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Some software vanishes simply because nobody thought to save it. 💾 Journalist Josh Renaud recounts recovering obscure software through the Internet Archive. 🖥️ 📚 “Recovering Lost Software” appears in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive. 📖 Download & read, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 1h

Instead of advancing the American people's interests, President Trump focused on diplomatic theatrics during President Xi's visit last week. Let's talk about it 🤔

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 3h

'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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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 3h

"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 5h

Elon Musk's America PAC just reported exercising another $1.9 million of free speech on Sept. 29 regarding elections in 10 different states (only one of which contains his legal residence). docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

Merely being unpopular at the end isn't enough. Lots of two-term presidents left office unpopular only to then be rehabilitated and remembered as history's winners, or at least within the acceptable bounds of mainstream politics. That's the real danger for where we'll be 20, 30, 40 years from now.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

"If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." And the next one probably won't be such an extraordinarily delusional and incompetent buffoon. Disgrace and disincentives on him and his enablers have to be imposed now, while we still can.

theunpopulist.net

America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome

The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart: in its third rewrite of the story, NYT finally comes close to reporting what transpired in the hearing room.

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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FUCK TRUMP @fuck-trump.net · 18h

Just heard there is a Patriot Front banner hanging off a bridge on 93 near South Station. Don't have an exact location. Keep an eye out for it.

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 6h

LGBTI+ defenders and associations must be allowed to operate and carry out their vital work without discrimination, criminalization, intimidation, or reprisals. Read more in Climate Home News' article: www.climatechangenews.com/2026/09/25/c...

climatechangenews.com

COP31 attendees told not to interfere in Türkiye's "internal affairs"

Amnesty International says the provision in the hosting agreement could have a "chilling effect" on free expression in Antalya

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 6h

Ahead of the talks, CIEL: ✊ Demands an end to the reported escalating crackdown on LGBTI+ activists, ✊ Stands in solidarity with all those affected in the country, and ✊ Calls for the immediate release of those detained solely for their human rights work. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 6h

Our next feature on #Boston #WorldCup accountability drops next week and it's another doozy ... But did you see our most recent piece on unfulfilled #FIFA promises? binj.news/2026/09/16...

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 7h

Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day, aka Orange Shirt Day. It's a paid holiday for bankers & politicians. Indigenous people don't get the day off. I don't go to Orange Shirt Day marches anymore because the local one flies the Canada flag, has huge numbers of cops, & the cops get thanked first.

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Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni @heshan.bsky.social · 15h

Start spreading the news/ I’m leaving today…

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 21h

After seeing Wamata's ambitious entrance into the coveted browsing quadrant, many of you wondered whether she managed the dismount with equal determination. For a moment, it looks as though she might vault right over little Daba, before thinking better of it and tucking back into the browsing.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026

GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.

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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face

Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h

To *default* to trafficking US residents, with jobs and families here and mostly no criminal record, to third countries, in what has been found by lower courts to be an illegal policy, seems insane. There is no pressing need for this

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NB: This is why political observers & scholars of democratic backsliding were so enthused by Tisza/Magyar's victory in Hungary last spring. The defeat & evacuation from power of Orban suggested that even the new, cleverer form of anti-democratic politics could be defeated. bsky.app/profile/kjep...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also need to push on 5…

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gotta keep pushing on Q3…vote no! (Glad to see the numbers on 9 so solid!)

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Before the NCAA capitulated to this nonsense and banned trans women from competing on women's sports teams, the head of the NCAA told a Senate panel that he knew of less than 10 athletes competing in sports in the NCAA. What are we fucking doing here, people. It's a non-issue.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey @massgovernor.bsky.social any comment on the fact that MA has a 287(g) agreement, or that you have refused to stop working with ICE, or that there have been massive amounts of ICE kidnappings in New Bedford over the last month?

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social tells @mpolymer1.bsky.social how Alina Habba’s wedding put FBI Director Kash Patel in the same room as a former FBI informant suspected of being a double agent. "These MAGA weddings are like the Star Wars Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)

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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Being endorsed by the Service Employees International Union of Florida (SEIU FL) is personal and an honor for me. SEIU FL is part of how I got my start as an organizer in the state that I love. Thank you! #AngieForFlorida #SEIUFL

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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