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Last week, a federal judge ruled that the former acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Russell Vought violated federal law and the Constitution's separation of powers clause by trying to defund the agency.

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Attorney General Brown Announces Win in CFPB Funding Lawsuit - News - Office of the Attorney General of Maryland

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and that raft was called "the last page of your WIP"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"SCOTUSblog’s small army of new contributors includes Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, for example, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a former Scalia clerk whose column promises to “recreate lunch with Justice Scalia one blog post at a time.”" just lost my appetite all of a sudden

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good on him for doing this and speaking out! Story: buff.ly/hDrradV

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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sad demise.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 29/09/2026

📢 New From @writingtheother.com 📢 Dialogue and Dialect Workshop 2026 👇🏾 Check it out! 👇🏾 writingtheother.com/dialogue-and...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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rcloenenruiz @rcloenenruiz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of times, we see artists at the point of emergence or breakthrough. We don’t see the years of personal investment. The moments when a young person struggles with self doubt and the teacher becomes a mentor who says: let’s see how we can make this less daunting. #pianoteacher

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't even need to pretend to be confused about why disabled Americans—along with trans people, immigrants, Black women, poor brown/Black people who got USAID help—are suffering the brunt of the Trump regime's attacks.

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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...

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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Designing an Arc-de-Trump with a snipers' nest? Trying to ban reporters from the White House? Refusing to say how many Americans have died in his wars? It's so painfully clear that Trump has lost his mind.

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Has Donald Trump Finally Lost It?

Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?And why won’t they

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

some of you seem confused by this so here’s a translation: “we’re winning and own everything so no we don’t want the people who actually own the thing we already own to open it back up.” hope that helps!

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*The fly-brain connectome, it's an abstract schematic of an animal's brain tissue. But since the flybrain can be hacked, and perform some digital tasks like game-playing, we're chewing away at the alleged boundaries between an AI and a natural animal-intelligence

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please tell everyone you know in Australia!!!

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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rachel Pollack, twelve cards designed & painted by her. Tarot Exhibition, Morgan Library, NYC

12 tarot cards designed and painted by the late Rachel Pollack, Morgan Library Tarot Exhibit

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Manneport, Etretat in the Rain - 1885/1886 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...

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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Forget your address and your phone number and you too can live like this billionaire, just without the billion

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What a Seamus @whataseamus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feels like this really stretches the meaning of force majeure. Like, "we didn't account for local regulations and utility availability in our plans" isn't exactly an act of God

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/09/2026

The hardline pro-Israel senator has been flirting with the idea of switching parties. Now he’s using Republican campaign infrastructure.

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John Fetterman Is Fundraising on GOP Donor Email Lists

The hardline pro-Israel senator has been flirting with switching parties. Now he’s using Republican campaign infrastructure.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d be startled if CNN wasn’t allowed back into WH press pool after the courts address it. But THIS, Ellison taking over soon, this is why Trump won’t mind so much. When a government or it’s toadies control the major media outlets, the idea of a free country is in colossal trouble.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Richest man in Congress, #Florida Sen. Rick Scott, says he & his colleagues are not smart enough to regulate AI. (Someone check his stock holdings.)

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A reminder that the cover of S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall’s autobiography looked like this.

THE STORY OF CUDDLES:

MY LIFE
UNDER THE EMPEROR
FRANCIS JOSEPH
ADOLF HITLER
AND THE WARNER BROTHERS

by S.Z SAKALL

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW REPORT: Haitian-Americans' detention in four Ohio jails SOARED since TPS ended. Haitian women now make up 39% of the female ICE population at these jails, up from 2%. Read our new report. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/9/...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday Born in Hungary photographer Kati Horna 1912-2000 acquired Mexican citizenship & worked alongside Leonora Carrington & Remedios Varo. In her day, Horna was well respected for her images of women caught in wars they didn't create. Why Horna isn't as lauded as Lee Miller is a mystery.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. * @eileengunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CREW, I agree. But I think we need to ban stock trading a bit higher up the ladder than mere Congress.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 16/09/2026

We really need to ban stock trading in Congress. How can we trust our elected officials when the stocks they hold may influence whether or not they decide to call a hearing, invite a particular witness, or release a deposition transcript?

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More raiding of the Interior budget to destroy and deform DC. MAGA sets its sights on the jewel of DC. The libraries and museums of the Smithsonian gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

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Trump Administration Outlines Plan for Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum (Gift Article)

In a letter, the Interior Department detailed what it hoped to convey on 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History.

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Howard Sherman @hsherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Never thought I’d see the U.S. mentioned in the same breath as China and Russia in effotts to protect the EU from dangerous world powers. Everything Trump touched turns to shit. www.wsj.com/world/europe...