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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CALIFORNIANS NEED TO SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE. Too many voters are low information and will vote yes on all three w/o realizing the latter cancels out the former
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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if you aren’t otherwise familiar, bobby kotick is the guy who drank an employee’s breast milk out of the office fridge.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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theSoreWinner @thesorewinner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Justice For #NolanWells 🕊️
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 11/09/2026
A hefty industry-oriented consortium is quietly organizing to burn California's landmark plastic and recycling legislation to the ground. What you need to know www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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Leaked emails reveal industry plan to kill California's plastic and recycling laws
Leaked internal memos reveal how a packaging alliance drove a widespread lobbying and marketing campaign to dismantle California’s landmark plastic and recycling laws.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ngl this has me kind of mad. Someone made AI slop of my art to advertise some slop app. I’m so mad because I declined hundreds of sponsorship offers for apps that felt exploitative of vulnerable groups and ADHD-curing vitamins, I’m here feeling bad advertising my book and they just go and do this
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 17/08/2026
"They came over and said I had to leave," Arnold told the broadcaster. "The staff member said I'd been identified by the AI, and the cameras had flagged me."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I've been a contributor in the past: www.thegrindmag.ca/illustration... www.thegrindmag.ca/the-law-orde... if you'd like to support The Grind's legal defense, you can go here: www.thegrindmag.ca/support-the-...
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Illustration: Canadian Media’s Anti-Palestinian Bias
Special pull-out poster from the Feb/
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.thegrindmag.ca/the-grind-is... @thegrindto.bsky.social is being sued by an IOF soldier - another example of Zionist lawfare projects trying to deplete the resources of media outlets or institutions they target they're a paper that's very much worth donating to
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The Grind Is Being Sued By an IDF Reservist Soldier
This defamation case could sink one of the only publications closely covering the Palestine solidarity movement in Toronto and the repression it has faced. We need your help…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Let me start by saying that I don't think any of the lines are bad. I'm an adult who understands that "not for me" doesn't mean terrible. Unlike a grip of folks out here, but I digress. I think there should be the following:
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 09/07/2026
At @comicsjournal.bsky.social I reconsidered the life, the legend, and the largeness of Marvel Comics' Jim Shooter. I'm proud of this one, and I hope you like it. www.tcj.com/rr-jim-shoot...
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R&R — Jim Shooter Agonistes: A reconsideration of the editor and writer's legacy - The Comics Journal
Zach Rabiroff argues that the great artistic work of Jim Shooter’s life was Jim Shooter’s life.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
FY27's library budget will leave public libraries UNDERFUNDED AGAIN. It doesn't keep up with inflation AND it absolutely does not meet the 0.5% the Mayor campaigned on and promised AFTER he was elected. 11 CMs also signed on. This budget looks to come in at 0.42% which is LOWER than 0.45% LAST YEAR
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here are the 22 Democrats who voted with Republicans to protect Trump's ability to get militarily involved in Lebanon:





Cuellar (TX)	Moskowitz (FL)
Davis (NC)	Norcross (NJ)
Gillen (NY)	Panetta (CA)
Golden (ME)	Perez (WA)
Gonzalez, V. (TX)	Schneider (IL)
Gottheimer (NJ)	Sherman (CA)
Gray (CA)	Soto (FL)
Hoyer (MD)	Suozzi (NY)
Landsman (OH)	Torres (CA)
Latimer (NY)	Vargas (CA)
Lee (NV)	Veasey (TX)
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Dane is at TsunamiCon and Bird Oktoberfest. @monkeyminion.com · 27/06/2026
AI has not made any discoveries. Iterative AI models have helped *scientists* make discoveries. No version of LLM (generative or iterative) is autonomous and working under its own direction. Being imprecise with language and allowing AI grifters to co-opt the term “A.I.” in the first place
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.
MULLIN v. DOE
Syllabus
that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation violated the constitutional right to equal protection because it was motivated by race. The
District Court granted interim relief, and a divided D. C. Circuit panel
declined to issue a stay. The Government sought a stay and a writ of
certiorari before judgment in both cases. This Court granted review,
consolidated the cases, and deferred ruling on the stay applications.
Held:
1. The TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims.
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(a) Section 1254a(b)(5)(A) provides that “[t]here is no judicial review
of any determination of the [Secretary of Homeland Security] with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation,
of a foreign state.” The term “determination” may mean either an individual decision or the process leading to a decision. Under either
understanding, §1254a(b)(5)(A) bars all of respondents’ non-constitutional claims. Further, the phrase “with respect to” “generally has a
broadening effect, ensuring that the scope of a provision covers not
only its subject but also matters relating to that subject.” Patel v. Garland, 596 U. S. 328, 339 (internal quotation marks omitted). Pp. 12–
13.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’ve always been amazed at how the Manhattan Institute gets taken so seriously by so many when it hires people like this. I mean, this is pretty shockingly vile racism for a someone at a “respectable” think tank to spew.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 23/06/2026
1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.
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She Changed Her ID to Comply with Kansas’ New Anti-Trans Law. Now, the State is Trying to Put Her in Jail for Having an 'Inaccurate' License.
A Kansas trans woman is being charged with driving with an invalid license after a police officer refused to believe the license the state is forcing her to carry was valid. She won’t be the last.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Jesus Christ. Can we call this a fascist dystopian hell now or nah Solidarity with my fellow Texans
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison — Guardian US
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Breaking news: SCOTUS intervenes in Alabama redistricting case & says GOP *is* allowed to change Alabama map. Despite a lower-court finding evidence of intentional discrimination. Yet another SCOTUS gift to the GOP; eliminates seat of a Black member of Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
LA voters: if you are dropping off your ballot today take it to a designated ballot box. Don’t drop in the mail. Your vote won’t be postmarked until tomorrow and won’t count, unless you walk it into a post office and ask a worker to stamp it today.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/06/2026
If you want to see what happens when you call out a killer who works at A16Z, this is an email from a guy who *I used to work with* many years ago, CCing Penny. These dudes do not quit!
Email from David Kralik:

