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Sam Flowers

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 1h
Black Tesla employees accuse supervisors of using racist slurs with “KKK”, swastikas, the Confederate flag, a white supremacist logo and “go back to Africa” had also been found scrawled in bathrooms, lockers, workplace benches & lunch tables, according to court documents🇺🇸
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1h
What a thing to say when you have immigrant in-laws.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h
The company on Thursday said it will open a new campus in India and condense its sales geographies, moves that will result in an unknown number of layoffs. mrf.lu/20bh0
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 4h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h
-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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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h
During the Sept. 22 hearing in Gulfport, Mississippi, 55 people made comments. Committee chairman Sen. Dean Kirby said this is most of any redistricting hearing the committee has hosted throughout the state. Each person making comments was given two minutes to speak. buff.ly/oxAULFs
buff.ly
Mississippians Condemn Redistricting Efforts During Gulfport Hearing
Mississippians on the Gulf Coast were mostly negative on any redistricting proposals that may come from the Mississippi Legislature.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 1h
"Sam Altman says we need to slow down development to ensure the safety of humanity," one campaigner said of OpenAI's CEO. "Yet he is allegedly firing the very people hired to keep us safe."
commondreams.org
'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Researchers
"Sam Altman says we need to slow down development to ensure the safety of humanity," one campaigner said of OpenAI's CEO. "Yet he is allegedly firing the very people hired to keep us safe."
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 3h
"Canada is aggressively banking on AI to transform the economy... The reality almost certainly will include mass layoffs. UBI offers a dignified way through economic upheaval." It's time for that conversation.
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Vancouver Sun headline: "Universal basic income's time has come" over Canadian flag, bills and c
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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 2h
I've said it before and I'll say it again: US police actively prevent consequences for rapists by hitting victims with a wall of demoralizing hostility and skepticism, and then using their institutional credibility to undermine victim testimony and sabotage evidence and process steps.
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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 3h
People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
Marshall is not the only Republican suddenly beginning to see ICE’s aggressive enforcement and lawlessness as politically toxic, something Americans have been signaling to pollsters since last summer. But they don't know quite what to do about it.
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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns
Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1h
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KQED News @kqednews.kqed.org · 1h
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San Francisco Supervisor Candidate Manny Yekutiel Drops Out After New Allegations Surface
The new sexual assault allegations prompted Mayor Daniel Lurie and others to withdraw their support.
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democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org · 58m
Yesterday, the court ordered DOJ to expedite our FOIA requests for the Epstein files. DOJ should have been moving already. Now they have a court order. We’ll keep the pressure on until the records are public.
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Judge Grants Expedited Processing of FOIA Request for Epstein Files Mentioning Trump or Mar-a-Lago
A federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to expedite processing of Democracy Defenders Fund’s Freedom of Inform
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis resident who was killed by an ICE agent in early January during the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge, has filed two lawsuits against the U.S. government and specific individuals involved in the events they allege led to her death.
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Renee Good’s Family Sues Trump Officials Over Fatal ICE Shooting
Good “was killed on a public street” while “watching masked, armed men terrorizing her community,” one lawsuit states.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 57m
Careful about sharing AI slop!
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Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
An ill-conceived image of an AI-generated crocodile kicked off a days-long panic in Singapore's largest reservoir.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6h
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 56m
Congress holds the power of the purse. Trump’s pocket rescission that cancels $810 million in federal funding is outright ILLEGAL. House Republicans must address the President’s continued undermining of the separation of powers, and he must be held accountable.
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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 2h
DEVELOPING: A federal judge is initiating a “fact finding” process to determine whether the U.S. attorney’s office intentionally misled her in the “Broadview Six” case, a rare step that could lead to criminal contempt charges or other sanctions. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case
A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 55m
Tennessee suspends executions as Christa Pike’s lawyer says failed lethal injection leaves her in critical condition Independent inquiry ordered after failed execution of Pike, who was convicted of 1994 murder www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...?
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Tennessee suspends executions as Christa Pike’s lawyer says failed lethal injection leaves her in critical condition
Independent inquiry ordered after failed execution of Pike, who was convicted of 1994 murder
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social for this reminder of Danielle Smith's two-faced approach to immigration. The full exchange is worth reading - she was wholeheartedly recruiting immigrants not long ago.
