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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 1h
‘I’d rather die than go back’: A Palestinian teen’s 10-month nightmare in Israeli jail At 15, Zaid was separated from his parents, beaten, and starved. He is just one of hundreds of Palestinian children detained amid a post-Oct. 7 surge. By Jared Hillel www.972mag.com/palestinian-...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h
SCOTUSBLOG: the regime-aligned years www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/scot...
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SCOTUSBLOG: the regime-aligned years - Lawyers, Guns & Money
We have written about how Tom Goldstein becoming a minor character in an Elmore Leonard novel led to the generally valuable news source he founded being turned into a propaganda outlet. Given the Bari...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h
Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?
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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 2h
Arguably the civil war was as much about northern states not wanting to be legally required to enforce the slavery laws of southern states as it was about the south wanting to continue enslaving people. Just mentioning that for no particular reason.
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15h
And here is a thread linking to articles that describe how, within the IDF, to-the-foundations earthmover demolitions became the norm in Gaza. It wasn’t because of orders from IDF high command, really—it was a highly successful bottom-up revolution by the extremist reservists who had the earthmovers
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 16h
It’s important that Google Earth/Maps has done this, but worth noting that so far the updated 2026 imagery is only of southern Gaza—the imagery of northern Gaza is still from before the final destruction of spring-fall 2025, giving the impression that large areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya are…
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 7h
Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4h
Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
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Henry Burke @henryburke.bsky.social · 6h
The WSJ Editorial Board is upset that Samuel Alito has recused from an upcoming case regarding climate change due to his investments in oil companies. Like all my favorite conservative opinions, the final paragraph completely undermines the entire argument they've cobbled together. Hilarious
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 7h
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7h
Just saying that the best contestation of Christian nationalism is a better politics, not a better religion.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries. That makes 7 of 9. These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
"but you won't get enough Republicans to convict" So what. It's not like there's some other more effective option lying around you can do instead. And it's a total failure of imagination to think the only thing that matters is the final roll call.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.
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Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 12h
5. As proposed, this settlement would trade away merchant’s antitrust claims for a mere 0.10% “rollback” in the average swipe fee (effective for just 5 years) and cosmetic changes in Visa and Mastercard’s policies that would leave their duopoly and their anticompetitive schemes in place.
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Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 12h
1. Last week, Antimonopoly Counsel filed this 68-page objection on behalf of a group of public interest organizations in response to a proposed class-action settlement in one of the Nation’s most important antitrust litigations. www.demandprogresseducationfund.org/consumer-adv...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11h
Americans hate data centers. And they are paying for them through Meta’s tax dodging. It’s a good bet that Trump broke the IRS so badly, they’ll get away with it. Excellent piece from @kashhill.bsky.social, @jessedrucker.bsky.social et al: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 10h
We're only just starting to understand the life-long risks & impacts of viral infection.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 20h
Still, this is a very strong bipartisan vote (with Rand Paul joining), including all Democrats (even Schumer), except for Fetterman who is a lost cause.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 20h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 20h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Keep on digging that hole, Senator! 😂😂😂
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truly magnificent 😂- please watch the vid and make your day better. I would feel bad for the staffers who found these Smith texts & thought they'd struck gold, but they're terrible people working for a terrible senator and he and they deserve every ounce of dragging they're going to get for this.
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Lillard says IMPEACH & REMOVE @junipersbird.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is a fucking moron. 😂
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration floated an idea that would have virtually shut down mail voting: requiring all ballots to be delivered exclusively through certified mail, ProPublica has learned. by @jenafifield.bsky.social @peterelkind.bsky.social
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The perfect email signoff has been staring us in the face this whole time: simply combine the old standbys "Best" and "Take care": "Best take care" Vaguely intimidating but with plausible deniability.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think this might be what pundits call “polarization”?
Tweet from NH libertarian party supporting assassination of every elected Democrat in the state
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very much loving the reactions to @wmata.com's abysmal decision to make the signage in Metro less informative www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyShLjLq/
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When did we vote on this? Since when is less visible information better? @Metro
TikTok video by Michaele | DC Creator
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 27/09/2026
This is wild in many ways but... "DHH is known for controversial discussions, but this topped them all" I dunno, I'd argue the "murder the immigrants" rhetoric was a bit more controversial than what programming language this very rich lonely loser is using?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Buy your protein powder before the 29th. TRUMP TAKE GAINZ.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Does it though?
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Public Health Needs MAHA
The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
some pretty prominent dudes lost their jobs (with massive payouts, of course) and it made the executive class absolutely furious and determined that there never be consequences for them again
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Really have to sit down and watch the entire series (seems odd to say that about people's lives). What a gift they've given us.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/09/2026
[politics knowers as gas approaches $5/gal]: “let’s make Americans use more gasoline over the next two decades” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Democrats’ floundering is happening simultaneously to the party’s own elites reaping financial and professional rewards from the continued strength of AI firms.
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What OpenAI Having Chuck Schumer's Daughter as a Lobbyist Tells Us | Common Dreams
The compute giant’s hiring spree throws up a roadblock for Democrats’ ability to run against AI and corruption.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Deep dive into what's going on at the CDC --> www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The free speech absolutist strikes again 🙄🤬🤦🏻‍♂️
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 27/09/2026
Current health/medicine leadership doesn't care about these numbers. Never did, never will. They are the same ones who wanted everything be reopened during early covid. Why would they care now about couple deaths here and there, few newborns with illnesses? That's GBD in works.
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Doctors in Pennsylvania estimate at least six babies have been born with measles
At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. The growing outbreak is raising alarm among doctors who are treati...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The way I always think about the differing impact of 2016/2024 is through the discography of James McMurtry's political songs; and the evolution from "those bastards screwed us over" (2005) to "are we really gonna do this again?" (2016) to "I guess this is what we actually want, huh" (2025).
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The Disillusionment of James McMurtry
I think Texan singer-songwriter James McMurtry is one of the greatest living lyricists in America. He writes these richly-layered narratives, diving deep into the lives of ordinary people, painting…
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Strava strikes again 😂 www.thedailybeast.com/maga-carpetb...
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MAGA Carpetbagger Candidate Busted By His Own Hi-Tech Error
A Republican candidate’s workout routine turns out to be enlightening, our must-read newsletter The Swamp reveals.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Virginia-fication of Georgia is a sight to see. Hope they get to a Dem trifecta in the state faster than we did. Good things are possible!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying  and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.
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