s team amid growing fears over the impact alleged US interference could have on the vote. Continue reading...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
Rights groups accuse UN of hosting a 'war criminal' as delegations walk out during Israeli prime minister's speech aje.news/80r71e
Rights groups accuse UN of hosting a 'war criminal' as delegations walk out during Israeli prime minister's speech
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan move to deepen defence coordination as Houthi attacks and Yemen fighting intensify.
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Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani chiefs plan urgent talks amid Yemen fighting
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan move to deepen defence coordination as Houthi attacks and Yemen fighting intensify.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September 23, 2026
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/09/2026
‘They uprooted it all’: Israel bulldozes Palestinian-owned olive groves aje.news/q3a3xt
‘They uprooted it all’: Israel bulldozes Palestinian-owned olive groves
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's not the current models they're worried about, but the "frontier" models under development. They're scaling up complexity (making functioning opaque) and compute power (speed) while also trying to make them able to program and train themselves. The catastrophic scenarios involve loss of control.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
.. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is widespread among Trump cultists. Whether through ignorance or cowardice, they have supported this malignant narcissistic psychopath, no matter what he says or does on his destructive path. History will damn them.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Over the past 48 hours, European officials have been sounding the alarm about Russia, with some beginning to prepare for war. Something is up. My latest…
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The 48 Hours When Europe Sounded the Alarm on Russia
Over the past 48 hours, the warnings about Russia have been almost nonstop.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s shameful we are fighting over 19th century BS. We should be voting on our phones. We can bank on our phones, we should be able to vote a variety of ways that make it easy for the voter. Other countries have figured it out. This Administration is against voters!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: The Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin over the weekend was taken to a hospital late Monday after experiencing paralysis on the left side of his body, according to his lawyer.
washingtonpost.com
Man shot and detained by ICE is hospitalized for partial paralysis, lawyer says
Wilber Garcés Pérez has been transferred to a hospital after his condition worsened, according to his attorney. He was shot and wounded by an ICE officer in Texas.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/09/2026
"A Chinese Hacker Used AI To Attack 100+ Companies In One Of Largest AI Hacks Yet" @thomasbrewster.bsky.social for @forbes.com
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Massive AI-Fueled Hack Hit 100 Companies In Days
Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI agents carried out a wide-ranging cyberattack, obtaining 600,000+ credit card numbers in just a few days. It’s a worrying new milestone in cybercrime.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"One thing I see on this train is that Ukrainians choose to keep going. I don’t want to romanticize; the suffering and the grief are under the eyes, and in the public memorials, and everywhere. Every attack by the enemy hurts, as does every betrayal by an ally." snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Train Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
John Oliver is right: One huge company shouldn’t own your doctor, your insurer, and your pharmacy – AND get to squeeze every penny out of you at each step.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“A frame-by-frame of the latest ICE shooting in Austin — they shot him from behind, after the vehicle was rammed and disabled. Completely unjustified.” #AbolishICE (from @perezbrenna.bsky.social )
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump’s banning of entire media outlines is part and parcel of what authoritarians do to a free press. Authoritarians simply do not like a free press — and the latest escalation from Trump is a dangerous moment for a functioning democracy.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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