Hey Daniel,
Well known Tech influencer Anil Dash is at it again..
once again
smearing you and al6z, calling you a murderer and looking to have you fired for protecting the public
I think its time we teach him a lesson, don't you?
ーー
dave
(650) 898-7305 | @Kralik | Skype: david_kralik | dwk2007@gmail.com
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this
A photo from the inside of the mutual aid tent to benefit the families of detainees at Delaney Hall. Boxes of donations, clothes  and materials are strewn all over the floor, documents and boxes open and thrown everywhere. NJ state police are evil.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below
The New York Times: The American president’s comments had been released over the weekend, after Mr. Trump left a summit with Mr. Xi in Beijing on Friday. He said he was keeping on hold a decision about a package of weapons to Taiwan worth around $14 billion, and described it as a “very good negotiating chip” that could be used with Beijing.

“I’m holding that in abeyance and it depends on China,” he said in an interview with Fox News. It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump wanted China to do in return.The New York Times: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For my latest column in @thenation.com, I wrote about the symbiotic relationship between the neo-Nazi right and the Jewish institutions that insist on equating Zionism and Judaism.
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Israel’s Supporters Are Playing Into the Hands of the Antisemitic Right
By conflating Judaism and Zionism, institutional leaders have made Jews everywhere less safe.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/05/2026
Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.
A FR24 map showing a 767 (N486AX) descending toward Phnom Penh.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
At around 3:30 am, Senate Republicans passed their budget resolution, which is one of many steps in their attempt to provide another $70 billion for ICE & CBP through reconciliation, which can’t be filibustered. Paul and Murkowski joined Dems in opposition. Collins voted yes. Over to the House now.
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Bryce Tetraeder @brycetetraeder.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...
At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15/04/2026
Despicable fucking government.
After placing her in handcuffs, she said, two of those four agents at the airport drove Batra to ICE's field office in Harlingen in an unmarked van. She had been there many times over the years to renew her work permit and to help attorneys with translation. Office staff recognized her as she was being processed. Agents posed for photos with her handcuffed, which they said for
"social media," according to the habeas filing.
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Felicitas Pojtinger @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 15/04/2026
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dange…
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The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer, but it will hurt innovation in the state and risks a slew of new consumer harms ranging from surveillance to platform lock-in. California must stand with creators and reject this legislation before it’s too late.
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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
oh, this is very important to know!!
“We learned that specifically on iPhones, if one’s settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, [then] the iPhone will internally store those notifications/message previews in the internal memory of the device,” a supporter of the defendants who was taking notes during the trial told 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is so sick. Israel struck apartment buildings, medical facilities, even a crowd of mourners by a cemetery, per FT reporting
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I would like to talk more about how ICE shot someone else yesterday and he is in critical condition! The coverage is really horrifying because DHS is giving a similar story to the one they gave about Renee Good and so much news coverage is just buying it. Please talk about Carlos Mendoza Hernandez.
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Man in critical condition after shooting involving ICE agents along I-5 in Stanislaus County
The acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified a man shot by federal agents Tuesday morning in Stanislaus County.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Rowena Eureka @rowenaeureka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!
Stop the War on Iran. 6 pm at White House - sponsored by multiple organizations
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/04/2026
Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/04/2026
jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...
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