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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31m

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 1h

This is probably not defamation per-se but I bet there are lawyers who would pursue the case.

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 1h

Some people say violence is never the answer. I always want to know what the question is first.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 4h

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6h

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of salem's lot King: you're gonna like it, bram Bram Stoker: oh? King: yeah, it's about a writer King: oh there's some vampires too King: but they're less important

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social · 11h

One of my longtime grievances about media stories about decisions, and about allegations and denials in the course of litigation, fail to link to the underlying documents. Especially when in federal court, where CourtListener.com makes access easy. Harder here, where cases are in NY State court

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CourtListener

Create alerts, search for and browse the latest case law, PACER documents, judges, and oral arguments. Updated automatically with the latest court documents. An initiative of Free Law Project.

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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 11h

if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 11h

! important ! i see on this calendar that they have several events planned at Nordic Northwest, they're attending a movie night and the christmas market. has someone with a friendly phone voice and maybe a museums background called them and explained the situation?

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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 23h

Maybe so. But to Marisa’s point: how on earth did neither the reporter nor any of the editors at the Atlantic notice the discrepancies?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 13h

Confiscatory wealth taxes are a moral imperative.

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Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social · 14h

Citing toxic ash that is trucked daily to the city landfill, residents again call for Baltimore's BRESCO incinerator to be shut down. tinyurl.com/y3xwy8kc . . . at an @MDEnvironment hearing where the crowd of about 200 people spilled out into the hallway. [ PART 1 ]

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Part 1: Citing toxic ash, residents again call for the BRESCO incinerator to be shut down | Baltimore Brew

As MDE announces closure of one aging medical waste incinerator, communities blast the state for allowing Baltimore City’s even older and bigger incinerator to live on.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post and video explaining how Boutros invoked Trump v. US. emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyG...

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DOJ is invoking Trump v. US in an attempt to dodge accountability for the Broadview 6 case

YouTube video by emptywheel

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 04/10/2026

I'm Susan Rinkunas and I approve this message

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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zionism came out of the same desire that cause Hausa and Igbo ppl to want independence from oppression post-1960 And that same belief is what led to my grandfather’s family being ethnically cleansed by those freedom fighters Ethnic nationalism is a disease that corrupts all

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

jfc this book is CRUSHING when you are an adult

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I never thought I was any good at spotting the Big Dipper but turns out it’s just right there. Has been this entire time. Looming like a postcard town’s church steeple. I thought of one of those videos where they put glasses on a blind baby and it sees its parents for the first time.

October 18, 2025

The four of us stumbled out across the sand in the dark toward where the tongue of the water lapped at the high tide line and stood silently for some time listening to the collected absences. The universal and the personal. My god the stars are so close and low up here one of us said and we all looked up in unison.

I thought of the Laura Gilpin poem about the two-headed calf. Then the Vincent D'Onofrio tweet about the pig.

A dwindling bonfire up around the bend of the shoreline.

Should I put on some music someone said and we all said sure by which we meant please do not and that was that. It was well past the end of the season and going to be cold at this time of night either way but the call of the water was persistent.

How much would it take for you to jump in right now one of us said and we all thought about it for a minute or two. Calculating the relative severity of wind and squealing distance back to the cottage. I guess I would do it for like $200 one of us said and it was deflating because it wasn’t enough to be excited about. No one gets a little jolt up the spine over $200.

They really were quite close and low though. These stars. This is what everything is supposed to look like I thought. What it has always looked like. I never thought I was any good at spotting the Big Dipper but turns out it’s just right there. Has been this entire time. Looming like a postcard town’s church steeple.

I thought of one of those videos where they put glasses on a blind baby and it sees its parents for the first time. Everyone crying. In the video and the people watching at home too.

I felt the presence of my phone in my pocket whispering to me to try to take a picture of it all to alert the world to what the world actually is but then snapped to my senses and stood down.

I cannot translate this for any of you. Cannot break this news.

It’s no wonder that almost every story we ever told ourselves about creation came from people who drove themselves mad staring at all of this light above us.

I didn’t even get around to the full moon yet. Pregnant to bursting.

You could dream of something better even now if you looked at it all for too long. Maybe that’s why they had to dull the sky with toil and industry. A barricade against the divine.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello, Power to the People Festival, October 3, 2026 www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring...

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Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello, Power to the People Festival, October 3, 2026

Keep on rocking in the free world.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Buster Keaton Via this great thread of directors in their childhoods twitter.com/DannyDrinksW...

Black and white photograph of small boy with big eyes wearing a suit and a derby hat and he's carrying a cane

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump redirected $176.9 million from a US human-rights fund towards global right wing groups, including $40 million for an “anti-communism” consortium and $1 million for fascist groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court days before the presidential election.

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Trump diverts $176.9m of Human Rights aid to far-right groups; targets Europe, Canada and South America

Marco Rubio overrode congressional holds, a Democratic aide said. The money funds opponents of Brazil's supreme court days before its vote and Europeans who reject "gender ideology", as Trump official...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Former managing director at BGC Group/British banker-turned-whistleblower Simon Andriesz, the man who told the FBI about Lutnick/BGC’s “financial irregularities,” fraudulent 9/11 charity, and revealed Howard Lutnick’s secret business partnership with Epstein in Adfin, has been found dead.

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Whistleblower who outed Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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Brains Across the Sea of Dead (spooky) @jnotj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not the main thing here but why is 14 years old

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These rules were set up in the wake of appalling scandals like the Tuskegee experiment. They are annoying , but much better than more Tuskegees. We should examine any proposed changes VERY carefully once we know what they are.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 02/10/2026

"In 2016 Farrar was still figuring his life out, earning money as a freelancer by writing for places like Deadspin, The Daily Dot and Vice. Many of the outlets he worked with are now gone and Farrar’s work scrubbed from the internet." www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN

It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Calling it the "emoluments clause" instead of the "bribery statute" was original sin.