Transcript of the interview with Danielle Smith where she's clear that she wants to double Alberta's population, including through immigration
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Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social · 3h
On October 19, 2026, Albertans will go to the polls to vote on 10 referendum questions. The referendum issue is now live on our website. @duanebratt.bsky.social albertaviews.ca/current-issue/
October issue of Alberta Views. Referendum: Unity/Chaos. Should Alberta have more immigration. Violation of norms: the watchdog purge. MAGA uses separatism to break up Canada
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Basic Income BC @basicincomebc.bsky.social · 6h
From Lanark Basic Income Network on FB:
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 57m
it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 54m
"Netanyahu’s use of Biblical messaging isn’t arbitrary. It’s a message he sends to his constituency, and today that message reads: genocide to the end." #GazaGenocide
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 55m
There is NO Statute of Limitations for rape and/or child molestation. Hopefully the next Administration will sic the dogs on Trump, and his gang.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 3h
Bill Boyle, who identifies himself as the paper's “publisher and editor and janitor," guessed its weekly print edition had some 4,500 readers. It's served southeastern Utah and the Four Corners area since Sept. 30, 1915.
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A Utah newspaper is ending its print publication — exactly 111 years after it started
Bill Boyle, who identifies himself as the paper's “publisher and editor and janitor," guessed its weekly print edition had some 4,500 readers. It's served southeastern Utah and the Four Corners area since Sept. 30, 1915.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 2h
The state of Utah just banned seven more books from all schools statewide, bringing the total number of banned titles to 44. We thought we’d take a minute to tell you about the seven new additions. 🧵
sltrib.com
Utah just banned 7 new books — at once — from all public schools in the state. Here’s what the novels are about.
The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1h
“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 30/09/2026
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Conservationists Vow Court Fight After Trump DHS Lifts Pause on Big Bend Border Barrier Construction
"We won't let them destroy the wildest place in Texas without a fight," the Center for Biological Diversity vowed.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Trump has inadvertently launched a government funded and supported real-time fact checker for his own lies at America.gov. Any over/under on how long this lasts before he shuts it down completely? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master
The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/09/2026
Two federal courts have said Trump’s third-country removal scheme is obviously unlawful. And yet. prospect.org/2026/09/30/s...
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Supreme Court Allows ICE to Restart Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Two federal courts have said it’s obviously unlawful to expel immigrants to a place they’ve never been. And yet.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.)
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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just 15 hours left of the Veronica Mars Book Project campaign. I’m planning on keeping it open longer for late pledges (per backer request), but the pledge tiers will be (Western voice) a few dollars more. Join us for as low as $1 now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
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The Veronica Mars Book Project
Taking you behind-the-scenes of Veronica Mars. Funded in 24 hrs. Our next stretch goal is $10K for more art, merch, & reward tiers.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Always read George Packer: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Great Data-Center Rebellion
Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 30/09/2026
Judge Melvin Oden-Orr concluded that “no objectively reasonable juror could return a verdict in (the plaintiffs’) favor.” mrf.lu/20RF5
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026
NEW: Some Republicans, worried about their re-election bids, are "suddenly beginning to see ICE’s aggressive enforcement and lawlessness as politically toxic, something Americans have been signaling to pollsters since last summer." www.thebulwark.com/p/skittish-r...
thebulwark.com
Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns
Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 30/09/2026
Suicide attempts and deaths are not inevitable. I’m continuing to call on the Navy to rectify the issues driving mental health crises at sea and ensure every service member can get the care they need. My thoughts are with the loved ones of Seaman Jaimie Bethea.
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
See it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /s
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When conservatives like L0m3z declare that they need no reasons for backing policies to enforce ethnic homogeneity in America, they feel the need to spontaneously fake-apologize for it to the Cato Institute. Why? Because Cato stands for reason. www.cato.org/blog/sorry-c...
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“Sorry to the Cato Institute…”
Keeperman’s comment highlights how Cato has become synonymous with a reproach to the irrational identitarianism that now typifies large parts of the political spectrum.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Playboy @playboy.com · 30/09/2026
Seven men have been accused of raping a woman at Cornell University in 2024. South Park writer Toby Morton speaks to Playboy about why he made the viral "Cornell 7" website where he's publishing “names, photographs, documents, messages, and other information related to the case."
playboy.com
Meet The "South Park" Writer Behind the Viral "Cornell 7" Website
Cornell University has been the subject of innumerable headlines this week, as an anonymous woman’s lawsuit against the university over her alleged 2024 rape prompted New York prosecutors to reopen th...
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Men shouldn’t require a daughter, wife, girlfriend or sister before sexual violence against women becomes important to them. Women are enough. And condemning sexual assault shouldn’t qualify anyone for a medal. The bar is on the floor. Step over it."
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Harlan Belle @harlanbelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
May the whole thing go Bankrupt ASAP
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
If you think these taxpayer-funded Trump ads are a public service announcement, you haven’t seen a campaign ad before. One is nearly identical to a Trump 2024 campaign ad. It’s political advertising and propaganda, and we’re paying for it.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...
ijb.utoronto.ca
Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026
Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.
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What's the matter with trans panic media?
Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."
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