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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey @politico.com can you explain why @thirdway.bsky.social is the source for what the Democrats' SCOTUS platform will be, when they don't even have the word "Democrat" in their name and routinely diss the party? I'll wait.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

This a perfect little clause summing up our very very strange times. "to learn how Anthropic — which could be valued at $2 trillion — might apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

People can like or dislike Rashida all they like for whatever reasons but it really does need to be highlighted that Western liberal-humanitarian discourse is so poor that she is basically the only one in Congress that talks about this stuff with regularity

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

Less than two days later it is reported that the USG will be waiving human rights conditions requirements on $320,000,000 in military assistance for Egypt "in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran".

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EXCLUSIVE: US waives rights conditions for $320 million in military aid to Egypt, letter shows

The US State Department has waived human rights conditions for more than $300 million of military aid to Egypt in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran, according ...

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 01/10/2026

Sen. Jim Justice — one of Congress’ wealthiest members — sold a massive stake in The Greenbrier Resort in August, according to a new congressional financial disclosure. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/jim-…

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Sen. Jim Justice Sells a Massive Stake in The Greenbrier Resort: Document

A New York-based investment firm recently took majority ownership in the hotel.

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026

Counter to what a local prosecutor has claimed, the alleged victim of a 2024 gang rape at Cornell University clearly said in her police statement that she was sexually assaulted, her attorney told NPR. trib.al/Je1VsMK

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Cornell Jane Doe's attorney says she told police in 2024: 'I was raped'

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow. Alabama's new settlement with TikTok has *so* much in common with the Meta settlement. It also tries to extend the rules to other companies, and it's the same list: Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and NEW competitors who come along and get big in the future. www.alabamaag.gov/wp-content/u...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/09/2026

A pretty grim sign for legal journalism when the best-known source for Supreme Court news and information turns itself into a free platform for Fortune 500 companies to talk about what a good job the Supreme Court is doing

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Dan @prog-r0k.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone with an XBox want a free copy of Sonic Mania? Accidentally bought a digital key for it even though I already own it.

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Ken with the apple bottom boots @jalli1315.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank the private college of Drexel University who bought the museum back in 2011 and has made zero efforts to try to save the museum, content to just close it down and transfer its massive scientific and historical artifact collection to the schools private collection

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also no House candidates -- Texas races could decide whether Democrats have a majority and if so, how big it is.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
Will Al become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading Al experts that question.
Here's what they had to say:
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The Als are much, much, much more powerful.
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My thanks to Senator Sanders; as to other legislators on all sides of any political aisle, and to any human being on Earth who now stands

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Here’s a sampling of what Aella, a key organizer of Slutcon and a fixture of the rationalist/AI safety social scene, has said previously on Twitter about rape, teenagers and consent, and power imbalances in sexual situations:

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Did you know I have two camgirl sisters? Follow @MFCThornyRose and @gerardeugine - the second starts in a few weeks on her 18th birthday!
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Replying to @AllisonRFloyd @PunishedYock and 3 others
This is about her agency. Viewing a discussion about a teenager's ability to consent to sex as actually a predatory move by adults feels super regressive to me
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@Aella_Girl • Sep 25, 2019
I think it's weird that we view a teenager's ability to consent to either exist or not exist depending on the age of their partner. How old does someone have to be before we tell the teen their consent is now invalid?
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Yes, there's power differential! I think this is true and maybe a valid argument, but we're still pretty inconsistent. There's lots of ways we use power to control underage people, and lots of ways we tolerate even greater power imbalances in sexual situations.
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Sometimes it feels surreal that there's so little rape. Men are stronger and hornier and I am so grateful we live in a society where they just constantly go around not raping. Like *half* of all non-human sex is rape, but we managed to get our rape down to a tiny percentage.
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i feel weird when ppl use the term "survivors" for people who went through an unpleasant but not-even-close-to-life-threatening-thing
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So many times we see this. Where illegal cancellation of congressional appropriation becomes one weird trick.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

mr carney please double the chinese EV cap

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 25/09/2026

How the fuck is my Jellyfin server more hardened than Meta's AI platform

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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As....as fussy as....what????

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a bad ruling for all of the reasons Justice Jackson’s dissent make clear. But as both the majority and dissent point out, it’s not likely to have major effects *this* cycle because we’re inside the 90-day NVRA purge window.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"They won't tell you that" is a phrase that makes me instantly dislike whatever is being said.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am glad, at least, that we have someone admitting on record "yeah, I don't agree with him about the 'love your neighbor' stuff, that's not the Christianity I subscribe to." Usually it's not so blatant

Moderator, Kristen Soltis Anderson
Pam, you said something about Mr. Talarico’s morals. Tell me more.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
I am a Christian. I think he’s trying to bring people like me who can’t stand the crook that’s the Republican candidate over to his side by having all these commercials and things about his morals. He and I don’t have the same beliefs, whether it’s same-sex beliefs, whether it’s religious beliefs. I don’t like that he keeps talking about that more than he’s talking about, to me, the issues. But that’s my personal opinion. And that’s why I am in horrible turmoil, because I will not vote for Paxton.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/09/2026

