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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps not the biggest problem with this... but defunding the IRS and then giving a subset of the population an incentive not to file is really fiscally stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Bushes' and 'SB' in place of 'trees' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'trees' in any applicable setting."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

this is the thanks you get for cozying up to fascists

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

And/or, are stupid.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 11h

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 9h

This is an entirely correct take. Trump has allowed us to discover how much of American governance is reliant upon norms, and to a bad person norms are nothing but requests from the past. You can ignore a request.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8h

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7h

Billionaires who campaign against forgiveness of school lunch debt or medical bills : its going to be so abundant

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 7h

Your horrifyingly regular reminder that the very existence of a death penalty is fundamentally incompatible with a civilised society.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump and Co. conducted a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States out of its presidential election — ie attempted an autogolpe, or "self-coup" — was in the public record. The facts and the law were never in question. Only if America would follow them.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

This is what it boils down to Accepting Republican framing abandons vulnerable people Every fucking time

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 14h

Huh, who knew the jackasses behind Shiny Hunters ransomware group were not good people. “The 24-year-old Pepijn van der S., who was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the hacker group ShinyHunters on 15 September, is also suspected of an attempted provocation of two murders.”

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ShinyHunters-verdachte Pepijn van der S. ook verdacht van opdracht geven tot moorden

De 24-jarige Pepijn van der S. die 15 september was aangehouden op verdenking van betrokkenheid bij hackersgroep ShinyHunters, wordt ook verdacht van een poging van uitlokking van twee moorden.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13h

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 12h

Faecebook's AI tamagotchi is a fucking disaster.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 13h

Agreed. Rahm Emmanuel is a piece of shit.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14h

Send him in crate. We are the shithole nation. Us.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 13h

Uh-huh. "Unhackable". Sure thing, diaper don, sure thing.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 16h

The system is the problem. It turns complaining victims into suspects (of perjury) and averts its investigative powers from young men who have engaged in (at a minimum) sexual practices that could not have been consensual.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 16h

You know what? College athletes should be able to collectively bargain with Universities for their labor, not with the NCAA.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 13h

Nice of Jike Mohnson to release a handy ad for Democratic candidates to use like this!

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 13h

That... that seems like the OPPOSITE of effective schooling.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Yep. The commentators who overinterpreted the meaning of 2024 still haven't admitted how wrong they were, let alone acknowledged any of the disastrous consequences of that error.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14h

The case for capitalism is that if you can't provide maximum value at lowest cost you won't succeed. Trumpism is the opposite of that, esp as relates to fossil fuels, where the rules are "if you can't compete, call us and we'll protect you from those pesky markets." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...

nytimes.com

The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.

In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15h

There is no more durable way to lower your energy bills than to rapidly deploy technologies that let you stay warm, travel and keep the lights on without buying/burning fossil fuel. chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Manipulated dog.” So these aren’t even pretextual stops. These are just “No Constitutional Whatsoever” stops. If we can’t stop you, we’ll make up a reason to. If we can’t berate you into a search, we will nakedly fabricate one. Every drug conviction in Bexar should be challenged. Like in MA:

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, the pretense of thinking that a "hearing" is some sort of legit legal practice when it forces a two year to argue his or her own case is just preposterous. As is calling at-will employees of the executive "judges," tho that's more Orwell than Kafka. Just speed-running dystopias here.

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The billionaire controlled SF DCCC is so corrupted. The latest: “The same month she blocked a resolution calling for restrictions on Flock Safety, the chairperson of the SF Democratic Party accepted a $10,000 donation from a tech mogul bankrolling the police department’s surveillance deployment”

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SF Dem Party chair who blocked key Flock vote got donation from surveillance backer

Nancy Tung spoke at a conference hosted by the camera company in the weeks before the vote.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Safety first!

Door with DO NOT BLOCK--FIRE EXIT sign...and a lock on the door

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

The Rs are doing a full-spectrum assault on the existence of anyone not cis and straight, and saying it is about "boys playing girls sports". And every D who looks at that and goes "yeah, I oppose boys in girls sports" is endorsing the effort. Because they're affirming "sports" is all the Rs did.

edsource.org

UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026

*police led him out*

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seems legit

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terfs can fuck right off. We need to hound them out of the Democratic Party.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/09/2026

Assumed it was a paraphrase. It is not a paraphrase.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

I have built a novel dataset of news headlines that get shared by the press that updates daily and stretches back to 2016. Looking at data over the last month, Trump's first-ever midterm convention failed to change the news agenda. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-28...

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Iran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026

In a new database of news headlines stretching back to 2016, I show Trump's midterm convention failed to change news agendas

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026

pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons

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