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The imaginary fraud coin industry has lately taken a back seat to the AI and prediction market industries in the public conscience, but it abides. SBF's continued insistence he ackshually did nothing wrong epitomizes the criminal mindset.

Having lost his appeal to the Second Circuit court, Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed to the Supreme Court. He hasn't changed his arguments much—despite repeated admonishments from both trial judges that "but we paid you back" does not legallize fraud. He still seems convinced that if he could just explain to jurors that FTX's assets eventially appreciated (after he drove the company into bankruptcy), the jury would have let him off. This will likely be a tough way to convince SCOTUS to oveturn the lower courts, given that last year SCOTUS unanimously agreed in Kousisis v United States that fraud convictions are valid even if the perp did not seek to caus economic loss, and even if the victim ultimately did not lose money.

Bankman-Fried also assed arguments addressing the $11 billion forfeiture order, which he says violates Eighth Amendment protections against excessive fines (!) I would be shocked if the Supreme Court takes up the case, but you can't blame a guy for trying, I guess.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

Fellow FTX executive Caroline Ellison is out of jail, and the Manifund effective altruist grantmaking organization has just let slip they hired her. She “brings specific, useful expertise around finance”, they say, which yeah — much in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.

FTX essentially bankrolled Manifund and the associated Manifold Markets (think Polymarket but with fake money) through grants and investments. This may explain why Chen, citing a “keen debt” to FTX, decided to hire Ellison and pay her using funds derived from her fraud — money Manifund is currently fighting the FTX estate over rather than returning to creditors.17

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

As the Clarity Act collapsed, commissioners at the CFTC and SEC raced to reassure the crypto industry that they will still deliver a friendly regulatory environment. The SEC has just dropped an “Innovation Exemption” that essentially removes issuers of tokenized stocks from securities oversight.

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As the Clarity Act collapsed, commissioners at the CFTC and SEC raced to reassure the crypto industry that they will still deliver a friendly regulatory environment, though it’s thin consolation for an industry that had been counting on the permanence of legislation. The CFTC has sent a proposed rule to the White House for review, and while its contents have not been published, its name — “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets” — suggests a broad scope.9 The SEC, perhaps sensing the impending doom of the Clarity Act, had already released its lengthy “Regulation Crypto” proposed rule prior to the cloture vote [I09].

The SEC has now followed that with what they’re calling the “Innovation Exemption”: an order that carves out exemptions for “tokenized securities venues” (TSVs) so that they are not considered to be “exchanges” under securities laws.10 TSVs are platforms where people can trade tokenized securities — that is, instead of buying a stock, you can now buy a crypto token that represents a stock. Crypto companies including Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, and others have been clamoring for the SEC to allow them to offer such products to US investors, and the SEC has granted their wish.

While the SEC has in the past exempted smaller operators from the types of onerous regulations and requirements that apply to stock exchanges like the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange, this exemption is a shocking departure. The most comparable historical exemption is Regulation ATS, applying to “alternative trading systems”, which was issued amid the surge in electronic trading in the late nineties.11 However, that rule was made after several years of observation of various ATSes that were operating under no-action letters, and with the experience gleaned from that period — not as the first step. It was also created via the full notice-and-comment rulemaking process, unlike this exemption, which is an exemptive order the agency says was necessary in order to “address the immediate concerns” of the crypto industry. Finally, while Regulation ATS exempts ATSes from the definition of exchange, it also installs a separate set of conditions and registration requirements for ATSes, which remain fully subject to the SEC's authority. While the SEC claims that exempted TSVs will also be subject to various requirements, such as limits on the number and volume of tokenized stocks that can be listed on the platform, these platforms will not be required to register with the SEC, leaving the agency with little ability to enforce it.

The Better Markets advocacy group was quick to condemn the exemption, writing that “the SEC has proven that it will do anything to benefit the crypto industry. That now includes exempting crypto companies that want to facilitate tokenized stock trading from the federal securities laws. In doing so, the SEC endangers investors.”12 One comment submitted to the SEC shortly after the exemption condemns the SEC for “dismantling the national market system in the name of ‘innovation’”.13

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown.

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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses

Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

The government's retreat on Olmstead is significant. This story tells the complete story of how it came to be. Yes, it requires a subscription. Please give it a read if you're able www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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TJ 🐸🇺🇸🇺🇦 @hopefulhearttj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Members of Congress fully participated in the attempted insurrection. That’s a fact. It’s their own asses they are attempting to cover. If the Dems & DOJ don’t go after every last one of them then they are complicit. Period.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When AI guys claim that LLMs are conscious because the way they work is very complicated

XKCD where one person says "I've found a way to turn a 52-card deck into 53 cards by shuffling and rearranging them."
Second person says "No, you haven't."
First person says "How do you know?! I challenge you to find an error in my math!"

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

The Egyptian govt has arrested & disappeared 6 journalists, with zero justification — the largest crackdown in years. Journalism is not a crime. The Egyptian govt must disclose their locations, provide access to their legal rights, & release all six immediately.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wrote about how tips I get in my email inbox from ordinary ppl are increasingly AI generated. words like "evidence packet". I think this is how ChatGPT/Claude *thinks* journalists talk, but it's not. Because most tips to journos are not public so can't be scraped www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

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Behind the Blog: Freaking Out

This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more.

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