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EthanObama @ethanobama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Never going to happen. That falls under cruel and unusual punishment. Even this SCOTUS won't allow this insanity to happen even though most white people have this kind of blood lust in their hearts and would love to see this kind of violence on a livestream.

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SlayerAZ @slayeraz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nope. Constitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. His lawyers need to argue that.

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In addition to this being the plot of The Running Man, this is pretty much textbook cruel & unusual punishment, even by the reactionary standards of scotus precedent

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DanaG @danagpnw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A clear violation of the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Abolish the death penalty.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026

A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules

The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

I don’t think John “torture memos” Yoo should be allowed to opine on ethics on national television or really anywhere

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote a thread earlier today (before even reading this story, actually) about how commonly the “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story are actually procedural distortions made by people in positions of power who are invested in disbelieving her:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Six months ago and what has happened to our elected officials encouraging the following of the law & disobeying illegal orders? This will only continue & get worse until we remove Trump Regime from power (to start).

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Called it six months ago: bsky.app/profile/nucl... USA military systematically murdering civilians in boats is a crime against humanity (& BIG EXAMPLE of USA military following patently illegal orders). We continue to underreact to intensity & scale of Trump Regime's actions, risks, & damage.

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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026

He’s obviously removing all anti-trump leaders ahead of a ‘national emergency’ so they can halt elections and seize permanent control.

Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Fact that municipal leaders also disdain public transit for reasons motivated by white supremacy gives him an avenue to, once again, make more public money.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Fact that him and Pete Hegseth are motivated by the same ideology, white supremacy, gives him an avenue to make more public money.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this whole thread is nuts, the report is nuts, we are successfully editing some fairly major bugs in the current release of Human

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

retatrutide is going to change so many lives for the better

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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m l c @emelsi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the goal is to destroy as much of the state, the society, and the economy as possible. the goal is to ensure that submission to the white supremacist fascist regime is the only way to survive

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To put it crassly: Subsidizing the degree up front is how you get away with paying mediocre salaries and still have a pool of decent workers to staff your schools and social welfare agencies.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For some of these majors, governments are a primary employer. So this rather self-defeatingly deters people from entering those fields, meaning 5 years down the line, oops, there’s a shortage of qualified teachers & social workers prepared to work for public-sector wages.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026

Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”

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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs

"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

Why shouldn't faculty be able to remove the university president or a provost?

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"i'm james talarico and i approve this message"

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 27/09/2026

Anyone with a little knowledge of politics, anyone who watched "Yes, Minister" knows very well that when politicians talk endlessly about big beautiful expansive investigations and deep wide rigorous oversight, they are making noise so nobody notices they are determined to do nothing. #Impeach

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 27/09/2026

Have the fascists murdered over 200 people on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific? The regime has bragged about it. Pretending that we need some kind of "investigation" is absurd. It's ridiculous and wildly counterproductive. Literally hundreds of millions of Americans see how dumb that is.

Picture of a fascist-enabling dirtbag who fiercely opposes impeachment yapping bullshit about how they're going to have endless toothless "investigations" into crimes that were committed openly. Apparently they want clips of themselves talking tough in committee hearings for their YouTube channels.

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Jason Fitch @jasoneff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

None of these dirtbags should have a moment's peace anytime they're in public. Well done

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even beyond disease prevention, just getting particulates out of the air helps with all kinds of respiratory conditions

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the people who want better air purification in all public buildings are correct the same way the people who pushed for treatment of water infrastructure were right

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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Zanne @zanne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

billionaire pedophile who controls the world: Hey, dummies, those t*@nnies are forcing you to pronouns and women's sports and you should k*ll them about it dummies: Yes, Sir!

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m l c @emelsi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's a combination of him slowly realizing that "national security" is a password that will make everyone let you do whatever you want, combined with a child's desire to build a fort and talk about how cool and impressive it is

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2026

Flock was founded in 2017. If they’re still installing cameras with this firmware, this implies they have *never* conducted a security update.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This. With CBS, which is more plausible: 1) The things they’ve consistently said for years are what they believe. It looks like they’re messing up because they’re wrong and messing up. 2) They’re geniuses with the discipline to play a character in public in a clever bankshot to fail on purpose

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pretty cool how every indistry is like: our workers are the enemy, we despise our customers, and we don’t know what our product is, but we expect 7% growth every quarter.

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t want to wade too far into conspiracy territory but the pretext to this panic was an alleged unauthorized breach on Hugging Face, whose parent company is… NVIDIA. Hm.

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Learning that the first “whistleblower” who started this panic only worked at Anthropic for ~six weeks and created his socials days before he made that post. A second “whistleblower” Joe Benton left Anthropic to go work for an AI safety nonprofit that Dario Amodei partnered with days later. Lol

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Either is possible, but if I were a betting man I’d guess the closest thing to a doomsday scenario is the fact that these companies have been virtually the only growth vectors for the U.S. economy for some time and if/when a collapse comes, we’ll have to reckon with that

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Either frontier AI labs have created a doomsday scenario that we’re months away from (which they’ve been saying for years and we have little evidence of) or they’re wildly unprofitable and can no longer subsidize AI compute, which we actually have pretty good evidence of

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Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast — The Washington Post

Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, found common ground in calling for a slowdown in the advancement of AI amid mounting fears about its dangers.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/09/2026

Ahmed Soliman has been held by Equatoguinean police for two days now. His US lawyers tell me they still don’t know where he is, but they believe he and another third-country national taken with him are alive, and that they are being denied food and water.

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m l c @emelsi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

in fairness, people's memories of that day are conflicting. multiple old classmates later said I walked into our US history class, saw the TV, and said "this was al Qaeda" my memory was someone telling me "a plane hit the world trade center" and me going "what's the world trade center"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

you're calling me a stupid ass bitch liar just because I was lying?? ON ROSH HASHANAH???

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