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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My @propublica.org colleagues have no business running a private school for kids. And yet they were easily able to start schools in two states -- with a third ProPublica Academy pending that would be located inside a North Carolina bar.

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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...

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Missouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The sheer number of ways this administration has managed to shoot its own base in the dick economically for literally no domestic political gain is astounding

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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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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leadership from ODP told us in our meeting today, our job is to elect candidates. Yup. That's it. "You are the party." As Caucuses, the Pride and Progressive Caucus were told to our faces... that all that matters is getting Dems in to office. Not, advocating for our constituents.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

I would love it if Science Magazine would hire an actual science journalist specializing in a related area to cover this kind of thing, instead of an AI shill PAID BY THE AI INDUSTRY

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is like saying "if your cancer doesn't go into remission, we won't approve treatment." Which tbh, he would do if he could.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hope whatever civil engineering firm lands this RFP is haunted at night by visions of the cyclists they'll be killing. I hope their iron ring they were given at graduation when they took an oath to the public starts to itch and weigh on their finger like an anchor.

What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just received my copy of the wonderful #PorkMort! A great production all around, and it was a pleasure to edit. Support the Cap de Pork team by purchasing this #MorkBorg based #ttrpg, inspired by the folklore of the Balearic Islands, where and when you can! #OSR #rpg #folkhorror

Photo of the Pork Mort book and accompanying map, character sheets, intro adventure and character cards.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, detailing the Mysterious Islands, home of the great spider Balanguera, knitting the fate of the Island's inhabitants.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, showing art of Tramuntana, the majestic, serene feline who is probably the oldest inhabitant of the Island.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, showing the evil King Pork.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

CBS: The Army is requesting military planning aimed for Cuba. Is the US preparing for military action? STATE DEPT SPOX TOMMY PIGOTT: We're always going to guided by the national interest of the US. The president has a wide array of options (Not a no!)

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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.

motherjones.com

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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Peregrine Coast Press @shop.peregrinecoast.press · 25/09/2026

Straight Arrows Play as nonsanctioned bounty hunters rescuing privileged addicts from themselves while stepping over the bodies of the truly unfortunate in this pitch black, space age dystopian Mothership Module. peregrinecoast.press/products/str...

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Joe @joebarczak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And even if/when it's all reversed with next administration, why would anyone ever trust this country or its institutions ever again.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/09/2026

& as @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes, we haven’t seen the worst—we’re temporarily buoyed by those international students who were already here before this nonsense—but after a few consecutive years of decreasing international applications <phew> It will take another generation to recover, if ever

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/09/2026

pretty much every conversation here is about mitigating the devastation from losing international students It’s not just students who can’t get visas—international applications are way down across the board It’s a generational self own—deliberately killing a (literally) world-renowned industry

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Technically, this project launched before Kickstarter's AI policy that would require that, so that angle probably won't get backers anywhere. However, this does seem to violate another rule: www.kickstarter.com/rules

Screenshot of Kickstarter rule: "Information must be honest and clearly presented.
Our community is built on trust and communication. Projects can't mislead people or misrepresent facts.

Projects should be clearly and fully presented at the time of submission. Making substantial edits or additions that change the core of a project after submission may result in the project being canceled.
Projects must solely contain materials that the creator has rights to using. Stealing content or using it without permission is illegal and may lead to intellectual property disputes."

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 21/09/2026

World of Game Design once again finding new and innovative way to fucking suck.

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Joshua Justice Games // Ghost Tropic Radio @ghosttropic.org · 21/09/2026

Figured this one was dead and gone (WOGD being involved and all), but this is almost worse? The tone in the update is exactly what fuels the “ttrpg crowdfunders are scammers” mentality. It’s a shame they’ll probably get away with doing this many more times in the future.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trans people are a slightly LARGER percent of the US population in 2026 than Jewish people were in Germany in 1933. Assholes who say trans folk aren’t worth defending because of population size are telling us exactly who they would have been in Nazi Germany.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"what can be the value of a degree earned under these conditions, what happens to the qualification's authority, prestige, psychological significance and door-unlocking capacities, not just into jobs but into communities, reading worlds, lives of thought?"

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yuval Abraham's excellent articles about the AI-assisted bombing of entire apartment buildings have been online since 2023. Here is one from 2024 that describes "Where's Daddy?," an algorithm designed to locate and bomb targets when they were at home.

972mag.com

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026

“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New: Students suing Columbia for its response to a library demonstration last year. Student Jessie Rubin recalls officers "shouting racist & homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, & dragged their bodies across the stone floor."

Student protesters sue Columbia University for illegal detention and assault in class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK, NY – Plaintiffs Nisreen Khokhar, Jessie Rubin, and Hayes Buchanan filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 18, 2026, alleging that Columbia University falsely imprisoned and assaulted nearly 100 students and community members during a pro-Palestine teach-in last May. The lawsuit seeks to hold Columbia accountable for its collusion with the Trump Administration and for violating students' constitutional rights, and seeks damages and injunctive relief to prevent Columbia from similarly targeting other campus activists.

The teach-in on May 7, 2025, included speeches, a reading syllabus, and guided discussions on the writings of Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian teacher and intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli government in 2017. Flyers with five demands distributed at the teach-in extended the April 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampments’ call for Columbia to divest its holdings in corporations complicit in the US-backed Israeli genocide.

According to the suit, Columbia responded to the teach-in by kettling participants in a reading room and barricading all exits for nearly four hours, all while denying food, water, and urgently-needed medical assistance.

The unlawful and violent confinement ended only after the NYPD's Strategic Response Group entered the room and began arresting participants — most of them students in their own library — on trespassing charges.

Rubin recalled “Public Safety officers shouting racist and homophobic epithets while guards put their hands around students’ necks, slammed participants into the ground, and dragged their bodies across the stone floor.”

The arrests and disciplinary hearings that followed resulted in the largest sweep of suspensions and expulsions in Columbia’s history. Plaintiffs allege that Columbia's actions have severely and permanently impacte…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026

I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

BASH: Part of the issue is DHS isn't releasing numbers. Will you help clear up what you're saying by releasing arrest stats? MULLIN: Every time we try to give numbers out you guys want to pick it apart & make it political when you should be saying 'at least we're getting criminals off our streets'

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Beckstead/Musk line that poor people can just die because they aren't going to contribute to the far future, if not stopped, will most likely mean that in the far future we still have a huge majority of people suffering for the luxury of a privileged elite. Maybe with the same rationalizations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

here's footage of Mamdani alongside city workers filling the 200,000th NYC pothole since the start of his term This is part of his push to spotlight city workers and inform New Yorkers that all the fixes they ask for "should be directed to the real heroes, City Workers, who can be reached via 311"

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine using your position as UCLA Chancellor to kneecap faculty for having the gall to hold a necessary conversation about how 9/11 changed this country's legal landscape. Attacking law faculty for doing their jobs because you dislike one of the speakers is a serious professional failure.

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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026

this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.

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Orca, the Goblin Queen 🎃 @orcadice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hot take, but if board game reviews put more effort into reviewing parts of the game related to graphic design and illustration rather than how cool the game designer is and their mechanics, we artists could raise our prices without fear of being told "nah, I'll just find someone else."

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t watch Hasan and generally find political streamers offputting, so if you want to frame outrage bait as a structural critique against the medium, I’d probably be sympathetic. But is he wrong? Post 9/11, the US has killed hundred of thousands of civilians. You can’t address that politely

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clarissa 🎃 @caperclaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Too dumb to regulate AI, but knows more than medical doctors and scientists when it comes to regulating literally everything else

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.

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