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Cynophilist. Reader. Ukulelist. Democrat. Black thumb, but still trying!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 4h
A still from a video posted on IG by @brynodc.bsky.social Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DeQKdoK...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4h
A US judge ruled that the Justice Department’s push to obtain state voter rolls and check them against a federal immigration database in order to demand that states remove voters it deemed ineligible was unlawful reut.rs/4hEy82F
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US judge rules Justice Department use of voter rolls unlawful
A ‌US judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department’s push to ​obtain state voter rolls ​and check them against a federal ⁠immigration database in order ​to demand that states remove ​voters it de...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4h
JUST IN: US judge rules Justice Department use of state voter rolls is unlawful reut.rs/4hEy82F
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besha @besha.bsky.social · 6h
I have been thinking about this article, and particularly this excerpt, quite a lot over the last couple of days. It’s a “research demonstrates what we already knew” scenario, like chronic pain finally leaving traces on an MRI. I’ve known my whole life. I’m so tired of knowing.
Screenshot reading: 

Let's start with what people misunderstand about sexual violence on college campuses.

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.

For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Dillon Reisman @lonlon.bsky.social · 6h
For NJans and NYers, the NY/NJ HIDTA (the bizarro pseudo-federal agency discussed in the article) is also the owner/controller of the main facial recognition system used by law enforcement across our region. A terrifying surveillance apparatus being built outside traditional public accountability.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 7h
It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 9h
"a barbaric promotion of a culture of death"
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...
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Montclair Local @montclairlocalnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rachel Maddow Talks Local News, Press Freedom with Montclair Local Ahead of Film Festival “I think that we should think of local journalists as both heroic and necessary parts of every community.” Rachel Maddow talks to Montclair Local about press freedom, the risks of reporting and the…
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Rachel Maddow Talks Local News, Press Freedom with Montclair Local Ahead of Film Festival
“I think that we should think of local journalists as both heroic and necessary parts of every community.” Rachel Maddow talks to Montclair Local about press freedom, the risks of reporting and the documentary “Kill. Bury. Print.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a day to be writing about 18th and 19th century views on public executions. Needless to say, 250 years ago, the same European thinkers that conservatives want us to read more of thought it was an archaic, barbaric, tyrannical practice that brutalized its spectators as much as its victims.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/10/2026
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.
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ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The incident comes three days after eight elected officials representing the Bronx and Upper Manhattan sent a letter to Kingsbridge Associates, urging the company and Target to prohibit ICE agents from using the parking lot at 40 West 225th St. as a staging area."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 23h
Fascist monster
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An ICE member shot and injured someone in the Bronx of New York City: "A grey vehicle with a bullet hole in the windshield could be seen in the middle of the road."
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ICE agent shoots person in the Bronx, law enforcement sources say
A person has been hospitalized after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx on Thursday, law enforcement sources said.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 08/10/2026
More than 120 US lawmakers raised concerns on Thursday about Alphabet's Google unit acquiring defunct carrier Spirit Airlines' internal data for $10 million to train artificial intelligence systems.
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Lawmakers raise alarm at Google plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data for AI models
More than 120 US ​lawmakers raised concerns ‌on Thursday about Alphabet's Google unit ​acquiring defunct ​carrier Spirit Airlines' internal ⁠data for $10 million ​to train artificial intelligence ​systems.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President is using white supremacist replacement lies - “taken over” - to seemingly call for violence against the Somali community in Minnesota, while offering federal support in doing so. This is incredibly dangerous, on so many levels.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pay to play, baby...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who among us hasn't misstated revenue by $20,000,000,000?
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OpenAI annualised revenues $20bn less than previously signalled
AI giant recently told investors the key figure was approaching $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn that was widely reported
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News."
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr. is the Trump administration’s Dr. Mengele. A stone cold monster.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*taps the map*
A map of sheep in Wales, by Soph Warnes
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No surprise, two of Trump's closest political advisors worked for Dodik, the pro-Russian Serb extremist, previously sanctioned by the US for organized crime. "President says Chris LaCivita and James Blair guiding pro-Russian party less than a month before midterms could be a ‘conflict’" (FT)
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Crows Hate ICE Too @mefcorv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We got the flu here and my partner had actual hallucinations. Get vaxxed!
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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol.... This is a gift link if needed
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees & protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately & feared additional exposures, according to an Army study. to.pbs.org/4y5BUqs
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Shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear, Army study found
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A BFD. As people get ready to fill their heating oil tanks for the winter, they learn it will cost 80% more than last year. Your early Christmas Gift from Trump and the Republican Party is that your Christmas present budget will now go to their friends in the oil business.
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The court’s ruling is a monumental victory. It brings to an end the cruel and callous practice of arresting immigrants simply for showing up to their court hearings — something that no one should have to worry about, and yet so many were forced to live,” said Harold Solis, our co-legal director.
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Federal judge strikes down ICE immigration courthouse arrest policy across the country | amNewYork
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down an ICE policy that saw the agency making mass detentions inside immigration courthouses, including hundreds at 26
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/10/2026
An experimental vaccine aimed at preventing the return of glioblastoma, one of the deadliest types of brain cancer, shows promise in patients 65 and under, according to clinical trial results.
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Experimental vaccine shows promise against deadly brain cancer in some patients
The vaccine, called SurVaxM, aims to prevent the recurrence of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer with few major advances in treatment.
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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 07/10/2026
Trump Wants a New Camp David — At His Own Golf Club politicalwire.com/2026/10/07/trump-…
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Trump Wants a New Camp David — At His Own Golf Club
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Read Keri. I don't think Americans realize how improvisational & sketchy these lethal injections are. Even for cocktails w/ some history of efficacy, the drugs are of uncertain compounding provenance or could be expired. & that's before we get to issues with effectively administering the drugs.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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Erinescence 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @erinescence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102 - The New York Times share.google/BGbAeBvr3qRg...
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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102
A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
News of the Cornell rape case has fueled a 73% spike in calls to the National Sexual Assault hotline in the last week. "Yesterday alone, they were more than double normal. Many of those contacting the hotline say they were prompted to call as a direct result of reading about Jane Doe," says RAINN.
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