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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

Exclusive: A list reveals all the major donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 3h

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Iran has hit Gulf infrastructure dozens of times in precision strikes, blunting the US war effort. Gulf governments have often hidden the extent of the damage. reut.rs/4yhRH5L

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

The federal courts have been way too small for way too long. Justice delayed is justice denied, and the federal courts are a great source of delay - fully briefed motions sit submitted for many months, appeals aren't decided until months and months after oral argument. They're all overloaded.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

This moves nicely toward 3. Pack the crap out of them, too. Don't just expand the Supreme Court. Massively expand the lower courts, and at the same time address their whole standing bullshit as much as possible legislatively. Minimum, address the intentional tort FTCA exception & sovereign immunity.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

How big? I'm not sure there is a "too big" for this one, or at least not one that couldn't be managed by the Court itself setting up reasonable procedures for managing its docket. Side benefit: bigger court increases the number of cases they take, esp. if a panel review step is available.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

The bigger the court gets, the less power and influence any one justice has, and the more incentive there is for the court to design its own procedures to include things like panels and en banc review that would further reduce the impact of individual judges and push things back to a quieter review.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

These are fair questions. I'll take 1 & 2 as a unit, since I don't think a race to the bottom is necessarily a bad thing. Right now, one of the problems with this Court is that the small size gives each justice way too much influence, and way too much of a sense of their own importance.

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 6h

This is insane!

CE training officer John Parodi, who
trained Morgan, testified that displaying or pointing a firearm is not a "use of force," and standard police restrictions, like not pointing firearms at motorists, do not apply to ICE.
"There is no tit-for-tat

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So as y’all probably already know, Trump has a new blonde, Katie Zacharia. She claims to be an attorney, and apparently has been doing so for some time. But while she has a JD from Pepperdine for sure, nobody can seem to find any jurisdiction in which she has been admitted to the practice of law.

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 21h

Commentary: Republicans hold a 6-1 majority on the Ohio Supreme Court. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2023 protecting abortion access. Following the 2026 Election, the court will determine high-profile cases related to abortion access. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/o...

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Commentary: Ohio's state supreme court races could decide limits on abortion rights amendment passed by voters • Ohio Capital Journal

Republicans hold a 6-1 majority on the Ohio Supreme Court. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2023 protecting abortion access. Following the 2026 Election, the court will determine…

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404 Media @404media.co · 23h

News from CNN, CBS, and the BBC have almost no info beyond the police press release, which is lazy and stupid. It's possible to see happened in like three seconds of clicking around the internet. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on the German police "investigating" a robot. www.404media.co/theres-nothi...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just gonna repost this: You can’t “prove” anything isn’t conscious — a plant, a rock, your iPhone — but even without deeply understanding the nature of consciousness, we can say there’s no good reason to expect it to correlate with what LLMs are good at. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...

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Don't Fall in Love With Your Toaster

A quick argument about AI consciousness

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sad update here: I heard from a family member that Elmer Williams died on Sunday. I've been haunted by what he told me three years ago. "Slowly, slowly, slowly, they just let me fall apart."

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Ken with the apple bottom boots @jalli1315.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Way to make light of rape What a garbage person you are

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Ken with the apple bottom boots @jalli1315.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have always thought this His best acting was Parks and Rec - where he wasn't acting

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14/10/2026

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Curtis Flowers' murder convictions in 2019 due to claims of bias in the makeup of the jury. The court found Mississippi had tried to exclude 36 Black prospective jurors in the first four trials. buff.ly/f2go6Mm

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Curtis Flowers, Wrongfully Imprisoned on Murder Charges for 23 Years, Dies at 56

Curtis Flowers, who spent nearly 23 years in prison for murders he said he did not commit, was found dead Oct. 7 at the age of 56.

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Ken with the apple bottom boots @jalli1315.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Im sorry, how dumb do you have to be...!?!?!?! 2026 Africa has drones ffs

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"...Those messages included uses of the 'N-word' and likened the officers to a 'Klan rally,' sources said." Cops are great www.wsoctv.com/news/local/f...

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Fallout grows over alleged racist texts involving CMPD officers

There’s growing fallout over racist text messages allegedly sent by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 13/10/2026

The FTC and a coalition of seven states said Martin Shkreli violated a lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry by trading pharma stocks and discussing companies. In a court filing, the FTC and ⁠states asked US District Judge Denise Cote to hold Shkreli in contempt reut.rs/4yScCO6

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Martin Shkreli violated lifetime pharma industry ban, FTC and states say

Martin Shkreli has violated a lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry by trading stocks and discussing ‌his opinions about companies in the industry, federal and state regulators said on Tuesda...

