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2 points that keep coming up in feedback: 1) Lots of people dramatically overestimate China’s eagerness to invade Taiwan. It’s very unlikely to happen anytime in the forseeable future, except for: 2) China *will* invade if Taipei declares independence. At least some people underestimate this.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 30/09/2026

In addition to the support of apartheid Israel, US bipartisan support for the Egyptian junta is disgusting

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: Brown Brothers Media — the vast content network scaled through the heavy use of AI + fake writers w/ fabricated credentials — has halted publishing amid what appears to be a Google crackdown on many of its sites. BBM may have been earning 64m+ readers per month. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 5h

Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.

tennessean.com

Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 4h

ive seen a lot of women mention how they feel afraid that any given man might kill them (which, of course, is a justified fear) and i think i figured out a solution: any time you approach a woman you don't know, immediately and clearly say "I am not going to kill you" to help them feel comfortable

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 6h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:

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Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button

Not that Congress cares

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 7h

this woman was tortured by rape before she was old enough to reliably form memories and she will die being tortured by the state.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 7h

fucking horrendous

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 10h

ICE posted an inspection of the Midwest Regional Reception Center detention camp today that found that the facility's policy is to conduct routine strip searches on immigrants. It's owned and operated by CoreCivic.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

AI vibe coding is causing the modding scene to get weird as decompiling game files has accelerated and allows rust ports to merge completely different games. There's a portal meets Nazi zombies from COD mod.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 8h

"kiss our country good night" Somalians tucking America in, getting us a drink of water before bed time, &c.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 10h

This is colonialism. Japan Administers the island; America calls the shots. US bases take up all of the best land on the island and hosts 70% of all USFJ on the island, home to the indigenous Luchu people. And now they're building another base. Japan is more than happy for them to bear the burden.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 10h

Oakland: "You have to want to live here, you don’t just show up here." This is spectacular, sharp and true. Oakland and San Francisco have never felt more different than they do today. For every problem the East Bay has, it five times as much community and humanity. The vibes here are alive.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

If American liberals would like nonviolence to work they should probably reward it?

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 29/09/2026

Will be interesting to see what happens next, as Moscow's sabotage campaign against European states supplying weapons to Ukraine is acknowledged openly like this. I assume more sanctions? More weapons contracts? Round and round we go?

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 12h

Three things Congress could pass to lower your bills: universal healthcare so a hospital stay doesn't become debt, repeal the tariffs that act as a tax on working families and universal child care so parents can get back to work. #AngieForFlorida

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX

A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

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Michael Pollak @mdpollak.bsky.social · 14h

Every leftist involved in elections must listen to Seth Ackerman's latest thoughts on the 10-year anniversary of his germinal article, Blueprint for a New Party. 3rd parties are literally against the law in the US. We're a 1 party state with 2 parties. www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd...

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FREE REPOST Radio War Nerd EP #633 — America's Authoritarian Democracy, or Why The US Can't Have Third Parties, feat. Seth Ackerman [UNLOCKED] | Radio War Nerd

FREE REPOST Radio War Nerd EP #633 — America's Authoritarian Democracy, or Why The US Can't Have Third Parties, feat. Seth Ackerman [UNLOCKED] by Radio War Nerd on Patreon. Join Radio War Nerd's commu...

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 15h

It's worth repeating: Stephen Bonnell II, aka the Kick streamer Destiny is currently being sued by multiple women for sharing sexual images and videos without their consent, including in exchange for sexual images of a minor; CSAM. And the 10 pro Israel Dems left are working with this guy.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 15h

More national profile democrats need to make their way to Florida to support Angie Nixon

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: CBP just seized an American attorney's phone as he returned from Palestine, despite it containing attorney-client privileged communications. …Here's some interesting context — this attorney is married to another lawyer who *just last month* filed an ethics complaint against this Florida judge:

Zeteo news story headline:

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Says, 'To Be American Is to Be a Zionist'

Judge Roy Altman boasts about taking '10% of the entire federal judiciary in America" on trips to Israel, and promotes his genocide-denying book from his chambers.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

🚨 Joaquin Castro will introduce tomorrow the "STOP THE SETTLEMENTS ACT", the first ever bill which would ban trade with all illegal Israeli settlements, as well as impose sanctions on any foreign entity or individual which supports settlements in any way after Sept 30th 2026. It has 40 cosponsors.

castro.house.gov

Castro, Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar to Introduce Sanctions on Drivers of Settlement Expansion | U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro

The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Joaquin Castro

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

man, everybody knows who you are and we know that you know what's gonna happen after you publish her identity, cause you're in group chats with people who are gonna do it. the ship has sailed on your Intrepid Reporter act. you're a scumbag just like all your friends. stop being a coward and admit it

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Emily Zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social · 16h

this is probably the fastest i’ve ever gone through a 600-page book. it’s a page-turner. every other book on the subject is twice its length — the almost punishing briskness and concision of the style is as much of a thrill as the stories she’s telling, of which i was mostly unfamiliar

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 17h

By no means am I defending anti-semitic losers who talk about "ZOG," but the overall ADL project - getting special no-boycott rules for Israel that no other country has an America - has clearly backfired. It's an incredibly useful story for bigots!

