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Grant Smith

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Girl Melanie @immaculateice.bsky.social · 10h
They are still using vehicles from the 80s WITH NO WORKING AC but they got money for cameras? Lmaoooo
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 8h
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8h
The paper was reported to the police! "UMC filed the report over the following line I had written in a Sept. 3 email: “Marketing and Communications’ insistence on interfering with our newsgathering process is dangerous and detrimental to both press freedom and freedom of speech.”
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8h
University of Illinois's student paper published an editorial from the editor of Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) about how their paper is under attack from the administration. It's authoritarianism and attacks on a free press all the way down, y'all: dailyillini.com/opinions-sto...
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Letter to the Editor | UI students: SIUE’s student paper needs your help - The Daily Illini
The Alestle's editor-in-chief details its escalating conflict with SIUE administration and warns of the broader threat to press freedom.
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 8h
"96% of searches tied to Lexington’s Flock system came from out-of-state or federal agencies, with just 63,000 searches of 7 million total made by Lexington police."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h
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
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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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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 14h
new meme template
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h
“solution in search of a problem” was meant to be a criticism, not an ethos
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11h
The Attorney General just announced that the DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Federal District judges in Minnesota -- all but one of them, in fact -- because they did interviews with the NYTimes for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." 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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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404 Media @404media.co · 13h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 13h
the future is dumb
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15h
This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 16h
Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 17h
Last visit to McDonald's was my last and I didn't even know it www.reuters.com/business/ins...
reuters.com
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/09/2026
Every single one of 21 tested vehicles sent data to a third-party domain over Wi-Fi. Over half contacted domains specializing in advertising, tracking, or analytics. These companies gather details about your vehicle or driving behavior to sell to insurance companies or target you with ads.
theverge.com
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 17h
Flock has sidestepped questions about its data security and practices posed by lawmakers, even as agencies across the state have adopted and are using the surveillance technology on a daily basis, sparking outcry from citizens with privacy concerns. mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/09/21/f...
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Flock Safety faces scrutiny from lawmakers over dodged questions about its surveillance technology
Lawmakers asked Flock for details on digital security, accuracy and data sharing. So far, the company has sidestepped most of those concerns.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 19h
Most TV is just this now.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Sept. 19th, OMB gave Customs and Border Protection $20 million. The next day, CBP awarded an ad company a contract for $20 million for a “national media campaign.” On Sept. 23rd, Trump ads start running on national tv as "paid for by U.S. government."
washingtonsun.com
CBP Got $20 Million for a ‘Media Campaign.’ Lawmakers Say It Was a Misuse of Funds.
The administration started running Trump-focused national ads that have come under ethical scrutiny for using taxpayer funds.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TV’s will now officially be “tremendous pictures”
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 29/09/2026
An Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit from a Boise daycare and parents that sought to block enforcement of a state law that bans daycares from requiring vaccines or medical treatment.
idahocapitalsun.com
Federal judge upholds Idaho law that bans vaccine, medical treatment requirements in daycares • Idaho Capital Sun
The ruling upholds an Idaho law that bans daycares, businesses, governments and schools from mandating vaccines or “medical interventions.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 28/09/2026
"Schools now must go back to the Title IX code as held under the previous Trump administration in 2020. ... Opponents of the move say it will harm transgender athletes and weaken protections for sexual assault victims."
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Brad Racino @bradracino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last month, we flew our thermal drone over NJ's largest data center and found it operating a fleet of unpermitted generators. Now, on the heels of that investigation, state regulators have issued that facility their largest-ever fine against a data center. floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-d...
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New Jersey says DataOne’s 62 generators are illegal. It’s letting them run for 45 more days.
The state's $1 million fine comes less than a month after Floodlight’s visual investigation publicly exposed the Vineland site’s generator fleet for the first time
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bolstered by $75bn in funding from Congress, the Department of Homeland Security - the US government agency that oversees ICE - has more than doubled its workforce this year to more than 22,000 officers and staff. It has also vastly expanded its capacity by working with local police, sheriffs, highway patrol and even fish and wildlife agents. As of 15 September, ICE had signed more than 2,500 287(g) agreements.

ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
European waters had their hottest summer months on record, a Reuters analysis shows. The exceptional heat is transforming ecosystems with catastrophic consequences for some coastal communities. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
How Europe’s intensifying marine heatwaves threaten its fisheries
As drought spread and wildfires raged across Europe this summer, the extraordinary heat didn't stop at the shoreline.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
It’s really fine to read a post and be skeptical of what the author’s intentions are but it’s pretty much never a waste of your time to try and situate it in context
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a fun read!
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flying mink! #wildlife #nature 🐡
A photo of a mink, captured mid-leap with all four feet in the air, as it races along a rocky riverbank.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Goddamn. Roasted.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lmao, love reading First Amendment caselaw
screenshot of a court opinion summarizing Tennessee caselaw on profanity and disorderly conduct. One cite reversed a conviction for disorderly conduct “when the defendant, driving past the police station, called to the officer, ‘sooey’”
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One mom said she wishes that concerned adults would just talk to her kids instead of immediately calling the cops. “If you actually care about that child’s well-being, show them that you are a friendly, trustworthy neighbor.” www.thecut.com/article/heli...
thecut.com
The Helicopter Parent Next Door
Many parents are trying to give their kids more freedom. Their neighbors keep calling the cops.
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Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of the nearly $17m spent, just about $5m was spent on treatment and recovery, community-oriented programs and youth-focused services. Nearly $8m spent on cops and jails, including nearly a half-million on mass surveillance technology. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/09/15/w...
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WV local govs spent most opioid settlement funds on police, jail bills, EMS in fiscal year 2024-2025 • West Virginia Watch
West Virginia localities spent nearly $10 million more of the opioid settlement funds they received between 2024 and 2025 than in the year previously.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really hope people understand that stories like this are not anomalies or “mistakes.” They’re not the result of hospitals misunderstanding the law or legislative growing pains. This is simply what happens when you allow the government to interfere in pregnancy.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yeah same, it's kind of an object lesson in why physical media is good ain't no one slipping an ad reel into my nes cartridge
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