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13/10/2026

Census Bureau researchers oppose asking about citizenship on the census because they warn it will lower participation, explains an expert on the census: “They don’t want to undercount people. But politicians might find that advantageous.”

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Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 13/10/2026

Bank of America has been fined $1.21 billion by the US government for what it called widespread failures to properly police potential money laundering and other illicit activity at the nation's second-largest bank.

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BofA fined $1.2 billion by US government for failing to police suspicious activity

Bank of America has ‌been fined $1.21 billion by the US government for what it called widespread failures to properly police potential money laundering and other illicit activity at the nation's second-largest bank.

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Those earlier explosions in Kyiv were yet another Russian ballistic missile attack on a Ukrainian power plant, as confirmed by President Zelenskyy. Putin is making a mockery of Trump and his "energy ceasefire" and Ukraine has no choice now but to defend iteslf.

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404 Media @404media.co · 13/10/2026

Character.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble. Read the story here: www.404media.co/character-ais-bankr…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13/10/2026

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026

NEW: After four witnesses recanted, a Pennsylvania man spent 20 years in prison insisting he was innocent of murder. Records show his lawyer, to whom he wrote dozens of letters pleading for help, did little to help besides asking for more time. with @inquirer.com

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He Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This State, There’s No Rule Against It.

Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of crimes. Failed by a troubled system, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The AI bubble is not like the Global Financial Crisis in that it's unlikely to lead to a liquidity crisis, but in so many other respects it's just a rerun of all of the terrible financial decisions made by institutions that should have known better.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Countrywide Financial didn't tighten its "loose" lending standards until August 2007, less than five months before it collapsed and went to Bank of America in a fire sale.

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Standards Tighten, But Not Quickly

The Los Angeles Times reported today that the trouble that hit Wall Street earlier this year because of defaulting subprime loans made in 2005 and 2006 could continue to slam […]

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thanks for such a great discussion! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Ep 270 — Attorney Accountability (feat. Akiva Cohen)

Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · October 13 · 51m

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friendly reminder that the newspapers ran this as a thing that was real

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1. See Variety headline “Shane Gillis Again Bombs SNL Monologue” 2. Read Variety article stating he did not get one laugh. 3. Watch embedded video of 7 minute monologue 4. Cringe as he bombs & name drops “Joe Rogan & Theo Von”. 5. Regret wasting 15 minutes of my life. Now, you don’t have to!

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

plaintiffs assert that NPS removed 529 trees on Saturday, including healthy, mature maples and oaks. the government was supposed to refrain from doing anything irreversible without providing enough notice for the court to act, but Judge Reyes hadn't entered a formal order until this morning

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/10/2026

Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes

Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This opinion basically describes a roving band of thugs

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2

The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers
who testified, including:
1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the
testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug
transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner,
the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer
the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any
reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony;
2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was
"misidentified" as the target of the operation;
3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties;
4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion;
5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally
suspect, but contain false statements;

Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents.

6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as
described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and
7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/10/2026

As the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia’s fortified compounds, it’s become cheaper and easier to run — thanks to AI — and harder to kill.

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AI's Supercharging a Scam Economy Bigger Than the Cocaine Trade

As the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia’s fortified compounds, it’s become cheaper and easier to run — thanks to AI — and harder to kill.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

"Michel’s great virtue is his persistence,” said Haynes Miller, an M.I.T. professor emeritus of mathematics who is close to Dr. DeGraff and who says his friend is not an antisemite. 'He doesn’t give up. If he sees an injustice he will attack it.'"

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The Controversial Class That M.I.T. Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach (Gift Article)

Michel DeGraff, a vocal pro-Palestinian activist, can’t be easily fired because he has tenure. But he has been kicked out of his department.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CLAIM: LeBron is the GOAT FACT: I grew up in the 90s and watched Space Jam as a kid

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here is a story I wrote about state violence, while we're all talking about it. I remember people saying they wanted certain minority communities to get the border patrol treatment as “punishment.” But that violence touches everyone. It is all consuming. Even when it’s targeted, it hits you.

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Notes From an ICE Chaser

I followed agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 2025, ICE attorneys started refusing to identify themselves in immigration hearings, but doing this in actual federal court seems like a new step

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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 09/10/2026

New York’s top Albany lobbying firm is testing a new way to influence politics: starting its own super PAC to spend money in support of candidates. The committee, known as New York Forward, appears to be the first of its kind in the state.

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Albany’s Top Lobbying Firm Starts Its Own Super PAC

Brown & Weinraub’s super PAC lets clients route unlimited sums to support New York candidates who back their agendas in Albany.

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