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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Dan LK, 💖💜💙 Visibly Bisexual @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 1h

The absolute unmitigated gall of a man suggesting that "men will follow" if women organize and advocate for their rights, in light of decades of history telling us, in very clear terms, the exact opposite

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 5h

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1h

Smart piece by @joshuatait.bsky.social pointing out something I haven't seen anybody else notice: Vance has positioned himself as the key post-Trump figure among each of what we might think of as the "five families" of MAGA.👇

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5h

"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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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 11h

speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 19h

Why don't you trust me?

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 9h

Democrats can't seem to figure out their position on data centers, but at least for electoral purposes they can just put Trump's robust support on a loop in attack ads.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Every single American administration since LBJ's has been opposed to [unilateral] annexation of Palestinian territory by Israel and settlement and settler violence, yet also every single one of those administrations let it continue apace without any consequences. This is by design.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸A State Department official told me the Trump administration is aware of the overnight events in the West Bank village of al-Jalud and condemns the attack on Palestinian residents
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸“We condemn criminal violence by any party in the West Bank and support appropriate investigations, legal accountability, and judicial processes for those responsible,” the State Department official said
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸The official added that the U.S. is in regular dialogue with Israel about improving stability and security in the West Bank
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone who dislikes Trump knows why, but it's important to know what made people who gave him a second chance after the insurrection regret it. We don't want to talk ourselves into the idea that it's always bad to move fast, unilaterally, unless that's true. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

offmessage.net

Democrats Are About To Learn The Wrong Lesson From Trump’s Failure

He was done in by malice, incompetence, corruption, and pathological vanity, not by his willingness to act before he could be stopped.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

My cab driver to Coachella was an Obama-Romney-Trump-Biden-Trump voter who had on a channel that played AI-generated music. He said that if Democrats vote to restrict data centers, they'll lose his vote forever.

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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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they like rape and rapists, is the thing.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of all the people who are overpaid in our society, the bipartisan consensus of our US Senate is that college athletes are the ones who need to be reigned in.

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

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026

No boundaries... "Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case. It hurts my heart to think about how little has changed. It’s been nearly twenty years since I published Yes Means Yes! how is it possible that we’re still begging for the same scraps of humanity?

jessica.substack.com

Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once you start noticing how often this guy Announces something that becomes discourse for 12 hours and then is literally never heard of again you will not un-notice it. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28/09/2026

Trump’s summit with China’s Xi Jinping was a perfect metaphor for the entire Trump presidency: no strategic goals or coherent plans, and a clear win for America’s main global adversary. prospect.org?p=145456

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026

If you want to understand just how pathetic the clean energy is on politics, read this excellent piece in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. There are like a half-dozen quotes in here that make me want to jump off a fucking roof.

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Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?

After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections?

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Reproaction @reproaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kristan Hawkins, head of Students for Life of America, believes a nine-year-old should be forced to give birth to her rapists’ child. New and important reporting by @motherjones.com and @amylittlefield.bsky.social (1/3) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.

How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Critical reporting. Just because ICE doesn't have pint sized fascists theatrically leading an occupation anymore doesn't mean they're not out there doing harm in our communities.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know for a fact an ICE detainment happened. I am being told it does not exist. That is what I need help with. If you have any insight, my DM‘s are open

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

KBJ keeps tryna tell us about the deeply perverse way the Court is exercising its equitable powers on the shadow docket the GOP justices wielding equitable jurisdiction are (surprise surprise) actively hostile to the concept of equity, & produce injustice instead ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brown people are coming. They are coming for your jobs. They will be sleeping in your guest room. They will piss on your lawn. They will steal all your shit and sell scary drugs. The brown people are going to run amok and ruin everything. Oh wait. There's an election coming up. Never mind.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

the Trump admin just made its 40th application to the Supreme Court for emergency relief, since January 2025 for comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden admins made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

ballsandstrikes.org

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I imagine some of this kind of work, if maybe not as much, got done in other administrations. But you wouldn’t know about it. How can so many politicians not understand that politics involves making the work visible, with an emphasis on who it’s for, not who did it?

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for public notice wrote about Trump's bizarre Xi boot-licking, and the downsides of diplomacy by personalist fiat of an ignorant authoritarian buffoon. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-chin...

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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him

Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Already building the "stabbed in the back" excuse, I see.

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The Big Z @iamcurious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was once dating a woman who taught at a SLAC in upstate NY. A student of hers, who was also on the football team, raped another student at a party. There was a witness, the victim went to the police (I think). But the police never brought charges, and the school's internal "judicial" process...

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For fifty years, universities were led by a generation who thought that girls couldn't be scientists because they had silly girl brains, just smart enough to realise science wasn't for them, so they dropped out. And it wasn't, say, because they molested every girl who entered their building.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 28/09/2026

In the steady rain Sunday evening, many protesters shouted angrily about Drexel University’s seeming coolness. They hoped and urged for a miraculous resurrection. “Don’t let Drexel off,” some chanted. “Tell Drexel to get out of the way.” 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are Black Democrats not a thing or…

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

404media.co

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

3 weeks ago i asked for your input on local races in your backyard that you care about, & want to put on people's radar. you shared dozens of super-interesting answers. So i thought I'd do a last call for suggestions... as i finalize preparing my own guide. tell me if you haven't yet!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”

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