I am skeptical this will survive in court, but if it does, basically the only thing that will be a crime under the Endangered Species Act is wearing a T-shirt that says MY SPECIFIC INTENT IS TO KILL BABY SEALS and then walking up to baby seals on the beach and clubbing them to death

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Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026

So Josh Hawley, noted election denier, referenced 404 Media's work throughout the Flock Senate Hearing yesterday. We are a journalist-founded and owned media publication. Hey Josh, if you're going to use our work, subscribe bro: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first on what will be the very long list of Things We Did Not Mention to Attorney Generals When Negotiating the Merger

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Latest: Last month I reported on extreme overcrowding at an ICE field office in Miramar, Florida. Now an ICE whistleblower has provided House Oversight Democrats with photos of detainees being held in the facility's sally port reason.com/2026/09/22/w...

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Whistleblower photos show ICE detainees in Miramar, Florida, amid extreme overcrowding, overflowing toilets

The facility has a capacity of 56 but reportedly held as many as 342 detainees, with some sleeping on garage floors and using overflowing toilets.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.

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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?

YouTube video by ProPublica

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Judge VanDyke also apparently thinks that state powers should be voted on by the other states every time they exercise state powers, which the Founders would have found repulsive.

Half a decade ago, I proposed two “bright-line” rules that could resolve a sizable chunk of our Second Amendment cases and make it much harder for recalcitrant judges to ignore the law. See Duncan v. Bonta, 19 F.4th 1087, 1161 (9th Cir. 2021) (VanDyke, J. dissenting), cert. granted, judgment vacated, 142 S. Ct. 2895 (2022), and vacated and remanded, 49 F.4th 1228 (9th Cir. 2022). First, if a “firearm product or usage that a state seeks to ban is currently prevalent throughout our nation,” then it should simply be unconstitutional to ban it.5 Id. Second, if a state has a firearm regulation that “most other states don’t” have, then the regulation should be unconstitutional.6 Id. I continue to believe that incorporating these bright-line rules into our Second Amendment jurisprudence would accord with Supreme Court precedent, leave minimal room for judicial manipulation, and (perhaps something that my colleagues

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The maj. op. points out that SCOTUS has been less than clear about how its 2A tests should work post-Bruen.

This Second Amendment confusion, as detailed in Rahimi, has spread to circuit courts that have analyzed similar shall-issue laws. As the Tenth Circuit put it, “it is difficult to forecast how the Supreme Court would decide the issue, given the apparent tension between the Bruen two-step framework and the safe harbor list of presumptively lawful regulations.” Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Polis, 121 F.4th 96, 120 (10th Cir. 2024). Yet despite a wide range of methodological approaches to assessing shall-issue regulations, the circuit courts have converged on one unifying principle: non-abusive, shall-issue laws comport with the Second Amendment.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

9th Cir., en banc, holds that Hawaii's shall-issue handgun law does not violate the Second Amendment bc it is non-abusive (it doesn't effectively deny citizens their 2A rights by use of modest procedural burdens). Judges Nelson, Forrest, VanDyke dissent. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

And while certain background checks, firearms safety courses, lengthy wait times, exorbitant fees, or other components of a shall-issue regime could trigger the Second Amendment’s protections, nothing in Plaintiffs’ Complaint suggests that either the thirty-day restriction or the police station inspection requirement crosses that line. At most, the provisions impose only modest, procedural burdens. They require compliance with a reasonable deadline and, for firearms that fall into the categories set out in § 134-3(a)(c), see supra note 1, a brief administrative visit to verify basic information. They do not materially impede Plaintiffs from acquiring firearms. Even in light of Hawaii’s distinctive tradition of heightened firearm regulation, which the Supreme Court has viewed with skepticism, see Wolford, 146 S. Ct. at 2040, 2046, the requirements at issue here are not abusive.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Woof at that straight woman number

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

UPDATE: The mystery LLC connected to Victor Marx's campaign for Colorado Gov is back in newly-filed campaign finance documents. The Marx campaign paid nearly $3k to Not Shook, LLC for "Advertising." Marx's campaign once listed Marx as the LLC owner but he says that was a mistake.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you gave WHAT to Activision?

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Xbox transfers Rare and Halo franchise to Activision, proposes closure of Ninja Theory and confirms another 268 roles cut amid studio restructure bit.ly/4xIp5Cy

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 22/09/2026

The only full-menu Polish eatery in these parts: Cracovia Polish-American Restaurant and Bar in Westminster. Here's why it's one of our staff's favorites.

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For solid Polish dishes, head to Cracovia in Westminster

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/09/2026

In its report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Mission found "reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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Iran: Civilians trapped between extreme State repression and violations arising from devastating conflict with US, Israel, UN Fact-Finding Mission finds

GENEVA – Civilians in Iran are caught between gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by their own Government and the nation’s deadly conflict with the United States and Is...

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This will be the third trip to SCOTUS on this issue, as several judges do their darndest to introduce unnecessary chaos to the election even as ballots are being mailed out in Missouri. SCOTUS should stomp on this nincompoopery hard.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.

Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

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