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 18h

MTV practically speaking, does not exist, and the award ceremony have nothing to do with videos. I don't even watch television. Who tunes in for this? Gen Lead?

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

A very interesting admission: Abdul won't recognize the right of Noah's bugbear emotional support state to possess an exclusionary legal and political character to the detriment of 50% of the people under its control, therefore Abdul is a bigot. Fascinating!

He said it had been "framed by the understanding that minority groups are only safe under conditions of democracy, freedom and the rule of law, and also how that understanding really led to my empathy for Palestinians and their dispossession in 1948Ạạwhich had led him to believe that "the best way to right that is a two-state solutionẠạ
It was challenging to find common ground, he saidiạI think it's very difficult because he won't even commit to a two-state solution, where one of those two states is Jewish, Arbit explained. "We have fundamentally different positions on thatiẠại

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative

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Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed

Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 21h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

The new West Bank policy if the “centrist” Gadi Eisenkot beats Netanyahu next month in the Israeli elections: ❌ Palestinian state ❌ Binational state ❌ Remove settlers / settlements ✅ Expand illegal settlements ✅ Legalize illegal settler outposts ✅ Demolish more Palestinian homes

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on a future diplomatic agreement, the party said: "The establishment of a Palestinian state is not on the agenda as far as we are concerned. We have no plan to evacuate communities as part of a diplomatic arrangement."

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The party said it would strengthen existing communities and promote legal construction, while examining the legalization of unauthorized outposts on a case-by-case basis. It also supports enforcement against illegal Palestinian construction in Area
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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 20h

You cannot just call this Islamophobia. This is Nazi rhetoric, word-for-word vile antisemitic conspiracy redirected at Muslims. In the imagination of the minister neo Nazi fantasies of a "Great Replacement" of whites by brown migrants, blamed on Jews and Soros, are actually *really* a Muslim plot.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.

CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
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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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 21h

The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.

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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Besides the embassy, US forces had already drawn down to just Irbil and possibly Bashur airbases in Kurdistan and the embassy annex at BIAP. Seems clear this means closure of Irbil—things to watch for include what remains at BIAP under State authority, and whether JSOC maintains the Kurdish CTG…

washingtonpost.com

U.S. withdraws forces in Iraq as balance of power shifts to Iran

U.S. military forces are set to depart from bases in Iraq on Wednesday, a milestone in two bloody decades of American involvement.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

52-54% of welfare recipients in Arkansas are white, which is why the ad should have featured a black woman

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if i'm michael tracey, every now and then i'd be pretending there's a rapist who i don't like, or at least don't like as much as a lot of the other ones

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looks an awful lot like two beclowned Senators

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/09/2026

Reporter (roughly): What's up with the US calling AI "superintelligence"? Chinese spox (roughly): The two leaders talked about "artificial intelligence." We respect the US side's "formulation." (A "formulation"/提法 is what they call the CCP set terms, like socialism with Chinese characteristics...)

外交部发言人就人工智能问题答记者问
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问：我们注意到，美方在介绍此次访问成果时，使用“超级智能”代替“人工智能”。请问中方有何评论？
答：中美元首会晤时，就人工智能问题进行了深入讨论。关于人工智能表述问题，中方重视美方的立场，也尊重美方的提法。人工智能技术正在持续发展，各方可以结合最新形势，加强交流、深入探讨、寻求共识。

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In the latest outburst of violence that began late on Monday, the settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and wounded three Israeli border police officers when the soldiers tried to return the family, the Toubassis, to their home" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...

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Israeli Settlers Stop Soldiers From Returning Palestinians to Their Home

The Supreme Court had ordered the military to ensure a West Bank family that fled violence could go back. But settlers blocked the effort, with the authorities accused of not doing enough to confront ...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 29/09/2026

At a Berlin march today, demonstrators called for aid to civilians in occupied Oleshky, where Kyiv says 6k people face hunger & severe shortages. Kyiv says it's droned in 4 tons of food & accuses Russian troops of obstructing aid deliveries, while Moscow blames Ukraine for disrupting supplies.

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⚫️⚫️⚫️ В Берлине проходит акция в поддержку оккупированного украинского города Алёшки Участники акции собрались на площади у Красной Ратуши в Берлине и направились маршем к зданию МИД Германии и рос...

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 29/09/2026

"We need to show courage in negotiation and to be willing to give up some positions for the greater good of peace," Pope Leo told European leaders yesterday in France, reiterating his opposition to rising European military spending. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Pope Leo urges concessions for peace as Ukraine war drags on

Pope Leo said on Monday that negotiators seeking to end conflict in Europe must be willing to sacrifice some positions to achieve peace, as efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine continue ‌to fail.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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