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Publisher of Madison's Isthmus, Minnesconsinite (Winnesotan?). Read the news!

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: With so much talk on data center politics, I wanted to take a different look at the issue. So, I talked to Wisconsin journalists who have been covering what's actually happening with data centers in WI. Part I is with Andrew Weiland of BizTimes: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/what-is-ac...
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What is actually happening with data centers in Wisconsin? (Part I)
Our two-part conversation covering the on-the-ground reality amid all the noise on the data center issue in Wisconsin. Featuring Andrew Weiland, editor of BizTimes Milwaukee.
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 4h
Random guy walked up to me at the grocery store, asked if I was a baseball fan and then handed me this. Pennant fever is at unheard of levels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4h
Here's the NYT response to the right wing accusations. News outlets report the info they have when it's verified and typically update the story as more info comes in. That's what happened here. Good grief.
NYTimes Communications
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Our headlines and live coverage contain all the facts we're able to confirm as we confirm them. Unlike activists and partisans, we don't publish speculation or unverified information. Here's a Gift Link to follow along as we update our reporting:
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Breaking news: A plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials said. https://nyti.ms/4rHOvin
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This was not simply an “altercation between pilots”. The co-pilot stabbed the captain, attempted to take over the aircraft with mostly Israeli citizens on board, children included. Passengers forcibly subdued the attacker after the plane dove 15,000 feet.
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Turns out, height is a factor in the WNBA. Also: Miles has hit the wall. She stopped doing everything that makes her formidable.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They were all given a heads up and they're just sticking with the plan. It's incredible to see play out.
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SENATOR: I have these text messages that put you in Saskatchewan watching the Roughriders. The very city that you claim to have never been in. You are under arrest for perjury. You are dead meat. WITNESS: (ruffling papers) actually I was seeing the Ottawa Rough Riders.
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay @cltampabay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tony Dungy to speak at Tampa’s controversial Life Surge seminar, which was recently accused of scamming attendees   www.cltampa.com/news/tony-du...
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Tony Dungy to speak at Tampa’s controversial Life Surge seminar, which was recently accused of scamming attendees
Tony Dungy Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Tony Dungy will be among the many keynote speakers at an upcoming Tampa stop for Life Surge, a
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
besides his general conduct, the most embarrassing part of this is a guy from Missouri not knowing another midwestern team's name
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But I thought these dudes were all huge women's hoops fans. Super concerned about protecting the game and whatever.
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem with being not just wrong, but aggressively wrong, as Eric Schmitt of Missourit was here, is you can't walk it back. As a Trumper, he can't. He has to own it. Klobuchar's dad was a legendary columnist and sportswriter, so of course she knows what Truman State grad Schmitt doesn't.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SD 17 is always seen as a tossup and, since 2015, Marklein always wins. I wonder if the measles outbreak, which is focused in this part of the state, will affect the voting at all.
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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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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Breaking: Today El Niño Broke its Record Hottest Temperature Ever! 🥵 Today the El Niño region surpassed 2015 for the highest temp ever measured in the El Niño (3.4) region. It comes 2 months earlier than typical peak (late Nov/ Dec). " via WFLA Jeff Berardelli
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wrote about the reporting on Senator Susan Collin's alleged pay-to-play scandal, and how it makes me optimistic about journalism in 2026 America. Excerpt below, subscribe here to read it for free on Monday: lni.media
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Incredible tone, good resonance and finish, a soupçon of rattle at the end if you’re into that, 9/10
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What’s particularly interesting about this chart is this is also a part of why shows cost so much now. Artists used to tour as loss leaders to sell records. Now it’s the the reverse to the extreme. It’s the only place they make revenue and even then, really depends on a lot of factors
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't think there's any way in hell that any of us with pre boomer dads could do this. There was much more toughness. They were repeatedly challenged by WWII vets in school, at work, in sports, etc. They could summon mean if they wanted to.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone right before their team goes on a spectacular losing streak
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PJ, man...
PJ Fleck on the shoulder of one of his players, Nestor facing away with Fleck facing the camera, blood on the upper sleeve of his right arm and smeared on the left side of his face
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THEY PUT THE DOLLY BUTTERFLY ON SMOKEY FOR GAMEDAY IM CRY
Smokey XII with a Dolly butterfly bandana
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rock: "Lotta runs, no homers." I might get that tattoo.
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Cardinal Way
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scoop: The White House blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One to Tennessee on Saturday. It was set to serve as the designated TV pooler. The decision calls into question the state of the TV pool which was reinstated Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also: Who cares about golf these days? Name five good American golfers. No other sport is dictated more by the players than pro golf is, and they messed it all up.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.
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George Stanley @georgestanley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Three billionaires are financing most of Tom Tiffany’s campaign — this is the story that led him to bar the Journal Sentinel - the story he didn’t want Wisconsin voters to see: www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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3 billionaires put Tom Tiffany in a big cash lead over David Crowley
Three billionaires are responsible for the about two-thirds of the campaign cash raised so far by Republican candidate for governor Tom Tiffany.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt has 11,000 squares. Each represents someone stolen by ICE in Minnesota. But the original post is here, on Instagram, by the MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee. What an unthinkably heinous administration. Prosecute them all. www.instagram.com/p/DdnPas4jr1v/
A photo of the shockingly long quilt leading up to the MN state building:

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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt.
It has 11,000 squares.
Each represents a person taken by ICE in MN.
100 people labored for 6 months to create it.
The care behind it gives me hope.
Each square makes me weep. 
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Henry Redman @henry-redman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tom Tiffany's pilot has close ties with some of Wisconsin's most prominent election deniers, @bspears.bsky.social and I report.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Some CNN staff have been unable to gain access to the White House. CNN reporter Betsy Klein and a photojournalist were denied access to the White House grounds in the 6:00 a.m. hour. There was no reason provided for the refusal. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/p...
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Subscribe to The Recombobulation Area, the only publication crazy enough to preview every race on the ballot in the Wisconsin State Legislature. Yep, all 116 of them. www.therecombobulationarea.com/subscribe
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barrón-López has been denied entry to the White House despite the court order restoring press access.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1. The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 23/09/2026
Seattle Votes 7-2 to Restrict Algorithmic Grocery Pricing - It’s the First Law of Its Kind in the US
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Seattle Votes 7-2 to Restrict Algorithmic Grocery Pricing - The Stranger
The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to limit how companies use personal data to set prices in grocery stores. The move will prohibit large grocery stores from using algorithmic pricing for individu...
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 24/09/2026
“We yell because we're all trapped in a machine that was built, in part, to keep us yelling.”
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tfw your former boss gets married to your ex-wife
MIke Budenholzer, looking distressed that his former boss is marrying his ex-wifeMIke Budenholzer, looking like he can't believe that his boss is marrying his ex-wifeMIke Budenholzer, looking resigned to the fact that his former boss is marrying his ex-wifeMIke Budenholzer, looking disgusted that his boss is marrying his ex-wife
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jeff Tweedy plays “Laminated Cat,” a.k.a. “Not for the Season.”
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Jason Joyce @jasonjoyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wonder why someone wouldn't use their health insurance, as I have not in about 18 months. One reason: you're healthy. Another: the health care system in this country is confusing, expensive, inaccessible and generally not well thought of.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating docs reviewed by WaPo.
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democracy in America: "This Monday, House Republicans held a hearing focused on creating a closed-door commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. The hearing was for an audience of one: billionaire donor Harlan Crow."
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