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Diane Fourny

@dfourny.bsky.social
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Retired public U prof (Enlightenment Studies, French) juggling these dark times with the rest of you. Dumped X for other sites, a slog to rebuild.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
A lot of people On Here seem surprised by the flimsiness of far right attacks. Did any of you follow the Durham investigation? Or Schmitt's lawsuit on Xitter, especially the way he worked a hard drive he claimed was Hunter Biden's laptop into it?
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Teri King @volleygirl.bsky.social · 18h
Adam Kidan went to federal prison with Jack Abramoff and was ordered to repay $21.7 million. Trump pardoned him in July. His money turned up in eight Republican Senate campaigns. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 7h
Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 7h
An international embarrassment
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 7h
More dumb stuff from super intelligent Trump Admin 👇👇👇
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah, right. Canada really gives a sh*t enough to interfere. What a joke. Trump Admin a 🤡 show.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
Gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Madrid on the occasion of the state visit by President Macron
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Doremus Jessup @doremusjessup.bsky.social · 11h
Eric Schmitt woke up this morning with a clever plan to be the '28 VP nominee. I missed that Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity were tipped off that Eric Schmitt was going to catch Jack Smith in a perjury trap and ended up with egg on their face. Also, f*ck Jim Vandehei
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 11h
Who doesn't love a little factual, biblical breakdown with Monte?!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 13h
"If your prayer life is boring, then you are focusing on yourself, not on Jesus, not on the needy." #PopeFrancis
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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 9h
To recap: There are the Hawks, Hawkeyes, Seahawks, Blackhawks, RedHawks and Jayhawks. All different teams. In case it comes up, there are Cardinals in both Arizona and St. Louis. Not to be confused with the Stanford Cardinal, which is in California. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Psaki's Apprentice @sleepycongressman.bsky.social · 11h
Every GOP is to blame for the shit hole America is in right now, Every one, without exception
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 7h
“Katie Britt was aghast, perplexed, befuddled and all sorts of confused,”one user on X wrote.
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GOP Senator's Befuddled Reaction To Eric Schmitt Gaffe Goes Viral On Social Media
GOP Senator's Befuddled Reaction To Eric Schmitt Gaffe Goes Viral On Social Media
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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 14h
Me, watching the Packers on "offense"
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 8h
I take this as a rather pathetic admission of defeat.
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 9h
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 7h
A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h.... Nice to have Health Secretary on your side, doctors. 👇
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A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit (Gift Article)
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h
By vote to 47 to 51, with John Fetterman siding with the Republicans, the US Senate officially declared it was perfectly fine with Israel murdering nine Americans, and it had no interest in demanding any explanation for the murders. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022
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404 Media @404media.co · 20h
UPDATE: On Monday, Krebs on Security reported authorities in the Netherlands had arrested a 23-year-old on suspicion of aiding ShinyHunters. The representative told 404 Media “the Dutch police are incompetent. That individual has no association with us. Frankly, we are laughing.”
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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The Florida Trib @thefloridatrib.bsky.social · 16h
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is plowing ahead with officially designating a leading Muslim civil rights nonprofit and more than 100 other groups as “domestic terrorist organizations,” in a move critics say is unprecedented and unconstitutional. floridatrib.org/2026/09/29/d...
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DeSantis exercises ‘unprecedented’ power to label groups ‘domestic terrorists’
Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to advance the terrorist designations Tuesday, approving the proposal in just over 30 seconds and with no discussion.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
The White House Accord on AI: • We Do Not Want to Be Regulated • We Will Not Be Regulated • Donald Trump is really, really smart • We promise to pay him in crypto all he wants
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h
Great ad.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A mass surrender of Russian forces in Ukraine near Lyman as Russian defensive positions collapse.
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 9h
OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t.... So much for self-policing 🙄
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12h
Qatar has said Hamas told Israel they would give them all the hostages on October 8th in return for no invasion. Israel refused, 38 more of the Israeli Hostages died, killed by Israel's own actions. They could all have lived.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h
It's a meme now.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 11h
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h
Ashley Hinson voted for the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” CBO now projects the law will mean 13.1 MILLION fewer Medicaid enrollees by 2035, while cutting Medicaid spending by about $1.2 TRILLION over the decade. That vote has consequences. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Doremus Jessup @doremusjessup.bsky.social · 11h
@chrislhayes.bsky.social dirtbag 👇
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Nora Germain 🎻 @noragermain.bsky.social · 11h
It was requested that we post more blues so here you are ❤️ Musicians are myself, Casey Abrams and Balam Garcia 🎻
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 13h
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Silverlark Media @silverlarkmedia.bsky.social · 20h
Just a burglar and not a killer. 😬
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the ICC decided that 25th session of the Assembly, scheduled to take place at UN HQ in NYC, will be relocated to The Hague. ..in light of concerns related to elected officials of the Court subject to US sanctions & visa restrictions
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Axios @axios.com · 17h
NEW: OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
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OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
"OpenAI is responsible for the conduct of its agents," the advocacy group suing argued.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
Watch this, but then read the next post
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Trump told reporters in the White House today that “Canada are going to come in and say, ‘Sir, we are sorry’…” Trump is managed to do something I didn’t think was possible — guarantee that Canadians will never say “sorry.”
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13h
There is a cottage industry on that other site of people in official government legal jobs affirmatively misstating or misrepresenting what rulings are about and then expressing surprise that anyone could possibly disagree. Just the latest example—from the Solicitor General of Iowa:
“Can President Trump use lawful authority granted by Congress to deport illegal aliens to third countries? The Supreme Court has stayed an order saying no twice, now stayed a permanent injunction for a third time. Oddly, 6-3 despite a similar posture to the Missouri First map”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22h
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 15h
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 16h
For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN
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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 22h
Oh come on … sing it with me 😉😘
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 16h
Nice guy. Such charm.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Diane Fourny @dfourny.bsky.social · 16h
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u.... This article is quite long but absolutely mind boggling. (May we pray to Saint Isidore for his intercession for humanity’s salvation). 👇👇
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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