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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed.

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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder that if not for the Supreme Court in US v. MORRISON, Jane Doe would have had access to the federal courts for a civil rights action. The Court said that rape is a local matter no matter how great the impact on commerce.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...

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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8h

A police search of Flock producing 50 individual records of a woman's whereabouts across the country for an entire month violated her Fourth Amendment rights, Judge Sara E. Hill of Oklahoma's Northern District ruled yesterday. "Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?"

To be sure, ALPR technology does not provide the same precision in
location information as cell phones. But it could still reveal a lot about a
person’s whereabouts, and it is easy to imagine the kinds of sensitive
information it collects. It could track and log a couple struggling to start a family at the fertility clinic. It could show how often someone visits a liquor store or casino. It could show which doctor someone goes to or what lawyer’s office someone visits. It also collects mundane information about people’s commutes, but it collects a tremendous amount of such information all the time. It is possible that a dedicated team of law enforcement officers could

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constitutionally collect this information about one car—and its driver—by following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the question of why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year, nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate mass surveillance.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8h

This is the same Mike Pompeo that smeared Jamal in his book. This is who Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs believes should be teaching the next generation of global leaders. share.google/3e5Yp0xTLu8J...

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Washington Post blasts Pompeo's "shameful" remarks on Jamal Khashoggi

Pompeo made the remarks in his new book.

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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 18h

Helpful thread on Artificial Intelligence by Illinois Congressman @seancasten.bsky.social. It hints at the political problem with enacting ethical regulation of AI: legislators faced with regulating a major source of campaign funds are susceptible to the industry arguments Casten rejects.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 11h

This is cartoonishly evil, like something out of a silent film involving widows tied to railroad tracks by a Rudolph Rassendale knock-off.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Everything looking great in TrumpAmerica.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

In his new book 'Profiles in Cowardice,' Jacob Weisberg devotes his final chapter to John Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b... -Preening to be seen as another John Marshall. -Destined to be known forever as this era's Roger Taney.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 19h

The demographic visual here is deliberate. All white men. The only color is in the blue suits or ties.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 19h

Even the water bottles and screens are coordinated. One thing about the repubs at the moment. Their visual propaganda is organized and intentional

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

4. According to new reporting last night by MS Now, the text messages from 2024 from Smith's team that Eric Schmitt presented at Tuesday's hearing were provided by the US Department of Justice, which is to say, by US Attorney General Todd Blanche. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...

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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

3. Schmitt's story is part of a broader attempt by the GOP to punish Smith for prosecuting Donald Trump's treason. If we say goodbye now, we miss a chance to say that.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is so cooked on this one.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 18h

This ⬇️ It’s like Guantanamo. It’s going to be *very* difficult to undo and repair these tens of thousands of removals of people to third countries where they have suffered arrest and detainment and worse.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 18h

yeah, i'm really angry. this isn't *policy* difference. we have a government detaining tens of thousands of ppl lawlessly, roaming the streets, surveilling our cities, & SENDING PEOPLE TO CERTAIN DOOM & the comfortable justices are just like, alright, let's schedule this for a hearing in the spring.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 18h

Eligible voters of the United States, Have you checked your state or territory's deadline for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm elections? (SPOILER ALERT: They are coming up fast!) There's a guide for you at npr.org/vote

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18h

In countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Sweden, governments have issued manuals on what to do if Russian troops invade. These countries have dealt with regular Russian incursions since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 19h

“And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch. We used our names and news organization email addresses, following each state’s rules.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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1926 News @100yearsago.bsky.social · 19h

[October 2nd, 1926] James Edwin Lough, a psychology professor at New York University (NYU), originally planned the "College Cruise Around the World [in] Eight Months," a groundbreaking educational experiment known as the "Floating University".

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 19h

Almost funny if it were not so awful. Laws surrounding charter schools need to be fixed.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h

Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 19h

The demographic visual here is deliberate. All white men. The only color is in the blue suits or ties.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.

Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

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Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness

As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21h

But generally their theory of presidential power (the unitary executive theory) has so shifted the boundaries of what they think is acceptable that the prosecution becomes illegal and Nixon’s concessions become foolish. The argument becomes Nixon could legally do it all.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...

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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.

The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over

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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OMG NYC is having a scavenger hunt. The theme? The History of Organizing in NYC. OMG THIS IS THE WAY

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Job duties include: “leading complex heraldic and genealogical research, overseeing the granting and registration of arms, and ensuring the integrity of the Register of Arms and associated records.” When the past is the present.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone know who the “revisionist historian” is? (I don’t subscribe).

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Revisionist historian went to DOJ headquarters to present his case that former president, his associates weren't treated fairly
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

I played this clip for my undergrads yesterday. Mario Savio was 21. I guess adulthood comes later these days even though college (usually) happens at the same age.

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MARIO SAVIO Speech Sproul Hall Steps, December 2 1964

YouTube video by Bill Foust

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI or no, schools that make tablets and apps essential to class- and homework prevent parents and children from establishing norms around tech and ensure that parent-child interactions at home centre on managing Google or Apple accounts it's not relevant or exciting, it's just invasive and shitty

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