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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 11h
The Brewers bullpen threw 5 perfect innings That’s the most innings by a team’s bullpen, all perfect, in a game in postseason history
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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 19h
Yes, Tom Tiffany received more than 90% of his campaign donations from 3 billionaires since July 2026. Find more context in our Fact Brief. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/10/wisc...
Wisconsin Watch fact brief asking whether Tom Tiffany received more than 90% of his campaign donations from three billionaires since July 2026, displayed on a blue gradient background with a Wisconsin-shaped magnifying-glass logo.Wisconsin Watch graphic saying "Yes." that the Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor got over 90% of July–September 2026 contributions from three billionaire donors, and that his campaign raised $26M+ with $24M (93%) coming through the state Republican Party.Wisconsin Watch graphic explaining campaign donations: individuals can give up to $20,000 to a campaign but unlimited amounts to a party (which can then give unlimited to campaigns); notes Tiffany raised $42M to July 2025, about $34M (80%) via the Republican Party, three billionaires gave over $40M.Wisconsin Watch graphic with logo and a call-to-action asking "Want to read more and find links to sources?" and directing readers to find more Fact Briefs at wisconsinwatch.org
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hegseth broke the news about live streaming an execution to a MAGA propagandist who has 14/88 tweets and once hired Atomwaffen members (who were at Charlottesville and friendly with the Tree of Life shooter) to help him harass the family and neighbors of a Jewish murder victim.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 08/10/2026
ICE is fighting voluntary departures tooth and nail because it permits someone to seek legal re-entry to the United States. If someone is deported and they've been in the U.S. for > a yr unlawfully then there's a statutory 10-year bar on reentry. I've seen ICE *appeal* a grant of voluntary departure
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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ok this is the favorite commission for day 2. The prompt was "ghost rider as a mail carrier"
Ghost rider driving one of the new electric mail trucks
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I honestly think if someone ever told Trump the "Real eyes/ realize/ real lies" poem he would talk about it in every single speech and rally he did until he died
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ok, so we throw the other half of the economy at it, let's see what happens
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.” www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not saying anything mean about Digger in case it becomes sentient
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October Baseball is unstoppable
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 04/10/2026
"that breaks a tie with Orlando Arcia and Prince Fielder for most playoff home runs as a Brewer" is a real ".......huh." moment
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Lea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i spent my thursday night sculpting 20 creatures so they could sing @themountaingoats.bsky.social. is that okay with everyone
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rolling into October...
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i've never played minecraft but my hunch is that the frustrations of terraforming and city planning with a playstation controller are not unlike trying to go 10-7 with kenny pickett
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026
Dude Wipes Introduces New Flushable Khakis theonion.com/dude-wipes-introduces-…
Dude Wipes Introduces New Flushable Khakis
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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M.A.S.K. Off @jimriceesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was really hoping this was suckling pig
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CARTOON MOVE: Moving the fence out to protect the bad pitchers. ORNITHOLOGICALLY CORRECT MOVE: Tearing the upper-deck seating out to protect the bad franchise management.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 30/09/2026
In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home
In the hallway of the Old Cartoonists’ Home
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026
there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends
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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this detail is literally the single craziest thing I've ever read. Randel Shadid is Edmond government. He's a former councilman, mayor, downtown Edmond's basically founding businessman, chair of the Edmond arts council, built literally the town water supply and the biggest two parks
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A guy says to his mechanic "Hey Fran, my 1950's Studebaker is making a weird noise." The car sounds out "booum da hu da hmmh da hoon da ina." Fran opens the hood and says "well, there's your problem." A pleasant man with piercing, a beard and dreadlocks sits near the engine. Frank remarks "Jonathan Davis from Korn is under the hood."
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
250+ strikeouts & 0.80 or lower WHIP in a season, MLB history: 2026 Jacob Misiorowski 2019 Justin Verlander 2000 Pedro Martínez
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
250+ strikeouts & 1.80 or lower ERA in a season (ER official since 1913): 2026 Jacob Misiorowski 2018 Jacob deGrom 2000 Pedro Martínez 1985 Dwight Gooden 1971 Tom Seaver 1968 Bob Gibson 1968 Luis Tiant 1966 Sandy Koufax
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
best food writing 2026. a triumph
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!
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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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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M.A.S.K. Off @jimriceesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
National Lampoon‘s Christmas vacation delivery driver 
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot going on here.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even with safeish picks, LeBron's parlay was a bust. So if you tailed him, you've now lost your money and you're mad at LeBron. When celebrities sell us shoes or Sprite the worst thing that can happen is we buy shoes or Sprite but LeBron James is now selling the Bankruptcy Machine
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is where they’re going to air the wild card round game between the AL West winner and the Guardians/White Sox
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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21/09/2026
this is very funny to me. "yeah we asked some fans which bank name they preferred and they all said the fucked up fraction with the "th" cusping sounded great"
Tim Spence, chairman, CEO and president of Fifth Third, said #Tigers fan feedback was solicited before deciding on the ballpark’s new name.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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M.A.S.K. Off @jimriceesq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Best Little Whore House on the Left
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