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Heidi Klebingot

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Bring on the dogs, books and sunshine. All the things that made me a happy as a child, still bringing me joy.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 8h
Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h
And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 16h
What the hell did I just watch h/t @mcnietzsche.bsky.social
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Just Try It, California.
YouTube video by Steve Hilton
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 9h
Changes would allow bigger classes, no longer require degrees for many staff and require programs to be taught in English, among other things.
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Overhaul of Head Start could endanger CT children, advocates say
Changes would allow bigger classes, no longer require degrees for many staff and require programs to be taught in English, among other things.
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 11h
About 25,000 former SNAP recipients were to receive $300 grocery gift cards, but the state has delivered less than 6% of the pledged relief.
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Lamont's plan to send gift cards to former SNAP recipients stalls
About 25,000 former SNAP recipients were to receive $300 grocery gift cards, but the state has delivered less than 6% of the pledged relief.
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 12h
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months. Read More👉 ebx.sh/FFZdl8
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/10/2026
There are a massive number of elections in the US this November. Use the @boltsmag.org guide for key races, including much more than just the US House & Senate, such as: —Housing referendums in CA, MA, NC —Transport referendums in CA, KS, NC, SC, WA —Climate referendums in CA, CO, FL, MA, MI, TX, VA
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“You haven't asked me one fucking positive question."
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Tampa Bay Times @tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 15h
Faith-based voucher schools can reject students with disabilities in Florida| Column
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Faith-based voucher schools can reject students with disabilities in Florida| Column
ProPublica recently published an exposé on the rejection students with disabilities face from publicly funded voucher schools.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15h
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17h
Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
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Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups - KFF Health News
Hours after experiencing a flare-up related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Kenney Blewett of Kyle, Texas, died by suicide in June. A medication his doctor prescribed days earlier to ease hi...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 01/10/2026
A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz reveals that the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell the judges who signed off on it about a federal law that protects the press from search warrants… again.
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DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law
Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Days after a loss of hundreds microbetting at a Yankees game, DraftKings sent a notice to our reporter: “Took a loss? Now take a beat.” Then came a promotion: A 20% profit BOOST on bets of up to $250 for an unlimited number of live bets on baseball plate appearances. Full story: propub.li/4xUdksA
Left image: Alert reads, “Took a loss? Now take a beat. A big loss can throw off more than your game plan. Take time to regroup if you need it. Check out My Stat Sheet to set a limit or just see where you’re at.” A green button with text: “My Stat Sheet.” A black button below reads “Maybe Later.”

Right image: An alert reads, “MLB Unlimited Live Plate Appearance Boost. Get Unlimited Profit Boosts on Live Plate Appearances today! 7 hours left. Max bet: $250 Each,” and lists more details below. A green button reads: “Opt In.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Want to learn about the history of our city?  Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.
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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway
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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What? The first of a new month? Must be time for a #UKSFFBookBargains trawl. Let's start with the Wool Trilogy by @hughhowey.com. 99p for three books. www.amazon.co.uk/Wool-Trilogy... I think this collected edition is Amazon exclusive.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This invitation is so weird!
Screenshot from the website https://gettrumpmemes.com/gala-dinner. It has a very unrealistic painting of Donald Trump. It also advertises an evening with "3 legends and Trump" and a private meeting with "a legend to be announced"
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Dan Sullivan @timesdan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the second time, Florida plans to execute 2 men on the same day www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...
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For the second time, Florida plans to execute 2 men on the same day
James Robertson and William Thompson are both scheduled to die Oct. 13, the second double execution in Florida this year.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're less than an hour away from today's "Broadview Six" hearing. You can follow me here for live updates, but the @chicago.suntimes.com will also have up-to-date coverage here: chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi...
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'Broadview Six' case returns to court as judge weighs sanctions against feds: Live updates
U.S. District Judge April Perry is set to hear arguments Thursday over potential consequences for prosecutors in the politically charged case.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI, scoop from @acampbellnews.bsky.social: the Air Force is using AI videos in its suicide prevention training, with fake people talking about a very real issue.
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wrote last week about the NBA’s very dumb embrace of betting, btw: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...
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As players and leagues win with prediction markets, fans left holding the bag
The more successful betting partnerships between sports leagues like the NBA and prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket are, the more miserable fans will become.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026
hey friends! our flight angels need to pay a $300 fee to get an unaccompanied minor on an international flight (the miles were donated) we don’t hold any money and everyone is a volunteer. if you have some extra bucks can you venmo me @ziibiing so we can make this happen?
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026
Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Alex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Jenny Staletovich @jenstaletovich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"People don't breathe one permit at a time..." When Data Centers Cluster Together, How Dirty Are They? One County Wants Answers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/c...
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When Data Centers Cluster Together, How Dirty Are They? One County Wants Answers.
An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hot damn! My first UK review of SLEUTH-HOUND and it's amazing! Huge thank you to @ollie-randall.bsky.social for his thoughtful analysis of my book, which is out on October 20! You can get SIGNED & DEDICATED copies from @foxlanebooks.bsky.social: shorturl.at/KeFvY
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Huh. @cnn.com is reporting early voting numbers consistent with my tally as of last night. They do not provide their data source. Using my work without reasonable attribution is a violation of my creative commons license www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...
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Early voting data shows emerging signs of a Democratic advantage in the midterms | CNN Politics
Election Day is still a month away, but more than 550,000 Americans have already voted across 29 states. There are signs emerging of the advantage Democrats have in motivating their voters – a trend t...
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Cornell University Police Department “did not inform Mr. Van Houten’s office that Jane Doe had said she had been raped.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The eyewitness accounts here portray an incompetent Department of Corrections that had no idea what to do when officers twice failed to execute Pike. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tenn...
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Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike receiving medical care after failed execution
The Wednesday execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was halted after the State of Tennessee administered two failed rounds of its lethal injection protocol and an anti-death penalty gro...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have just today left to make the rest of rent. I need to sell at least 7 framed pieces (or the equivalent) to have it! New work in the store! Thank you for looking & thank you for keeping a roof over these heads! www.sol-exposure.com/shop/
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Anyone have a copy of the book of Hegseth speeches titled "The War Department Field Manual" that DoD handed out today? (Serious question. Want to check something about it.) DMs open. Signal 202.804.2744. Email z_everson@protonmail.com Thanks!
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Hegseth issued a 144-page book to the 600 troops attending his speech today, it's a compilation of some of his speeches. It includes a forward from Trump saying, "I will not ask you to fight dumb wars."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026
Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
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Rosina O @techysaavy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 30/09/2026
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sweden, while subject to the same climate shifts as the rest of the planet, has some relative advantages in the near term. Mobility and freedom are assets, and the more things deteriorate the more consequential those class privileges become. Or he could need a murderbot training ground, who knows.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property | Fortune
Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: After the Sixth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, issued "a short stay of execution" this morning to consider Christa Pike's claims before the court, Tennessee quickly has gone to the Supreme Court seeking to vacate the stay — and allow the state to kill Pike today. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
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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