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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
militarytimes.com
Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Laser eyes US grant

Battle hymn of the republic intensifies
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 23h
Crimes against humanity
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gone gone the form of man, rise the poster Gigan! @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is really well reported
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon officials’ heated debates foreshadowed problems in Iran
The U.S. began bombing Yemen’s Houthis in 2025 despite concern over weapons stocks and unclear goals. The Iran-backed group is still bedeviling the region.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
The unplucked goose
US, revenue from corporate-income taxes, $bn
12-month moving total
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Israeli squatters in the occupied West Bank have been carrying out a campaign of violence and intimidation unmatched in recent memory, attacking and displacing Palestinian communities and establishing scores of government-backed settlements and illegal outposts"
washingtonpost.com
Israeli settlers race to reshape West Bank as election nears
Surging settler violence and government-backed settlement expansion are transforming the territory under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And with all this going on, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social has the AUDACITY to release their “Trust Agenda”…a response to the Trump Compacts on 9/22 AND! @aacu.org thinks it’s a great idea to LIFT THIS UP AS A BEACON OF BUILDING TRUST IN HIGHER ED? But wait, there’s more.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
liberalcurrents.com
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The amount of hagiography devoted to this thoroughly mediocre man and his family because he was so bad he managed to lose a war he was on the winning side of
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
taxes aren't high enough
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just circling back
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/10/2026
How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added 0.5 million jobs over 12 months to Sept 2026. Slowest growth in many years outside COVID.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fucking GOOD
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing DOGE did was bring attention to the fact that there was another model for how tech could interact with government - one which was more people-centered and ethical. Here is an effort to sketch out the history of that movement, which I think will be relevant again in the future (Open access)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In which Politico asks the obvious question: is Bridge Colby actually a Russian stooge? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/10/2026
wint
@dril

Hello Alan this is your lawer speaking.  I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

12:28 PM - Jul 5, 2020
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Muppeturgy @muppeturgy.com · 30/09/2026
The Phaaaaaaaaantom of the Paradise is here inside…The Portrait of Dorian Gray? Sure, why not? Paul Williams stars and composes the most bag of cocainey movie yet in the bag of cocaine season. With our very special guest star, Amy Spalding! www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/pha...
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026
This is going to be such a mess for a future administration to disentangle
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The Daily Montanan @dailymontanan.com · 30/09/2026
Did you see an ad featuring President Donald Trump recently? It might have included the phrase, "This is the final battle." You may not know that you paid for that ad. dailymontanan.com/2026/09/29/r...
dailymontanan.com
Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find • Daily Montanan
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026
Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.
liberalcurrents.com
The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With Trump's arrival in office, data center construction accounts for nearly all construction. This is not a healthy economy.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"It is almost impossible to overstate their desire to avoid responsibility." @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social to @shainin.bsky.social on his "incriminating account of America’s foreign policy establishment, even as Biden’s top staffers are busy whitewashing their reputations elsewhere in the media."
equator.org
Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/09/2026
Man this really sucks
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are so proud of themselves for breaking the law with impunity.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
donmoynihan.substack.com
DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026
really nice FT Big Read today on the biggest shake-up in financial markets that not enough people know about: www.ft.com/content/00f9...
ft.com
AI hyperscalers are transforming debt
The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is my father's birthday, my first without him. Not an hour passes without my thinking of the love and support he'd be providing me right now. And he relished a good conspiracy. If you missed the story about him, please read it today. He was such a decent, interesting man. I love you, Pop.
nytimes.com
He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.
Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Three Gatsbies of Ypsilanti A Canticle for Gatsby The Gatsby, the Witch, and the Wardrobe A Midsummer Night’s Gatsby Gatsby and Gatsby and Gatsby The Ingenious Gentleman Don Gatsby of La Mancha
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Censorship is alive and well in the American tech oligarchy. 🇺🇸 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No, I haven’t heard “Choosin‘ Texas,” but I am the elite son of a bitch who helped popularize this down home tune from Lone Star State. youtu.be/skmdmf_ER50?...
youtu.be
Torgo's Theme (10 Minutes)
YouTube video by LeonSmorgishboard
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please say this again...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So I learned from my friend who is the director of the Wolfe Institute of the Humanities that they have lost funding & can either higher an administrator or run faculty fellowships. That Wolfe fellowship + one other fellowship at CUNY central were the only ways peeps at CUNY with a high teaching 1/
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thread! 1/ In a Guardian article yesterday, the CEO of Climate Group, organizer of NYC Climate Week, bemoans the “climate hushing” at the event and says “this is the time to be loud…The world is standing on the edge of the abyss, and people are seeking change.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Prime Minister Netanyahu's lies about @mayor.nyc.gov don't change the fact that Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal who has blocked justice for Americans killed on his watch. If there's anyone who should be shamed & ashamed, it's him. He's lucky he was even allowed into our country.
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